531st Chapter Meeting

National Day is just around the corner! And what better way to liven up our chapter meeting than to come all decked out in our national colours! We love you Singapore!

Thanks to our lovely ladies, Vidhi and Naveena who tirelessly came early to help our SAA for the evening, Tia, the room set up and decorate in line with our theme for the evening! We appreciate your hard work ladies! #girlpower

After having a share of the sumptuous dinner that Her Majesty, Cheng Lee, had to kindly volunteered to prepare for us, everyone’s tummy was satisfied and all were ready to start the meeting.

With the bang of the gavel, our meeting was called to order by our lovely SAA Tia. 

We had many guests that night, both fellow toastmasters and visitors, who stood up to give a brief introduction about themselves.

Next, the stage was passed on to our Toastmaster of the evening, passionate Priya, who introduced each of the appointment roles and holders as well as enlightened us on the importance of each of these roles. 

The appointment holders for the evening are as shown below:

Sergeant-At-Arms: Tia Maria

Toastmaster of the Evening: Mohanapriya

Listening Master: Chong Cheng Lee

Ah Counter: B.R. Muralidhar

Timer: Ryan Loanda

Table Topics Master: Tan Mei Yee

We even had a brand new appointment role called the “Listening Master” whose job was to listen very intently to everyone who will be speaking during the meeting and would later on, come up to give us a little quiz to see if we were all paying attention. A listening comprehension of sorts.

Our beloved president, Joe Wan, then came up to give his opening address. He touched on National Day and left us with a quote by our late Minister mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, which goes

Next up on stage was our capable Vice President Membership (VPM) Naveena, who shared some of the initiatives of the VPM team are planning to engage in in the coming year during "The Exco Speaks" segment in efforts to keep our Tampines-Changkat family growing and yet well bonded. 

Apart from just leading and speaking, as toastmasters, we must learn to listen as well. Thus a “Voice Box” was created to allow members to voice out their concerns or ideas to the VPM team with regards to club activities and issues.

(More information on what was being shared will be up soon! So keep a lookout for it!)

We then moved into the exciting segment of prepared speeches. What an array of wonderful speakers and speeches we had last night!

Angela shared with us some of the good, the bad and the ugly ways of being a cheapskate.

You Xiao reminded us about our New Year Resolutions and how we can attain and fulfil our by planning the S.M.A.R.T. way.

Soon Tong let us in on some of his bedroom secrets and boy was it interesting!

Vincent entertained up with his inspirational yet informative and slightly humorous speech on how to keep up with our New Year Resolutions.

Next came the birthday celebrations for our August babies! We all love cake and presents! Thank you VPM team!

After our short break for refreshments and mingling, we jumped straight into our next exciting segment which were the Prepared Speeches Evaluations. Many valuable insights and learning points were gleaned from this purposeful segment. As they say, the wise man learns from the mistakes of others. And at Tampines-Changkat, we’re all here to learn and grow.

Our evaluators for the night were Yee Yuen, Choon Kiat, Matthew and Junic who evaluated the prepared speeches in the respective orders.

Moving on, Table Topics! Everyone’s favorite segment! Our lovely Table Topics Master, Mei Yee, prepared such an array of interesting items that we could talk about, all of which were “Singapore-themed”, in lieu of National Day. She managed to add a little twist to our usual Table Topics segment and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it.

And at last, our Listening Master, Her Majesty, came up to give us a little listening comprehension. It was so much fun and really well received by everyone albeit it being a brand new appointment role and segment for the night! 

Hands shot up as members fought their way to answer the questions put up by Cheng Lee. Flying toblerones were seen and much laughter was heard. It was a truly amazing segment.

Finally, Murali enlightened us with his ah count of everyone’s erms, ahs, and ums for the night.

It was an absolutely fantastic and sparkling evening of learning, sharing and growing with family and friends!

And to end it all off, the awards ceremony! 

Congratulations to Vincent for Best Prepared Speech, Yee Yuen for Best Evaluator and to Kelvin for Best Table Topics!

 Some of our dear guests also gave us very positive feedback on their experience:

"It was really warm and welcoming. I felt really at home and comfortable as everyone was very friendly and the whole meeting wasn’t overly serious."

- Priscilla- 

"The chapter meeting was super fun and full of activities. I learn a lot. Highly recommend any of my friends to visit Tampines Changkat TMC."

Long, Cheng San TMC -