Photos @ 06 Sep 2011

Report by President Angeline Lee
Photos by VPE Chor Chee Hoe

PLAN, ORGANISE, LEAD 

Immaculately dressed and meticulously prepared, TME Ian Tai started the “Plan, Organise, Lead” meeting on 6 September with vigour. It was obvious that he was an avid Manchester United fan when he cited Sir Alex Ferguson as having performed well in planning, organizing and leading the best football team in the world. Visiting Toastmaster Hadzrin Shah agreed with him whole-heartedly. 

Ian Tai, the immaculately dressed TME

In the Invocation session, VPE Chee Hoe led us in reciting the Toastmasters’ Oath, a reminder to everyone what we had promised to fulfilled as Toastmasters members. 

Table Topics Master Daphne Au introduced a new twist to Table Topics by asking for two volunteers for each topic. The first volunteer asked a question based on a word selected by the second volunteer. The second volunteer then answers the impromptu question. Four pairs of volunteers took part i.e. Grace & Victor, Ben & Hadzrin, Alexandra & Sook Ping and Chee Hoe & Sivadas. Visiting Toastmaster Victor Ong emerged the winner when he was unfazed by the Grace’s question about him being the worst mentor (the selected word) in the world ! 

Victor Ong is the Best Table Topics Speaker

In the speech project session, Sylvia admitted that she is a Facebook addict and spends hours reading postings, playing games and reconnecting with childhood friends. With Facebook, one has freedom to do as one wish, for example, inciting a riot. However she recommended that we exercise our Internet freedom with responsibility. 

Sylvia, the Facebook addict

Susan started her speech by introducing Mark Zuckerberg as the youngest millionaire at age 23. Deploring that her life is the opposite of Mark, she has the making of a humorous speaker! 

Susan, the beautiful, confident and high-market-value speaker

Our third speaker enthralled us with her tale of working with 3 swimming coaches to achieve her childhood dream. She finally succeeded in achieving her goal of learning how to swim after 17 years. Leveraging on her personal experience, she was the right person to share with us that we learn best when we understand what is our learning style. Then go against the grain to become a versatile learner. To her, life without learning is a waste of time. In my opinion, listening to our award-winning speaker is never a waste of time! 

PP Lay Theng is Best Project Speaker

During our short 10 minutes break, VPE Chee Hoe who had just bought a new camera lens was busy taking photographs of everyone and everything in sight. Right after the break, Hadzrin Shah as Humour Master has us laughing out loud at his jokes. 

Versatile and talented Hadzrin Shah is the Humour Master and speech evaluator for PP Lay Theng

General Evaluator Ahmad Salahuddin, from MIM KL Toastmasters Club, delivered his lines and presented his report with remarkable eloquence.  

The young, eloquent and handsome GE - Ahmad Salahuddin. 

The beauties of Friendship - Grace and Kim

The awards given out during our "Plan, Organise, Lead" meeting are as follows: 

Best Table Topics Speaker – Victor Ong 

Best Project Speaker – Tan Lay Theng 

Best Speech Evaluator – Grace Tan 

CL Pin – Chor Chee Hoe 

VPPR Pin – Susan Lim 

Best Speech Evaluator is Grace Tan

VPE Chee Hoe receiving his CL pin

All good things must come to an end, even if it is a fun, enjoyable evening of learning at Friendship Toastmasters Club. Our guests - Victor, Hadzrin, Ahmad, Sook Ling and Hann, added enormously to our fun factor and it was our pleasure to have them with us. Thank you everyone, for being part of our fantastic “Plan, Organise, Lead” meeting! 

Group photo