Exact ADC Toastmasters MOVED to G-Tower

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Exact ADC has moved to a new office. We shifted from Tower 2 KLCC to our new office at G-Tower. We are pleased to inform all our guests that this will be the venue for our Toastmasters meetings moving forward.

The new G-Tower combines excellent facilities with very good accessibility, located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Companies located in the G-Tower will benefit from state-of-the-art IT facilities and is the first green building with a BCA Gold Greenmark. Moreover, G-Tower will house the G City Club Hotel, gym, various pubs and restaurants.

Our new address is Level 8, G-Tower, 199, Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and it is just ONE (1) LRT stop away from KLCC.

How to Reach

  1. By Car
    Check out the
    Google Map for direction.
  2. By Rapid KL (Putra) Light Rail Transit (LRT)
    Line:
    Kelana Jaya Line
    Station: Ampang Park
    For more details, check out the LRT Route Map

LRT Stop to GTower (Exact ADC Toastmasters)


Taken & re-contributed from Exact ADC Toastmasters blog by Chee Yoong, Lai


An Hour With Joseph Gomez

DTM Joseph Gomez, our Immediate Past District Governor (IP DG), spent some time with us on 3 December to share with us his leadership journey in Toastmasters.



It was a session filled with laughter and insights, and we found out that our IP DG is someone who is not only humorous, his earnestness and commitment to help our fellow Toastmasters improve was unquestionable.

Although it was a transition for Joseph to manage 82 staff, at Servicom Sdn. Bhd., to 7200 Toastmasters members, he decided to take this as a training ground to improve his leadership skills with a 12 months mandate to complete his responsibility as DG of District 51, comprising of Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.

While we club officers have our TLI training twice a year, DGs are flown to US for a 3 days training session. District Officers were told that their mission is to motivate members to achieve more, so that each and every member will have the learning opportunity to be better speakers and leaders.

Joseph believes that the Toastmasters learning program should be fun, as we learn more in times of enjoyment, and a continuous process. He sets his personal goal of one project speech a month and reads various publications to update his knowledge.

As our DG, Joseph was constantly reading his 3 inches thick DG manual, to be prepared for any question that any member might ask him. During peak periods, he was answering about 100 emails a day as well as phone calls, as he believed in constant communication, not only with his District officers but also with any Toastmasters who needed his help.

Angeline listening attentively while Elaine prepared the recorder for the interview.


Here are some of the insights that our IP DG have shared with us.

Q: Can you tell us briefly your progression from club Exco member to District Governor ?
A: I became the club SAA sometime in 1999 and progressed yearly till I became the District Governor. I learnt a lot when I was the SAA and VPE of my club, MIM KL.

Q: Any words of advice or encouragement for members who will be asked to consider club Exco positions ?
A: You will learn a lot in the leadership track. Go for it.

Q: What are the indispensable qualities that a club Exco should have ?
A: A club exco should always have the club member's interest at heart. The club member is our customer and we should serve our customers well.

Q: How did you juggle your time as a District Governor and a club member and work ?
A: On time management, it was District Toastmasters work and my office work. I did not have time to spare for my own club activities. I was serving about 300+ clubs and attended many other club meetings.

Q: Did you initially hesitated when approached by Dr. Arul to be part of the District Council team ?
A: Yes. I took 1-2 months to decide if I wanted to commit to the District Secretary position. Once I committed, I never regretted it and gave the best that I could. It was a good decision. I enjoyed serving our members and always motivating them. When our members succeed, I feel satisfied.

Q: What was the most difficult task you had to do as our District Governor ?
A: In the months of May & June 2009, were the most difficult times in my life in Toastmasters. The term of 2008/2009 was coming to an end and we had to achieve the goals that we set for our District. It was not easy but as a TEAM, we achieved President Distinguished District.

Q: Is the District Governor position a full-time job and you had to take a leave of absence from work ?
A: Yes, it was a full time job in the months of May & June 2009.

