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The theme for the meeting was “Independence”, which was very relevant, considering Indonesian Independence Day was the day before. The meeting was hosted by none other than our very own club president, CC Rina. She emphasized the importance of independence not only on a macro level, but also on a micro level in our personal day to day lives.

The arrangement of the meeting was different than usual, with a prepared speech first. TM Zenny opened with her 2nd Basic Manual Project (Organize Your Speech) titled “Finding a Soulmate”. Her speech was both entertaining and practical. She highlighted both the difficulties and strategies of finding a soulmate and provided 5 practical steps to achieving this goal. She was evaluated by our Division G Governor, ACG ALB David.

The table topics session followed, which was conducted by CC CL Rama. It was very entertaining and put a different twist on the standard impromptu speeches. Speakers were put into different challenging situations and had to use their quick thinking and speaking skills to turn an obstacle into a win. The situations ranged from coming home late to an angry wife to expressing your love to a stranger in the vegetable section of a supermarket.

The second and final prepared speech for the evening came from TM Andi, our VP of Membership. He was also working on his 2nd Basic Manual Project (Organize Your Speech). His speech was titled “Scars”. He shared how life sometimes teaches us lessons which aren’t really fair and they leave scars. He illustrated his point by telling us about a serious motorcycle accident he was in which left him with … scars!. He was evaluated by CC Jessica, our VP of Education.

The position for best Table Topics speaker for the evening was shared between ACG CL Boon and ACG ALB David. The best evaluator was ACG ALB David. Finally, the person who won the most coveted award of the evening, the best prepared speaker, was TM Andi.

Overall, it was a fun and memorable meeting.

INSPIRATION DAY

On the 21July 2010, we had meeting in our usual venue, Kemiri Resto, jalan Embong Kemiri 4, Surabaya. The topic of the day was “INSPIRATION”. As to inspire everyone in the house, the impromptu table topic session was led by David Pranata ALB ACB with his various topics to inspire others.


Participating Toastmasters are required to inspire the audience to do many things, like spending more time with their family or to exercise more. As it happens, later that day, the award for best table topic speaker fell to the hands of our own Rama Tidball and a guest, Tim Arwine.
Moving on to the best part of the day, the prepared speech session featured two speakers, TM Liestya and TM Andi. TM Liestya as the first speaker presents her 5th Basic Manual project and TM Andi with his first project, the Ice Breaker. The later was awarded with the best speaker award by the end of the meeting.

Lastly, after a generous dose of food and drinks, the Toastmasters meeting was happily closed. We had plenty of fun that night, and we hope to repeat the fun in the following meeting, August the 4th, 2010! Feel free to join us there! ^^

MoM 30 June: "Days Gone By"

We have many reasons to celebrate this meeting, especially it's been exactly 6 years since the first and the oldest Toastmasters club in Surabaya was born ^^... For this, we can't thank CTM Dave and ACG CL Yong Boon Kok enough for their initiation, enthusiasm and endless dedication.. Because of their action 6 yrs ago, we are able to learn from each other today through this extraordinary club and we have become better leaders and communicators.. -*Many thanks, Dave & Boon*-

Preparing

When celebrating this special event, we chose a special venue. This time, we've got to experience a new atmosphere at Tompotika Food Centre, Manyar. I've heard many calls from other members asking the direction to get there at last minute, however they managed to arrive earlier before the meeting started. 

Great music from i-Pod and toy-like speakers greeted every of us when we entered the room (Thanks to TM Edward - Boy, technology is simply amazing!), while the variety of foods were already served at the corner. Although the decoration was rather simple, but everybody could feel the sense of 'celebration' right from the start.

At 7PM, the President (ACB Niken) started to open the meeting and introduced the Toastmasters of the night, ACB ALB David Pranata. That night, the agenda was rather different as the meeting was a special edition meeting!

