Chapter Meeting on 12 Oct 09

Dear Members and Friends,

We had our first meeting on 12 Oct 09, Monday, at Cairnhill CC. Even though we had a smaller turnout, the meeting nonetheless turnout to be an eventful and refreshing event.

Our bubbly Toastmaster of the Evening, Daniel Chua from IEA TMC, greeted us with his ever-cheerful smiles that set the tone of the evening. We started off with the prepared speech segment by Pei Shan, Gerald and Kandi respectively. Pei Shan did her 1st AP project on Interpretive reading, with emotional interpretation of Roald Dahl's book, Matilda. Roald Dahl is one of the foremost children author.(Works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (translate into film starring Johnny Depp) Gerald started his 1st AP project from the Entertaining Speaker manual, highlighting how he become a driver after numerous failures. Kandi did her 3rd AP of the Entertaining speaker manual, reviewing how phrase like "kicking the bucket" truly means. Congratulation to all 3 speakers on their completion of these respective projects.

After the break, our evaluators took turn to review and highlight the points of the respective projects. Bruno, with his witty analysis, touch on some aspects in using the voice in interpretive reading. Daisy Neo, president of the Raffles Town TMC, encourage Gerald to "let go" by dramatizing the speech further with expressive body gestures and vocal variety. Casey See, VP-PR of IES TMC, reviewed enthusiastically on Kandi's used of the English language and puns.

Then came the Table-Topic session where our late appointed Table-Topic Master, Gerald Ong, used a creatively "lazy" method by asking the audience to write one topic and asked the appointed speaker to have their take on the topic written. I believe it had been a testing challenge for the speaker as well as the topic creator.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank our guests, Toastmaster of the Evening, Daniel Chua, for his ENTERTAINING conduct and keeping the positive flow of the meeting, and to Daisy Neo for answering the call to help us at the last minute, yet giving an ENCOURAGING evaluation, and Casey See, for his ENTHUSIASTIC review and energy. I am so greatly encouraged by our dedicated Bruno, who came to support despite a hefty and pressing schedule, and our effervescent Tay Yiang Ping, who volunteer for the timer role while taking time-off to be with us despite her daughter's exam.

Our next meeting is on the 2nd Monday of November, 9th November, at Cairnhill CC. Do let me or our VPE, Theresa Sng, know if you would like to do your project on that day. I welcome all to join us and looking forward to a joyous meeting ahead.

Regards

Mark Leong
New Millennium Advanced Toastmaster Club
President

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Gerald Ong
New Millennium Advanced Toastmaster Club
Vice President (Membership)

Area D3 Contest

I'm am happy to announce that our representatives for the area D3 contest, Bruno Pereira (Humorous Speech) and Kandimathi (Evaluation Speech), came in as 2nd Runner-up.

Congratulation and thanks for your wonderful effort in the Area Speech contest.

Dear Members and Friends,

We had a wonderful night on our very last chapter meeting at Toa Payoh South CC. With our club record attendance of 30 attendees, i would like to extend my heartfelt thanks and support to our meeting as well as our FunShop special speaker, Pei Shan.

The meeting started fast & furious with our Table-Topic master Kandimathi, throwing our table topics speakers into stitches with her twist in her table topics. 6 speakers spoke and truly warm up the night.

Then, we had a special theme where all 3 speakers did their Humorously Speaking manual project 1, Warm Up the Audience. Mike Seah, from Radin Mas TMC, armed himself with pans & puns and leave us smiling with his misadventure with May & June. Daryl Neo, from The Serangoon TMC, transformed Superman into a Super-Serial Dater with his reference to get singles to hitch a date. Finally, I presented my version of Uniquely Singapore, introducing the quirks and kinks of Singapore behaviour and lingo.

After the break, the session continued with a panel evaluations from DTM Bruno Pereira and DTM Tay Yiang Ping, giving some insights on the content, delivery, body gestures & vocal variety used by the 3 speakers. I believed all 3 speakers had learned from this apprehensive sharing session.

The highlight of the night is our special speaker, Pei Shan, conducting a 30 min workshop, or "FunShop", as she coined it. Indeed, we had an engaging, entertaining and enthralling session. She touched on the use and benefit of positive psychology and conducted live thought provoking exercise to reflect on our key objectives in life and focus on positive energy to achieve what we want to achieve.

All in all, we enjoyed ourselves so much that we ended slightly overtime. I'm glad that all who had attended had learn much and do share them with your friends and family. I would also like to extend my thanks to Divya for helping out as Toastmaster of the Evening.

We will be moving to our new location at Cairnhill CC, which is just opposite Newton Circus Hawker Centre. Do join us in our next meeting on 12 Oct 2009, 2nd Monday of October, 7:15 pm. Members who like to do their advance projects do inform me or Theresa.

Let's keep in touch and cheers to more enriching meetings! Do visit our facebook page,

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for more pictures.

Mark Leong, President

Division D Humourous & Evaluation Contests 2009

Upcoming Workshop!

Our Newest Addition to the NMA Family

Our Newest Addition!!

Our latest member, Yip Pei Shan, ACB, also known as"Shanshine". She is Singapore's first Happiness Coach. Her hobbies include music, arts, dance and writing. She is a Chartered Member of the International Positive Psychology Association. She hails from Bishan Toastmasters Club.

Her achievements include an Area-Level 1st Runner Up in the International Speech Contest 2009 and achieved the Competent Communicator award in 57 days.

S.H.A.N.S.H.I.N.E = Start Having Action Now, Start Having Infinite New Energy!

Her website can be accessed online at shanshine.com

She has taken part in our Club Humourous & Evaluation Contest recently.

Warmest Regards,

Gerald Ong, ACS, ALB
Vice-President (Membership)

Area D3/D4 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests

Area D3/D4 Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests will be held @ ERAS TMC on 18^th Sept 09.

Map of the venue is shown at the end of post.

Regards,

Gerald Ong
Vice-President (Membership) 2009-2010