Changi Simei Toastmasters Club: February 2017

Dear Fellow Toastmasters,

Please find below Changi Simei Toastmaster Club 16^th Chapter Meeting Minutes held on 18 Feb 2017 @ Conference Room, Changi Simei CC, 10 Simei Street 2, and (S) 529915.

Enjoy the minutes!!!

Members Present:

1. Pravin Mishra , CC

2. Neo Yen Ping, ACS,ALB

3. Ang Wee Yong, DTM

4. Saravanan Varadhan ACB, ALB

5. Namrata Thakare

6. Tez Chung

7. Parag Rao

8. Anand Prakash Deshpande

9. Nur Ezzah Haa-Meed

10. Harsh Goel,CC

11. Jyoti Soni , CC

12. Glenn Sathi

13. Taruna

14. Sourav

15. Ramesh Goving Raju

16. Amy chan

New members:

17. Abhishek Kapoor

18. Sharad Parashar

19. Shanjeep Kandy

20. Sourov Roy

Visiting Toastmasters

Eric Tan

Lisa

Lishan

Rishi

Tay Guan Hau

Phuong Le

Theme: Believe

“The Only limits you have are the limits you believe”

Fellowship

Club’s 16^th Chapter meeting started on time with fellowship, Club members and Exco were engaged in welcoming the guests, introducing themselves and briefing the activities to the guests and visiting toastmasters, making them comfortable and clearing their doubts.

Meeting called to the Order

Sargent at Arms TM Nur Ezzah Haa-Meed called the 16^th Chapter meeting to order by welcoming all present members and guests. she requested guests to introduce themselves and express few thoughts on theme of the chapter meeting “Believe”. Every member and guest introduced themselves and defined believe in his/her own unique way.

Toastmaster of the day

Toast Master of the day DTM Ang Wee Yong kicked off the meeting by introducing agenda of the meeting and provided the details of the changes in agenda and introduced the role holders and their roles.

Opening Address by Club President:

Club President CC Pravin Mishra began his opening address by sharing personal story of his daughter, how his daughter’s experience at school has changed his way of thinking. He realized that he was more joyful & happier as a kid than now as an adult. He shared the learnings from a spiritual session that “Joyfulness, Happyness & Peace should not be the goal of life rather should be the way of life. We all can lead the joyful life by controlling our thoughts, emotions & memory”.

Prepared Speeches

Prepared speech #1: Competent Communicator Project – 1: The Ice Breaker

Speaker: Taruna

Speech Title: “Tale of three cities“

Evaluated by: Abhishek Kapoor

Prepared speech #2: Competent Communicator Project – 1: The Ice Breaker

Speaker: Parag Rao

Speech Title: “What’s makes me, Me“

Evaluated by: Jyoti Soni, CC

Prepared speech #3: Competent Communicator Project - 3: Get to the Point

Speaker: Chung

Speech Title: “Rise of Superbugs”

Evaluated by Eric Tan, CC, ALB

Prepared speech #4: Competent Communicator Project - 5: Your Body Speaks

Speaker: Amy Chan

Speech Title: “Indian Visa”

Evaluated by Ramesh Raju, CC

Prepared speech #5: Competent Communicator Project - 9: Persuade With Power

Speaker: Namrata Thakare

Speech Title: “Be Cautious, Life is precious”.

Evaluated by Tay Guan Hau

Prepared speech #5: Advance Project - 1: Speak to inform

Speaker: Saravanan Varadhan

Speech Title: “Basics of weight loss”

Evaluated by Neo Yen Ping, ACS, ALB

Prepared speech #5: Advance Project - 4: Keep Them Laughing

Speaker: Sourav Roy

Speech Title: “Overcome your bad habits with passion”

Evaluated by Pravin Mishra, CC

Refreshment break and Birthday Celebeartion

Meeting adjourned for 20 minutes for the munching and networking and as a club ritual cake was cut on this meeting to celebrate birthdays of club members.

Table Topic Session

Table Topic Master TM Harsh Goel, CC conducted a very passionate and energetic table topics session based on theme of meeting “Believe”, All Table topics were famous quotes based on the theme.

Table topic Participants

1. Glenn Sathi

2. Shajeep

3. Lishan

4. Guan Hau

5. Rishikant

6. Saravanan Vardhan

Winners & Ribbon awards

ICE Breaker: Parag Rao

ICE Breaker: Taruna

Half Competent Communicator: Amy Chan

Winners

Prepared Speech: Sourov Roy

Speech Evaluation: Eric Tan

Best Table Topic: Rishi & Guan Hau

Closing Address by Acting Club President:

Our club President TM Pravin Mishra closed the meeting with closing address and sought feedback from the visiting guest and members and presented the ribbons.

Special gratitude

Special thanks to our role holders for making this chapter meeting a successful one!

Toastmaster of the Day: Ang Wee Yong, DTM

Ah-Counter: Nur Ezzah Haa-Meed

Timer: Anand Deshpande

Sergeant at Arms: Nur Ezzah Haa-Meed

Table Topics Master: Harsh Goel, CC

Upcoming chapter meeting:

Kindly do remember to join the upcoming chapter meeting on 4th-Mar-2017 (Time: 1:45-5:30pm) @ Changi Simei CC.

Don't forget to mark your calendar for engaging, energizing, and entertaining upcoming events at Changi Simei Toastmaster Club.

Upcoming Club Events:

1. International Speech & Table Topic Contest on 1st April 2017 @ conference room, level - 1, Changi Simei CC, 10 Simei Street 2, (S) 529915