Thursday, May 29, 2008

Joint Meeting Review (15th May, 2008)

Venue: AmBank Training Centre, 9th Floor, Jalan Puncak, Kuala Lumpur.

Attendees (34):

AmBank (15):

Norhanifah

President

Mah Foong Hoh, CC

VPE

Raja Reza, CC

VPM

Vanitha Rangganathan

VP PR

Jean Soong, CC

SECRETARY

Annette Wong, CC

TREASURER

Zalika Yahaya, CC

SAA

Aznoor Affan

Azril Haris Mat

Helena Doreen

Iza Rahayu

Nantha Kumar

Selvi Nachiappan

Syaiful Riezal

Zaidi Othman

BANGSAR (12):

Ranjit Singh, ATMB

President

Shanmugam, CTM

VPE

Sham Sunder, CTM

VPM

Lucky, ATMB

VP PR

Muhenderan, DTM

SAA

Chandran, CTM

Hugesh

Jessy

Marry Barton, ATMB

Maureen, CC

Ranjani

Rema, ACG

Guests (TMs) - 2

Ahmad Fakhri

Daniel Teh

Guests (Non-TMs) -5


Role Players:

SAA

-

Zalika Yahaya

CC

TME

-

Raja Reza

CC

TTM

-

Aznoor Affan


TTE

-

Rema Paul

ACG

TTE

-

Daniel The


Humour

-

Sham Sunder

CTM

Game Master

-

Azril Haris Mat


GE

-

Chandran

CTM

Grammarian

-

Norhanifah


Ah Counter

-

Lucky

ATMB

Timer

-

Maureen

CC

Table Topics Speakers

Shanmugam, CTM

Helena Doreen

Iza Rahayu

Muhenderan, DTM


Speakers

C & L

Speech Title

Syaiful Riezal

# 3

“I finally got it”

Ranjani

# 7

“How to get home safely
when you’re drunk”

Vanitha Rangganathan

# 10

“The return to innocence”

Mary Barton ATMB

Adv # 4

Dramatic Talk -



“Life or death – how does one choose”

Evaluators

Muhenderan, DTM

Ahmad Fakhri

Ranjit Singh, ATMB

Mah Foong Hoh, CC


It was an evening of FUN & LAUGHTER, but not compromising on either QUALITY or PROFESSIONALISM!

It was a FIRST Joint Meeting, EVER, for our HOSTS, AmBank TM Club members, and they executed their roles magnificently, making us feel quite at home with their generous HOSPITALITY! The snacks were delicious, and the company was charming!

We were greeted as we arrived just outside of the meeting room, and the fellowship might have been cocktails, at a corporate gathering!

The charming SAA followed by the President started the meeting on the right key, with anticipation of FUN which was forthcoming and throughout the evening.

The Table Topics was very entertaining, and the participants quite readily met the challenging topics, with very dramatic deliveries. It was sheer pleasure watching and listening. First time I witnessed TWO evaluators take turns to deliver their evaluations for ONLY 4 participants – good TIPS from the evaluators, indeed!

The humour session by Sham Sunder was very entertaining.

Equally entertaining was the Game Master, Azril Haris Mat, with his, what I thought was “WIN, DRAW OR LOOSE”. It’s not surprising to see Toastmasters emerge with their hidden talents. It was a night of discovery to see quite a number of Toastmasters Artists!

4 assignments speeches were delivered - 3 from the C&L Basic manual and an advanced manual speech.

CONGRATULATIONS to Vanitha Rangganathan for completing her C&L Basic Manual by delivering her 10th assignment speech. Vanitha is a very dramatic speaker. Looking forward to hearing advanced speeches from her.

Syaiful set the pace for the speeches – one expected the speeches to build momentum and that’s exactly what happened. You got to see Ranjani to really believe she can knock herself against a sold rostrum and jump to her feet and continue like nothing happened. The evening was quite complete with Mary’s account of her concern for her son as she fought her way...

The EVALUATIONS were justifying. Many helpful TIPS and suggestions were given / made for the speakers to incorporate in their future deliveries. I was quite impressed with Ahmad Fakhri, he has flair for the English, and he is was very dramatic. I am sure it will be a treat to listen to his speeches.

The General Evaluation session was very well handled by Chandran, the GE, together with his team of able assistants – the Grammarian, Ah-counter and the Time keeper.

The evening concluded with the announcements of the BEST performers -

BEST:


Table Topic Speaker

Iza Rahayu

Assignment Speaker

Mary Barton

Evaluator

Ahmad Fakhri

On behalf of the BANGSARIANS, many thanks to our hosts, members of the AmBAnk TM Club. They made the evening very pleasant and we look forward to having them as our guests.

Joint meetings are FUN, and you all should attend, whenever an opportunity comes your way.

We made many new friends, YOU should too!

By Lucky

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