DIVISION G International Speech & Table Topics Contest 2011

Fellow Toastmasters & Friends!

MII Toastmasters Club will be hosting the DIVISION G Speech Contest 2011 tomorrow Evening at the Auditorium, Level 4, at the Malaysian Insurance Institute.

There will be an entourage of amazing speakers from the Toastmasters Clubs of Division G! They will be competing to be the Division's Best and compete on the next level.

Don't miss this opportunity to see the very best! Details are as mentioned on the Right hand side tab. ===>

So come and join us! It'll be a night to remember!

Meeting Report: Evaluate to Motivate - Ode from Mdm President

Dear MII Toastmasters et honored readers, May I post the proceedings of the Meeting in the words of our beloved President Toastmaster Goh Wei Lyn.

"Dear Justin (a.k.a VPPR), You are right....with the word exciting.


It was a special meeting a the penthouse last night.

And Dear all to add to the above

An interesting table topics session led by Dr Gan and Adam Fung. A stage performance by Masdiana.

You also missed the great chance to evaluate and observe the practice speech 'COME WALK WITH ME' by Leong.

A special thanks to our invited guest DTM Kiang who came specially for the night and was the Lead Evaluator and GE for the night.
Then followed by an interesting Grammarian report by Wong, a hilarious reminder to all by Peter of our Ah's, our many ehms & etc, a wonderful report by the minutes and the seconds from our Time Keeper Rozina and a well led session by our Toastmaster Of the Evening, Justin Ong.
To those who missed out the wonderful night.....The decision has been made last night.

We also conducted our Election of Club officers, led by our President Goh Wei Lyn. After the routine introduction she called on our esteemed Nominating Committee member Mohamad Abdullah as appointed by our illustrious IPP Levine Lee announced the nomination of our club Exco for the year 2011/2012.
It is an honor to announce the new Executive Officers for 2011/2012 term with no challenge from the floor.

President; Dr Gan Eng Meng
Vice President of Education; Justin Ong
Vice President of Membership; Tasvinderjit
Vice President of PR; Mohd Fazlan
Secretary; Mas Marlena
Treasurer; Rozina Harun
SAA; Ho Fook Chuan

Secretary, Treasurer, President, VPE, VPPR and VPM

Before this term ends, please pay your dues to Leong as we have a dead line to submit to Toastmasters International before the 30th of this month.

Your early payable will be greatly appreciated.

Finally DO REMEMBER THE BIG BIG DAY 30thMarch2011........come and learn and support our Champion Speakers at the Division Level chaired by a member of MII Toastmasters Jerene Yap at our home ground at 7pm sharp. "

Meeting Report: Victorious Celebrations! by Lena

Hello again everyone of MII Toastmasters!

Lena here again!

Well, Today I’m your blog writer again due to our VPPR Justin having to work on the upcoming meeting with the AV system, so I’m filling in for him as of today!

The meeting on the 8^th of March was themed victorious winnings OBVIOUSLY because our members Diana CTM, CL won CHAMPION for the table topics contest, and Leong CC, CL on the 1^st of March!

Btw, it was also Mr Samyvellu’s birthday I believe. So don’t drink and drive yah!

Anyway, ON TO THE MEETING!

It started with VPPR Justin standing in for Madam President Wei lyn, by getting the guests and members to introduce themselves.

There were 3 guests that night

Yule from Germany! A friend of CC,CL Jerene

Hanny, Guest of ACB Adam fung

And Suzie, Guest of TM Wong hang hiang

It started at 7:10pm, and SURPRISE! I Mas Marlena Mohamad was the Toastmaster of the evening with the theme above. It was really scary being TME for the first time but thanks to all the supporting members I pulled through!!

Anyway~~

I started with the history of Toastmasters international and also MII Toastmasters club for the sake of the guests and then it went straight on to the Invocation Presentation by our VPPR/TM Justin talking about the meaning of success!!

Then later on we had a nutritious style of table topics and using FRUITS for topics!!

First of was our CHAMPION Speaking on mangoes

Second, ACB Adam Fung on tomatoes

Third, TM, Fazlan with apples

Then, CC CL, Philip on grapefruits

After that, was Mahathir on bananas

Then, Madam president on the colours of lime

And lastly, DTM Mohamad on a plum.

