Friendship Toastmasters Club: 1 March 2016 - If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It

Good day! It is time for update on our meeting again! This time, we have came out with a theme “If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It” inspired by Walt Disney.

Very often, we are guided by the past experience that we had and we created a veil of excuses and resistance to go beyond our comfort zone. We must acknowledge that the power of dreams within ourselves is limitless. Let's take a closer look at the our theme.

The first part, “If you can dream it,” to me says “If you can put the thoughts that make up a thing together in your head” while the second part, “You can do it.” to me says “You can make that thought a reality.” So to me, this quote is about dreaming great and beautiful things, and making them so powerful in your head that you simply must make them come to life.

Once you have a sufficiently big reason why something must be done, the actual doing simply becomes a number game. Ask often enough for help, assistance, and support and share a compelling dream, then you will eventually make it happen. Of course, there is no free lunch in this world. Great length of time, late nights or maybe waking up early morning, massive effort (which might gain you another failure, again and again), these are part of the price you will pay, if you are to make your dream a reality. And that’s where the inspiration and motivation comes in and they keep the fire burning when the world tries to pour cold water over you and your dream.

After all, Picasso did not wait until he was Picasso to perform as a Picasso.

The evening was gracefully kicked off by first timer Malynda Tan as the Toastmaster of the evening.

Edrea Poh, CC chaired the Table Topics session.

"If you only have $xx and (country) with only one (transportation) available, how would you spend your day with your loved one?

Four brave souls came to the stage and demonstrated their impromptu speech.

1. Lim Terng Fui

2. Keny Tai

3. Jane

4. Kelvin

Our first project speaker, Carrie Ooi delivered CC#2 - Organize your speech

Title : Dream It, Fake It, Become It

Carrie shared how she overcome her fear of public speaking. She believes in authenticity of speech and always have passion for the subject. Last but not least, practice makes perfect!

Our second project speaker, Lim Terng Fui delivered CC#5 - Your body speaks

Title : Travel like a local

Terng Fui started his first backpack trip to Brussels in 2010. It was winter and the air was so dry that he got a nosebleed! He was touched when a local came to the rescue, stopped his nosebleed and even offered him a breakfast! This changed his perspective about travel. Travel is not just about sight-seeing, shopping, food-hunting. Travel is the touch between the people, meet various people, experience thing in a different angle and you can make your world bigger.

Our third project speaker, Chor Chee Hoe, ACS, ALB delivered CC#6 - Vocal Variety

Title : My Confession

Chee Hoe introduced a medical jargon - "hyperhidrosis" to the crowd. In layman's term, it means he has sweaty palms most of the time. There were moment of embarrassment however it struck Chee Hoe how lucky he is when he joined in the National Service and got to know the blind ones. You can choose to see the difference as an unlucky inheritance, or choose to see it as an opportunity for your strength!

Award Time!!!!!