The Courage to Conquer
From left: Past President Freddie Yap who is TME, Kim Chow and Past DG Ho Fong Ming, DTM, the GE.
We were in excellent hands with TME Freddie Yap conducting our “Courage to Conquer” meeting professionally, complete with well-prepared introductions. “It takes courage” said our TME, “to say I am sorry, to say I love you, to say I will. It also takes courage to attend club meetings.”
From left: Ian, Emily, Victor (ITC Bintang TMC), Angeline & Jess (Unitar TMC)
In line with our meeting theme, Invocation Speaker Wai Yee conquered her fears of public speaking and presented a thought-provoking speech that ended with “Confront your fears. Get to know your fears. You will then be able to conquer your fears.”
VPPR Alexandra took our club meeting to new heights with her creativity. She rewarded Table Topic speakers Ian, Tony, Wai Yee and Vincent with specially designed Friendship bookmarks which contain the Table Topics: courage to lead, courage to be truthful, courage to let go and courage to take risk, etc.
Friendship bookmarks designed by VPPR Alexandra.
For the first speech project of the evening, Past President Lay Theng delivered a timely speech on “Yes, I will, IPP” to persuade us to take up club officer roles when asked to do so by Immediate Past President Ben who will soon be serving as Chairman of the nominating committee.
Jess Foong from Unitar, presented her Vocal Variety speech on “What You See”. There was no trace of fear as she delivered her speech, in which she incorporated the voices of various characters.
For my speech on “New Year, New Confidence”, our GE and my evaluator Kim were happy that a speech from the Public Relations manual had been selected, providing an opportunity for our members to learn from this manual. Not only that, I had fun playing the role of radio talk show guest on “Friendship FM”, being interviewed by radio host Alexandra.
From left: Past DG Ho Fong Ming, Andy, Tony, Victor, Jess, Wai Yee
Our General Evaluator is no ordinary DTM. She is DTM Ho Fong Ming, our District Governor for 2003/2004. She was District 51's CEO when there were 7 countries in the District. Her dedication to serve is unquestionable as she stopped working for one year and worked full time as our District Governor during one-year tenure.
The Evaluation Session was conducted flawlessly by our elegant and affable GE. She was quick to praise her team of evaluators consisting of Victor (from ITC Bintang), Angeline, Tony and Kim, Grammarian Zaiton, Ah Counter Emily and Timer Andy.
She complimented Table Topics Master Alexandra on her creativity and flexibility. She was impressed with our newsletter containing the President's message and our ability to run the meeting in line with the meeting theme.
President Zaiton presenting a thank-you card to GE Fong Ming
Here are the award winners for this evening:
Best Table Topics Speaker – Tony Lim
Best Project Speaker – Angeline Lee
Best Speech Evaluator – Kim Chow
Tony is Best Table Topics Speaker
Kim is Best Speech Evaluator
Using the carefully prepared slides by VPM Chee Hoe, VPPR Alexandra did a marvelous job in creating excitement amongst us when she finally announced that the front runner for Friendship’s Membership Recruitment Campaign is none other than Past President Tony Lim !
We had a walk-in guest, Rosalie from Netherlands. As a trainer, she is interested in joining Toastmasters to improve her spoken English, as it was not her mother tongue. She found this meeting just right for her, as both Lay Theng and my project speeches were about Toastmasters.
Rosalie giving her feedback
Our next club meeting on 25 January is our International Speech Contest and Table Topics Contest. It takes a brave heart to be a contestant and we will be witnessing the “Courage To Conquer” performances from Freddie, Chee Hoe, Ben, Alexandra and Sivadas in a few days’ time. Join us and find out who will take be crowned as the new International Speech Champion and Table Topics Champion of Friendship !
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