Area W3 Contest 18.08.10

Audience at Menara ING


It takes a team to win a speech contest. This is the story of the winning team of Area W3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests held on 18 August 2010.

“The Better Man” winning speech contestant met up with his Immediate Past President (IPP) on a weekend prior to the Area contest. The IPP, himself a former Area Contest Champion, provided valuable advice and mentoring to a relatively new Toastmaster who had only completed 7 CC speeches. On the night of the contest, our contestant was tense. His IPP was by his side, coaching him, motivating him up to the start of the contest.

And what a speech we were treated to. As the contestant explained to us the hilarious facts of why Superman is better than Batman, his IPP must have been proud and happy to hear the sound of laughter from the audience.

Our Evaluation Champion at first had no thoughts of being a contestant at our Area Contest. With the encouragement and support of her IPP, she agreed to take part and took half day leave to be at our Area Contest on time. She rose from her seat as her name was announced and presented her winning speech, with all eyes were on her, listening intently to her analysis and recommendations for our “Mid-life Crisis” test speaker.

Area W3 is proud to announce that our winning team consists of

Evaluation Champion Grace Loh and Humorous Speech Champion Aaron Lee

Area W3 Humorous Speech Contest (HSC) Champion Aaron Lee (KPMG)
1st. runner up Brenda Loo (Exact ADC)

Brenda, HSC Contest Chair Yuen Kai & Aaron

Area W3 Evaluation Contest
Champion Grace Loh (KPMG)
1st. runner up Ben Fong (Friendship)

Evaluation Contest Chair KC, Grace & Ben


It also takes a team to organize and run this contest. Our heartfelt appreciation to the many Toastmasters who helped us in making our Area contests a success. They are

Organising Chair Yoke Wan & SAA Alice, Lionel & Jen
Thank you ING, for hosting this event, and taking care of the logistics
arrangement of this event.














Organising Chair Yoke Wan presenting certificate of appreciation to SAA Alice


Contest Chair Yuen Kai
Thank you for conducting the Humorous Speech Contest with energy and enthusiasm.

Contest Chair KC
Thank you for conducting the Evaluation Contest with flair.

Chief Judge Janice & Team
Thank you for helping us to select our Area W3 winners for Division W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest on 18 Sept 2010.

Ballot-counters Andrew & Lay Theng
Thank you for assisting Chief Judge Janice.
Andrew, thank you for helping us to prepare the certificate of appreciation & certificate of participation for this contest.
Lay Theng, thank you for providing guidance to our SAAs during the Evaluation Contest.

Timers Ying Ling & Jia Qi
Ying Ling, our contest timing was in safe, capable hands.
Jia Qi, you are always available to help us out. Thank you.

Test Speaker Siok Looi
It was a hilarious speech on mid-life crisis and a timely reminder to us to be happy NOW.

Contestants Aaron, Brenda, Ben, Grace & Kent
Without you there will be no Area Contests !
Thank you for making time to prepare for the contests, and taking time off from work and family commitment, to be with us.

Cameraman Gary
A picture tells a thousand words. Thank you, Gary.

Special mention to Janice, Jia Qi & Meng Yet
Thank you for helping us to arrange the chairs, tables and food before the start of the contest.











KPMG members Suresh, Grace, IPP Muz, Aaron












Exact ADC members Kacey, Andrew, Brenda & Yuen Kai













Friendship members Zaiton, Ben, KC, Angeline and Lay Theng


Join us at Division W Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest on 18 Sept 2010 and find out whether our “Better Man” Aaron will emerge as the “Best Man”, and whether Grace will be crowed as Best Evaluator of Division W !

Month of Installation and Club Meetings

KPMG on Sat 26 June 2010

From left, Grace Loh, Nasruna, Joshua, Muz, Chee Yong, Grace Lee, guest Chin Teck, Joanita, Diyana, Shin Ying

It began like any other Toastmasters meeting, with SAA Nas calling
the meeting to order. However, it was not to be just like any other
Toastmasters meeting.

Not only did KPMG decided to have their Club Officers Installation
ahead of time (before the term officially began on 1 July), it was a
historic meeting with 3 project speeches, and all of them were 10th
speeches.

For her project speech no. 10 Inspire Your Audience. Grace Lee
delivered her thought-provoking "So What?" speech while Chee Yong asked
us "Is now the time to change job?"

Finishing his tenth speech during the last meeting for term 2009/2010,
President Muz delivered an inspiring "If You Build it, They Will Come"
Storytelling speech. Not only did he do well in "Bringing History to
Life", he shared with us a tale of perseverance, of Jules Rimet’s dream
to stage an international football tournament back in 1928. Despite
obstacles, his dream finally materialized when the first FIFA World Cup
match was held in 1930 in Uruguay.

Award winners are (from left)

Grace Lee - CC pin & ribbon and
Best Table Topics Speaker,
Muz - ACB ribbon & Best Project Speaker, Chee Yong - CC pin & ribbon,
Joanita - Joint Best Table Topics Speaker

During the Club Officers Installation, all club officers pledged to
perform their duties to the best of their ability.

Club officers for 2010/2011 are (from left) Treasurer Shin Ying, SAA Nasruna, VPPR Joanita, VPE Joshua, President Grace and Immediate Past President Muz.

