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.

Toasmasters Club Meeting - 9th August 2010

It is 2 weeks before the competition... It was suppose to be an intense time. Everyone was expecting that the competitors would use this last opportunity to practise their speech for the up coming competition. Oddly there was no one doing their humorous speech!!! A change in the tide?? Instead we were blessed with 2 project speeches.

First speech was given by Toastmaster Mas Nor. She was giving her 3rd speech on organizing your speech. She gave a very well prepared speech entitled "Understanding Your Child". It was a great speech. Personally, hearing Mas give her speech I can see that she has made a mark improvement on her delivery of her speech. From the shy and nervous first speech, she has transformed to a person that enjoys sharing her story. Even though it is only her 3rd speech, she gave it with confidence. You could tell that she wa

s comfortable with the crowd. Mas, you did great! Look forward to hear your future speeches.

For the second speech, we where privileged to hear Advance Communicator Samuel Selvarajoo give his advance speech from the Speciality Speeches manual. You could see that this season speaker had what it takes to deliver an effective. Having given his speech from the "Off the Cuff" assignment, ACB Samuel a.k.a Sam came well prepared.

We were then given the opportunity to learn from Competent Communicator, Competent Leader Yeoh Cheng Lim on doing a good evaluation.

In the end, it would seem that the coming club competition did not affect our club members in this meeting. In turn, everyone that spoke that evening spoke exceptionally well. According to, Advance Communicator Gold, Victor, everyone that spoke for the table topics spoke very well and were very confident. 3 Cheers to all those who spoke!!!

By the end of the meeting, we acknowledged the best table topic speaker for the night.

Best Table Topic Speaker

Sara Kek, TM

Table Topic: Bad Habits

Congratulations Sara...

Overall, the meeting was a success. Everyone had fun and out performed their own expectation. Until the next meeting, which will be the club contest, all the best to all the competitors who will be participating in the Humorous Speech and Evaluation contest.

For details on the our club contest, kind view the previous blog post announcement.

Thank you.

Star Metro: Public Speaking - Part 3

Guys, here is the 3rd and final part of the article written on Star Metro. Read up, speak up and enjoy... Cheers

Toasmasters Club Meeting - 23rd July 2010

In this session of our Toastmasters meeting, we were privileged to be visited by our friends "Fun" and "Laughter". Although there wasn't a theme for the night, but it was a colourful night indeed. Our table topics was prepared and presented by our Table Topic Master, Sara Kek, and each topic was based on the colour of the rainbow. Each speaker had to draw lots to pick the colour and they were required to speak anything about the colour. Coincidentally, the word of the evening was "Imagination" and the table topics had given us enough room to express that. To add on the fun, we laughed our hearts out as Advance Communicator Bronze Stephen Fernando gave his 2 minute table topic speech on red colour. He was hilarious as he thought us about colour blindness and how he always considers himself fair because he is colour blind.

For the manual speech, we were privilege to to hear Competent Communicator Vincent Soon, give his Advance Speech #4 from the Speaking to Inform manual. He was well prepared and he brought our imaginations to the airport to be faced with a flight delay senario.

Closing to the end of the night, it was Toastmaster Mizi took the hearts of all the members and guest by sharing his purple heart table topic speech. He was awarded, best table topic speaker for the night.

Best Table Topic Speaker
Mohd Tarmizi, TM
Table Topic: Purple


At the end of the session, the GE for the evening Stephen Fernando left us with words of encouragement and a challenge that everyone should do their speeches. So fellow Toastmasters, we are gathered in this meeting week after week to share and build up our public speaking skills so let us encourage each other and do more speeches.

Star Metro: Public Speaking - Part 2

As promised, this is the second part to the saga on public speaking that was published by The Star. Enjoy the reading...

SDH Toastmasters Club Competition - 23rd August 2010

Sime Darby Healthcare Toastmasters Club will be having its club Humorous and Evaluation contest in August 2010. The details are as follows:

Date: 23rd August 2010 (Monday)
Time: 6:45 pm
Venue: Conference Room 1 & 2, Ground Floor, North Tower, Sime Darby Medical Centre Subang Jaya

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!

Star Metro: Public Speaking - Part 1

Here is a little something that is worth while reading. As we continue to look toward our manuals for the technical knowledge for being an effective speaker, it is also beneficial to enrich ourselves further with articles such this.

Enjoy reading... Part 2 will be coming soon.

Presidential Address 2009/2010

Club Vision: To shape ourselves towards to be successful communicators and leaders in Toastmasters.

Let’s start from the very beginning. This is the beginning of a new term. We have a lot to look forward to and many challenges to face. It is my pleasure to be your President for 2009-2010. With your help, together we can achieve our goals and club goals. I shall put in my full commitment for all members ( 7, 11 ) negotiable.

Time is our biggest hurdle. We must try to overcome it. Only twice a month, 2^nd & 4^th Monday, all members meet. EXCO meets once a month. Sure we can make it. When time permits, we can go extra miles to visit other Clubs to learn more. Keep an open mind. Please don’t say “cannot”, say “I will”. Now you can do it. Show your potential!

Enjoy your Toastmasters journey to success.

Shirley Bak

Sime Darby Healthcare Toastmasters Club

President 2009-2010

Toasmasters Club Meeting - 12th July 2010

This meeting, we were all delighted to hear our fellow colleague, Mohd Tarmizi a.k.a. Mizi, deliver his first speech. To top it off, he was voted the best project speaker for the evening.

Congratulations!!

Best Project Speech Speaker
Mohd Tarmizi, TM
Basic Project Speech #1: Myself


We also very privilege to listen to a great evaluation given by our guest Emil Anthony and it was a great evaluation that earned the vote of the club for best project speech evaluation.

Congratulations!!

Best Project Speech Evaluation
Emil Anthony, ACS
Evaluator for Yong Lai Mee, TM (Basic Project Speech #6)