Later we had a gentle evaluation from our lovely Ms Rozina Harun who gave a brief and gentle evaluation of all the speakers. We then had the humourous session by CC CL, Philip wong and of course went to the “penthouse” for our dinner which is generously sponsored by our NEW CC Lim ah wai!!!

After the dinner we proceeded to the assigned speeches, and first to go was CC Lim, with speech title “Improve continuously” which he talked about his journey here in MII Toastmasters. Which was evaluated by CC CL Philip Wong.

Later we had ACB Adam with his inspiring speech on taking charge of your life!  A beautiful presentation, with beautiful pictures to illustrate his speech. Which was evaluated by CTM CL Masdiana.

We later had CC CL Jerene with her interesting “TV” interview debut with All-star guest host CTM,CL Masdiana Ooi and evaluated by DTM Mohamad.

Time keeper: TM Fazlan

Grammarian: CC Ho Fook Chuan

Ah counter:  TM Justin Ong

Later on our dear Dr Gan gave the general evaluation for the night and President announced the winners and presented the prizes that the winners won on the area contest.

Finally we had CTM CL Diana on the past president speech and ended the meeting for the night.

Double Happiness Happiness, Congratulations Congratulations!

It was about 941pm yesterday! That MII(my) fellow toastmaster Fazlan, "Whatsapp!ed" me with the legendary;

"MASDIANA WON!"....in small caps. I still recall my feelings of relief and happiness upon hearing the good news. 110 minutes after I flushed and put down the seat back to its original place, I got wind of a second great news! What joy! Micheal Leong Kok Wah won the 1st runner up for the Best Speech Contest!

And then it hit me. How great it fells being on the winning team! It meant being on the side of prestige, honor, and exclusive bragging rights! =)

Congratulations Guys! You are our Champions!...2011. You've given us the inspiration to do more than meets the eye!

Join us in celebrating their Flawless Victories at our next Meeting the 8th of March 2011!

I can sense a theme AND a word of the day coming up! What could it be? Any takers?

This is Trius Blades signing off!
e-VPPR 2010/11

Prelude Meeting to the Double Happiness Happiness!

Dear Toastmasters,

 My humble Gratitude to all who braved storms and phalanxes of chariots to come to the meeting last Tuesday.

There is an old Malay saying "Bagaikan Ribuan Sperma ke Ovum yang Suci" Maksudnya, when we work hard battling again and again toilet bowls and rubber bands, sooner or later, if we do not give up, we will reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Paradise and a new level to improve upon. And I believe that is what Toastmasters is all about, facilitating growth not only internally, but but networks as well.

The 22nd of February 2011 marks Double Happiness Day. A Day of which we should CHERISH, Just like any other. We Have 2 sets of 2s and a double 1. And if we add 2+2+2+2+0+1+1 we get a perfect 10! That's just an observation.

This meeting wasn't just any other meeting. Not only did it facilitate a Toastmaster's meeting just like any other, it was tailored to facilitate the practice of our upcoming candidates for the Area Contest for both Table Topic speech and the Prepared Speech.

Jerene started the meeting just as everyone excitedly settled down and gracefully passed the floor to our Acting President Gan Eng Meng, CC CL to do the president's speech. Our Toastmaster of the Evening cum Birthday Boy Ho Fook Chuan, TM came on stage to address us.

The Table Topics session for this evening was rather special. It was a reverse TTS where audience were to shoot topics at one speaker. If you did not attend this session, you would have missed the chance of getting the insides of our Area Contest represent, Masdiana Ooi ACG CL! She was given 5 topics to speak on from the floor and Mohamad Abdullah, DTM got 2 topics. Like Qigong masters they weaved their way through the topics like experts. Dr.Gan has taught them well!

There after, Thilohthaman AGC CL, gave an excellent comment on their performance.

Then we braked for dinner, where we had a good time feasting and having our Birthday Boy "service" his birthday cake's "Candles". One would not have imagine Ho's ability to blow so many candles at one session!

The prepared speech session was performed by two speakers. Lim Ah Hwai, TM did his 9th Speech titled "the Grass is greener on the other side". And Leong Kok Wah, CC CL practiced his "fire walking" for the Area Contest Speech titled "Challenge the Impossible.

