This is
our pre-Chinese New Year meeting in the year 2015 and we resolved to be “Happy,
Healthy and Wealthy” as our club has definitely “flourished” since we ushered
in the year 2015.
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| Michael Wong, ACB, CL |
First and
foremost, we cordially welcomed Michael Wong, ACB, CL from REAL Toastmasters
Club, our baby-minder and frequent visitor to our club as our General
Evaluator. Thank you, Michael for being with us!
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| Dr. Alvin Teoh, ACS |
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| Ler Kiat See |
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| Tee Bee Ling |
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| Ken Chan, DTM |
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| Hans Tan |
We also
welcomed our Toastmasters guests, Dr. Alvin Teoh, ACS from Sunway Toastmasters
Club, Ler Kiat See from Sime Darby Healthcare Toastmasters Club and her
colleague and friend, Tee Bee Ling, and most of all Ken Chan, DTM, our special
speaker for this meeting and his mentee, Hans Tan, both from Money Mastery KL
Toastmasters Club.
With all these happy and propitious guests with us, we had a
very exciting, eventful and fulfilling meeting.
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| Irene Han |
We are also glad to announce that Irene Han
joined our happy Extol family at this meeting!!
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| Pei San |
The
meeting was called to order by ASA, Pei San at 7.10pm. Well done, San!
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| TME, Ken Koh, ACB |
TME, Ken
Koh, ACB, efficiently and effectively managed the whole meeting. Excellent job,
Ken!
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| President, Jeannie, ACS |
All
were encouraged by President, Jeannie, ACS to exercise positive thoughts when
we arise each morning to invite good vibes into our lives so as to stay “Happy,
Healthy and Wealthy” and our lives will definitely “flourish”. Thank you,
Jeannie!
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| Invocator, SK Ratnam, DTM |
Invocator,
SK Ratnam, DTM inspired us with motivating, captivating and interesting sayings
by great men. Thank you, SK!
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| Table Topics Master, Dr. Alvin Teoh, ACS |
Table
Topics Master, Dr. Alvin Teoh, ACS gave controversial, paradoxical and
challenging topics which did not deter five enthusiastic, spirited and
indomitable spontaneous speakers. Very innovative, Dr. Alvin!
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| Shel Ling, DTM |
Shel
Ling, DTM, attempted the paradox that “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,
but beauty is a standard” with finesse by disputing that beauty is not purely
physical but involves deeper, profound, inner beauty that lasts.
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| Ler Kiat See |
Ler
Kiat See challenged the topic that “People said money doesn’t grow on trees but
I said it can” incredibly well by converting all money making devises into
trees.
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| Francis Pang |
Francis
Pang, confronted head on that even though “people said money can’t buy love but
I said it can” by relating how sometimes love can be purchased by men who
bought foreign brides.
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| Ravi |
Ravi had
to twist his logic with “Don’t think out of the box but you have to think out
of the box”, extremely well by contrasting it with his frog in the well story.
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| Jeannie, ACS |
Jeannie,
ACS had to argue that “Wealth is not important but it is important to be
wealthy” as money is necessary and essential in this material world even though
some claimed that wealth is not the most important thing in life
And the
best Table Topics Speaker went to Shel Ling, DTM. Congratulations, Shel!
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| Humour Master, SK Ratnam, DTM |
Humour
Master, SK Ratnam, DTM set everybody laughing with three humourous stories about
his dog which can count, a widowed brother and the lady who repaired our timing
device. You are the greatest joker, SK!
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| Table Topics Evaluator, Kwa Ngan Eng, DTM |
Table
Topics Evaluator, Kwa Ngan Eng, DTM, evaluated succinctly all the five brave
spontaneous speakers providing praises and points for improvement where
warranted. Fabulous job, Ngan Eng!
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| Pei San |
Pei San
presented CC#5 titled, “How to break your bad habits” offering four suggestions
to successfully eliminate bad habits and to reward ourselves to prevent recurrence
of our bad habits. Remarkable speech, San!
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| Jeannie, ACS |
Her
evaluator, Jeannie, ACS was impressed with her speech which was very well
prepared and delivered effectively. Thank you, Jeannie!
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| Pun Yew Kee |
Second
speaker, Pun Yew Kee presented CC#8 titled, “Perils of smoking”, which was very
informative and highlighted the destructive results of smoking cigarettes! Well
done, Yew Kee!
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| Kwa Ngan Eng, DTM |
His
evaluator, Kwa Ngan Eng, DTM was happy with his speech which met the speech objectives.
Thank you, Ngan Eng!
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| Ken Chan, DTM |
Ken Chan,
DTM presented the Special talk from the Better Speaker Series, ”Controlling
your fear” which provided us tips, methods and ways to improve as a public
speaker. Thank you, Ken!
As
there were only two project speakers, there was no voting for best speakers and
evaluators.
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| Ah Counter, Mohmmad Muslim |
Ah
Counter, Mohmmad Muslim efficiently reported all the word crutches of the
speakers during the whole meeting. Very attentive role player, Muslim!
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| Hans Tan, the Grammarian |
Hans
Tan, the Grammarian presented a very concise report of all creative usage and
also wrongful usage of words and sentences by the speakers. Bravo, Hans!
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| Karren Lim, the Timer |
Karren Lim, the Timer, was very attentive and gave a precise timing report of the whole meeting! Kudos, Karren!
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| Francis Pang, the Listening Evaluator |
Francis
Pang, the Listening Evaluator gave ten very complicated questions but
miraculously, SK Ratnam, DTM got eight correct answers and was awarded the Best
Listening award. Stupendous job, Francis
and congratulations, SK!
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| General Evaluator, Michael Wong, ACB, CL |
General
Evaluator, Michael Wong, ACB, CL was very happy to visit our club again as
General Evaluator although he professed that he preferred to be a “test
speaker”. Thank you, Michael, you are always welcome at our club!
President,
Jeannie, ACS announced that our next meeting on 18th February 2015
will be cancelled as it falls on Chinese New Year eve.
Area C5 International Speech and Table Topics Contests
She
also announced that the Area C5 International Speech and Table Topics Contests
will be held on 7 February 2015 at Wisma IJM, Jalan Yong Shook Lin, Petaling
Jaya at 12.00noon. All club members are
encouraged to go and support our club champions!
Goodnight
and see you at our next meeting on 4th March 2015!
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