A glimpse into our EXCO retreat

Cheng San TMC's incoming exco had a self-funding exco retreat on the 23 June 2007 at the Pan Pacific Hotel. The pictures taken in the hotel room has not come into my hands yet, these are the ones I have, those outside the room.

This is our poster!!


After a fruitful retreat from 2pm-10pm, which the photos will come in another post, Lani, Ronald, Daniel, Hung Jui and Esther went for supper at Makansutra.

This is the evidence!

I took this picture when both Lani & Ronald were engrossed in chatting.

Daniel & I were playing around with our camera phones. Yeah, this is a picture of him trying to take a picture of me.

When the food came........... BBQ stingray!!

BBQ stringray + hokkien noodles!! We still had fried oyster omelette but we were so happily eating that I didn't manage to take a picture of it.

This is only the glimpse of the EXCO retreat, a small part, the other photos will come soon! Stay tuned!

Last chapter meeting of term 2006/07

We had our last chapter meeting of the term 2006/07 on 13 June 2007. It was a 'spot'. Ok, 'Spot' was the theme of our meeting that night.

This is the Toastmasters of the Evening (TME), Esther, which is me, lah. What you see on the board is the word of the day 'contravene' which is given by the language evaluator.

This was our external speaker from Toastmasters Club of Singapore, Jackie. He was doing his project 10. Congratulations on achieving your competent communicator award!

This is Fui Long, who scared the wits out of everyone by pretending to say that he did not prepare for his speech. Anyway, Fui Long did his project 10 as well.

During break time while everyone was outside enjoying some refreshments, Seh Leng from Brilliant Advanced and Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club was preparing her evaluation segment. See how hardworking our regular visitor is! She posed for 2 pictures though.

This is another picture of Seh Leng.

To digress, some pictures of the people around the table were taken. From left, we have Fui Long, Joe Han, Zhi Rong and 'I can't remember his name'. Sorry! I have short term memory.

During the evaluation segment, we had Ronald up first.

I think everyone was too engrossed in listening that the photographer only caught one evaluator in action. The next person here is Kumar, the table topics master.

And to digress again, the photograpther took a picture of Lani and Daniel. Hmm... They were doing their appointments. Haha, don't slack on your appointment 'cause you may be caught in action! Haha~

This is our regular table topics speaker, Guan Hau. This was when he picked his topic.

Then assembling some thoughts...

Then speaking with ease and confidence!

This is Daniel, whose humourous part of him triggers off when he does a table topic. How often do you see him in that pose?

The photographer digresses again, to take a picture of Wee Jee and Fui Long, husband and wife. Wee Jee is not a member but she supports Fui Long a lot and attends our outings and dinners.

This is Saddiq, our external language evaluator from Temasek Polytechnic Toastmasters Club. He is our regular visitor too!

The next table topic was attempted by Shirley, who has been away in Jakarta to teach there. She's back for a short hiatus, and she came for our chapter meeting! Welcome back Shirley!

This is Joe Han, a guest who volunteered to take up a table topic. He's a natural, really! You should have seen him in action.

Again, a picture of our guests whom Kumar brought along~

And another of the people around the table.

Then Zhi Rong, a guest as well, decided to take up the challenge of the table topic. See him looking at the topic~

After some thoughts, he managed to speak for 2 minutes about his NS life on the ship.

So you see, joining Cheng San Toastmasters Club allows you to listen to others and their experiences! Zhi Rong's mini-speech was interesting, or rather at least to me.

Next Selvi came and spoke about her job as a supervisor in the hotel industry, you should listen to what she has to say and her dreams of becoming a hotelier. She might be a big boss one day, ok!

Then Wendy came up for a table topic as well~ Haha, what's fun about table topics is you always get unexpected topics at times. So it's up to you to think on your feet, speak off the cuff and twise the topic to make it your own.

Some practice keeps you in shape for impromptu speaking, especially when you get a tough question from your boss/girlfriend/wife etc etc...

Then Cher Kim from Toastmasters Club of Singapore also took up a table topic.

Then came the awards presentation... The best table topic speaker...

The best evaluator...

The best prepared speaker.

And congratulations to Fui Long who got his CC award!

The closing address then ends the chapter meeting nicely.

You haven't missed out any fun. More fun coming your way!

Look out for installation night on the 27 June 2007 where we have good food, fun and games. It's not our regular chapter meeting but you can always come down at 7pm to have fun with us. It's at Cheng San CC theatrette at the first level.