Q: Last but not least, any thoughts to share with our members as to why should we should do the CL manual, the ALB and ALS track ?
A: In order to improve your leadership skills that you already have, you will have to embark on the leadership track. The positive results are almost certain.

The interview crew. From the left, Chee Yoong (Cameraman), Andrew (Asst. Interviewer), of course Joe (the person being 'grilled'), Elaine (Asst. Interviewer) and Angeline (Chief Interviewer)


Contributed by Angeline Lee, Elaine Tan, Andrew Ng and Chee Yoong, Lai

To Be Or Not To Be ... A Judge

To all the Toastmasters who are interested to be judges/will be playing the role of judges in the upcoming International Speech Contest, I would like to share with you about the Winning Speech Forum that will be organised by Division W on 6th February 2010 (Saturday).

The decision of a judge is very important and it would affect the outcome of a contest. When one decides to play the role as a judge, he would need to make sure that his decision is just and he has clear conscience that he does his very best to choose the best speaker during the contest as the winner. And by doing so, he provides the chance for the best speaker in the contest to compete at the next level.

How exactly are we going to make sure that we pick the contestants with the best performance based on the criteria set by Toastmasters International, as a judge during a contest?

This is exactly how this forum would help:

The Winning Speech Forum will be facilitated by DTM Dr Arul and DTM Loghandran. Presentations on how a speech is judged in a contest (based on the judging form) will be presented by DTM Dr Arul (on speech development, effectiveness and speech value) and DTM Loghandran (on Delivery and Language).

After the presentation, 4 videos for the past International Speech Winners would be played. Each of them would be scrutinised and dissected by DTM LeAnn Tang, DTM Dominic Joseph, DTM Geoff Andrew and DTM Ramdas Nayar according to the judging form used in a contest. They would give the scores to the speakers and provide the reason why and how did the scores come about.

I personally have attended a few judging workshop but I always find them to be very theoretical. In this forum, it is very practical to all of us because we will be shown how judging is done in real time and why a certain scores is given and what exactly are the judging criteria listed in Speech Development, Effectiveness, Speech value, Delivery and Language in the judging form is all about. With this forum, we now have the rare opportunity to get the more experienced judges in our community in the central region to show us how it is done. The details of the forum are as follows.

Date : 6 Feb 2010 (Saturday)
Time : 1.30pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Uptown Conference Centre, Level 12, Tower A, Uptown 5, Petaling Jaya

Single ticket is sold at RM 25 (including lunch). For now (up to 16th January 2010), Division W is offering a group package of RM 20 per ticket for any group with 6 people or more (RM 120 for six tickets). Not to worry though, if you could not gather 6 people or more in your club. Please inform me of the numbers and I will match you up with other Toastmasters so that you will still benefit from the group price. Tickets will be a fix price of RM 25 each after 16th January 2010.

The last day to book the tickets for the group package expires on 16th January 2010. So book your tickets from Loh Chia Hur, Tan Lay Theng or Cheong Kuok Sum before the time runs out for the group package price. Please make your booking with us and we will instruct you on how to make the payment. We will pass the tickets to you once the payment is made. You can contact us at:

Organising Chair
Name: Loh Chia Hur
Email: chiahur@gmail.com
Phone Number: +6016 650 0856

Asst. Organizing Chair
Name: Cheong Kuok Sum
Email: kuoksum@gmail.com
Phone Number: +6012 689 3511

Marketing Director
Name: Tan Lay Theng
Email: laytheng@gmail.com
Phone Number: +6012 254 5095

Name: Janice Lee
Email: janice_ladycanary@hotmail.com
Phone Number: +6012 668 3291

Name: Lee Soo Ling
Email: sooling.lee@ireka.com.my
Phone Number: +6012 216 3868

Name: Angeline Lee
Email: angeline.lee@thetasp.com
Phone Number: +6016 660 0342


Contributed by Tan Lay Theng, Area Governor W7

Dance with Wolves & You'd Lose Your Innocence!


