The sound of music (17th meeting of the term 2013/2014)

The meeting started of later than usual due to some unforeseen cicumstances. Seems like everyone experience the passive feeling that Saturday morning. No matter, Dylan brought the mood up by asking the audience to tell their name, where they are from and...their favorite music.

Dylan giving the Presidential Opening Address

Lalitha, Toastmaster of the Morning

Table Topic Session

Zahir the first volunteer for the table topic The music I listen to when I was a child and now

Lalitha shaking hands with Table topicmaster, Rachel. Lalitha had the table topic Do you think music you listen to reflects your personality?

Seng Kiat's favorite piece of music is definitely from the Beetles in his table topic My favorite piece of music

Wen Hang with his table topic My favorite music concert.

 
Yu Lin sings in the shower too! her first ever table topic Singing in the shower (truth be told, lots of people sing in the shower.)

A very detailed and thorough evaluation by Dylan Chew

Prepared speeches

Speech#1

 
Zahir teached us about initial adoption and latter adoption of building a team in his speech Building a team. 

Speech#2

Yun Qiu with her prepared speech In the Limelight. She mentions how some people would do anything just to be in the limelight.

Speech #3

"We have a saying in architecture, Forms follows Functions. Design is not just about appearance, its about solving problems."

Seng Kiat with his speech Define Design. 

Yean Yi evaluates Seng Kiat

Evaluation Session

Wen Hang as Grammarian

Rachel Hiu as Ah Counter

Ashikin as Timer

General Evaluator Juliana Heng from KPMG Toastmasters Club

Two winners?? Let's split the ribbon in half!

Prepared speech winners, Seng Kiat and Yun Qiu with Yean Yi (Vice President of Education) in the middle 

Table topic winner

Lalitha and Vice President of Education, Yean Yi

Photo of the day

-The picture says all-

Written by 

Rachel Hiu

Vice President of Public relations

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club

(2013/2014)

P.S: Sorry for the pic Yun Qiu. (=p)

Once upon a time (16th meeting of the term 2013/2014)

Once upon a time, there was a toastmasters meeting held in Taylor's University Lakeside at Lecture Theater 11. The story of how Toastmasters was formed was told in an alluring yet antiquated(Word of The day) way by certain toastmaster named Shalini.

Shalini as Toastmasters of the morning

Azwan as Humour Master 

Once upon a time, there were table topics given by table topic master Jonathan Moh

table topic master, Jonathan Moh

Yean Yi giving a table topic about how she caught a 'thief'

Wilson talking about how he stalked someone in his table topic

Said and his first table topic

Ashikin, who so happened to get her favorite topic about cats

Gracie stating how she ordered Mcdonalds

Yun Qiu as Table Topic Evaluator

Once upon a time, there were prepared speeches & their evaluation

Pravinan and his speech, PHILIPS

Jocelyn evaluates Pravinan's speech

Ashikin with her speech, Dream Angus

Jonathan Moh evaluates Ashikin's speech

Once upon a time, there was an evaluation given by a group of toastmasters 

Rachel as Language Evaluator

Lalitha as Ah Counter

Melvin Tan as Timekeeper 

General Evaluator Jeff Foong

Once upon a time, in a certain toastmasters meeting, Wilson won the best table topic speaker

 Token of appreciation was given to the general evaluator, Jeff Foong and...

Meeting adjourned!

President Dylan Chew in his Presidential closing address

-The End-

Written by 

Rachel Hiu

Vice President of Public relations

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club

(2013/2014)

Valentine Theme Meeting 15th meeting of Term (2013/2014)

15th meeting of the term and it was held on 15th February. (what a coincidence!). The meeting started with Zahir (Toastmasters of the Morning) showed us a video clip of the winning speech for the 2013 World Champion International Toastmasters Speech.

Audience watching the video clip

After the video, Zahir asked the audience to introduce themselves, where they are from and how did they celebrate Valentine day that year (which was the previous day).There were a profusion (Word of the day) of guests and first timers in the crowd that day.

Azwan and Thiaga(also known as Tiger) reached out to switched off the projector

and Toastmasters Of the Morning, Zahir's face expression was *priceless indeed*

Table Topics

Melvin Tan, Table Topic Master

Shalini with her table topic Bromance or Romance

Wilson said how he usually spend his valentine in his table topic Forever alone or together alone?

Clarisse being practical in her table topic How much does valentine meant to you?

Jerusha single or mingle 

Ron certainly gave a lot of tips to the guys in his table topic Tips for Beginners: How would you ask someone out for Valentine?

Nelson and first table topic My perfect Valentine 

Anna Chin as Table Topic Evaluator 

Prepared Speech & Speech Evaluation

Wilson and his speech Suicide 

Jerusha evaluating Wilson's speech

Wong Yun Qiu talking about her reckless driving in her speech

Her evaluator, Thiaga evaluates Yun Qiu's speech and teases about her reckless driving.

Evaluation session

Azwan as Timer

Pravinan as Ah -Counter 

Yean Yi, as Grammarian

Thiaga as General Evaluator

Happy Valentine's Day!

Written by 

Rachel Hiu

Vice President of Public relations

Taylor's University Toastmasters Club

(2013/2014)