Club International Speech & Table Topics Contest

Organising Chair, Eng Hwa and Contest Chair, Esther


Congrats participants:



Club International Speech Contest

1st: Tay Guan Hau

2nd: Albert Chan

3rd: Daniel Kwek



Table Topics Contest

1st: Daniel Kwek

2nd: Gaja Shenoy

3rd: Tay Guan Hau

"Happiness" Chapter Meeting

Lani completes her 10th project speech
Happy Birthday!

It is double happiness for Lani tonight as she is officially a Competent Communicator and it's her 26th Birthday! The highlights for the evening were an open evaluation for our speakers in which everyone gets to comment on the speeches. Also a table topics base on our theme, "happiness." Thank you Chay Buay, Tricia, Guan Hau, Steven, Fuilong, Esther and Albert for attending this unique meeting.

Written by Gwen Goh,

Asst VPPR

Kampung Games Day

Guess what game we played?

"Go to jail."
"Collect $2000."
"Free Parking."

Monopoly... the Malaysia version is known as Millionaire.

Gamers include Lani, Daniel, Hanwen, Simin (Hanwen's girlfriend) and myself. 2 hours into the game Hanwen declared bankrupt after paying Daniel, the landlord, $20,0000 RM! Lani and myself fell into 3rd and 2nd place. Afterwhich we had a light dinner and was caught in the rain for a while. Our dear Hanwen revealed that his workplace was only 5minutes away from his current home! *Envious* When we got back, it was "wii" time! Some of them were playing the game set for the very first time and gave their best shot at "Raving Rabbids" a family-oriented and kinestatically challenged game played by up to 4 players. Even after a few drinks (sponsored by Lani), we were still sobre and worked out a sweat at some of the "Rabbids" dance moves. Finally, after several rounds of dancing competition, Hanwen emerged as the Dancing King! It was a cosy group and we had plenty of fun. Thank you Hanwen and Simin for being such generous hosts.

V Day workshop - Laws of Attraction

CSTMC where minds meet

Edric Poon receiving the certificate of appreciation
Our coach-in-training, Kenneth Oh

Attentive students

Wedding bells ringing

The month of December is not only the festive season, but also the season of love! On 10th December 2008, many of us had gathered at Paramount Restaurant to celebrate this special occasion with Shuling. Its the day that Shuling and Marcus tied the knot. For years that we have all heard her speaking about Marcus during her table topics, it was truly heartwarming to see them wedded. Especially more so since the JP was our dearest club advisor, Leslie Yong.
As for me, I had the honour to help out as the co-Emcee.

Leslie going through the solomonisation ceremony for the couple.

Marcus and Shuling giving their thank you speech.

(clockwise from top left) Lani, Tricia, Hung Jui, Shuling, Yin Jie, Nancy, Han Wen, Eng Hwa and Daniel.
Cliff, Shuling, Nancy, Gek Choo and Hung Jui.

Hweeling, Albert and Leslie.

Meet Kenneth, Hung Jui and Daniel. The 3 eligible bachelors of Cheng San TMC.

Tricia and Lani, Cheng San's most eligible bachelorettes.

Dearest Shuling, congratulations to your wedding! May you and Marcus lead a fulfilling and blissful marriage, and we look forward to junior Poons joining Cheng San TMC soon!

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Written by: Lani Lam

Power Presentation - The Subtle Way Part II

Yet another successful and enriching workshop by our speaker, CC, CL, Ronald Lim. The lesson for the day was the usage of chiasmus, a form of antitheses, in our speeches. The session was indeed informative and interesting with Han Wen tossing out ideas which can be used for marketing buffet lunches, "Eat all you can! Can you eat all?"

To reinforce session, we encouraged participants to write down table topics with the use of chiasmus. There were plenty of bright sparks who had lots of ideas flowing that marked an early Valentine's Day celebration at Cheng San TMC, with love-related topics. The topics include: Ask not what love can do for you but what you can do for love. And, Do you love to regret of regret not loving? The timing sequence for the table topics went slightly haywired and some enjoyed V.I.P status with double the talk time. And that's what we call maximising your membership fees in the club. The exposure and knowledge gained from these workshops serve us well because they are fun and we will certainly rememeber and apply them in our speeches.

Thank you so much Daniel, Shui Sheng, Yin Jie, Shenoy, Ronald, Manoj, Hwee Ling, Fui Long, Han Wen, Chay Buay, Tricia, and Shuling for attending this workshop. A huge thanks to Ronald who has volunteered to do this workshop for the development of our members. He is definitely an example for us to emulate. As quoted from an audience today:

Let's do the best for the rest and let the rest do their best.

Written by Tan Eng Hwa.

New members @ work

Yin Jie with his First Timer's Ribbon
Eng Hwa as the Toastmasters for the Evening

We had more than 20 people attending our club this evening. Almost half of them are guests from clubs all over the island. Indeed our good name has spread through out the Toastmasters arena. This is thanks to our club President, Esther Lim and also veteran speakers like Ronald, Daniel and Guan Hau for their regular club visiting. Well done and see all of you for the Power Presentation Workshop on 19th Nov (Wed) and the BBQ happening on 23rd Nov.

Written by

Shuling, Asst VPPR