ACM #42 - 23 December 2009 (Wednesday)

(Update #5: 29 Nov 2009, 8:00PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #4: 25 Nov 2009, 1:40PM - 2 Panel Evaluator filled, 1 Lead Evaluator)
(Update #3: 23 Nov 2009, 2:35PM - 2 remaining Project Speakers confirmed)
(Update #2: 23 Nov 2009, 1:45PM - 1 Project Speaker confirmed)
(Update #1: 23 Nov 2009, 11:48AM - One Panel Evaluator filled)

Greetings Everyone !!!!

ACM #42 has been confirmed to be on 23 December 2009 (Wednesday) and our Facilitator is Zaharah Ibrahim, DTM !!! She is the Immediate Past Division Governor (Term 2008 - 2009: Courage To Make A Difference) of District 51; recipient of the 'President Distinguish Division Award'. Currently, she is the Club President of Kelab Pidato Kuala Lumpur, and member of Phoenix Toastmasters Club, Shah Alam Toastmasters Club, MAICSA Toastmasters Club. She is also know an the 'Mother of East Coast (Peninsula)', for her chartering clubs, and her continuous immense contribution and support to Toastmasters Club in East Peninsula Malaysia such as Lekor TMC (Terengganu), Penapisan TMC (Terengganu), Kertih TMC (Terengganu), Kuantan TMC (Kuantan) and FPG TMC (Kuantan).

Role Player Registration is now open 2 Lead Evaluators, and 5 Panel Evaluators !!! First-come-first serve basis.

Speaker #1: Geoff ANDREW, DTM (Premier Adv, KL Adv)
Advanced Manual: " Communicating On Television "
Project #: " #5 - Training on TV "
Lead Evaluator: Johnson YIKE, DTM (D'Utama)
Panel 1: - Vacant -
Panel 2: - Vacant -
Panel 3: - Vacant -

Speaker #2: GAN Teong Hock, ACB CL (D'Utama, MBTC)
Advanced Manual: " The Entertaining Speaker "
Project #: " #4 - Dramatic Speech "

Lead Evaluator: - Vacant -
Panel 1: EU Choi San, CC (Premier Adv.)
Panel 2: FOONG Xiao Thoong, CC ALB (UniTAR TM)
Panel 3: - Vacant -

Speaker #3: GAN Poh Lin, CC ALB (Kuantan)
Advanced Manual: " Story Telling "
Project #: " #2 - Let's Get Personal "
Lead Evaluator: - Vacant -
Panel 1: CHEONG Kuok Sum, CC CL (TTDI)
Panel 2: Julian GAN, ACB ALB (UniTAR, Shaklee TM)
Panel 3: - Vacant -

Timer: TEOH Chun Ming, CC (D'Utama)

Details:
Event: Advanced Communicator Meeting (ACM) #42
Date/Day: 23 December 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 7:00pm to 10.00pm

Venue:
Lee Wei Seong’s Office (Ground Floor)
Bangsar Optometry, 8-0-13,
Ground Floor, Menara Mutiara Bangsar,
Jalan Liku, Off Jalan Bangsar,
59100 Kuala Lumpur

(Google Map: location link click here)
(Streetdirectory: location link click here)

Latest Updates here: http://divisionb.blogspot.com/2009/11/acm-42-23-december-2009-wednesday.html

For more Information and Guidelines about the ACM: Download Here

ACM #42 is organized by D'Utama Toastmasters Club. ACM is open to ALL Competent Communicator(CC) / Toastmasters (CTM) and above, and members of good standing with their own respective club. NO DOOR Fee but registration is required to attend & for seat allocation (max 18). I will be updating the details on both D'Utama Toastmasters website and Division B Blogspot periodically and besides sending email updates.

If you are interested to participate, please feel free to email me (jyike78@gmail.com).

Yours truly,

Johnson Yike, DTM
D'Utama Toastmasters Club
ACM Organizing Chair.
www.dutm.org

www.divisionb.blogspot.com

* This ACM email update is sent to those who have expressed interested towards the ACM before. If you DO NOT wish to receive future updates, kindly revert to indicate so and I'll remove you from the mailing list. My apologizes for the any inconvenience caused.

ACM #41 - 17 November 2009 (Tuesday) -1 Panel Evaluator role available!!!

