World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 Dananjaya Hettiarachchi

Last Meeting for Term 2014/2015 on the 23rd June 2015

The last meeting for the 2014/2015 term. Our outgoing President, TM Indra R ACB,ALB reviewing her term with great pride. She mentioned about the contributions of all the exco and members to bring the club to another successful year. She also advise our newer members to take up leadership roles to have a deeper understanding of the spirit of Toastmasters.

A Toast to the King by President TM Indra R

Part of the members and guests

Our Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Chandran, CC,CL

The Tabletopics Master TM Tan Soo Guan, ACB ALB with his proverbs for members to speak on their feet

The Tabletopics Evaluator TM Rosa Phua, ACG ACS, giving her views on how the members spoke.

Break Between Sessions
A 25 minutes break was given to members and guests for dinner consisting of fried rice, noodles, fried tou foo and sandwiches.

First prepared speech speaker TM Anuar giving his first speech in the CC manual

2nd Speaker TM Shafrin with his 4th speech from the CC manual

General Evaluator for the Evening TM GT Singam, ACB, ALB

Evaluator for speaker 1, TM Dr Subhassh, ACB

Evaluator for 2nd speaker TM Indra G, CC

Language Evaluator TM Gerald Xavier, CC

Ah Counter TM Tan Lai Hock, ACB

Time Keeper, TM Dilaasha, CC

Best Tabletopics Speaker, TM Tan Lai Hock, ACB

Best Prepared Speech Speaker TM Shafrin

Best Evaluator, TM Indra G

The President with her closing speech for the term 2014/2015. Sob Sob

The 2014/2015 committee.
Chandran (Treasurer) K Kumar (SAA) Indra R (President) Shun (VPPR) Dilaasha (Secretary)
Not in picture Guan Leong (VPE) Irene (VPM)

Congratulation to the 2014/2015 committee lead by our very Distinguish President Indra R for another great year. Let us all welcome the new committee 2015/2016 lead by President Dr Subhassh.

The Language Perfectionist: It’s Personal!

By Don Hauptman

Can  you spot anything wrong with the following three sentences, all found via online search?

• “I personally can’t see us not doing any more shows again.”
• “Personally, I prefer to write about literature, but, yes, I recognize that these sorts of entries are the bread and butter of this blog.”
• “I will cherish the personally autographed book forever….”

In each case, the word personally is superfluous. After all, how else could the first individual perceive the situation, or the second prefer to write? And how would one autograph a book without doing so personally?

In his new usage guide The Accidents of Style, Charles Harrington Elster advises:

“Personally is almost always a redundant filler word that cries out to be deleted.” And most sentences “would be stronger without the useless adverb personally.”

Elster adds that the adjective personal is equally redundant and dispensable in such well-worn expressions as personal friend, personal history, and personal opinion.