Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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!!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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

Saturday, October 10, 2009

What does Surabaya Toastmasters mean to you?

Surabaya Toastmasters have helped us to be better throughout the years, so let's share your valuable comment on how it improves yourself:

Friday, October 9, 2009

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!