HICT Toastmasters Club ''Beyond Possibilities''

8/1/2011-Speech workshop in Sunway University

2011-01-10T15:00:00.000-08:00

On this day, Mike, me, Desmond & Victor attended this workshop. The speaker is none other than the runner up of 2008 International Speech competition, K. Logendhran.

The contents were rather interesting as even though it's kinda similar with his previous workshop in our college, but it has a slightly different twist. At least I can improve a little bit with his input.

I also talked to him personally, as I felt that Toastmasters has less relevance for my current job. However, he advises me, the higher your rank, the more speech & presentation you'll make. So, I decided to be active in Ambank Toastmasters Club.

23/11/2010 HICT-UTTC Meeting

2010-11-24T06:27:00.001-08:00

For the 1st time, we have witnessed a healthy number of people
attending the club 'away' event. Thank goodness for that.

They're six people attending this meeting, which is:
1.CC Mike Cheang, President
2.CC Alan Tan, VPPR
3.Vincent Thong
4.Tee Heng Shen
5.Durjoy Ahmed a.k.a. Adil
6.Ben
7.Jamie(former HICT TMC Member, transferred)

The members that assumed role are:
1. Mike, for Speech Evaluator
2. Jamie, for Speech Evaluator
3. Alan Tan, for Ah-counter

The only person who made project speech was Vincent Thong(who gets the
best project speaker award).

Vincent has made tremendous improvement in his project speech. Some of
the improvements are: Shorter pauses, less 'undesirable' hand gestures
louder & clearer voice and 'smoother' speech. This is significant,
despite the fact that he have done it 'away' from 'home'.

Jamie has done his 1st evaluation(assuming he does not made any
evaluation in other club meeting I did not attend) and he does not
made any major mistakes, and Mike also has improved in his delivery,
where his voices are more louder and clearer.

As for me, I've done my best for my Ah-Counter role, as this my 3rd
time I've done it. The recent time was KL Advanced Toastmasters
meeting in Cisco Office, KL Sentral on 15/11/2010. The only aspect I
need to improve is to acknowledge perfect speaker.

After the meeting, I and Heng Shen discuss about the club's issues in
order to rejuvenate the club, without deviating from the club's goals.

23/11/2010 Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club

2010-11-23T23:09:00.000-08:00

This time, both me & Mike went to Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club meeting as a guest. It's kinda cool when there's lot's of members attending the meeting. 1st, it makes you feel cool. 2nd, it replicates stressful moment. The more audiences, the more pressures, because it's in our innate nature to avoid embarrassing ourselves in public, just like how a driver adopt a conservative approach on the turns to avoid accident.

In this meeting, Mike assumed the role of GE, at the 11th hour. As usual, I'm the 1st person to speak in Table-topics session. When I introduced myself, I told everyone present that I need to find for internship. Ms Yap Choi Woon, who is the club committee member told me that her company(Alcom) accepts interns for a small pay. I was overjoyed, as usual. Another Taman Indrahana member, CC Chan Weng May told me that UOB too accepts interns and she adviced me to send resume online. SO, I got one-and-a-half internship opportunities.

At the end of the meeting, Mike solicited for advice in order to rejuvenate our club. One of the method given was to organize speech-craft events to help people get into speech-making.

Times Business Books (29/11/2010 Copy, Asia-Pacific)

2010-11-23T21:30:00.000-08:00

This is the link to the website:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2026924,00.html

It's about how good you are when the heat is on, like performing well in SPM, difficult tasks and etc. The best was "...Beilock offers smart tips such as practicing under pressure and "pausing the choke" by walking away from the problem for a few minutes in order to think clearly (not that easy for an athlete, of course)."

Due to copyright reasons, I do not want to write too much about it.

15/11/2010 KL Advanced Toastmasters Club

2010-11-15T20:54:00.000-08:00

I attended KL Advanced Toastmasters Club meeting in KL Sentral. This is the 1st time I drove here, and I arrived the wrong direction. Thank God, Victor was helpful in bringing me to the place. Man, the jam in KL is very bad, & the weather was bad. My car slipped twice on the road.

For this meeting, I assumed the role of an ah-counter for the 1st time, and it's isn't easy though.

