Line Clear nasi kandar restaurant risks closure over licensing problem

Another nostalgic place for PD Toastmasters. We went to this place when we attended Past President Chua Eu Chieh's wedding in Penang Island. Food here is expensive and you have to line up quite long for food. Certainly NO LINE CLEAR.

Line Clear nasi kandar restaurant risks closure over licensing problem

Sungai Lembing Oh Sungai Lembing

This article in THE STAR brings back memories of our trip to the East coast. We should have more of this type of trips to strengthen the bond between us. Those who went, could feel the nostalgia in this article.

Sungai Lembing’s evolution from a tin-mining hub to a tourist destination

BY ONG HAN SEAN

The Sungai Lembing Museum, opened in 2003, showcases exhibits from the tin mining industry that helped shaped the town’s history.

  

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THE hamlet of Sungai Lembing, once known as the El Dorado of the East, has seen a glorious past.

The moniker suggests it was a lost city of gold but in reality, the town was the centre for one of the largest tin-mining operations in history.

For the better part of the 20th century, Sungai Lembing was a boom town — its land rich in subterranean tin deposits.

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Meeting #20 held on 22nd April 2014 at RSUC

Just for the record, the previous meeting #19 was not reported in the blog.
The current meeting started promisingly with the Table Topics session, helmed by Indra R. who gave us a host of idioms and proverbs, recorded below for our perusal and further ruminations.
Sadly, our younger members especially were literally at a loss for words - reason, not that they were tongue-tied but have never heard of these expressions. This is a sign of our times, they are not to be blamed. Future TTMs take note, perhaps a suggestion could be this -  give them the idioms/proverbs, explain the meaning and significance behind these sayings and let the speakers' creativity flow from there.
IDIOMS - pulling my leg; spill the beans; feeling blue; an arm and a leg
PROVERBS - a picture paints a thousand words; necessity is the mother of invention; a chain is no stronger than its weakest link; a good mind possesses a kingdom; love me love my dog; a burden of one's choice is not felt.
There was only a prepared speech by Arrchaana who was doing her CC#6, elaborating on wealth (and its negative impact).

The meeting ended with the induction of our latest member and a reminder by Actin President, of the coming Saturday's joint contest with ALAM

Induction of new member Cheong Yit Meng with his mentor Tan Soo Guan

 

 

 

 

Meeting #18 held on 25th March 2014 at RSUC

Our Acting President opened the meeting by reminding us of our pedigree, our TM club #288 has achieved 30 years anniversary. We received a congratulatory note from TM International President on our rare achievement, thanks to the dedicated commitment and continued passion for the TM ideals. Its up to us to continue and carry on this sacrifice, our salutations to founder member Tan Lai Hock. Next was the achievement of Indra R, and Anand V, winning the Area contest International Speech and Table Topics contest respectively. They next go on to compete at the Divisional level. Our new member Krishna Kumar was then inducted, and reminded to uphold the ideals of TM. Robert Tan also announced the next exciting event, a joint contest with ALAM club on Saturday 26th April 2014. We'll be looking at 3 International Speech contestant and 5 Table Topics contestant from each club.

The meeting roles were taken up by:
TOE - Ong Guan Leong ; TTM - Dilaasha; TTE - Amy Siew; GE - Nageswary; LE - Tan Soo Guan; Ah Counter - Yeoh Lian Geok; Timekeeper - Kanaga.

Dilaasha in her role as TTM proved to be another mind-bender, with her quotes (source?) and requiring recipients to comment and opine. Two speeches were given, Cheong Yit Meng CC1 and Robert Tan and evaluated by Dr Subaash and Stephen Francis respectively.

TOE - Ong Guan Leong

Inducting Krisnan Kumar (R) by Robert Tan, A. President

Best TT Speaker - Dr Subaash (R)

Best Prepared Speech - Robert Tan (R) receivng from YB Tan Lai Hock

Best Speech Evaluator - Stephen Francis (L)

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. 

Meeting #15 on 11th February 2014 at RSUC

It was celebration-themed meeting, a 2014 CNY HORSEy meet. None came dressed as horses but there were plenty of red fabric around plus red packets, oranges, cookies and the traditional yee sang dish during the meal break. TOE - KC Lim, introduced TM in a fresh, entertaining perspective flavoured with humorous comments. Well done.

Table topics was well-helmed by Indra G (for Guru) - topics ranged from lavishness of celebration to giving all to charity. The TTE was Margaret Chua who focussed on content, vocal variety and gestures.

Some of our TT speakers - LR Amy Siew, Anand, GT Singam, Kaladevi

 

Break included the tossing of yee sang for good luck and good fortune for the coming year.

Three prepared speeches were given - ShiYing 'frightened' the listeners to start flossing their teeth or else; Indra R (for Retired) narrated a descriptive episode of her lost dog; Guan Leong lightened the atmosphere with a humorous account of 'aging' suitably spiced with jokes.

We were also entertained by the first-time member, Krishna Kumar who cracked Chinese-themed jokes. I suspect we'll be seeing more of him in action soon. Other roles taken up were GE - Tan Soo Guan, LE - Kaladevi, Timekeeper - Rosa Phua, Ah Counter - Dr Subhassh.
Winners for the night were Stephen Francis - Best Table Topics Speaker AND Best Speech Evaluator while Indra R. bagged the Best Speaker award.

All agreed we had a good time and are looking forward to the next meeting on 25th February which will be the Club's International Speech and Table Topics contest.