Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Apocalypse? Not Quite as the Party's Just Started

Theme: Ushering in the New Year

If there's any way to wait for 21/12/2012 to arrive for the world to end, BAT Toastmasters club did it in style by having its 23rd Club meeting on the 19th of December, 2012 celebrated the year end / new beginning (if the world has not ended on 21/12/2012) gracefully with the theme being Ushering In The New Year!


Party's Here Banner Fits the Meeting Perfectly 

This meeting was called to order by Sergeant-At-Arms Rachael Renita, TM at 12.15pm, slightly behind time (yet again). That's strike two as the previous meeting was also late in starting.On the other hand, this meeting was quite unique in the sense that it was a Project 2 speeches marathon, i.e. all the project speakers were doing their project 2 speech! We were honored with the presence of Shell Cyberjaya (CBJ)'s toastmaster club's president, Tuan Hui and he took up the role as the general evaluator for the day.


CC CL Tuan Hui in action for the day as General Evaluator. 
No photo available.Special mention also needs to go to Rachael, Jasvin and Kamala for their help in organizing the year-end party and also Joel for helping to buy the year-end gifts! Thanks guys!

Christmas gifts in the form of books from BBW as well as laminated poems. Very thoughtful poem indeed
Word of The Day : "Ebullient" - Definition: Cheerful and full of energy

Speeches:
P2 (Organize Your Speech) : Education Unplugged by Kamala Velautham, TM


TM Kamala in action for her speech
P2 (Organize Your Speech) : Saying It Right by Richard Ng, TM
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P2 (Organize Your Speech) : Pro? Marvin Miod, TM
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P2 (Organize Your Speech) : Live Longer By Breathing Goh Ser Yoong, TM
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As the video file sizes are big, we are still facing some challenges uploading videos so for now, please enjoy the photos as starters. As the old saying, a photos speaks a thousand words.
Table Topics Session: 

Table topics session was conducted by TM Vicknaeswaran and in conjuction with the date and latest craze on Gangnam style, the participants was treated to a Youtube video and spoken in relation to the video. Yet another new idea of conducting table topics by our favorite table topic master. :)

Unfortunately yet again, there wasn't any recording of the evaluation session this round, perhaps everyone was still amused and entertained from the table topics speakers.

Evaluation Session: 
TM Joel was the Table Topics Evaluator in action for the day 

TM Rachael evaluating for TM Richard 

Area Governor, Odett Liew evaluating for TM Marvin 

In conclusion, after the speeches and reports, all good things must come to an end, with the meeting adjourned on time at 2.15pm. Well good things did continue afterwards with a good sumptuous lunch provided to all attendees as well as the year end-cum Christmas gifts presented to all BAT Toastmasters club members as well as guest. :)

And we are still alive as shown by this post. :) It's a new year, new beginning folks! More posts to come. Until then, do enjoy the rest of the photos of the day below.


Other Photos of the day: 


SAA Rachael calling the meeting into order 

Large crowd of attendees is becoming a norm in BAT Toastmasters club meetings nowadays :)

Role players busy preparing their parts 

Joy and laughter fills the air when new guests comes for meetings. In this case, we have first time visitor, Punitha 

Our president's opening speech 

TM Richard won the Best Speaker award. Bravo! He has certainly spoken it right. :) 

Our first time guest to meeting and already she won the Table Topics speaker! Congratulations to Chew Ai

TM Rachael won the Best Evaluator Award

CC CL Tuan Hui receiving a memento from our President, CC Lee Han Ther 

Friday, 23 November 2012

Fellowship of the Globe


Theme: Fellowship

Apologies to our dear readers as due to some minor logistics mix-up, we will proceed with our first meeting blog post with the Bring Your Friend Day meeting instead of the Exco-Installation meeting as promised.

BAT Toastmasters 22nd Club meeting on the 24th of October, 2012 celebrated the Toastmasters “Fellowship” gracefully with the theme being Bring a Friend! Each of the club members were encouraged to bring an outside guest to the meeting to experience the professional meeting with interesting speeches and mind-boggling table topics as well as success celebration at the end.

This meeting was called to order by Sergeant-At-Arms Marvin Miod, TM at 12.15pm, slightly behind time as our President, CC Lee Han Ther was accidentally locked out of the meeting room for a few minutes. Anyways, please follow the link below to watch the opening speech video:

Source: http://youtu.be/1Rm12aMkOl8

On the other hand, we were extremely delighted to have a record number of attendees for this meeting! Bravo to all club members for churning up the numbers! Special mention goes to our very own Area Governor, Odett Liew for being the member that brought the most guests. :)

Word of The Day : "Fellowship"

Speeches:

P1 (The Ice Breaker) by Jessica Tan, TM

Due to an unforeseen incident, Jessica's speech video could not be recorded fully.
P1 (The Ice Breaker) : Don't Call Me Sir, Listen To Know Me Better by Goh Ser Yoong, TM

***As the file size for the video is large, we will attempt to upload the shortly.

P2 (Organize Your Speech) : Butterfly by Abdul Matin, TM

Due to an unforeseen incident, Matin's speech could not be recorded as well! Well, it's our first attempt at recording speeches, so please bear with us.

We also have a speech from the Advanced Manual :

AP5 (Oratorical Speech) : Mandate for Greatness by Peter Yeoh, ACS, CL

***As the file size for the video is large, we will attempt to upload the shortly.

Table topics session went well and the topic was indeed interesting. Do enjoy the video below on how our participants fare:

Table Topics Session: 

***As the file size for the video is large, we will attempt to upload the shortly.

Unfortunately, there wasn't any recording of the evaluation session this round, perhaps everyone was still amused and entertained from the table topics speakers.

In conclusion, all good things must come to an end, with the meeting adjourned on time at 2.20pm. Well good things did continue afterwards with a good sumptuous lunch provided to all attendees. :)

Photos of the day:


DTM Robert Ram giving his speech to introduce Toastmasters to the fellow guests and club members. 


Table Topics Master of the day, Masheed kick-starting the ever interesting event. This round of table topics is made even more interesting with participants being required to continue the speech based on the last word from the last participant. :)


Sergeant-At-Arms, Rachael giving her speech as the General Evaluator 


Fully concentrated into his Timer role, Marvin. 


And the winner is....... Look how happy the guests were! 


Best Prepared Speech Winner : Jessica Tan 


Best Table Topic Speaker : Anne Tee. Well done to Anne, being her first time to a Toastmasters club meeting! 


Best Evaluator award goes to Peter Yeoh. 


Odett's guestS for the meeting alone beats everyone's else, i.e 4 of them! Well done to our Area Governor! :) 


For that, she gets an appreciation award from our President, Han Ther. 


P/S: Would appreciate any comment / improvement to our blog for our readers' pleasure.

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

Welcome fellow Toastmasters to BAT TMC

Welcome to the home of BAT Toastmasters club. This is our inaugural post and what is better than to be greeted by all the members with a group photo taken from our recent club's First year anniversary-cum-new-exco-installation celebration. 


There will be many more posts to come with a more detailed post coming up on the Exco Installation meeting. 

In the meantime, feel free to leave your comments/feedback on our posts (be nice) :) and looking forward to seeing everyone in action! 

Best regards,
BAT TMC Webmaster 2012-13
Goh Ser Yoong.