Area B4 IS & TT Contest Results !

Area B4 has just concluded their International Speech and Table Topic Contest this 7th March 2009 (Saturday). The results are as follows:

International Speech Contest


CHAMPION: Eugene NG (D'Utama Toastmasters Club)


1st Runner Up: Sabrina Yap (Kuantan Toastmasters Club)


2nd Runner Up: G. Sivalingam (D'Utama Toastmasters Club)
*photos will be upload soon

Table Topic Contest


CHAMPION: G. Sivalingam (D'Utama Toastmasters Club)


1st Runner Up: Koh Syek Ying (KNM Toastmasters Club)


2nd Runner Up: Sarimah Morshidi (Kuantan Toastmasters Club)

The CHAMPION of each respective contest will represent Area B4 in the Division B International Speech & Table Topic Contest that is taking place on 21st March 2009.

A note of thanks from Area Governor B4, Johnson Yike Hean Choong ACS ALB:
"Thank you UniTAR Toastmasters Club for supporting the Area B4 Contest."

Area B4 International Speech and Table Topic Contest

Area B4 is proud to announce its International Speech and Table Topic Contest

Details:
Event: Area B4 International Speech & Table Topic Contest
Date: 7th March 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00pm to 4:30pm
Venue: University Tun Abdul Razak (UniTAR), Petaling Jaya
Student Lounge (Block B). 16-1, Jalan SS6/12, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan

Location map: here
Download directions to location (from Sunway): here
Download directions to location (from Damansara): here
*FREE Parking spaces are available at opposite Block B of UNITAR.

Ticket Price: RM5 only
Contact Person: Johnson Yike (E: jyike78@gmail.com T:017-8898438)

The Challengers are:

1. D'Utama Toastmasters Club

• G. Sivalingam (International Speech Contest)
• Eugene Ng (International Speech Contest)
• G. Sivalingam (Table Topic Contest)
• Jessy Chahal (Table Topic Contest)

2. Kuantan Toastmasters Club

• Sabrina Yap (International Speech Contest)
• Gan Poh Lin (International Speech Contest)
• Sarimah Morshidi (Table Topic Contest)
• Gunendran Vilvarajah (Table Topic Contest)

3. Shah Alam Toastmasters Club

• Veera Mano (International Speech Contest)
• Veera Mano (Table Topic Contest)
  

4. KNM Toastmasters Club

• Koh Syek Ying (Table Topic Contest)

All are welcome to witness these dedicated Toastmasters who will travel from near and FARRRRRRR to demonstrate their skill and talents !!!

Kuantan Toastmasters: Congratulations Competent Communicators (CC)

Area B4 Governor wishes to acknowledge and congratulate the following members from Kuantan Toastmasters Club who has achieved the award of Competent Communicator (CC)

Kulendran Kula, CC
October 2008







Sabrina Yap, CC
November 2008

Gan Poh Lin, CC
December 2008







Sarimah Moshidi, CC

December 2008

Kuantan Toastmasters' Sacrifice

Dear Kuantan Toastmasters,

"Sacrifice" was the Kuantan Toastmasters Club's theme of the evening on the 5th December 2008. Through the year you guys have truly sacrificed and overcome many challenges to be where you all are today. More of the fruits of your labour were evident that night. Last Friday, The President and Vice President Education of Kuantan Toastmasters respectively, Sarimah bt Morshidi and Gan Poh Lin are on the verge of completing their Competent Communicators manual as they both presented their 9th Speech that day. Sarimah's speech, "From Your Heart" moved the hearts of many who donated to the needs of a poor woman's plight in her speech. Poh Lin's speech, "Save the earth, begin from the simplest" addressed the immediate need to take action and do our part to save the earth. We also heard Toastmasters Ainul who presented her 'P.T.K Experience', the things a governor servant needs to go through in their career.

The club also recognized two of its new Competent Communicators, Sabrina Yap and Kula. It was also the re-birth and start of Advanced Communication Manuals speakers, Vince Lim who presented 'The Roast' from the 'Special Occasions', and Sabrina also made her maiden speech (as a Competent Communicator) presenting the 'Good Will Speech' from the 'Public Relations'. With new Advanced Manual speeches, came advance level evaluations from the three Kuala Lumpur guests (i.e. Division B Governor Zaharah Ibrahim DTM, Area B5 Governor Irene Lee CTM CL, and Area B4 Governor Johnson Yike, ACS ALB), which was slightly meatier in the areas of improvement. (By the way, the speeches & evaluations have been recorded on video ... if the speakers are willing, it can be posted for the world to see *smile*).

