Monday, October 19, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Chapter Meeting - 12th August 2009
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!
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!
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
More photos on:
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Our 2nd meeting for July
Yet another wonderful evening with visiting guests from different clubs.Thank you Kok Wah for being our first GE for this new term. It's really amazing to us that you keep an Evaluator's archive and that you still have our General evaluation from the past 4 years! Kudos!
The Cycling Trail
It has been quite a long while since Cheng San TMC had a sports event. Thanks to our 2 new members -- Ben and Mingcai, they took the initiative to organise a cycling trip, and it was indeed a good workout!
Our starting point was at East Coast Park, and we finished at Changi Beach Park. According to Ben, the total distance is about 16km! To cycle that amount of distance is no mean feat, but we did it with a few resting sessions in between by taking lots of photos. We had fun while doing it and we certainly had a good time! Ben took the opportunity to pose for the camera, making shots professional enough to be printed out as Calendar shots. Let's just say... the ladies were real lucky that evening! To end the evening, we had some nice and cheap hawker food at Changi Village Food Centre. Local fares like Nasi Lemak, Roti John, Maggi Goreng, bbq Stingray, Satay and the thirst-quenching Sugar Cane juice were ordered and we ate to our heart's content. Yum... what a great way to end it off!
Pictures always paint a thousand words, so here comes thousands of words!
Be sure to check out more photos over at multiply!
Our starting point was at East Coast Park, and we finished at Changi Beach Park. According to Ben, the total distance is about 16km! To cycle that amount of distance is no mean feat, but we did it with a few resting sessions in between by taking lots of photos. We had fun while doing it and we certainly had a good time! Ben took the opportunity to pose for the camera, making shots professional enough to be printed out as Calendar shots. Let's just say... the ladies were real lucky that evening! To end the evening, we had some nice and cheap hawker food at Changi Village Food Centre. Local fares like Nasi Lemak, Roti John, Maggi Goreng, bbq Stingray, Satay and the thirst-quenching Sugar Cane juice were ordered and we ate to our heart's content. Yum... what a great way to end it off!
Pictures always paint a thousand words, so here comes thousands of words!
Be sure to check out more photos over at multiply!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Installation Night 2009/2010
Former President, Low Lu Lu*Drums roll please!* I present to you the Executive Committee for 2009/2010 led by In-coming President Daniel Kwek! After 5 years in Cheng San Toastmasters Club, this Installation Night was one of the most heart-warming session ever. We presented a "thank you" gifts to all our "Friends of Cheng San" which serve to recognise efforts of external guests in making our chapter meeting a success. They include, Rebecca Lee, Lim Seh Leng, Richard Sng, Wong Kok Wah, Thomas Tan, Kenneth Wee, David Kow, Micheal Wee and Chong Cheng Lee. At the same time, thanks to our President Mentor, Seow Hwee Ling, we managed to invite our former members, Low Lu Lu, Henry Tan and Hendry Lim back to give a give an impromptu speech of their experience in Cheng San. Special thanks goes out to our Advisor, Leslie Yong for installing our new team and everyone who made tonight a success.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
23rd April 2009
Albert selling The MaxUltimo
Still hard @ work after meeting
Congrats Albert for completing your Advanced Project Bronze!
Listen more to what Albert has to share on project speech writing on 20th May (Wed)!
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