Photos @ 05 July 2011

Angeline Lee
President 2011/2012

STRIVE FOR SUCCESS 
1st meeting of the term 2011/2012

Report by President Angeline Lee

For our inaugural meeting for 2011/2012, with the meeting theme of “Strive for Success”, our team of Club Officers was officially installed by our dynamic and charming Past President Kim Chow. She started the Installation ceremony by discharging our team of 2010/2011 Club Officers from their duties.

Club Officers for 2010/2011 being discharged from their duties

Division W Governor 2010/2011 DTM Vincent Hor, in his role as General Evaluator, commended Past President Kim for conducting the Installation ceremony with dignity, poise and class. The new team of Club Officers pledged to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities and will work towards “striving for success” for Friendship.

Club Officers for 2011/2012

Friendship club members promised to support the new exco.

Right after the Installation ceremony, we started with the speech project session. With TME PP Freddie Yap at the helm, we had an interesting and enjoyable session. We enjoyed three speeches.

PP Freddie Yap is the TME

Daphne in her “Fair Lady from Ipoh” Ice Breaker speech was charming, earnest and sincere. Explaining that despite her small size, due to her generosity in giving her food away to her siblings, she is nevertheless more than capable of defending her siblings when the need arise. This fair lady from Ipoh also showed us her humorous side when she made us laugh out loud with her tales about “lembu”.

Standing ovation for Daphne

From Ipoh, we travelled to a world of credit card debts as we listened to Sylvia’s speech. She had fascinating facts such as a $30 billion credit card debt by young people aged 30 and below. We agreed with her that prevention is better than cure as she outlined 4 simple steps to avoid falling into credit card debt.

After two speeches from the basic Competent Communication manual, we then had the opportunity to listen to an advanced speech from Past President James Arokiasamy. In his Entertaining Speaker speech, James entertained and impressed us with his knowledge of biology as he spoke of inflammation, white blood cells and sinus. His concluding message to us was to eat healthy, stay healthy and live longer.

PP James is Best Project Speaker

After the break, we had a hilarious Humour Session conducted by Stephen Fernando, multiple winners of District 51 Speech Contests. Thank you, Stephen for being our Humour Master and speech evaluator for James !

Stephen Fernando is Best Speech Evaluator

For this meeting, our usual Table Topics Session was replaced by Games Session which involves acting skills and impromptu speaking skills. Thanks to our group of talented participants, we had a good laugh as Tony & James, Grace & Nee Wern, Ian Tai & Ian Lai, Sylvia & Sean paired up to act and speak on topics selected by VPE Chee Hoe. Ian Tai enjoyed this session and recommended to have more of this at our future meetings.

DTM Vincent Hor is the GE

The awards given out for our “Strive for Success” meeting goes to

Best Project Speaker – James Arokiasamy

Best Speech Evaluator – Stephen Fernando

Ice Breaker Ribbon – Daphne Au

Half CC Ribbon – Ian Tai

Ian Tai with his Half CC Ribbon

Daphne with her Ice Breaker Ribbon

Thank you, Friendship members and guests for helping us to have a memorable and fun-filled meeting. Thank you to our guests, Belinda and Ian Lai, for joining us and exploring how the Toastmasters educational program can help everyone to “Strive for Success”.

Members & guests at Friendship's Installation meeting

See you at our next meeting on 19 July as we continue in our effort to “Strive for Success” by practicing how to “Evaluate to Motivate”. Join us at Bukit Kiara for another learning adventure !