Friendship on Tue 5 April 2011

At our “Magical Transformation” 5 April 2011 meeting, Past President James Arokiasamy who was our TME asked us, “How are we feeling?” Then he held up a cue card with the word “AWESOME” written on it. Indeed it was awesome, as we had 7 visiting Toastmasters from 5 clubs ! They were

General Evaluator DTM Geoff Andrew from MIM KL
Invocation speaker DTM Mohamad Abdullah from MII
Evaluators Daniel Teh and Jocelyn Lim, and guest Alireza from AFC
Evaluator V.S. Ravi from UEM
Patrick Lim from ITC Bintang

Another awesome fact was that we had 4 non-Toastmasters guests and two of them, Rosalie and Sylvia, signed up as members !

Thanks to the effort of VPPR Alexandra to send out Facebook invitations, Patrick of ITC Bintang decided to attend our meeting as well.



Exact ADC on Tue 12 April 2011
By Caroline, Exact ADC

For the first part of the meeting, Table Topic Master Chee Yoong prepared table topics based on pictures. Volunteers were asked to select a number and the Table Topic Master revealed a picture which the speaker had 2 minutes to talk about. The table topics session was definitely a nice change and an innovative way to encourage most of the members to participate.

In the assignment speech session, Boby delivered his Ice Breaker speech, titled “Life is Unpredictable”. Hailing from West Sumatra, he shared about his family and his ambition to study and work abroad. He felt that life was full of the unpredictable, just as how he came to work in Exact.


After the break, General Evaluator Ai Shiang, who filled in at the last minute, professionally handled the role even though it was her first time. She suggested to provide an additional stopwatch for the timer, so that it was easier to time entire sessions, while timing individual speakers.


KPMG KL Wed 13 April 2011
By Grace, KPMG KL

At this meeting, our guys took over the stage !

Tell me which club has 3 IT guys bravely giving their CC speeches PLUS they are not talking about computer or programming.


Jowy told us how he got his unique name "JOWY" and it is indeed different from the norm. Be unique, be different and stand out from the rest.

Chee Sing inspired us to dream and to create our own future. He reminded us about the dreams and stories of Thomas Edison and his light bulb, the Wright brothers and the airplane and even Tony Fernandes and Air Asia.

Gary confirmed that with his experiences in IT, with changes, comes resistance. He assured us that the world is moving ahead with time and new technology. He concluded that it is time to be, "Out with the Old and In with the New"

We also had a large group of visitors! Lead by Samantha Tai of MAICSA Toastmasters Club, who is also head of Boardroom Corporate Services, her team of 15 staff visited our club.