TMIKL (Toastmasters International Kuala Lumpur) #1997-51 is the oldest Toastmaster Club in District 51 (Peninsular Malaysia) Estd. 1st July 1978, is committed to providing a fun & supportive audience while practicing effective communication & leadership skills - meets twice a month normally on the second and fourth Tuesday at 19:00 at Floor 21 Menara Centara, Jalan Belia, Kuala Lumpur.
Members and guests arrive, sign in to the guest book or member sheet, put on nametags, and are given ballots and agendas; members with assignments pick up their equipment as needed, and check in with the Toastmaster of the Day.
President or Sergeant-at-Arms opens the meeting
Announcements are made
Toastmaster (the "emcee") takes over the meeting, and gives the theme of the meeting
An educational piece, joke, or thought is shared by a member
The individuals performing evaluation tasks during the meeting (counting vocal pauses, timing the speeches, etc.) are introduced; they explain their duties, and the Ah-Counter/Grammarian reveals the Word of the Day and explains its use
The prepared speeches are given
The Table Topicsmaster takes over the meeting, and gives the theme for the Table Topics
The Table Topics session is held: members and guests will be invited to participate, but it's not required
Ballots are collected for the "Best Table Topic" and speeches
The evaluation portion of the meeting, conducted by the General Evaluator, begins.
The formal speeches are evaluated, one at a time
The Timer reports on how long each person took to speak
The Ah-Counter/Grammarian reports on verbal pauses, grammatical errors, and interesting use of language during the meeting, including use of the Word of the Day
Winners of the various awards of the day (including Best Speech and Best Table Topics Speaker) are presented their ribbons
The General Evaluator concludes this portion of the meeting by evaluating the entire meeting, overall
The Toastmaster closes the meeting
If you're curious, you can always come to any of our meetings: they're open to the public, you don't have to speak if you don't want to, and you don't have to join anything.
(Thanks to City of Columbus Toastmasters Club)
Evaluation Conducted by Incoming P1 Area Governor Helen Quat, CC, ALB
The Speech Evaluators Richard Toh, Sandra Ghouse, Sam Selvaraju and Anthony de Souza gave their respective evaluations on the 4 new speakers.
Then the meeting Role players gave their reports:
Grammarian: Shaun Goh
AH Counter: Lim Yi Kang
Timer: Shazana
Finally Helen Quat gave her verdict as General Evaluator
BREAK for Celebratory Cake Cutting to fete the first President's Distinguished Club Achievement in at least 10 years as well as Celebrating the 34th Anniversary for 1st July 2012.
Reminiscence
15 minutes of reminescece of TMIKL in the Good Old Days by Sam Selvaraju, ACS, ALB
Sam who was a member of TMIKL as a young man from way back in 1993-1995 made a visit to the Old Club after 17 years and shared some memories by showing some old photographs of meetings and describing how they used to have much fun in those days just as we still do today.
Games organised by Anthony de Souza and his Committee
Closing by President Richard Toh, CL Welcoming the President Elect Sandra Ghouse, CTM who gave a short Inspirational Speech.
The Meeting held on Tuesday evening 12th June 2012 from 19:00 at the Bankers Club Library Floor 22 AMODA Jalan Imbi Kuala Lumpur was an historic occasion as there were 8 speeches presented of which 5 were Icebreaker speeches by our new members.
TME: Sandra Ghouse, CTM
Speeches by:
Shaun Goh #1
Shazana #1
Daniel #1
Lau Yee Sheen #1
Ken Soo #1
Lena Lim #2
Lim Yi Kang #3 (What Our Paremts Never Told Us)
Ismail Omar Specialty Speech #3 (Learn a new language)
We were honoured with presence of the Division P Governor DTM Mandy Ong and the Area P1 Governor DTM Geoff Andrew. They came to congratulate our Club on achieving the Distinguished Club Status.
