Tuesday 29 December 2015

The Meeting of 12 January 2016



















Picture from last year's meeting

Our Meeting was as follows:

Day/Date: Tuesday 12-1-2016
Time: 19:30
Venue: AMODA Bankers Club Floor 21 or 22

TME: Yikang Lim
GE:  Sidney Ng
TTM: Rajesh Wadhwani
TTE: Cyril Jonas
Gram: Cyril Jonas
AH Counter: Mariel Fong
Timer: Richard Toh

1st Speaker
Jony Lim
Speech Title: Beethoven and his music
Competent Communication Manual #7 - Research Your Topic

2nd Speaker
Jeremy Teo 
Speech Title: Truths, Half-truths and little White Lies
Humorously Speaking (1998) #5 - The Humorous Speech


Table Topics Evaluator: Cyril Jonas (pic below)





















Evaluators:
  1. Anthony de Souza
  2. Rajesh Wadhwani (pic below)

























Wednesday 16 December 2015

Report of Tuesday 22-12-2015 Meeting






Our next Meeting is as follows:

WOTD: De Rigueur

Example usage: You note the 3 members wearing white shirts with yellow ties? Well that is the Costume de rigueur for our club

Theme: May The Force be With us All

Christmas Meeting Fun

TME: Nik Ayman
GE: C Y Chung

Grammarian: Ismail Omar
AH Counter: Kenny Siew
Timer: Jony Lim

Invocator:

Speakers:
Pat Yap #6 (Guest from BUCH)
Dalila #10
Jeremy Teo: ACM #5
Cyril Jonas ACM #5
Rajesh Wadhwani ACM #5

Member Dalila earned her CC with her #10 Speech and
2 Senior Members Cyril Jonas and President Rajesh Wadhwani earned
their ACBs with their #10 ACM Speeches.

Dalila & Rajesh

TMIKL will be PDC after the April Renewal with 10 DCP Goals

Please Visit: Next Meeting



Sunday 29 November 2015

Next Meeting 8-12-2015




UPDATED  20151129.11:45

Our next Meeting is as follows:



Have Fun

TME: Mariel Fong, CC


1st Speaker
Meor Arif
Competent Communication Manual #2
- Get to the Point (5:00-7:00 min)


2nd Speaker
Jony Lim
Competent Communication Manual #6
- Vocal Variety (5:00-7:00 min)

3rd Speaker
Stirling Kho
Competent Communication Manual #8
- Get Comfortable With Visual Aids (5:00-7:00 min)

4th Speaker
Dalila Hashim
Competent Communication Manual #10
 - Inspire Your Audience (8:00-10:00 min)

5th Speaker
Ismail Omar
Specialty Speeches #3
- Speaking in Praise (5:00-7:00 min)

6th Speaker
Cyril Jonas
Public Relations (2011-05) #4
- Speaking Under Fire (3:00-5:00 min)


Sunday 8 November 2015

Next Meeting 24-11-2015





Have Fun

DRAFT ONLY NOT CONFIRMED

1st Speaker
Eric Loo
Competent Communication Manual #3
- Get to the Point (5:00-7:00 min)

2nd Speaker
Stirling Kho
Competent Communication Manual #8
- Get Comfortable With Visual Aids (5:00-7:00 min)

3rd Speaker
Anthony de Souza
Speaking to Inform (2006) #1
- The Speech to Inform (5:00-7:00 min)

4th Speaker
Ismail Omar
Humorously Speaking (1998) #3
- Make Them Laugh (5:00-7:00 min)

5th Speaker
Rhoda Omar
Humorously Speaking (1998) #4
- Keep Them Laughing (5:00-7:00 min)

6th Speaker
Jeremy Teo
Humorously Speaking (1998) #5
- The Humorous Speech (5:00-7:00 min)

7th Speaker
Cyril Jonas
Facilitating Discussion #4 -
Handling Challenging Situations (22:00-32:00 min)

8th Speaker


(Vacant)

Thursday 22 October 2015

Deepavali Meeting Tuesday 10-11-15

Deepavali Meeting Tuesday 10-11-15
Venue: Raintree Club, Kuala Lumpur

Have Fun

1st Speaker
Eric Loo
Competent Communication Manual #3
- Get to the Point (5:00-7:00 min)

