Tiarel Toastmasters Club - 11th Chapter meeting of 2009/2010

Today, 12 December 2009, marks the 11th chapter meeting of the term 2009/2010. Thank you to all members who gave us yet another wonderful meeting! ....... Jamil Suleiman, President, The courage for having to stand in front of judges and to put his points across vividly comes with many much practice at toastmasters. He encourages us.......

Acknowledgment

A round of applause for today’s Appointment Holders:

Sergeant At Arms, SAA	Lim Meng Guan
Toastmaster-of-the-day	Lim Meng Guan
Table-Topics Master	June Soh
Language Evaluator	Julies Tan
Just 4 Laughs Presenter	Richard Sng
Timer	Ho Eng Lye
“Ah” Counter	David Kow

Warm Up Session

Meng Guan called the meeting to order and the icebreaker topic is “why you are here today and not away”. Some members are back from their holidays, some have rejoined after being absent for a few meetings due to work. While some have empathetically given their time for appointments, some are here to practice their speech skills through the appointments and the table topics session.

Opening Address

Jamil Suleiman, President, had attended Court on behalf of his company recently and shared with us how he had won his case through his rhetoric approach with the judge and respondent. The courage for having to stand in front of judges and to put his points across vividly comes with many much practice at toastmasters. He encourages us to make use of our meetings to practice as much as we can, as we never know when we too have to appear before the court, just like him.

Language evaluation

Julies Tan, gave us the word of the day and encouraged us to use it in our speeches. The word is “faze”. Just as the word is spelled, it is pronounced as f-a-C-e except the alphabet “c” is replaced with “z”. This is a verb used for expressing a composure or expression of someone who is surprised, put off, agitated, shocked, intimidated, etc. If the person gives the opposite expression, you can say something “does not faze him or her” or change it into an adjective by saying “he or she was not fazed”. Alternatively, you can add “un” to the word to become “unfazed” instead. The word can also be changed into a noun depending on where you put the word on your sentence. Examples of use are:

Verb - The contest does not faze her.
Adjective - She was unfazed by his good looks.
Noun – the news results are for the unfazed.

Prepared Speeches

We have one prepared speech from the basic manual by:

Speaker	Project Manual	Project Titles
Peter Le Duy Diep	P6 – Vocal Variety	Skiing

Speech Evaluations

The evaluator provided constructive and supportive feedback. The member was:

Evaluator	Speaker
Lee Fung Fung	Peter Le

Panel evaluations

The panel evaluators made up of the rest of the members also provided constructive and supportive feedback to the speaker. The feedback was encouraging and the speaker and the audience have benefited greatly through the evaluators’ observations.

Table-Topics Session

This was conducted by June Soh. There was no central theme to the topics, however they were of “contest standards”. It was a very challenging session and a total of 9 topics were attempted by the participants listed below:

Speaker Topics
Lim Meng Guan Should Euthanasia be allowed
Richard Sng Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference (Sir Winston Churchill)
Manish Knowing is different from doing
Julies Tan People who say that they have never made any mistake in their life, have never tried new things in their life (Einstein)
Lee Fung Fung We turn into our parents
Peter Le I will have enough time in my life if I prioritized everything properly
David Kow Believing in everybody is dangerous, believing in nobody is more dangerous (Abraham Lincoln)
Ho Eng Lye If I discover I have aids
Jamil Suleiman Global warming

Best Ribbon Awards

Congratulations to the following for winning the best ribbon awards:

Table Topics Speaker Richard Sng

Announcement:

There will be games, food and fun in our next club meeting on 26th December. It will be a dress down meeting, all members are welcome to come and join in for another fruitful meeting.

Thank you, June and Fung Fung for having edited this meeting minutes.