TARC Toastmasters Nov-Dec 2011 Newsletter

Toastmasters Are Really Cool!

It has certainly been an exciting

season for Toastmasters – in TAR

College and also all around Malaysia.

Starting off in our home turf, the word

on our Toastmasters club has been

spreading like wildfire in TAR College.

A lot of students, many from the

School of Business Studies are

interested to join our club.

Heads of Schools and also our

college Principal himself, Dr. Tan Chik

Heok has been showing strong

interest in our own members‟ growing

maturity, and are happy to be even

stronger advocates for promoting our

club to their own students.

However, the stigma still remains that

if one student joins TARC

Toastmasters, he or she will not be

able to join another society within

TAR College. Our vision is not to

promote allegiance to one society

alone – there is no clanship, there is

no competition, and there is no

separation between us and any other

societies.

We see ourselves as wanting to help

anyone who shows a keen interest to

improve their leadership skills –

The Editor’s Say

President

Eric Low Chern Yuen, CL

[email protected]

Vice President Education

Vincent Chow Soon Kit, ACB, CL

[email protected]

Vice President Membership

Kevin Lim Yoong Meng, TM

[email protected]

Vice President Public Relations

Heng Songher, TM

[email protected]

Secretary

Ming-See Michele Chang, TM

[email protected]

Treasurer

Tan Zu Liang, TM

[email protected]

Sergeant-at-Arms

Sarawanakkumaran, TM

[email protected]

Committee Members

Jonathan Lim, TM

[email protected]

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Evaluation for

Champions:

TM Tan Zu Liang

evaluating an

Icebreaker‟s

speech on our

8 October 2011

Toastmasters

meeting @ TAR

College.

practice, learn and spring up as

better leaders – and share what

you learn and bring to other

societies to help them grow as

well.

In Toastmasters, leaders are

made. In TARC Toastmasters, we

promote synergy between

students and societies. That‟s

definitely a „win-win‟ agreement!

On a much bigger scale, the

much anticipated District 51

Humorous Speech and Speech

Evaluation Contests has ended

on a very high note. Stephen

Fernando from MIHRM

Toastmasters and Palaniappa

Subramaniam from Silterra

Toastmasters, Kulim, Kedah,

emerged champions in the

respective contests.

Both TM Michele and I

participated in the Evaluation

Contest at Area W2 Level, and it

was indeed a thrilling experience

for both of us!

Let‟s look forward to a better year

ahead!

Vincent Chow, ACB, CL

Nov-Dec 2011 Newsletter Editor

TARC Toastmasters Club

Area W2, Kuala Lumpur

Club No: 1759651

TAR College Toastmasters Club

President’s Message

October passed by with the successful

Tall Tales contestheld. Not only did my

mentee, TM Daryl clinch a second

spot, TM Michele and team also did a

wonderful job in organizing this unique

Tall Tales Contest.

Our teamwork brought success to the

contest. Prior to this event, everything

including selling tickets, promotion

and venue logistics has been mind-

boggling.

I really have to thanks DTM Siew

Chien, the humble yet positive woman

from Speakers Dream whom I really

admire. She was so positive right till the

end. She helped and contributed a lot

and pushed us through the difficulties

we faced in organizing this contest.

This event was also a testimony that

not only committee members are

doing things but members too. I would

like to congratulate TM Michele, TM

Jonathan and TM Zu Liang and of

course everyone in TARC Toastmasters

Club for all the hard work we have put

Toastmasters’

Tips & Tricks:

Commit to speak at every

meeting.

We join Toastmasters for a

reason – one of it is certainly not

to listen people speak! Plenty

of opportunities to speak; be it

prepared speeches, table

topics, or role-playing. We

improve by first opening our

mouths!

If you’re new, get a mentor.

If you’ve been around, be a

mentor.

Mentors help you learn the

ropes of giving speeches,

introduce you to other

members, and how the club

works. If you‟re experienced,

be a mentor and develop

lifetime relationships with your

mentees.

Visit other Toastmasters clubs.

Talk to a sea of unfamiliar faces,

and get comfortable by

pushing yourself beyond your

comfort zone. Get more

feedback from seasoned

members, and see your

network of friends expand.

Finished Your CC Manual?

That is not the end of your

journey in Toastmasters. It‟s just

your beginning to greater

heights! Consider doing

speeches from Advanced

Manuals – learn deeper speech

mechanics, get more

constructively critical feedback,

and see yourself progress

immediately!