Lim was evaluated by Dr.Gan, but As Area represent, Leong got it "thorough" by an array of Toastmasters best. having said that, I believe the both of them went home with a great experience.

The Roleplayers for the evening were
GE: Ms. Chia Yee Meng, TM
Grammarian: Masmarlena, TM
Ah Counter: Wong Hang Hiang, TM
Timer: Rozina Harun, TM

Thank you for GEing us Ms. Chia, hope you have a fulfilling journey ahead as you progress in your journey as CL. Congratulations.

The meeting was brought to a conclusion by our President, Ms. Goh Wei Lyn,TM and former President, Anna Hue, ACG, CL.

See you next Meeting on the 8th of March 2011!

Gong Xi Fa Chai! Fatt Fatt Fatt Meeting =)

Fellow Toastmasters,

Gong Xi Fa Choi! Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit 2011!

And to those who are Hokkien, Happy Pai nien! I am sure most of you would probably have had a hard time sleeping last night. That is because on the 9th Day of Chinese New Year, Chinese community of the Hokkien Clan (Including myself) celebrate our "Chinese New Year"! So if you know any hokkien friends that you work with..wish them.... by email or sms cause they probably would have taken a day off. Haha that is just an Easter Egg for you =)

Thank you all for coming and participating on our very special meeting which was held on the Fatt(8) of February 2011. We had a cozy yet prosperous meeting I would say. Which was boldy the Word of the evening. =)

The meeting started off as Wong Han Hiang, TM brought the meeting to order and passed on the floor to our beloved president, Goh Wei Lyn, TM. Her majesty greeted the meeting with warm greetings and explained a little on the spirit of Chinese New Year.

It is not everyday that you find the Toastmaster of the evening dress up as a bunny-funny-guy for you for the entire evening. And I thought Adam Fung, ACB did an excellent job keeping it in the mood =).

Hopping on delightfully, The Table Topics session commanded by the formidable Fazlan, TM used the keychain approach to churn out creative stories from the audience, and to complement him, Levine Lee, CC-CL did an amazing evaluation on the five speakers. Congratulations on all the speakers who came up to speak.

Hopping past the humor session of which we figured out the usage of rabbit tattoos on the scalp and multitasking while driving, the honorable Playboy of the evening took us to the Maxim of the evening which was the "Dinner at the Penthouse"..Did I say Playboy? I meant Toastmaster of the Evening.(I love Innuendos) =)

We had three assignment speeches today and all amazing in their unique ways!

We first had Lim Ah Hwai, TM with his adaptations of the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare". He was evaluated by Masdiana Ooi Abdullah, CTM-CL.

Next was a 3 minute "Just In News" by Reporter Jerene Yap, CC. And spoke on events relating to cherishing today in her speech "Tomorrow may never come". She was evaluated by Mohamad Abdullah, DTM.

The Highlight of the evening however was an amazing Debut by the lovely Masmarlena, TM who gave a summary of her life to date with projects 1-6 embued in it. As PP.Leong might have said "No longer a Ass.ignment Speech V." Congratulations Marlena, Queen Vi.ctoria would have been proud =). And She was evaluated by her mentor Gan Eng Meng, CC-CL.

After the 3 climatically amazing speeches, the Tall-Dark-and most Chinese dressed Toastmaster of the Evening, Robert Ram, ACS-ALB of  IEM Toastmasters took over the session as General Evaluator. Thank you for your kind and honest comments especially on the website. =)



Roleplayers of the Evening were;

Grammarian: Shizal Ramli, TM
Ah Counter:  Anna Hue, ACG-CL
TimeKeeper: Justin Ong, TM

Award Winners were:
Best Table Topics Speaker & Evaluator : Gan Eng Meng, CC CL

 
Best Assignment Speaker: MasMarlena, TM

Most Friendly Person: Adam Fun.g, ACB =)

Meeting ended with a Speech by the President Goh Wei Lyn, TM and the Past President Mohamad Abdullah, DTM.

The Next meeting Will be on the 22nd of February 2011, hope to see you there =)

Oh and... Happy Valentine's Day! =)



Trius Blades Out!

