461st Chapter Meeting (3rd October 2013) or "A Day of Many Firsts"

A Day of Many Firsts

Best Prepared Speech: Jane Yeo
Best Evaluator: Coen Tan, ACS, ALB
Best Table Topics: Roger Yap, CC
Word of the Day: STRIDE

It was a day of many firsts:
1. The First time our VPE took over in Gurmit's absence, giving his inaugural Opening Address as as Acting President for the day.
2. Joe Wan's First time as Toastmaster of the Day. Joe was totally awesome and energetic. WOOHOO! Go, First Wan!
3. Christina Ho's First time as Language Evaluator, with "STRIDE" as her Word of the Day. Well done, Christina, so full of courage and enlightening observations!
4. Chan Chee Wai did his First Speech, talking about how he takes evening walks with his parents in his hometown of Ipoh, and how he came to Singapore. Ipoh is well-known for its pretty ladies and affordable, delicious food, so perhaps one day we can go visit Chee Wai's hometown as a group! Not just for the single guys, also the MBAs (Married but Availables)...
5. Andrew Chen, ATMB, ALB did his First prepared speech that we've seen in a long, long time. Andrew was very convincing as a Master Salesman, talking about the main causes of death in the Singapore population, and how someone could provide for his family in his absence, in the form of a "Love Letter" (as my best friend Al says, "Cash is the most sincere gift", usually said in jest, but here it has a serious meaning)
6. And also the First time I've seen a Toastmaster so young, handsome and with so much potential: Hayden, Michael and Cheng Lee's grandson, paid us a visit. Since Michael and Cheng Lee are both DTMs, I have a strong feeling that Hayden will walk down that same path.

And if a picture is worth a thousand words, here are several thousand words' worth of pictures:

Birthday Baby for October: Michael Wee, DTM

The icing on the cake...

Best Prepared Speech: Jane Yeo, whose P9 speech was about persuading us to join a sponsored trip to Korea for shopping, a spa in Japan, and cosmetic surgery in Korea!  

Best Evaluator: Coen Tan, ACS, ALB, evaluated Andrew Chen's speech. There are two (2) million-dollar smiles here!!

Best Table Topics: Roger Yap, CC from Anchorvale TMC, talked about how "A piece of cake" doesn't so much represent an easy task as it is a challenge to be overcome. I really like the positive spin on something that seemed so simple on the surface.

458th Meeting 15th August 2013

Wesley gets his Golden Gavel

Best Prepared Speech: Jane Yeo

Best Evaluator: Roger Yap, CC, CL from Anchorvale TMC

Best Table Topics: Christina Ho

458th Chapter Meeting- 15 August 2013

Meeting recap:
President Gurmit Singh, CC told us a story about a marble tile and a marble statue, and how the two ended up in different places due to their resistance to being sculpted.

Toastmaster Joe Wan brought a guest, Jack, and his speech was about how he felt like he had known Tampines Changkat TMC for years.

Richard Lam, ATMB, CL, told us about the dangers of consuming aspartame, an artificial sweetener, and the insidious dangers of it because of its symptoms.

Toastmaster Ronnie Wang, gave a stellar performance in his "The Power of Picture" speech, talking about, what else, the power of pictures. His gruesome illustration of the dangers of smoking will be imprinted in my mind.

Toastmaster Jane Yeo showed us the Stuffed Strawberry Doll she got for her 18th birthday, one of her wedding photos and a video of an ex-Area Governor dancing... unforgettable.

All the project evaluators: Toastmaster Gladys Tye; Coen Tan, ACS, ALB; Roger Yap, CC and Wesley Ho, CC, gave insightful, enriching and helpful evaluations to our prepared speech speakers.

The Table Topics consisted of a sentence-completion exercise, such as completing "I had a dream of...", "I was on top of...", "My Mum always said that..." and making that your Table Topic. Table Topics Master Nui Thantong Bang-on is always innovative with her Table Topics. For some strange reason, Toastmaster June Tan's words "Happiness is spending time with my 2 boys" resonated with me and brought tears to my eyes later when I thought about it some more.

Our Language Evaluator Yew Run Bin, ACS, CL, gave our Word of the Evening as "profound" and she gave many examples of when we used the word, and emphasized the cuteness of the phrase "Polka-dot Strawberry"

What a marvellous meeting it was!