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| Ian Tai |
Chinese New Year is just around the
corner. Everyone is bound to go homeward and celebrate this auspicious occasion with our
love ones. Madam President Alexandra, Grace Tan and Vice President of
Membership Sylvia Tan came ignite the festive aura by wearing the mandarin gowns cheongsam to suit this
occasion. The meeting was quickly brought to live by our zestful looking Toastmaster
of the Evening, Area W3 Governor Chor Chee Hoe.
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| Ladies in their dazzling cheong sam outfit |
Our TME diligently introduced the history
and founder of Toastmasters International by making use of Friendship Club’s Facebook Page. Induction officer, Sylvia Tan led us to welcome Zion Chin as our
newest members in the Friendship family. Welcome to the club, Zion!
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| From left to right: Zion, Andrew, Adhlen, Susan Lim and Geok Ean |
Toastmaster Geok Ean took over and conducted
the Table Topic Session in the utmost proficient manner. All table topics
speakers did marvelously, given only 2 minutes to think and speak off the cuff. They were comprised of Andrew Low, Christian
Leong from HELP University Toastmasters Club, Division Governor Tan Lay Theng, Sivadas
and yours truly.
There were 5 project speakers enlightened
and inspired us that evening. Andrew Low kept us in suspense when he shared his
experience on his deathbed. Luckily, it was just a bad dream, and he reminded
us to appreciate our life and live to the fullest. Ben Chan shared his painful yet forgiving
experience as a victim of verbal abuse. He prompted us to be careful with our
words when we are angry or frustrated with someone. Christian Leong educated us
on how to capture our finest moments with a few tricks using camera. The
dynamic and avant-garde Susan Lim delivered her speech no. 7 – Using Visual
Aids, in a rather unconventional way. She broke her patterns by having our VPE
Daphne poured water on her head! Her message was clear; if we desire to be
better in anything, we must first break from our habits and comfort zone.
Our International Speech and Table
Topics champion, Lee Chen Choon was given a table topics marathon as practice
and preparation for the upcoming Area W3 contest. There was an open evaluation right
after the marathon where he got plenty of feedback especially from Lay Theng,
Past President Ben Fong and Grace Tan in regards to his table topics
presentations. Perhaps we should do this more regularly as it is excellent
practice for Table Topics, overcoming our nervousness, gives both our VPE and
members more relaxation as there are lesser project speeches to do. I know, I
know. Don’t freak out, Madam President. We will still thrive to complete our project
speeches.
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| Getting ready for the Auspicious Toss |
After our merry-jolly-fun-filling Auspicious Toss, five brilliant
evaluators further flourished us with their constructive feedbacks and
evaluations. Past President Zaiton gave her encouragements to all table topic speakers.
Following that, the typically scrupulous and erudite Grace Tan gave her
evaluation on Andrew Low’s speech. Timothy Nakayama and Ben Fong were equally
superb in their evaluations to Ben Chan and Christian Leong respectively. Susan
Lim certainly benefited from Lay Theng's evaluation, especially when she
suggested Susan to pour water on her own instead of getting Daphne’s help to
make that impact!
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| Best Table Topics Speaker: Ian Tai |
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| Best Project Speaker: Susan Lim |
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| Best Evaluator: Grace Tan |
The meeting ended joyfully and
jubilantly where everyone greets Gong Xi Fa Chai and happy Homeward Bound. It was indeed an auspicious evening to
Friendship Club, our guest Adhlen Zulkifly immediately signed up as a member
and Ann Agnew, our Past Secretary came back to reinstate her membership. What a
prosperous evening!
Signing off with a CNY Blessings
from
Ian Tai
VPPR of FTMC
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