Play with fire and you'd get burnt. Dance with wolves and you might lose your innocence. The converse is just as true, when you lose your Innocence, you'd learn to dance with wolves. Don't get us wrong, "Dances with Wolves" and "Innocence Lost" were two separate speech projects but one could not stop to wonder that they are related in some way. The former were delivered by yours truly (Chee Yoong) as part of my CC Project 5: Your Body Speaks while the latter was delivered by Toastmaster Abdul Rahman as his ACM: Humorously Speaking Project 1 : Warm Up Your Audience.

"Dances with Wolves" shared stories about thiefs who preyed on material gains. These ‘wolves’ may be living near us, working with us or even those that we depended on for protection. Do we know who they are? Maybe the next speech will touch on 'Tigers' instead to match the mainstream celebrity hot topic.

"Innocence Lost" touched all of us deeply with stories of how we have evolved to be less tolerant over time as we matured. When we were young, we had less 'barriers' towards people of different race and religion but as we grew, we began to be constrained by 'social practices' and guided to see things through a contorted lens.

With the honour of playing Toastmaster of the Day, I opted to continue with our newly found tradition, the signature clap. Our Madam General Evaluator Toastmaster Lay Choo commented that this is indeed something special that Exact should continue. She also shared many suggestions with us on our speeches, evaluation and things that we can consider to incorporate.


Our Madam General Evaluator, Toastmaster Lay Choo from Sime. Thank you for sharing your evening with us.

Speaking about special, we saw an exciting Table Topic session conducted by Toastmaster Abdul Rahman. Mystery Mayhem was the overall theme whereby participants had to complete a story and let their imagination run wild. It saw 5 courageous Exactians exercising their prowess at table topics with stories on drug checks at a club, Batman scolding his butler over his suit, ghosts, maid and stalker. Thank you to Loon, Yuen Kai, Andrew, Joyce and myself (feels weird to thank myself) for participating. We believe that the overall experience gave Toastmaster Stefanie, who was our TT Evaluator a wonderful first visit to Exact. She had many a wonderful comment for us as well including how to make table topic story-telling more convincing. Toastmaster Loon won the best table topic speaker.


Our Ah Counter, Toastmaster Joyce, delivering her table topic.


Our Table Topic Evaluator, Toastmaster Stefanie from our neighbour, DDYPC. We will remember her advice for every Toastmaster to "story-tell".


Toastmaster Loon receiving the Best Table Topic Speaker certificate from our President, Yuen Kai.

In the interest of sharing, Toastmaster Andrew conducted session to share the learning points from the judging forum in TLI2 with everyone. It started off with the video playback of the winning international speech by Toastmaster Ong Swee Keat. Toastmaster Andrew then shared about the judging criteria as well as the opinions noted by the Judging Forum, Dr. Arul, Stephen Fernando and Geoff Andrew on the Speech Content, Delivery and Language respectively.


Toastmaster Andrew who shared his evaluation on the Advanced Speech by Toastmaster Abdul Rahman.


Toastmaster Loon sharing his opinions on the Speech delivered by Toastmaster Chee Yoong (me).

With that we concluded our Meeting #63, which happened to be our LAST meeting on Tower 2 KLCC. Join us as begin our new journey in a new office, our FIRST meeting in G-Tower - noon, 26 Jan 2010.

Until then, take care.

Our Timer, Toastmaster Toh delivering his timer's report.


From the left, our Grammarian, Toastmaster Kasey, Table Topic Master, Toastmaster Abdul Rahman Shah and our President Yuen Kai.

The photos above can also be found in our Photo Gallery.

Taken from Exact ADC Toastmasters blog. Contributed by Chee Yoong, Lai.

How to be a Winner - Find out on 6 Feb 2010




As we all know, the International Speech Contest is approaching and as our aspiring contestants, we want you to
LOOK YOUR BEST, DO YOUR BEST, BE YOUR BEST

If you are wondering how to BE YOUR BEST as a contestant, look no further. Division W is organizing The Winning Speech Forum just for you, where you can learn more on speech development, effectiveness, speech value, delivery and language.

