MoM - 11 Nov 2009: Simplicity

Our meeting on November 11^th,

2009 was conducted differently. In the absent of the President of the club, the
meeting was opened by our VPE, CC Rina Loekiandari. Though it was first for her
to open and adjourn the meeting, she did it amazingly with light jokes to warm
up the atmosphere.

Our theme that day was SIMPLICITY, which inspired our Table Topic Master, ACB CL David Pranata to make the table topic question as SIMPLE as it can and required the participants to answer the questions NOT as SIMPLE (read: creative) as they can. Surprisingly all 5 participants: Rama, Helda, Juwati, Ronald, Tjokro, and Nina managed to do it well and they were all qualified to be voted as the Best Table Topic Speaker.This time we had 3 speakers during the prepared speech session. Our new member, TM Ketut delivered his first speech well with great level of confidence. Then TM Billy made the meeting even better with a ‘mysterious’ personal story. At last, TM Jessica went all out and creative with vocal variety that kept us awake throughout her speech that was evaluated by TM Rama.
We then were entertained by the evaluation of 3 critical and supportive evaluators: ACB CL David, DTM Arlan and TM Rama who delivered their best appraisal.

Finally, we came to the moment we had been waiting for: The Award Session! The Best table Topic was won by TM Rama, The Best Evaluator was won by ACL CL David and The Best Speaker was won by TM Jessica.

Although the meeting duration was a lot shorter than usual, it’s been a wonderful meeting, especially for the guests! Guess what?? The three guests are joining our beloved club! Hurray!

MoM - 28 Oct 2009: Halloween Special Edition

Today is very special occasion, this is Halloween!!!
Everyone should dress up in line with the theme; let the dark in you be seen.

The meeting today arrange at Kemiri meeting room one, which is the small one. This is make everyone more exited to present his/her costume.

On the games session, our treasurer Jessica called upon 2 couple to play “The Mummy Games”. There are TM Anda-TM Rina & TM Ketut-Fanny. Girls must make their pair to become a mummy using tissue. And the mummy should take the emblem from David. The one took it first will become a winner. And the winner is TM Ketut – Fanny.

After laugh with performance from 2 couple of “mummy”, the meeting entered into Table Topic Session.

First person is TM Agatha, she was asked by Table Topic Master Jessica “If you were a Dracula, you will choose who to be bite?”

And TM Agatha answered she actually didn’t want to choose anyone, but because I am a Dracula, so I choose my boyfriend. Because if I choose My Father, My Mother, or my siblings. I just only have one, but if I bite my boyfriend I can pick another boyfriend. But because Dracula is from Europe so I just make a joke that I will bite my boyfriend because Indonesia doesn’t have any Dracula.

Second Table Topic speaker is Dave. He said that he will not bite anyone. He doesn’t want to.

And both of them are qualified to be choosen for best Table Topic Speaker.

After table topic session it should be Prepared Speech session, but because the only one speaker TM Ronald, canceled his performance, so the meeting straight went to Educational Session will be delivered by ACB ACL David Pranata. He delivered “How to begin your speech”.

David opens his speech with asking to the audience “Do you think first impression is important?” Then he gives an example, if there is no first impression, so there will not have love at the first sight, it also applied in speech. 40 seconds of your first speech are very crucial time and very important to determine your next speech also will determine the audience reaction. Whether the audience will sleeping, talking to each other or making noise rather than listen your speech.

D51 Semi-Annual Convention, 23 - 25 Oct 2009 Genting Highlands.

The District Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contests were held on Sunday 25 October 2009 at the 17th Semi-Annual Convention at Genting International Convention Centre, Genting Highlands.

We are pleased to announce the results.

HUMOROUS SPEECH CONTEST

Marianna Pascal - Champion
(Division A - Sacred Heart)
Speech Title : Local English or Standard English?

Ruby Ahmad - 1st runner up
(Division S - Langkap)
Speech Title : The Return of Holy Matrimony

Karina Razali - 2nd runner up
(Division E - Miri)
Speech Title : The Adventurer's Wife

EVALUATION SPEECH CONTEST

Asha Suresh Chand - Champion
(Division N - Oracle Advanced)

Rozana Yunos - 1st runner up
(Division K - Brunei Speakers)

Mary Barton - 2nd runner up
(Division W - WIM)

Congratulations and Well Done!!

MoM - 14 Oct 2009: Get Going and Be the Winner

The meeting was held at the usual venue, Kemiri Restaurant, and began with an excellent dinner followed by the meeting.

There were three guests, Cindy, Theo and Henry. Cindy had actually heard about the club from Dave and Annie Pearman and had invested further by checking out the club blog before deciding to come. Theo was Billy’s guest.