Classes Get in Your Way for

Toastmasters Meetings?

If you are really interested to do

speeches but classes or other

commitments get in the way,

consider booking your speech

slots with other Toastmasters

clubs outside TAR College.

Contact VPE Vincent Chow

(016-9475600) to make

reservations.

Eric Low, CL

Charter

President

TARC

Toastmasters

Club

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through together to run

memorable event. Another

historic event by a baby club is

a feather under our cap.

I would like to also take this

opportunity to congratulate

our hardworking Vice President

of Education, Vincent Chow

for achieving both ACB and

CL awards in record time.

Soon, more great news to

come!

In Toastmasters, what keeps us

together makes us stronger. As

a wise man said, a leader can

lead the club, but without a

great team, the ship will not

sail to where we are today.

Want to build up great

teamwork skill?

Soar with us as TARC

Toastmasters is a great place

to be as this is a family where

Toastmasters Are Really Cool!

Together Towards

Tomorrow


Universiti Malaya, Help University College and TAR College

Joint Toastmasters Meeting @ 30 September 2011

On this meeting, we welcomed with open arms,

members from the long established Universiti Malaya

Toastmasters Club, the highly energetic Help

University College Toastmasters Club and our

budding TAR College Toastmasters Club.

Together, we held perhaps the biggest joint student

clubs‟ meeting ever. There were more than 30

attendees – most notably the bright, young and

brilliant students, and also seasoned Toastmasters

whom you just can‟t miss - Area Governor W3 Kimmy

Foo, ACG Victor Ong and CC, ALB Chan Siew Peng,

both from Taman Indrahana Toastmasters Club.

As UM had just started the new semester, UM

Toastmasters was overjoyed to have a big influx of

new members. The meeting got off with a masterful

roast by UM-TMC‟s President, CC Heng Jing Yi who

introduced Toastmasters to new faces.

We then learned a few tips on “How to be an

Awesome Table Topics Speaker” from TM Jason Moi,

an extremely experienced Toastmaster who

frequently wins the annual International Speech and

Table Topics contests.

There were four speakers for the evening

presentations.

TM Wan Ping, a bubbly Toastmaster from UM,

presented her „CC#1 Icebreaker Speech‟. Other than

her self-compliments on her voluptuous figure, she

also passionately talked of her charity efforts, and

notedhow humorously clumsy she can be.

The next speaker is TM Chun Sam from our own TARC

TMC, who presented his „CC#4 How to Say It‟ speech

on “Life”. As general as it sounds, he divvied up some

inspiring lessons on how we can walk our „path of

diamonds‟ by thinking positively and thank our

blessings in life.

Moving on, TM Daryl Lim, also from TARC TMC, shared

techniques on mind-mapping in his CC#7 Get

Comfortable with Visual Aids.

There was also an interesting Humorous Speech

presented by ACB Vincent Liew from Help UC-TMC,

and his speech‟s evaluation was opened to the floor.

Vincent Liew must have been practicing and eager

to get as much feedback as possible. News got out

as he had just emerged champion in Division G‟s

Humorous Speech Contest!

It was absolutely an enjoyable meeting we had

together, and as our General Evaluator ACG Victor

Ong agree, saying “It was a Toastmasters evening of

sharing and learning.”

Written by,

ACB, CL Vincent Chow


(From clockwise):

1) TM Chun Sam delivers a speech on Life in his "CC4 – “How to Say It”.

2) TM Daryl Lim shares a lesson on Mind-Mapping Techniques in “CC7 – Get Comfortable with Visual Aids”.

3) Jason Moi from Help UC delivers a workshop to “Be an Awesome Table Topics Speaker!”

4) UM President, CC Jing Yi shows her tiger claw as Toastmaster of the Evening.

5) ACB Vincent Liew from Help UC gave a humorous speech about his family.

6) TM Michele Chang with her famous „Grammarian Frown”.

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TOASTMASTER MEETING’S HIGHLIGHTS – 17 SEPT 2011

TOASTMASTER MEETING’S HIGHLIGHTS – 8 OCT 2011

The Icebreakers and the Kung-Fu Lady:

(Top)TM Lim Kah Shoon, TM Choong How Sern, and TM Wong

Chee Sheng delivered their Icebreaker speeches; (Bottom) Jing

Yi presented her speech on “A Fact Finding Report”.