(Update #9: 16 Nov, 1:25PM - Final Lead Evaluator filled)
(Update #8: 15 Nov, 4:00PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filler, Agenda & Project Details ready for download)
(Update #7: 12 Nov, 9:50AM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #6: 12 Nov, 9.10AM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled, 1 Lead Evaluator role opened)
(Update #5: 3 Nov, 12:10PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #4: 30 Oct, 11:00AM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #3: 29 Oct, 11:55AM - ALL Lead Evaluators filled, & Timer appointed)
(Update #2: 29 Oct, 12:25AM - 2 Lead Evaluator filled, and 2 Panel Evaluators filled)
(Update #1: 28 Oct, 4:30PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled, and Speaker #3, Project & Manual updated)

Greetings Everyone !!!!

The Agenda and Project Details of the Speakers are ready for download. Please feel free to download from the links below;
(1) Agenda: click here
(2) Project Details: click here

ACM #41 has been confirmed to be on 17 November 2009 (Tuesday) and our Facilitator is Dr. Khong-Lim Chooi Peng, DTM !!! She is a Past District Governor (Term 2005 - 2006: Achieving Excellence, Sharing Sucess) of District 80 (Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore & Thailand). Currently, she is the President/CEO of HELP International College of Technology (HICT).

Role Player Registration is now open for 1 Panel Evaluators !!! First-come-first serve basis.

Speaker #1: Irene LEE, CTM ALB (Crystal)
Advanced Manual: " Persuasive Speaking "
Project #: " #1 - The Effective Salesperson "

Lead Evaluator: SOH Fong Wai, DTM (D'Utama, KBTC, MBTC)
Panel 1: GAN Poh Lin, CC ALB (Kuantan)
Panel 2: YAU Chau Fong, ACB CL (TTDI)
Panel 3: Ivy CHERNG, ACS ALB (KBTC, MBTC)

Speaker #2: Johnson YIKE, DTM (D'Utama)
Advanced Manual: " Specialty Speeches "
Project #: " #1 - Speaking Off the Cuff "
Lead Evaluator: Meyyappa MANICKAM, DTM (DKC)
Panel 1: Richard YEOW, CC (CIMA)
Panel 2: Zaharah IBRAHIM, DTM (KL Pidato Advanced, Shah Alam, Phoenix, MAICSA)
Panel 3: - VACANT -


Speaker #3: LEE Xi Wen, ACB (TTDI, Metropolitan Bilingual)
Advanced Manual: " Specialty Speeches "
Project #: "#4 - Read Out Loud"
Lead Evaluator: Dr. Devi MENON, DTM (Taman Indrahana, Sai TM)
Panel 1: LOW Lai Lien, CC CL (DKC)
Panel 2: FOO Mei Lee, (KBTC)
Panel 3: LOW Yat Seow, DTM (DU' Adv)

Appointed Timer: Joey CHUA, CC (KBTC)

Details:
Event: Advanced Communicator Meeting (ACM) #41
Date/Day: 17 November 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00pm to 10.00pm

Venue:
Lee Wei Seong’s Office (Ground Floor)
Bangsar Optometry, 8-0-13,
Ground Floor, Menara Mutiara Bangsar,
Jalan Liku, Off Jalan Bangsar,
59100 Kuala Lumpur

(Google Map: location link click here)
(Streetdirectory: location link click here)

For more Information and Guidelines about the ACM: Download Here

ACM #41 is organized by D'Utama Toastmasters Club. ACM is open to ALL Competent Communicator(CC) / Toastmasters (CTM) and above, and members of good standing with their own respective club. NO DOOR Fee but registration is required to attend & for seat allocation (max 18). I will be updating the details on both D'Utama Toastmasters website and Division B Blogspot periodically and besides sending email updates.

If you are interested to participate, please feel free to email me (jyike78@gmail.com).

Yours truly,

Johnson Yike, DTM
D'Utama Toastmasters Club
ACM Organizing Chair.
http://www.dutm.org/

http://www.divisionb.blogspot.com/

* This ACM email update is sent to those who have expressed interested towards the ACM before. If you DO NOT wish to receive future updates, kindly revert to indicate so and I'll remove you from the mailing list. My apologizes for the any inconvenience caused.

