Speech Contests_03 August 2010

Humorous Speech Contest and Evaluation Speech Contest

Report by Angeline Lee

Photos by Wai Yee and Chee Hoe

This year, the brave souls who aspired to be better speakers and evaluators are

Humorous Speech Contestants
Roslyn Tan
Tom Chen
Ben Fong
Kent Ho
Sivadas

Evaluation Contestants
Tom Chen
Ben Fong
Tony Lim

Audience at Friendship’s club contest on 3 August 2010

We will never know what exactly captivated the judges’ hearts. Was it his smile? Was it his singing ? Or was it his song choices? Our Humorous Speech Champion did not just sing one song, he sang several as he narrated his Roller-coaster Ride of Love.

To continue with the Love theme for this evening, our first runner-up for the Humorous Speech Contest spoke about “Relationship”. He shared with us that men are simple creatures. They only converse for 30 seconds and own 1 pair of shoes. Women on the other hand, being more emotional, are allowed to burst into tears for no reason and will be treated to free dinners by men. Since women are delicate, complex creatures his advice to other men is to treasure every moment with your partner and it is not necessary to understand the complex nature of the fairer sex.

Humorous Speech Champion 2010 - Kent Ho
1st Runner Up - Ben Fong
2nd Runner Up - Thomas Chen

Humorous Speech Champion Kent Ho

For the Evaluation Contest, our test speaker gave us several examples of his OMG (Oh My Gosh!) moments. His evaluators loved his smile, his confidence, his body language and animated facial expressions. The suggested areas for improvement would be his speech organization and speech value, and less usage of “you know”. His smile, although charming, was not appropriate for his OMG moment of being stuck in a traffic jam.

It could not have been an easy decision. Did the judges also have their OMG moments? In the end, the judges’ decision as who is worthy of the Evaluation Contest Champion title is

Evaluation Champion 2010 - Thomas Chen
1st Runner Up - Ben Fong


Evaluation Champion Thomas Chen



Contestants Sivadas, Tony Lim, Thomas Chen, Roslyn Tan, Kent Ho & Ben Fong

We had a number of guests for this “Love”ly evening. Among them are 6 members of YSP Club, Division G Governor NJ Singam and TLI Registration Chair Eu Choi San. Thank you everyone, for attending our club contest and helping out in many ways as roleplayers, as well as cheerful and supportive members of the audience.


Ang Boon Keat (YSP), Eu Choi San (TLI Registration Chair), Jess Fong (UNITAR), Ivan Yong (Test Speaker), Teresa Choong (Contest Chair), Wai Yee, Kent Ho, Chee Hoe, Miow Shiow Pyng (YSP), Division G Governor NJ Singan, Angeline

Congratulations to our winners ! The Area W3 Contest on 18 August at Menara ING awaits them. We wish them all the best as they meet up with the other contestants of Area W3. Will it be another evening of Roller-coaster Ride of Love for Kent? Join us at Menara ING and witness first-hand who will emerge as Area W3 Humorous Speech Champion and Evaluation Speech Champion.