Review of Meeting (6 June 2006)
There were 9 members present with the company of 3 guests. The guests were: ATMS Anthony Thong from Ernst & Young Toastmasters, Chandran (former member of Millionaire Mindset) and Ruben who is a non-Toastmaster. Members present were: Muhendaran,
Though the attendance was not very encouraging, the presence of experienced and core members did successfully make up for a very fruitful meeting.
Ivan Fong, that’s me, was the Toastmaster of the evening. Right from the beginning, the success of the meeting was never in doubt as the lively response that I received to my prompting showed the enthusiasm of the whole bunch of us.
President Muhendaran was calm but pleasant in his opening address and he gave us some good news immediately by announcing that Chandran would be joining our club on that day.
The meeting was further sparked by a great Invocation, delivered by ATMB Lakhmichand . His food for thought was “there is always some good in anything that happens”. In other words, be positive and look on the bright side.
One of our youngest and most improved toastmasters, CTM Shandini was the Table Topics master. She made good use of the word of the day “cajole” to introduce her topics... Naturally, all the 5 speakers had to ‘cajole’ their supposed listeners in order to market themselves. Finally, it was our evergreen Lucky who won the hearts of the audience by his “CEO Act” and, of course, winning the award of Best Table Topics speaker.
Table Topics evaluator, ATMS Muhendaran gave a very objective evaluation of all the 5 speakers in his usual serious parlance...
ATMS Anthony Thong from E&Y delivered a simple, yet interesting and entertaining speech on chess entitled “checkmate”. Anthony enchanted us with his endearing smile, relaxed manner and occasional humour.
Our very own CTM Ranjit gave us another dose of good speech delivery with his rendition of “The Pastor with the Daring Dream” who is none other than the great Martin Luther King. His message was: in order to effect change, we must first change people’s mindset. Ranjit was really in his element and in my opinion, a much improved speaker.
The 2 speech evaluators, DTM Lourdes and ATMB Lakhmichand who are two of the kingpins of Bangsar Toastmasters never fail to invoke and impress with their objective, constructive and wholesome evaluations.
First time GE, CTM Shanmugam did a commendable job. Acknowledgement also goes to the Grammarian Renuka, Ah Counter Rengan and Timer Ranjit for roles well performed.
Our non-Toastmaster guest, Ruben, was very impressed by the speeches and evaluations. We expect to see him again and hopefully he joins our club. We extend a big, warm welcome to Chandran who is our newest member.
Overall, it was definitely a good-quality meeting. Keep it up, guys!
By Ivan Fong, CTM
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