2nd Speaker
Stirling Kho
Competent Communication Manual #8
- Get Comfortable With Visual Aids (5:00-7:00 min)

3rd Speaker
Anthony de Souza
Speaking to Inform (2006) #1
- The Speech to Inform (5:00-7:00 min)

4th Speaker
Ismail Omar
Humorously Speaking (1998) #3
- Make Them Laugh (5:00-7:00 min)

5th Speaker
Rhoda Omar
Humorously Speaking (1998) #4
- Keep Them Laughing (5:00-7:00 min)

6th Speaker
Jeremy Teo
Humorously Speaking (1998) #5
- The Humorous Speech (5:00-7:00 min)

7th Speaker
Cyril Jonas
Facilitating Discussion #4 -
Handling Challenging Situations (22:00-32:00 min)

8th Speaker
(Vacant)













Yellow on Black

DCP latest



















2 more ACs from the 4 members working at it and we are home and dry

Wednesday 21 October 2015

Next Meeting 27th October 2015




UPDATED  20151022.11:45

Our next Meeting is as follows:

Date/Time: Tuesday 27-10-15 from 19:25
Venue: Bankers Club (Level 22)

Sergeant at Arms
Meor Arif Afiq Nor Azmi

Toastmaster 
Stirling Kho

Table Topics Master
Endrea Hugh

Table topics evaluator 
Razwan Rashidi

1st Speaker
Arif Afiq Nor Azmi 
Competent Communication Manual #1 - Icebreaker
"Hi- I'm Arif"

2nd Speaker
Kenny Siew #2   Organise Your Speech (5:00-7:00 min)
Making Someone Fall in Love with you

Strong opening and conclusion; Outline that can be followed and understood; Clear message with supporting material; Appropriate transitions.

3rd Speaker
Jony Lim
Competent Communication Manual #5 -  Your Body Speaks


4th  Speaker
Nik Ayman
Competent Communication Manual #6 - Vocal Variety

5th Speaker 
Rhoda Omar  
Humorously Speaking #3 - Make Them Laugh


Reserve Speaker
Cyril Jonas

General Evaluator 
May Ong

1st Evaluator
Yikang Lim

2nd Evaluator 
Col. Nik M Zaki

3rd Evaluator
Rhoda Omar

4th Evaluator 
Cyril Jonas

5th Evaluator  CL#8
Anthony de Souza

Ah Counter
Mariel Fong, CC

Awards 
Rhoda Omar

Grammarian  CL#3
Rajesh Wadhwani

Timer
Richard Toh, CL





Thursday 24 September 2015

Next Meeting 13th October 2015




UPDATED  20151011.11:45

Our next Meeting is as follows:

Date/Time: Tuesday 13-10-15 from 19:25
Venue: Bankers Club (Level 22)

Sergeant at Arms
Meor Arif Afiq Nor Azmi

Toastmaster 
Richard Toh

Table Topics Master
Rajesh Wadhwani

Table topics evaluator 
Ismail Omar

1st Speaker
Kenny Siew  
Competent Communication Manual #2 - Organise Your Speech (5:00-7:00 min)
Strong opening and conclusion; Outline that can be followed and understood; Clear message with supporting material; Appropriate transitions.

2nd Speaker
Razwan Rashidi  
Competent Communication Manual #4 - How to Say It (5:00-7:00 min)
Words and sentence structure communicates the ideas clearly, accurately and vividly; Rhetorical devices enhance and emphasize ideas; No jargon or unnecessary words; Correct grammar used.

3rd Speaker
Mariel Fong 
Competent Communication Manual #10 - Inspire Your Audience (8:00-10:00 min)
Inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives, challenge the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement; Appeal to the audience’s needs and emotions, using stories, anecdotes and quotes to add drama.

4th Speaker 
Rhoda Omar  
Dancing in The Rain -The Story of Annie  Edit
Competent Communication Manual #10 - Inspire Your Audience (8:00-10:00 min)
Inspire the audience by appealing to noble motives, challenge the audience to achieve a higher level of beliefs or achievement; Appeal to the audience’s needs and emotions, using stories, anecdotes and quotes to add drama.

