KPMG KL on Sat 23 April 2011
With the evaluator roles filled by visiting Toastmasters from AFC, Friendship, Mid Valley and MII Toastmasters Club, it was a meeting of learning and sharing for members from 5 clubs.

With two Ice Breaker speeches and two advanced manual speeches, we were glad that we did not have to curtail the meeting to resume work as it was a Saturday meeting.

New members Janice and Michelle presented “So You Think You Know Janice” and “The Other Michelle”. Coincidentally, the other Michelle, namely Michelle Yip, presented her Monodrama speech from the Interpretive Reading manual. We heard the evil and gloating voice of Green Goblin from the Spider Man movies. Last but not least, Joanita presented her Interpersonal Communication speech.

Thank you to TME Joanita who treated us to fruit tarts which she had baked for us. It provided a sweet ending to this lunch meeting!



Exact ADC on Tue 26 April 2011
By Caroline, Exact ADC

TME Andrew introducing the theme of the day “Friendly” (also the word of the day). As Malaysia was recently voted the 9th friendliest country, Andrew asked members their thoughts about the friendliness of Malaysians. In his President’s speech, he talked about the values of friendliness and the role Toastmasters play as an avenue to make more friends.

Table Topics Master Hoey Teng prepared two sets of cards – one set with the table topic title, and another set on the stand which the speaker is to take, i.e. if the speaker agreed, disagreed or remain neutral on the topic from the first set of cards. Instead of having volunteers, Hoey Teng handpicked speakers and invited them to come up to the stand.

General Evaluator Brenda pointed out that the table topic session of handpicking speakers instead of getting members to volunteer, exemplified real life situations where you would most likely be called upon and asked an opinion. It is a good experience to test how fast your brain thinks. With that, Table Topics Evaluator Chee Yoong was inspired to evaluate differently too. Instead of doing the evaluation from his viewpoint, he invited the speakers themselves to answer (i)How well do you think you did? and (ii) If you were to do it again, how would you do it differently?


This was followed by Caroline’s Project #3 assignment speech, from the CC Manual. Her speech titled “Ipoh Mali” served to introduce the little wonders Ipoh had to offer from the colonial architecture to the natural limestone hills and many local delicacies. It would have been a nice touch if some of the Ipoh food spoken about were shared at the meeting!

Area Governor Angeline also shared news of Area W3 Blog being selected as one of the best website of District 51, with the results to be announced during the Penang Convention. She thanked Chee Yoong for his contribution to the success of the Blog, as he was the creator of the Area Blog.

One World on Thur 28 April 2011

In the Table Topics Session headed by Meifen, Sam told us he would give us his candid (word of the day) opinion about his favourite colour. With 5 other volunteers giving us their candid opinions, we were enjoying impromptu speeches about love, happiness, confidence, success and even about pirated DVD.


In Amenny’s presentation about DISC, we learnt that knowing whether someone is in the Dominance, Influence, Steadiness or Compliance quadrant will help us to understand and handle various personalities that we will encounter everyday.

Lay Choo, visiting from TARC Toastmasters Club, provided a CANDID evaluation for Amenny, consisting of the words Clear, Awesome, Nice smile, Descriptive, Interactive and Direct. For her outstanding CANDID evaluation, she won the Best Speech Evaluator award.