First, we had an uplifting opening address "The Spirit of Toastmasters" by the co-founder the club, ACG CL Boon Yong. He reminded each of us about the real deal of Toastmasters, to keep having the spirit of Toastmasters and pass them on to others, no matter where you are in terms of project and title. Although the founder (CTM Dave) was not able to attend, through the opening speech Toastmaster Boon gave, we've got to know the 2 men behind the club and to be inspired by their value and action over the years. 

Second, we had a game session led by our Table Topics / Game Master, ACB ALB Martin Hendriadi. For this, we divided ourselves into 2 groups. The first game was "Stranded on an Island" and the second game was "Pictionary". Everybody was so into it and before the third game was started, the time was up ~_~ However, the good news was, the winning team was awarded with special something + boxes of Ferrero Rocher ^______^... Ahh, we would never get enough of game ;)

Action 

Third, we had the one and only prepared speech speaker: Toastmaster Nur delivering BM#3. Although the objective of this project was to get to the point, TM Nur sucessfully persuaded people to do what he suggested us to do: TRAVEL. He read many books, but the experience to see the real thing by travelling was irreplacable. He got to learn priceless things and got beautiful memory to embrace in the future. "I love coffee and drink it everyday, but I would never forget the taste of cappucino in the morning in Paris. I saw there were couples exchanging kisses in front of the Eiffel Tower and the train had just passed by".. OK people, let's travel =)

  

Next, we had our seasoned Toastmasters, DTM Arlan Setiawan telling us about "Flash Back of Surabaya Toastmasters". A picture is worth a thousand words, indeed!.. We all reminiscing the Toastmasters then. It's so refreshing too see what the earlier members experienced then and what has changed now. Thanks to all of us, after a few years, we could recruited more female members and so the atmosphere can be enjoyable for any people attending the meeting ^^... No matter what, looking at the pictures, it was apparent that the Toastmasters spirit has been gladly maintained throughout the time.. Yay!!

Finally the ACB Niken gave the closing speech for the very last time being the President 2009-2010. At this occasion she admitted how grateful she was to have found such a supportive club that has helped her to learn at ease. However, serving as an Exco made her realise that there was always things to improve. For herself, she felt the need to tune the way she delivered speech, not to perform, but to communicate. Also to know that learning never stops and although there is low & high time, being Toastmasters means helping each other and helping yourself.

Leaving

Thanks to all dedicated seasoned Toastmasters, committed Excos 2009-2010 and enthusiastics members, we have helped each of us and ourselves to be better.  For now, let's keep the spirit Toastmasters in each of us and welcome 2010-2011 term! ^___________^

Until our next meeting on the 23rd of July 2010 and let's not miss out the grand induction of the Exco 2010-2011 team =)

30th June Meeting Location @ Tompotika Food Centre

Please be advised that we will have our next meeting at:

Tompotika Food Centre
Manyar Tirtoyoso 90
6.30 - 9 PM 

Guest Fee: Rp 25.000pp (including dinner)


Feel free to refer to the map below for your reference and call me at 081 510 935 367 should you have any questions ^^

MoM 23 June: Can't Live Without.....

Do you know what President Obama can’t live without?... I googled the answer and found that he can’t live without “The Entourage” and “The Wire” .. These are TV series at HBO.. How about you?... What can’t you live without?

“Can’t live without...” was our meeting theme that night... And as usual, before we enjoyed the main dishes (prepared speech session), we were entertained by a creative Table Topics session led by ACG, CL Boon. This time the rules were bit different: Every participant was given a picture and had to explain the exact details of the picture, without actually mentioning the thing... Very challenging to participate and very fun to watch!... The very session was praised by many visiting Toastmasters (TM Cithra, TM Hizkia, TM Nur) and guests (Shelly, Ayok, Dewi, I Made)... The Table Topic session was a delicious appetizer indeed! ;)

Best T/T Speaker: TM Cithra (Visiting TM - Eagle)