Last gathering of the term 2006/2007

Barbeque seemed the best choice for the toasties since we love to talk, needed a place to talk, and some good food to go along. So when Roy & Gek Choo offered to let us have our bbq at their humble abode at Old Upper Thomson Road, what more can we ask for?

This was the beginning when the food was ready, everyone was busy eating so nobody posted for a picture...



After some food comes some chit-chatting, so nobody to pose for camera yet...

See when people's tummies are filled, like Hung Jui's, he starts to pose and act cute and handsome! Haha!

Then we took a picture of Ronald and his wife-to-be, Regina. Sorry I can't spell (fiance), or rather I'm not sure if it's correct. Anyway, see the love birds! Awwwwwwwwww....

Then Hung Jui comes along, to have a share in the photo!

Kumar, who was in charge of the food that night, finally decided to pose for a picture! See how cute he was? *Get me a plastic bag!*

See suddenly people disappear from the table! Anyway, these 2 are Roy's and Gek Choo's relatives! They came to join in the fun too!

Oh, there they are! Hiding over the other side to secretly have the good food! Haha~. That's Daniel & Selvi. Selvi's a soft spoken lady. She's really nice and committed to Cheng San ok! Don't pray pray!

So both of us were full and decided to fool around with the fan. Kumar said that I looked better with my face covered. Really? Come on, say I'm pretty!!

Then came some children, who were more interested in lighting up the staircase leading to the house. You shall see the master piece later.

This is Adrian, if I remembered his name correctly. He helped us out with bbq-ing the food. The food's good, the cook's good, the crowd's good, Cheng San TMC is definitely good can.!

Ok, I decided to put this picture up because Ivana has been MIA for several months. Then we all were enlightened when we knew she went back to her hometown for a short hiatus. Welcome back Ivana!

This was what was left when we took the next picture! The pot of rice was the second pot, and all the food were gone! See, it's really good food! And for the first time, no diahorrea for me. I always get the watery runs after EVERY bbq, except this one! Good standard eh?

This was when the adults were having the alcoholic drinks. Well, I had a sip and I felt drunk. Ok, that was exaggerrated, but ya, I'm a good kid! From left, Hung Jui, Hwee Ling, Eileen!

See, a picture of the macho guys - younger guys to the young guys. From left, Guan Hau, Fui Long & Hung Jui.

Ok, Hung Jui again! Taking pictures with girls. He got so excited when he heard from Hwee Ling (to the right) about the girls Hwee Ling met at the Hong Kong Convention. I think he is thinking of holding dual membership.

Ok, see! I told you I look better without the fan! And the girl to the right is Lani, the photographer. There's another photographer, Shuling, but the photos are not in my hands yet. So make do with these ok? Anyway, thank you Lani for taking the shots!

This was the almost-final product of lighting the stairs. The final product, we do have in Shuling's camera. Will upload when I get those.

This is a shot of Roy & Gek Choo's house from street level. It's kinda like basement level with stairs leading down to it, it's really a nice place.

This is another shot.

I think the guys were hungry, so more food... (From left, Fui Long, Daniel, Shui Sheng)

And of course, Chay Buay and Ivana! Chay Buay's really nice you know, talk to her more and you'll know why.

President Shuling and Adrian, behind them was the bbq pit.

So when the chit-chatting was more or less getting a lil' boring, then it's games time! We played taboo. It started off with us playing outside, but it got a lil cramped with more people joining in. Then we moved indoors.

When we were indoors with the air con (ahhhhh..)

We all had a go at Taboo, with the squeaker and timer, haha, it was hilarious!

Halfway through the game, some food on the plate came, we were supposed to eat it, but we were too engrossed in the game so you see the unpeeled potatoes.

We were more or less finished with the Taboo 256 cards, so we just sat around to chit chat, again! Come on, we are toasties, we like to talk, or at least Cheng San Toasties like to talk to each other.

It was about 10pm and people were getting tired from all the good fun, good food and fun people... See the expressions...

Then we went to take a group photo. We were in process of lining up....

The group photo will come soon and I'll upload. If you feel like you missed out some good fun, well fret not! Because another gathering will soon come. Cheng San TMC has pretty regular gatherings apart from chapter meetings.

We will keep everyone in the loop through email. However, if you are a non-toastmaster, you can check out this blog for details, or you can call the numbers on our website.

Be together, grow together!