Meeting #17 held on 11th March 2014 at RSUC

The meeting was started off by Acting President, Robert Tan and helmed by TOE Kay Ku. Table Topics session was another mind-sapping, probing affair with philosophically-slanted questions posed by our Dr Subbash. Our loyal and occasional member from Melaka, Kapt Khalid commented that he seemed to come when the good Dr happens to be the TTM and gets thrown unique topics. Anyway all speakers managed well according to the TTE Indra while the GE pointed out the speaker had the option to disagree with the topic and offer his own opinion.

TOE - Kay Ku

Our new member Krishna Kumar gave a winning IceBreaker speech, confidently, well-articulated and revealed that he is a trainer, no wonder. Well, we certainly look forward to more captivating speeches in the future. Robert Tan presented his prepared speech CC#5 (3rd round) on The Blame Game, with the timely message of 'Not Avoiding Responsibility in Combatting Social Ills." Then long MIA (missing in action) Jaya entertained us with possible scenarios of causes of airplane disasters - I'm convinced he must have at least undergone some simulator training in the past.

Krishna Kumar

Robert Tan

Jaya (MIA)

Our other role players for the night were :
GE - Chandran N; LE - Rosa Phua; Timekeeper - Kanaga; Ah Counter - Tan Soo Guan; Speech Evaluators - (1) Nageswary, (2) Ong Guan Leong; Refreshents - Yeoh Lian Geok.

The night's winners were:

Best TT Speaker - Tan Lai Hock

 

 

 

Best Prepared Speech - Krishna Kumar

Best Speech Evaluator - Nageswary

Club International Speech & Table Topics Contest, held on 25th February 2014 at RSUC

This club event was successfully held with two participating in the International Speech and five in Table Topics. Our Treasurer, TM Kay Ku started off the contest in place of our VPE who, unfortunately was temporarily sidelined. Dilaasha showed much enthusiasm and spirit in talking about "Living Dangerously", challenging us to consider options outside our comfort zones while Indra gave a polished delivery, starting with a story on "Little Acts of Kindness". Our five Table Topics contestants were challenged to elaborate on "Don't Judge a Book by its Cover", an easy topic with wide possibilities for discussion.

 Indra R  & Dilaasha S.  (International Speech Contestants)

GT Singham, Dilaasha, Anand V, Tan Ban Yeow, (four of five of the TT Speakers)

 Thanks goes to our members who helped out - Contest Chair (Ong Guan Leong), Judges (Tan Lai Hock, Dr Subhassh, Rosa Phua), Ballot Counter (Yeoh Lian Geok), Timekeeper (Margaret Chuah), SAA (Lim Kheng Chiew) plus our contestants and members who turned up for the night.
The winners   :
International Speech Contest - Indra R, Dilaasha (runner-up)
Table Topics Contest - Anand V, Chandran N (first runner-up), Dilaasha (second runner-up)
The winners and runners-up will go on to represent the Club at the Area level. Our congratulations and best wishes to them with the hope they bring glory to the Club.