Quotation from the founder's file

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well and when you find it, put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

John D. Rockefeller (1839 - 1937)

Meeting on 12th October 2010

We had our first meeting of the month on 12th October 2010. The usual place and the usual time. The usual camera man had to be on duty as the timekeeper. The spare camera woman, TM Rosa brought her camera but forgot the batteries. The honour then went to TM Kenneth who also stood in as the Language Evaluator. He took these photos using his camera phone.

The President opening the meeting. There was a slight twist this time around. He asked ACS Rosa to present her financial report during his Presidential slot.

One of the table topics speaker was ..............

The Tabletopics Master gesturing as he throws the next question.

Tabletopics evaluation was done by this Silver-haired guy. Still handsome and smooth talking.

The Toastmaster of the evening was our resident Dr.

The first speaker was ACB ......... She sure look stylish in this fashion.

The next speaker was ............. A very humorous presentation on computer terminologies.

The silver haired guy in action again. A very dedicated Toastmaster indeed.

Aaaaahhhhh. Finally I got photographed too. Must change roles some times so that I get captured on photos too. But..... I'm doing all the work, how come CC Gt Singam is getting the headache????

Our Lady Engineer practising how to strike up a conversation.

These two talking while waiting for their turn to see the Dr in a clinic. Play acting only.....

The Captain of the club ( He is a Real Captain, seriously) telling his story about how he rescued the crews of a burning ship.

ACS GT Singam evaluating on ACB Amy Siew's speech.

The silver haired guy, DTM Robert Tan evaluating for CC Indra.

Awards session. The best tabletopics speaker goes to .......... This guy should be banned. He always wins.

The Best Speaker goes to....... This lady should be banned too. Wins so many times already.

Aiyoh. You win again ah. This time for Best Evaluator. Definitely should be banned.

It was as usual a fruitful good meeting. Do make an effort to attend the next meeting. Our Captain is bringing 15 Toastmasters from ALAM Toastmasters Club, Malacca to the next meeting. Do come and support your club.

If you are a guest reading this, do come and find out more about our club and what we do.

Till the next report, adios and see you real soon.

Our people: Executive Comittee and Hall of Fame

Executive Committee – 2015/2016
PRESIDENT- Dr Subhassh
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT – Indra Renganathan
VICE PRESIDENT EDUCATION (VPE) – Shunmuganathan
VICE PRESIDENT MEMBERSHIP (VPM) – Indra Renganathan
VICE PRESIDENT PUBLIC RELATIONS (VPPR) - Dilaasha Sathiaselvan
SECRETARY – Rosa Phua
TREASURER – Stephen Francis
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS – Krishna Kumar
ADVISORS :
Capt. Khalid Hashimi
Chandran
Dr. Subhassh
GT Singam
Kat Lee Lan
Lee Kah Tor
Robert Tan
Tan Lai Hock
Yeoh Lian Geok

Immediate Past Presidents

2014/2015 - Indra Renganathan
2013/1014 - Chua Eu Chieh/ Robert Tan
2012/2013 - Amy Siew
2011/2012 - Kay Ku Choy Ha
2010/2011 - Tan Soo Guan
2009/2010 – R Kaladevi
2008/2009 – Capt. Khalid Hashimi
2007/2008 – Donna Kat Lee Lan
2006/2007 – GT Singam
2005/2006 – Chandran
2004/2005 - Dr Subhassh
2003/2004 - Yeoh Lian Geok
2002/2003 - CS Gan
2001/2002 - Rosa Phua
2000/2001 - Stephen Francis
1999/2000 - Robert Tan
1998/1999 - Tan Lai Hock
1997/1998 - LC Wong



Hall of Fame

DTM Robert Tan
2010 – Champion PDTMC Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest
2010 – 1st Runners-up, Area C2 Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest

ACB Amy Siew2009 – Attained Advance Communicator Bronze

Quotation from the founder's file

You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end.

Sidney A Friedman.

Meeting on 28th September 2010

Our club had its normal meeting on 28th September 2010. The following photos captured those moments forever.

The President opens the meeting.

Toastmaster of the evening CC Indra opens her session.

CTM Kala was Tabletopics master.

TM Kenneth was the first tabletopics speaker.

Next was CC Valentine.

CC Sukumaran was called upon too.

The cameraman was not spared either. Wow! never knew I was so fat. Time to slim down.

Our In house Dr, was not spared also.

TM Zulkarnain looks so handsome, he had to be called for Tabletopics.

A general view of the audience. It was full house again.

The only Captain in our club, surely can't be left out of tabletopics.

Time to evaluate tabletopics and it was done by ACB GT Singam.

Time to relax and top up our energy before the next session. It was mee mamak, Singapore bihun or Nasi goreng kg. Special dishes only for those on vegetarian or on special Dr advised diet.

TN Kenneth was the first speaker for the speech session.

TM Indra G was next to speak.

CC Chua Eu Chieh was the third and last speaker for the prepared speeches session.

General Evaluator CC Vallie came on next to chair the meeting.

Speech Evaluator TM Chandran evaluated for TM Kenneth.

The President took on the role of evaluator for TM Indra G.

ATMG Lee Kah Tor evaluated CC Chua Eu Chieh.

Language Evaluator Kay Ku evaluated on the standard of language for the night.

Ah Counter ACS Rosa Phua counted the AHs.

ACB Donna Kat kept time for us.

Awards session and the winner of the Best Tabletopics Awards goes to .................

Best Speaker Award goes to .......................

The Best Evaluator is ............................

The meeting was educational and fruitful. Make sure you attend the coming meeting on 12th

October 2010. Come and participate if you are a member . For non members, come and join us and see what we do if you are interested in finding out what the club is for. I assure you, you will never regret.

