International Speech and Table Topics Contest 2011

28th January 2011

This was the day that Sime Darby Healthcare Toastmasters Club held its Club level contest for the International Speech and Table Topics Contest. The contest was held at our usual meeting place, Conference Room 1 & 2 in Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya. Although this was an event that was organized every year, the fear and anxiety was always fresh. However, amidst the intense atmosphere, participants and guest were greeted with no less laughter than the usual.

It was a competition, but on friendly terms. Everyone had a good time and share the experience of the participants. Here we would like to acknowledge and congratulate our following members for participating and winning the respective contest.

The International Speech Contest

Our winner

Ms Choong Jay Vee

1st Runner Up

Ms Puva

Table Topics Contest

Our winner

Ms Bee Sie Wei

1st Runner Up

Ms Puva

Congratulations to all our winners, which will represent our club for the Area C3 International Speech and Table Topics Contest!!

We would also like to thank the judges and also the organizing committee for doing such a great job in the preparation and facilitation on that they. Indeed the success of this competition is the demonstrated result of team work among the the organizing committee. Well done!

January 8th, 2011

Taman Indrahana organised a workshop, 'Unlocking the keys to contests' at Sunway University. The speaker was DTM K Loghandran, a well-known toastmaster and 1st runner up at the Toastmasters' International Speech Competition, so Shirley and I figured attending the workshop would be really useful since speech contest season has just started.

The workshop touched on topics such as:

- How to have your friends evaluate your contest speech
- Points to consider when writing your speech (e.g. Is it fresh? Speech value? Likeability?)
- Common themes in stories (e.g. A journey to achieve a goal and discovering something)
- 'Beats', or the order of events in your story
- How to organize a table topics speech (Opening, Body, Conclusion, and its variants)
- How to apply things you know about into your table topics speech

DTM Loghan had the audience participate in a few activities, which made the workshop very entertaining as well as preventing the 100-odd people from dozing off. Overall, the 3.5-hour workshop was a good experience, totally worth sacrificing a Saturday afternoon for!

December 27 2010

Year End Toastmasters Meeting. Glad that we had 7 members and 2 guests. All other members were on leave. We are privileged to have Heng Sher Li ( IPP), ATM/CL and Area C4 governor-Murphy Lum, ACS/CL both from Sumway TMC. Thanks to our 2 guests that we had 2 Advanced speeches. Speaking In Praise of her Grandmother by Sher Li. Murphy presented Humorous stories and amused the audience.

We managed to have Invocation, Humorous Session and Table Topics Session. All members had a role to play.

Table Topics Master Siau Fui made the participants to act out the topics. JV was the TT Evaluator & GE. Eu-Jynn melted the hearts of the members and won the Best TT with the title: Sky is the Limit.

SDH Toastmasters Club Competetion - 11th October 2010

Passing the Area and Division level Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest, now all eyes are focus on the District level.

This last Monday (11th October 2010), the Sime Darby Healthcare TMC had its usual club meeting after a slight change in plans to do a combined meeting with Stamford College TMC. For this meeting there was a good turn up of club members and visitors. Like any other Sime Darby Healthcare TMC meeting, the meeting was filled with lots of laughter and humour. Among the highlights of the meeting, I was very encouraged by the turn out for the meeting. We had guests from Stamford College TMC, Sunway TMC, Shakelee Dynamic TMC and regulars in our meeting like Stephen Fernando and Samuel.

During table topics, we were no longer called to speak from our minds but rather our hearts.

For the speeches, we were privileged to have 5 speeches delivered, 2 were basic project speeches while 3 were advance speeches. Among those speeches, we where very privilege to have Dr. Hanis present and demonstrate his speech entitled "The Saxophone - Part 2". Not only was the speech very insightful and well delivered, we were also given a music piece demonstration as a closing. We were also entertained with 2 story telling speeches by TM Jay Vee on "The Deceitful Pelican" and TM Eu-Jynn on his lemon tree, a praise speech by TM Lucas praising the success of Donald Trump and another speech by TM Jet Chan on his close to death experience.

