Review of Meeting (30 May 2006)

Bangsar Toastmasters Club had its 3^rd meeting of the month on the 30^th of May. As usual, this was an interesting meeting even though we had slightly less attendees than usual. This however did not affect the fun and learning atmosphere of the meeting.

A total of 9 members and 1 guest attended the meeting. Members who attended the meeting were Shanmugam, Shandini, Ranjit, Muhendaran, Lakhmichand, Ivan Fong, Lourdes, Pratap and Renuka. The guest was Mary Barton of WIM Toastmasters Club, who was also the General Evaluator.

The Role-players during this meeting were as follows:
Assistant Sergeant-at-arms - CTM Shanmugam
Toastmaster of the Evening - CTM Shandini
Table Topics Master- CTM Shanmugam
Table Topics Evaluator - ATMS Muhendaran
Ah Counter - CTM Ivan Fong
Grammarian - DTM Lourdes
Timer - ATMB Lakhmichand
General Evaluator - ATMB Mary Barton

The meeting was opened by the acting President, Vice-President of Education, CTM Ranjit Singh, since the President had indicated that he would be a little late.

The toastmaster of the evening, CTM Shandini, did a commendable job as the Toastmaster of the evening. She also played the role as the Invocator. The General Evaluator, ATMB Mary Barton, was quite thorough in her evaluation and had some good suggestions on improving ourselves.

The word of the day was "Peccadillo".

The table topics master, CTM Shanmugam, had some really challenging topics for us. The topics were based on some quotes and most of the speakers found that they really had to think very hard on their feet. The table topics speakers were CTM Ranjit, ATMB Mary Barton, ATMB Renuka, CTM Ivan Fong and TM Pratap.

We had only 2 prepared speeches – both advanced speeches.

CTM Ranjit did speech no. 2 from the Entertaining Speaker manual. The title of his speech was "Population". The content was a little controversial and thought provoking since it covered areas like why diseases are necessary to keep the population in check. He was evaluated by ATMB Renuka.

DTM Lourdes did his final speech for his ATMB from the Specialty Speeches manual. The title of his speech was "The Gift of the Magi". He read out a story about how a young couple sacrificed their most important treasures so that they can get Christmas gifts for each other. He was evaluated by CTM Ranjit.

The best table topic speaker was ATMB Mary Barton.

The President, ATMS Muhendaran closed the meeting.

The next meeting will be held on the 6th of June, 2006, so make sure you do not miss it.

By Lourdes, DTM