ACM #40 - Summary

27th Oct 2009, ACM #40 was one of the smoothest ACMs I had organized. We started on time at 7:30pm and ended on time at 10:30pm. Thanks to everyone for making this happen !

Our Facilitator Dr. Devi Menon, DTM arrived as early as 7:00PM to ensure that she was prepared and properly briefed on the flow. She is a Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Languages and Linguistics where she taught for the past 18 years. She is the Lecturer Advisor of the University of Malaya Toastmaster's Club, a member of Taman Indrahana and the Charter President of Sai Masters TMC. She was the immediate past Area Governor for W3.


Our 1st Speaker was strong 'CEO of Freescale', Cheah Ai Ling, CC CL (CIMA) who attempted to lift the spirits of the employees while calming them down in a hostile situation of the project "Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship (Speeches By Management)". She was calm, cool and compose when the audience began firing away their questions in attempt to stir up the situation.


Ai Ling's Panel of Evaluators was composed of Gan Poh Lin, CC ALB, Marcus Loi, CC and Nancy Liew, ACB ALB, and the Lead Evaluator was Johnson Yike DTM. Drawing from personal experience, each evaluator gave their perspective on how the hostile situation and staff could have been manage, and the feedback was well received.



Our 2nd Speaker was DTM Soh Fong Wai who shared a non-technical presentation about "The Underwater World (Technical Presentations)". It was an interesting piece where he shared about underwater photography and the audience was able to seek clarification & ask question during the presentation. A lighter moment of the speech when Fong Wai commented on how much the camera's cost.

His Panel of Evaluators comprised of Richard Yeow, CC, Johnson Yike, DTM and Irene Lee CTM, ALB, and his Lead Evaluator was Dr. Lim Chooi Peng, DTM (Past District Governor of District 80). The Evaluators were wondering if Fong Wai was sharing about the features of a camera or to take up underwater photography. In any case, we definitely took back information about both.



Our 3rd Speaker was Ernest Wong, ACB ALB who gave a new perspective on a classically folk tale, "Cinderella (Story telling)", and the audience had a second childhood as we were asked to imagine ourselves when we were 9 years of age. Ernest played the role of a teacher who was telling us 9 year old children the story.

His Panel Evaluators consist of Gan Teong Hock, ACB ALB, Richard Yeow, CC and Calvin Lim ACS, and his Lead Evaluator was Lee Wei Seong, ACG CL. The challenge of the Storytelling manual as pointed out by the all the evaluators including the open evaluation was the important of one's voice and the use of vocal variety. Calvin gave a very impressive example ("Dong, Dong, Dong .... and the clock struck twelve ....").



Special thanks goes to our Timer, Ivy Cherng, ACS ALB, and Ah Counter, Joey Chun, CC. Our first time guest, Helen Quat, CC.

Our Facilitator, Dr. Devi Menon DTM gave an insightful take of the ACM and reminded us that though we are evaluating Advanced Speeches, we should not park our Toastmasters' Principles of Evaluation (using the sandwich matter). A point well taken and the ACMers will be more sensitive especially to first time presenters to the ACM.

(Chief Coordinator Soh Fong Wai, DTM presenting an Token of Appreciation to our Facilitator, Dr. Devi Menon, DTM)

In conclusion, I really had a wonderful time and everyone surely have learned a lot during this meeting. We learned to beef up our communication skill, evaluation skill, and develop a thick skin ;-)

The date of the next ACM (#41) has been finalized and the Project Speakers are Division Champions; Irene Lee CTM ALB (Division B: Area Governor of the Year (2008/09), Lee Xi Wen, ACB (Division W: Humourous Speech Contest Champion), and Johnson Yike, DTM (Division B: Humorous Speech Contest Champion).


Yours truly,
Johnson Yike, DTM
ACM Organizing Chair
D'Utama Toastmasters Club

ACM #40 - 27 October 2009 (Tuesday) - Ready, Set, GO !!

