Courage is the Word

Courage that's the word of the day and we have two guests who had took up the courage by participating in the Table Topics Session. Well done girls...

mmm... ... ... Next!

Tok-Tok-Tok, The time now is 7.30pm... Let's Start!

ACS, Datin Grace Chiu is the TME... and during the warm up session she has invited everyone in the meeting to share the experience that they had with Toastmasters

Yes! You are looking at the ticket of our next Installation which scheduled on 17th July 2010 @ Sabah Hotel, Grand Ballroom. Tickets are on sale NOW, Grab it from our Exco and Let's play Masquerade! Price:- RM70 but experience wise... RM100 and above... what a bargain...

What are they presenting you asked? They are the Best Table Topics Speaker of the evening, these gifts - Sup, Soap comes all the way from Bali, Indonesia bought to us by ACB, Norman Chin!

Our Guest... "A" Soap... for you

and... Sung Siew gavelian Teacher Advisor... TM. Ms. Laurence... here you go, another soap from ACB, Norman.

What's interesting over there?

Hi, I am CC, Alice... (actually CC, Shane is testing out his Camera)

Meeting Meeting Meeting

02 Apr, meeting commenced as usual but what happen to the meeting is totally unusual...

Toastmasters of the Evening is our newly achiever of CC, Vannessa Lim

Who is she? She is Sung Siew's Gavelian Teacher Advisor, TM Laurence - Yup! You guessed it. She is now officially the member of Sandakan Toastmasters Club and her skill in evaluation is so... in details even when she stands in as the language evaluator... Bravo!

Seen any different in the usual fried noodle? Yea, you see the egg there? It was meant for table topics session winner and it ended up becoming everyone food during the break.

Everyone is happy with the food and eggs...

There was nobody celebrating birthday this month (I mean those who come to the meeting), but it is the club's usual practice to do that no matter what happen... and it was delicious... Most of you missed the mango cheese.... too  bad... hahaha

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

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.

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!

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!

27.08.2009 - The Meeting.... cum Party?

Meeting cum Party

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We were celebrating our Mentor Chair's Birthday!!!! Happy Birthday to ACB, CL Datin Grace! Had a great time .......especially the food!!!


A pleasant surprise... New member? he is Edmond Lee... JR Chia's friend who wanted to join the club on that night!!!..Good News!!!! Not only that, Edmond too..had spoken during the table topics session and he can speak very well. He was rewarded with a gift for being the 1st to speak in one of the topics.... Bravo! (Clap... Clap... Clap...)

Norman... don't drive when you drink!

JR continuing his Toastmasters journey... with his ACB 1 explaining how Toastmasters has changed his life and helped his presentation skills... it was a good speech, JR!

What was even more suprising....... the new, the old, the long time and the long lost members have come together and shared this precious moment with our pretty Mentor Chair... Hurray!!!

Training Meeting on 9th July 2009

"A happy woman, is a beautiful woman" ~ Nick Chung

Look at our President Amy...How beautiful and happy she is.



Word of the day was "Equip". It was used 9 times throughout the meeting. Not bad....


Birthday baby for July = TM Jimmy Leong. I heard the cake was extremely delicious.

But you all forgotten about me.. :-( .. i didn't have a slice of it.

From Left: Davina, Wilfred, Nick, Alex, Shane

Chin Khi Hein, Alice Kok, President Amy **** Yeah****, Winnie, Sunny Wong.

Jimmy, Venessa (guest), Nicole (guest), Madonna (not McDonald, guest), Chong (guest) and Datin Grace.


Shane presenting his ACB #2 Speech ~ "The decision maker"



VPE Alice presenting her ACB #2 ~ "The Art of Painless Communication"


She role played with TM Alex Yong to show us the way to communicate effectively.

Our guest Mr. Chong has won himself a gift of 7D/6N Luxury Cruise worth RM 9,999

Charity Dinner Ticket worth RM 60.

Our long lost member, ACS Nick Chung was here to share some humour with us, and he concluded with his congratulation message to the newly elected President Amy with his "silent appreciation".

Last night's training meeting was awesome! Some members who seldom came to the meeting last term (must be last year's President not popular) showed up to support the newly elected President Amy. Nick, Sunny Wong, Davina, Wilfred.... welcome back to you all. Now that Amy is the new President, you all should come more often.

The sandwiches were delicious, no kidding..they were really good! The B'day cake was yummy too! Not a morsel of food was left towards the end of the tea break.

Our guests (highly potential members)... Vanessa, Nicole, Madonna and Chong were at the meeting, and President Amy mistakenly called Chong's girlfirend, Madonna as "McDonald". Was Amy thinking of opening a McDonald's burger branch here in Sandakan??

Hey Amy, next time we go to KK, I buy you McDonald burgers lah.

Alice and Shane presented their ACB projects during the meeting.

From Shane's speech, I learn that "not making any decision" itself, is also a decision.

And Alice has shown us the proper way to solicit a guest to become a member.

The night was fun-filled and definitely "stomach-filled" as well. However, I didn't manage to catch a bite of the Chocolates that Datin Grace brought back all the way from Melbourne.

Wait... did I say "Melbourne"? Datin, have u been screened for H1N1?