Making MII goreng out of the Division level Championships! =D

First and foremost, I'd like to thank Marlena for standing in for me. Job well done!

Dear Toastmasters...."Domo!" I have returned from the Land of the Rising Sun....only to find....That we are Division G & Area G Champions!! This is amazing!

Kudos to Past President Anna Hue, ACG, CL, ECC (Evaluation Contest Champion) for Bringing us to the District Level! You make us Proud! Below are some of the moments last Saturday during the Division Level Championships where according to PP Leong, our legendary ECC Ann Hue overwhelmed 7 men!  A feat accomplished only by a gifted few.

 Special thanks also to the MII Cheermasters who came and supported our Champion! I am sure she is grateful to have such a huge support!

 The Leaders' board for the Division Contest are as follows:-

Humorous Speech Contest

Champion        : Tan Siok Looi         (Speecom TMC)

1st runner up   : Mohd Hadzrin Shah (UEM Academy TMC)

2nd runner up  : Shane Lim              (AFC TMC)  

  

Evaluation Contest

Champion        : Anna Hue   (MII TMC)

1st runner up   : Jack Lim     (AFC TMC)

2nd runner up  : Jason Moi   (Help TMC)

Congratulations to all who participated. I am sure it was a really close battle!

Well to the rest of the MII Toastmasters, see you this Tuesday....To Celebrations!

Trius Blades out!

Toastmaster’s blog for August 24th 2010

Hola everyone, this Lena your temp girl from SJ covering up for the Blades whilst he is enjoying himself in Japan.

It has been yet another great meeting on the 24th August 2010 with loads of guests and thanks to PP Thilothaman for bringing in his colleagues from OCBC (only can borrow coins). They are Ms Felicia, Mr KC, Mr John and MR Eu Jin. I hope I have spelled all your names correctly.

Thank you Mr Willy Tan also for bringing Ms Molly who is a 'vocal' teacher. Thank you Mr Ho for bringing Mehdi and lastly Mr Leong Kok Wah for inviting Encik Mazrul from MII and me for inviting myself to come.

Thank you again.

The meeting started wonderfully punctual thanks to Mr Wong Hung Hiang ASAA for the evening. Madam President gave her opening speech about her past when she first entered Toastmasters; like how her hands would shake uncontrollably and shiver from nervousness. Then she gave the guests a chance to give an introduction of themselves and after that handed the floor to Mr Mohamad Abdullah the TME.

He enlightened us with the history of Toastmasters International, District 51 and our Club with the struggles and the pain that this club has gone through to get where we are today.

Mr Tash our invocation presenter gave a short but meaningful quotation which I hope he can share with us in writing.

We later had a buka puasa which got the guests excited and talking about it for the entire night. Thanks you IPP Levine for the glorious dinner. Oh yes, thanks also to Puan Rozi, Ms Anna, En Shizal for the Buka Puasa delicacy, as usual Mr Willy for the water.

The AGM then started with the President asking IPP Levine to chair the meeting and it went smoothly except for some points of order which was later smoothen.

Later, Mr Fazlan gave his oh so exciting ice breaker “My name is Lan”. He was so bold to bare his past for us to hear. Congratulations Lan! We then proceeded with an impeccable speech by our Champion Humorist Mr Leong.

The evaluation was opened to the floor with members “hantam-ing” him with all they've got; for the sake of victory to the club I suppose. 
The Evaluation started with PP Anna and followed by PP Thilo, PP Masdiana and Mr Wong Chen. The evaluation bit was so intriguing that we even exceeded the time limit with Mr Thilo giving hand signs for members to stop but everyone was just too indulged into evaluating Mr Leong.

We still got our second auntie Dr Gan (GE) to do the General Evaluation. Whilst she pat some she also whack some all in the name of Toastmaster. Our Ms Jerene the Grandma (Gramma rian) was as usual very candid gave good report on the language used, even Lan (our Ice Breaker) was not spared. Mr Willy as usual a very good listener even gave Ms Jerene the Gold Award for the highest Aahs,etc.

The day ended with feedback from the guests and most of them were mostly complimenting on the food and promised to come back and taste more of our proper meeting.

