Club Contest: International Speech and Table Topics

Would you like to witness our upcoming club contest?
Come and support your favorite speaker ^_____^

Wednesday, 31st March 2010
6.30 PM - 9 PM
Resto Kemiri - Jl. Embong Kemiri 4
Guest Fee @ Rp 25.000 (including dinner)

Event is open for public and feel free to extend this invitation to your friends and family

MoM 12 March 2010: Go Green

This has got to be the one of the best meetings in the history of STC. Do you know why? First, for the first time, we conducted our meeting in a hotel! Well, not a five-star one, but nice enough as a change in place and atmosphere. The meeting room was spacious, and everyone got their own tables!

Second, we had a wide variety of guests coming from other clubs, other cities, even other countries!

Third, we also had the honor of hosting the Grand Master of Public Speaking, somebody who brought Toastmasters to South East Asia, the first DTM in SEA, and the ONLY Accredited Speaker outside of the US and Canada: Mr. Gerald Green!

For those reasons, the theme for the meeting was "Go Green". We also took advantage of the theme to remind ourselves to keep our beloved earth safe and healthy by conserving resources and say, "Hey, be more friendly to the environment, guys!"

Papa Green, as he's affectionately called, was greeted by loud ovation from everybody as he entered the room with Pak Arlan. CC Niken must have been so excited that she had the extra energy to act as both the President and the ToM tonight.

ACB CL Martin acted as the Table Topic Master and had prepared some tricks up his sleeves. The first speaker was ACG ALB Johan, and TM Martin asked him what the word "green" means to him. Next TM Martin called Gilda and asked her to describe something in his bag only by touching it. Gilda described it to the floor and the audience correctly guessed it as "Aladdin lamp"! Not bad, Gilda. :) The next two T/T speakers were Nur and Arno, and they were each asked to pick a coin from Martin's bag, read out the year, and tell the audience what their most memorable experience was in that year. Arno spoke about his personal experience in the year 1992 in which he was very close to facing a bomb. This earned him The Best T/T Speaker Award. Good job, guys!

On to the Prepared Speech Session. TM Jane Stefanie started off strongly, delivering her speech "Fail with Confidence" (BM#5). Everybody was blown away by her confidence, but the most surprising was when they discovered how young she was! Papa Green, who evaluated her, said "You will go very far." Indeed, way to go, Jane! CC Rina Lukiandari followed with her speech "In the footsteps of the Archeologist Stateman" (AM Storytelling #5). She told the story about Thomas Stamford Raffles, the founding father of Singapore, who happened to spend some time in Java island. ACB ALB David evaluated her speech.

CC ALB Irene came third, but she upped the ante by delivering the high notes on the poem "Meeting at Night: A Lover's Journey" (AM Interpretive Reading#2). Irene really displayed her poem reading talent here that made CC Rama, her evaluator, speechless. He admitted that he had very little experience reading poem, let alone evaluating one, but at the end he delivered another superb evaluation for her. Great job to both of you!

The final speaker was our guest from Bali, CC ALB Miranda. She's working on the same manual as Rina (AM Storytelling #5), but while Rina was talking about a dead person, Miranda spoke about a live one! The star of her speech was Steve Jobs, the genius behind Apple and all of its products that rock the world. Indeed, he's a one-of-a-kind communicator that can electrify the audience like no one else. Miranda was evaluated by ACG CL Yong Boon Kok.

All speakers did such a great job that they deserved an award, but finally it was Irene The Poet who nailed the Best Speaker award. Congratulations!

At the end of the meeting, Papa Green evaluated the whole proceedings, and he gave valuable feedbacks and suggestions. This has earned him The Best Evaluator award for the night! Everybody was happy, and those who had registered for Papa Green's two-day seminar could really look forward to seeing him again the following day.

Hall of Fames:

Best T/T: Arno

Best Evaluator: DTM Gerald Green

Best Speaker: CC ALB Irene

What a night to remember! Can't wait to witness our club's contest on Wednesday, 31st March 2010 ^^

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 -

URGENT Update: Gerald Green, DTM, AS @ D'Season Hotel

Accredited Speaker and Professional Trainer from Malaysia, Gerald Green, DTM AS will come to Surabaya this weekend and we are pleased to have him spared his time to join our meeting.

