Club Meeting on 12 Sep 2005

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As we moved into the 3rd month of the new term 2005/2006 under the leadership of our club President Hor Kam Peng, we have three new sign ups and one reinstated member to date.

Welcome on board our very new member - Christine

Are we going to be awarded the special ribbon from the district……..we certainly can, if only members will bring another two new signs before end of September 2005. With this development, we will also achieve one DCP goal in membership.

How was the mood in the meeting this evening?

There was certainly a demand for speaking slots; we have five C&L speakers and one ACL speaker. Only one C&L speaker could not attend due to last minute unforeseen circumstances.

The Table Topic session was replaced by Humor session where five members display their lighter side. Even the ‘timid’ VPE Gwen participated in this session.

We had two Icebreakers, Sabapathy and Yap Mei Han took ‘the cat of their bags’ to allow us discover about them. Then we have eager Bryan who spoke on ‘Hurricane Katrina” while Alfred spoke on near encounter ghostly experiences in Kota Baru.

Kam Peng spoke on the subject Assertiveness and did a role-play with Hin Chong as the contractor. In the role-play, Hin Chong was supposed to realign the tap that was causing Kam Peng distress. Finally Kam Peng managed to convince via the skills of Assertivness to follow her plan.

The Best Humour speaker this evening was ATMS Lim Hin Chong.

Strangely, there were two best assignment speakers and evaluators. This indicated that the audience of 20 was attentive to the speakers and evaluators that led to the double results.

The Best Assignment Speakers were Alfred Koh and Bryan Lee.

The Best Evaluators were DTM Loghandran and DTM Ong Siew Chien.

Good nite.

Don’t forget to attend another exciting meeting on 26 September 2005 at 7 pm.

From the Desk of VPPR – Siew Chien

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Club Installation Night 2005 Sep 16

Reporting from the desk of VP Public Relation

It was 16 September 2005, at 6 pm on Friday evening, I could see the sky as blue as the ocean and the sun decided not to set yet but continue to shine into the Sri Mutiara Restoran in Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam. At 6.30 pm, there were only a handful of guests, where were the rest? Indeed, most were caught in the Friday after-office traffic jam.

The guests slowly trickle in to fill their places in the restaurant and by 7.15 pm all the guests were looking forward for an exciting evening. Our EMCEE David Anthony came all the way from Cyberjaya despite the stressful jam; he made to the venue and started the ball rolling at 7.30 pm.

The event started off with the Negara ku and the highlight of the event was the Installation Ceremony of the EXCO for the term 2005/2006. Our Past President Koh Teck Lee, ATMB was the Installation Officer. Our Immediate Past President Kanniaseelan Varathan, ATMB and his team were the outgoing team, pave the way for the new President Hor Kam Peng, ATMB and her team to run for this term.

President Kam Peng gave a motivating presidential speech and managed to stir interest from the guests on our projects i.e. Children programme. She closed her speech by encouraging members to show support of Club activities and reinforced by the song “Stand By Me.” As the song filled the ears of everyone in the restaurant, the first course on the Chinese Course Dinner was served.

A few days before the event, President Kam Peng and I were concerned on whether KGPA, being a non-Chinese organization could deliver a real Chinese Course Dinner. We were concerned whether we could get fresh steam Seabass or good fried rice. I even told the Organising Committee that I would be at the kitchen to accompany the chef. On the day of the event, I quietly slipped into their kitchen to see whether the Chinese chef was present. He was busy preparing the quality dishes and trying to jive with our time to present each dish The Operations Manager even asked me the time to cook to our first dish. With this assurance, I am confident the guests will certainly enjoy a sumptuous Chinese Course Dinner just like at the Chinese Restaurant.

KGPA really did deliver a real Chinese Course dinner where every dish was served on time, according to the programme. We had good steamed Seabass and Thai Fried Rice, which was different from the normal Chinese Course Dinner. They certainly did a good job in their delivery. They even offered beer sold at their member’s price @ RM7.50 net.

We must thank our President Kam Peng for the variety of lucky draws. She got 30 prizes. We have 62 guests. The winning chance of the lucky draw was 1 for every 2 persons. Our members manage to win the grand prizes. We had Robert who won the grand prize, i.e. a pair of executive chairs. Our Immediate Past President won the tallest packed hamper. Our long lost member Cheng Hoon came specially to watch the Comedy skits won RM50 Parkson Voucher. As for me, I won the bestseller book worth over RM100.

