AMD Cyberjaya Toastmasters Club 10th Meeting

Location: Wonder Woman, AMD Cyberjaya Office
Date:9th November 2011
Time:1830-2100
Organizer: Nabila Kadir

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, TM Tanes gave opening speech.

Toastmaster of the Evening - Nabila Kadir
TM Nabila , the Toastmasters of the Evening started with reading out the objectives of Toastmasters Club and introduce the Word of the Day - STUPENDOUS.
He then called out each role player to explain on their roles and responsibilities.

1. General Evaluator - TM Tanes
2. Grammarian - TM Siti Zalikha
3. Ah-Counter - TM Dropati
4. Timer - TM Remy

Table Topic Session - Table Topic Master TM Asmah

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.

TM Asmah brought a paper bag which includes 10 objects inside. Volunteers for table topic will need to put their hands into the paper bag and select one object (without looking).

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

1. TM Hasbullah - A red Ferrari toy car
2. TM Ain Nabilah - A portable toothbrush and toothpaste
3. TM Nazzatul Ain - A pink and purple unicorn toy
4. TM Heemi -A piece of flyer for a slimming center
5. TM Aslina - A measuring tape

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 3 different projects.

Speakers for Organize Your Speech project and their topic in this meeting were :

Project 1 Ice Breaker

1. TM Aida Jazmin - Absence makes the heart grow fonder
2. TM Nurfiedayu - Personality
3. TM Fairizul - Myself

Project 3 Get to The Point

1. TM Alagappan - Plan

Project 4 How To Say It

1. TM Viji - You are what you eat for breakfast

Table Topic Evaluation - TM Stand Lye Wei Ling
TM Stand gave evaluation for all table topic speakers.

Project Speech Evaluation and Reports
In this session, all the evaluators presented their evaluation project speakers. General Evaluator, TM Tanes upon all the speech evaluator to come in front and present their evaluation.
The evaluators for this meeting are :

1. TM Stand, CL , gave his evaluation for Project Speaker 1 TM Aida.
2. TM Amethyst gave evaluation for Project Speaker 2 TM Nurfiedayu and Project Speaker 3 TM Fairizul.
3. TM Barry Ong, DTM provided his evaluation for both Project Speaker 4 and 5, TM Alagappan and TM Viji respectively.

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

1. Timer's Report - TM Remy
2. AH Counter's Report - TM Dropati
3. Grammarian's Report - TM Siti Zalikha

General Evaluator and Invocator evaluation

At the end, General Evaluator TM Tanes gave his evaluation on overall meeting

Awards
The President, TM Tanes announce the winners of the awards for this week, based on voting from all attendees.
Best Table Topic - TM Ain Nabilah
Best Speaker - TM Aida Jazmin
Best Evaluator - TM Barry Ong, DTM
Congratulations!!

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

Report prepared by: Asmah Abd Rahman

AMD Cyberjaya Toastmasters Club 9th Meeting

Location: Wonder Woman, AMD Cyberjaya Office
Date:2nd November 2011
Time:1830-2100
Organizer: Tanes-Kumar N-Maniam

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 opening speech with a couple of points :
Keep the meeting as simple as we can
To enjoy ourselves

Toastmaster of the Evening - Tanes-Kumar N-Maniam
TM Tanes , the Toastmasters of the Evening started with reading out the objectives of Toastmasters Club and introduce the Word of the Day - ARDENT.
He then called out each role player to explain on their roles and responsibilities.

General Evaluator - TM Jeevan Prasad, CC
Grammarian - TM Asmah
Ah-Counter - TM Aini
Timer - TM Amira

TM Tanes announced a new approach on how the audience can help to control the time for all speakers - after the 30secs buffer time passed, audience will drum the table.


Table Topic Session - Table Topic Master TM Nurfiedayu Mohd Yusof
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 :

TM Shaira Nadiah - 5 Ways NOT To Loose Weight
TM Norman Ahmad Osman- If You Were A Bird, What Type of Bird Would You Be?
TM Wai, Chan-Fai - Name a Famous person You would Like To Be FOr a Day and Why
TM Aida Jazmin -Describe Your Life If You Were a Princess
TM Dropati - What Name Would You Like To Give To Your Babies?


