Visits to Overseas Toastmasters Clubs

Dear Members,

As a Toastmaster in Singapore, we should try to make a point to visit at least one Toastmasters Club when we are travelling overseas for holidays, business, etc...

Such networking opportunities don't come so easily when you are actually holidaying with your families & friends.

During my recent holiday to London, I visited 3 Toastmasters Clubs in London in different parts of London. Photos are shown as at the bottom of the posting

After I had made an impeccable presentation at one club, one of the Toastmasters actually bought me coffee on another day to coach him on improving his skills.


My Visit to Meridian Speakers @ Spanish Galleon Pub, Greenwich (24 November 2009)
- Project Speaker & General Evaluator
























My Visit to London Corinthians @ Thistle Westminister Hotel, Victoria (26 November 2009)
- Table Topics Evaluator
















My Visit to Northern Lights Speakers @ London Irish Centre, Camden Town (30 November 2009)
- Competent Leader Manual Evaluator















(Fyi, London resides in District 71, together with Ireland)

Next time you visit a Toastmasters Club overseas, let us know and we'll post it on our blog.

Regards,

Gerald Ong ACG, ALB
Vice-President (Membership)
New Millennium Advanced

New Millennium Advanced Speechcraft 2010 - Coming soon!

Dear Members of New Millennium Advanced Toastmasters Club,

I am pleased to announce that our Advanced Speechcraft 2o1o is coming round the corner



This time, we have introduced a new feature for this speechcraft. We share with you how to complete some of the 15 advanced manuals, with our fellow DTMs we have specially invited.

DTM Kan Kin Fung - Roadmap of 15 advanced manuals (with latest updates)
DTM Edmund Chew - Persuasive Speaker (One Life, One Journey, One Life Journey)
DTM Wekie Tay - Interpersonal Communication
DTM Patricia Lum - Public Relations
DTM Yeo Chai Tun - Speeches by Management

What are the details?
Date: 4th Jan, 11th Jan, 18th Jan, 25th Jan. 1st Feb 2010 (all Mondays)
Time: 7.15pm
Venue: Cairnhill Community Club Conference Room

Cost of Advanced Speechcraft Full Package:
$108 (before Christmas) for 5 sessions
$128 (after Christmas) for 5 sessions

Cost of Advanced Speechcraft per session (as member of the audience):
Public: $20
Toastmasters: $15
Free for NMA Club Members

Regards,

Gerald Ong ACG, ALB
Vice-President (Membership) 2009-2010
New Millennium Advanced Toastmasters Club

District 80 Humourous Speech & Evaluation Speech Contests Results

District 80 Humourous & Evaluation Contests 2009 Results



Humourous Speech
Winner: Ng Cher Khim (Division D)
1st Runner-Up: Eric Feng (Division S)
2nd Runner-Up: Wong Kok Wah (Division B)
Prior to the announcements, there were 2 time disqualifications. Of which, one of them is a potential winner.



Evaluation Speech
Winner: Darren Tay Wen Jie (Division S)
1st Runner-Up: Wekie Tay (Division Z)
2nd Runner-Up: Pradeep Kumar (Division A)
Prior to the announcements, there were no time disqualifications

Something interesting about this contest that disbunks the myth of the first evaluator: As the first evaluator, you are going to be knocked out easily as you are the benchmark.

To counter this myth: you have to make the best use of giving the first impression of your evaluation to the judges and your outline must be prepared before the contest.

In accordance to Rulebook 2009, contestants are allowed to bring in any preparation materials of their own.

“Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.”Vince Lombardi, American football coach

Regards,

Gerald Ong
Vice-President (Membership)
New Millennium Advanced Toastmasters Club

District 80 Hall of Fame 2008-2009

Dear Members,

I am pleased to announce that New Millennium Advanced was Select Distinguished Club last term.

Regards,

Gerald Ong
Vice President (Membership)
New Millennium Advanced

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

Published by
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,

http://www.facebook.com/search/?init=srp&sfxp=&q=new+millennium+advanced+toastmaster#/pages/New-Millennium-Advanced-Toastmaster-Club/99294409513?ref=search&sid=1439168786.3665143370..1

for more pictures.

Mark Leong, President