19 Nov 08, 5th Chapter Meeting@Tampines

President's Address
Related on his recent change of job scope from Management to lecturer. For the few days of teaching, he had to brush up on his competency skills in front of students. He worked on being the Master of his own skills. Toastmasters training certainly helped him. Toastmasters is not a one-off platform. We enhance our skills by taking on meeting roles, set speech project targets, etc. We should take something back after each meeting.

Word of the Day
Open, openess
--- Language Evaluator, Richard Sng (Tiarel TMC & Brilliant Adv TMC), Asst. Division B Governor Education & Training 1.

Table Topics
Our Area B4 Governor, Belinda Woo was the Table Topics Master. The topics attempted were:
1) Syed - Money is evil
2) Thiam Soon - Love comes with condition
3) Beng Kee - Hardwork will receive rewards
4) Cheng Lee - Change is great
5) Siva - Learning Never Ends
6) Poh Lian - Persistence is difficult
7) Michael Wee - Smile is a Gift
8) Lye Sum - Knowledge is an asset
9) Rod - Integrity is golden
10) Richard - Health is priceless

Prepared Speeches
1) Beng Kee, P5 (Speech Title: Getting interviewed)
Shared his experience of job interviews & gave some pointers.

2) Siva, AP1 (Speech Title: 2nd family trip to Malaysia)
Told about his encounters with train delays to & fro Malaysia and shower not functioning in hotel room during his family's trip to Malaysia during the long holiday weekend of Hari Raya & Chinese New Year.

Project Evaluation
Cheng Lee (Tampines Changkat TMC) & Lye Sum (ITE TMC) fedback on the areas done well and gave suggestions for improvement.

Language Evaluation
The most sought after Language Evaluator, Richard Sng, gave a thorough evaluation. He highlighted the Collectibles (creative use of language) & Correctibles (grammar, etc) and pronunciation.

Guest
Soh Thiam Soon attended as first time guest & indicated his interest to sign up with our Club.

Best Table Topics Speaker: Richard Sng, DTM (VPE, Brilliant Adv TMC)
Best Evaluator: Chong Cheng Lee, ACG, CL (Tampines Changkat TMC)

Siva, VPE