Till the next report on the next meeting , here is ACB Tan Lai Hock signing off from this report.

Adios and see you at the next meeting.

Note: Please ignore the date on the photos. Forgot to reset the date before shooting. He he. Sorry ya.

Committee meeting on 5th October 2010

Your club committee met on 5th october 2010 at Curry leaf Restaurant, Seremban at 8.00pm. A total of 14 members were there to plan and discuss developments in the club. It was a fruitful discussion session as various matters were brought up and discussed.

Our Club President, Tan Soo Guan will brief members on the decisions taken at the meeting. Seen below are the photographs that recorded those precious moments.

The meeting ended about 10.30pm.

Upcoming Events (Updated 3 October 2010)

Here's a list of upcoming events that our members might be interested to participat in. If you know of something that we don't, please feel free to put into the comments section so that we can update the list. Once updated, your comments will be deleted.

October 2010
Within PDTMC
Regular Meeting - every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month

Area C2
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Division C
> 3 October - Humourous Speech and Evaluation Contests
UMW Shah Alam Auditorium

District 51
> October 29 -31 - 18th Semi-annual Convention
The Legend Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
http://tm51connects.blogspot.com/

Toastmasters International
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District 51's Semi Annual Convention, 29-3 October 2010

Dear fellow Toastmasters,
The District 51's Semi Annual Convention will be held from 29-31 October 2010.

This time it will be held in Kuala Lumpur. (for those who are unaware, District 51 covers Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei).

Price is RM450 per head, and seats are still open (but selling our fast!). To register, click on the link here:
http://tm51connects.blogspot.com

Regards,
Eu Chieh, VPPR - PDTMC (2010/11)

Humourous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest - Congratulations to DTM Rober Tan!‏

DTM Robert Tan made Port Dickson Toastmasters Club (PDTMC) proud by taking home two trophies for emerging as the 1st Runners-up at the recent Area C2 Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contests!

Both contests were held back-to-back at the IEM Toastmasters Club’s venue at IEM Building, PJ State on the 29th of September. In the first contest, Robert tickled the audience pink when he narrated on his personal fear of elavators. Alas, he was pitted against very eloquent speakers from 3 other clubs and was pipped at the post by TM Siew Chang Wei from the IME Toastmasters Club.

In the second contest, Robert was up against 2 other evaluators and all of them gave an evaluation of a speech by TM Vincent Chow, who tried to convince the audience to switch to eating organic chickens. Once again, Robert delivered a very polished performance as an evaluator, but the judges decided that Tan Keng Waye, also from IME Toastmasters Club, had an edge over the others.

This is an achievement nonetheless for DTM Robert Tan. So, to DTM Robert Tan – congratulations!

Six of us from PDTMC who were there to listen to your speeches felt that you certainly deserved a better placing; however, such is the nature of speech contests where judging can become very subjective.

Let’s put this behind us, and look ahead to the upcoming contests! We hope that this experience will spur you on to greater heights!

Chua Eu Chieh, VPPR (2010/11)

District Public Relations Contests

Here's an announcement by our District 51's Public Relations Officer 2010/11

From: Toastmasters District 51 PR TEAM
Subject: District Public Relations Contests
To:
Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 5:26 PM

Dear Club Officers and Members,
Warm greetings to all!
District Public Relations Team is pleased to announce the launching of the District Public Relations Contests. The details are as below:
Contests :
1. Best Club Website
2. Best Area/Division Website
3. Best Club Newsletter

Qualifying Period : Oct 1st, 2010 to March 31 2011.

Objective : To encourage and recognize clubs/areas and divisions which utilize newsletter and website as public relations tools to promote the Toastmasters program to members and public. Newsletter and website are two very powerful tools recommended by Toastmasters International.

Eligibility : Any club in District 51 which is in good standing during the entire qualifying period can participate.

Prizes :
1. For Club Website contest, the webmaster and the club will each receive a prize.
2. For Area/Division Website contest, the webmaster and the area/division will each receive a prize.
3. For Club Newsletter, the newsletter editor and club will each receive a prize.

How to participate:
1. To participate, send an email to District Public Relations Officer at dpro@tmdistrict51.org on your intention.

2. All entries must reach the DPRO by March 31, 2011. Late entries will not be entertained.

3. If you are participating in the website category :
a.Please send in the URL ( address) of the website to be included as a link from the district website to the DPRO’s email starting from now.
b.Earn 10 points in submitting your URL to us by October 30, 2010.

4. If you are participating in the newsletter category :
a.Please send in the newsletter in softcopy format to the DPRO’s email at dpro@tmdistrict51.org
b.You are required to send in a minimum of two editions/issues during the qualifying period. The more editions/issues you submit the higher the chances of winning as we will select the best of all the editions/issues you submit. However, each club can only win one prize.

Judging Criteria :
1. Judging will be based on point system. Total maximum point that can be awarded to each entry is 100 points. Winners will be chosen based on those score the highest points, the second highest and so on.

2. For website, here’s the breakdown of the maximum number of points that can be given for each judging criteria:
Content 60% - ( Update 30%, Pictures 20%, Archives 5%, Videos 5%)
Design and Layout 30% - ( Attractiveness 10%, Easy to Navigate 10%, Layout 10%)
Bonus Point 10% - ( Send in before Oct 30, 2010)

3. For newsletter, here is the breakdown of the maximum number of points that can be given for each judging category :
Content 50%
Creativity 20%
Design 20%
Layout 10%

4. All decision made by the judges are final.

Results will be announced before the Penang Annual Convention 2011

We wish to receive your warm responses and participation to these contests.

Thank you very much and see you all soon.

Warmest regards,

Koay Kah Hin, ACB, ALS
District Public Relations Officer 2010/11