Mr Belushi aka PP Philip Wong closed the meeting with some words of wisdom and advise.

That’s all folks :) hope you enjoy this entry.

Mas Marlena

'Strive for the Stars' Meeting 10th August 2010

When one wishes upon a Star,
Makes no difference where you are,
Anything your heart desires,
will come to you.

Once again an amazing Meeting at the MII Toastmasters Club! This evening, the theme of the Evening was "Strive for the Stars" and the Word of the evening was "Excellent". Tonight the Toastmaster of the evening was Toastmaster Justin Ong who conducted the meeting for his very first time. Good Job!


Invocation Presenter was by ACG, CL PP Anne Hue who also doubled up as the General Evaluator.

The Table Topics Master was conducted by Lena who conducted it with great topics on parents & children relationships.


Congratulations to the volunteers


1) IPPP Leong Kok Wah,
2) PP Philip Wong,
3) CC Jerene Yap,
4) CC Willy Tan,
5) Guest Elaine,
and 6) Guest Rinoa.


Congratulations at attempting the Table topics! You all did really well!

Before the meeting broke for dinner, the Madam President TM, Goh Wei Lyn inducted TM, Mohd Fazlan into the MII Toastmasters Club. Congratulations Mohd Fazlan, you're one step closer to being a fantastic speaker.

Scheduled were 3 speeches.


1) TM, Shizal Ramli did his 3rd speech of the CC manual on "Principles to winning Chess games". A really informative speech which benefited many fellow chess players in the meeting.

2) CC, CL, Dr. Gan Eng Meng did her 2nd speech of the Advance Manual titled "Time to unwind". A visually enriching speech of the importance of relaxing and avoiding stress.

3) Last but certainly no the least ACB, Adam Fung did a general speech titled "DNA of Success". Really great speech with audience participation on the core ingredients of success.

Respective evaluators were


1) CC, Jerene Yap,

2) CC, CL Philip Wong

3) CC, CL Leong Kok Wah.


Congratulations to all!

The other role players of the evening were

1) Grammarian: Willy Tan, CC
2) Ah Counter: Mohamad Abdullah, DTM
3) Timer & ASAA: Mohd Fazlan, TM
4) General Evaluator: Anna Hue, ACG, CL


Awards that were presented for the night were


Best Table Topic Speaker: Guest, Elaine

Best Prepared Speaker: Adam Fung, ACB

Best Evaluator: Leong Kok Wah, CC, CL

Most Friendliest Person: Justin Ong, TM

    Best Role Player - PP Anna Hue, ACG,CL

The Meeting was adjourned by Madam President Goh Wei Lyn, TM and Immediate Past President Levine Lee, CC ,CL closed the meeting with an inspiring message.


Wow it was certainly a very educational yet an enjoyable meeting. I sure did learn alot.


Be sure not to miss the next meeting on the 24th of August 2010 when the club will hold its 19th AGM, Same time, Same place!!


This is Trius Blades Signing off as the MIIT e-VPPR! You have a great week!

MII Toastmasters Humorous and Evaluation Contests 2010

Howdy-ho Guys!

Great to be read again =) On the 27th of July 2010, we the MII Toastmasters Club held our Humorous and Evaluation Contest. The Humorous contest is where the funniest of Toastmasters compete in a Humor Battle to be the best & win the crowd's reaction... to laugh. The Evaluation Contest instead focused more on listening and deduction skills on evaluating a test speaker invited as an example.

There were four contestants for the Humor Contest
1) Mr. Leong Kok Wah who spoke with humor on corruption.
2) Mr. Justin Ong who spoke on living on overseas and not coming back.
3) Mr. S. Mano who joked about an experience with a headstrong subordinate of his, and
4) Mr. Mohamad Abdullah who's play of words lingered between lead the sheep, leadership and lick the...

After dinner, the Evaluation Contest commenced.

The contestants were

1) Mr.Leong Kok Wah,
2) Mr. Mohamad Abdullah,
3) Mr. Philip Wong,
4) Mr. Justin Ong,
5) Ms. Anna Hue,
6) Dr Gan,
7) Mr. Wong Chen.

