"The Independence Day" TUTMC 4th Meeting of the term (2013/2014)

Hari Merdeka (Independence Day) is a national day of Malaysia commemorating the independence of the Federation of Malaya fromBritish colonial rule in 1957, celebrated on August 31 each year. This should not be confused with Hari Malaysia (Malaysia Day) when Malaysia was formed on 16 September 1963 together by Federation of Malaya, Sabah, Sarawak

Therefore we had our glorious meeting on the 24th August 2013, Saturday to commemorate our independence with our theme "The Independence Day"

The meeting started at 9.40am, it started 10mins late due to it being a lazy day, therefore, many of the role players were slightly late but the show MUST go on! So our SAA for the morning Yean Yi,CC started off the meeting and handed the control to the President Dylan Chew, CL to give his president's address. He got everyone to introduce themselves, where they are from and if they were the leader of a country, what would they do to make it a better country? 


The TOM (Toastmaster of the Morning) Azwan Jamaluddin,CC then stole the spotlight from the Prez in which it was his first time ever taking up this role!! "There is a first for everything"

He then got the role players to explain their roles and handed the floor to the TTM (Table Topic Master), Ahmad Tarmidzi (TJ) Johan, CC from UWM Toyota TMC for the....

TABLE TOPICS SESSION!

Most of the talking we do every day – simple conversation – is impromptu speaking. Yet for some members, TABLE TOPICS™ is the most challenging part of a Toastmasters meeting. 

Benefits from taking part in table topics

• Become more fluent.

• Learn how you can, with a minimum of preparation, present your thoughts in a clear, organized fashion,

• Learn to listen carefully and tailor your remarks to the question presented to you.

• Practice drawing on your own knowledge and experience on the topic.

1st Victim: Subra, When would you want Independence Day to be?

2nd Victim: Seng Kiat, When is World Independence?

3rd Victim: Azwan, If you were TAR (Tunku Abdul Rahman), what else would you say? 1957

4th Victim: Shaun, What would your Independence Day be like?

5th Victim: Yean yi, What would you abolish for your Independence Day?

6th Victim: Melvin, Direct a 2nd Independence Day movie.

The TTM did a tremendous job in coming up with the topics and controlling the flow from one speaker to the next! After 6 compelling speeches relative to our theme 'The Independence Day', the spotlight was passed to the TTE (Table Topics Evaluator) Pravinan Lai, TM by the TOM for his constructive criticism and words of encourage for the speakers.

TOM then took back control of what was rightfully his, 'The Spotlight' and introduced to the audience what was next on the agenda. It was the...

PREPARED SPEECH SESSION!

First on the list was Melvin Tan, TM VPE of INTI TMC with his project speech 6 entitled: , and his 'SEXY' evaluator was non other than the VPE of Taylor's University TMC, Yean Yi, CC

                    

Right after Melvin's fascinating speech, we then had a:




 RECESSSSSS! for 10mins

Look who decided to pop by!! (2 MIAs)

Subbra

Kam Wen Hang

SAA called meeting to order again, however... this time we had a slight change in plans. Instead of having the next speech right after the break, we went straight into the evaluations to buy the speaker's evaluator some time. So the TOM passed the control of the meeting to the beautiful Ms GE (General Evaluator) Sher Li, ACB, ALB from Sunway TMC and also a C4 Governor of 4 Toastmaster clubs to take control of the:

EVALUATION SESSION!

' The first feeling i got when i stepped into this atmosphere was that i was shocked! Very young and different environment compared to other clubs" Sher Li

The first evaluator : Yean Yi, CC gave her honest opinion for Melvin Tan's speech.

Right after her evaluation then.. only the 2nd speaker Shaun Liew,CC (Pic on Right) gave his speech with the Advanced manual: The Entertaining speech manual entitled 'The Winning Speech'

and

He was evaluated by

The Second Evaluator : Nor Lida Bt Dahalan, ACS,ALB, Area Governor for B3 (Pic on Left)

Right after Nor Lida's detailed and constructive evaluation, the GE then passed it to the Grammar Nazi (Language Evaluator) to give his report based on the good and bad usage of grammar 

then to the 

Ah counter to present his report of the AHH, UUMMS, LALA we all used

next was the

Timer keeper to give her report of each speaker's timing

Grammar Nazi: Lee Seng Kiat,TM

Ah Counter: Dylan Chew, CL

Timer keeper: Ashikin, TM



That's it folks!! Hope everyone had a great time!