Mr. Victor & the rest of the Speakers managed to put up a great display. I've managed to see how well Mr. Victor has improved.

In the meeting, I managed to contact Cisco staff members, in which one of them told me there's vacancy for Business Admin job in December. So, I got really excited, as I really admire the company.

2/11/2010 Visit to Intec Toastmasters Club

2010-11-02T05:50:00.000-07:00

Both me(Alan) & Mike attend this meeting in Shah Alam. When I attended the session, I got impressed with the facilities out there, even though it looks like a Spartan Primary &Secondary School that we used to see everyday. The lighting & etc were mind blowing, perhaps can improve your marks by 10%. It's coincidental that they're having their examinations next week, while we finished ours.

This is a very enjoyable moment for me as for the first time(or second, I forgot), I've managed to get the best speakers award.

As for Mike Cheang, he's more capable than me as a GE because he's able to perform the role despite being late.

11/10/2010 Alan's private visit to MidValley Toastmasters Club

2010-10-11T19:55:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, I visited MidValley Toastmasters Club for the purpose of being a General Evaluator in order to fulfill Competent Leadership Manual, as well as to train myself to speak outside my 'home' club.

I've gave my honest feedback to the club, & it's rather successful.

In the end of the day, I've received a certificate of appreciation, by the President, CC Tan Poh Leong.

As usual, after the meeting, I quickly went back home, unless, I wanna sleep in KL...

VPPR CC

Alan Tan

Mr. David Lim is our Club's advisor

2010-10-07T03:01:00.000-07:00

Mr. David Lim, from the Engineering Department has been designated as our club's advisor.

He's also a member of HICT Toastmasters Club.

I will update the details of the EXCO lineup, shall there be any change or addition towards the order of precedence.

6/10/2010 HICT-UTTC joint meeting

2010-10-06T06:16:00.000-07:00

Today's meeting has a lower than average attendance because members need to prepare for exams & projects as the dateline draws closer.

This meeting is slightly much more simple, and thus, taking away some motivation from members. I've volunteered to evaluate Toastmaster Jonathan Koh. However, due to short time, I'm not able to prepare a well structured evaluation in order to assist him in his learning.

The next home meeting would be next week Wednesday 13/10/2010 in Senate Conference Hall. I hope to see everyone there.

29/9/2010 Toastmasters Meeting

2010-10-02T06:15:00.000-07:00

This is one of the best meetings in our club, as our club President, CC Mike has basically pull out one of the most outstanding turnaround during the club EXCO meeting.(P.S. This is the 1st time that my proposals has been accepted, without major changes).

For the 2nd time, we managed to come early. Furthermore, we are able to meet the dress code. The club atmosphere has managed to become lively, perfectly suited for college club(corporate club need to be a little serious). This is possible after exchanging views from our Division C Governor, (rank unknown, for now)N.K. Valli, who has reminded us the need to have a lively atmosphere. From that moments, I've junked the 'Spartan attitude' gained from the Boys' Brigade & readily adopt the new method, in less than a weeks!!!

As for me, I've managed to conquer the fear of being a General Evaluator. It was somehow difficult, because Mike knew that I wanna improve myself(& my CC), as well as to be able to perform it well, in order to keep the meeting well going.

That's all folks.(P.S. If any members want to contribute article, please mail it to me)

By, Alan Tan,

CC, VPPR

23/9/2010 UTTC Meeting, new perspective

2010-09-23T22:07:00.000-07:00

Attending this meeting has been an eye opener. This is the 1st time I have been a TME(Toastmasters of the Evening) away (from home) & it's slightly scary.

Our Division Governor, N.K. Valli has also reminded the importance of being a TME, which is equivalent of an M.C.(Master of Ceremonies) in an event, as well as a Conductor of a Band(I've been a trumpeter, 2nd trumpet, not in terms of class, but in terms of lower tone than 1st trumpet).

Our President, CC Mike Cheang also reminded me my mistakes, as well as my faux pas(i.e.: breach of etiquette) I've committed, that makes people misunderstood me. He also reminded me to put more effort to improve my social skills by taking up work that requires me to meet customers, rather than just improving my theoretical knowledge.

It's sad that most members are unable to attend the joint meeting, despite the fact that it's compulsory, due to various numbers of reasons, as they are effectively deprived an opportunity for self-improvement.

