Rising up to the Challenge

We all have challenges in our lives and as one of our members so brilliantly put it, some of our challenge is to go up on stage to speak in front of a crowd.

But here in TMIKL, we support each other in overcoming challenges such as these by providing a condusive environment to deliver a speech and grow as a seasoned public speaker and as an individual.
This meeting is one testament to that. We had an unusually big turn out, with THREE past presidents in one meeting and DTM Sandrasegaran dropping by as our General Evaluator. It was certainly an interesting evening.


We had an interesting Table Topic session with topics ranging from the most challenging thing that you have done to an amusing topic on Never Awakening a sleeping dragon which was brilliantly tied to personal developtment. Enough of talk, let some of the pictures do the talking:

First up, we had our Seasoned Winning Guest, Lorna Fisher who never fails to win something from TMIKL whenever she visits us. This time, she won the best table topics speaker with her table topic scenario of leaving her family overseas for a financially rewarding job/opportunity.

Cyril with the benefits of being a bachelor boy. His ideas flowed so well that he had me thinking that he bribed our Table Topics Master Wai Chee before the meeting!


Next we had Ismail Omar with solving a Sudoku puzzle. Clever use of the board as a prop in his Getting Comfortable with Visual Aids.


Mas Rizal, our Humourous speech man. Remember to call him whenever you need a tickle on the funny bone once in a while.





It was certainly a memorable evening. It was certainly anything but NOT a reticent evening. The crowd was warm as usual, there was a whole lot of laughter throughout the evening.
Our next meeting will be on the 8th of September 2009. We hope to see all of you (or better yet, MORE of you) in our next meeting!

Rise Up To The Challenge!

Always wanted to do something but feel afraid of failure (or even success?)

Yes folks, its time to rise up to the challenge. And take that yourself to the next level!
That's our theme for our meeting today (25th August 2009).
Today we have a wide vartiety of project speakers:

Chong Wai Chee
Sidney Ng

Mas Rizal
Ismail Omar

Its going to be an awesome night with the "Winning Humourous Speech" (so good that we KNOW we will win!). So, be there or you will be missing out on all the fun!

The word of the day is "reticent" which means inclined to keep silent; reserved. An interesting to word to rise up to the challenge! We hope that the members and guests attending this meeting will stop being reticent and start rising up to the challenge to face problems and challenges head on!

Look forward to seeing you all there!

TMIKL's Long Week

Wow! What a week it has been for us here at TMIKL. It was a tiring and an awesome week for us. Trust me when I say its quite difficult to sum in all up in just one post.

It started off with our upbeat Merdeka meeting:



With our President with his Humourous Speech, "Taking Care of Daniel". Complete with "CHAK" action and all the jazz. He had the floor in stitches and went on to do the Club proud in winning the division level contest.


We also had Ismail Omar with a short tour de la force of the French languange using a very interesting approach. You just had to be there to listen to his speech for yourself. Genius.


We had a few guests, one of them Andy won the best Table Topics. Best of all, he WILL be joining us. Kudos to Andy!


Later in the week, we took part in the Division contest which took place in Melia Hotel to win:

Best Humourous Speech - Mas Rizal, CC
Runner Up Evaluation - Elizabeth Xavier

Both of our representatives did our Club proud by emerging as winners in their respective contests. It is our hope that the Club will breed more future champions and perhaps even do MALAYSIA proud by representing the country for International contests.

That was just the tip of the iceberg,
We had our 31st Anniversary Dinner on Saturday. Everyone dressed in their nines. It was indeed an evening to behold.


The event started with the Past Presidents Cake Cutting Ceremony



With very intesting Table Topics, from getting lost to KL, the benefits of public speaking, to bankers turned cab drivers we certainly entertained and glued to our seats. We had a lot more than food to chew on. A generous buffet spread and sinful cakes to whet our appetites and ensure that we don't starve.


In the spirit of TMIKL and everything imporntu, we had Michael and Wai Chee to perform a dance for us! Yes...it was NOT planned but I think they managed to wow the audience with their dancefloor moves. I think they brought the house down and reminded everyone on how John Trovolta brought the sexyback in Saturday Night Fever and Greese..



We even had our Guest Speaker, Loghendran who entertained us with his speech on how Toastmasters actually molded him to be the leader he is today and the importance of evaluations. I certainly benefitted greatly from his speech. Photographed below with our President, Mr Mas Rizal!





Our best Table Topics for the evening, Lorna. I certainly hope she did get a GPS in her gift. Then again, I think she rather ask for help with the friendly Malaysians and promote Toastmasters to more people.




A big kudos to the people that made it happen:

Organizing Chairperson: Elizabeth Xavier for her tireless devotion in making this event a success. It was her baby and she was a very concerned parent.


Mas Rizal, for helping her and in making sure everything is place for the final event:


And who can ever forget, the two emcees for the evening Cyril Jonas and Sandra for entertaining the crowd and ensuring that the evening was a pleasurable one.





Also, the TMIKL team who were busy selling tickets and promoting the event. Without your direct and indirect support, this event would have not been such a resounding success!

Everybody went back as a happy camper, with a full tummy, new friends met, old friends reunited, an inspirational thought in mind, the knowledge of NOT ending up in Puduraya, and of course a "lucky draw" gift. It was indeed a wonderful evening not to be forgotten.

Merdeka!

Its that time of the year again (ok, not quite but we at TMIKL are already in that patriotic mood) of our National Independence.

This week, we will be having our meeting on the 12th of August 2009 with the theme Merdeka to commemorate our National Independence and also to celebrate and appreaciate unity and peace here in Malaysia.

Our word of the day is gorgeous. The meaning is given as Having qualities that delight the eyes.

Do come along with your Malaysian flag or anything patriotic and have a gorgeous night with us with our gorgeous speakers and delightful agenda!

Hope to see all of you at the Banker's Club, AMODA building at 7.30 pm tommorow (12th August 2009)!