AMD Cyberjaya Toastmasters Club 8th Meeting

Location: Wonder Woman, AMD Cyberjaya Office
Date:12th October 2011
Time:1830-2100
Organizer: Muhammad-Rashid Narayanan

Call to order and Welcome by ASAA - Heemi-Fazeere Hanif
ASAA called to order and started the meeting.

President's Address - Tanes-Kumar N-Maniam
Club's President, Tanes gave welcome speech and address the fellow toastmasters.
Talked about the theme for today's meeting - The Beginning and then brief on how AMD Cyberjaya TM Club started.

Toastmaster of the Evening - Muhammad-Rashid Narayanan
TM Muhammad-Rashid Narayanan , the Toastmasters of the Evening started with briefing audience on the history of Toastmasters International followed by the purposed of AMD Cyberjaya TM Club.
He then called out each role player to explain on their roles and responsibilities.

1. General Evaluator - TM Shel Ling, DTM
2. Grammarian - TM Norman Ahmad-Osman
3. Ah-Counter - TM Nabila Kadir
4. Timer - TM Norshela Mohamed-Azahar

Table Topic Session - Table Topic Master TM Ain-Nabilah Ibrahim
During this portion of the meeting, club members (and willing guests) practice impromptu speaking by responding to questions or topics prepared by the Table Topics Master. Sometimes the topics are simple, such as "My Favourite Holiday", and sometimes they are more challenging, focusing on issues of the day, such as Elections, the Olympics, Health, Education or Crime, where you may be required to give an opinion, or argue a point of view.

The Table Topic Speakers and their topics for this meeting were :

1. TM Dropati Ramnawal - What is your last wish if you are going to die tomorrow?
2. TM Siti-Zalikha Zakaria - In what sense Steve Jobs affects you the most?
3. TM Wai Chan-Fai - What is the thing that you most wanted to do but not allowed to?
4. TM Amin (from MMU) -Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
5. TM Fairizul - If you were given a chance to be in a movie, what movie is that and why?

Project Speakers Session

In this section, Toastmasters practice their public speaking skills by giving a prepared presentation from the Communication and Leadership Programmes. Each project in every manual has a specific objective in an area that helps you practice different speaking techniques. These objectives are designed as guidelines to help you think about the various qualities that comprise a good speech. Some speakers may be giving an icebreaker, while others may be trying to persuade you to their point of view, or inform you about technical issues relating to their hobby or occupation. You'll learn something new with every speech you listen to!
In this meeting we have speakers who did their speech for 4 different projects.

Speakers for Ice Breaker project and their topic in this meeting were :

1. TM Saat, Norliza- About Me

Speaker for Project 2 (Organize Your Speech) is :

1. TM Mohamed-Nor, Mohamed-Annuar - Touching

Speaker for Project 3 which is Getting to the Point is:

1. TM Kam, Yuen-Chi - ROOM
2. TM Malon, Vijiheswary - Tips and Etiquettes

Speaker for Project 4 which is How To Say it :

1. TM Abd-Rahman, Asmah - A Writer in Me

Table Topic Evaluation - TM Shel Ling, DTM
TM Shel Ling gave evaluation for all table topic speakers with one message across which is how important it is to conclude your speech.
She praised all speakers that they are all confidence speakers, and mentioned a few improvement point :

1. Avoid pacing as it is a sense of nervousness
2. Slow down when speaking
3. Do not apologize to the audience for any reason - SPEAKERS DO NOT APOLOGIZE
4. Do not be too dependent on the rostrum.

Project Speech Evaluation and Reports

In this session, all the evaluators presented their evaluation project speakers. General Evaluator, TM Shel Ling, DTM called upon all the speech evaluator to come in front and present their evaluation.
The evaluators for this meeting are :

1. TM Jamila Mohamed, ACS, CL gave her evaluation for Project 3 Speaker TM Kam Yuen Chi and TM Vijiheswary.
2. TM Barry Ong, ACS, ALS gave evaluation for Project 2 Speaker TM Mohamed Annuar.
3. TM Stanley Chan gave evaluation for Project 1 Speaker TM Norliza.
4. TM Emil Anthony, ACS, ALB gave evaluation for Project 4 Speaker TM Asmah.

TM Shel Ling then called upon all the role players to present their reports :

1. Grammarian's Report - TM Norman
2. AH Counter Report - TM Nabila
3. Timer's Report - TM Norshela

General Evaluator and Invocator evaluation
At the end, General Evaluator TM Shel Ling, DTM gave her evaluation on overall meeting. Some of her points are :

1. She was surprised to see the number of attendees for the meeting, and very happy with it. She mentioned to keep the fun and enthusiasm.
2. Congratulate AMD Cyberjaya TM Club with the new meeting venue (Wonder Woman)

Awards
The President, TM Tanes announce the winners of the awards for this week, based on voting from all attendees.

1. Best Table Topic - TM Dropati
2. Best Speaker - TM Annuar
3. Best Evaluator - TM Jamila, ACS, CL

Congratulations!!

Club Charter Member Certification Presentation
TM Shel Ling, DTM presented the certification to all first batch members who attended the meeting today.
Congratulations all!

Closing
We close the meeting with speech from Mr President. Meeting adjourned at 9 PM.

Report prepared by: Asmah Abd Rahman