(Update #10: 22 October 09, 11:30AM - Assignment Speakers' Manuals & Project # updated. Agenda download available.)
(Update #9: 15 October 09, 11:35AM - Final Panel Evaluator filled. READY, SET, GO!)
(Update #8: 14 October 09, 1:20PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #7: 14 October 09, 10:30AM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #6: 13 October 09, 10:40AM - 3 Panel Evaluators filled, Timer allocated)
(Update #5: 12 October 09, 2:25PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #4: 12 October 09, 1:40PM - Lead Evaluators filled, 1 Panel Evaluator filled, 1 Invited Guest)
(Update #3: 12 October 09, 12:00PM - 1 Panel Evaluator filled)
(Update #2: 12 October 09, 11:25AM - 2 Lead Evaluators filled.)
(Update #1, 12 Oct 09, 11:05AM - Assignment Speaking slots are filled. Correction on the date. )

Greetings Everyone !!!!

ACM #40 has been confirmed to be on 27 October 2009 (Tuesday) and our Facilitator is Dr. Devi Menon, DTM (from Sai Toastmasters Club & Taman Indrahana Club) !!! Dr. Devi Menon is a Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Languages and Linguistics where she taught for the past 18 years. She is the Lecturer Advisor of the University of Malaya Toastmaster's Club, a member of Taman Indrahana and the Charter President of Sai Masters TMC. She was the immediate past Area Governor for W3.

ALL Roles has been filled !!!! ACM #4o is ready to go !!!! I will be sending the Agenda, and Project Details (once made available by the Assignment Speakers) by next week. I'm surely looking forward to another FUN FILLED ADVANCED COMMUNICATOR MEETING !!!!

Speaker #1: CHEAH Ai Ling, CC CL (CIMA)
Title: "Freescale Town Hall Meeting"
Advanced Manual: "Speeches by Management"
Project #: "# 5 Confrontation: The Adversary Relationship"
Lead Evaluator: CHEONG Kuok Sum, CC ALB (TTDI)
Panel 1: GAN Poh Lin, CC ALB (Kuantan)
Panel 2: Marcus LOI, CC (D'Utama)
Panel 3: TEOH Chun Ming, CC (D'Utama)

Speaker #2: SOH Fong Wai, DTM (D'Utama, Klang Bilingual, Metropolitan Bilingual)
Advanced Manual: "Technical Presentations"
Project #: "#3 - Nontechnical Presentation"
Lead Evaluator: Dr. LIM Chooi Peng, DTM
Panel 1: YAU Chau Fong, ACB (TTDI)
Panel 2: Johnson YIKE, DTM (D'Utama)
Panel 3: Irene LEE, CTM ALB (Crystal)

Speaker #3: Ernest WONG, ACB ALB (HELP)
Advanced Manual: "Storytelling"
Project #: "#1 - The Folk Tale"
Lead Evaluator: LEE Wei Seong, ACG CL (DU Adv)
Panel 1: GAN Teong Hock, ACB ALB (D'Utama, Metropolitan Bilingual)
Panel 2: Richard YEOW, CC (CIMA)
Panel 3: Nancy LIEW, ACB ALB (D'Utama, DU Adv)

Timer: Ivy Cherng, ACS CL (Klang Bilingual, Metropolitan Bilingual)

Invited first Timers

• Helen Quat, CC (Metro Toastmasters Club)

Event: Advanced Communicator Meeting (ACM) #40
Date/Day: 27 October 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00pm to 10.00pm
Agenda: Download here

Venue:
Lee Wei Seong’s Office (Ground Floor)
Bangsar Optometry, 8-0-13,
Ground Floor, Menara Mutiara Bangsar,
Jalan Liku, Off Jalan Bangsar,
59100 Kuala Lumpur
(Google Map: location link click here)
(Streetdirectory: location link click here)

For more Information and Guidelines about the ACM: Download Here

ACM #40 is organized by D'Utama Toastmasters Club. ACM is open to ALL Competent Communicator(CC) / Toastmasters (CTM) and above, and members of good standing with their own respective club. NO DOOR Fee but registration is required to attend & for seat allocation (max 18). I will be updating the details on both D'Utama Toastmasters website and Division B Blogspot periodically and besides sending email updates.

If you are interested to participate, please feel free to email me (jyike78@gmail.com).

Yours truly,

Johnson YIKE, DTM

D'Utama Toastmasters Club
ACM Organizing Chair.

www.dutm.org

www.divisionb.blogspot.com

UNITAR: When Unitar Toastmasters Club meets Halloween (on 10th Oct 2009 - Saturday)

HALLOWEEN PARTY

Dress up

Eat up

Speak up

Be prepared to be scared out of your mind

by Ghost Stories, Pranks and many more...