This meeting was held right after Malaysia

Day, and the college was really quiet – there

were no students on sight around the

campus. So it was pretty funny to see the

security guard having to check every

Toastmasters member who came for our

meeting! Our President, Eric Low was also

sweating professedly to get a security pass

for our special guests, CC Heng Jing Yi from

Universiti Malaya TMC and her friend.

It was a heart-felt moment to see our three

newest members – TM Lim Kah Shoon, TM

Choong How Sern and TM Wong Chee Sheng

presented their Icebreaker speeches. Kah

Shoon was a fantastic impromptu storyteller,

How Sern shared his burning love for cars he

would not be able to buy, and Chee Sheng

awed us with his powerful command of

English vocabulary.

Our members also witnessed first-hand an

Advanced Speech from CC Heng Jing Yi

who presented her speech on “Solar Energy

in Malaysia” as Speech#4: A Fact-Finding

Report from the „Speaking to Inform‟ manual.

The speech was indeed challenging to

attempt, but our mentor Richard Chia was

very constructively critical in his evaluation for

Jing Yi. Lots of learning here!

After nearly a one month hiatus due to a

sudden once-in-a-blue-moon examination for

Diploma students, we resumed our meetings

with much gusto on this day. We invited CC

Azmil Abdul Aziz from the roaring Tiger

Toastmasters Club, who was mildly disappointed

that the meeting was filled with men! No single

woman was on sight.

None the less, the meeting took off at a great

start with ACB Vincent Chow compared how life

is just like “A Cup of Coffee” in his Invocation.

TM Victor Tan shared his ambitions in his maiden

Icebreaker speech, hoping to get rid of the

“ants on his skin” after speaking in public for the

very first time, while TM Kevin procrastinated on

his speech “Procrastinate Procrastination” after

a 6 months break!

We also welcomed three eager guests who had

to choose between their morning sleep or

attending Toaastmasters – and they made the

wise choice. Great for them!

I Have a Dream:

TM Victor Tan presented his Icebreaker speech “Daydreamer”

during our Toastmasters meeting.

He was then evaluated by TM Tan Zu Liang.

For more details on our meetings and pictures, access our blog link below!

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TOASTMASTERS’ MEETING HIGHLIGHTS – 22 OCT 2011

Excited About Toastmasters: Very eager students delighted to start off their morning with our early

morning Toastmasters meeting.

We recorded our biggest attendance on this

meeting in just seven months after our chartered

date – There were nearly 40 of us filled the small

and cramped tutorial room!

30 eager Accountancy students from AFA and

AAC courses got the word out about our club,

and were very interested to attend our

Toastmasters meeting.

Some of the students are also distinctly

recognizable. They were visiting our club for the

second time after they were thoroughly

impressed by our previous meeting.

We also welcomed CC Sharon Yee from

MAICSA Toastmasters Club and ACB, CL Chow

Mun Yuen from Speakers‟ Dream Toastmasters

Club, who dropped by to become speech

evaluators.

On the fun part, we have witnessed five

speakers who presented a rich variety of

speeches from the Competent Communication

manual.

One of our guests, Suh Ping was also surprised

that there‟s much more to learn from the role-

players, notably the Ah Counter who has to pay

a lot of attention to listening.

After our meeting, all of our guests were

extremely happy and expressed their interest to

join our club.

CLIMBING UP THE EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP TRACKS

Congratulations to our Charter President, Eric

Low for achieving his recognition as Competent

Leader, and also to Vincent Chow for achieving

both Advanced Communicator Bronze and

Competent Leader!

Eric Low‟s progress through the Competent

Leadership manual has been extraordinarily

steadfast – through his visits to numerous

Toastmasters clubs around KL and volunteering to

take up meeting roles, he achieved his CL award

in merely seven months! Normally, Toastmasters

members take up to two years!

Vincent Chow on the other hand, marked his

achievement with his 20th speech in just one and a

half year joining in Toastmasters, and he‟s on a

great run to achieve his next ACS sometime soon!

Search us on Facebook by typing “TARC – Toastmasters are Really Cool!”

Hard Work!

CL Eric Low, and ACB, CL Vincent Chow

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Liar Liar, Pants on Fire……….

Of course we didn‟t see anyone stripping down their

pants and fortunately we do not need to use the

back-up fire extinguishers, but we did have seven liars

in the contest who competed to be the most

convincing liar ever!

Seven liars from various Toastmasters clubs joined in

this annual Tall tales contest (a.k.a. The Lying

Competition) organized by Speakers Dream

toastmasters Club but this year TARC Toastmasters

Club is honored to be the co-organizer .