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 2 different projects.
Speakers for Organize Your Speech project and their topic in this meeting were :

TM Siti Zalikha- Lost In Translation
TM Norshela Mohamed Azahar - Idea
TM Nabila Kadir - Early Marriage
TM Heemi Fazeree - HPV : What You Should Know


Table Topic Evaluation - TM Amethyst Ong
TM Amethyst gave evaluation for all table topic speakers with some great improvement suggestions :
Table Topic Master to introduce the speaker before they starts - mention the Speaker Name - Topic, Topic, Speaker Name.
Speakers are advised to stand in front of ALL audience to address them easily.

Project Speech Evaluation and Reports
In this session, all the evaluators presented their evaluation project speakers. General Evaluator, TM Jeevan, CCcalled upon all the speech evaluator to come in front and present their evaluation.
The evaluators for this meeting are :
TM Amethyst Ong, gave her evaluation for Project Speaker 1 TM Siti Zalikha
TM Yeow Hann, CC gave evaluation for Project Speaker 2 TM Norshela.
TM Amin, CC provided his evaluation for both Project Speaker 3 and 4, TM Nabila and TM Heemi respectively.
TM Jeevan then called upon all the role players to present their reports :
Timer's Report - TM Amira
AH Counter's Report - TM Aini
Grammarian's Report - TM Asmah


General Evaluator and Invocator evaluation

At the end, General Evaluator TM Jeevan, CC gave her evaluation on overall meeting. Some of her points are :
What does he likes :
Very FUN club!
The venue - very comfortable and has a very good balance of the crowd
Timing is good
The way TME highlighted the changes to time keeping
What can be improved :
The rostrum position is an interference, try to move it to the side of the room
Table topic master advised to mentioned the name of the speaker
Audience advised to silent their phone
Mind the manners - audience talking and whispering to each other
Do not overdo when interfere with the speakers (making jokes, address etc)

Awards
The President, TM Tanes announce the winners of the awards for this week, based on voting from all attendees.
Best Table Topic - TM Norman
Best Speaker - TM Siti Zalikha
Best Evaluator - TM Amin
Congratulations!!

Closing
We close the meeting with speech from Mr President. Meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM.

Report prepared by: Asmah Abd Rahman

Dear AMD Cyberjaya Toastmasters,

Glad to inform you guys that our members below completed one project in Competent Leadership manual :

1. Norman Ahmad-Osman – Project 1:  Listening and Leadership
2.  Norshela Mohamed-Azahar  – Project 4 : Time Management
3.  Muhammad-Rashid Narayanan – Project 4 : Time Management
4.   Norliza Saat  – Project 4 : Time Management

Regards,

Amira Alim

VP Public Relations 

AMD Cyberjaya TMC

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

AMD Cyberjaya Toastmasters Club 6th meeting

Location: Wonder Women,AMD Global Services Cyberjaya Office
Date: 14th September 2011
Time:1830-2030

Objective:
For all members to gain experience on how to run a meeting.
Encourage members to talk in front of an audience and complete their achievement modules.
Give opportunities for members to take part in the meeting either as speakers or role players

Agenda/Minutes
President's Address - Tanes-Kumar N-Maniam


Club's President, Tanes gave welcome speech and address the fellow toastmasters. He explained that meeting will proceed without external evaluators and guests and mentioned that this is a chance for us to practice becoming an evaluators.
He talked about the theme (diversity) and word of the day (Peace) in conjunction with the Merdeka day- how we should put side all the differences between us and live together in peace and harmony as 1Malaysia.

