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.

PD Toastmasters Meeting on 9th June 2015

The meeting on the 9th June 2015 starts off with the Presidential Address by Mdm President Indra R ACB, ALB.

 President Indra R. ACB,ALB

 The Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Tan Soo Guan ,ACB,ALB explaining the history of  TI to the audience

The audience listening attentively to the TOE

 The Table Topics Master TM Xavier, gave impromptu questions to members to cultivate their thinking skills.

The Table Topics Evaluator TM GT Singam, ACB,CL gave an evaluation for the performance of the members.
The Members and Guests took a 20 minutes break and tuck in to a delicious spread of fried rice and noodles, sandwiches and fried tou foo.

Prepared Speech Speaker 1: TM Mohd Khairil

Speaker 2: President Indra R

 3rd Prepared Speech Speaker TM Ong Guan Leong, ACB,ALB

General evaluator TM Stephen Francis, ACB

Evaluator 1 for Mohd Khairil TM Chandran CC,CL

Language Evaluator DTM Robert Tan

Ah Counter TM Anuar Yusop

Timekeeper TM Yeoh Lian Geok, CTM

Best Tabletopic TM Nages, ACG, ALB

Best Speaker TM Mohd Khairil

The meeting ends with another fruitful and fun filled session of PDTMC meeting. Hope to see you for the next meeting on the 23 rd June 2015

PD Toastmasters Meeting on the 26th May 2015

As the 2014/2015 term draws to a close (new term starts 1st July) , our President Mdm TM Indra R, conducts Club Induction for two new members, TM Khairil and TM Anuar. Below is a summary of the night's action for those who are unable to turn up.

President TM Indra R giving her Presidential speech

Part of audience for the 26/5/2015 meeting

TM Khairil and TM Anuar

 All members pledge to give their full support and assistance to help TM Anuar and TM Khairil in their Toastmasters journey

Members with their mentors, TM Chandran and Guan Leong

 Our Incoming 2015/2016 President, Dr Subhassh acting as the Toastmaster of the Evening.

 Our Table Topics Master (pic) is TM GT Singam and TT Evaluator TM Tan Lai Hock

Our 1st Prepared Speech Speaker, TM Xavier on side effects of soft drinks

 2nd Speaker TM Indra G showing us her Story Telling Skills

 3rd Speaker TM Ong Guan Leong teaching us how to conquer Fear from the Better Speaker Series

General Evaluator TM Gerald Xavier

Speech Evaluator TM Chandran for Speaker Xavier

Another view of the audience

Speech Evaluator DTM Robert Tan for Speaker TM Indra G

Language Evaluator TM Amy Siew

Time Keeper TM Rosa Phua

Ah counter TM Margaret 

All ears to hear the winners' announcement...............

Table Topic Winner TM Shafrin

Best Prepared Speaker TM Indra G

Best Evaluator TM Chandran

President Indra R bids good night to all. Our next meeting will be on the 9th June 2015. See you all at Sg Ujong Club