5th Speaker
Cyril Jonas  
Facilitating Discussion #3 - The Problem-Solving Discussion (26:00-31:00 min)
Discuss the three ideas generated in Project 2; Determine which one best resolves the problem. (Opt. timing 19-23)


Reserve Speaker
Mariel Fong

General Evaluator 
May Ong

1st Evaluator
Yikang Lim

2nd Evaluator 
Col. Nik M Zaki

3rd Evaluator
Rhoda Omar

4th Evaluator 
Cyril Jonas

5th Evaluator  CL#8
Anthony de Souza

Ah Counter
Nik Ayman Nik Moustpha

Awards 
Rhoda Omar

Grammarian  CL#3
Yikang Lim 

Timer
Vincent Hoy





Tuesday 22 September 2015

Next meeting 22nd September 2015




Our next Meeting is as follows:

Date/Time: Tuesday 22-9-15 from 19:25
Venue: Bankers Club (Level 21 or 22)



Club President Rajesh Wadhwani CC





















Come and listen to our members put their hearts and soul into practising their Public Speaking Skill:

Featured Speakers will be:

Kenneth Siew and
Cyril Jonas

TME: Anthony de Souza

GE: Rita Corray

SAA: Razwan Rashidi

TTM: Ismail Omar

TTE: Cyril Jonas

Grammarian: Anthony de Souza

AH Counter: Yikang Lim

Timer: TBA

Evaluators:

Rajesh

Sandra

Richard

Colors of Malaysia


On the 31st of August, our turn to celebrate the independence day, with much fanfare from people in yellow. Lots of noisy vuvuzela that drown the faint cry of clean....what? Unfortunately, Malaysia Book of Records' officials were not present to record the decibel of noise generated, they must be somewhere measuring the longest....whatever... We even saw aunties and uncles coming out in droves to have their selfies taken amid a sea of yellow, will the Simpsons be proud of this yellow craze?


Not to be left out, on the 16th of September, another mass celebration for inclusion of our brethren from Sabah and Sarawak into Malaysia was held. This time, yet another group of patriots, all dressed in red though most do not celebrate Chinese New Year occupied the empty streets of Kuala Lumpur. Most came with their vision of a better Malaysia, let's ask if Elmo would approve this red tide.


2 more colors from the Jalur Gemilang, Blue and White are still plotting for the perfect time to strike. 

Some who stayed at home are probably more concerned with the color purple. Get well soon, Mr Ringgit, we will pray for your recovery so that we can continue our globe trotting activity.


As for the rest, they only see haze in grey. Cough...cough...we need to have a blue and white demonstration urgently to bring back the clear blue skies and fluffy white clouds. "Hidup hidup, hidup blue skies with no haze!"


TMIKLites, what color do you see with your eyes and feel with your heart? Most importantly, what color is your blood? Tell us all about your vision for a better Malaysia too or you just want to live without worries? Tell us tonight, at our #768 meeting, theme is "Living without Worry".

Saturday 19 September 2015

New date for Area P1 & Area P2 Joint Contest. 1st Oct 2015 (Thursday, Allianz, Jalan Gereja)

The show will go on

Now, it will take an earthquake to postpone this contest again. See you on 1st October 2015. Can the winners go on to conquer Division P's contest on 3rd October and all the way to be District 51's champion and then take on the world?

That's for you to find out. Happy weekend.

MIMKL is Distinguished with 5 DCP goals

Today a member did her 10th speech and earned the 5th goal to take the club to distinguished

MIMKL Meeting

Geoff Andrew also sports a yellow tie.
Hooray.

Tuesday 15 September 2015

Area P1 and Area P2 HSSE Contest is postponed

Dear friends of Div P, Area P1 and P2. We wish to inform you of the inevitable postponement of the joint Area P1 and P2 contest for security reasons.

This decision is reached based on the consensus from DIV P council in light of the rumored gathering of the red shirts (not to be mistaken with the chinese new year gang) that might begin as early as tonight.

The original agenda for tonight might drag beyond 10pm given the strong number of participants. So, in view of everyone's safety which is the top priority, it's better to be safe than sorry.

We are so sorry that some of you had to cancel your initial plans just to lend a helping hand to area p1 and p2. We will remind the contestants to up their level and give the judges a more challenging time in scoring and also to treat the guests to a spectacle of awesome speeches.

We will be in touch again and hopefully everyone is still able to help out or just to attend on the new date, which is now in discussion. We are grateful for your commitments nonetheless.

