Meeting #228, 16 October 2017

Theme: The Long Road Ahead of Us

W.O.D: unprecedented (adj)

“A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.”
– Jack Bowman

#228 group photo
#UMTMC #W3

Fellow Toastmasters and guests! Our meeting summary for 16th October is here!

The meeting starts off with President’s opening speech by Kah Mun, CC. The session went on with Toastmaster of the Evening, Abdurrahman, telling us an interesting of an existing Toastmaster Club in a prison during the Vietnam War!

TME of the Day
Abdurrahman as the Toastmaster of the Evening!

Our first session blast off with sharing session about Pathways by Jeff, CC. The session “Pathways Guides for Dummies”, took approximately 15-20 minutes.

Stand-in SAA #228
Kyle, concentrating and writing notes during the meeting
Pathway Sharing Session
“Pathways Guide for Dummies” by a dummy xD

After the refreshments, we proceed to the Prepared Speech session. Our speech lineups were as follow:

  1. Sin Hong – Pathways Motivational Strategies #1: Ice Breaker – They are My Life
  2. Si Bao – Pathways Presentation Mastery #1: Ice Breaker – Life is Interesting
  3. Sara, ACS ALB – Advance Manual Special Occasion Speeches #1: Mastering the Toast – Inspiring Leader
  4. Kar Mei, CC – Contest Speech – Where Couples are Made

Next, we had an interesting Evaluation Session, led by the Johan, ACB CL of Kota Kinabalu Toastmasters Club! The evaluation session consisted of.

GE #228
Johan as our General Evaluator of the Evening!

Last but not least, the winners for today’s meeting were announced:

  1. Best Project Speech Speaker: Si Bao
  2. Best Evaluator: Shawn, CC
  3. Ice Breaker Recipients: Sin Hong and Si Bao
Seki Announcement
Seki gave announcement on the upcoming Division W Contest!
President #228
Kah Mun gave his closing speech and told us what he had learned in the meeting

Congratulations to all of them!

Our president Kah Mun also gave a token of appreciation to our General Evaluator. Finally, Kah Mun gave the closing address by thanking everyone who gave their support to us and gave us a take-home message before he adjourned the meeting.

That’s all folks! From UMTMC, we would like to thank our guests and role players from other Toastmasters clubs, notably:

  • Clement Ng and Yeoh from OUM Toastmasters Club!
  • Seki, our area W3 director!
  • Kang from My Puchong Toastmasters Club, also the Division E champion for the Evaluation Contest!

Last but not least, we like to thank our members who were attending the meeting as well. Keep supporting us and we see you next Monday on 23rd October!

#UMTMC #Toastmasters #UniversitiMalaya

~ Toastmasters International: Where Leaders are Made ~

After Meeting
Meeting’s adjourned, it’s mamak time!

Published by University Malaya Toastmasters Club (UMTMC)

Founded in the heart of University of Malaya campus, we are a 14-year old Toastmasters club that aims to produce competent communicators and leaders for Malaysia's prestigious university.

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