December 5th was the 4th meeting at Kuantan Toastmasters Club at the Pahang Ceylonese Association. It was truly fantastic, the room was huge and very comfortable, which I believe will give Kuantan Toastmasters the room for growth in terms of membership. Speaking of which, the club signed a new member that night. At this junction, I would like to thank the Pahang Ceylonese Association for allowing Kuantan Toastmasters Club to have their meeting at their venue. THANK YOU !.

As the Area Governor for Kuantan Toastmasters, honestly speaking the Distinguished Club Program (DCP) points does not mean as much to me as to see the members and club grow. It warms my heart to see the energy, enthusiasm, and commitment the members have shown. You all are truly the stars of East Cost (Peninsula) Toastmasters club.



Yours truly,
Johnson Yike



(from left to right: En. Makmur, Gan Poh Lin, Irene Lee, Mr. Hiew (behind), Sarimah, Vince (behind), Zaharah, Sabrina (behind), Johnson, En Adnan (behind), and Ainul)

Kuantan Toastmasters Club (formally Vistana Toastmasters Club)

Dear Kuantan Toastmasters Members, Mentors and Guests,

This is the first TME write-up since we change our club name (formally known as Vistana Toastmasters Club). I hope this short write up will remind us about to always be positive and keep in touch in this ever changing world.

As we are celebrating our 84th anniversary of Toastmasters International on the month of October, we at Vistana Toastmasters will embark our new chapter in another new venue. 31 Oct 2008, a historic day for Vistana Toastmasters Club. Today we are having our Toastmasters meeting at our new venue at Pahang Ceylonese Club. Inline with our theme of that evening "Change for the Better", we also were inform by our Mdm. President TM Sarimah about the change of our club name. Effective Nov 2008 the club Exco decided to change our club name to Kuantan Toastmasters Club. Truly a big change for us.

It was a great start for us having 7 guests on that memorable evening. We have four guests from Hong Leong group consist of Dennis, Aaron Tee, Mr Lim and Danny. We also have Su Chin @ Susi from P&G, Mr Adnan, a retiree and Amidah, our regular guest. During the Table Topic session four of our guest participates as Table Topic speakers conducted by our President TM Sarimah. It was a well receive session as most of the guest attempted this session for the first time. Well done to all the Table Topic speakers on that evening for a splendid performance especially Aaron Tee who pick up the Best Guest Table Topic speaker. Thumb up for Table Topic Master Sarimah for motivate the Table Topic speakers to "Open their mouth".

In the second part of our meeting, we have 3 assignment speakers who attempted their communication manual. They are TM Fong Siew Ching who is doing her Ice Breaker entitle "Autobiography". It was a short and sweet Ice Breaker by Siew Ching who share with us her background and why she being a Toastmasters. Later, two of our club leaders share with us their Project 8: Get comfortable with visual aids. TM Pohlin with her speech title "Garbage Enzyme, The Savoir" and TM Sarimah with "Cheap but Good". What can I say about their performance is "Magnificent", "Truly great speeches". I should bring a video recorded to capture their excellent speech.

During the evaluation session, all the speakers have been point out their strong point and room for improvements. Above all I feel the members and guests have enjoy the meeting and is good to known two of our guest Amidah and Mr. Adnan is going to be apart of Kuantan Toastmasters club soon. A big thank you to all the role players and speakers that make the meeting a success and memorable. To sum up, I must say thank you to Pahang Ceylonese Club for renting us a good and comfortable meeting place for us to continue our Toastmasters aspiration.

P.S. Thanks to Gunedran for recommend this new venue to us.




Courage to Make a Difference

Your TME,
Vince Lim
31 Oct 2008


NOTE:
Kuantan Vistana Toasmasters new meeting venue is as follows:
Persatuan Ceylon Pahang
A-4834, Tingkat 1,
Lorong Seri Kuantan 25,
Taman Intan,
25250, Kuantan,
Pahang Darul Makmur

Google Map link: here

Vistana TM: 20th September: Born Are Our Stars For Vistana Toastmasters Club!

