First Meeting of 2010

Happy New Year!!

14 January 2010 was the first ever meeting in the year 2010 and the turn up was promising for us to believe that this year will be another year just like before.


We had TM Chong Chan Yau as the TME and there were 2 guests who enjoyed the meeting and one of them has decided to sign up! Hooray! Our new member is Sylvester Tan who also won the best speaker for the table topic session.




Aside from the routine roles and sessions, we had 5 speakers on that night and our club has achieved another 2 DCP goals when CL Ling How Kee presented his second presentation for ALB and Datin Grace also presented her second presentation to complete her ACS. Bravo to both of them!


The birthday baby for January is our lovely Mdm. President Amy Hiew where we have a very delicious kiwi cheesecake to celebrate for her. Everyone loved the cake!


I'll leave you with some photos for your viewing pleasure.








The next meeting is on 28 January 2010, hope to see you then!

Times like this...

There were only 12 members attended the meeting last night (10 Dec 2009) because it's holiday season and most of the members have already turned on their holiday mode. Therefore, meetings during year end or beginning of the year will normally attended by less members and guests.


However, 12 members are always better than none and we have 5 speakers last night. Our Mdm. President Amy Hiew even completed her 10th Competent Communicator manual project to help us kill some time and to earn 0.5 goal, in the impromptu way. *bravo* She also bought a very nice cheesecake from Secret Recipe to share with us, everyone loved it.




Our humor session was actually a speech by TM Vanessa because she has so many funny stories about her helper at home and all of us laughed our hearts out and asked for more. Unfortunately, she was only allowed to speak for 5-7 minutes for a CC manual speech, we told her to do a part 2, just like what TM Jimmy did for his 7th CC manual speech about the benefits of coffee (part 2). Not a bad idea to do speeches, in this case, we will run out of topic or don't know what to talk about.




Not to forget that TM Alex who grabbed this opportunity to present his CC manual speech during his long holiday break and he gained plenty of confidence talking about the skills needed to speak publicly. I think he absorbed the skills while preparing for the speech, bravo to him too! Nonetheless, our VPM CL Ling also completed his ACB 9, which means we are one step nearer to achieve another goal! We look forward to his next speech.


I would like to take this opportunity to remind all that our next meeting which falls on 24 December has been canceled due to it's a Christmas Eve and almost everybody will be busy on that night. So the next meeting will be on 14 Jan 2010.


Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010!


Regards,
Alice Kok
VPE 2009/2010
Sandakan Toastmasters Club

Training Meeting on 10th December 2009

If you did not attend the training meeting on the 10th December, you won't know what you were missing.

Table Topics Question: What will you do if you found out that you only have 6 more months to live?

You will probably expect some standard answer like: "I will treasure my remaining days and stay close to my relatives".

But not this lady, our Humour Master of the evening, Vennessa Lim:

If I only have 6 more month to live, the first thing that I will do is to look for a good, spacious and comfortable coffin.

I will take lots of photograph with my family members, so that they will always remember my face after I am died.

I will look for my enemy and ask them to forgive me. If they still don't forgive me, I will "make them to forgive me", if not, I will come back and look for them as a ghost. They then sure forgive me.

I will buy lots of junk food, and stuffs... so that my coffin is filled up.

Last but not least, I will make sure I "sleep" like this on my last day.

This "Christmas Cake" was a very delicious cake specially prepared by Madam President

...... It's call "High Fiber Cheese Cake". Don't be fool by the name High-Fiber.... It was very delicious.... highly recommended by Datuk Hassan!

"The best cake I have ever tasted in a Toastmasters meeting!" Datuk Hassan

Even our bakery specialist Averil Foo also could not resist the temptation and continue to enjoy the cake during the meeting session.... that shows how great it was.

