Changi Simei TMC 2nd Chapter Meeting Minutes 16 July 2016

Dear Members,

"Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life." What a thoughtful theme for the day to celebrate Hari Raya.

Underneath are the minutes of the meeting for your reference. Hope you’ll enjoy !!!

Changi Simei Toastmasters Club 2^nd Chapter Meeting Minutes_16 July 2016

Members Present:

1.        Pravin Mishra, CC

2.        Sandy Lim CC, CL

3.        Nur Ezzah CC

4.        Jyoti Soni

5.        Chen Manman CC

6.        Dr Jack Tan Tian Huat CC

7.        Nur Refah

8.        Rajesh

9.        SaravananVaradhan ACB, ALB

10.     Che Kun

11.     Gao Shuai

12.     Donna Yap

13.     Amy Chen

14.     Iskandar

15.     Namrata

16.     Rose.

17.     Joseph

18.     Lin Yun

19.     Maria (New member)

20.     Thiam Seng (New member)

21.     Vikas

22.     Thaddeus

23.     Glean Sathi (Re- joining)

Visiting Toastmaster:

1.        Bhanu Prakash, CC, ALB (Braddell Heights II TMC)

2.        Irina Inshkina (Geylang Sarai TMC)

3.        Shirley Ng, DTM

4.        See Toh

Guest:

1.        Rafia

2.        Sara

3.        Lim Zi Hong

Theme:"Forgiveness".

Introduction: Fellowship

SAA of the day Chen Manman broke the ice by welcoming all present and requested each to give a short self-introduction and their take on what the theme “forgiveness” meant to them.

We certainly learned a lot about forgiveness from different perspectives, for some it's process of letting go, for some it's productive energy and for some its freedom. What do you think this feeling of forgiveness is good for you or for others?

Our TMD Sandy Lim got the ball rolling by appreciating SAA Chen Manman. She explained the program for the day and informed us that there is a slight modification as there is a switch of the PE roles between Ezzah &  Jack Tan.

Sandy briefly introduced the role holders for the day with their responsibilities for the ease and benefit of new members and guests. Sandy invited language evaluator DTM Shirley Ng for the word of the day. Shirley introduced a beautiful word "Mellifluous" meaning " sweetly or smoothly flowing, sweet-sounding, flowing with honey; sweetened with or as if with honey."

Like e.g.,(1) The Opera singer has most mellifluous voice.

Other related forms of the word are as below:

mellifluous, adjective

mellifluously, adverb

mellifluousness, noun

She recommended the pronunciation as "MEL - LIF -LU -OUS".

Opening Address by Club President:

Club President Pravin encouraged the members for their 100% participation in HSSE contest. He shared his personal story  that “After joining the club, I didn’t turn up for the first 2 contests. But when I participated in last year's HSSE contest, I realized what I had already missed. After HSSE contest, I participated again during the International Speech and Table Topics contest. Not in one but in both the contests and handled the role of Organizing chair as well.

Contests give you an opportunity to Challenge yourself, Test your ideas & Feel the special contests energy. They help to bring out BEST from you.

After my experience during last year's contests, I will say, it’s a MUST TRY for each & every club member! I am going to contest again this year. I encourage and inspire you all to participate in the coming HSSE contests. “

Prepared Speeches

P1: Thaddeus -"All about me" Evaluated by Saravanan ACB, ALB

P2: Vikas- "Social on my mind” Evaluated by See Toh DTM

P3: Donna Yap – “Why I gave it AGO” Evaluated by Nur Ezzah CC

P3: Iskhandar Khan – “Marriage in Islam” Evaluated by Jack Tan CC

                                                                                                                                                   

P4: Gao Shaui- “Living in the moment” Evaluated by Joseph Soh ACB, CL

P8: Che Kun – “Try everything” Evaluated by Bhanu Prakash CC, ACL

After prepared speeches Ezzah shared her short speech on Hari Raya festival. She also brought some cookies as token of celebration.

Language evaluator Shirley Ng appreciated and interpreted all speeches and proposed to incorporate the use of rhetorical devices (Alliterations, Apostrophe, Anaphora, Phrases and Puns , Acronyms) in speeches to make them more impressive.  As area of improvement she suggested to speak slowly and make your voice audible.

Table Topic

Table Topic host Jyoti Soni conducted a very interesting table topic session based on the theme of the day "forgiveness". Thoroughly enjoyed by our guests.

Winners

Prepared Speech: Che Kun

Speech Evaluation:  Joseph Soh

Table Topics: Bhanu Prakash

Special gratitude 

Special thanks to our Timer Amy Chen, Ah-Counter Nur Refah and SAA Donna Yap & Gao Shuai for delicious food.

Many- Many congratulations to our July birthday girl Nur Refah and birthday boy Lin Yun.

Appreciation and Closing Address by Club President:

Pravin appreciated all members for their contribution and requested feedback from guests.

Conclusion:

Please forgive me if I missed some information. :)

Kindly do remember to join our next meeting on (Date : 6th Aug 2016 & Time : 1:45-5:30pm) @ Level 5 Changi Simei CC. We will be having a speech marathon on that day and there will be no table topic session.

Thank You!!!

Minutes taken by:

Jyoti Soni

Posted by : Harsh Goel , CC