life is a prepaid card with a limited validity

Our meeting started with the Toastmasters pledge. After observing the oath, the Sergeant at Arms, TM Haris, handed the lectern to our club President, TM Fahim. Our meeting started at 6:30 p.m. at Beach Luxury Hotel on 21st April, 2011. Out of 19, four were guests who were present at the meeting.

Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Mehmood, Table Topics Master was TM Salman Panjwani and General Evaluator was TM Izhar.

TM Panjwani conducted the session beautifully. He assigned the topics by also showing them the picture on multimedia. The theme for the Table Topics was Leadership.

TM Izhar was assisted by TM Adnan as the Ah-counter, TM Fazal as the Grammarian, TM Haris as the Timer TM Aqeel as the Vote-Counter and TM Fahim as the Word-master. Word of the was 'Tranquility.' Table Topics Evaluator was TM Haneef Sattar.

In Prepared Speeches session, TM Tahir, TM Adnan, TM Khalid and TM Shahrukh presented their speeches. They were evaluated by TM Haris, TM Fahim, TM Haneef and DTM Fazal, respectively.

Some good use of English was seen like when someone said that ‘life is a prepaid card with a limited validity’ or when someone said that ‘Toastmaster is the way of life.’ Props were used beautifully by the prepared speakers in their prepared speeches and it was said and agreed by everyone that ‘having fun is a good way to learn.’

Winner of the Table Topics session was TM Haris and TM Jann Ali was the runner-up. Winner of the prepared speeches was TM Tahir and TM Adnan was the runner-up.

14th April, 2011

We had another successful meeting on 14th April, 2011 at Professional Toastmasters Club. Altogether 13 people attended the meeting. Out of them 11 were members/regular participants and 2 were guests. Meeting was presided by TM Sajjad Zahoor and conducted by TM Tahir. Table topics session was conducted by TM Sajjad. During the meeting three prepared speeches were delivered by TM Adnan, TM Khalid and TM Panjwani. Evaluation session was conducted by TM Iqbal Bakhshi.

A bitter truth needs to be packed in a fine packing.

Our meeting on 7th April, 2011 was held at Beach Luxury hotel on 6:30 p.m. The Sergeant at Arms was TM Haris and meeting was presided by VP-Membership TM Sajjad.

The Table Topic session was conducted by TM Haris, Toastmaster of the meeting was TM Shahrukh, General Evaluator was TM Amanullah and TM Fazalur Khan was the Table Topics Evaluator.

We get to learn four universal truths in the table topics sessions: a) A bitter truth needs to be packed in a fine packing. b) certain things are official and then certain thins are unofficial c) our first loud Ah of the meeting was related to a topic of Katrina Kaif d) we all fear our wives

Prepared speeches were delivered by TM Atif who was evaluated by TM Fahim, TM Adnan who was evaluated by TM Avan, TM Hera who was evaluated by TM Sajjad and TM Aqeel who was evaluated by TM Sameer.

The roles were performed by TM Tahir as the Timer, TM Hera as the Grammarian, TM Adnan as the Ah Counter, TM Sajjad as the Vote Counter and TM Khalid was the Word Master of the day. The word of the day was ‘effective communication.’

Winners were TM Khalid for Table Topics, TM Hera for Prepared Speeches and TM Sameer for Evaluation. TM Avan was the runner-up for Table Topics and Evaluation. TM Atif was the runner-up for the Prepared Speeches.

Persistence is the key.

Our last meeting was on 31st March, 2011 at hotel Beach Luxury. The attendance was little thin as compared to our last meeting but we had enough to assure a smooth sailing. The meeting started at 7:00 p.m. but it was decided by the show of hands to change the meeting time to 6:30 p.m.

For big three, TM Shahrukh was the Toastmaster of the Meeting, TM Bakshi was the Table Topics Master and TM Umer was the General Evaluator.

The roles were performed by TM Farid as the Timer, TM Fahim as the Grammarian, TM Fazalur Khan as the Ah-counter, TM Haris as the Vote-counter and TM Sajjad as the Word Master. The word of the day was ‘Persistence.’

Four prepared speeches were delivered. TM Khalid delivered his Ice-Breaker and he was evaluated by TM Sajjad. TM Aqeel delivered his second project from the Competent Communicator Manual and was evaluate by TM Izhar. TM Farid delivered his speech from the advance manual of Entertaining Speaker, ‘A Dramatic Talk’ and he was evaluated by TM Umer. The last meeting of the evening was the second project from the competent communicator manual by TM Adnan and he was evaluated by TM Fazalur Khan.

Table Topica were evaluated by TM Hanif Sattar.

The winner of the Table Topics Session was TM Haris. TM Khalid wan the award for the best Prepared Speech. And finally, TM Hanif Sattar was the winner of Best Evaluator.

We are scheduled to meet next week on 7th April, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.