DDYPC TMC Meeting #21: 2 April 2009

DDYPC TMC Toastmaster Meeting is back this coming 2nd April 2009!

It's gonna be pretty exciting this time, as we will be having an environment theme of 'One Earth Only', in conjunction with Earth Hour this Sunday!


Our very own VP of Education, Stefanie Khaw will lead us to an exciting afternoon, with a team of speakers as listed below:

#1 Our very own new member - Roziana
#2 Recent champion of Area P4 International Speech Contest (ISC) - Etty
#3 2nd Runner Up for Club ISC, 1st Runner Up for Club Table Topic Contest & our humoroous lady - Siti Aishah
#4 1st Runner Up for Club ISC & the ever energetic TM - Mas Rizal

(And did i fail to mention that Stefanie was also the winner of the Area P4 Table Topic Contest. Way to go VPE!!!)


Book this date in your calendar! A day not to be missed after all.


Note on Earth Hour: Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), held on the last Saturday of March, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. It was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007,[1] and achieved worldwide participation in 2008.

Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, local time

DDYPC TM Club Meeting #20- 19 March 2009

DDYPC TMC meeting on 19th March saw 6 speeches being given away in our very own Toastmaster Speech Marathon special!

The supposed Toastmaster of the Day, Toastmaster Daniel Teh was not able to join the meeting due to the car accident he had earlier, but our very own President, TM Azlan Mohaideen took up the challenge and demonstrate the bold attitude to Courage and Conquer the audience when he rise up to the occasion as the Toastmaster of The Day, 30 minutes before the start of the meeting.

And you know what, he was indeed a natural speaker!

The other line up were as follows:

• TMA: Azlan Mohaideen
• Grammarian: Khairul Fadhli
• Timer: Almagfiro Pradana
• Ah Counter: Mas Rizal
• Evaluator: Ahmad Fakhri (Semarak TMC), Ashfaque (Semarak TMC), Wan Rohaidah, Siti Aishah, Mas Rizal, Azlan Mohaideen
• General Evaluator: Hakim Hamzah

The speakers in order were as follows:

• Farid Wahid – His first ice breaker speech and he revealed his childhood ambition of becoming a comedian! Looks like we will have our very own appointed Humor Master soon..
• Zainal Zikri – Passionately talked about his job in Dealer Management Unit, PETRONAS in his ice breaking speech and distributed forms and info on how you can set up your very own Petrol Station. Talk to him if you interested :p
• Almagfiro – Almo The Great was his title, and he really did inspire his with his ice breaking speech. Yes, if Gallileo can do it, so can Almo!
• Wong Lee Jean – She always seemed overwhelmed before, but not anymore. Jean delivered her 2nd speech, and she has improved leaps and bounds this time
• Khairul Fadhli – Went into great technical detail about how he modified his car, and definitely a car enthusiast (or a freak as some might say)
• Azlan Supian – Painted a picture what the world would be like if we do not change our ways and the effects of Global Warming

And the winner for the session, unanimously voted by the attendees was Almagfiro The Great! You hit the mark right on your speech first, well done Almo!

Thank you all who have attended and we hope to see you two weeks from now!

BEST SPEECH MEETING #19: Enemy, Stranger or Intimate

She certainly had the edge, and you can tell that she is a natural speaker. She has evolved well throughout her toastmaster experience, and i must say, we have always been impressed by her style of speaking, and the humor she injected to her speech. Congrats TM Siti Aishah. Way to go.
Let's look at her speech structure from the last winning

Note: TM Siti Aishah was the winner from DDYPC TMC Meeting #19.
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Enemy, Stranger or Intimate
A speech by Siti Aishah
Project Speech #5: Your Body Speaks

A man asked his wife, “Darling, where do you want to go for our anniversary?” It warms his heart to see her face melts in sweet appreciation. “Hmm... somewhere I haven’t been for a long time,” she said. He suggested, “How about the kitchen?” and that’s when the fight started.

Toastmaster of the day, fellow toastmasters and honored guests.

Creating intimacy or starting a fight is often just a matter of a few sentences and sometimes a word. In every conversation actually you can choose to fight with your partner and change them into an enemy or avoid you partner and change him into a stranger or to confide in them and trust them and change your partner into an intimate. The differences between these three approaches are enormous. So today, I will explain to you how you can use these three options in your life with your partner.

Option 1: the wife sat down on the couch next to the husband who was flipping the channels on TV. She asked, “What’s on TV?” He replied without even looking at her, “Dust!” Since in this option you want to change your partner into an enemy, you should start to shout. “You are the lazy one. You never help out around the house!” This will likely start a fight and it can ensure a hot and blazing arguments. Both sides are trying to win by either attacking or defending. It can become worse when you start to reach those innocent things around you and make them fly towards your partner. Thus, an enemy is created.