20th September 2008, the day started with a bright sunny morning, many people started their usual Saturday morning; however, four of our dearest members had to wake up early to begin their over 300km journey to KDU, Petaling Jaya, accompanied with them, were their nervous and anxious hearts; with only one intention: to represent Vistana Toastmasters Club in Area B4 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest. For the first time ever, in Vistana Toastmasters Club history!! Yes! They are none other than our dearest Vince Lim and Sabrina Yap who took part in Humorous Speech Contest, and Sarimah and Sharifah in Evaluation Contest.


Contestants had to be at the venue slightly earlier that day in order for the organizing committee to determine the contestants speaking sequence, Sarimah was the first contestant for evaluation contest. I still remembered she told me, “I can feel butterflies in my tummy already.” On the other hand, Vince made use of the time before contest to practice again and again, even on their journey to Kuala Lumpur. No one was able to predict how the results will be, they only hope their presentation will turn out smoothly during the contest.


The Humorous contest began about 2.30pm and Vince was the 3rd contestant. In his speech, titled ‘Honored with Humour’, he shared with us about his fear and dilemma when our Area Governor, Johnson suggested to him to join the humorous speech contest. A usual contestants for KTM (Kuda, Toto & Magnum), Vince took Eugune Ng’s advice to put on ‘a stronger pair’ to conquer his fear and move forward to the contest stage to contest!! He definitely did not take the Humorous Speech contest as easy as contesting in KTM, so in the process of polishing his skills from a humour-less to humourous speaker, he smuggled into a school to practice in front of kids audience, because he believed it would be easier to humour kids; as research says, kids laugh or smile more then 400 times daily; unfortunately he frighten them and made them cried. What next? He was banned from entering the school again…… (Opps! Don’t get me wrong. Vince is a nice guy, I am just sharing some of his speech content. And, feedback from the floor was quite good, audience laughing!!) Sabrina was the last contestant with speech title, Dating Vs. Marriage. She shared with us how a sweet elegant lady mimicked the stuns in Bollywood and Hollywood movies when dating with her boyfriend turned into a ‘fierce aunty’ after married with her hubby and three kids, frequently screaming to discipline them all. (Sabrina, I hope those scenes only happened in your speech though, you don’t look that fierce anyhow…)


The end of Humorous Speech contest, marked the moment of relieve for Vince and Sabrina but also marked show time for Sarimah and Sharifah had begin! After listened to the test speaker, Ong Yi Jieh from Sunway Toastmasters. Evaluation contestants were given 5 minutes for preparation. Sarimah was the first contestant, she stood at the lectern and started saying, “Ong, what more can I say about you?! You name already ONG (means lucky in Chinese)”, which made the whole floor laughed, then she continued on to analyzed good and points for improvement for the speaker in her usual vivid way. Followed by Sharifah as the final contestant delivering words of encouragement to the speaker.


After a series of contest, the moment everyone was waiting for, Results Announcement was the most memorable for all of us from Vistana Toastmasters Club!!! It was a moment of glory for all of us!! All because our very own Sabrina and Vince won the 2nd and 1st runner-up for Humorous Speech Contest; on the other hands, Sarimah won 2nd runner-up for Evaluation Contest!!! Yes, the Contest Chair really announced their names as the winners.



Humorous Speech Contest Results
Champion: Tengku Shaifudin (Shah Alam Toastmasters Club)
1st Runner Up: Vince Lim (Vistana Toastmasters Club)
2nd Runner Up: Sabrina Yap (Vistana Toastmasters Club)


Evaluation Contest Results
Champion: Jessy Chahal (D'Utama Toastmasters Club)
1st Runner Up: Eugene Ng (D'Utama Toastmasters Club)
2nd Runner Up: Sarimah Morshidi (Vistana Toastmasters Club)

However, what is the big deal of winning 2nd and 1st Runners-up?! For Vistana Toastmasters Club, winning a trophy not our main focus, being 2nd and 1st Runners-up still a moment of glory, moment of joy and moment of breakthrough. We are still champion in our hearts, because our contestants had conquered their fear, made a big step out there to participate in a contest, first time in their life and first time for Vistana Toastmasters Club. They created a new history to Vistana Toastmasters Club.