In this forum, four world champion speeches will be shown and subsequently discussed, scrutinised and dissected by DTM LeAnn Tang, DTM Dominic Joseph, DTM Geoff Andrew and DTM Ramdas Nayar. As a contestant, you will definitely gain by learning how to prepare and deliver a winning speech.

If you have not decided whether to be a contestant, this forum is still the right forum for you to learn from, as all the areas covered in our Competent Communication manual will be presented and discussed. You have nothing to lose and additional knowledge to gain by joining us at this informative forum on how to prepare and deliver a winning speech, whether for your prepared speeches or as a future speech contestant.

Join us at the Winning Speech Forum and learn from past winners. You too can be a winner and better speaker, for every speech that you deliver.

The details of the forum are as follows.

Date : 6 Feb 2010 (Saturday)
Time : 1.30pm – 5.30pm
Venue: Uptown Conference Centre, Level 12, Tower A, Uptown 5, Petaling Jaya

Single ticket is sold at RM 25 (including lunch). For now (up to 16th January 2010), Division W is offering a group package of RM 20 per ticket for any group with 6 people or more (RM 120 for six tickets). Not to worry though, if you could not gather 6 people or more in your club. Please inform me of the numbers and I will match you up with other Toastmasters so that you can still benefit from the group price. Tickets will be a fix price of RM 25 each after 16th January 2010.

The last day to book the tickets for the group package expires on 16th January 2010 (5 days from now). So book your tickets NOW from Loh Chia Hur, Tan Lay Theng or Cheong Kuok Sum. When you make your booking with us, we will instruct you on how to make the payment. We will pass the tickets to you once the payment is made. You can reach us at:

Organising Chair
Name: Loh Chia Hur
Phone Number: +6016 650 0856

Marketing Director
Name: Tan Lay Theng
Phone Number: +6012 254 5095

Asst. Organizing Chair
Name: Cheong Kuok Sum
Phone Number: +6012 689 3511

Name: Janice Lee
Phone Number: +6012 668 3291

Name: Lee Soo Ling
Phone Number: +6012 216 3868

Name: Angeline Lee
Phone Number: +6016 660 0342


Contributed by Tan Lay Theng, Area Governor W7


Division W Winning Speech Forum

Ever have the feeling that something is missing from your project speeches?  Ever wonder how you can put in that extra ingredient to give a memorable speech – a speech that the audience will take home and remember for a long time to come. Is there any area where you would like to improve on? Yes, the Competent Communications manual provides us a systematic and organized guideline to produce and deliver a good speech, but practice and experience helps to add in that spice.  Practising is definitely within our control. What about experience?  How much experience can we gain from the ten project speeches? What better way than to leverage on the experience of other more proficient speakers. Thus, we shall learn from the best; from International Speech Champion speakers.

Division W brings to you four International Speech Champion speeches in the upcoming Winning Speeches Forum. In this forum, you will get to view winning speeches of World International speech champions and listen to Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM Dominic Joseph, DTM Geoff Andrew, DTM LeAnn Tang and DTM Ramdas Nayar) discuss the speaker's strengths, weaknesses and delivery techniques that could be applied in the preparation of our project speeches. Particular attention will be focused on the speech development, delivery, effectiveness and language – all the areas covered in projects 1 to 10 in the Competent Communications Manual.

DO NOT miss this fantastic opportunity to learn from the masters and awe your audience in your future speeches. Who knows, you may be the next champion!

The details of the forum are as follows.

Date :  6 Feb 2010 (Saturday)
Time :  1.30pm – 5.30pm
Venue:  Uptown Conference Centre, Level 12, Tower A, Uptown 5, Petaling Jaya

Single ticket is sold at RM 25 (including lunch). For now (up to 16th January 2010), Division W is offering a group package of RM 20 per ticket for any group with 6 people or more (RM 120 for six tickets). Not to worry though, if you could not gather 6 people or more in your club. Please inform me of the numbers and I will match you up with other Toastmasters so that you will still benefit from the group price. Tickets will be a fix price of RM 25 each after 16th January 2010.

