Seberang Jaya Toastmasters Club

First Event in 2012–Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) 2

Kah Moey — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:55:59 +0000

Hi everyone here, how have you done in 2011? It has been half a year since the installation of new term officers 2011/2012 on July 2011. Now it is the time for us to reflect how our clubs have been doing.

Have we tried our best to achieve what we can do?
What are the areas of improvement, so that we will have better quality of meeting?

We are here to learn together!

Now the officers are learning as well!

4 of the club officers attended the training:
Kah Moey, Easter Lee, Jeffrey Ooi

** These photos were taken from Facebook group District 51, Division H. For more photos, please refer to the album in the Facebook group.

After a break with the input of guidance and sharing from experienced members, here we start our journey again!

19th Semi Annual Convention 2011–Malacca

Kah Moey — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:59:12 +0000

Last weekend, from 21st ~ 23rd October, we attended the 19th Semi Annual Convention in Malacca, one of the cultural heritage states in Malaysia.

There were 5 of us, to support our Division champion in Humorous Speech!

5 of us, joining with our Division H governor, Phang Wai Keong DTM
and one of the convention committee members, Joyce Loh

We reached Malacca in the morning of 21st October.

The morning view of Malacca

The first night in the convention, we had dinner with the theme:
Baba & Nyonya Welcome Night!

Baba & Nyonya Welcome Night

Photo taken together with the Past International President (PIP), Gary Schmidt DTM and our District 51 Governor, Sue Chan DTM

Photo taken on the PIP, Gary Schmidt DTM, District Governor, Sue Chan DTM, and the Organizing Chair, Azizah ACS ALS

After the Welcome dinner, we went to an open-air site to have some drinks and chit chats. What a nice night view of Malacca!

Night view of Malacca town

group photo of Seberang Jaya Toastmasters Club

On the next morning, 22nd October, we attended the plenary sessions, with 4 great speakers:

Past District Governor, Sivanganam DTM
Past International President, Gary Schmidt DTM
Accredited speaker, Gerald Green DTM, AS
Past District 87 Governor, Mohamad Ariff DTM

PIP, Gary Schmidt DTM invited an audience to evaluate his speech

Gerald Green DTM AS presented his speech

Mohamad Ariff presented his speech and made some audience cried

After the Plenary sessions, we hung out for a street walk in the China Town of Malacca. We tried out the famous chicken rice, and durian cendol in the China Town.

Yummy durian cendol!!

Sunset of Malacca

With the accompanion of the sunset of Malacca, we moved ourselves back to hotel to prepare for the Black Tie Gala night!

Dinner of the Gala night!

Photo taken with the convention committee member, Joyce Loh, Gurmeet Singh from BM Bigfoot TMC, and our Immediate Past Area Governor, YS Lee

Congratulations to YS Lee for the award of Past Area H4 Governor!!

Our next station after the Gala Night –> the famous satay celup of Malacca!!

That was not the “lok lok” in Penang, but was the “satay celup” in Malacca, with the paste soup of satay

The last day of the event, 23rd October, it was the contest day!!

Photo taking was prohibited, thus no photo was taken during the session. However, if you joined the session, you would have enjoyed the session a lot! It was full of laughters from all the Humorous Speech contestants! All contestants were so great in telling jokes!

Same for the Speech Evaluation Contest, all constestants were doing great to evaluate the test speaker too!

Although division champion didn’t get the chance to step onto the stage to receive the award, but he is still our Division H Humorous Speech Champion!!

Photo taken during the Division H Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2011

Let’s put our hands together to congratulate our Division H Champion for Humorous Speech Contest!

Bravo!

For more photos, you may click here.

Disclaimer: Some of the photos were taken from facebook of different TMC members.

Humorous Speech and Evaluation Club Contest 2011

Kah Moey — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:25:43 +0000

Together with the new term, again, we are going to have the Humorous Speech and Evaluation Club Contest 2011!

This is a joint contest with MEF Toastmasters Club.

Be with us, to witness the born of the club champions, the best joker and the best Evaluator!