Behind the success, it is the special bonding of friendships, encouragements and supports among the members that drive us from a quiet club to a club that finally took a brave step to participate in contest. No forgetting to forward million thanks to our Area Gorvenor, ACS ALB Johnson Yike for encouraging Vistana Toastmasters to participate in the contest. Helpful and constructing inputs from visiting Toastmasters, especially Zaharah, Sue Ding and Sharmini.


Last but no least Vince, Sabrina and Sarimah, Vistana Toastmasters Club is extremely proud of you all! Don’t let this fire of glory slowly fade off with time, together let’s transform it to a powerful energy to drive Vistana Toastmasters to conquer from one peak to another peak. Together we will show that Vistana Toastmasters Club, not only fosters public speaking and leadership skills; but also a club that foster friendships and teamwork.



Pohlin
Proud VPE of
Vistana Toastmasters Club

Area B4: Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2008/2009

Area B4 is proud to announce its Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2008/09.

Date: 20th September 2008
Venue: Kolej Damansara Utama (KDU), Room 1.08 (1st floor)


KDU College Sdn Bhd (Petaling Jaya Campus)
SS22/41, Damansara Jaya, 47400 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan, MALAYSIA

Time: starting from 2.30pm sharp. Program Sheet: click here
Door Fee: RM10 (light refreshments served during the break)

Contact Person:
Johnson Yike (M: 017-8898438 E: jyike78@gmail.com)

Come, see and cheer on the contestants from Toastmasters District 51, Division B, Area B4 that are coming from Petaling Jaya, Shah Alam and from all the way from Kuantan !!

Locate clubs in Area B4

Note: Click on the respective picture to get an enlarged view.

1. D'Utama Toastmasters Club


2. KNM Toastmasters Club

3. Shah Alam Toastmasters Club

4. Vistana Toastmasters Club

Vistana TM: 'A New Beginning' on 'A Special Day'

080808, a special day for many people around the World; many couples chose that date to walk down the aisle, and many chose to stay home to watch China Olympic Opening ceremony. Most importantly 080808 marked a special beginning for Vistana Toastmasters Club. Besides having the meeting on this special day, the meeting started at 8.08pm, we had 8 attendee (many others stayed home to watch the Olympic Opening ceremony), and 8 Table Topic speakers.

Although there were only 8 persons attending the meeting, but 'SIZE DID NOT MATTER', the number of attendees did not weaken the 'chemistry' of the meeting. It started with our Madam President, Toastmaster Sarimah sharing her 'Secret'; a book that she read recently. Table Topic Master, Ainul turned all of us into Sportsmen and Sportswomen in the Olympic with her topics that were all related to Olympic games. It ended with wonderful evaluation session conducted by our honourable guest from KL, CTM Parasakti.

So? What's so special about the meeting? First of all, all the Exco members dressed formally that evening for our second purpose; that was to launch our new implementations to improve club performance, and enhance learning curve of Members and Guests.

After all the effort from the team of Vistana Toastmasters Club and guidance from Klang Valley members, we are glad that we see positive results in membership strength and meeting quality. On 8 August 2008, 8.08pm, we officially announced a few changes that we would like to implement in Vistana Toastmasters Club, it might be common things that other strong clubs are doing all the time, but over here we could not due to our membership strength in the past.

The new implementations including the launching of:
No. 1: Mentoring Program,
No. 2: in order to improve meeting quality, we formalized the Role Players' duties and responsibilities, a new Meeting Roster for members to pre-plan speaking slots and roles; and introduced themes for every meeting to add varieties to spice up meeting ambient.
No. 3: Club Website as a place for Vistana Toastmasters to share our Toastmaster-ing experience and nametag to increase the sense of belonging.

080808, marks a brand new beginning to Vistana Toastmasters Club, and this new beginning will pose new challenges for us here to make Vistana Toastmasters Club a better club.

A place where we can Learn, Share, Enjoy and be Proud of.

Pohlin
TME for 080808
Vice President of Education

Vistana TM: Record Breaking

Vistana Toastmasters Club had its meeting on 25 Jul 2008. The meeting was made merrier and lively with the participation of 12 guests from the Hong Leong Group lead by Mr. Lee Sooi Keong as well as our Distinguished Toastmasters (DTMs), Zaharah and Sue Ding. This was a record breaking for Vistana Toastmasters club as we had the most guest attendants for the first time.

