A promotion was held
previously in various locations to promote HELP University Toastmaster Club
which help in spreading the news of the meeting.
The meeting started at 9:45
a.m. with a great turnouts by both members and guests.
A brief history of HELP
University Toastmaster Club was shared by Vincent Sar. Under the leadership of
Colonel Goh, the club was doing well for the first 10 years. With the
challenges faced along the way, members of the club strive to perform their
best to overcome those challenges.
Gerard Peter, who is our J1
area director, gave a personal and insightful history of his journey in
Toastmaster. To motivate and encourage members as well as guest in joining and
participating in the meeting, he spoke about his fear as a speaker. He was
easily tongue-tied when it comes to speaking. He stood on the outside of the
room when he went to his first meeting but was afraid to enter the room when he
heard claps coming from the meeting. Therefore, he went back home. With
encouragement, he soon develops his speaking skill and speaks smoothly now.
Through his life changing experience, his personal history shows that he is a
man of sheer determination.
Role players were then
being introduced. Grammarian is role played by Farah from IICS, Ah Counter by
Ryan Poh, Timer by Chiun Jie. Ricky Soo role played as our General Evaluator.
Kim Thien Chun, who was our
Table Topic Master of the morning, came up with interesting topics.
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| Kim Thien Chun. |
The first
speaker, Jonathan, was asked how does he coped with the death of close
relatives. A take home message from Jonathan was that we should cherished them
as death is a process where people move on.
Ahmad, who was the next
speaker, brings joy into the meeting with his jokes. Followed by Jared, he
shared his personal moments of losing his father which he then urged us to
appreciate our parents as well.
Joshua Ooi spoke on his
philosophy in life. Justin Chan came up next with an argumentative speech on
the balance of work life which he stated that he does not want to work on
weekend to have more freedom in his time.
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| Justin on his argumentative speech. |
Stress management was shared by Chia Chun to
which he shared that he manages his stress by eating candy and so forth. The
last speaker was Abby. Her topic was ‘weekend is a time made up by lazy people’
to which she had disagree as she thinks that weekend is the time for relaxation
after a long and stressful week.
A strong evaluation was
given by Gerard Peter. He was supportive towards each speaker by complimenting
them as well as pointing out the speakers’ point of improvements.
Out first prepared speech
was given by Johnny, who is our new member. He engaged with the audience
throughout his personal ice breaking speech. He shared about his challenges in
life where he has a close relative that suffers from epilepsy. Through his
studies in Psychology, he hopes to give back to the community of sort.
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| Johnny giving his speech. |
Vincent Sar who was next in
the prepared speech session uses the analogy of a paper to relate to our lives.
He illustrated our characters with the words that were told by ourselves as
written on paper.
The final speaker, Ahmad
shared about star wars and star trek in his speech. For all our avid science
fantasy fans, it will be a wonderful sharing about how it is improbably to have
2 suns in a single solar system. He then relates it back to us where he questioned
us if we would want our dream to stay as fiction, or have it, become a truth?
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| Ahmad on his sharing. |
Our General Evaluator,
Ricky Soo led the evaluation session later on.
Johnathan evaluated Johnny
with constructive comments and compliments on his use of body language and
composure.
Winne Wong was next to
evaluate Vincent. She uses the analogy of nasi lemak to suggest technical
points to him and compliments him on his strength of his speech at the same
time.
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| Winnie Wong from Inti College Subang. |
Lee Chengrui then evaluated
Ahmad. Ahmad was complimented on his use of visual aid and was given points of
improvements as well.
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| Lee Chengrui from Elite Toastmaster Club. |
Technical evaluation was
started with a report by the Ah Counter, Ryan Poh. A detailed and accurate
language evaluation was given by Farah as everyone listened in awe. Timer
report was given at the end by Chiun Jie.
An overall evaluation was
given by Ricky Soo. An encouraging evaluation was given by him with points of
improvements.
Feedback was given by a Korean tourist who shared his experiences in Toastmaster back in Korea.
Congratulations to Abby on being the best table topic speaker.
Lee Chengrui as the Best Evaluator
Vincent Sar as the Best Speaker.
The meeting ended with a
group picture.