The President and VP-Education assured them that we may still outdo ourselves with the Select Distinguished Club Status before the session is out in just over 2 weeks.
SAA: Colonel Nik M Zaki, CC CL
President: Richard Toh TM
TME: Anthony de Souza TM
Invocation: Ismail Omar, ACS ALS
Table Topics: Lena Lim TM
Table Topics Evaluator: Colonel Nik M Zaki, CC CL
Project Speeches:
Mary Lourdes #6 (Evaluator: Sandra CTM)
Cyril Jonas CC, CL Advanced Speech (Evaluator: Sidney Ng CC)
AGM: Conducted by President Richard Toh
Results of the Election for the new Club Officers:
2012-2013 Session (from 1st July 2012):
President: Sandra Ghouse CTM
VP-Education: Anthony de Souza
VP-Membership: Mary Lourdes
VP-PR: Shazana M Shahabar
Secretary: Lena Lim
Treasurer: Yi Kang Lim
SAA: Shaun Goh
Come and see and listen to 7 International Speeches by The Area Champions of Division C:
Saturday from 13:30
UMW-Toyota
Jalan Utas 15/7 Gate #2
Free Entrance
List of contestants: Nazaruddin Abdullah . I Am Chris Koh . Women Rule the World Sandra Anne Ghouse . If Only K N Devan . My Father Lied Syuhada Yakub . A Book a Day keeps the Teacher Away
International Speech: Sandra Ghouse
Victor Ong
Ahmad Fakhri
Table Topics: Ahmad Fakhri
Stephen Siow
Anthony de Souza
The Area Champions will meet the other Area Champions in the Division to vie for a place at the District 51 Convention at the end of April 2012 at the Div P Contests at Menara Telekom on 31st March from 13:30
Toastmaster: Lucy Zane, CL Table Topics Master: Anthony de Souza, TM Table Topics Evaluator: Ismail Omar, ACS ALS Grammarian: Richard Toh, TM 'AH' Counter: Toh Leong Seng Timer: Lim Yi Kang, TM General Evaluator: Kanagaraj, CC (pic below)
Speeches:
Ismail Omar - Advanced Communicator Series (Specialty Speeches) Speech #1
Sandra Ghouse - Presented her Contest Speech "IF ONLY"
Speech 1 above was a 5 to 7 minute Impromptu Speech being Project #1 from The AC Series "Speciality Speech" The title for the speech chosen at random from a list of 5 subjects was "Fear of Public Speaking" and the Speaker was fairly evaluated by Shaun Kwong, CC ALB.
A few members made suggestion as to how Sandra could improve her Speech further for the next Div P Contest.
Photo showing our guest Anna Crabb (centre) from Ivanhoe Club in Melbourne being welcomed by our VP-PR Mary (L) and Div C Governor Mandy Ong. Seen in the background is our VP-E Sandra
All members to note that The Club International Speech and Table Topics Contests will be held Tuesday 13-3-2012. Kindly let the Organising chair Richard know if you are participating. Contact him via text to 0123022137 or send a direct tweeter message to @tmikl_club
From The Club President: Dear All, Just to keep all of you updated on the latest additon of speech contestant entering into the fray for ISC. He is none other than Col Nik Zaki, that will make the total number contestants for the ISC to be five and the TT contestants to be seven since Pinky will only be taking part in ISC.
Good luck to all the contestants and look forward to an exciting evening of speech marathon in the long history of TMIKL. Please invite your toastmaster members from other clubs and the non-toastmaster friends too either through email or giving them a call and most importantly, be there early not only to beat the traffic, but before the food run out.
The contest agenda has been sent out earlier by our dedicated secretary cum acting treasurer, Ismail Omar
Here's the FINAL list of confirmed participants for our club contest next Tues in no particular order, International Speech Contest:
1. Sandra Ghouse
2. Cyril Jonas
3. Anthony deSouza
4. Pinky Arjan Parwani
5. Col Nik Zaki
Table Topics Contest
1. Sandra Ghouse
2. Cyril Jonas
3. Anthony deSouza
4. Col Nik Zaki
5. Ismail Omar
6. Elizabeth Xavier
7. Sidney Ng
Lim Yi Kang (Guest who decided to join up on the spot)
We had 2 rounds of Table Topics and one Project Speech.
