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

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.

The Area Contest

MII TM Club became the host again and this time our President took the role of Contest Chair for both the Contests. As it falls on the Ramadan month, he quickly start the contest session at 7pm and then declare the meeting adjourned for Buka Puasa. This is just like the translation of Marine Open Cover Policy. In Malay it is cal Polisi Buka Tutup Marin.

There were four Contestants for the Evaluation and three for the Humour. I can't remember the names of the Contestants and the test speaker - perhaps due to my age or the puasa but I must speak up for the sake of freedom of the press - Anna Hue ought to be the Champion for the Evaluation Contest. Just could not understand how the judges gave it to another who in my personal opinion is not even near enough. All the other Evaluators speak from the Rostrum and they kept their eye contact on the speaker - as I have many timesbut we are not talking to the speaker but to the audience at large.

Not to sound like a sore loser I guess, Judges need to be effectively trained if they are trained at all.

As for Humour Session, I believe Mohamad did better than the last time when he won at the club level but the other two contestants were better than him. The other contestants were smooth in their delivery, have enough body gesture or 'slapsticks' and they are good with their words. They deserve to win.

If I may just make by comments here, I find Toastmasters are over dramatic in their presentation. Almost every word they express must have a gesture and this to me is distractive. Perhaps I like to open this discussion with the readers....if any lah.

Let me put this in better perspective, should a speaker use gesture for every word they use and make a speech so dramatic like a clown? I think a speaker should speak and from the words he or she selected the audience is able to picture it without graphic display of our body. Send in your comments and we will debate over it.

P/s. Sshhhh don't tell anyone, whilst Mohamad lost the contest he is happy with himself. He thinks he has done better. If you do not agree tell him and if you agree tell him too.