Now we move on to option 2. What is the first thing your mother taught you about stranger? Yes… do not talk to strangers. So imagine scenario 2. You are at your husband’s office party. It seems to you that your partner is spending a great amount of time talking to his new secretary. You were left alone next to the buffet table. How do you want to handle this situation? So, on the ride home in the car, be very silent. When he asks, “What’s wrong dear?” you can reply, “Nothing. I’m just tired” or totally ignoring him, look out through the window, pretend you do not hear the question and hum your favorite song! Now you have successfully avoided a conflict but you also turn your partner into someone who doesn’t know you really well, a stranger.

For option 3, let say you husband is having his guys’ night out be it watching EPL at mamak’s stall or playing futsal, it doesn’t matter, but he does this almost every night. You were left at home alone, feeling sad and lonely. So, when he comes home that night, what should you do? Remember this is option 3. You shouldn’t scream at him like “You always spend your time with your friends. Why don’t you marry them instead!” or you should not totally ignore him when he enters the door. What you should do is confide in them and tell them how you really feel. Something like, “I sat here feeling sorry to myself. I know you need your guys, but my social life isn’t as happening as yours right now. It can be really lonely. Can you spend more time with me?” Once you open up and tell your partner how you are really feeling, you actually turning your partner into a support system, an intimate.

After being married for almost five years, I know we must choose option 3. Actually I have applied those three options in different stages of our marriage. Since my husband also aware of these options, he sometimes says to me, “honey, please don’t use option 2” when I ignore him at times which I’m really good at. But I can assure you that option 3, to confide, trust and say how we feel is like the solution to all possible problem that may arise in front of you. In order to have this confiding conversation we have to trust that our partner will support us when we let our guard down and show our vulnerability. Also, we have to feel entitled to what we are feeling. We entitle to be jealous; we entitle to have someone to help around the house. If not, we are ashamed to reveal those feeling and choose to avoid or attack. Uncover your feeling, unmask your vulnerability and unravel your emotion.

So, as a conclusion, learn by heart if you want a great relationship with your partner, you got to choose. Are you going to start a fight, avoid the whole thing or take your partner into your confidence? Whatever you choose, you are also choosing the corresponding action – turning you partner into an enemy or a stranger or an intimate.

DDYPC TM Club Meeting - 5 March 2009

Another good toastmaster session concluded by DDYPC last Thursday, which saw the participation of approximately 20 members and guests, and moderated by Toastmaster Mas Rizal as the Toastmaster of the Afternoon.

The line ups were as follows:

• TMA: Mas Rizal
• Grammarian: Siti Aishah
• Timer: Azlan Mohaideen
• Ah Counter: Narayanan
• Table Topic Evaluator: CC Elizabeth
• Speech Evaluator: Ron Low, Siti Fatimah, Tunku Indra, Azlan Supian, Suhana Sidik

(Guests gigling away by the speech from the speakers)

The session kicked off with the energetic table topic session given by CC Suhana Sidik, with the theme of ‘States in Malaysia’. Attendees were encouraged to talk about their hometown, and promote it as a state of choice for holidays. The volunteers were as follows:

• Toastmaster Azlan Supian talked about his hometown Kuala Kangsar (or now we know as Kurang Satu), Perak,
• Toastmaster Siti Fatimah who shared with all her school days (with lack of clean showered day :p) in Selangor,
• The brave first timer Tyiara who talks about her days in America and lastly,
• ACB, CL Ron Low who then excited us by talking about the famous food in Penang.
  Congrats all for taking the opportunity to step up!

(Aishah nervously waiting her turn)

The speaker in order were as follows:

• CC, CL Marcus Chee – Educating us on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) from his Manual #5 of ACB
• Azlan Mohaideen – Given us the reality check on Malaysian being the punctual bunch with the speech of ‘Don’t Be Late, Be Punctual’, from Manual #3
• Narayanan – A flavor of sales, from Manual #3
• Siti Aishah – Sharing her story as an experience partner (wife to be exact) and how to build a successful relationship with her speech entitled ‘Enemy, Stranger, Intimate’ from Manual #5
• Tunku Indra – The second Installment of his ever famous Silat knowledge entitled, ‘Hai Yak Vol 2’ from Manual #5

It was a great opportunity indeed to hear from these experience speakers. Well done.

The event was concluded by CC, CL Marcus Chee who was the General Evaluator. He commended on the marvelous effort by the members who had to willingly took the opportunity to double tasks on the day.

(Marcus Chee taking note for his evaluation. Thank you GE)

The winners were announced in the later part by the President. TM Azlan Supian were voted the best Table Topic Speaker, while TM Siti Aishah bag the Best Speaker award for the day.

All in all, another job well done!