1/9/2010 Joint Meeting with Toyota

2010-09-01T17:52:00.000-07:00

There is several unexpected circumstances. Unusually heavy traffic prevents us from arriving on time. Meantime, 2 TM members from HICT could not make it in the 11th hour, which is not ideal at all for us.

Nevertheless, we have started the meeting & we have good times together, knowing one another.

The 2 project speaker are Jamie & me. As for me, I choose to do an 'easier AC manual', than the previous persuasive speaking. Both of us have done quite well in a certain sense.

25/8/2010 Installation Night/Meeting

2010-09-01T17:46:00.000-07:00

Swearing in of new EXCO members

This is a very wonderful Toastmasters meeting/Installation Night, as I assume one of the most powerful positions in my life(VPPR).

Since it's also our meeting, we also have 2 project speakers(Vincent Thong & Mathew Varughese), & I assume the role of TME.

CC Mr. Kenneth Yee, our AG from UMW Toyota Toastmasters Club has discharged and installed us, the new exco, which means the new exco is official.

CC Mike Cheang & I having a prep talk(by the way, I'm not good in spiking my hair, that's why my hair looks messy.)

VPM Desmond Ng taking shots while Vincent is speaking

Mathew presenting the 2nd speech

Our most important guest, our Area Governor CC Kenneth Yee

24/8/2010 Area C5 Speech Evaluation & Humorous Speech at UMW Toyota Toastmasters Club

2010-08-24T07:45:00.000-07:00

Me, Mike & Jamie went to UMW Toyota, in Shah Alam for the Toastmasters competition. I joined the evaluation while Jamie joined the Humor speech. We have a good time there, eventhough we did not win at all.

We do meet up with people from the same Area. There's a group of students from UiTM's Intec college(private), in which they were creme de la creme and they are going overseas for studies, on JPA scholarship.

After that all of us just go out for a light supper before going back home.

17/8/2010: Bangsar TMC Meeting: Speech Evaluation Competition & Humor Contest

2010-08-17T09:08:00.000-07:00

Today, as I was attending a function in Mid Valley's Cititel, I've decided to drop by Bangsar TMC(Suasana Sentral Condo, Level 6, KL Sentral's vicinity) to spend my holidays around. I totally do not aware that they are having their competition as they beloing to Area G1, Division W, compared to us Area C3, Division C.

Furthermore, one of the reason I've visiting clubs is not only to increaser our clubs presence, but to seek for a mentor. TM Jason Moi, from HUC TMC, a very good speaker, has told me look no further. He's none other than our founder President ACG, CL Victor Ong! Man, then I only realized about it. Furthermore, TM Lucky reminded me the downfall of having too many mentors.

Alright, back to the competition. The highlight is on the eventual winner of humor competition, who decided to thread on thin ice, with hic title: Sex, Religion & Politics. Well, either there's no ice, or he walks on the water itself. As for the evaluation contest, the test speaker, which is Jason Moi done his speech superbly. This is the 1st time I've seen a test speaker gave such a wonderful speech. And for the evaluator conest, it's a close call.

After all the formalities, it's back to home. Before leaving, I've also told them about our Installation Night.

21/7/2010 Meeting

2010-07-21T06:36:00.000-07:00

This is a fresh meeting for new EXCO members.

The most refreshing stuff we have is that we have 3 college guests(2 new guest) to grace the event. Lee Woh Sheng, Lim Sin Yee & Ashley Wong Yii Ying. This is a triumph of sorts for me as a VPPR.

As usual, I have the 'honour' to start project speeches. Just like misfiring Messi, in 2010 World Cup, I wasn't the Messi-ah that the President hopes. On top of that, I've hurt my tounge 1 week ago, so can't pronounce well. Failure to perform well for this not only demoralizeses me through the formality of feedback, but also the inability to perform in front of 'potential members'. This is one of the greatest undoing of being a VPPR.

Jamie Koh, Club Secretary Angellica(a.k.a. Angel), & VPE Mehala does their respective CC speeches. In short, they have improved a lot, and sorry guys, forgot to evaluate you all, because I was reflecting on my mistakes.

However, we should give an applause to all members who attend for able to come on time(6:35pm). Since Toastmasters is an International Club, we must follow International norms, which is to come on time, in order to accomodate polychronic & monochronic cultures.

