I am glad to say that we continue to have another Excellent meeting with 100% attendance from Role Players. Well done Role Players - you kept your promise.
A total of 18 people were at the meeting including 1 visiting Toastmaster DTM Ramdas Nayar, one guest brought in my Anna Ms Siew Foong and 16 loyal members.
It was a great night with lots of gifts from Kish and some kind members. Kish who was our Table Topics Master came just to carry out her role and have to rush home after the break just to take care of her family members who are sick. Thank you Kish for a good session and also for keeping your promise.
Our TME Anna Hue, as usual handled the meeting very well and also brought her school mate to come. Thank you Anna for sharing TM to others. Masdiana had researched and selected one appropriate poem and presented the Invocation based on the Theme which was well received by all. Philip the Table Topics Evaluator as usual with his smile gave some positive feedback to the speakers.
The table topics speakers for the night were:
1. Dr Gem on "A friend in need is a friend in deed."
2. Masdiana on "One loyal friend is worth more than 10,000 relatives."
3. Levine on "Slower to change friends than your thinking."
4. Mohamad on "The only unsinkable ship is Friendship."
5. Siew Foong on "To have a friend be a friend."
6. Adam on "A mirror is an old friend."
The highlight of the meeting was the induction of Dr Gan Eng Meng (GEM) introduced by Anna. She seems so excited and we were all happy to see such an enthusiastic and happy person to be in our midst. We welcome you Dr GEM. The Induction ceremony was performed perfectly by our VPE Sherine Lim. I never saw anyone conducting an Induction anywhere near her for the past 26 years. Great to have you Sherine at the helm.
The Manual assingment speakers and evaluators for the night were:
1. Leong Yip Sau on "Up Close and Personal with Yip Sau" evaluated by Joyce
2. Raja on "Who is my best friend?" evaluated by Leong Kok Wah
3. Levine on "True Beauty" evaluated by Mohamad
4. Monsieur on "an Unforgettable Experience" evaluated by Janice.
The other role players for the night were:
1. DTM Ramdas Nayar (VTM) as General Evaluator
2. Dr GEM as Grammarian
3. VPPR Ho as Timer
4. Humourous Adam as Ah's counter
As usual at the end of the meeting Acting President Sherine invited Guest Siew Foong to say a few words.
Just before we close, Masdiana read another poem on Friendship to inspire those present. I hope I am not sounding like blowing my trumpet to say that the Invocation I introduce over 20 years ago has been made a part of our District tradition and now I like to introduce that before we close our meeting we must also say a few words to the members before we part.
I wish the Exco will consider that we create a new Role which must be done by one of the Past Presidents (to give importance to it) to read an encouraging Poem before we part. I would also like to suggest that PP will also say something before we part and that something should be the same all the time which means that the PP have to memorise it or read it.
Hall of Fame:
1. Best Table Topic Speaker: Adam Fung
2. Best Project Speaker: Leong Yip Sau
3. Best Evaluator: Janice Ooi
4. Best Role Player: Adam Fung (The Aah's counter)
5. The Most Friendly Person: Mohamad Abdullah
Take care and till we see again on 27 Mar 2007.
2 comments:
Dear Our Founder - Mohamad & All Members,
Your wish is our command ! Your recommendation is our action !
I fully support your THREE great ideas : -
( a ) To have the Past President to close the meeting by having some motivating poem
( b ) To have the same Past President to say ' something ' encouraging & meaningful to keep on reminding our members on ' something '. For example, our promise as a Toastmaster ......
( c ) To have a personal portfolio for each and everyone of our Club members in the Blog
What a great leadership and suggestions from you, Mohamad !
Everytime when I was requested to take up the Acting President's role, I also felt that the meetings were not closed properly before we went home. Something lacking or we shall let members bring home with something at the end of the session, until our last meeting, with Mas Diana's " The Perfect Friend " poem, with the encouraging closing invocation session, and until Mohamad shared his perfect idea, then I realised, yes ! I found it ! We should have a new session to close the meeting properly & meaningfully ........
I don't know what do the rest of the members think about this suggestion from Mohamad, for myself, I voted 100% on this great idea ! How about you, all my friends from MII TMC ?
Do let us have your feedback on the above in order for the Exco to make decision. Ok ?
Again, I would also like to thank all the role players for being there on time and performed your role to your very best level. The meeting will not be a successful one without all your contribution and effort. And lastly, Kish, thanks for never let us down by keeping your promise to be there for the Table Topics Session. You are great !
For Joyce, Ho and all members, hope by having such a great meeting would worth you to spend your evening with us eventhough you were exhausted and appreciated very much for all the first timer in their role plays - Dr Gan as first timer Grammarian & Table Topics Speaker, Joyce and Leong as first timer Evaluators, Yip Sau as first timer speaker !
Thanks to those members who contributed the gifts as per the perfect TME - Anna Hue's request.
Well done to all of you !!! Bravo !
MII TMC proud to have all of you and let's look forward to another great meeting on 27th March 2007 !
With best regards,
Sherine
Dear MII-TMC members,
As you can all see, we had another very productive meeting and we closed the meeting with some new ideas from both DTM En.Mohamad Abdullah and our Acting President - Miss Sherine Lim.
It might have escaped your attention all this while, but the club needs at least 19 members to fill up all role plays for the evening in order for an effective meeting to be conducted.
We have at the moment around 23 active members who are attending meetings throughtout the year but due to work/family/travels/studies,etc
we are just scraping through the miniumum 19 role players needed to conduct an effective meeting.
Given the fact that it cannot be expected that all members have 100% attendance throughout the year and that some members drop off along the way, it is therefore of utmost importance that members continue to bring guest/new members into our club.
New members bring in a breath of fresh air , innovative ideas and most importantly, they continue to regenerate the club.
If we can bring our active membership to around 30 members, it will make the EXCO's job of organising meetings easier, in addition to freeing up the EXCO's time to concentrate on other areas
of improvement to our beloved club.
We are not too far away at this new member target. If we can continue to sign up one new member every month like we did in Jan. and Feb. 07 , we should be comfortable by the time this term ends in June 07.
We have had great meetings since the beginning of the year 07, so lets F.O.C.U.S. our attention now to bringing in NEW members so that our club can continue to prosper throughtout this year.
For the next 2 weeks till our next meeting on the 27/3 , while you are driving , eating , sleeping , dreaming , and even " when you are doing you know what " , think about who you are going to bring to our next meeting !!
After all , MII-TMC serves the best
Toastmaster dinner in town!! Yeah!!
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