SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT 23.3.13

Sniff sniff, do you smell that? Oh you do?

PROBABLY BECAUSE IT SMELLS LIKE TEAM SPIRIT!

Today the smell of teamwork pervaded the e4.06 classroom of Taylor's Lakeside Campus BECAUSE today we held a joint meeting with HELP UNIVERSITYYYYYYYYY! 

Meeting started off with the presidential address from Christian Leong, the president of HELP TMC and then followed by the Toastmaster of the Morning address by our one and only Mr President Zahir Ahmad CC, CL. Today our agenda took a twist. After the brief introduction of role players we went straight to the first speech of the day: The Icebreaker. Subbra delivered 'An Insight Into My Life' and maaaan are Penang boys funny or what. This Penang boy had a plethora of nicknames. If I'm not mistaken one of them were 'Subbraman' (Superman, GET IT GET IT?!) He talked about how humor and modesty are both imperatives in living a good life. One of my favorite lines was this: 

If life gives you lemons you make lemonade.. but if life gives your oranges, you make orange juice. You just make the best out of whatever you have.

Invocation speech was delivered by our club advisor DTM Fan of Speecom TM! Extremely memorable quote of the day award goes to him!

"Go slow if you can, go fast if you must!"


AND THEEEEEEEN, we had Table Topics where five very brave volunteers raised their hands because they wanted to grab the bull by its horns. They were: Seng Kiat, Sylvia (FIRST TIMER WOOT WOOT! :D), Bryan Wong, Chen Keat and Bryan Cheong. Felle was our lovely Table Topics master of the day, having topics relating to teamwork such as, "What will be your most desirable team?" and "Would you rather have a teammate that has good attitude and poor skill or with poor attitude and good skill?"

WELL DONE TO ALL THE STOUTHEARTED SPEAKERS.

First up for Prepared Speeches was Wilson Wong with his 9th speech in the CC manual. His title? 'Power to the Distracted'! He pressed on issues relating to people who easily believe in diet gimmicks, healthier alternatives and even uncovered the lies that diet companies deceive their customers with. "When you stop eating carbs, you will go mentally retarded. Really, that's why some models are like that. It is not their fault that they're dumb, it is all because of their diets!" REMEMBER, ONE PLATE OF RICE (NOT KINDERGARDEN PLATE SIZE OKAY), FISH AND VEGETABLES. Provided you don't eat supper. That's it. You can even afford to eat desserts for three times a week!

Next up, Gerald Tan of HELP TMC with his final speech in the CC manual with the title 'Big Dreamers'. Gerald told us that once upon a time, he was once a fat, ugly kid. Wanting to jump back out from the pool of hurt he was in, he got into a pool. Literally. He asked himself  "Why do I let myself get into situations like this, why do I want to feel all the pain from swimming train, why?" Because pain is good. Pain is only temporary. Something else will take its place, something like success and a sense of achievement he emphasized on.

Last but not least, Shaun Liew also with his final speech with the title 'One By One'. Shaun suddenly turned into a prick and defiantly told the audience why they're going to fail in life. He told them they were afraid of taking risks and inevitably made lousy excuses which leads to not improving. "That's why you are going to fail in life.. unless." But his speech had a twist in it and introduced the self-proclaimed key factor to be successful to the audience: taking pride in taking baby steps. "It is the small achievements that will accumulate and snowball to become revolutionary changes within."

Our GE of the day Reuben from Bangsar TMC kickstarted the evaluation session starting with the table topics and prepared speech evaluators! Really good job James Kan of HELP for giving at least two suggestions to consider for each speaker albeit the limited time we had and also praising the brave volunteers for their spontaneity and skill of delivering an impromptu speech. NICE ONE JAMES!

 Subbra with his icebreaker ribbon!

EVALUATORS, good job with pointing out all the subtle flaws of each speaker and praising them for the goodness in their speech. Well done (like how my mum likes her steak in Fresco, Jaya Grocer) to Ian Tai from Friendship TMC, Ron, Bryan Cheong and Zahir! Exceptionally well thought-out evaluations.

Seng Kiat our Grammar Nazi of the day was not very ENTERTAINED with the usage of the English Language, especially the word of the day that he had chosen for the meeting which is 'Entertain' (it's okay Seng Kiat). Albert from HELP then gave his ah-counter evaluation, showing that he was indeed observant of any crutch words used.