Quality is always better than quantity

Happy Independence Day! :)

Prepared by,

Dylan Chew

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)

Humorous Speech and Evaluation contest - review

On the 17 August 2013, Taylor's university Toastmaster's Club held our Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. Lots of people attended the event, well, considering our event happened to fall on the same day as a talk by How to be a Professional Emcee". Yean Yi (oraganisng chair) really did her best pulling this this event.

At 1.30pm, contestants (me included) were briefed on how the contest is going to be like yada yada yada.. and the event started at 2 something.

Yean Yi (organising chair)starting off the event

We have four contestants for the humourous speech contest:

"I don't understand how my girlfriend who is afraid of cockroach dare to pour hot wax on her leg," says Kent 

Zahir 

Azwan

Ashikin (who bravely did her 1st speech in a contest!)

After the break was the evaluation session:

Test Speaker, JP, from the Philippines 

Me giving my evaluation

Zahir 

Kent

Ashikin

Lalitha

As there are only 4 participants competing in the humorous speech competition, only two winners were chosen. 

Zahir won 1st place in the humorous speech contest

2nd place for humorous speech contest

 Next up was the evaluation contest prize-giving session:

1st place for evaluation contest 

Zahir won 2nd place for evaluation contest 

3rd place for evaluation contest

The event officially ended a few minutes before the stated time-5pm. The 1st place winners are then moved forward to the next level, Area B2!

Photo of the day

Group shot at the end of the day

Signing off, 

Rachel Hiu 
Vice President of Public Relations
Taylor's University Toastmaster Club
(2013/2014)

"People, Purpose, Passion" TUTMC 3rd Meeting

The original venue LT11, where our club usually held our meetings decided to have a technical problem on our meeting day, another wise a  fine Saturday morning. Being toastmasters, we make use of any space to continue our toastmasters meeting. Therefore, we moved to a empty cafeteria just outside our usual venue, LT11.(we make proper use of the table and chairs of course). Chui Ling, TM then called the meeting to order.

Presidential Opening address by Dylan Chew

Toasmaster of the morning, Yean Yi, CC

Next was the table topics session, me being the table topicmaster this time*evil grins*. First volunteer that came up (showing great support) was Zahir(our very own Immediate Past President). His Topic was Which country would you like to travel to and why?

"I would go on a hot air balloon in Turkey " says Zahir.

Next was guest Adrian who was *uh um* sorta-forced by Yean Yi to be the next *volunteer*.

Adrian aims to build flying cars and solar powered cars.

 Topic: If the sky is NOT the limit, what is the one thing that you want to do?

Fan Chen Keat, DTM talked about how the movie Pacific Rim inspire him the most although he admits that he is one that gets inspired by books rather than movies.

The last table topic speaker was Qiu (a girl, mind you) whose passion was maths, science and Aeronautical. 

Pepared speeches were started off by Marilyn from Sunway TMC.

 

Heads up, Phones Down, Voice Out - Marilyn

Second prepared speaker, Fan Chen Keat, DTM (ex- Taylor's University Club Advisor) proceeds to promote toastmaster to everyone in attendance. His project manual was to promote with conviction. I'd say a lot of us are pretty convinced.

Icebreaker Anny speaks about herself. A naturally humourous person.

Time for the Evaluation session :

Dylan listening intently as Table Topic Evaluator

Zahir evaluates Marilyn's speech

Sarah Abedi evaluates all areas of Fan Chen Keat's speech

Ashkay(a.k.a Ash) giving an evaluation to Anny's icebreaker speech

Thiiban (right) Ah-counter of the day from Taylor's Sri Hartamas

"Only 3 person used the word Ardour (word of the day) " Lalitha (grammarian of the day) announced.

Concise Timing given by Ashikin

General Evaluatoe, Arthur Lai giving a overall evaluation.

*Drumrolls*, the following awards which are presented are most voted by the people present! 

Zahir, TM won the best table topic speaker

Best prepared speech won by Fan Chen Keat, DTM

Sarah Abedi, DTM received the best elevator award. 

Look at the crowd that turn up today!

Photo of the day 

Our guests came all the way from Sri Hartamas. A huge turnout of the day!

Signing off, 

Rachel Hiu 
Vice President of Public Relations
Taylor's University Toastmaster Club
(2013/2014)

Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest TUTMC 2013

Our very own Taylor's University Toastmasters club will be holding our own

Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest!

Its the time to get yourself entertain by speeches that would surely make you laugh! Not only that, you get to learn the tips and tricks of giving a great speech by hearing the evaluators evaluate the speeches presented. A 2-in-1 event I would say.

Mark 17 August 2013 on your calender and head over to Taylor's University Lakeside at 2pm to be entertained. With a door fee of RM 5, its surely a must-go event!