The last day to book the tickets for the group package expires on
16th January 2010 (5 days from now). So book your tickets from Loh Chia Hur, Tan Lay Theng or Cheong Kuok Sum before the time runs out for the group package price. Please make your booking with us and we will instruct you on how to make the payment. We will pass the tickets to you once the payment is made. You can contact us at:

Organising Chair
Name: Loh Chia Hur
Phone Number: +6016 650 0856

Asst. Organizing Chair
Name: Cheong Kuok Sum
Phone Number: +6012 689 3511

Marketing Director
Name: Tan Lay Theng
Phone Number: +6012 254 5095

Name: Janice Lee
Phone Number: +6012 668 3291

Name: Lee Soo Ling
Phone Number: +6012 216 3868

Name: Angeline Lee
Phone Number: +6016 660 0342


Contributed by Tan Lay Theng, Area Governor W7

First CIMA - KPMG KL TMC Joint Meeting

1st Joint Meeting between CIMA Toastmasters Club and KPMG KL Toastmasters Club was successfully conducted on Wed, 6 January 2010 at CIMA’s office. It was a friendly, warm and mutually helpful meeting.

For the pictures, have a look at the following doc.

Mesyuarat Pidato 21 Disember 2009


Sebelum tahun ini berakhir, ada satu lagi perkara yang ingin saya lakukan. Satu perkara yang sungguh mencabar memandangkan penguasaan Bahasa Malaysia saya memang tidak mengkagumkan. Saya terasa ingin menyertai mesyuarat Toastmasters Pidato.

Secara kebetulan, pada pagi ini saya diberitahu mesyuarat Pidato mungkin akan diadakan pada malam ini. Setahu saya, Puan Zaharah adalah Koordinator Pidato and beliau mungkin tahu tentang mesyuarat Pidato ini. Jawapan beliau kepada pertanyaan saya seperti berikut:

“Ya, ada mesyuarat Pidato KL. Mesyuarat bermula 8 mlm. Makanan dijamu jam 7.30 mlm. Jemputlah datang. Salam, Zaharah”

Selepas menerima berita ini, saya teragak-agak pula. Patutkah saya menghadiri mesyuarat ini sedangkan bertutur dalam Bahasa Malaysia bukan suatu perkara yang paling mudah bagi saya ? Kemudian, terfikir pula kalau tidak cuba, memang tidak akan tahu selama-lamanya.

Pada pukul 7.50 malam, saya tiba di tempat mesyuarat iaitu di Wisma UOA Pantai, Jalan Pantai Jaya. Kami menjamu nasi lemak untuk makan malam sebelum memulakan mesyuarat. Saya telah bersetuju mengambil peranan Pengira Penggunaan Ah (Ah-Counter). Saya memang tidak berkeyakinan mencuba peranan yang lain seperti

Ucapan Inspirasi (Invocation)
Pengacara Ucapan Spontan (Table Topics Master)
Pelawak (Humour Master)
Penilai Penggunaan Bahasa (Grammarian)
Penilai Perdana (General Evaluator)
Penilai Ucapan Spontan (Table Topics Evaluator)
Penilai Ucapan (Speech Evaluator)

Sememangnya, inilah kali pertama saya menyandang peranan Pengira Ah. Saya tidak pernah mencuba peranan ini dalam mana-mana mesyuarat Toastmasters sebelum ini. Cabaran yang seterusnya ialah menjalankan peranan ini dalam pertuturan Bahasa pula.

