If you haven't been able to attend chapter meetings regularly, don't feel left out. The door to Cheng San Toastmasters Club is always open for you!
Here's a snapshot of the chapter meeting, by our dear VPE, Fui Long.
Thanks to Tricia for taking up the roles of TME with many last minutes changes and disruptions, she pulled through despite physically drained with so many recessions going on at work. I knew she wanted to polish her mastering-the-ceremony skills, indeed she had grown and discovered many more opportunities for improvements through yesterday's session. Tired, Tough and Tremendous effort! Hi Tricia, Cheng San will always be a place for you to DE-STRESS and BE AFFIRMED!
Thanks to all the speakers, Ming Cai, Ronald, Daryl for putting the effort to prepare for the speeches. Daryl made us clearer that we were blessed to live in Singapore. Ronald, the BEST Speaker, certainly prompted us to check our Type of Output in the toilet! Ming Cai, for rushing over to chapter meeting after work to tell us a story that touched us.
Thanks to Lani coordinating the Table Topics session with the theme "I Love SPORE". And Mr. Table Topic was Guan Hau again....with SAM telling us why SIA was a great way to fly. Kumar on why Singapore would not win world cup, Xin Hong on why Singapore is an ideal home and Ivana looking forward to opening of the IR but not the Casino.
We all benefitted from our newly appointed Resident Language Evalutor Sylvia Ang who lead us to "PLEDGE" the WORD OF THE EVENING. We also learned that "ZERO" is not "GERO". Well Done!
While we were having fun, we missed Albert(staying at home), Cheng Lin(busy), Shuling(down with fever) and Chay Buay(staying back at office till late evening....., Steven Sim (busy at work) and many of you not here with us.
The next meeting will be on 26 Aug 2009. It will be the birth of 2 Cheng San Champions! Please be here to celebrate! See ya!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Cheng San-Seletar GRC National Day Dinner
Cheng San Toastmasters and friends
Cheng San members with Guest-of-Honour, Dr Balaji Sadasivan
Gwen co-hosting with the professional
One People, One Nation, One Singapore... It is a joyous occasion for all as the Cheng San residents celebrated National Day @ Blk 504. I was invited to be the host for this important event!
It's amazing how things are different when you are on stage facing 1500 people.
The professionals have to handle not only the crowd but also coordinating with the organisers, the sound systems and making sure that they engage the audience! A rehearsal and microphone testing is always a must in order for the programme to run smoothly!I was not nervous in particular when I stood on stage, however, it's the reading of the recipients names that got me uptight as I was handed the name list 5 minutes before going on stage! I am pretty complacent when it comes to hosting a Toastmasters Chapter meeting. However, for a National event like this, we have to think on our feet; joke, sing songs and just continue talking in order to stall for time! Nevertheless I had friends from Cheng San Toastmasters Club, who encouraged me throughout the programme. I even got tips from the professional emcee, Adrian from That's Innovative! How lucky I was! Then of course I had the honour of taking photos with our Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and Information, Communications and the Arts. and Advisor for Cheng San-Seletar GRC, Dr Balaji Sadasivan!
It was a once in a life time experience. I would like to give special thanks to our Cheng San Community Centre Management Committee Chairman, Henry Tan and CSTMC Club advisor, Leslie Yong for the dinner invitation. And Special people - Daniel, Sylvia, Lani, Fui Long, Han Wen, Simin, Hwee Ling, Hung Bin and Hung Jui for the 110% support!
Happy 44th Birthday Singapore!
Written by Gwen Goh, VPPR
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