Merdeka Steamboat Gathering

Hey Everyone! Is the 1st gathering of the year... We are going to have it @ one of our member's residence... the details?

Here it goes:

Venue:
Taman Fulliwa, Mile 3 1/2,
Lorong Fulliwa 1, Lot 33...

Whose house? - Li Li's

Time & Date:
7pm Start @ 30 Aug 2009 (Sunday) ~ just lovely

Eating Style:
Steamboat! Original steamboat BIG spoon with holes provided... (hmm... just love it...)

Fee:
Ringgit Malaysia Ten (RM10/-)

Dress Code:
Casual + "Selipar"
(of course! Please don't come in suits, or else you have to go home to get a change...) ~ is casual fun time... forget about meeting for that day only...

New members are encouraged to join us and have a count down for Merdeka 52nd? (perhaps) Hurray! Is merdeka time especially for those working.....

If you have no idea how to get there... you can always drop me a line or an email... you can call me @ 0168310220. Good Time????----> Anytime...


Yours....VPPR 2009/10
CC, Shane ------> Signing off for now...

P/S: ..Just a reminder to all, please confirm your attendance soon as we need to cater enough food for everyone. See you there!!!

Last minute confirmation is ok, you only get to eat the leftovers... that's all, no big deal right? (hahaha... just kidding)

Training Meeting on 13th August 2009

"Unwittingly", our club has achieved 3 full goals and 2 half goals...

The training meeting on 13th August was flooded with fun "NEW MEMBERS".

We have 10 new members being inducted into Sandakan Toastmasters Masters Club. Yes, is 10, not 3, not 5, not 6, but a solid "10" new members.

(induction of 9 out of the 10 new members)

If you want to know our new members better, come and join our fellowship gathering:

30th August 2009, TM Lily Chang's resident @ Taman Fu Lai Wah.

The training meeting was fun-filled, just look at the following pictures and you will agree with me:

The Masked-Man



The "No-face-see-people" man

The birthday boys and girl. From Right: Barnabas Fung, Venessa & the Oversea Buddha.

Pharmacist Winnie's speech on "The Healing Kitchen" ~ The three herbs that she introduced were: Ginger, Lemon & Vinegar.

Engineer Jimmy speech titled "Don't be shy"

President Amy taught us how to make a Hakka dish "Lei Cha", and she promised to make "Lei Cha" during the forth coming gathering....

The next training meeting falls on 27th August 2009 @ Same time @ Same place.

Please contact VPE Alice Kok to offer to take up roles and attend the coming meeting. I remembered "someone" promised to bake a cake for us on the 27th August meeting.... stay tuned.

Correction ~ New members

Can you remember that I blogged about having recruited not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but 5 new members early this term?

Well, I was wrong..... please accept my sincere apologies. SORRY.....

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Apparently, i made a mistake.......We actually managed to recruit 6 new members.

How dare I under-estimate the club's capability to recruit more members!

The 6th member is..... Alvin Lim Shee Wai (brother of TM Jane Lim)....

Congratulations to President Amy Hiew and VPM Ling How Kee. With this pace, we definitely can recruit 2 more new members and achieve the 2 membership goals in due time.

Our 2nd Baby

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As we are all aware, St. Cecilia is an all girls school and that's where we have successfully chartered our 2nd gavel club after Sung Siew. *clap hands*




The Gaveliers at St. Cecilia had their maiden meeting on 1 August 2009 and 5 of us attended the meeting - they were President Amy Hiew, VPE Alice, VPPR Shane, IPP Norman and our great mentor Datin Grace who chaired the meeting. Since it's their first ever meeting, it's not surprised that the teachers and the students were a little confused and unorganized. We all understood and bear with them. After all, I think that's why we were there for them, to provide guidance along the way.




I had a lot of thinking when i was in that school because i myself was a cecilian, i left the school about a decade ago and it was my first time stepping my feet into the school since then. Having attended the gavel club's maiden meeting made me realize that teenagers nowadays are so much different from where i was eons ago. They are more technology savvy, they talk about their vision for the future, they are so enthusiastic to try out new things and of course, most important of all, they are not afraid to stand up and speak in front of a crowd. There are about 50+ members in the gavel club and so many of them wanted to present their ice breaker speech but due to time constraint, the teacher in charge only allowed 3 of them to speak. Can you imagine how disappointing for those who didn't have the opportunity to perform their speeches?
I was the evaluator for one of the speaker's speech and i was amazed on how well she presented the speech, obviously she prepared the speech and she already demonstrated some basic skills in public speaking and an icing to the cake - she can take evaluation in an adult's way, i am sure we can see improvement in her next speech already.



