District 87 1st Semi-Annual Convention

The first ever semi-annual convention of the new District 87 was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 26th to 28th November 2010. Five members from Sandakan Toastmasters Club participated in this unforgettable event.

The 'gang'...

The flight from Sandakan to Jakarta pratically took the whole day ... Morning flight from Sandakan to Kuala Lumpur and after that, evening flight from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta. We arrived in Jakarta with grumbling stomachs... Division K Governor, Datin Grace Chiu treated us dinner at the hotel that we stayed in and where the event was hold. Mercure Hotel at Ancol.

The dinner costed almost ONE MILLION Rupiah. Huh... *Wiping sweats on forehead...* 20 pieces of 50, 000 Rupiah notes gone... just like that...

The next morning, after we had our breakfast at the hotel's cafe, Division K Governor attended the District Executive Council Meeting while the rest explored one of Jakarta shopping malls to see what it could offer to us. Mangga Dua shopping mall.

Trying to squeeze ourselves at the back seats of the taxi. 



After that, everyone headed back to the hotel to doll up to get ready for the 'Welcome Night' Dinner at the City Hall of Jakarta. All the delegated boarded hired buses, escorted by the local traffic polices. For the first time in our lives, we kinda felt like some sort of VIPs or royalties.

Yup... Toastmasters members know how to party hard...

The very next day, educational workshops were conducted. There were four speakers. The first one was Tantowi Yahya, a local TV persona turned politician. He shared his amazing experiences in how he became succesful.

The next speaker in line was Hingdranata Nikolay, who is the first licensed trainer of Neuro-LinguisticProgramming (NLP) under teh society of NLP. He is also the the CEO and Master Trainer at NLP Indonesia and INSPIRASI Indonesia, currently one of the most well-known popular training instituitions in Indonesia. He emphasized that each and everyone of us have a 'theme' in our lives. For him, it is 'happiness'.

The third speaker was non other than Papa Gerald Green, with his educational session entitled "What They Didn't Teach You in School". One of the most important things that the some teachers tend to neglect is the importance of listening. Papa also shared his funny childhood stories during the school days.

The educational session ended with DTM Dunstan Chan, past District Governor, being the last speaker of the day. It was started off by an interesting introduction by a MC dressing up as some kind of French guy.

And here he came, dressed up as a cool Arabian fatso.

DTM Dunstan Chan entertained the audience with one of the famous stories 1001 Nights, how a lady postponed her execution by her husband, the King, by telling him stories every night without ending the stories. The King was so curious on the ending and thus postponed his wife's execution.

His daring 'Dare to Shine' vest...

He taught the audience how to use stories in doing our speeches. We may make a little bit of twist and alterations in the stories, don't really need to follow excatly like the original stories. After this educational workshop, CC Jimmy Leong was immediately inspired and presented his first ACB speech once he returned to Sandakan.

Straight after the educational worshops was the Gala Night Dinner. IPP Amy Hiew received her President's Distinguished Award.

Look how happy she is...

Not forgetting Division K Governor, Datin Grace Chiu won the first runner up for the best dressed.

 

Datuk Hassan from Sandakan Pidato Club also received his DTM award.

On the last day of the convention, the evaluation and humorous speech contests were conducted. Everyone enjoyed the convention so much. The money spent on the air flights and accommodations surely worth it. After the convention ended, the members spent a few days at Bandung where they spent money like nobody's business until they had no money left for breakfast at the airport. The Division K Governor once again saved the lives of the poor hungry souls of Amy, Amy's kids, Jimmy, Winnie and Vannessa...

There is a new website for the new born district 87. Check it out for more information:

http://www.district87.net/

Be Afraid... Be Very Da Afraid....

WARNING:

The content of this blog is not suitable / appropriate for those who have faint hearts...

In other word, CHICKEN!!!

What you are about to read may scare the hell out of you and resulting in wetting your sexy underwears...

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This is your last warning...

Once you start scrolling down the page, there is no turning back. You must finish reading the entire content of this blog or else bad luck will befall upon you...

Muahahahaha... (*EVIL LAUGHTER*)

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WELCOME TO YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!!!...

On the eerie night of 28th October 2010, Sandakan Toastmasters Club had organised an outdoor Halloween Theme Training Meeting, at New City, Bandar Utama.

Dinner was served prior to the training meeting. The food served consist of juicy human brains, crispy human eyes and fresh human blood...

Not exactly...

Anne Tan couldn't resist her temptations...

President Alice Kok shall have the first cut on the pie...

On that unforgettable night, there were 13 guests and 10 members who attended the training meeting.

Potential members...

Mmm... yummy sacrifices...

"Sacrifices are needed in order to carry out a very important ritual (achieveing DCP goals)..."

When the cuckoo clock of DOOM striked 7.30 pm, the real nightmare began.

The Halloween Theme Training Meeting started.

The Toastmasters of the Evening was **********

Her name shall not be written / said or else....

You will turn into this...

However, by looking at the following photos, you will know who the hell was that person...

Making her entrance once her forbidden name was called out...

The guests were briefly explained how a Toastmasters training meeting is usually conducted. All the role players explained their roles.

Most of the guests even took part in the table topics session. That was a remarkable achievement as it takes a lot of courage to stand up and speak in front of a group of people, even if it's only a minute speech.

The guest who was chosen as the best table topic speaker...

Receving a yummy box of chocolate from the Table Topics Master of that night, ACS Datin Grace Chiu

A member of the club was also chosen as the best table topic speaker...

And that person was none other than...

