Sunday, June 19, 2011

A pleasant surprise

We had a beautiful meeting on June 16th, 2011 at Beach Luxury Hotel. The Toastmaster of the Meeting was Madam TM Dr. Avan, Table Topics Master was Madam TM Neel, General Evaluator was TM Shahrukh and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Khalid. The theme of our meeting was ‘Lady Luck.’ We had a wonderful guest with us from the Express Toastmaster Club, TM Ali Raza Abidi.


TM Fahim is visiting various Toastmasters clubs of Singapore and keeping us updated. Here are some pictures of his experience with Lion City Toastmasters.


Roles were peformed by TM Shahrukh as the Grammarian, TM Adnan as the Ah-Counter, TM Junaid as the Word-Master and TM Tahir performed dual roles of the Timer and the Vote-Counter. Word of the day was ‘Quash.’


In the prepared speeches session, four speeches were delivered. First speech was delivered by TM Shabana. She presented her ‘Ice Breaker’ from the manual: Competent Communicator. She was evaluated by TM Ali Raza Abidi.


TM Mehmood presented project six: Vocal Variety from the manual: Competent Communicator. He was evaluated by TM Junaid. The title of his speech was ‘Traffic Jam.’

TM Aqeel presented project seven: Research Your Topic from the manual: Competent Communicator. The title of his speech was ‘Cyclone.’ He was evaluated by TM Adnan.

TM Jaan Ali presented his project two: Organise Your Speech from the manual: Competent Communicator. He is visually impaired but we were all agog by his performance. The Title of his speech was ‘How can I?’ and it was evaluated by Madam TM Dr. Avan.

Our winner for the Table Topics session was our guest TM Ali Raza Abidi. TM Shahrukh was the runner-up. Our winner for the Prepared Speeches session was TM Jaan Ali and TM Mehmood was the runner-up. TM Khalid was declared winner for most frequently using the word of the day.


We were all surprised when TM Aqeel presented our guest TM Ali Raze and our members TM Khalid, TM Mehmood and TM Jaan Ali with gifts. Every gift had a wonderful quotation which wills left the meeting that day but will forever remain with us.

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Professional Toastmasters Club is part of the global toastmasters club family. There are over 10,000 toastmasters clubs operating worldwide. Professional Toastmasters Club is chartered with Toastmasters International, a non-profit organisation dedicated to making effective communication a worldwide reality. There are four Toastmasters clubs currently operating in Karachi. These clubs following the same training format developed by Toastmasters International and is a time tested method to improve communication skills. Once an individual becomes member of a club, he/she is given same training opportunity and benefits irrespective of the professional or personal background. Meeting Programme: The club meetings every sunday from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm at Carlton Hotel. The programme is comprised of three segments: table topics; prepared speeches; and evaluations.