Fortnightly Session - November 8th, 2005

After a long break due to the festive season, Bangsar Toastmasters had its meeting again on 8/11/05.

Although only 10 of our members were present, we had the pleasure of having 3 glorious guests for company. They were toastmasters Mary Barton & Sharon from WIM and ATMG Lum Woon Foong, President of KL Advanced. They certainly helped to liven up the meeting.

We had a good table topics session conducted by our big and friendly Suriakumar. He made us all feel rich by revolving his topics on “Gambling and Winning a 1 million ringgit lottery”. The participants were: Muhendran, Lourdes, Tiru, Shandini, Ranjit and Sharon. Muhendran came out tops by speaking about his 2 gambling favourites: Black Jack at Genting and Gambling with “losing cases” in the courts.

In the table topics evaluation, CTM Subendran was in his element. He also exhibited a very good sense of humour.

The up-and-coming jokemaster, CTM Ranjit, was his usual self. He entertained us with a saucy joke on the national car. It might have made the younger ones blush but it was definitely a brilliant and humorous play on words.

In the assignment speech session, our very own baby Shandini gave us a very relaxing speech entitled “breakfast in bed”. This is her #5 speech and she is now halfway towards CTM. Go for it!

Toastmaster Mary Barton led us on to a contentious issue, euthanasia or mercy killing with her title “right to die”. A serious but well delivered speech by a potential champion. We will definitely see much more of her in the future.

CL Audrey rounded up the session with a very interactive workshop/seminar assignment. A commendable effort by one of our eloquent speakers.

Toastmaster Mary Barton from WIM was voted best speaker of the day.

Speech evaluators CTM Ranjit, DTM Lourdes and ATMB Lachmichand delivered very objective and helpful evaluations. DTM Lourdes was voted best evaluator.

Finally, the experienced and elegant toastmaster, ATMG Lum Woon Foong, who was the GE, gave us all a “thumbs up” for a great meeting.

by A.C.Fong, CTM
P.S. Look forward to another exciting meeting on 15/11/05. Have a great weekend. See you guys !