Following the guest introductions three new Toastmasters were inducted by CC Rina, the VP of Education, into the club. The new Toastmasters included TM Anda, TM Aris, TM Hugosan and TM Billy.

The Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Leonardi and the theme for the evening’s meeting was “Get Going and Be the Winner”. The whole evening resonated with the theme, whose message was about challenging ourselves and becoming winners.

The Table Topics Session was lead by TM Billy and there were five participants (TM Ronald, TM Aris and TM Hugosan (who worked as a pair), TM Zenny, TM Juwati and TM Lucy). The theme of the Table Topics session was well prepared, stayed true to the theme of the meeting and included topics about challenge and being a winner.

For the prepared speech session there were three prepared speeches from TM Anda, TM Amilia and CC Niken.

TM Anda was working on BM#1 and told the audience about his work history, the challenges he’s faced and his dreams for the future. Impressively, he delivered his speech without notes. He was evaluated by TM Juwati.

TM Amelia was working on BM#6 and spoke about the importance of challenge and provided practical career building tips. She was evaluated by CC Rina.

Finally, CC Niken was working on AM#3 from the Storytelling Manual. She told the story of a diligent mouse and his end of year thanksgiving parties. She was evaluated by CC Pauline.
The evaluation session was conducted a bit differently than the usual evaluation sessions, starting with a table topics evaluation, conducted by ACB CL David. He provided both valuable evaluations and tips for the table topics speakers. He stressed the importance of using the PREP (Point Reason Example Point) model for impromptu speeches.

Hall of Fame
Best T/T speaker: TM Lucy
Best Evaluator: TM Juwati
Best Speaker: TM Anda

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MoM - 30 Sept 2009: The Power of Forgiving

The meeting on Wednesday 30 September 2009 was the first meeting held after the long holiday of the Festive Season Idul Fitri. Therefore the Toasmasters of The Meeting Jessica brought an idea of “Contrary Fact of Forgivess” as the meeting theme. Her opening was a remembrance of her friendship where forgiveness take whole part of the story. Also this is the time when we all return to our homebase – Kemiri Restaurant, after a month having a meeting in 2 different places.

This meeting also showed how effective a publication through the website is. Most of the guests found out about the club when they surfed. Our website is just a month away and we’re already have benefit from it.

Combined with the creativity of the Table Topic Master Pauline, she appeared with a box full of stuffs, the idea she had was that the Speaker would take any of the stuff and tell everything about it. On Table Topic Session, where Speaker stand up and delivers an impromptu speech, stories came out of the box when a box of cookies, postcard are picked up.

During prepared speech session, there are 4 speakers. TM Youngky on Basic Manual #1 (Ice Breaker) titled “I, Me and Myself”. Ice Breaker as the first project for the new member to encourage them delivering their speech. TM Youngky told the audience his childhood memories in Kalimantan and his journey of studies which then brought him up to Surabaya up to today.

The other speakers were TM Anita on BM# 2 (Organize Your Speech) titled Perception & Behaviour, TM Ronald BM#4 (How to Say it) titled “ On Purpose Person: the Beginning Three Steps" and ACB ALS David on Storytelling#2 (Let’s Get Personal) titled “It’s Not a Race”.

Hall of Fame
Best Evaluator : CC Rina
Best Speaker : ACB ALS David
Best T/T: Ferdy (guest)

The Big Bay: Division G Humorous and Evaluation Contest

GRAND!!

That's the exact word that perfectly describes our last Division G Contest at Empire Building.
The venue was so beautiful and the contest was so good. No wonder the room was so full of people and the tickets were sold out!!

We have got many great guests to witness this amazing event coming from Bali, Malang, Jakarta and Malaysia. Not to mention the honorable presence from the famous Toastmasters: Prof. wardiman Djojonegoro

TM Jessica (Contest Chairwoman) and her team have made the event successful, while the audience were always entertained by our ToC ACB, ALB David Pranata

However, winners are always the highlight of the contest and here are the details:



Humorous Contest Winners
1st place Martin Hendriadi - Surabaya Toastmasters Club
2nd place Rama Tidball - Surabaya Toastmasters Club
3rd place Surya Wahyudianto - Dynamics Toastmasters Club



Evaluation Contest Winners
1st place Rama Tidball - Surabaya Toastmasters Club
2nd place Martin Hendriadi - Surabaya Toastmasters Club
3rd place Rinda Sukma - Dynamics Toastmasters Club

With above result, representatives from Surabaya Toastmasters Club (Martin Hendriadi and Rama Tidball) will be able to compete in the District Level on 24th of October, 2009 in Genting Highland.


Would you like to join us and witness the District contest?
Hurry, secure your seat here: http://klsemiannual2009.blogspot.com/

Until then!