Meeting Review (17th June, 2008)

	Attendees / Roleplayers:
1	Chandran V	Ah Counter
2	Lakhmichand M.A.	Timer
3	Lourdes C	Evaluator
4	Loke Kah Sing
5	Mary Barton	TTE
6	Maureen Ong Swee Kin	Grammarian
7	Michelle Ong Swee Jin	Evaluator
8	Muhendaran Suppiah	SAA / Speaker
9	Parimala Thevi Sundram	Invocation
10	Ranjani	Speaker
11	Ranjit Singh	TME
12	Rema Paul Gopal	Evaluator
13	Renu Dayalal
14	Sai Jyothirmai Racherla
15	Sethuraman Muthukaruppan	TTM
16	Shanmugam Ganesan
17	Syamala Murigah	Speaker
	Guests:
1	Gerard Peter (Mid Valley)	GE
2	Aishah
3	Aishlee
4	Ananthan Sanggar
5	Francisco Morales
6	Mooi Kheng
7	Pushpa
8	Shanti

The last meeting for the term 2007/2008 started with an oomph !

Three guests Mooi, Pushpa & Shanti came in before any of our own members, so did the caterers (Lucky arranged for new ones). By 7.00 pm our place was teeming with members and guests.

Meeting started right on the dot and for this meeting, I was given the honor of being the Toastmaster Of the Evening, simply because it was the last meeting for my term as the President. I chose to have a light-hearted session and the mood prevailed through out the meeting with lots of laughter and participation from the audience.

Muhendaran, as the SAA brought the house to order.

I did the President’ opening address with a simple quick round of self-introduction.

I, as the TME, then proceeded to introduce Toastmasters albeit in a different way, whereby explanations were provided as the session progressed.

Parimala gave us a pretty long list of goal-setting tips in her invocation.

Sethu for the first time ever as the TTM tested the speakers in his very own way with diverse topics. Table-topics Speakers for the evening were Shan, Francisco, Muhenderan, Aishah (guest-bravo) & Parimala.

Immediately after, Mary Barton did a wonderful job of evaluating the table topics speakers. While being very encouraging towards the newcomers, picking on their positive points, she noticeably didn’t pull any punches when evaluating the seasoned speakers… very very Bangsar-like!!

Next change – Humor Session with Muhendaran, Ananthan & Lucky giving us some real life action.

The 10 minute break was exactly that – a 10 minute break. It proved to be very good with members and guests mingling freely.

After the break, we had the speeches.

Muhendaran, did speech # 3 (C&L Manual), about the murder of a friend/relative and a very important message – charity begins at home.

Ranjini, attempting speech # 8 (C&L Manual) spoke on “How to Trust Someone”.

Finally Syamala, gave her penultimate speech (# 9) before achieving her Competent Communicator award; spoke on the need for vaccination against chicken pox.

All speeches carried an important message for everyone to take home.

Gerard Peters, CTM/CL, was the all important General Evaluator for the day. Gerard gave us some very important pointers on aspects where we could improve further. His team of Evaluators and role-players , gave crisp, on-the-dot and precise pointers as to how the meeting progressed.

The winners were:

Best Table Topics Speaker – Aishah

Best Evaluator - Lourdes DTM

Best Speaker – Muhendaran DTM

In my closing address as the President, I took the opportunity to thank each and every member of the club for making my role as the President for the past one year a thoroughly enjoyable one. We closed as President Distinguished Club despite not targeting for it.

Then came the best moment of the meeting – we had 7 non-toastmasters guests today.

Mooi signed up, and apparently she wasn’t so sure when she came in… but by break time she had signed up!!! A warm welcome to you Mooi !

Francisco wanted to pay-up but we didn’t have the forms with us... one more on board!

Ananthan says he will come for the next meeting and sign up… Wow! Let’s see.

Shanti WANTS to sign up !

Just before we ended, Lourdes had everyone in stitches with his lovely comments on my term as the president. Thank you Lourdes, much appreciated.

Wonderful people. Wonderful meeting. Cheers to all.

by Ranjit Singh, ACB