A little update

Hello! It's Alice here again. Since i'm the one holding all the photos from all occasions, i shall share the photos and do a little update at the same time.


For the past month, we have attended the installation dinner of Kota Kinabalu Advanced Toastmasters Club and in conjunction with that, the Division K Humorous & Evaluation speech contests. Both functions were great and it's always good to meet up with fellow toastmasters from other clubs.

From left: Enoch (KKTMC), Rozana Yunus (champion for Div K Evaluation Speech Contest)and Sophiana (champion for Div K Humorous Speech Contest), Amy, Alice and Jasmine (KKTMC)


We also took this opportunity to meet up with the members who have transferred to KK, they were Melissa, Lily and Alex. We have a great Italian dinner at Grazie upon the recommendation from Enoch and everyone laughed their hearts out that night.

Till the next update.

Training Meeting 29 October 2009

Hello Members!

It's your VPE Alice here.

It's been a while since i wrote on this blog as most of the posts were done by our VPPR Shane Ho. Since i've got all the nice photos with me,i shall be the one who update this post.


We have a great meeting last night because our Area K2 Governor Eleanor Pang, ACG was here for her official club visit and we were also very honored to have our Division K Governor Datuk Hassan, ACG and District 51 Rest Mentoring Chair Datin Grace, ALB,ACB presented in the meeting. Imagine that.....it's almost like a council meeting already!


We have CL Ling How Kee as our Toastmaster of the Evening and he has prepared a special warming up session for us to mesmerize our childhood by playing a game when the music stopped and whoever was holding the mic on his/her hand, he/she would have to sing a kiddy song. Shane, Vanessa and Amy were the "victims" and they sang, no kidding! Times are bad now, all of us need to do something before we are awarded with any prizes and the prizes for them was - pure canola oil.



We have 2 speakers last night and they were JR Chia and Datin Grace. Now, i would like to take this opportunity to urge you to start looking at your manual and plan your next speech. As Datin Grace said "you pay TI dues and club fees and you are not going to get nothing, you must make your money worthwhile". Yes, members, i know the fellowship in the club is excellent, but you have got to make progress and improve yourselves, intellectually and emotionally. We would love to see everyone gains something from the club, besides the beautiful friendship. Therefore, please call me or approach anyone of us to make your first step, begin with taking up simple role and make yourself comfortable speaking little by little in the meeting. Trust me, it helps, because we learn by doing.


As usual, we ended the meeting with a group photo of the night!





Our TME for the next meeting is JR Chia, the meeting date is 12 November 2009, same place, same time. See you there!

Area K2, Humorous & Evaluation Speech Contest

Yes, the club did it again! Sandakan Toastmasters Club has successfully organized the Area K2 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Speech contests on 27 Sept 2009, with participation from Sandakan Toastmasters Club, Pidato Toastmasters Club and Tawau Toastmasters Club. The results are as follows:-

Humorous Speech:-

1. Grace Yong - Pretty Woman (Tawau Toastmasters Club)

2. Shane Ho - A Date with a Toastmaster (Sandakan Toastmasters Club)

Evaluation Speech:-

1. Norman Chin (Sandakan Toastmasters Club)

2. Grace Yong (Tawau Toastmasters Club)

The winners with the organizing committee

Yeah! Contest Chair, Area K2 Governor Eleanor Pang presenting the winner's trophy to Norman.

Members waiting for the contest to start

Organising Chairperson Luna in Action

It was a great morning and we even had members of the public who walked in to see how the participants have benefited from the Toastmasters training.

Mooncake Gathering - 26 Sept 2009

It was another GREAT night for gathering... and the theme was MoonCake gathering. Well, let the pictures do the talking for this time:-

Cool... right? For those who didn't manage to turnup, look at what you have missed!

24th Sept 2009 Meeting

It was a great night! Many members turned up last night and our "past-past-past" area governor ACB Luna Chua and her daughter were also there. Apart from having two speakers for the manual speeches, the participants who are representing the club to the Area level this Sunday were given stage time to "polish" their competition speeches.

Wordmaster of the day, Tm Vannessa Lim reporting on how many times her chosen word 'magical' was used.

Good crowd! ain't this meeting fun!

Smile!

Again, Smile please!

President Amy

General Evaluator Luna!

Everyone had an enjoyable night and guess who was taking the picture for us? She's the girl that has been shying away from the camera.... she is Luna's girl... another Vanessa.... Vanessa Pang

Hey guys, don't miss out this Sunday - The Area Level Humorous & Evaluation Speech Contests at The Mark's Lodge @ 10am. Don't worry about the fees,..it's free! So, do come and share the moment by supporting our representatives in this contest & let us learn from the pros from the area level and let's see who will be representing our area to the division level which will be held on the 11 Oct 2009 @ KK. Hope to see you there!

Humorous & Evaluation Speech Contest

The club has successfully held the Humorous Speech & Evaluation Speech contests on the 10th September 2009 with quite a number of contestants. The contest chair for that night was none other than our very own VPE, Alice Kok, CC. The results are as below:-

Humorous Speech Contest:
1. Shane Ho - A date with a Toastmasters
2. Jimmy Leong - How to tell if a guy likes you
3. Winnie Lee - My beloved customers

Evaluation Speech Contest:
1. Norman Chin
2. Shane Ho
3. Ling How Kee

Congratulations to all the winners !! The champion and the 1st runner-up from each category will represent our club to the Area level which will be held on the 27th September 2009, 10am at the Mark's Lodge.

The winners from both categories

The judges of the day~

Good support from members and guests... it was a great turn up!

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The birthday girls of September.... Delicious chocolate moist cake!

See you in our next meeting which will be on 24 September 2009.

OMG!? Look at those....

FOOOoooood!!!!! and only RM10! (for each member)

Food for the steamboat party.... beancurds, fishballs, 50 cents size Scallops and much more.

(Slurp..Slurp....sorry, I'm still salivating from the thought of those great food)

Yummy..Yummy.. huge 'springy' fish balls that are not easily found in the local markets. I wonder where our host Lili got them??? !

Oh~ now come the king of all kings! Giant oysters!!! Gosh~ you have no idea how high our cholesterol has shot up that night... have to eat more fish after this... to get those Omega 3 coming in.

Colorful Desserts!!!!

Our favourite!!!!.... Very delicious mango pudding! The texture and taste of the pudding were so much better than those served in the hotel restaurants.

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After dinner!

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While most of the members relaxed after dinner, the host and our mentor chair washed the dishes.. and what was the organizing chairperson doing back there with Henry?

The highlight of the day: -

"come with an empty stomach, but leave with a tummy & a smile"

Everyone enjoyed the night. Thank you all for your time and especially to our host Li Li for preparing all those GREAT food! Can we have more of that?.... hahaha...

Yours VPPR 2009/10
Shane Ho, CC