Another highlight of the evening: Comedy skits by Speakers’ Dream Toastmasters and collaboration with Spot-on Theatre.

The show started with our talented Seelan, ATMB displayed the sound of the train coming into the station. The show began with “The Beauty and Kingdom.” Chow Mun Yuen, CTM portrayed the Beauty from China. She danced and moved to the rhythm gracefully. Guess who was the emperor? None other than our dark and handsome, Seelan, ATMB with his sparkling yellow robe, black moustache above his lips and yellow beard on his chin. Ismail, CTM looks so adorable like a Baba from Melaka with his fan and silky, pleated ponytail on his shoulder. He was playing the role of a eunuch fanning the Emperor. Hah! Hah!

The train then moved on to Penang. The team quickly took their positions in BORIA where K Loghandran, DTM took the lead.

Next was the Cabaret where Fong Muntoh or better known as Montie gave us the ”meow song” and another melodious number to allow us to visualise the scene at the cabaret.

The finale of the Comedy skit was ‘Butterfly Lovers” which was suppose to be a sad story but with the creativity of the Director and the cast, we could certainly see some lighthearted moments in the show.

KC Leong, CL the scholar in Butterfly Lovers came on stage, flicked open his fan with a loud sound so powerfully just like Jet Li portraying the famous Wong Fei Hung in action. Our beautiful Mei Han, the heroine was so natural in switching roles. One minute, a lady; the next minute, gentleman. Then there was her father, Robert Hue, CTM with his fierce looking face wearing his "Cina Ah Pek" clothes. Yeah! Our soft-spoken Robert was a no joking father last night. Robert sliced KC with a sword as if he was slaughtering a chicken. Butterfly Lovers, adapted by Koh Teck Lee, ATMB was meant to be serious in memory of the legendary Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai. Kudos to our Director, DTM K Loghandran! He metamorphised the legend into a hilarious comedy which got everyone in stitches.

Well done! The Organising Committee for making it a success last night, a night not to be forgotten! I would also love to take this opportunity to congratulate everyone in the cast. Your show was an eye opener to many of the guests. Never did they realize that Toastmasters, other than “can talk much” (CTM also means Competent Toastmaster), they can also act to an audience. I could see the audiences were laughing their hearts out. For audiences that have children below 12 years and they also enjoyed the show. We certainly have a wonderful and talented team.


Special thanks to our guests from Toastmasters who have assisted in the Lucky Draws session:

Yeoh Cheng Lim, CL - President Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club

Zaharah Ibrahim, ATMB - President Pidato Perdana Toastmasters Club

Lakhmichand, ATMB - Past Dist51 DPRO / Past Div P Gov - KLAdvanced and Bangsar Toastmasters Club.

Kudos to Speakers’ Dream Toastmasters Club.

VPPR signing off.
Goodnight.

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Club Installation Nite

SPEAKERS' DREAM TOASTMASTERS CLUB 220-51

SPEAKERS’ DREAM TOASTMASTERS CLUB presents Installation Nite on 16 September 2005 (Friday) from 6.30 pm till 10.30 pm at Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam (KGPA), Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur.

Highlights of the event: Installation Ceremony of EXCO Members / 8 Chinese Course Dinner / Comedy Skits by Spot-on Theatre

Opportunity to win good value lucky draws.

Tickets – RM45 per pax.

Call Seelan 012-3245399 / Siew Chien 012-3113026 for reservations.

Club Meeting Dates

SPEAKERS’ DREAM TOASTMASTERS CLUB, a non-profit organization with affiliations with Toastmasters International, USA, welcomes members of public to our club meetings. Opportunity to participate in Impromptu Speeches sessions and learn other tips of Public Speaking skills.

Free Admission.

Our club meetings in September 2005 are on 12 & 26 Sep 2005 from 7 pm-9.15 pm at Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam (KGPA), Bukit Kiara, Kuala Lumpur.

Call Robert 013-3901039 / Siew Chien 012-3113026.

Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests 25July2005

Dear Esteemed Members,

The Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest lead by our Contest Chairs, CTM Mok Soo Pon and CTM Gwendoline Gwee went on well.

We were fortunate to be able to get the assistance of an excellent Chief Judge Ramdas Nayar and his team of credible judges.

