how to speak when you have nothing to speak

We had a wonderful time. Our meeting was on May 26th, 2011, at Beach Luxury Hotel. The duties of Sergeant-at-Arms were performed by TM Khalid and presiding officer of the meeting was TM Fahim. TM Shahrukh performed the role of Toastmaster of the Meeting. Table Topics Master was TM Shabbir and General Evaluator was TM Ibad. Table Topics were evaluated by TM Bakshi.

Roles were performed by TM Adnan as the Timer, TM Fahim as the Grammarian and the Vote Counter, TM Neel as the Ah-Counter and TM Aqeel as the Word-Master. The word of the day was ‘Resilience.’

There were ten speakers in the Table Topics session. TM Dr. Avan, DTM Fazal, TM Ibad, TM Khalid, TM Neel, TM Adnan, TM Iqbal and TM Fahim. TM Sajad shred a joke while Mr. Nadeem was our guest speaker. TM Khalid also took an initiative and spoke against the topic of DTM Fazal. Topics included ‘how can we avail opportunities’, ‘laughter is the best medicine’, ‘happy moments’, ‘how to speak when you have nothing to speak’ etc.

There were three speakers who performed project five- ‘Your Body Speaks’ form the manual ‘Competent Communication.’ They were TM Khalid, TM Aqeel and TM Adnan. TM Khalid and TM Aqeel evaluated each other but TM Adnan was evaluated by TM Fahim. DTM Fazalur Rahim presented his project ten-‘Inspire Your Audience.’ He was evaluated by TM Bakshi. TM Dr. Avan presented project two-‘Poetry Interpretation’ from the advance manual ‘Interpretative Reading.’

The titles of the speeches included ‘setting for goals’ by TM Aqeel, ‘leadership’ by TM Khalid, ‘if’ by TM Dr. Avan, ‘your future is in your hands’ by DTM Fazalur Rahim and ‘think different’ by TM Adnan.


Winner of the Table Topics was TM Dr. Avan. TM Bakshi was the runner-up. Winner for prepared speeches was TM Khalid. Runner-up was DTM Fazalur Rahim.