Our timer, Yi Ling from HELP TMCTHENDELIVEREDHERTIMER'SREPORTREALLYQUICKLYLIKEHOWIAMTYPINGTHISOUTNOWIN1MINUTE15SECONDSAND43MILLISECONDS. YEAH!

General Evaluator Reuben displayed shrewdness in his elaborate and very thorough evaluation and stressed on how we must take advantage of our youth. Besides, Dr Ralph C. Smedley wanted YOUNG patrons to train public speaking anyway! Thank you Reuben, your suggestions will be deemed invaluable to us in the near future!

BEST TABLE TOPICS? 

BRYAN CHEONG OF HELP!

BEST EVALUATION BY?

RON!

BEST PREPARED SPEECH AWARD GOES TO?

SHAUN LIEW!

Never fail to look at the small achievements you make in life. It could be a pushup, an extra minute of reading  or even an extra second of running. Eventually, those little improvements will snowball into something great.

Prepared by Shaun Liew,

VPPR of TUTMC

2012-2013

Lights, Camera, Action 16th Meeting of the Term!

There were Lights,

one or two Cameras,  and loads of Action!!!!

The Meetup Theme was "Lights, Camera, Action". That is the cue for any multi-million dollar Media Team filming a set. On the morning of 9th March 2013, the Toastmasters Club of Taylor's University chose to put on a show, of their own.

Anticipation builds.

It started of with current Club President Zahir Ahmad addressing the audience while posing introductory questions for the audience to share with the room. Everybody was asked a generic question, Introduce themselves and what is their favorite TV-Drama or Movie. After mostly unique answers from everyone, HIMYM came out top choice!

Audience getting in the thick of things!

Wanted. Late Comer. Again...

"How I Met your mother, For me too."

Following that, the Toastmaster of the Morning/ TOM, Shaun Liew took charge of the meeting. Before introducing the role-players and passing the session to the Table Topics Master, he acknowledged and paid respect to the origins of the Toastmaster program.

Table Topics with a Twist

With the Table Topic Contest out for the way, practice would come later. Zahir Ahmad as Table Topic Master conducted things a little different. It goes like.

Volunteer. Present that short slideshow.

"Time for PowerPoint Karaoke"

Social Networking for Dummies

New club member Wen Hang!

Modern Goal Settings by Rachel!

The content of the power-point were public domain and so, it wasn't very organized which got the speakers to think amazingly spontaneous comebacks. Well played all takers. Stanley, Wen Hang, Rachel, Tze Khiang & Jack!

Next up. 5 Speakers took some time to prepare their Project speeches, and they were to , "take the stage".

Shu Hui, Wilson, Aida, Azwan & Jack showed us, how it's done!

Prepared Speech Session

"My mom always says: SHU HUI! You have to act more like a girl"

"Yourself" by Wilson

"AHH! My nostalgia!"

Jack: "Do you believe in Fate?"

Guest Timer Rachel & TT Evaluator Shalini, focusing hard

With 5 jam packed speeches, it is time for the speakers to face the jury!

 
Evaluation TIME!

Our General Evaluator on the Day, Ng Siew Tho conducted the session with the panel of high-standard judges.

GE 'Invader' Ng Siew Tho from Crystal TMC

Table Topic Karaoke Evaluator Shalini from Monash TMC

After the evaluation, Vice President  of Education, Lee Seng Kiat gave a Special Presentation regarding what 15 Advance Manuals members should consider after completing their CC Manual. It was, thorough, concise and lots eyes were open on the vast syllabus TI has to offer.

"What is there beyond achieving your CC?"

VPE Seng Kiat on Choices in the Advance Communicator Manuals

And...the votes are in. With a legitimate system to tally votes, we have the winners!
For all their hard work, bravery to step up and give their all, these are the Stars on the Day!
Toastmasters-of-the-Day, Shaun Liew giving out the Ribbons!

Best Table Topic "Karaoke" Jack Ying, now CC, CL

Best Evaluator: Ian Tai from Friendship TMC

BEST Nostalgic SPEAKER! Drum rolls to French Azwan

A huge congratulations again to the crowd favorites. Before the OT Meeting came to an end, the AG of B5 was recognized and to say a few words on how she has observed the Club's progress over the past few months.

Area Governor B5 - "SHARING TIME" with us.