Madam President, Sarimah, touched on the subject of Kaizen or continuous improvement, which all of us need to inculcate in our minds and make it a way of life, in order to improve our communication and leadership skills.

TME Kula spoke about how famous personalities had passion in their hearts to improve themselves in public speaking.

Table Topics and Humour sessions were handled by Gunendran, and there was a mix of topics which everyone had an interest in. Some of our guests, although shy, gave it a try and showed that they can stand in front of an audience and deliver their thoughts. Gunendran’s jokes had everyone laughing their hearts out.

Assignment speakers, Tee and Sabrina showed our guests that they are capable of delivering their speeches with confidence, and with practice, anyone can speak so as to inspire and captivate their audience.

DTM Zaharah gave an impressive briefing on history of TM to our guests who were convinced that Vistana TM is the place where they can sharpen and enhance their speaking and leadership skills.

DTM Sue Ding talked about mentoring and how this could be of great help to new members who may initially face difficulty in preparing their speeches, etc...

In relation to role playing, there were always some members volunteering their service to make the meeting a successful event.

The meeting ended at about 11 pm.

Your TME
Kula/……….

Vistana TM: Unforgettable

Unforgettable

11 July 2008, a date which is unforgettable for most of Vistana Toastmasters club members especially me. On this day we embark our new term for Toastmasters journey as we are having the first Toastmasters meeting for the term. It was a scintillating start for us as we continue our aspiration to become the leading Toastmasters club in Kuantan and East Coast. Our club President Sarimah's opening speech share with us her an inspirational notion about not to procrastinate things that can be done today.

The opening speech truly an invocation speech for all of the twelve members and guest that night. The speech also reminds me to complete this newsletter as soon as possible. This is the first Vistana Toastmasters newsletter to be put in our blogspot which is www.divisionb.blogspot.com. What a pressure for me! Anyhow it is really was an honour for me and I must thanks our Area B4 Governor ACS, ALB Johnson Yike for that. He is the one who come out this brilliant idea to put our newsletter in the blogspot.

Table Topic session by Toastmasters Poh Lin is an unforgettable session for me as I share a deeply personal "secret" in that session. What deeply personal "secret"? You may ask! I guest you have to be there on that night to know my "secret". Hahaha! It was a fruitful session for all the Table Topic speakers especially we have a guest Miss Karti from BASF Petronas sharing her first Table Topic experience. It good to know that the level of English has substantial improve as it was point out by Table Topic Evaluator Kula and Grammarian Poh Lin.

It really an excellent start from the term as we have 3 assignment speakers pursuing their Competent Communicator award on that night. This means we are one step closer to achieve 4 CC for this tem and at the same time achieve 2 DCP point. We have Sabrina with her Project 5 entitle "Unforgettable moment", Kula's Project 7 entitle "Threat to planet Earth" and our president Sarimah's Project 6 entitle "Anecdotes is my life". Wow! What can I say? Kudos to all the three assignment speakers for a job well done. I truly enjoy all the speech especially Sabrina's Project 5 as I was her assignment evaluator that night. For me it was Sabrina best speech so far as she demonstrates her speech with articulate body movement, facial expressions and eye contact to enhance her speech.

To sum up I must say it was an unforgettable Toastmasters evening for me as it was my first TME role for a long time. The meeting starts at 8.02pm and end on 10.15pm respectively which was a good sign but still got room for improvement. It the mid of excitement I forgot to ask the members and guests to vote the best assignment speaker and best evaluator. A truly "unforgettable" night for me. Many thanks to all the role players and speakers that make the meeting a success. Special thanks to Area B4 Governor as his role as General evaluator and his constructive feedback. Hope to have another outstanding meeting on 25 July 2008.

Courage to Make a Difference

Your TME
Vince Lim
11-07-2008

Vistana Toastmasters Club

Vistana Toastmasters Club (Kuantan)

Meeting days : 2nd & 4th Fridays

Meeting time : 7.45pm

Meeting venue : Vistana Hotel, Kuantan, Jalan Telok Sisek, 25000 Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur

Contact Persons : President - Sarimah (sarimah@psdc.gov.my)

VP Public Relation - Vince Lim, ACB (KWLim@ocbc.com)