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 =)