Her words were light of encouragement for the Club to keep the momentum in serving its members however possible. Lastly, President Zahir Ahmad in his presidential closing "spilled the beans" on the Venue Change. Club's usual Campus venue's Air-Conditioning are being serviced. He also thanked everyone for the meaningful time spent together and invited all to take a bow for their participation!

"I quote William Shakespeare , 'All the World's a Stage, and All the Man & Woman merely Players, they have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts'. And so has our dedicated Role Players we have here today."

After our filming ended. Well folks.

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"That's a WRAP!"

Muchas Gracias for the Venue El-Capitano

Written by:
Zahir Ahmad,

President,

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club.

 

On behalf of:

Shaun Liew,

Vice Presidenet of Public Relations.

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club.

Joint meeting between... Taylor's and Taylor's!

This is a story on the meeting of two long lost twins.
 
Luke and Leia.
 
Jim and Tim.
 
Fabio and Rafael.
 
Fred and George.
 
Taylor's University Toastmasters Club and Taylor's College Toastmasters Club. (We're the older twin of course.)
 
One fine Saturday morning, in a room named Lecture Theatre 4 in Taylor's College SS15, is when it all began. When the members of TUTMC and TCTMC met......

...nothing spectacular happened really. The joint meeting was called to order at 09:45 by the TCTMC Sergeant-At-Arms, Keven Cheang.

Keven Cheang. SAA. Topicsmaster.

 

In the spirit of Taylor's, and with the theme of TAYLOR'S STYLE, Keven, also the Topicsmaster, prepared topics that fits the bill.

#1 "Public or private education?"
#2 "Does Taylor's provide a good environment for learning?
#3 "Taylor's logo. We will get you there?"

TM Shalini (#1), TM Ian (#2), TM Eik Ren (#3), and TM Dylan (#3) were the brave souls that volunteered to speak on their feet!

 Dylan delivering his Table Topics speech.

 

 

The Toastmaster of the Morning, TM Marc, told some joke in between intervals to lighten up the meeting. And boy were they good!

 

"HEY! In which part of your body can you find Mickey, Donald and Goofy?"

 

"This knee."

 

Then the prepared speeches session began. Wilson kicked off with his speech on self motivation. He spoke characteristically, with passion, and with no signs of hesitance and nerves.

 

"Only when you have satisfied your physiological, safety, social and esteem needs, only then can you motivate yourself."

 

 

Then TM Imran from TCTMC delivered the second prepared speech of the day, talking about the types of artists we listen to. The speech demonstrated his analytical behaviour.

 

"There are singers, and then there are entertainers. Singers are the ones where you only need your ears to enjoy."

 

In the last prepared speech, boy were we in for a treat! CC, ALB Stephanie Teoh, delivered a speech from the Interpretive Reading Manual. She read out the story of "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, a famous American author from the 19th century.

 

It was a story about a madman, convinced that he isn't mad, murdering an old man, because he had the 'Evil Eye'.

 

"He had the eye of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees - very gradually - I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever."

 

 

After the prepared speeches were done, the Evaluation Session began. DTM Fan Chen Keat, the General Evaluator conducted the session, and TM Shaun gave the first evaluation with his Table Topics evaluation.

 

Table Topics Evaluator

 

For the evaluation for the prepared speeches, TM Shaun, TM Shalini and CC, CL Moses evaluated Wilson, Imran and Stephanie, respectively.

 

Evaluator for TM Wilson

 

Evaluator for TM Imran

 

Evaluator for CC, ALB Stephanie

 

DTM Fan Chen Keat then summed the evaluation session up by giving his evaluation on the conduct of the meeting.

 

General Evaluator

 

 And before the meeting was adjourned, the two presidents gave their closing address.

 

CC, CL Zahir Ahmad. President. TUTMC.

 

 TM Jagan Narayanan. President. TCTMC.

 

And that, dear readers, was she story on the meeting of the two 'twins'. The two presidents, as well as our VPPR, Shaun Liew, deserve all the credits for their effort in realising this meeting.

 

It has been a successful and beneficial meeting for both clubs, and I will definitely be looking forward to more joint meetings like this. :)

 

Toastmasters is about improving the people around you, as much as it is about improving yourself.

 

 

Written by:
Lee Seng Kiat,

Vice President of Education,

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club.

 

On behalf of:

Shaun Liew,

Vice Presidenet of Public Relations.

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club.