MoM - 9 Dec 2009: Joyful Giving

Our first ever Christmas themed meeting took place in the usual venue, at the Kemiri restaurant. This time, we had extra icings for the special meeting: wonderful Christmas songs during dinner and a beautiful Christmas tree complete with the presents (Thanks to our special meeting team: TM Jessica, CC Martin, TM Billy and TM Ronald). The theme for the meeting was “Joyful Giving” and the Toastmaster of the Meeting was none other than our treasurer TM Jessica.

The general evaluator for the meeting was visiting Toastmaster, CC Irene and her evaluation team is as follows. TM Ronald (Timer); TM Rama (Grammarian); Ah/WOD Counter (TM Helda) and Ballot Counter (ACG CL Boon)

The table topic session was conducted by TM Ronald and involved answering tricky questions, which involved quick thinking. The table topics speakers included CC Rina, Nina, and TM Rama.

Following the Table Topics session we had a game session conducted by TM Billy. Everyone was divided into 2 groups and competed in 2 games designed to test our communications skills. The first game was similar to Simon Says, but aptly renamed Billy Says (^___^).

The second game involved communicating a message using nothing but body language. It was fun, yet it required high creativity and thinking out of the box. So, guys... Any idea how would you act to get your friends to guess “Kung Fu Panda” or “Sailormoon”?

There were 5 prepared speeches on that day.

First, TM Leonardi spoke on gestures and how they have different meanings in different cultures and was evaluated by CC Rina. This was followed by TM Billy who spoke on google and using it to answer virtually any question and was evaluated by TM Rama. Next CC Martin presented on the pros of opening a casino in Indonesia and was evaluated by CTM Dave. Following this ACB CL David told us a story about the pride of being the last and his previous racing experience and was evaluated by DTM Arlan. Finally, CC Niken told us an entertaining story about the Wizard of Menlo Park and was evaluated by ACG CL Boon.

The best Table Topics speaker for the evening was TM Rama, the best evaluator was ACG CL Boon and the best prepared speech was delivered by CC Martin.

After the award session, we thanked our lovely visiting Toastmaster, CC Irene who has helped us tremendously during the meeting (as always). Then, everyone hurried to the Christmas tree for photo session and to get their gifts (provided Santa agreed they are behaving nice this year). Good to know that we couldn’t recall anyone went home empty handed ^^

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year... Until 6th of January 2010

MoM – 25 Nov 2009: A Thankful Heart can Do Wonders

Our meeting this time was “warm and sweet”- The number of attendees was not too many, yet the meeting’s atmosphere was still very enjoyable. Not to mention how interesting for us to know our member’s sibling better since we had a new guest: Edwin (CC CL Martin’s brother).

Our president, CC Niken began the meeting with transferring the VPM position from TM Hendy to TM Billy (Good luck with your new job in a new city, TM Hendy!). After that, CTM Dave as the ToM took the control by telling us about Thanksgiving history and how a thankful heart can do wonders.

DTM Arlan was the General Evaluator and that night he shared with us how thankful he is to be part of Toastmasters. He then introduced all the General Evaluator team: TM Helda as Timer, TM Anita as Grammarian, CC CL Martin as Ah / WoD counter, and TM Billy as Ballot Counter.

Before the Table Topic session was started, CC Niken as the Table Topic Master said that she is very thankful for her family and her friends. The Table Topic Speakers were CC Pauline, CC CL Martin, Guest Edwin, TM Billy, and TM Ronald.

Now we have come to the highlight of the meeting - Prepared Speech session. ACB ALB David was the first speaker with “Fear of Loss” as the title. It was very inspiring and eye-opening that “People are more sensitive to loss than to gain something”.

The second speaker was CC Rina with “Crow Brings Daylight”. She delivered an amazing folktale from storytelling manual. She told us the origin of daylight in North Pole, thanks to the Crow!

TM Rama gave his persuasive speech “Boxing”. He used a perfect metaphor (boxing) to describe public speaking. He said both boxing and public speaking have 3 important elements: Condition, Technique, and Mental toughness. At the end he persuaded us to bring our public speaking skill to the next level. All were done in entertaining manners!
 
TM Ronald was the last speaker, delivering “Sae Weng Losing a horse”. It was an old Chinese story and he reminded us that in life, we should not too focused on our problems, rather we should treat the problems as “blessing in disguise”.

The last session was the Evaluation session. The Evaluators were CC Pauline, CC CL Martin, CC Niken, and DTM Arlan.

Hall of Fame
Best Table Topic: CC CL Martin
Best Evaluator: CC Niken and CC CL Martin (draw)
Best Prepared speech: ACB ACL David

Before closing the meeting, CC Niken told us that we will be having our last meeting for the year of 2009 on Wednesday, 9th of December. It will be a “Christmas Edition” meeting and dress code will be Green / Red clothes or any clothes related to Christmas. That’s all folks =)