GEMPAR adalah perkataan hari ini (Word of the Day). Ini amat sesuai untuk mesyuarat Pidato terakhir tahun 2009 kerana mesyuarat ini sungguh mengemparkan. Ia diacarakan oleh pengacara (TME) yang penuh bakat and bersemangat. Pengacara mesyuarat ini tidak asing, tidak lain lagi ialah Mohd Hadzrin Shah, Gabenor Kawasan W2. Ucapan beliau penuh dengan kata-kata yang indah. Malangnya, saya tidak memahami kesemua ucapan beliau (dengan istilah-istilah yang indah tetapi asing kepada saya). Jadi saya meminta penilai Bahasa yang berpengalaman, Puan Zaharah, untuk memberi sedikit penerangan selepas mesyuarat kami berakhir.


Hadzrin Shah adalah Pengacara, Pelawak and Penilai Ucapan Spontan

Dalam sesi ucapan spontan, setiap hadirin diminta mengambil bahagian. Walaupun penuh dengan keraguan, saya mengambil bahagian juga. Saya tidak pernah rasa ucapan spontan adalah perkara yang mudah walaupun bertutur dalam Bahasa Inggeris untuk mesyuarat Toastmasters Friendship. Apatah lagi untuk mencuba dalam Bahasa Malaysia!

Leganya perasaan saya apabila dapat berucap 1 minit 30 saat dalam ucapan spontan pertama saya di Kelab Pidato KL. Kami bergelak ketawa semasa sesi ucapan spontan, terutamanya ketika mendengar ucapan pengacara kami, sebab beliau memang hebat dengan persembahannya yang penuh dengan jenaka.

Sesi ini disusuli oleh ucapan project ke-5 Pergerakan Tubuh daripada buku panduan Pemidato Cekap (Competent Communicator manual) oleh Puan Zaharah. Ucapan beliau yang bertajuk Pengarah Syarikat penuh dengan semangat dan maklumat untuk para penonton. Sesi Penilaian pula amat menarik bagi saya kerana ia suatu pengalaman yang berbeza. Ini adalah pertama kalinya saya mendengar kata-kata seperti ucapan yang jitu dan lancar, dan juga imbasan mata.


Abu Bakar Ngah adalah Penilai Perdana

Selepas mesyuarat malam ini, saya terima pula utusan yang menarik daripada pengacara yang menggemparkan:

Dari: Hadzrin Shah
Tarikh: Selasa, Disember 22, 2009 12:03 AM
Tajuk: Kelab Pidato KL - Mesyuarat GEMPAR KE-14 pada 21 Dis 2009

Tuan-tuan dan puan-puan sekalian,
Sepantas kilat dan setangkas halilintar yang menyambar, saya ingin
Ucapkan berbanyak-banyak terima kasih kepada ahli-ahli dan tetamu yang hadir pada mesyuarat hari ini. Anda semua telah membuat mesyuarat kita gempar!

Namun, ada satu tugasan yang saya gagal lakukan. Saya kini berasa amat kesal dan bersalah. Akan tetapi takkan saya biarkan nasi menjadi bubur, jangan sampai harapan terkubur. Maka, ingin sungguh niat di hati untuk mengucapkan....

SELAMAT HARI JADI KEPADA NAIB PRESIDENT PENDIDIKAN DR KAISAN!!!

Semoga hidup saudara terus berbahagia. Hari jadinya ini yang keberapa, itu tanyalah pada tuan yang empunya.

Kini akhirnya selesailah tugas saya. Sekian, terima kasih.
Kita jumpa lagi tahun hadapan!

Hadzrin
Pengacara Mesyuarat terakhir 2009

Saudara saudari sekalian, kalau anda ingin mencuba mesyuarat Pidato, layarilah
http://pidatokualalumpur.blogspot.com/

Untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut lagi tentang masa dan tempat mesyuarat. Saranan saya ialah cubalah sekurang-kurangnya sekali, memang tidak akan menyesal.

Sekian sahaja laporan saya mengenai lawatan ke Kelab Pidato KL pada 21 Disember, menghadiri mesyuarat Pidato terakhir tahun 2009 yang memang menggemparkan.

Hasil nukilan Angeline Lee