Hence, please note that instead of having our regular meeting on Wednesday, we will have our next meeting details as follows:

Place:            D'Season Hotel - Tenggilis North 14

(It's around Jemur Sari Main Street, Near Gas Station and in front of the original "Bu Kris" - see Map)

Day:             Friday
Date:            12th of March 2010
Time:            6.30 PM (dinner) - 9 PM
Theme:         GO GREEN
Dresscode:   Green
Guest Fee:    Rp 25.000 (including dinner)

This is a one-off change only and the meeting after this will be held on Wednesday, 31st of March 2010, which will be Surabaya Toastmasters' Club Contest (International Speech and Table Topics Contests).

Do not miss out this valuable opportunity to meet such an accomplished man! ^^

Gerald Green, DTM, AS

Author of two books ‘The Magic of Public Speaking’ and ‘My Pocket Speaker’s Brief, he is presently on his third book 'Speak like a True Leader’. He was instrumental in the formation of The Malaysian Association of Professional Speakers, and was it’s second President (2002-2003).

A pioneer of Toastmasters in Malaysia, Gerald is Malaysia’s first Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM - 1990) and the first Asian to receive the Presidential Citation Toronto 1993) – this for spearheading the formation of the Pan-Southeast Asia Territorial Council merging toastmasters from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia and Chairman. He is among a small number of toastmasters to have received accreditation by Toastmasters International for professional level speaking skills.

In 1994 he became the first and is still the only Accredited Speaker outside the USA and Canada. This achievement is recorded in the Malaysia Book of Records. Gerald is also the first Malaysian to be a featured speaker at a Toastmaster World Convention. (New Orleans 1997).

MoM - 17 Feb 2010: Valentine Special Edition

It was a meeting full of L.O.V.E. When we arrived we saw lots of balloons, paper flowers and candies. People dressed up with Red/Pink and Blue colour. That night, Kemiri turned itself to a valentine-themed venue and no one went home empty handed.

The meeting was special because we had two gentlemen attending the meeting (Agus and Nur), who got to know our club from Facebook and Blogspot. However, what’s more special was the first Toastmasters performance from TM Billy, who warmed our meeting by allowing us to give affection one to another.

The Table Topics led by TM Jessica. This time, we got to see the making of the Table Topics questions on the spot. As a Table Topics Master, TM Jessica celled 4 participants to write 2 words on a piece of paper and then she used it for question for other participants. Walaahh!

The speakers got the chance to talk on about “Loving Everyone”, “Holding Hands”, “Blind Date” and “Passionate Kiss” ^^

Then we moved on to the game sessions by ACB ALS David and CC Niken. Everyone was showered with Toastmasters related questions, famous quotations; spot the differences games, till guessing game. Did you know that Bu Rudy (Nasi Empal Udang) and Pak Sadi (Soto Ayam Pak Sadi) were involved too?

During prepared speech session, we had two ladies giving us entertaining performances. TM Agatha delivered her BM#2 – a beautiful speech that reminds us the beauty of being a Mother. Then, CC Rina performed her Storytelling project with such interesting characters including a fly, a salmon, a bear, a mouse, a cat and a hunter. With her speech, our VP E persuaded us to keep it simple in life.

During evaluation session, TM Leonardi and CC Rama shared their evaluation on the speaking performance, while DTM Arlan gave his evaluation on the entire meeting.

Our Halls of Fame were: CC Rina (Best Speaker); CC Rama (Best Table Topics Speaker and Best Evaluator). Thanks to the donation from United States of America’s Embassy, the winners for that particular night brought home a free book – Band of Brothers. Did I say no one went home empty handed?

Just before we ended the meeting, we had another reason to celebrate that night. After delivering his persuasive speech on the first week of February, we had a new Advanced Communicator Bronze in the club. Congratulations on ACB CL Martin Hendriadi ^^

What a happy-ending meeting. Happy Valentine day, everyone and let’s continue to share some L.O.V.E

MoM - 3 Feb 2010: Life is Beautiful

It was raining cats and dogs, yet the meeting started on time. At this time, we got to know a New Zealander guest – Charlotte. Her presence boosted our spirit even more. So who cared about the unfriendly weather outside? ^^

Then, our VP Membership (TM Billy) inducted Gianina by bombarding her with ‘difficult’ questions. To conclude, she said “I do, I do, I do” and became Toastmasters Gianina officially.

TM Juwati took the role after Induction and performed her first Toastmasters role. She told us the meeting theme this time was based on the old movie, which always reminded her “Life is Beautiful”. She hoped we’ve got to experience like it and thanks to her endless enthusiasm, we experienced a beautiful meeting then.

