Cairnhill Toastmasters Club

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11 March 2008 – Club Contest

Posted by cinsiong on March 18, 2008

Cairnhill Toastmasters Club

“THINK LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR, SPEAK LIKE A LEADER”


11 March 2008
Cairnhill, SMU, & TCS Toastmasters Club
Toastmasters International Speech&
Table Topics Contests


Dear Fellow Toastmasters,

Please put our hands together and applause to our Champions. Like they said a show paints a thousand words and tonight, a lot of us witnessed this event at the SMU seminar hall.

International Speech Contest: Violet Lim (Leap of faith)
Table Topics Contest : Ang Wen Cheng (Good humor save us from the hands of the doctors)

wow, this is nothing like it. It was a fierce competition amongst our club members i.e. violet, heru & wen cheng for the International speech and Wen Cheng, Jamie & Heru for the Table Topics.

Although, there were 3 clubs involved, SMU, TCS (Tata Consultant) & Cairnhill, sad to said not be biase but all our members performed beyond their potential. I can not believe my ears, the 3 performed exceptionally well, beyond anybody’s expectation.

Violet lead us into the Leap of Faith, about making choices in life and take action rather than having the safety, serenity and stability attitude. She went on to demostrated (The Titanic, Rose posture i.e. I jump you jump type),
standing on her toe and looking below from an imaginery height. This unknown posture excites me and yet frighten me (taken from her script). The rest was history and she won us the champion.

Equally good was Wen Cheng, who dribbled his way trying to convince us to watch football as a way to de-stress ourselves.

And most touching of all, our Heru, talking about his late grandma and bringing her to “live” in front of the door. it brought tears to our eyes and he kept reminding us to treasure all those around us while they and us are still alive. His advise, do not take everyone for granted.

These 3 were the champions amongst the champions. They did exceptionally well and a Cheers to them.

Table topic, a very tricky question “Good humor save us from the hands of the doctors”.

nevertheless, Wen Cheng made it as the champion, after 4 speakers, finally the magic word was spoken, I have been waiting for, “Laughter is the best medicine”.

followed by Jamie, very diplomatic approached as usual, just like his board game, very interesting after my
absence for so long to see Jamie and Violet performed again.

It takes a brave one to side track us from the title and Heru did it so well and had the whole title cosmetic, I really take my hats off to you, Heru.

Last and not least Well Done Guys, You made Cairnhill proud……. ..

let us show our support for them in the Area D2 Contest at SRC on the 9th April from 7pm, onwards.

bravo….. / mike woon

Cairnhill Toastmasters Club
http://www.cairnhiltmc.com


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27 February 2008 Chapter Meeting – Charity Begins With Me

Posted by cairnhilltmc on February 3, 2008

Cairnhill Toastmasters Club

“THINK LIKE AN ENTREPRENEUR, SPEAK LIKE A LEADER”
&
CPA Australia Toastmasters Club


 27 February 2008 – Joint Chapter Meeting
“Charity Begins With Me”

Dear friends,
It was a plethora of happiness to have all of you during Cairnhill Toastmasters Club and CPA Australia Toastmasters Club February Joint Chapter Meeting. Aside from the normal chapter meeting, Cairnhill Toastmasters Club also celebrated 12 years anniversary, born in the year or the rat, correct me if I’m wrong.

I would like to thank all Cairnhill Toastmasters Club & CPA Australia Toastmasters Club members, invited guests from other Toastmasters Club, and guests who made our days a plethora of happiness as well as food provided by our inhouse chef, Margaret.

There were 4 project speakers on the day: Stella, Wen Cheng, Michael Chang, and John Liew. Stella talked about “living forever”, Wen Cheng talked about his “shopping sphere during Chinese New Year“, Michael talked about his “3 Michael”, while John talked about “His Girlfriend and fixing Toilet” (those who missed the speech won’t know the relation).

During the break, aside from the food and fruits, we also had fabulous cake prepared for Cairnhill Toastmasters Club 12th Anniversary. I wished I had one more slice, thanks to Sharon only giving me one small slice (just joking).

The table topics session conducted by Sharon was definitely a difficult one, where the participants were tortured by difficult topics related to charity. (Sharon, I hope I’m not discouraging you) However, marvelous attempts by all speakers: Bryan, Therese, Cohen, and Derek. (apologize for any misspelling on any name)

In the next session, evaluations, there was a plethora of wisdom shown by all evaluators: Pak Fee, Violet, Rose, and Mike Woon. I hope all speakers and the audience have benefited from their experience in Toastmasters.


I reserved my thanks for those who used the word of the day during the meeting: Sharon, Margaret, Violet, John Liew, and Rose (apologize if I missed anyone). You showed us that a new and unfamiliar word is not a barrier to prevent you to learn English.

Sadly to say, as a great feast always has an end, our meeting has the end too. However, without a goodbye, we couldn’t meet again.

Our club’s next gathering will be on Saturday, 8 March 2008, for the 3rd Speechcraft Session. We need you all to support us and to make our meetings lively. You’re friends of Cairnhill Toastmasters Club, and friends of CPA Australia Toastmasters Club.

Don’t forget, Cairnhill Toastmasters Club Contest: Toastmasters International Speech & Table Topics Contests on Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 7 pm, in SMU. I’d provide you with the details in my next update. Cairnhill Toastmasters Club Members who want to participate in any of the contest, please contact me. The requirement to enter the International Speech Contest is: complete project 6 of the communcation manual.

The photos are up in my album, you can access it in the following URL:
http://picasaweb. google.com/ cin.siong/ CairnhillToastma stersClubCPAAust raliaToastmaster sClubJointMeetin g
I’ll update the Cairnhill Toastmasters Club Website in the near future.

Ji Yin, please forward to your members.
Rose, please forward the email and my thanks to Cohen from Queenstown Toastmasters Club.

Your Humble Friend,

Heru Adi Kusuma

President 2007-2008
Cairnhill Toastmasters Club

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