I would like to take the opportunity to express my full support of our beloved Club President CC Mike Cheang's call to speak outside the club.(The 1st & only time I do my project speeches is in KL Advanced Toastmasters Club, which is very strict).

Stamford PJ TLI

2010-07-03T05:05:00.000-07:00

I would like to thank Stamford College for hosting such a wonderful course. It's a real inspirational, during the harsh months of July.

Imagine, a great man. He's deaf before the performance day, losing his mind, as well as his family. Nobody thinks that he can make a comeback. And yet he composes his greatest symphony, and people regarded him as King of Music at his era. His symphony has been played during German reunification, and it's used today the the Anthem of European Union. This song talk about the universal theme of brotherhood. Just google for him, and you will know. This TLI will not only impact me only in Toastmasters, but also in academics & all parts of my life.

I had a class from 9 am-12 pm. I waited for 30 minutes before going to Petaling Jaya. Once I've arrived, I quickly enter the hall for the training course, which was inspirational. I've missed some parts of the beginning, but the speaker for the Induction, Samuel Selvarajoo, ACB/CL ask the participants on the names of leaders in history. I was wondering, why are they are talking about Stalin & Napoleon. Perhaps, they were talking about the dictators, when I was entering.

I went earlier than the rest, as I assumed they were waiting for Desmond to change his clothing to a formal one. Sorry guys, I was rushing like mad, as usual, & I forgot bout you guys. Therefore, from the beginning until the break, I was seated separately from the rest of them. Kinda weird, but I sat beside TM Lam Suk Yee, Secretary of Nilai University College Toastmasters Club, & I asked for her contacts.

Then, during break we chatted with each other, and resume with a session, before we break up into several teams according to positions. I've learned a lot from the VPPR course, in which you need to promote the club to local media, maintain a publicity materials, have a website & make sure it's good in terms of readability, content & visual impact, Keep in touch with toastmasters events & maintain a standard in meeting, where we greet newcomers.

Then, we have no choice but to go back home. Initially, I planned to stay put as we have a course of learning how to attract new members, and it's my role. But I was persuaded on the grounds that it's not nice to let me stay behind, & let me have transportation problems. It's real touching that Mike, a personal friend of mine said this to me, because not many people show such kindness to me. Well, nevertheless, we have much fun when we go back home.

by: Alan Tan, VPPR

30/6/2010: Last meeting for 2009/2010

2010-06-30T23:18:00.000-07:00

This is the last meeting for the 2009/2010 term. After initial hiccup, we proceded with the program, in which me, Shireen, Jamie & Angellica(nickname: Angel) give her speech. As I hinted out in my speech, it's a David & Goliath challenge for me, as this is my 1st attempt in doing an advanced speech. Just like Mr Allan Gan has told us before, it is very challenging.

The 2 guests from KL Advanced Toastmasters club are Ms Lorna Fisher & Mr Vincent. Lorna make a presentation on how to run a club successfully, and she did it very well. Mr Vincent point out my strength & weakness.

The main surprise is when the Club President, requested all members & guests, except me & Angel to wish us a birthday. Seriously, I never has such grand celebrations before.

Remember, this Saturday, new exco members need to attend officers training in PJ.

August speeches by HICT Toastmasters

2010-01-01T01:55:00.000-08:00

Project assignment # 2 Speaking in Praise from the Special Occasion Speeches manual, titled "Farewell to Robin" given at D'Utama Advanced Toastmasters Club meeting.
By Victor Ong, ACS

Project assignment # 3 The Roast, also from the same manual, titled “Arun & Ayesha” given at the HICT Toastmasters Club meeting.

Speech title "Three Days in Paradise" from the Competent Communicator manual by Shireen Ng,TM.

Speech title "An Unforgetable Experience" from the Competent Communicator manual by Mathew Varughese,TM.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

2010-01-01T01:48:00.000-08:00

Today is the first day of year 2010, wish everybody have a nice weekend & holidays.

Life

2009-12-28T03:33:00.000-08:00

Don't let someone become a priority in your life,
when you are just an option in their life...
Relationships work best when they are balanced.

Never explain yourself to anyone:
because the person who likes you doesn't need it;
the person who dislikes you won't believe it.