That aside, my point is, even teenagers are so eager and not afraid to speak out and have so much to share, why couldn't we adults perform better in the training meetings? Of course, we have some who are already doing very well, but what i really want to see is; those who have not started on their manual speech to start preparing and don't be tensed when we assign you with roles, because (trust me) you will only grow and improve through speeches and roles playing. If you think you have difficulties to start on your speech, please call us or email us, anyone of us will be willing to help, especially me =)


Enough said, i hope to see you in our next training meeting on 13 August, same place, same time.


Your VPE,
Alice Kok

The meeting with the attendance of only 8 members

It was the 2nd meeting of the term 2009/2010, and only 8 members attended the training meeting on 23rd July 2009.



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Bravo...... Well Done....... Good Job!!!!




You think I am out of my mind? No..... It was a "very special meeting"..... as we had 13 guests!




We have successfully recruited new members during the meeting.



Not 1 new member, more than that.....



Not 2 new members, a little bit more than that.....



Not 3 new members, a little bit more please..... we can do better than that!





4 new members? One more???




Yes! We have recruited "5", "Lima", new members.... highest record ever in a single meeting..... and it was only the 2nd training meeting of the term!



Our guests.....Vanessa Lim, Chong Chan Yau, Averil Foo (Amy's daughter), Devy and Redzuan have agreed to sign up!

Welcome to the club and let's share the joy of learning in a fun and conducive environment.




Top Left: Averil, Tracia, Ms. Wong, Venessa, Lily, Devy, Constance, Madonna, Chong, Redzuan.





Seated Left: Shane, Dusun, Datuk Hassan, President Amy, Norman, Kenny, Barnabas.



Camera Man: Ling How Kee



*Missing from the group photo are the 4 potential members from Public Bank.




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Devy receiving her award from Table Topics Master as the best table topics speaker.

Question : Who's the most important person in your life?

Answer : My mother is the most important person in my life. She is the one who carried me in her womb for 9 months and 10 days. She is the one who blew my nose when I had runny nose....

14th Installation Nite

Oh God... Look at the Bling Bling!

Sandakan Toastmasters Club just created a moment to remember on 18 July 2009 @ Sandakan Yacht Club for their 14th Installation with the theme 'Champagne Night'.

As promised....here it goes:-

(in random mode)

1st TLI - for the term 2009/10

12 July 2009..That was the day to kick start the ball rolling for the new term! Officers were being trained to lead the new term. 4 of us attended the 1st TLI (Training and Leadership Institute) training at Wisma Sabah, KK from 9AM till 2PM and with this training our club has earned itself half a goal and it's only the beginning of the term. Certainly, this is a good start for our club. The officers who attended the training are:

1. CL Amy Hiew, The President
2. CC Alice Kok, The VP of Education
3. CC CL Ling How Kee, The VP of Membership
4. CC Shane Ho, The VP of Public Relations

TOP 4 officers were THERE! Although it was Sunday, when everyone should be laying in their beds, dreaming of their prince charmings or their beautiful princesses but our officers have taken up the roles so seriously that they left those dreams behind (probably dated to meet again on Monday night) to attend the training. With this little sacrifice, we have 9.5 goals to go.

All of us learned skills & new ideas on how to further improve the club's current status. As a new comer to the officer rank, I believe I've gained tremendously throughout the training AND I think with the support from the Excos and the members - we can, again reach 10 out of 10 goals soon. Let's keep up the good work and let's up keep the current status of our club as 'President Distinguished Club' for the years to come!



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Here they are:-

Us, the DG (District Governor) and the trainers. Taken during lunch break.

Woah... our officers (Amy and Alice) sat beside DG! How honourable... and they had time for photo session?

Look at me! I ain't better off... I had time for photo session

too while DG was giving his opening speech...

VPPR 2009/10
CC Shane Ho

p/s: Counting 1..2..3..4.. Yes! 5 more days to the installation of our club... if you are not aware yet, please contact us fast as the tickets are selling out like hot cakes!