MoM 3 March 2010: Refining Yourself

Our seasoned Toastmasters hosted the meeting this time. Not only he's done a fabolous job with it, ACG CL Boon as the Toastmasters of the night also pickep up the meeting theme that was suitable for all of us: "Refining Yourself"

With the attendance of 5 guests (Agus, Arno, Budiman, Shinta and Nira) the meeting became more lively and enjoyable.

As always, we began with Table Topics session. Like TM jessica on the last meeting, that night the T/T master was also trying a new style of doing T/T session. TM Helda brought 5 different company logos (Chanel, Mercedes, Nike, Playboy, HSBC) and kindly asked the participants to do 1-2 mins improptu talk on it. We were happy to announce that all of the guests that night got a chance to experience this very session.

We have 4 prepared speakers on the night. The first one was TM Leonardi. He was doing his BM#6 - Vocal Variety and shared us about his secrets on staying healthy - regular swimming excersize. With his at ease attitude, he managed to entertain us with many great jokes. He was evaluated by our VP Education, CC Rina Lukiandari.

As the second speaker, TM Billy did his BM#8 - Using Visual Aids and shared us the way to use power point correctly. Although the type of speech was informative, yet he has sucessfully injected humours in between the speech and made people to laugh along the way. DTM Arlan evaluated TM Billy.

TM Jessica gave an inspirational speech on how thankful heart can do wonders - BM#10 Inspire Your audience. This time, TM Jessica explained how different she thought of life now: be grateful on what she has and makes the best out of it. We all were mesmerised with her story, including her individual evaluator, CC Rinda Sukma (VP Education of Dynamics TM). With this completion, TM Jessica has upgraded her title to CC Jessica ^^

Finally as the last speaker, CC Niken did her - Storytelling #4: The Touching Story. She spoke on how we should let a mistake passed by and learn from it, because two wrongs never make something right in life. Our jovial Toastmasters, CC Rama finally got the chance to evaluate such emotional story that reminded him a Korean drama ^^

Our Hall of Fames were:

The Best Evaluator: CC Rinda

The Best Table Topics: Arno

The Best Speaker: CC Niken

Before the meeting ended, we announced the complete participants on the upcoming Club Contest on Wednesday, 31st of March 2010

Table Topics
1) CC Rama
2) CC Rina
3) TM Juwati
4) TM Nadya
5) CC Niken

International Speech
1) CC Rama
2) CC Rina
3) TM Jessica
4) TM Billy
5) TM Ronald

Fellow contestants, please bring supporters to cheer you up on the big day.
For others, let's not miss the chance to witness the crowning of Surabaya Toastmasters' Club Winners.
Remember: - The More The Merrier -