It was a difficult decision to make, so sorry for the last minute postponement.

This is not the end...we shall meet again, just before the Division P Contest which will be held on 3rd October 2015.
Credits: Google images. (New date will be notified asap)

Cancellation

Sorry about the cancellation.

We had to on advice due to the worsening IPU reading


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Sunday 6 September 2015

TMIKL Club Speech Contests 8-9-2015



You are invited to our Club Contests on Tuesday 8th September 2015 starting at 19:20
21st Floor AMODA Building



Congratulations to Wendy Chiam for winning both the Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contests. We will be rooting for you at Wisma Allianz next Tuesday.

Club Officers'Installation




VP-Education Ceyvian CC with Endrae CC
VP-PR Yikang Lim CC


IPP- Cyril Jonas DTM

Speaker Endrea Hugh CC

CP Rajesh Wadhwani CC

SAA Razwan Rashidi

Club Secretary Rhoda Omar CC ALB

VP-M Stirling Kho
Ismail Omar DTM

Tuesday 1 September 2015

Joint Club Officer' Installation with NAWEM and BIB Toastmasters Club

The Joint Installation is happening this Friday, 4th September 2015, 7pm onwards! What a perfect date to mark TGIF, right? Yes, we know, you are most welcomed.
Credit: http://goo.gl/gMqMdT
This time around, we will have it at a location fit for royals. Jeng, Jeng, Jeng, the Royal Selangor Club in Kuala Lumpur. However, it is not necessary to wear the royal color of yellow though, you are one week too late.



This event is jointly hosted by BIB and NAWEM. Both are relatively new clubs but have set sight to achieve the distinguished club status by the end of the term. BIB and NAWEM will have all our supports because TMIKL is equally motivated by their hunger for success, and no doubt, we are in this quest for excellence together, #sehati_sejiwang.

BIB Toastmasters Club

NAWEM Toastmasters Club

And what is a party without distinguished guest. So we are bringing you Dist 51 Club Growth Director, Andrew Tan, Div P Governor, Benny Chia and DTM Victor Ong. Both are distinguished gentlemen in and out of Toastmasters, with years of experience to share and endless memorable stories to tell. We sure glad to have your, sirs!
Div P Director, Benny Chia
DTM Victor Ong, can you please bring this gorgeous lady too?
Honorable District 51 Club Growth Director, Andrew Tan
Come and meet all these fabulous people, find out what drives them and explore the possibility for future collaboration if they excite you. You bet they will.

See you on Friday. Selamat Hari Merdeka!

Tuesday 25 August 2015

Meeting #765 Charity Begins at Home Post Mortem


What was your highlight for meeting #765. What do you have to say to 3 new members in TMIKL? Membership had now rocketing to a strong three zero, 30! That is if everyone renews their membership, and yes, it is due now my dear members.

New blood in TMIKL, bring down the average age of members in the oldest club in D51
Some people don't believe in slow and steady. This rising star in TMIKL impressed us from the very beginning! Glad you joined us Kenny!

Kenny delivered his icebreaker speech like a pro!
DTM Cyril Jonas delivered "Is personal branding crucial to success?" from the advanced communicator manual which received the full participation from everyone. If the chairs and tables could talk, they would have to give their 30s opinions too!

Now, how do you facilitate a room of 30 people and summarized everyone's opinion into just 3 key points? If you miss the 1st half of the speech this time, don't miss the 2nd half of the speech, coming to you very soon!

Our own TMIKL brand
Can you emulate the achievements of these gentlemen? Congratulations to DTM Ismail Omar and DTM Cyril Jonas for attaining the Distinguished Toastmaster Award! Both are men of wit, grit, and always in high spirit! Even the highest education award in Toastmasters will not deter them to outdo themselves over and again!

Distinguished men in TMIKL
I am sure the guests wouldn't object if we were to rate ourselves 8.5/10 for this meeting?

Leave us a message and let us know what you think we should do more in a meeting to make your 3 hours spent with us worthwhile. It's our pleasure to have you in our meeting, till we meet next time!

Monday 24 August 2015

Area P1 & P2 present to you all the happenings in September 2015:-

September is going to be a busy month, let me share with you, "why so"...