The Contest speaker of the night was Mr. Vincent Chow who gave a speech with the title, 'If I were a Girl'. Most likely an adaptation from the original Beyonce Song "If I were a Boy". Vincent gave a remarkable performance of which the 7 contestants each took their turn to evaluate him.

The winners were

Humorous Speech Contest
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1) Mr. Leong Kok Wah

2)  Mr. Mohamad Abdullah

3) Mr. S. Mano

Evaluation Contest
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1) Mrs. Anna Hue

2) Mr. Mohamad Abdullah

3) Dr. Gan Eng Meng

Congratulations to the winners!! And also A Big Congratulations to all the participants who participated during the contests. It takes great courage to compete let alone speak in front of a large audience. You all did really well!

Also a very special thanks to ALL the Role players who made ALL of this Happen.

Credits to...

Madam President cum Organising Chair: Goh Wei Lyn
Humorous Contest Chair: Miss Jerene Yap
Evaluation Contest Chair: Mr. Wong Hang Hiang


SAA: Mohd Fazlan

ASAA: Ho Fook Chuan

2nd ASAA: Mas Marlena

Time Keeper: Tiffany Ng
Assistant TimeKeeper: Lim Ah Hwai


Ballot Counter 1: Eugene Lau

Ballot Counter 2: Ms. Siow Fei Yau

TestSpeaker: Mr. Winson Chow

Honorable Contest Judges:
1) Chief Judge, ACG Lee Wei Seong
2) Judge CC, Teoh Chun Ming,

3) Judge CC, Marcus Loi
4) Judge ACS ALB, Nancy Liew
5) Judge ACB, Eu Choi San
6) Judge, Ginger



Your services were very much appreciated =D

After the certificate and prize giving session, announcements were made to the floor.

• Area W4 is having their Humorous and Evaluation Contests on the 21st of August, 1-3pm @ the MIA Resource Center.
• Ernst & Young Toastmaster's Club is having theirs on the 1st of September 2010. 
• & The Final announcement was for a call for unused medicines at home. Anyone who has unfinished medicine kept in your closets please donate them to our MII Toastmasters Charity Rep. Masdiana. Your drugs will be tested for usability and dispensed in rural areas where medicine is scarce but required.

And that wraps it up. The next meeting shall be on the 10th of August 2010. Hope to see you there!

Same time, Same place! New Theme!

This is Trius Blades, your 2010 e-VPPR signing off!

MII Toastmasters INSTALLATION NITE 13th July 2010

Good Evening extinguished readers, Welcome back to another exciting blog entry!

This week, the MII Toastmasters club successfully Installed the 19th Executive Committee during their 19th Installation night held last Tuesday on the 13th of July 2010. (For those heading to the 3D+1 box office to buy your tickets for Jack Neo's New movie "Money not enough: 4D" the number to buy is 1913 and 7201)
... That's just a joke, I tell it every time.

The theme for the Installation night was Black & White. And as an incentive, The Best Dressed of the evening would be given a prize as well (even if he or she did not come up to flaunt it).

Guests from as far as the Allianz Toast Masters club consisting of their President, Mr. Charles and his Exco members, Winnie and Azlina travelled down to attend our Installation of which we are truly grateful. Amongst the other guests of honor who graced our session with their presence was Past President Larry Toh and the new Area Governor Jane Wu. Welcome.


The session started off at 7.15 on time as our ASAA TM Ho enthusiastically wield the club gavel to call the meeting into session. The TTE was none other than DTM Mohammad Abdullah who conducted his role flawlessly. Also a reminder to our members that we are no longer under area W but we have been placed in G2 for 'Graciously Great!'

The Table Topic Session was conducted by CC S.Manogaran who cheekily coaxed the speakers into revealing juicy opinions of which everyone enjoyed. The speakers who volunteered did really well...at handling the topic.

Thank you Patrick for his take on single mothers,
Charles on egoism and self-centeredness,
Lim who was also our humor master with his opinion and experience in infidelity.
Masdiana on Mother in Laws,
Willy on the women behind fate of mankind,
Justin's opinion on expressing love to our partners,
Fazlan on Mutual respect,
& Maslena's POV on courting life.

IIPP Leong rounded up the session by giving encouraging remarks which focused on the strong points of each speaker.