5 Speakers presented their manual speeches during the meeting:

Alex Yong - CC 4 "The skills of public speaking"

Jimmy Leong - CC 7 "Benefit of Coffee"

Ling How Kee - ACB 9 "To join or not to join Toastmaster"

Amy Hiew - CC 10 "How to become the President of Toastmasters Club"

and last, Vennessa Lim - CC 4 "My family legendary maid"

In the photo, TM Alex Yong presenting his CC-4 project. The only command that I can give is.... He has improved a lot as compared to his previous projects. He is now very steady, confident and at ease. Congratulation to you Alex.

Due to technical problem with my hp camera, I am unable to capture more pics during the meeting. The meeting was fun-filled with lots of "silly jokes" from our humorous speech speaker.

Can't wait for the next meeting....

Upcoming Training Meeting ~ 10th December 2009

Dear Fellow Member of Sandakan Toastmasters Club,

Please come to support us on the forthcoming meeting on the following date/time/venue:

Date : 10th December 2009

Time : 7:30pm Sharp

Venue : Mark's Lodge Meeting Room

The following speakers will be presenting their manual speeches:

1. Ling How Kee ~ ACB 9
2. Chong Chan Yau - CC 7
3. Alex Yong - CC 4
4. Jimmy Leong ~ CC 7
5. JR Chia ~ ACB 3

and.... ACB CL Luna will be back all the way from Aussie to attend this meeting.

Don't miss the chance to learn and explore the possibility!

Please contact Norman Chin, 013-8633907 or Amy Hiew, 012-8185418 or Alice Kok, 0168264272 to find out the details.

Let's Start Sharing!

Have you ever wonder how to promote our beloved club more? To sponsor members more? To help others to speak more? To help others to get promoted in their job more? Well, since I am your VPPR for this term, I just wanted to do a quick share with you all. The information from this post is taken from the Toastmasters International's website on the 17 ideas on how and where to promote Toastmasters and they are via:-

1. Newspaper

2. Electronic Media

3. Local Government

4. Chamber of Commerce

5. Libraries

6. Corporate Publication

7. Employee Orientation

8. "Welcome to the Community" Packets

9. University & Community College

10. High Schools

11. Community Events

12. Proclamations by Politician

13. Billboards

14. Offer Speechcraft and Youth Leadership Programs

15. Create Club Business Cards

16. Use TI Bumper Stickers & Mugs

17. Wear your Toastmasters Pins

(You can read more on it from this article)

I hope everyone has a few a idea on how to stretch our wings further in the city of nature, Sandakan. Let us hold our hand and explore all the possibility together for another half of this term and beyond.

If you have any great ideas and you would like to contribute to help expand our marketability to help others to grow... you are more than welcome to share with us and let's make Sandakan Toastmasters Club, a club of everybody choice. Till then... catch up with you next meeting same time, same place! Cheers...

Sung Siew Gavel Club Installation

Hi everyone!! Is me... your VPPR, after missing from action. Luckily we got our lovely VPE, Alice to do the posting for me or else you will be missing a whole lots of fun. Now, is back to work... last Friday (6 Nov 2009) our very first Gavel Club in town has finally conducted the installation at Sandakan Hotel with smiles and thumbs up the whole night. They are the Sung Siew Gavel Club!! Sung Siew Secondary School was my former school - really proud of them. The whole installation was all fun, fun, fun, and more fun. What is the fun like? Well, we got talented singers, cool dancers, and even actors too.

I think I better stop writing and start showing you all the pictures instead, like I always said action pictures speak louder than words (sometimes). So, here it goes:-

The backdrop

Before the show starts... us with the teacher advisers

Group Photo

Donation to Sung Siew Gavel

The Members of Sandakan Toastmasters Club.... hmm.. someone is missing... where is Averil???

That's our VPE, Alice and Gavel's Secretary Kimberly

and that's me.. and the lovely President of Sung Siew Gavel Celestina

We were able to capture some nice videos too:-

Video 1: The Trio Dancers

Video 2: The White Masked Dancers

(half way done... too bad memory run low)

What's next? Don't forget to come & support - see you on 12/11/09, same time, same place.

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