Edward as Secretary appealed to members to pay up the April Subscription and 2 members came forward to pay up. Two others would remit online.
The meeting finished earlier than usual and everyone went home happy.
Our new member:
Lim Yi Kang
A Toastmasters meeting is a learn-by-doing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills in a no-pressure atmosphere.
What should you expect if you decide to attend a meeting? Our meetings are very relaxed. One of our main goals is to become better speakers while having fun. When you attend a meeting, you'll be greeted by one of the members, they will take some general information from you so they can introduce you at the beginning of the meeting. For the rest of the meeting, you'll relax and take in the meeting to see what we are all about. At the end of the meeting, you'll be asked if you have any questions or comments for the group at which point you can let us know what's on your mind or you can pass. There is absolutely no pressure to speak at all during your visit.
Attend as many meetings at as many different clubs as you feel necessary. Guests are always welcome, and we think you’ll find out quickly enough if, and which club, you should join.
Our Special St Valentine's Day meeting attracted 7 members and 9 Guests tw0 of whom were former members of the Club coming to revisit. They were Bok Lan and Khaja who both said they missed the friendly atmosphere and may rejoin soon.
Two Guests made their project speeches: they were Pinky from A Famosa Toastmasters Club who did her #6 CC speech and Kanagaraj CC from IEM Toastmasters who did a Speech from the Advanced Manual "Story Telling"
The Meeting started with some physical untangling of arms and legs.
We then had 5 Table Topics speakers questions posed by Sandra our VP-E as Table Topics Master.
After the 15 minute break we heard 2 project speeches given by our guests Pinky (A Famosa) and Kanagaraj (IEM TM)
Geoff Andrew our P1 Area Governor was the GE. Geoff's advice to our Club was "You TMIKL as the oldest Club in District 51 has the name and fame. You have the potential to be Distinguished agai, if you work harder to get more members - Maybe people just have not heard much of your activities"
Geoff's advice was well received by all 7 members present.
Our next meeting will be Tuesday 28 February 2012.
10 members and 7 Guests attended the Meeting of Tuesday 10-1-12 which started sharp at 19:30 with the SAA Colonel Nik M Zaki, CL calling the meeting to order and welcoming the President Richard Toh.
The TME was Sandra Ghouse CTM.
Col Zaki CL conducted the Table Topics Session where all the Guests took part.
Cyril Jonas CC, CL said the Invocation themed The New Year Resolution being a waste of effort. He opined we need to live each day as it comes.
The prepared Speech Session saw 3 members giving their speeches:
Ice Breaker by new Member Lena Lim TM: "Who am I?"
Speech #6 by Anthony de Souza TM: "The Day the Bubble Burst"
Adv Speech #5 from the Interpretive Reading by Ismail Omar ACS, ALS who read out the Winston Churchill Speech "We Shall Fight on the Beaches..."
The speeches were Evaluated respectively by:
Shaun Kwong, CC, ALB
Cyril Jonas, CC, CL
Mas Rizal, CC
Other Role Players were:
GE Cyril Jonas, CC, CL
Grammarian Mary Lourdes, TM
Timer Richard Toh, TM
The following announcements were made:
Speech Contests Dates;
Div P 7th April 2012
Area P1 19th March
Club 13th March
Other dates:
24 Jan 2012 Meeting is cancelled due to the Chinese New Year Celebrations.
14 Feb 2012 Valentine's day Meeting will be jointly organised with ITC Bintang.
28 Feb 2012 Normal Club meeting
13 Mar 2012 Club Speech Contests - Org Chair Richard Toh