In Humorous Speech Contests, we had 3 contestants namely :-
1) Duncan Tan, CTM
2) Chow Mun Yuen, CTM
3) Lim Hin Chong, ATMS

The winners were :-

Champion - Lim Hin Chong, ATMS
1st Runner up - Chow Mun Yuen, CTM

In the Evaluation Contest, we had 5 contestants and they were :-
1) Koh Teck Lee, ATMB
2) Kanniaseelan Varathan, ATMB
3) Mok Soo Pon, CTM
4) Lim Hin Chong, ATMS
5) Hor Kam Peng, ATMB

The winners were :-

Champion - Mok Soo Pon, CTM
1st Runner up - Hor Kam Peng, ATMB
2nd Runner up - Lim Hin Chong, ATMS

Kudos!!! to the winners of the contests.

We had support from our Mentee club HELP University College where Ashwin and Arvind plus VPE Joyce Hue were present at the contests.

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Persuade With Humour

Beloved members, our upcoming workshop - Persuade with Humor have been receiving an overwhelming response, it started with 10 tickets sold but after Loghan appeared on TV3 in the Malaysian Hari Ini program at 8.30 am, the numbers shot up to full house for the room we book in KGPA.

After much negotiation with KGPA, we now will have our workshop in Restoran Seri Mutiara with comfortable seats and better ambience plus good dinner.

As the tickets are been snapped up very fast, I have a few left for you which is going for a special rate @ RM10 per pax. This cost will include a simple buffet dinner. We have a surprise for you, Montie is joining Loghan or Loggie for this workshop. We will be getting a bonus from Loggie and Montie on their tested experiences for our betterment.


Regards,
Siew Chien

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A New Date

Please take note that the

Pursuade With Humour Workshop

has been postponed to a new date:

29 July 2005, Friday, 6.45pm

Please scrow down the pages for details.

HURRY, LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE.

Report on Club Meeting - Monday 11 July 2005

Dear Esteemed Members,

11 July 2005 was our 1st club meeting with the new President Hor Kam Peng, making her first Presidential speech.

Who was there?

For the first time, in Speakers' Dream Toastmasters Club Meeting, we have 28 members and guests. Every corner of the room was filled with interested audience with their eyes looking eagerly and ears tuned in for what's in store for the evening.

We had 3 Distinguished Toastmasters, Celine, Loghan and Siew Chien. 95% of the Past Presidents of the club were there to support the club meeting. Our baby club HELP University College Toastmasters and Sunway Toastmasters were also present.

What's for starters?

Our President gave us a tip on a simple looking plant called the 'plucking plant' translated from Cantonese. She prepared a drink from this plant and share a tip for cleansing and maintaining good health with a simple and inexpensive method by planting a plant.

To add flavour to the starters, we had DTM Loghan who add humor by relating a story.
"A man spend RM2,000 on equipment for scuba diving. When he was in the sea, he saw a man with no equipment at all, was seen 'swimming' in the deep sea.
He thought he was so foolish to spend so much money while the other joker went under water with nothing. He scribble a simple note "how did you do it without any diving equipment?"

The man replied " You Idiot, I am drowning."

Toastmaster of the Evening, DTM Celine, took us through the evening by making sure the guests and the members on the proper protocol of Toastmasters.
She provided us with the "Main Meal" of the meeting. Table Topics and Assignment Speeches.

Table Topics was undertaken by Duncan, our new CTM with his creative topics like,
"Tell us your secret, how to live up to 500 years"
"If you were allowed to bring yourself to 10 years old, what would you want to change"
The speakers were wonderful as they use their creativity and tact to manage their topics.

Assignment Speeches, we had two eager beavers to start off their journey in Toastmastering, King Thim and Eng Yau.
Followed by a dramatic and interesting topic on 'Adultery' by Alfred Koh.
To complete the session on Assignment Speeches, we had two members from HELP to remind us on the journey of Success in their perspective.

What's for F&B?

There is no caterer, it was certainly a different scenario from the normal catered food of fried noodle and a snack. We had Kentucky Fried Chicken and Pizzas from PIzza Hut. Desserts and cake contributed Lim Hin Chong, and bananas by Teck Lee.

What was the 'mood' at the close of the meeting?

We manage to stir interest in our guests, as they enquired for our membership forms. We also had 'long lost members' who have now renewed their interest to join the club - Joseph Sunder.