The Laugh however had not yet begun, and TM Lim Ah Hwai fulfilled that void with his trademark Ah Beng jokes. Lim, We look forward to having Ah Lian join in the second season.

As a special treat, AASA Ho then called the meeting to a pause for a 30 minute dinner break. MII Toastmasters is well known for their food, and this session was no less. It is tradition that we celebrate the birthday Toasters of the month, and this month was none other than our beloved TM, Rozina Harun.


The Installation Ceremony was next in the agenda, and Immediate Past President CC,CL "Lovingly" Levine Lee successfully conducted her last action as the President by discharging her executive committee and appointing TM Goh Wei Lyn as our new President of the club for 2010/2011.




Our Current president then, picked up her gavel and ushered in a new line of executive committees.

Vice President of Education, CC CL Dr Gan
Vice President of Membership, TM Tash
Vice President of Public Relations, TM Justin
Secretary, TM Shizal
Treasurer, TM Wong
Sergeant-at-arms, TM Fazlan

A BIG Congratulations to all!


The General Evaluator our Area Governor Jane Wu then took the floor and gave her evaluation of the meeting.
Big thank you to the role-players Grammarian Wong Chen, Ah Counter Fei Yau, and Timer Rozina for their reports.

The Most Friendly person of the day was Gavel wielding ASAA Mr.Ho!

Best Table Topic Speaker went to Masdiana for her opinion on Mother in Laws.

Best Role-player went to DTM Mohammad for his role as the TTE.

Last but not least Best Dressed for the evening went to TM Justin Ong.

Finally, special thanks to the Past Presidents Larry Toh and Leong Kok Wah, and electronically by Philip for giving their closing message to the meeting.

Meeting was adjourned by our new President Goh Wei Lyn.

This is Trius Blades(AKA Justin Ong) your 2010 e-VPPR signing off...

You have a great week ahead!

Meeting 27 April 2010

Thank you for reading this blog. Much appreciate it and I would be happier if you let me have your feedback on the blog or email me directly .

We had 20 people attending the last meeting and 25% of them are guests and thanks to Jerene who brought in Susan and Tan, directly and with assistance from IPP David and Wai Ling from MUI and a visiting TM from Shaklee Family Vincent Soon. As for our members they all played a role and I would record their names accordingly.

President Levine came and due to the massive traffic which cause PP Anna, GE+EVP Rozina,some guests and yours truly were late and could not hear what our President had said.

HH Wong was the TME for the first time and am glad he did prepare himself well for the role. TTM was Masdiana also well prepared with Quotations for the speakers to agree or not to agree. The speakers were: Leong, Willy, Philip, Anna, Jerene and Mohamad. The vote goes to Mohamad on the topic, "Turn your scars to stars." The TTE was Monsiuer.

Following this we had an induction of Wong Chen our new member and I must congratulate our IPP for the way he conducted the session, very professional - maybe we make him the permanent inductor.

Picture of Wong Chen being inducted by President Levine.

Dinner was great but considering there are 20 mouths to feed the food seemed just enough and no extra helping for the hungry ghosts.

We have a full house of Project speakers starting with an Icebreaker well crafted by Wong Chen. In a short time of 6 minutes he bares himself as a 41 year old lawyer and at the same time help the family business, born in Kelantan, studied in Singapore and UK and now work in KL, a Toaist, sbna and a member of PKR - watch this guy he will be going places. He has a well chosen Evaluator PP Anna who seemed has no recommendation for him except that don't be too humble and apologise; just speak.

The next speaker was called Justice Ong aka Justin Ong. This is his 2nd Project speech and he shared with us on Photography something that he is passionate about. Now I know that "Photo" is light and "Graphy" is draw. He told us about aperture, focus, etc. His Evaluator was Willy.

After Photography we got motivated by Jerene when she advices us to package ourselves well otherwise don't leave the house. She feels that every one judges you by your look first and that is why nice looking products got sold fairly quickly. Her Evaluator is PP Philip.