** Click the image to view in larger size **

Click here to download the map of Safira Club in Seberang Jaya, Penang.

If you have any inquiry, you may contact:

Organizing Chair: Jeffrey Ooi @ +6012320878
President: Lee Kah Moey @ +60124238269

Laugh and learn at the same time!

Brand New Toastmasters Logo

Kah Moey — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:10:02 +0000

It has been a long time that we were waiting for the release of the new Toastmasters logo as the re-branding project was in progress. Now, here it is, the new Toastmasters International logo!

Quote from the Toastmasters International President, Pat Johnson:

“The refreshed brand reflects the organization’s evolution while honoring its heritage. It allows us to unite and grow in exciting new ways.”

As we know, the Toastmasters International has extended its direction, which is not only to focus on public speaking, but to focus on leadership too. Thus, the Toastmasters International has a tagline: Where leaders are made.

With the brand new logo, here we have our new website layout too!
Toastmasters International

Now, let us treasure the journey of Toastmasters with the new logo, new website, to build up our potentials to be a good leader who have good speaking techniques!

Cheers!

New Term, New Team, New Journey!

Kah Moey — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:31:28 +0000

It’s been a couple months that this blog was not updated.

Well, although it is a little bit late, but I would like to announce that…

The new term has been started since 1st July 2011!

Here is our new team of club officers!

Front row (left to right): Kah Moey (President), Angella Wong (VPM), Easter Lee (VPE)
second row (left to right): Somascanthan (VPPR), James Lee (Treasurer), Jane Chong (Secretary), YC Ng (IPP), Jeffrey Ooi (SAA)

Here we have another photo of club officer.

Let’s take a look on how were the club officers be formally installed as official club officers.

It happened during the Division H Joint Installation Dinner (JID) on 6th August 2011, in Taiping, SSL Traders Hotel.

All club officers were to be upstanding on the stage and pledged for their responsibilities during this new term, just as the photos shown below. They were up on the stage follow the positions of the club officers.

Besides the installation of new club officers, there were award given out for the Toastmaster of the Year 2010 / 2011 for each club, and also award for the Area Toastmaster of the Year 2010 / 2011.

Hereby, I would like to congratulate our club members for getting the awards!

Area Toastmaster of the Year 2010 / 2011 obtained by
our Immediate Past President (IPP) – Ng Yu Ching, ACB, CL

We sincerely thank Yu Ching for guiding and helping the club members along the journey in Toastmasters. He showed his effort in getting the club to be in the strong status!

Toastmaster of the Year 2010/ 2011 of Seberang Jaya Toastmasters Club obtained by Ooi Ing Chyuan, CC

Again, we congratulate Ing Chyuan with his good performance, not only in the club but also in the area, division and district level!

Bravo!!

Lastly, not forgetting to take a group photo with our Area Governor, Kenny Lee, ACS, ALB (on the second left) and District Governor, Sue Chan, DTM (in the middle).

During the JID, the Division Governor, Phang Wai Keong, DTM, gave a speech and he mentioned a quote from Yoda, the Jedi in Star Wars — “Do or do not. There is no try”.

So, let us DO OUR BEST for this new term!!

18th Annual Convention Penang 2011 (Cont.)

Kah Moey — Sat, 21 May 2011 03:27:28 +0000

As mentioned in the previous post about the 18th Annual Convention of District 51, here are the videos recorded on that day.

I’m sorry for delaying, but I still hope that you enjoy watching the video clips and see how we enjoyed the sessions during the convention!

18th Annual Convention Penang 2011

Kah Moey — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:12:29 +0000

It has been a long time I didn’t help out in this website. I’m back again, and I sincerely thank to YC’s help in maintaining the website.

Now, let’s flash back our memories to last weekend. We had our 18th Annual Convention of District 51 for year 2011 in Penang, Bayview Beach Resort!

The convention was held from 29 April ~ 1 May 2011. I have joined Toastmasters Club for almost 2 years, and finally that was the first convention that I managed to attend!

