-Final Meeting of the Semester-

                   Demo speech by Kuang Shan, CC

It has come to the end of the August 2008 semester and so...our final meeting ended with a little surprise for our darling (Si Jelita according to our Area Governor Meyya,ACG) Lukreiza!!!Yes,we had a belated birthday cake for our VPPR!!!Now,now...let's get back to the main topic...Ahem...

Below were the role players on Tuesday(28/10/2008):

TME: Syahiran, TM
SAA:Syahiran, TM
TTM:Julian Gan, CC
TTE:Lai Lien,CC
Ah-Counter:Amir,TM
Time-keeper:Sara,TM
Grammarian:Lukreiza,TM
Assignment Speakers: Hui Shan,TM (Assignment #8)
Lukreiza,TM (Assignment #8)
Syahiran,TM (Assignment #10)
Demo Speech:Kuang Shan, CC (Interpretive Reading)
Assignment Evaluators: 1) Julian Gan,CC
2) Jess Foong,CC
3) Kuang Shan,CC
General Evaluator:Lai Lien,CC

Besides Lukreiza's delicious cake ;-) Our dearest President (CC Julian Gan) marvelled us with his tricks during the table topics session (phew!) He made our poor volunteers lie like they never did before...lie as if they were the greatest pretender in the world.Our table topic speakers were Jess Foong CC,Amir TM,Lai Lien CC.These three speakers kept the audiences entertained with our tummies aching throughout their lies about beauty,intelligence and strength.

Next, the assignment speakers filled the room with different environments because of the various topics presented. Hui Shan, TM presented her 8th assignment speech with the title,"Halloween".Her speech was illustrated with colourful slides and Kuang Shan, CC managed to nab the grand prize the her question and received a candy cane!!!Hooray!The others were not left out as she gave them candies due to the spirit of Halloween.

Well,well...Lukreiza, TM made the environment change by presenting about "Calvin & Hobbes".Those who were familiar with the comic were so excited, making the others anxious to know what it is all about.Her speech gave us an insight about Calvin who is more than just a child,but a boy bursting with energy and wonderful imaginations - making his stuffed toy tiger(Hobbes) into an imagination friend.She managed to make us feel enlightened,touched and happy all at the same time.Everyone in the room was impressed with Lukreiza's performance and the effort she put in to make her slides beautiful.

Ladies and gentleman,let us all say Congratulations to Syah as he has completed his Competent Communicator Manual by presenting his 10th speech, "Perserverence".An inspiring speech about his previous struggles as a person, making the crowd hooked on, to discover more about his story.The speech was one that would make a person think more than twice to give up,as we should perservere to succeed in life.Other than that,he shared with us his embarassments and failures,letting us know that nothing stopped him from becoming one of the top students and a talented Toastmasters.Congratulations again to Syah for now he is a Competent Communicator !!!!!Yes, he can definitely join Julian...CC...Hmm...

The Demo speech by Kuang Shan, CC was very energetic and also persuasive.The speech was originally written and spoken by one of the most known President of the United States, J.F Kennedy. Kuang Shan showed us that reading from a piece of paper,needs more effort to illustrate the emotions of the script with voice colouring skills and appropriate hand gestures. Even though the speech was very political,none of us felt sleepy or bored because it was delivered in an excellent manner.Thank You Kuang Shan for giving us an insight of what Interpertive Reading is all about.

Finally,I would like to thank Lai Lien,CC for coming all the way from DKC to our humble club meeting.It is her very first time to join our meeting and we appreciate her constructive feedback that will help us to be more efficient when we conduct the meeting.We were lucky to have her because of her generosity in multitasking by being both the Table Topics Evaluator and also the General Evaluator.

Thank You again to all the members who came and guests who joined us this past Tuesday.Till then,our next meeting shall be during the next January semester 2009.Please continue to drop by our blog for updates about our Club's Toastmasters Competition year 2009.

All the best for the final exams!!!!!!