Friday, December 11, 2009

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....

Monday, December 7, 2009

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.