What we‟ve got from the liars are:

1) A dead man telling a story of himself in his own

funeral;

2) A sling shooter who claimed to have a big belly

because of his swollen organs after rolling down a hill;

3) A man who can earn 300% from buying shares due

to a spirit who can foresee the future;

4) A professor „wanna-be‟ who beat up another

professor- Professor L double E;

5) A Phang effect (Inspiration from Doppler Effect);

6) Apple without Steve - apparently Apple stole the

SIRI from him; and

7) Chinese Hakka dance (a departure from the New

Zealand‟s Haka dance).

All I can say that their lies were good and definitely

entertaining which made us laugh out loud. What

we heard were pieces of original stories or maybe I

should say a spin-off of reality as it was blatant truth

that all those were lies and yet it was their lies which

kept us in our seats listening attentively. Now, that‟s

the BEST part about tall tales.

All in all, it was a short and sweet session where Daryl

Lim got 2nd runner up (TARC), Lawrence Hoo 1st

runner up (Speakers‟ Dream) and Champion for Tall

Tales 2011- Mark Lee (Speakers‟ Dream). Kudos to all

the participants for their amazing lies!!

A very big THANK YOU to the crowd and role-players

(judges, timekeepers, SAAs and ballot counters)! The

contest can never go on without them. I hope that

next year, TARC Toastmaster will have the honor to

co-organize this event again and it will be bigger

and better!!

Written by,

TM Michele Chang

Tall Tales Contest @ 29 October 2011

DK-ABF Lecture Hall, TAR College

(Tall Tales Contestants, from left)

Cheah Thong Kim, Richard Chia, Lee Yoong Wai, Lawrence Hoo, Daryl Lim, Mark Lee and Jeremy Phang.


(From clockwise):

1) Tall Tales Contest 2011‟s official launching starts now!

2) The hall was filled with more than 50 guests and Toastmasters members!

3) ACG, ALS Ng Lay Choo as Contest Chair, interviewing TM Jeremy Phang who was one of the contestants.

4) ATMB, ALS Lucky briefing the contest results to our Contest Chair.

5) Cheah Thong Kim – “Let‟s do the Hakka jitterbug dance!”

6) Personal branding guru, ATMG Jon Tan from TTDI Toastmasters picked up some „lying techniques‟.


Goal Actual Achieved

[1] CC 2 0

[2] Additional CCs 2 0

[3] AC 1 1 *

[4] Additional ACs 1 0

[5] CL, AL or DTM 1 1 *

[6] Additional CLs, ALs or DTMs 1 1 *

[7] New Members 4 4 *

[8] Additional New Members 4 1

[9] Officers Trained (both required)

June-August 4 7

And December - February 4 0

[10] Submitted on Time (both required)

October or April Renewal 1 1

and Officer List 1 1 *

Total Goals Achieved to Date 5

TAR College

Toastmasters Club (2nd & 4th Saturdays)

M001 Tutorial Room

(School of Technology)

TAR College

Time: 9AM to 11.30AM

TARC – Toastmasters Are Really

Cool!

E-Mail:

[email protected]

Web Site: tarctmc.wordpress.com

The Editorial Team

Editor:


Contributors:


Eric Low, CL

Michele Chang, TM

Pictures:

Eric Low, TM

Jonathan Lim, TM

PUBLIC SPEAKING

QUOTES:

There are no new

ideas.

Only adaptations of

the old.

~ DTM K.

Loghandran,2008

Winner of WCPA

Laugh at yourself first,

before anyone can.

~ Elsa Maxwell,

American gossip

columnist

Meeting Dates (2011 & 2012):

Nov – 12 & 26

Dec – 24

Jan 2012 – Examinations

Feb 2012 – 11 & 25

Mar 2012 – 10 & 17

April 2012 – Examinations

May 2012 – 12 & 26

Super-Duper Important! Meeting dates will be subjected to

change due to examinations and

other unforeseen circumstances.

Always check our Facebook page,

notice board near SBS office, and

Blog for new updates on meeting

dates.

DISTINGUISHED CLUB PROGRAM REPORT 2011/2012 TARC Toastmasters Club (No. 1759651)

District: 51 Division: W Area: 2

Membership Base: 22

Membership to Date: 17

Achieved 5 goals!

We are now a

“Distinguished Club”!

Slowly and surely,

The tiger cub inside us,

Growing bigger and bigger.

Our goal of President‟s

Distinguished Club is within

reach!

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