When you keep on saying you are busy,then you are never free.
When you keep on saying you have no time,then you will never have time.
When you keep on saying you will do it tomorrow,then your tomorrow will never come.

When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours...

Don't make promise when you are in joy.
Don't reply when you are sad.
Don't take decision when you are angry.
Think twice...,act wise.

Time is like a river.
You cannot touch the same water twice,
because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Enjoy every moment of life...

By pravsworld.com
inspiring you for a better tomorrow

Motivation For Success

2009-12-27T02:23:00.000-08:00

LEADERSHIP
-A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way & shows the way
INNOVATION
-Success or failure is often determined on the drawing board
TIME
-Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
TENACITY
-Giving up is the ultimate tragedy
CONFIDENCE
-It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves
TEAMWORK
-Where there is unity there is always victory
ATTITUDE
-There is nothing whether good or bad, but your attitude make it so
OPTIMISM
-The pessimist see the difficulty in every opportunity;
The optimist see the opportunity in every difficulty
WINNING
-To be successful, you have to develop a hunger for it
IDEA
-Idea comes when you are not aware
ADVICE
-Give help rather than advice
BELIEF
-Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising everytime we fail

Merry Christmas to everybody! Ho...Ho...Ho...

2009-12-24T21:05:00.000-08:00

We wish all readers and Toastmasters member Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Hope everyone enjoy this Christmas season with a lots of greetings & meaningful presents. In the same time, did not forget to give a warm hand to the poors.

Welcome! Kent Tee

2009-12-22T22:50:00.000-08:00

Recently, we have one more new member joining our Toastmaster Club. Hereby, I represent all the club members to welcome you, Kent Tee to join our club. Lets walk together to achieve your first Toastmaster Title, Competent Communicator.

HICT Toastmasters Installation Dinner 2009/2010

2009-12-22T22:38:00.001-08:00

Finally, We are having our installation dinner tonite with the attendance of our area Governor C3, Mr. Allen Gan despite his busy schedule. Thanks to Shireen as the organizing chair for the installation dinner. Hopefully HICT TM Club will grow bigger and stronger in the future.

Congratulation! Mike Cheang

2009-12-22T22:27:00.000-08:00

Congrats! TM Mike Cheang to accomplished his competent communicator manual in November 2009 recently. He became a Toastmaster member beginning of 2009. He took 10 months to achieve his first TM title, competent communicator & wish him all the best to continue his journey in Toastmaster.

Welcome! Ms Ng

2009-10-05T21:14:00.000-07:00

During our last meeting in September 29, we are very honor to have Ms.Ng to join our meeting and she will be joining us for the coming meeting in Oct 27. During the club break time, we have a short conversation. During the conversation, she told us the reason she wanna join Toastmaster is to improve her English. She told us that it is very important to learn and improve in order to create values for your employer to give you the chance to climb up the corporate ladder.
In fact, working in a corporate there are always competition among colleagues. So who should your superior choose among all subordinates if their is a empty higher position in the company?

Welcome to all new members to HICT Toastmaster Club

2009-10-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

Begin from this new term, HICT Toastmaster Club officially recruited FIVE members and renewal of EIGHT existing members which is a good start for the club.

Hereby, I represent HICT Toastmaster Club welcome all the five new members....

TM Mike Cheang
VPM HICT Toastmaster Club

Congratulations Desmond Ng & Vincent Tong

2009-09-29T11:05:00.000-07:00

September 29, 2009- Desmond Ng & Vincent Tong given their first ice breaker speech which is about themself in HICT Toastmaster Club. It sounds like losing their "virginity" in HICT Toastmaster Club in front of the audience...lol.
In Toastmaster, everybody has to start off with their 1st speech so don't worry about doing it good or bad because most importantly is "learn from mistake" instead focus the how good and bad of the speech.

Anyone who is reading this blog, do you dare to loss your "virginity" in HICT Toastmaster club?

If the answer is YES, pls either leave your contacts in the message box or visit to our club during our meeting (Every last Tuesday of the month)

Area C3 Humorous & Evaluation Contest

2009-09-29T10:36:00.000-07:00

Congratulation!!! TM Mathew VArughese and TM VIctor Ong...They represented HICT Toastmaster Club to participate in the humorous speech contest and won the 1st and 3rd place. we are so proud of them that such a new club like us which established in year 2008 could manage to won in the contest. It prove that everyone own the potential of giving speech and presentation in front of the audience...

