With the successful conclusion of our club officers’ election, Friendship is pleased to announce that the Club Officers for term 2011/2012 are

President – Angeline Lee
Vice President of Education – Chor Chee Hoe
Vice President of Membership – Alexandra Lau
Vice President of Public Relations – Susan Lim
Secretary – Daphne Au
Treasurer – Ian Tai
Sergeant At Arms – Andy Supramaniam

Past President Freddie has nothing but praise for our President, who has also completed the project requirements for Competent Leader (CL) and Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB).

President Zaiton deserves heaps of praises for her strings of achievements during her tenure. The term is filled with many events which she led persistently from the drawing board to fruition.

President Zaiton, your dynamism has certainly taken Friendship on a higher plane. Congratulations and a big THANK YOU for your outstanding leadership!



Hasil on Fri 6 May 2011

President Piras never fails to amaze (word of the day) us with his eloquence and enthusiasm on his reading habit. After sharing with us nuggets of information about Tun Mahathir’s book, he then asked us to pick up the reading habit, as reading leads to information. Information leads to knowledge, and knowledge is power.

With Table Topics Master Khif providing interesting topics on Malaysians’ reading habit, sending children to music school and Facebook, everyone spoke their mind on the various topics. Timer Joriah had to remind us that time was up for the 20 minutes session.


First-timer TME Sotimin warned us he might frighten us with his performance! When he attended his first Toastmasters meeting back in September 2010, his nervousness was apparent to us as he did his first Table Topics. However, his determination to improve and his willingness to take up meeting roles have paid off. Today, we witnessed a remarkable transformation to a confident speaker, as he performed his TME role with ease.


Exact ADC on Tue 10 May 2011
By Caroline, Exact ADC

Table Topics Master Edward prepared topics which were closely related to “Mother”, the theme of the day. First up, Brenda was asked to brag about her mom. She spoke of her mom’s great cooking and how it has resulted in her acquired taste for good wholesome cooking, made with motherly love. Our first time guest, Kang Ling Chee spoke about her strict mother when she was a teenager, which resulted in her siblings and her growing up as obedient children. Second time guest Judy Cheong, expressed that it would not be any different if Mother’s or Father’s day no longer exists, as you do not need a specific day to celebrate or spend time with your parents. Next speaker, Andrew, would bring his Mom to Singapore for a vacation if she were still alive.


In the assignment speech session, Wan Suzielawati was a natural at delivering her Ice Breaker speech. Suzie told us stories of her childhood and upbringing, living with “Mak Tek”. Mak Tek is her foster mother, whom she still lives with, and is someone very close and dear to her. Mak Tek was always there for her and they spent a lot of time together.


One World on Thur 12 May 2011    

In this meeting, TME CK Ho informed us that we will be travelling from Europe to Japan as we listened to two project speeches on “How To Say It”. VPPR Ivan brought us to Europe while President Jessica shared with us her hilarious tale of her first visit to a Sento, a public bathing place in Japan. General Evaluator Kang, Area W2 Governor, had us laughing out loud when he said that Jessica’s demonstration of the size of a handkerchief had our imaginations running wild as to how she made used of it before she dipped into the hot water.


At the end of the meeting, Division W Governor DTM Vincent introduced John Cheah, the incoming Area Governor for One World, which will be aligned to Area W5 wef 1 July 2011. John has started on his club visits to get to know his clubs before his duties officially starts on 1 July.

For John’s entertaining evaluation of Jessica’s speech, he won the Best Speech Evaluator award whereas Jessica was the clear favourite for the Best Project Speaker award.