Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Meeting Review (18th July, 2006)

Word of the Day!MAGNANIMOUS





Attendees (Members) :
Bavani Rengasamy
Chandran V
Ivan Fong
Lakhmichand M.A.
Letchuman Nagaiah
Lourdes Chandramohan
Muhendaran Suppiah
Ranjit Singh
Renuka Devi Mailvaganam-
Sham Sunder Lakhiani
Shandini Dewi Veeriah
Shanmugam Ganesan
Subendran Sathanandan

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CTM
ATMB

DTM
ATMS
CTM
ATMB

CTM
CTM
CTM




Guests: (4)
Name

K.L.Low
Kumar Verappan-
Ra Delina Patail
Tirunaukarasu

Club

Money Mastery TM Club-

D’Utama TM Club

Guest of

Lourdes
Muhendaran
Lucky



Role
SAA :
INDUCTION by :
TME :
TTM :
TTE :
GE :
Ah Counter :
Grammarian :
Timer :
Players :
Letchuman
Muhendaran Suppiah
Lakhmichand M.A.
Letchuman
Shanmugam
Ranjit Singh
Chandran
Ivan Fong
Tirunaukarasu

Table Topics Session: Topic – TOURISM
Speakers:
K.L.Low
Subendran Sathanandan
Ranjit Singh
Ra Delina Patail
Shandini Dewi

Best TT Speaker - Ra Delina Patail


SPEECHES:


Speaker
Bavani
Muhendaran Suppiah-
Assignment
#4 (Basic C&L Manual)
#1 (The Team Technical Presentation)-
Speech Title
Enchanting Myanmar
Club Exco!



Speaker
Bavani
Muhendaran Suppiah-
Evaluator
Lourdes Chandramohan
Renuka Devi Mailvaganam


The meeting came to order on the dot! 7.30 pm! SAA (Letchuman) was as usual meticulous.

President Lourdes reminded us of the 3Fs - Fulfillment, Fun and Fellowship.

With the introductions of 13 members and 4 guests the pace was set right! All proceedings were executed smoothly!

TME (Lucky) spoke of the benefits of Toastmasters for the benefit of our guests. This helped at least ONE guest to make decision of changing his life!


One of the two highlights of this meeting was the INDUCTION (by Muhendaran)
of 3 new members – Chandran, Renuka and Sham Sunder.



(Left to right) Ivan Fong - V/P (E), Sham Sunder, Renuka and Chandran


The Table Topics (by Letchuman) was on ‘TOURISM’

K.L.Low spoke as a tourist guide on Malaysian Food.

Subendran, as a German Tourist, spoke on places he has visited.

Ranjit Singh told us why he thought Night Spots should remain open till late hours.

Delina highlighted reasons why Fake Goods / Cheap Quality products were bad for tourism.

Shandini assured us that Tourism was potential revenue.

Delina was awarded BEST T. Topics Speaker.

We believe in IMMEDIATE feedback. The Table Topics Evaluator (Shanmugam) was thorough, and gave relevant tips on how to do better next time.


The BREAK included the second highlight – Birthday celebration of our July Babies!

Bavani, Letchuman and Shanmugam!



(Left to right) Letchuman, Bavani and Shanmugam


Bavani did her 4th assignment - Enchanting Myanmar. It was a very vivid description of her visit to this not so often spoken country. I felt like I was listening to my History and Geography teachers, took me back to my school days. The evaluation by Lourdes was very thorough and encouraging.

Muhendaran Suppiah gave The Team Technical Presentation – Club EXCO.

This potentially difficult assignment was delivered very smoothly by cleverly using the club officers to highlight their duties / functions! While it made his task simple, as he had only to act as a coordinator, I believe it had another motive – making some members aware as to what goes on behind the scenes, and this WAS achieved successfully. His evaluator, Renuka Devi, concurred on this. ACTUALLY, she highlighted, she knew then the tremendous work being done to stage a typical TM meeting! Excellent evaluation!

Ranjit Singh, his first attempt as the in house General Evaluator, performed extremely well, smoothly got his team to deliver reports. Ah Counter, Chandran, admitted he had ‘poor business’ for lack of speakers using ‘speech crutches’, though he did manage to catch a few. Grammarian, Ivan Fong, similarly found very few errors to highlight. Was it the ‘high standard’ of English (as K.L.Low felt in his feedback)? Be our guest and find out for yourself!

We have heard of sons replacing fathers, but for once we saw Tirunaukarasu do the role of the Timer, for his son Pratap. His report was short and sweet!

During President’s closing remarks, the guests were very generous in their praises. One guest was convinced he had found the right place to improve his communication skills!


Our announcements on the future activities are:

29th Aug 2006 – Role Players’ Workshop

5th Sep 2006 – Club Level – Humorous Speech & Speech Evaluation Contests!

Members & Guests wishing to participate can contact any one of the EXCO!


by Lucky