Friendship on Tues 6 July 2010

In a departure from our customary practice, this year’s Installation
Night was purely an evening of fun and games. We started off with the
Club Officers Installation.

Zaiton, taking her Presidential oath.
Behind her is VPPR Alex, Secretary Vincent, Treasurer Wai Yee and SAA Sivadas

During the games segment, one of the games was “pass the message”.
Not surprisingly, the final message bears almost no resemblance to
the original message after 5 volunteers tried out their listening and
speaking skills. The audience’s conclusion was that the patient may
not survive the medical procedure being described by the 5 volunteers!

The audience in laughter during the games session

ING on Wed 7 July 2010

Over at Menara ING, ING Leadership members attended their first
anniversary meeting. Yes, it has been one year since this club was
chartered!

Fittingly, President Jimmy delivered speech no. 6 on “Appreciate What
You Have”. He showed us many captivating pictures, reminding us to be
grateful for what we have.

VPPR Gary, guest Anne, Secretary Sook Jen, Ai Hong, President Jimmy, VPE Poh Leng, VPM Yoke Wan, Kwai Lin, SAA Lionel, Johnny

KPMG on Sat 24 July 2010

From left, Grace Lee, Grace Loh, Joshua, Aaron, Farhat, Chee Hoe (Friendship), Chee Yong, Johnny (MIA), Joyce (DU Advanced), Suresh, Chong Ming

On his first visit to KPMG, Assistant Area Governor Marketing Chor Chee
Hoe came bearing gifts. In his role as Table Topics Master, he prepared
5 mystery gift and a magic word to go with each gift. Table Topics
speakers Grace Lee, Aaron, Suresh, Chong Ming and Chee Yong spoke
eloquently about their mystery gifts.

For the project speeches, we travelled to Paris with Farhat, agreed
with Chong Ming’s Live Up to Your Dream, and listened to Aaron’s tale
of a Malaysian Maverick.

Grace with project speakers Farhat, Chong Ming and Aaron, with their TI ribbons

Exact ADC on Mon 26 July 2010

Club Officers for 2009/2010 – VPE Andrew, President Yuen Kai, VPPR Chee Yoong and SAA Emily were discharged from their duties

Club Officers for 2010/2011 are President Andrew, VPM Yuen Kai, Secretary Caroline, VPPR Hairani, VPE Chee Yoong

and Treasurer Kacey

At GTower, we had an evening of Club Officers Installation followed by
dinner and Charade. Everyone took turns trying out their acting skills
to help the audience guessed the correct movie title.

The most challenging scenes and worthy of “Best Actor” nominations
are Chee Yoong who portrayed “Alice in Wonderland”, Rahman dancing
for “From Paris With Love” and Andrew demonstrating his martial arts
skills as a “Shanghai Knight”. Emily was the fastest at correctly
identifying a movie title, within 6 seconds, for “The Lords of the
Ring”.

All in all, it has been a busy July month for everyone, attending Club
Officer Installation events and club meetings.

Contributed by Angeline Lee

Thank You, Toastmasters

Muz, Immediate Past President of KPMG KL Toastmasters Club

For those who still have doubts about the Power of Toastmasters, I hope this story will give you some inspiration.

Recently, I was asked to be the Emcee for an event at Bursa Malaysia, my current employer. I didn’t know the details, but I said “Yes” anyway.

I found out later that the event was to be graced by Tan Sri Zarinah Anwar (Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia), Board of Directors of Bursa Malaysia, Dato’ Yusli Mohamed Yusoff (our CEO), the Heads of Investment Banks (the likes of Tengku Dato’ Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz, Chief Executive Offcer of Maybank Investment Bank) and delegates from the Thailand Stock Exchange. Previously I had participated as the Emcee for a smaller event at Bursa but I did not realized that this event was going to be so BIG!! I was so terrified !!

BUT, there was no turning back and furthermore, there was no back-up Emcee.

The event took place on 29 July 2010, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and I was the “Master of ceremony”. This role is not just an ordinary Emcee but playing the multi-faceted role of the host, welcoming the crowd, facilitator, handling the Q&A sessions and ensuring the overall smooth running of the event. Imagine doing all this in front of a crowd of 150 people and most of them senior dignitaries. Definitely no mean feat… but I managed to pull it off!

I was extremely nervous and I tried very hard not to show this to the audience. I even managed to crack a few jokes, uttered a few words in Thai to make our Thai delegates feel welcome. I also managed to keep within the time limit.

The event was a SUCCESS. For me, it was a personal achievement !!

All these did not occur from mere sheer luck. I would like to thank Toastmasters for giving me the skills and courage to do ALL this.

Muz winning the Best Project Speaker award at KPMG 26 June 2010 meeting

I cherish all the moments I was the Toastmaster-of-the-Evening at KPMG KL Toastmasters Club. It very well paid off! All the practice that I had, all that Area and Division competitions that I took part in, all the training and coaching I had from my gurus of Toastmasters and from all my Toastmasters friends and members! It has all paid off!

Muz is the first runner-up at the 2009 Division W Evaluation Contest

A sincere and heartfelt “Thank you Toastmasters!”
Without you, NONE of this would be possible.

Contributed by
Muz
Proud Toastmaster 2007-present
President of KPMG KL Toastmasters Club (2009/2010)