I truly believe that "Speadker was train to be a speaker, NOT born."

In Toastmaster, you will get all the support and guidance from each and everyone no matter who you are and where you're from.

Try to achieve something which you think it is beyond your possibility to proof to yourself YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Officially re-update the HICT Toastmaster Club's Blog

2009-09-29T09:48:00.000-07:00

Since the last post in November 2008, HICT toastmaster club's official blog has not been updating anything until today. There will be a series of information updating to this blog and allows everyone to have the latest informations on hand in order to get to know about this club. For anyone who are interested to join our club,pls leave a message in the message box will do.

TM Mike Cheang

Thank you for joining us on 28th Oct 2008

2008-11-04T05:55:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! First of all, I would love to thanks all the members, fellow toasmasters and our dear guest who attended our meeting. We would like to have a big thanks to ACG CL Lee Wei Seong, DTM Soh Fang Wai, and CTM Arul to attend our meeting at dinner time.

Besides that, I would love to congrats all members from HICT Toastmasters Club for completing your first project which was The Ice Breaker. For your information, we're going to start our second project which was 'Organize Your Speech' from the next meeting onwards. Not to forget our forever young president, TM Victor is going to do his third project-Get to the Point in his home club for his first time.

Due to some timing and planning errors, there's no table topics session and Best Ice Breaker voted on that day.

Merely, just a small reminder that the next meeting will be on 25th Nov 2008!

Keep in touch. Thank you!

Division C District 51 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest

2008-10-20T15:33:00.000-07:00

We were dead tired as at last we reached the Subang KTM Station, when I say we I mean the 5 of us – Ruby, Jer Venn, Jane, Wai How and lastly myself, Mathew. Once we reached the station, we quickly hurried off to Mr. Victor’s car and somehow managed to squeeze into the car before setting off to the destination of the Division C District 51 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest which was at SEGI College, Subang Jaya.

Upon arriving at the place we had to first register ourselves and after doing so headed in to the hall. We found an empty row and all five of us crashed into the seats whereas poor Mr. Victor had to sit on a seat in the row in front of us. There was a delay due to some problem with the audio systems and around 2.15 p.m. the organizing chairman, ALB CC Ismail Omar gave his welcome address. He apologized for the delay and made a good welcome speech making us all feel at ease. He then introduced the Master of Ceremony or the Toastmaster of the Day ACB CL Ravinder Singh.

First off was the Humorous Speech Contest. The contest chair for the competition ACB CL Chew Shel Ling explained the purpose as well as the rules of the competition. At last after about 7 times asking us whether we were ready they kicked off the competition with none other than the well-known Stephen Fernando. His speech was titled “Some things never change”. In the speech he explained how technology had advanced and how it used to be like for people like him growing up those days. He also mentioned how some things never change such as the love between people.

After setting such a high bar for the other contestants to follow, Stephen Fernando left the stage for the next contestant Chong Jay Vee with her title “Skirts of the new world order”. In her speech she said how politicians nowadays should wear skirts so that they wouldn’t be able to keep the bribe money. She also went on to say how women are allowed to wear pants whereas guys are not allowed to wear skirts since it’s not accepted in general. She also said in her speech that guys should wear skirts to increase the birth rate which according to her is decreasing around the world.

After that “startling” speech, came our 3rd contestant, Jeremy Teo Wee Sheng. The title of his speech was “The secret to a happy marriage”. In the speech, he said how the secret to every successful marriage is the ability of the person to lie to his/her spouse and if each one of us could lie in a convincing manner, we would have a successful marriage.

The 4th contestant was Alvin Leo with his speech entitled “Alvin or Veronica?” In short this speech was about how we should accept transsexuals in our society and how we shouldn’t blame them over something that they cannot control. The last contestant of the Humorous Speech Contestant was S.K. Ratnam. The title of his speech was “Looking back”. In his speech he reminisced how he got married and how his father-in-law tricked him and made him say that he liked the daughter. After that hilarious speech we had a 20 minute break in which we were given refreshments as well as some time to mingle around.