Above all the entertaining speeches and humorous comments during the meeting, we manage to end on time at 8:30pm.

To sum the meeting up we were honoured to acknowledge the following speakers:

Best Table Topic Speaker
Bushra, CC, CL
Table Topic: Music


Best Project Speech
Eu-Jynn, CC
Topic: My Lemon Tree


Best Speech Evaluator
Jamila, ACB
Evaluating Speaker: Lucas, CC

Combined Meeting - 12.10.2010 (Cancelled)

Dear Fellow Toastmasters,

The initial combined meeting that was planned with Stamdford College Toastmasters Club has been cancelled. So our meeting will remain as the 11th of October 2010 at SDMC SJ. The meeting will start at 6.30PM.

See you there!

Area C3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest

I am pleased to inform that the area C3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest on the 18th of September 2010. The details are as follows:

Date: 18th September 2010 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00PM
Venue: Conference Room 1 & 2, Ground Floor, North Tower, Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya

In this contest, the clubs participating are Sime Darby Healthcare TMC, Standford College TMC and Extol TMC.

Do come and join us to and share the entertaining moments. All are welcome to join us...

Contact our club committee if you do intend to visit us, so that we can prepare sufficient refreshments.

Cheers!

SDHTMC Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest - 23.08.2010

The long awaited event for the club finally took place yesterday. In this rounds club competition, there was a very good turn up of guests and supporters. There was representatives from 6-7 clubs and is a considerable amount of support. The turn our was around 30 odd people.

For those who where unable to join us, here are some updates on the contest. Overall, the meeting was a blast! Usually you would expect the mood to be a little more tense and serious since it is a competition, but instead the meeting was spontaneous and humorous. There were lots of laughs, not just because of the humorous speeches, but I think everyone was in a cheerful spirit. And to top it off, we where served with jelly (famous in our club), dates, low fat fried rice and cheese cake for dinner and for our Muslim friends to "buka puasa".

The Humorous Speech Contest (HSC):
In our HSC, there were 4 participants and all participants performed extremely well. The contest we indeed very humorous and there was a burst of talent. Every speaker spoke very naturally and their jokes where nothing short of entertaining. Well done everyone!! Continue to develop those talents and continue to spread this beneficial medicine around.

The results:

SDH Toastmasters Club Humorous Speech Contest

Champion
Cheng Eu-Jynn, CC
Topic: Passion, A Feeling or A Fruit?


1st Runner Up
Choong Jay Vee, CC
Topic: Look and Learn?


2nd Runner Up
Sara Kek, TM
Topic: Chubby and Beautiful?


The Evaluation Contest (EC):
For the EC, there were also 4 participants and all participants performed extremely well. Although evaluations are usually given in a slightly serious mode, it too was infected with humour and laughs. As much as it was informative, it was also entertaining to listen too. Well done everyone!!

Not for getting our test speaker,
Ivan Chong (Sunway TMC)
TopicL: Managing Your Manager

Thanks for availing yourself for this session. Great speech! It was informative and humorous, further adding laughter to our meeting. Good job!

And the results:

SDH Toastmasters Club Evaluation Contest

Champion
Cheng Eu-Jynn, CC



1st Runner Up
Dr Hanis, TM



2nd Runner Up
Bee Sie Wei, TM



After the winners where given their prizes, the meeting was concluded.

So that is all the updates that can provide. Next thing to look forward to is the Area C3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest, which will be on the 18th September 2010 (Saturday). Do look out for the announcement.

For our next meeting (regular meeting), it will be held on the 13th September 2010. Do come and join us.

Special Note:
To all our guest, we from SDHTMC really appreciate your presence and support to our club, especially during this competition. It was a pleasure and joy to have you all join us for this contest. Thank you!

Not to forget the hard work contributed by the organizing team. Great job! Also thank you to all judges and Chief Judge.