DDYPC TMC Meeting #25 - 18 June 09

This would be my last write up as the VP PR of the club, and I am happy to end my term with a blast. Why? Well, let me walk you through the meeting last Thursday, 18 Jun 2009.

We were honored to have the presence of the very pleasant TM Soo Loon Teo from Exact TMC to be the General Evaluator of the meeting. In fact, the President of Exact, TM Seow Yung Gan also attended the session as the Evaluator for another guest that we have, TM Azlan Supian from Maxis TMC.

The line up of role players were as follows:
TMA: Newly elected VPE Tunku Indra
Grammarian: Outgoing President Azlan Mohaideen
Timer: Guest Azeela from GSCM TMC
Ah Counter: Incoming Secretary Muaz
Speakers: Azlan Supian, Suhana Sidik
Evaluators: Seow Yung Gan, Mas Rizal

TMA did a wonderful job explaining the meeting practice to 20 over attendees, of which half of them were first timer to a toastmaster meeting. By the time he handed over to our Table Topic Master, El Faraoug, everyone was excited to embark on their very own toastmaster experience.

Our first volunteer, Andrew wowed us with his salesperson ability of promoting a device called a emotional recorder (a creative detour than describing about what a headphone does. Well done!). Then our guest TM Azlan Supian was next with the topic of 'If I had an Extra Hour' but cleverly talked about having an extra day, week or month to spare. Our incoming secretary, Muaz was up next with his philosophical idea dwelling on what his Best Days in School were. Overall, all the speakers did very well!

In the assignment speech slot, 2 speakers bravely faced the audience with speech manual of CC#8 and ACB#3.

The first speaker, TM Azlan Supian planted the scenario of having the attendees acting as school children while he educated us on his work as a Geoscientist. I was pretty much intrigued with the many interesting pictures of rocks formation he took and his great passion while describing his profession. What most appealing to me was the many places he travelled either for work or while attending forums and workshops!

I was up next giving my ACB#3 titled ‘Seringgit’. I have to admit that it was not easy trying to craft a speech with the intention of persuading the audience especially when it was only done at the very last minute (not advisable!). I tried my best to persuade the audience to refrain themselves from giving their money away to beggars, and I guess, it did appeal to half of the audience when I was named the Best Speaker for the day (talking about ending the term with a blast!).

Our guest, Azlan Supain was named the Best Table Topic Speaker (and at the end of the meeting, convey his interest to join our Toastmaster Club). Bravo!

Our highlight was of course the evaluation given by our General Evaluator, TM Soo Loon Teo. He never failed to impress me with his candour assessment of our meeting and his smile that never seems to fade at every sentence.

Thank you all attendees, and we hope to see you again next time! And let’s welcome the new VP PR, Azlan Mohaideen with his bi-weekly report of the meeting next time.

Cheers all.

Signing out
Suhana Sidik
Outgoing Vice President of Public Relation
DDYPC TMC

DDYPC TMC Election - Office Bearers 2009/10

They say leaders are not born overnight, but I beg to differ. Election does just that!

DDYPC TMC held its election on 21st May to choose the 7 officers to take up the stewardship of DDYPC cum this 1 July 2009. It was a tough contest as all the seats had at least 3 nominations to the post, and at times, the members were asked to re-vote as they could not reach a majority consensus.

It gets more interesting as the members also had the opportunity to listen to the nominees’ quick 2-minutes speech, and their eagerness to serve the members.

Alas, we are proud to bring you the new club officers, as follows:

President: Stefanie Khaw Sui Lynn (PED/ PEC)
VP of Education: Tunku Indra b Tunku A Mutalib (PMU/ PRD)
VP of Membership: Ivan Pei Lai Hung (XD/XPG)
VP of Public Relations: Azlan Mohaideen (DD/ DPG)
Treasurer: Khairul Fadhli b A Kassim (PMU/ POM)
Secretary M Muaz Azman (DD/DFE)
Sargeant-At-Arms Mardhiyah bt M Bakir (R&T)

Congratulations all.

We can all expect a great year ahead of us with these credible people to lead! Our big THANK YOU to the outgoing committee for your effort and hard work to ensure the club’s success. It was not easy to become a charter committee, but all of the officers have done well in building up the momentum of the club.

But all the hard work would not have paid off without the support from the members. YOU can make it happen! Let’s strive towards achieving a SELECT Distinguished Club this year, and a PRESIDENT Distinguished Club the year ahead!

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!

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!