DATE: 10th October 2009 (Saturday)
TIME: 5:00pm to 8:00pm

Interested? Excited?

Book your tickets by the 30th of September!!

Dress Code: Halloween Costume (COMPULSORY)...or else...

Contact:
Jefferey Tang (014-9318071/jefferey_88@hotmail.com)

Hui Shan (012-2422535/lhs1209@gmail.com)

UNITAR: The Professional Seminar on 5th October 2009 (Monday)

Ladies and Gentlemen =)

Join in for the Professional Seminar that will be conducted by Unitar Toastmasters' Miss President - CC, ALB Jess Foong!


She is current President of UNITAR TMC and is pursuing her Bachelor's Degree in Management, majoring in Entrepreneurship. As a leader with great communication skills, she is an exceptional role model for youths. At the age of 21, she was one of the youngest youth representative to the ASEAN Caucus Youth Meeting 2009 in Thailand.

Her speech entitled, "Self-love" will be a 40 minutes seminar that will focus on - the different kinds of love, what is self-love, the secret approaches of self-love.

What are the perks of this seminar?

It is first of all F.O.C - Free of Charge (students are most welcomed)

- an opportunity to understand yourself better
- build self-confidence
- embrace your flaws and learn to flaunt you talents


Meeting details:

Date/Day: 5th October 2009/Monday
Time: 6pm
Venue: TR1, Ground floor, Block B, UNITAR

*Refreshments are served

Well, what are you waiting for?
Register with our VPE Hui Shan
(lhs1209@gmail.com/ 012-242 2535)
by 2nd of October as there are limited seats.

First come first serve basis =)

ACM #39 - Summary

Greetings Fellow ACMers and Friends,

ACM #39 (29 September 2009) was truly incredible, not only we had a filled role player roster but we had 9 'unregistered' guest, which gives us a total attendance of 25 people. Our gracious host ACG Lee Wei Seong had the foresight of this turn out and had gotten us a bigger room; even that was filled to the brim. THANK YOU WEI SEONG !!!

Our Facilitator from KL Advanced Toastmasters Club, ACG Bill SIM was remarkable. Being a first timer to ACM, he conducted the meeting with poise and professionalism. He provided valuable feedback & demonstrated examples to our three Speakers. The meeting completed ahead of schedule!

We had two first time assignment Speakers (in ACM), namely GAN Poh Lin (Kuantan Toastmasters) and LEE Xi Wen (TTDI, MBTC) who so happen to present their speeches from the same advanced manual, namely the "Speaking To Inform" manual. It gave the audience a new perspective to evaluation when they were able to compare the speeches and evaluation between Project #1: Speech To Inform and Project #3: The Demonstration Speech. Our veteran GAN Teong Hock (DUTM, MBTC) also entertained us with his "Resources for Entertainment" by sharing with us how important results are that was illustrated with three wonderful stories.

The Panel of Evaluators & Lead Evaluators were diligent in executing their duties. All of them were concise, constructive and composed. Un-intentionally, I didn't realize that I've selected the D'Utama Presidents Team for the 3rd Speaker's Evaluators; Nancy LIEW (Past President), Marcus LOI (VPE - 'Incoming President?' … hehehe), TEOH Chun Ming (current President), and the Lead Evaluator, LEE Wei Seong (also Past President).

I wish to extend my thanks to the other Panel Evaluators; Janice LEE (TTDI), Richard YEOW (CIMA), CHEONG Kuok Sum (TTDI), and Lead Evaluators; SOH Fong Wai (DUTM, KBTM, MBTM) & Ernest WONG (HELP, Pidato KL). I wish to extend my thanks to LIM Hui Shan and Jess FOONG (both from Unitar Toastmasters Club) who extended their help at the 11th hour to be a Time Keeper and Panel Evaluator respectively.

I personally had a wonderful time and as mentioned during short final message for the day … "No Registration … No Seat for You!! (hehee ...)"

The date for ACM #40 has yet to be finalized. Keep checking the D'Utama (www.dutm.org) or Division B (www.divisionb.blogspot.com) for updates.

Cheers,
Johnson Yike
D'Utama Toastmasters Club
ACM Organizing Chair.