All of us left the meeting ....feeling energise and an evening well spent.

By DTM Ong Siew Chien

Till end .......next update is on 25 July 2005.

Persuade With Humor Workshop - 29 July 2005

Public Workshop Series…………..Series 2/05

PERSUADE WITH HUMOR
with elements of theatre

If you have the ability to persuade people to do whatever you want them to do, you don’t need anything else. R. Kopmeyer

Humour through improvisional theater will help you appreciate audience dynamics.
Toastmaster magazine June 2005

How can you benefit from this workshop?
Before you persuade anyone, you must first be liked.
One of the ingredients in being likeable to others is to be light-hearted.
Once you become light-hearted, you can begin the process of persuasion.

Who is the facilitator?
LOGHAN is an International Speaker and Executive coach to CFOs and CEOs. He is a Producer, Director and Actor of 8 English Comedy Theatre plays. He is a recipient of numerous Outstanding Awards including: -
· World taped Speech champion in 1993.
· Represented South East Asia in 1998
· Best creative writer in 1973.
· Distinguished Toastmaster (USA) 1998.
· The Outstanding Toastmaster of the year 1998
· Excellent service award as Area Governor.
· Best speaker award IBBM Malaysia.
· Certified Customer service trainer (USA)

Who should attend this workshop?
Sales Team / Team Leaders / Aspiring champions in Speech Contests /
Anyone who wants to be an entertaining conversationalist

Make a date with us :
Date - 29 July 2005 (Friday)
Time - 6.45pm to 9.30pm
Venue - Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam
Bukit Kiara, Off Jalan Damansara
Kuala Lumpur

Your Investment : RM20 per pax OR
Group Rate - RM50 for a group of 3.
For further enquiries and reservations, please call :-

Siew Chien 012-311 3026 OR Email : oschien@pd.jaring.my

K P Hor 012-235 5232

Organised by : Speakers’ Dream Toastmasters Club

In Collaboration with : Spot-on Theatre Petaling Jaya
STAR Training Centre

Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest - 25 July 2005

Dear fellow toastmasters,

Ho! Ho! Ho! It is that time of the year again. T'is the season of laughter. There will be no normal meeting on the 25/07/05. Instead the club is organising the Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2005 - 2006 (club level). May I present myself as the Humorous Speech Contest Chairman while our VPE, Gwendolyn is the Evaluation Contest Chairman. I am officially inviting every member who is eligible to participate either in the Humorous Speech or Evaluation Contest.

The slots for the Humorous Speech Contest are being taken up like hot cakes. Thumbs up for the six (6) contestants who gladly nodded their heads and raised their hands during the meeting. They are Alfred Koh, Duncan Tan, Hor Kam Peng, Kanniaseelan, Lim Hin Chong and Ng Cheong Boon. Do not worry, my dear friends, for I still have available slots for the Humorous Speech Contest. So click on your mouse and reply to this e-mail, FAST.

Good night or should I say good morning. Chao!

Soo Pon
Humorous Speech Contest Chairman

Club Meeting on 11 July 2005

Dear Esteemed Members,

Time flies. It's already the beginning of a new term 2005/2006, a new beginning for the Incoming EXCO. Once again we would like to thank the Outgoing EXCO for leading us in 2004/2005 and welcome on board the new EXCO 2005/2006. We together with your support envisage to assist each other to turn all our Dreams into Reality through the Power to Change.

The new EXCO specially with the leadership of our President ATMB Hor Kam Peng and the mentorship of our dynamic VPPR DTM Ong Siew Chien has lined up quite a few exciting,educational,entertaining programs for the year. For us to serve you better and also for you to benefit from being a member of the club is to partake in all the activities the club has to offer.

So here I wish to remind members that 11/07/05 (Monday) is our regular meeting for the month and we will be having two enthusiatic new members doing their ice-breaker speeches. Your support is most appreciated. Attached is the Agenda for the meeting, please peruse it and if for any unforseen circumstances the role players cannot make it for the meeting please call me at 019-3551653.

Attach also is the Tentative Mentee and Mentor List for 2005/2006 which I forward herewith for Mentors'concurrence. In the event that either party would like to swap or the Mentor is unable to oblige, please feel free to revert to me.

Find Your Voice and Serve Your World.

Yours truly
Gwen Gwee
VPE 2005/2006