During Table Topics session, CC Rina let each of us to get a fortune cookie at first. The lucky one had the opportunity to taste the sweet cookie and to experience “thinking on our feet” when they got the bonus question inside the cookie. The lucky T/T participants were: TM Jessica, TM Nina, TM Rama, TM Niken, Charlotte.

During a prepared speech session, we learnt from 4 great speakers. TM Billy took the lead first and he shared shocking information through “The Dark Age of Japan” (BM#7 – Research Your Topic). He said Japan’s condition in the future could be dominated largely by elderly only due to the extremely low birth rate in the country. Do you know Japan has higher number of pets than children?

As a second speaker, TM Jessica did her BM#9 – Persuade with Power. She raised the bar by asking all of us to be more open-minded about nudity. She showed a couple of magnificent pieces of art to challenge our minds. Looking at such perfectly done nude statue, sketches and pictures - what would you think?

The third speaker was none other than our seasoned Toastmasters, ACG CL Boon. He has finished the entire communication track in Toastmasters, yet we hadn’t had enough learning from him. So we requested him to do another speech and he delivered a touching speech. ACG CL Boon made us to think on how we have lived our life until now, he shared us his personal experience and he closed with a meaningful quote: “It’s difficult to do the right thing to do, but it’s more difficult to know what’s right to do”

The last speaker was TM Rama. He did his BM#10 – Inspire Your Audience. He talked on how important body language when delivering a speech. He began with personal stories then ended with valuable tips to improve our body language. Have videotaped it, then watches it without any sound. If the body language tells clearly about the things you’re talking about, then you’re at the right spot. As usual, TM Rama has never failed to throw cool jokes when delivering a speech and he entertained us while he inspired us at the same time. After finishing this project, TM Rama has earned his new title (CC) : Competent Communicator Rama Tidball. *Hurray*

Since the T/T contest was around the corner, CC CL Martin volunteered to give all T/T participants a short and effective review during evaluation. Then each individual evaluators delivered their evaluations: CC Niken, ACB ALS David, DTM Arlan, CC CL Martin. During GE evaluation, ACB ALS David gave us an in-depth and valuable evaluation on the local clubs.

The Halls of Fames were: TM Rama (Best T/T speaker), CC CL Martin (Best Evaluator) and CC Rama (Best Speaker).

A great news just before the meeting was closed: next meeting will be a special Valentine theme. Be prepared to enjoy a meeting which is full of surprises. Dresscode: Pink/Red for girls and Blue for guys. Until then ;)

MoM - 20 Jan 2010: Hellos & Goodbyes

So, let’s not blame it on the rain the meeting was 10 minutes late or should we? But the fact was the meeting went with so much fun.

The theme prepared by The Toastmasters of The Meeting, TM Pauline was ‘Hellos & Goodbyes’. It is also her goodbye to our beloved club since she has decided to return to hometown – Jambi ~_~.

On this meeting, we’ve got to see a new phenomenon. One of our future members – Gianina – gladly took an ‘impromptu’ role as Ah-Counter. Despite with little preparation, she’s done her job wonderfully and other members couldn’t wait to see her perform more in the future.

Table Topic Session led by TM Rama was really entertaining (as always). This one was a real challenge to the participants as each group of participants should act and talk according to the script the T/T Master had prepared.

On this occasion, we’ve 4 prepared speech speakers. The first speaker, TM Juwati’s talked about “Dewa Klasik Alexander”. All of us had an impression the speech would be delivered in Bahasa Indonesia, while in fact the title was the name of a great person.

TM Anda - delivered his poetic speech: “Unseen Love” and no doubt that he understood clearly what L.O.V.E. meant.

TM Helda shared her experience by delivering her Basic Manual# 3: “Some Wise Thought in Choosing Property”. This information offered useful points for consideration before buying a house.

The last speaker was CC Niken with her speech “They Are Not Him” as part of the project Entertaining Speech #4. The speech reminded us the real life example of like father is not always like soon.

To give everyone of us to learn more from the meeting, we had a very encouraging and constructive evaluation session done by TM Jessica, TM Leonardi, TM Billy and ACB ALB David.

At the end of the meeting, the Halls of Fame were attained by TM Juwati, CC Niken and TM David.

Also our President CC Niken encouraged everybody to venture to the “International Speech” and “Table Topics” Contest on the 31^st March 2010. Hopefully there won’t be anybody put into positive ‘blessing in disguise’ kind of entrapment - but onward and say I’m ready!

Surely with the potential sources we will move forward to excellence.