Our last speaker is Mohamad who wants to commit suicide by doing a project on "Addressing the Opposition" and asking the audience to give the government a chance. In this project he is requested to conduct a Q&A session for 2 minutes but the crowd was so eager to fire him that he has to be stopped at 6 minutes. His evaluator was Dr Gan who correctly said that Mohamad's arguments are not strong enough, not convincing enough and not persusive enough. Mohamad needs to work harder if he believes in what he is saying.

After all these speeches GE Rozina took control and we all listened to Vincent Soon on the language used, Wei Lyn on the Aahs, Willy on the time after the respective Speech Evaluators. GE Rozi in her usual self, soft and sweet but firm gave her views about the meeting and profusely apologise for coming in late and strongly recommend that future GE cannot be late.

The Winners for the evening were:
1. Best Table Topics Speaker - Mohamad Abdullah
2. Best Project Speech - Wong Chen
3. Best Project Speech Evaluator - Dr Gan Eng Meng
4. Best Role Player - Goh Wei Lyn
5. Most Friend Person -

Picture of Dr Gan receiving the Best Evaluator Award from President Levine.



























Finally, the Past President Philip takes over and closes the meeting.

District 51 Area W2 2010 Contests

MII Toastmasters Club can be proud to have won 50% of the Awards for the Area Contest, from the words of our IPP. As in all contests there will be winners and there will be losers. Some are happy to win and still there are some who are happy to lose. The Contests was professionally conducted by OC DTM Renganathan cum CC for International and Janice for TT.

The Winners for the International went to Johan Shah Aman Shah, Mohamad Abdullah (MII) and Leong Kok Wah (MII). As for the Table Topics the winners are Tuck Yew, Roger (Speecom) and Cherylyn Goh Wei Lin (MII).

MII was well supported with 9 members present. See them below.



















Great photography by Stanley Ho. Our Club Champions from left Cherylyn Goh Wei Lyn 3rd for Table Topics, IPP Leong Kok Wah 3rd for International and Mohamad for 2nd in the International.



















From left: PP Philip Wong, Mohamad, Jerene Yap, Wei Lyn, Rozina Harun, Leong Kok Wah, Shizal, Stanley Ho and Levine (hiding behind IPP)















The three stooges waiting to be called.


The Inspirator of them all. Guess who?


The Towkay


The 4D guy


Our photographer Mr Stanley Ho Fook Chuan, without him this cannot happen. Am still waiting for his vdo shots.

Meeting on 9th March 2010

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This meeting with a theme "Lets March together" coupled with the word of the day "Celebrate" marks another milestone in MII history. We have IPP Leong Kok Wah practising his contest speech, the EVP Rozina Harun as acting President inducted a new member Justin Ong and our newly inducted member doing his Ice Breaker.

Acting President Rozina Harun confidently took the role and announced that our meeting on 23rd March 2010 has been cancelled as it coincide with the Area W2 Contest where our club will be taking part. She announced that IPP Leong Kok Wah and Goh Wei Lyn for Table Topics and IPP Leong Kok and Mohamad Abdullah for the International Speech Contest.











The Toastmaster of the Evening was Willy Tan and he conducted the meeting well. Induction was done by HH Wong and Chung Yoke Wai lead the Table Topics Session. Speakers for the session were not short as there are far too many volunteers. Monsieur, HH Wong, Wong chen, Philip Wong, Shizal and Dr Gan took part in the session and Wong Chen our guest took the honour of being the best TT Speaker.



Just before we break for dinner Ag President inducted Justin. It was a little confusion on the part of the ASAA Monsiuer who brought out another person who is a guest of LKW and that brought the house down with laughter. To err is human.








Dinner as usual but this time we had IPP Leong Kok Wah, Goh Wei Lyn and Jerene Yap standing at the head table for us to sing them the birthday song.





Speeches made for the evening were from IPP Leong on 'The Politics of Perception', Jerene on 'Plastic Money' and Justin on 'Just an Icebreaker'. Their evaluators were Masdiana, Anna for Leong, Goh Wei Lyn for Jerene and Dr Gan for Justin.



The General Evaluator was Adam Fung, as usual witty and humourous brought in the other evaluators like Philip for Grammarian duty, Monsiuer for counting aahs and Mohamad as time keeper.



The meeting closes wit PP Philip Wong advising members the greatness of the organisation and to drive safely home.