'Deepavali namaste' TUTMC 9th Meeting of the term (2013/2014)

हाय (Haya), शुभ दिन! (Śubha dina) : Hi, Good day!

Diwali, also called Deepavali is a major Indian Festival that is very significant in Hinduism. Known as the ''Festival of Lights", it symbolizes the victory of the good over evil and lamps are lit as a sign of celebration and hope for human kind. The celebration focus on lights and lamps, particularly traditional dipa or deeya. Fireworks are associated with the festival. Diwali is a colloquial name used in North India, while the festival is formally called Deepavali in South India.

Happy Deepavali to all our Hindu friends! It was the month of Deepavali so TUTMC tried something different and decided to have a Deepavali theme in a fresh venue at D1.08, Block D level 1, Classroom 8.

Azwan Jamaluddin the SAA for the meeting struck the wooden gavel at 10.00am sharp and started off the meeting. He then passed the control to the lovely President Dylan Chew,CL.

Dylan gave an introduction on what Deepavali is about and instead of taking all the spotlight to himself, he then asked everyone to introduce themselves, where their from and what deepavali means to them.

After everyone had their turn, the President then kindly gave the spotlight to the dashing Toastmaster of the morning (TOM)! Dylan Chew,CL (HIM AGAIN?!) 

Dylan then gave a brief history on what Toastmasters and how it started. 'Ralph Chestnut Smelly, i mean Smedley!' Apparently his tongue was still asleep at that time. Without hogging over the spotlight, he quickly passed it to the Table Topics Master, Enny, TM.

Girl on the left

There were 5 flawless brave volunteers who stepped up and took on the challenge of Enny's tough (not hard la, very the easy) table topics :O

First Volunteer: If you never heard of Deepavali before but you saw the celebration, what will you call it in your own words? - Shalini, CL (Monash uni TMC)

Second Volunteer: If Deepavali is a fruit, what kind of fruit would it be?- Leon Saw,TM

Third Volunteer: If there is no D in this world, do you think they would change Deepavali into eepavali?- Melvin,TM

Forth Volunteer: (Picture) Do you think she is dancing or she just posed for the picture? What do you think?- Anushnya, TM (Sunway Uni TMC)

Fifth Volunteer: If you meet a primitive people that dont know English, how would you explain Deepavali to them?- Yun Qiu,TM

After the 5 exquisite speeches given by our members and guests, there was a RECESS!

for 10 mins...

Mingling was over after 10 mins and everyone was called back to order by the SAA

The TOM then handed the floor (not literally) to Ashikin, TM for her Table topics Evaluation.

This is her 2nd time evaluating :O

She gave a fairly good constructive criticism to all the speakers then it was time for what everyone has been waiting for! The PREPARED SPEECHES SESSION! 

CCM#1 Ice breaker "Who I Am", Adam Azhar, TM

CCM#4 How To Say It " I learnt it from my Parents", Anushnya,TM

Both speakers gave an impeccable speech and both deserve a pat on the back! :) Now is the General Evaluator's (GE) turn, Fan Chen Keat, DTM (Speecom TMC). He led the..

EVALUATION SESSION

Lien Chai, CC (Friendship TMC) evaluated Adam's Speech

Fan Chen Keat, DTM (Speecom TMC) evaluated Anushnya's speech

 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>Fast forward to the award ceremony. Due to it only having 2 speakers and evaluators, there wasn't a winner for Best Prepared speech and Best Evaluator. Fortunately we still had the Best Table Topics! *Drumroles*

The winner for best Table topics goes to....

Anushnya, TM (Sunway Uni TMC)

That is all folks! Thanks for being an awesome crowd! *applause*

credits to Lalitha for the hardwork in deco! : D :)


Written by,
Dylan Chew, CL
President
Taylor's University Toastmasters Club
(2013/2014)

On behalf of,

Rachel Hiu

Vice President of Public relations

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club

(2013/2014)