Credit: http://goo.gl/FlVJzF
Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest:
1st September 2015 (Tuesday): P1 Allianz TMC
2nd September 2015 (Wednesday): P2 MAXIS Speakers TMC
8th September 2015 (Tuesday): P1 TMIKL TMC, Organizing Chair: Richard Toh
9th September 2015 (Wednesday): P2 BIB TMC, Organizing Chair: JCe' Yong
10th September 2015 (Thursday): P2 Metro TMC, Organizing Chair: Nazaruddin Nicky Abdullah


Joint Contest for Area P1&P2 (Tuesday): 15th September 2015 at Wisma Allianz, Jalan Gereja.
Organizing Chair: Ismail Omar

Culminating in Division P Contest: 3rd October 2015 (Saturday)

Credit: https://goo.gl/HOfuEa
From our neighbor in Area P:
Area P6 HSSE contest: 9th September 2015 (Wednesday) at KLCC. Organizing Chair: Nazaruddin Nicky Abdullah

From other friendly TMCs in Division D:
17th September 2015 (Thursday): D1 Sunway University TMC

We are looking for various role players, judges, test speakers, ballot counters, timers, please, we need you to decide your worthy champions!

Credit: https://goo.gl/HOfuEa

Thursday 13 August 2015

Meeting #765 Charity begins at home

Picture credit: http://goo.gl/jUWpn6
In the past month, we welcomed the news of a generous anonymous donor from Aladdin land who deposited a huge sum of money into the personal bank account of our Prime Minister. As we are told, the Prime Minister is just the trustee and the donation money had or will trickle down to people of all walks of life in Malaysia, nothing for personal gain, oh yeah baby!

Mr Prime Minister is just a man with big power and burdened with bigger responsibilities. I say, in the prime minister we trust. Meanwhile, TMIKL's treasurer, DTM Ismail Omar will be checking TMIKL's bank account very frequently in hope to find generous donation from a good Samaritan. Are you our good Samaritan?

Anyway, TMIKL's half yearly membership fee is due NOW. Thank you very much.  

In line with the talk of the town, our theme is Charity begins at home. Charity or service, is one of the four core values of TMI. the other 3 being, integrity, excellence and respect. It is also charity or service by all dedicated toastmasters who want to give back and to pay it forward that keep TMIKL going, 37 years on, stronger with each passing year. Past president Shawn Kwong, Sandra Ghouse, Cyril Jonas can certainly confirm that. 

Thank you DTM Cosy Amar for sharing this 
In terms of monetary charity, only a miracle of cosmic proportion can emulate the 2.6 Billion dollar "fallen durian". However, there is no stopping us from practicing the simple virtue of giving, whether it is a sincere thank you to show your gratitude, go going the extra mile to lend a helping hand to someone in need. 

They say, "Charity begins at home and home is where the heart is". How do we define home? A place where we return to at the end of the day? A place where we could freely travel freely without a passport? Or just any place where the sun shines. That is up to us to define.

While we don't have to be dreamers to try to end all wars to bring about war peace, can we at least remind ourselves that charity starts now and here. Remember to say thank you to show gratitude, clap hands to show appreciate, reciprocate to help people and help pave a highway in their toastmasters journey? Yes, the power is in your hands! Can i hear you sing, "I have got the power," please? 

With that, the future of President Distinguished Club, TMIKL lies in you, the life of a fellow toastmasters depends on you (sorry, sounded too serious here)! Over to you my fellow TMIKL-ites.

Saturday 8 August 2015

COT1 at Sunway University, 1st August 2015



And you thought COT is always about getting the 1 DCP point (maybe your president begged you to go). For some of us, it is only a 10% bonus, and this is my personal breakdown. 

20%- To meet beautiful people who can't stop talking...


This is just an example only

20%- To listen to really hilarious DTMs, free summore!
We thought DTM Muthukumaran Kodiappen was competing for Humorous Speech Contest
 20%- To feel young again, yey back to University!

Picture credit: https://goo.gl/Q7ktnS
 20%- To feel good after being told how important you are as a club officer

Picture credit: http://goo.gl/EavHA2
10%- To find out how you can make strangers join Toastmasters and make all toastmasters stay



and finally...

10%- DCP point, the meehoon, the kueh are really only a bonus.



Tell us what do you think? The great, the mediocre and the meh moments in COT1!

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