Next session, we moved to prepared speech session. Although we only have 2 speakers then (1 cancelled at last minute because of emergency), we had 2 great speakers that evening. The first speaker was a visiting Toastmasters, TM Nur who did BM#2 (Organize Your Speech) titled ‘The Silent Thief’. Many of us looked serious when TM Nur threw his 1^st half of the speech saying that the silent thief was everywhere and was there in the room with us. But we became more relaxed when the thief was actually ‘inflation’ and interest built up when tips to beat inflation were shared. TM Nur was evaluated by CC Rina Lukiandari

Best Speaker: TM Nur (Visiting TM - Academia)

The second speaker was CC Rama, the TM who couldn’t live without L.O.V.E. because love makes the world go around ^________^. At the meeting, CC Rama delivered his 1^st storytelling project (Folk Tale) with a title “The Emperor’s New Clothes”. During his storytelling, all eyes were on him and much laughter heard during the 7-9mins session. That night we discovered that CC Rama was no ordinary man. Besides the new revelation that the macho TM has such soft side, we all agreed how good a Dad he was through his skilful storytelling. CC Rama was evaluated by DTM Arlan Setiawan.

During the President’s time, we’ve got to experience President’s election for 2010-2011. After that night, we are pleased to announce that Surabaya Toastmasters’ future would be bright as the club will be led by CC Rina Lukiandari, our heart and soul for the club.

Best Evaluators: CC Rina & DTM Arlan

As a closing, our Incoming Division Governor, ACB ALB David Pranata shared an exciting news as the famous Gerald Green, DTM, AS  is coming to Surabaya to conduct his 2^nd workshop, after the success of his 1^st workshop conducted in March 2010. - "You can look good. You can look smart. You can have all the knowledge in your head - but if you can not tell it... You can not sell it" - Don't miss out the chance to learn from a true leader. Check it out the details here: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/note.php?note_id=105954549453916

FYI, next meeting will be a special one, celebrating Surabaya Toastmasters Club’s birthday.  It will be more fun as we have special game session included on the agenda. Hope you see you there and let’s party then ^^

* An Exciting Trip with Toastmasters *

Writing contributed by TM Indah (Area G1 - JEGEG Toastmasters)
Div G's representative (Table Topic Contest) to MIRI

My name is Dwi Indah Wahyuni. I am 32 years old high motivated woman living in Pare, Kediri East Java with perfect caring husband and 4.5 years old beautiful cute daughter. I’m dealing with hundreds students from Sabang to Merauke, all around Indonesia who have strong willingness to get better English at the Daffodils speaking classes.

I want to improve my communication and leadership skill, so joining Toastmaster is the best option. Officially, I signed up in March 2010 and has become a member of JEGEG club ever since. I was lucky to be the winner in division G contest and so I got myself ready for the International contest May 22nd 2010 in Miri Malaysia. Together with another 5 distinguish fellow toastmasters from Surabaya, we had amazing trip, even though I feel little bit sorry to myself when I passed the Immigration office, nearly all the officers asked me the same question “what are you going to do in Malaysia?” Do you work there? Uhfff, well, probably it sounds simple but really Its so irritating. But, the warm welcomes from Miri toastmasters have melted my bad feeling.

On Friday evening, we had incredible welcome night. It was entertaining. We learnt about discipline; because we were late and all of the seats were reserved. It was really only early bird catches the worm. Finally we enjoyed to be vegetarian; because that was the only available one. No harm to be vegetarian anyway, I thought.

Well, Saturday was my day. The show began. I performed the best I could, I was so happy joining table topic competition, because I have learnt a lot and got many experiences. Everybody was doing great but only three contestants deserved to go final, and I did not. But, I was very much OK because it was just about time.

Every single day in Miri is the memorable one. Big thanks to district 51 for incredible moments. Also thanks a lot to Division G for the opportunity given. Thanks also to Papa Green for thinking out of the box, I like your ideas “ if you want to tell, don’t yell”. At last thanks to my lovely friends, Niken, Felisia and the boys. To tell you the truth, I have got many stories to tell and to share since then.

PARE, June, 2nd 2010

With love, TM Indah