After that we were ushered back in for the next contest – Evaluation contest. We had CC CL Chan Guan Leong who came up and explained the purpose as well as the rules of the evaluation contest. He then introduced the test speaker who the contestants would be evaluating on, Ritchie Ganesh. The test speaker delivered his speech entitled “The priceless glory of the atmosphere”. In his speech he explained how the clouds are formed, the different types of cloud, how lightning is formed as well as many other interesting facts on clouds. It was not only a very informative speech but also a very passionate one.

After that, the contestants of the Evaluation Contest stepped up to give their 2 cents worth of opinion regarding the test speaker’s speech. First up we had Fabian Fidelis who shared his comments about Ritchie’s speech. Next up we had Yong Yin May with her evaluation. She startled everyone by saying that she would give Ritchie an F, a big, big F. She added that she would give him an F because it was F-antastic, F-illed with information and lastly F-unny.
Then came Allen Gan and he said how he had never ever seen someone else so passionate about clouds. He said how the test speaker gave a very detailed explanation and how informative he was. After that, Gregory Sim Han Meng came on stage with his opinions and lastly followed by Alvin Ang.

We then had an interview session with the contestants which were done by the contest chair members while we were waiting for the judges to sum up the final decision. And after a few minutes the results were announced to us. The results were as below:

Humorous Speech Contest
1st Stephen Fernando
2nd S.K. Ratnam
3rd Jeremy Teo Wee Sheng

Evaluation Contest
1st Allan Gan
2nd Yong Yin May
3rd Alvin Ang

With the end of the prize giving session, the Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest came to an end. We left after learning not a few things on how to crack up a crowd as well as how to give an encouraging evaluation, it was truly a learning experience for all of us.

By Mathew.

Maiden Installation Dinner of HICT Toastmasters [Updated]

2008-09-28T04:54:00.000-07:00

More To Come Soon...
STAY TUNED!

[UPDATED]

Our club's maiden Installation Dinner started at 7.30pm.
We have speeches from DTM Devan which is our Divison C Governor,
CTM CL Chan Guan Leong, our Area C 2 Governor
and last but not least, our always young Toastmaster Victor Ong!

After that, dinner is served. Western food. Yummm~

See TM Chia Yee smiling happily, you know how delicious is the food

DTM Dr Lim and her husband arrived, DTM Dr Lim shared an inspiring speech with all of us.

Enjoying the performances by our talented toasmasters

TM Rachel performed a song "Colours of my wind"

Guest Chern Yang, Guest Chee Hong, TM Alan and TM Nicholas

TM Sheih Ren, TM Jason and TM Jacklyn

Four pretty ladies~ TM Jane, TM Rachael, TM Siew Mei and TM Ruby

Thanks to everyone who made this event a big success and a memorable day for of all of us.

All in all, we shall walk the toastmasters' journey together, we don't wait for the rain to pass, let's learn to dance in the rain!

PS: Photos credits to Wee Han

Next chapter meeting on 23rd September 2008

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Hi everyone, we would like to invite all members and guests to our next meeting on next Tuesday, 23rd September 2008, 5.30pm to 8pm at Senate Conference Room.

Toastmaster of the Evening: Ruby Fung

Thank you and warmest regards.

Wei Wei

VPPR 08/09

Email: weiwei16_@hotmail.com

H/P: 016 9279527

Where do we meet?

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Address:
Senate Conference Room
Help International College of TechnologyLevel 5,
Klang Parade, 2112, Jalan Meru, Klang,
Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

How do I join HICT Toastmasters Club?

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If you have no idea what is a Toastmasters Club or you are just curious about it, the door of our meeting room is always open for you. You are welcome to our club during our meeting so that you can see the meeting in action.

On deciding to be a member, get an application form from our Vice President Membership and submit along with the requisite fees.

The annual fee is RM159 while meeting fee is RM1. When the club accepts your application, your application form together with the fee will be sent to Toastmasters International in the United States. You will then receive a New Member Kit.

For more information, feel free to contact:
Vice President Education
Jane Tomomi [0122007869]
Email: tomitakjane@gmail.com

Vice President Membership
Jackyln Low [016 3952573]
Email: jac_stlow@yahoo.com

Welcome to be our guests!