The Area K2 Gorvenor, ACS Norman Chin...

He shall only gratefully receive a bag of garlics from the TME...

Garlics are very good...

1) You can cook them.

2) You can eat them after you cook them.

3) You can digest them in the stomach after you eat them.

4) You can use them to ward off blood sucking creatures such as vampires / draculas and mosquitoes.

During the 20 minutes break, everyone took the opportunity to celebrate Anne Tan's and Datuk Hassan's birthdays.

Check out the cute scary looking carrot cake.

The cake was awesomely yummy... :)

After the break, an award presentation was conducted.

CC Shane Ho, the current Vice President of Membership...

Who has a penchant of dressing up as Bugs Bunny, taking a photo of him close up, looking cute...

Has completed his leadership track and was awarded the Competent Leader award.

Receiving the District 87 "Dare to Shine" pin from the Divison K Governor...

Yup.. the Bunny likes carrot and the pin very much...

Straight after the award presentation, two speeches were delivered.

DTM Datuk Hassan presented his CC 4 speech entitled Power Talking. His speech talks about using the right and better words instead of ironic statements. He advised everyone not to use the word "but" that often as this will show that a person denies the things that are said before that.

CC Vannessa Lim delivered her ACB 2 entitled What the Hell is Halloween. Her speech touches on the origin of Halloween and the common activities done during Halloween. And one of the activities is...

APPLE BOBBING!!!

This is an activity where a person has to get apples from a basin full of water using only the mouth...

Everyone had an awesome, unforgettable and scary night. Miraculously, they survived the night...

Lucky...

Photos of members and guests:

Hopefully the guests have a better insight in what the HELL is Toastmasters International and are interested in joining the club...

If anyone of them is still a little tiny bitsy blur about the club, the TME is willing to sit very closely and explain in great detail... (Look at the photo below to get a better image...)

I WANT WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE ~~~

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

 

Training Meeting 21st October 2010

It was the first training meeting in the month of October 2010. Although there were only 10 members attended, the meeting must go on...

CC Shane Ho, who would be achieving the Competent Leader award towards the end of the meeting, was the Toastmasters of the Evening.

He warmed up the audience by telling his own experience as a test speaker during the Division K Evaluation Speech Contest in Tawau.

Moving on... the Word Master of that meeting, TM Laurence Dumling, introduced the word assiduous, which means showing constant and careful attention. All the members were being assiduous in using the word during the training meeting.

The Table Topic Master of the meeting was none other that Area K2 Governor, ACS Norman Chin. He gave out easy questions such as:-

1) What is your hobby?

2) What is the activity you enjoy most?

3) Who do you admire most and why?

4) What is your personality?

5) Tell us about your strength.

6) What is your weakness?

As easy as the questions look, members seem to have a little bit difficulty in answering those easy questions. In the end , they still managed to answer them in the time allocated. WELL DONE!!! Besides that, everyone get to know more about others because the questions concern on themselves.

However, ACS Norman Chin did throw some hard questions such as:-

1) How can your hobby turn into opportunites?

2) How does your personality make who you are today?

And some members thought they could get away with easy questions... Nice one Area K2 Governor. Some were deceived...

ACS Norman Chin made a confession on that night.....

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Want to know what confession was that?...

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NOT TELLING!!! Ahahahaha....

Nah... it's just that he was not like his usual self in the morning. He felt not motivated. However, after he attended the training meeting on that night, he was back to his usual self again...

HORRAY!!!...

There were three speakers during that night. The first speaker was ACS Norman Chin who was doing his ACG 1 project with his speech title Great Loss.

There he was.. sitting comfortably at the little round table...

He presented a radio news on the the tragic incident of YB EdmundChong. It was a "Great Loss" indeed. May his soul rest in peace.

The second speech was presented by DTM Datuk Hassan on Get to the Point. On his speech, he emphasized on the important elements in presenting a speech.

"What do you want people to do after you deliver your speech?" - One of the important elements.

KISS - Keep It Short & Simple - Another important element.

Yup... The speech must "kissable"... MUAKS...

The last speech of the night was presented by TM Laurence Dumling on I Cut, I Cook, I Serve. She was doing her CC 4 project.

Well, the members were being deceived once again by her title, thinking that she would talk about food stuff.

But no.....

She applied the chef's daily routines to her daily work at school, how she educates the students. Through her speech, everyone knows that she is a very dedicated teacher...

After the three inspiring speeches, the members were humoured with some funny stories by the Humour Master, CC Vannessa Lim. All the stories had moral values and the members were humorously educated.

Here is one of the funny stories...

A sales representative, an administration clerk and a manager are walking to lunch when they find an antique oil lamp. They rub it and a genie comes out. The genie says,' I'll give each of you just one wish.'

'Me first! Me first!' says the admistration clerk. 'I want to be in the Bahamas, driving a speed boat, without a care in the world.' Puff! She's gone.

'Me next! Me next!' says the sales representative. 'I want to be in Hawaii, relaxing on the beach with my personal masseuse, an endless supply of food and with the love of my life.' Puff! He's gone.

'OK, you're up,' the genie says to the manager. The manager says,' I want those two back in the office after lunch.'

MORAL OF THE STORY: ALWAYS LET YOUR BOSS HAVE THE FIRST SAY

The members learnt a lot of moral values that night and would apply those values in their daily lives.

The next training meeting will be a little bit special because it's gonna be an outdoor Halloween theme training meeting.

BE AFRAID... BE VERY AFRAID...

Muahahaha... (*EVIL LAUGHTER*)