Another Book for PD Toastmasters Members

Found an interesting book on eating raw food to build up our energy for meeting nights!

Enjoy this book 'High Raw by Kevin Gianni' (priced at US19.90 at Amazon.com)

http://www.therenegadehealthshow.com/downloads/High-Raw-Kevin-Gianni.pdf

Semi-Annual Convention in Melaka

District 51 Semi-annual in Melaka on 21 Oct to 23 Oct was a success and an enjoyable event. The Organisers from Division A had put in their heart and soul into the semi-annual convention. How interesting was the event, is to look at some of the pictures that were taken but most of all is to be physically there to experience it.

21st October morning started off at 10 am with the Executive Meeting involving the Distrcict 51 Officers to Area Governors. This meeting involved with reports from each and every District 51 Officers, their achivements to date and what other plans they have in store to achieve a President Distinguish District 51. At 2 pm was the District 51 Council meeting where it involves all the District 51 Officers and President and VPEs or their proxies from Toastmasters Clubs in Malaysia.

The welcome night with The Theme Baba and Nyonya. 90% of the delegates were all into the theme dresses: Baju Kebaya while the men in their 'sarong'.

See what I mean, TLI Chairman Sivalingam do look good in the chinese nyonya baba outfit.

The welcome night with TI Immediate Past International President Gary Scdmidth (2009/2010)

22 Oct morning is the opening ceremony with the marching of the flags by the Cadets from Alam and I heard it was a blast. Unfortunately no pictures where taken during the ceremony other than during the intermission: a line up pose with Capt Khalid.

The opening ceremony after the marching of flags are the colourful dancers and I got the best seat of the day, right in front that I could toouch them too.

Awards ceremony, receiving the CLUB GOODies from IP District 51 Governor Thanni: TI Car Stickers!

PD Toastmasters Club Achieved the President Distinguish Club: 9/10 goals and Capt Khalid and I get to be the receipient.

I cannot resist, I need to get a picture with IPIP Gary Schmidth before his Plenary session.

Semi-Annual convention where the heart of the event is the District 51 Humorous Speech Contest. All the contestants are winners in their own right and all their speeches were indeed humorous! The champian is Stephen Fernando, 1st runner up: Lee Xi Wen and 2nd runner up is Ivan Cheng

Evaluation Contest : Champian is S. Palaniappa, 1st runner up: Dennis Wee, 2nd runner up: Fabian Fidelis

What does it take to organise such an event, the above picture say it all, the organising committee and sub committee are getting their certificates of appreciation.

The event come to a close at 1pm on 23 October and the District 51 Annual Convention is set on 27 to 29 April 2012 in Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre. See you there.

Deepavali Greeting

October Newsletter

Meeting on 27th September 2011

We had our normal meeting on 27th September 2011. Captured below are some moments at that meeting.


TM Rosa was Toastmaster of the evening.

First to be called for tabletopics was TM Stephen Francis.

Then it was TM Chandran.

Dr Subhassh was next.

TM Chua was not spared either.

Veteran Robert was also called.

TM Capt Khalid was next to speak.

TM Amy was tabletopics master.

Veteran Kah Tor was also called upon.

TM Ong Guan Leong tried for the first time the role of tabletopics evaluator.

TM Indra G was the first to speak as prepared speaker.

TM Tan Ban Yeow broke the ice at this meeting.

TM Vallie came on next.

TM Stephen was humour master.

TM Chuah was evaluator.

TM Chandran was the second evaluator.

TM Tan Lai Hock was Language Evaluator.

Dr counted the number of ahs.

TM Yeoh was timekeeper.

TM Kat was General evaluator.

A view of the crowd.

The champion...........

The champion.........

The best ...............

Another champion.........

The President closing the meeting.

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World Champion 2010/2011 - Jock Elliott

Australian Wins World Champion of Public Speaking Title

After 36 years and 380 contests, Jock Elliott captures the coveted title.

By Paul Sterman

Persistence paid off for Jock Elliott, who on Saturday, August 20, won the 2011 World Championship of Public Speaking. The resident of Bongaree, Queensland, Australia, has participated in nearly 380 Toastmasters speech contests in his 36 years as a member. This was his sixth time competing in the world championship finals—the most ever for a Toastmaster. For Elliott, the sixth time was a charm.

“Thank you for more than a lifetime of challenge, opportunity and friendship,” he said in accepting the first-place award in front of a capacity audience of nearly 2,000 people from 50 countries.

Elliott won the judges over with a speech that reflected on relationships with family, friends and romantic partners. In his case, the latter referred to his wife, Robyn (also a Toastmaster). Laced with insights and eloquence, Elliott’s presentation, “Just So Lucky,” took a jab at society’s infatuation with social media. He emphasized the need for human connections over online connections, noting that we count on people closest to us to be there in times of trouble.

Appreciate these “ties that bind,” Elliott urged. “If we treasure these ties, nurture these ties, then we’ll have all the luck we’ll ever need—and we won’t need Facebook.”

Second- and third-place winners in the contest—which was held during International Convention at Bally’s hotel in Las Vegas—were Kwong Yue Yang of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, with his speech “Fortune Cookie,” and Scott Pritchard of Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., with his speech “Roscoe’s Words.” The 2011 Taped Speech Winners (a category for members of undistricted clubs) are: First place, Rozmina Rana; second place, Okoth Okombo; third place, Sonali S. Shah. All three are from Nairobi, Kenya.

A Long Journey

The last round of the World Championship capped a contest that began six months ago with 30,000 participants from 116 countries. The finalists came from places ranging from Hollywood, California, to Berlin, Germany, to Rotorua, New Zealand. As always in this annual event, the performances were outstanding, with speakers touching on a wide range of topics. Olivia Schofield (from Berlin) spoke about overcoming a speech impediment. Phil Barth, of Batavia, Ohio, told of how a roller-coaster ride solved his midlife crisis. Several of the finalists talked about the powerful impact of their mothers.

In his own presentation, Elliott offered several nuggets of playful humor. He said he and his siblings had their differences over the years—like most brothers and sisters—but that hadn’t dimmed their love for each other. “Blood is thicker than water,” said Elliott—“and nobody is thicker than my brother.”

For this Australian speech coach, it was indeed a long road to victory in the World Championship of Public Speaking. But the path he took was part of the ultimate prize, says Elliott, noting that if he had won the title years ago, “I might have been a richer speaker, but not a better speaker.”

Division C Humorous and Speech Evaluation Contest 2011

On 1st Oct 2011 , the division C organized the Humorous and Speech Evaluation Contest at UMW Toyota. It was a successful event and the turn out for this contest was excellent.

From our club Rosa Phua and Vallie went all the way to Shah Alam to support Division C in the organizing of the event.

Rosa receiving Certificate for Evaluation Contest Chair role from Yvonne the Organizing Chair!

Vallie is receiving her certificate from Yvonne for taking Registration task

Vallie and Shirley Bak at the Registration desk

Winners of the Evaluation Contest