The convention started off with a Welcome Night on 29 April evening with the theme “Arabian Fantasia in Bollywood Dreams”. The guests are encouraged to be in the attire of Arabian and Bollywood. See, these were how we wore during the Welcome Night!

** You may click on the photos to view in larger size **

However, it was not a matter whether you wore according to the attire, we still enjoyed and danced together!

** I have some video clips to be shared out, but they are pending to be uploaded. I will update about the video clips in the next post. **

On the next morning, 30 April, we got the chance to enjoy the speech from the first Vice President Dr. John Lau, as well as the Plenary Session from Past International President, Ted Corcoran. Below is the photo taken during the session of Ted Corcoran. After the session of Ted Corcoran, we had a forum session to discuss on some topics about Toastmasters.

After the session, we had our lunch in the resort. Ops, I missed that group photo session…

After lunch, we were separated into two group and played a few games, just like some teambuilding games, which encouraged the teams to show cooperation and leadership skills. What a waste, we were too into the games and forgot to take some photos of them!

Then, it came to the dinner, the Gala Banquet and Awards Night. All guests were well dressed!

Guess what??

Seberang Jaya Toastmasters Club won the second place in the contest of The Best Club Website!!

Congratulations to our club, and we thank to all supports from all members!! Especially YC, who kept on helping in maintaining the website!! ^^

These were the trophy and a pen (Oh no, I took the photo of the wrong angle of the pen…) for the winner, Seberang Jaya Toastmasters Club!

After an enjoyable day, we continued to the third day, 1 May 2011. It was the Labor Day, a public holiday. People were enjoying their holiday, but we were enjoying the Speech Contests! There were two contests to be held, which were District International Speech Contest and District Table Topics Contest.

Before contest started, all of us went up to the stage to take a last group photo of that convention. Weren’t we look tidy and smart?

Due to the contest rule, we were not allowed to take any photo during the contest. However, we enjoyed the speeches, and I believe we learned a lot from the contestants!

Although the contests have ended, the convention has also ended with a closing ceremony, but the learning journey is never ended.

We share, and we learn together all the time!

Disclaimer: Due to my limited photography skills, some of the photos were taken from the albums of some members in the facebook.

Div H International Speech Contest 1st Runner Up (2011)

YC. Ng — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:21:05 +0000

Div H International Speech & Table Topics Contests 2011 were successfully held on 9th April. And, we have a winner again!

Congratulation to the 2nd Place Winner of Division H International Speech Contest 2011!

Div H International Speech Contest Winners 2011

Div H Table Topics Contest Winners 2011

Congratulations to The Winners of the Area H3 & H4 International Speech Contests 2011!

YC. Ng — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:13:27 +0000

Congratulations to the Winners of Area H4 International Speech Contest 2011!

Both of them will represent our club to Div H contest on 9th April. Well done!

Area H4 International Speech Contest 2011 Champion

Justin Manikam - Area H4 International Speech Contest 2011 Runner up

Congratulations also to all the winners of the Area H3 & H4 International Speech & Table Topics Contests 2011!

Winners of the Area H3 & H4 International Speech Contest 2011

Winners of the Area H3 & H4 Table Topics Contest 2011

As an organizing chair, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all organizing team for their personal commitment to make this joint contests a huge success. Thank you!

Organizing Team of Area H3 & H4 International Speech & Table Topics Contests 201

Area H3 & H4 International Speech & Table Topics Contest

YC. Ng — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 12:10:14 +0000

You are cordially invited to drop by and witness the event of the year! Brought to you by both Area H3 & H4.

A total of 10 best speakers from both of the area will show you what it takes to be a Champion in the joint International Speech & Table Topics Contest on this FRIDAY itself !

[+] Date: 25th March 2011 (Friday)

[+] Time: 7.30 pm – 10.30 pm

[+] Venue: Safira Club, Seberang Jaya

Do not miss this opportunity to watch a line-up of great speakers displaying their skills, and passion in public speaking.

Join us and have fun! Get Motivated, Get Moved & Observe how our fellow members Stretch Their Limits!