SAA, Aloysius Lim conducted a round of introduction as a quick ice breaker session to put everyone in a relax mood.
Siva was the Toastmaster of the Evening. While playing double roles as both President and TME, he humoured the audience when he invited himself for his president opening address, ribbons presentation and closing address.
President's Opening Address
Siva gave his take on the theme "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures" based on what he found on the internet as follows:
"Whatever you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."
He shared on 2 interview questions with George Lucas which he read on the website http://www.achievement.org/
On struggles in life, George Lucas responded that the secret is just not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile, I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. You just have to hang in through that.
On figuring out that merchandising could be part of the business with popular films, George Lucas responded he had made a pact with himself that he was going to make all three (Star Wars) movies, and in his deal with 20th Century Fox, acquired the sequel rights, because he didn't want them to bury the sequel. "I wanted to make these movies and I was determined to make these movies regardless of whether they wanted to, or the movie made any money or not. And then I got the merchandising rights, which weren't anything at the time because there was no such thing as merchandising on movies. Their life span is just too short. But I figured I could make posters. I could make t-shirts and, I could publicize the movie and, hopefully, people would go see it."
I'm an independent filmmaker and don't have a lot of resources. I have to think about how to get the movie promoted and make enough money to do the next movie. As it turned out, the film was so successful we were able to make toy deals and we began to start the whole idea of action figures, of tie-ins, of toys that go along with movies. Over the years that's one of the things that's helped me stay independent and finance my own movies and stay in business.
2010 Divn B International Speech Contest Champion, Woon Chee Yen (DSTA TMC), presented the Macmillan Dictionary to Siva who won it in "Guess the Winner Lucky Draw" at Divn B Contests. Siva in turn gave it to ITE TMC. The previous dictionary of ITE TMC was given to Parwinder Singh for College East's Gavel Club use.
Lye Sum (President, 2008/09) received on behalf of ITE TMC, the 2008/09 Distinguished Club Award from Belinda Woo (Area B4 Governor 2008/09).
Table Topics Segment
Lye Sum played the role of the Table Topics Master. Interesting quotes containing words from the meeting theme were used as topics for audience participation. The following participants took up the challenge to think on their feet.
Aloysius - If I had my hand full of truth, I will take care how I open it
Lihui - Distance tests a horse's strength, time reveals a person's character
Poh Lian - A man's face is his autobiograpy, a woman's face is her work of fiction
Nicodemus - Hope lies in dreams and in the courage of those who makes dreams into reality.
Chee Yen - Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter
Prepared Speeches Segment
The speakers were:
Angeline - P3: Do I know you?
She spoke on the purpose of genes, genomes, DNA, base pair and chromozones. All within 7 mins.
Parwinder - P2: Love Guru
He spoke passionately on the five charms, words of affirmation; quality time; touch; service; gifts. He supported "each charm" with a personal annecdote.
Ho Peng - P8: How to Cycle
He provided information on how to learn cycling effectively. A physical bike was brought in as his demonstration aid.
Poh Lian - AP4: Inaugural Yeo Poh Lian Inspiring Student Award
She spoke on the Inaugural Yeo Poh Lian Inspiring Student Award, describing the award details followed by praising the receipient, her student Hui Ling.
Speech Evaluation Segment
Appreciation to all invited speech evaluators who took the time to be with us and provided feedback on the respective speaker strength and area of improvements. The evaluators are:
Rain (Singapore Nurses Association TMC )
Catherine Tran (Vietnam TMC)
Belinda Woo, ACB, CL (SIM1 TMC)
Woon Chee Yen, CC (DSTA TMC)
Special thanks to the Language Evaluator, Alicia Yuan (Bukit Batok TMC), for sharing the good and better usage of the language. Li Huay of DSTA TMC chipped in to be the "Ah Counter" reporting on the pause fillers by speakers.
Ribbons Presentation
The night's best speakers by voting went to....
Best Table Topics Speaker - Yeo Poh Lian, ACB, CL
Best Evaluator - Catherine Tran (Vietnam TMC)
Welcoming our New Member
We welcome Nicodemus, 1st time guest, who decided to sign-up with us at close of meeting.
A final note of thanks to our Patron, Kay Chuan, who contributed refreshments.
Members, do join us to practice public speaking in our next meeting.
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