Toastmaster of the Evening - Ramnawal, Dropati


TM Dropati , the Toastmasters of the Evening explained on the meeting agenda and call out each role player to explain on their roles and responsibilities.
General Evaluator - TM John Nitis
Grammarian - TM Viji Malon
Ah-Counter - TM Amira
Timer - TM Hasbullah

Table Topic Session
Table Topic Master TM Aslina Awang


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 :

TM Norliza Saat - If you are a super Hero, what / who would you be?
TM Fairizul - Your favorite color
TM Mohd Aizat - If you need to choose between love and work, what would you choose?
TM Lau, Jien-Tsun -If you can go to a place, where would that be?
TM Nurfiedayu - Give out a speech assuming you are a top 10 candidate in Miss World competition.

Table Topic Evaluation - TM Mohamed Annuar Mohamed

TM Annuar gave his evaluation to all the table topic speaker, giving good and constructive feedbacks, as well as improvement suggestions.
All table topic speakers have done a job well done!

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 3 different projects.

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

1. TM Remy Tan Tze Hup - Do Re Mi
2. TM Zaini Hussain- ZAINI
3. TM Hadi Hazizuddin Nasaruddin - Myself

Speaker for Project 2 (Organize Your Speech) is :

1. TM Heemi Fazeree Hanif

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

1. TM Asmah Abd. Rahman - Do Parents Know the Best?

Project Speech Evaluation and Reports

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

Speech Evaluator TM Kam Yuen Chi gave her evaluation for Project 1 Speaker TM Remy, and Project 3 Speaker TM Asmah.
Speech Evaluator TM Tanes gave evaluation for Project 1 Speaker TM Hadi Hazizuddin.
Speech Evaluator TM Norman gave evaluation for Project Speaker 2 TM Heemi Fazeree.

TM John Nitis then called upon all the role players to present their reports :

1. Ah Counter's Report - TM Amira Alim
2. Grammarian's Report - TM Viji
3. Timer's Report - TM Hasbullah

General Evaluator and Invocator evaluation

At the end, General Evaluator TM John Nitis gave his evaluation on overall meeting. Some of his points are :
He liked the spirit and enthusiasm from all the members who attend the meeting.
He suggested that all the role players have a 10-15 minutes discussion before the meeting to iron out things if they didn’t turn up as per plan eg changes on the role players or getting the title for each speech.
He also commented that all the speech evaluator were too much depending on the manual to give evaluation. Giving that this is the first time all of them become speech evaluators this was a great experience and hope we can learn to become great speech evaluators.
Lastly, there is a recommendation from TM John Nitis to all speech evaluators - they should mention in the beginning of their presentation that the evaluations are based on their personal opinion rather than from a Toastmaster club as a whole.

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 Aizat
2. Best Speaker - TM Zaini
3. Best Evaluator - TM Norman

Congratulations!!

Closing
We close the meeting with speech from Mr President. Meeting adjourned at 8:30PM.


Report prepared by: Asmah Abd Rahman

Member's Achievement

Hello to all AMD Cyberjaya TMC!

Just to let you know that these members below have completed their Projects!

Lau Jien-Tsun (Jensen)  - Project 4 Time Management

Tanes-Kumar N-Maniam - Project 5  Planning and Implementation

 

Feel free to check on your achievement charts at our blog

Or you can straight away click below:

Competent Communication Achievement

 Competent Leadership Achievement

Regards,

Amira Alim

VP Public Relations 

AMD Cyberjaya TMC

Hello to all AMD Cyberjaya TM!
Our 6th Bi-Weekly meeting were conducted yesterday, and it was a great and enjoyable meeting. Although all the guests could not make it due the rain heavily, everyone seems enjoyed the meeting and the members on the floor were willing to take the remaining role players and evaluators.

Due to our office having Merdeka Raya Celebration, most of them came with traditional wear (Baju Melayu/ Baju kurung).

picture credit to Shylla

Our dear Ms Secretary, Asmah  has updated minutes of meeting (will put in the blog later) and both of achievement charts. You can click below or at the tab above.

1. Competent Communication Achievement
2. Competent Leadership Achievement

Just to let you know that these members below have completed their Competent Leadership Projects!Yeay

a.       Hasbullah Harun – Project 4

b.      Kam Yuen Chi – Project 1

c.       John Nitis – Project 2