Though April Fools has come and gone, that doesn't mean we at Taylor's Lakeside Toastmasters can't enjoy a good old everyday prank. This time around, the club saw a full house, with many of the new students who signed on from Clubs and Societies Day coming in to see what Toastmasters is all about.
The meeting starts with the Vice President of Education Yean Yi giving the presidential opening address to the crowd. After a round of introductions by members and guests, the floor is turned over to the Toastmaster of the Morning, which also happen to be Yean Yi
The floor is then turned to Azwan Jamaluddin as Table Topics Master, whose table topic titles are all song based.
First up on the floor is Wilson Wong with the title, "What would you say to your crush who goes to the same laundry" (Song is Freeze Ray by Neil Patrick Harris). The audience was left with both laughter and awkwardness.
Next we have the topic "Hakuna Matata". The volunteer simply sang the song in the style of William Shatner. It was glorious, as all William Shatner style songs are.
Our next volunteer, Dharishini Devi Vellayadevan, had the theme song from Cheers, the topic being "You wanna go where everybody knows your name". Instead of such a place, she rather go to a place where nobody knows your name, being able to get away with more things.
Last but not least, Zahir Ahmad with the song "When I Was Your Age" by George Hrab. He gave advice to his future children about how things are different when he was their age.
After the table topics is, of course, the table topics evaluation done by Chai Siew Hong.
We get into the meat of the meeting with the prepared speech sessions, starting with "Yay or Nay" done by Dharishini Devi Vellayadevan.
Next up, Lalitha with hr speech "What's The Difference?", with her explaining the difference between debate and Toastmasters.
Afterwards, "Imperfections" by Abigail Keeying Wong teaching us not to woory so much about being imperfect.
Finally we have Ashikin Aidura, with "My Starbucks Experience". Unfortunately, there was no free Starbucks but fortunately, there was a lot of life lessons to learn.
The next session is the evaluation session, with our General Evaluator, SK Liew leading off with the speech evaluators, with Moses Wong evaluating Dharishini Devi Vellayadevan, Joey Wong evaluating Lalitha, Wilson Wong evaluating Abigail Keeying Wong and Ron Leong evaluating Ashikin Aidura
Next is the role players report, with Timer Cathy Zhang, Ah counter
Shaun Liew and Grammarian Thiiban Paskaran.
Finally, the award ceremony with the winners of Best Speech goes to Lalitha, and best evaluator Wilson Wong.
And no meeting is complete without a group photo. Here's hoping our guest had a good time and will be with us for many more meetings. Or become a member, that will be good as well.
Shamsul Azwan Bin Jamaluddin, CC
Vice President of Membership
2013-2014
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