morph into something very special.

On July 28^th, 2011, attendance was very thin but every present member and guest did his best to make this meeting a success. TM Neel started the meeting by observing the Toastmasters pledge. Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Shahrukh and Table Topics Master was TM Fahim. Table Topics were evaluated by TM Fazal.

Dual roles were performed by most of our members. TM Jameel performed the roles of Grammarian and Ah-Counter. TM Fahim performed the roles of Vote Counter and Timer. And TM Fazal was the Word-Master. Word of the day was ‘Hope.’



In the Table Topics Session, TM Fahim played 23rd July highlights of Football match between Malaysia and Singapore. He divided the audience in to two groups. One group supported the Malaysian team and the other cheered for the Singaporean team. The supporters of the Singaporean team were asked to support the policy of encouraging and bringing in the foreign talent. Malaysian supporters were asked to speak on the policy of the Malaysian team of encouraging the local talent. TM Neel, TM Stevie and TM Jameel were the supporters of the Team Singapore. TM Fazal, TM Jaan Ali and TM Shahrukh were cheering for the Team Malaysia.

There were three prepared speeches. First speech was delivered by TM Fazal. He repeated his speech which he presented in the humorous speech contest and won the second place. His speech was evaluated by TM Steve. The title of his speech was, ‘Life is a box of chocolate.’

The second speech of the programme was presented by TM Jaan Ali. He presented his project three from the Competent Communicator manual. The title of his speech was ‘Forgetting Thankfulness.’ His speech was evaluated by TM Fazal.

The last speech was delivered by TM Shahrukh. He repeated his Project three form the advance manual, Humorously Speaking. The title of his speech was ‘something lost and something found.’ He was evaluated by TM Jameel.

TM Jameel was the General Evaluator and he pointed out many areas of improvement which will help us improve the performance of our club. Some points which are worth mentioning are:
a) The proper place of the Toastmaster of the Meeting is among the audience and not at the back of the speaker.
b) Toastmaster of the meeting should first readout the objectives of the speech, mention the time to the timer, announce the name the speaker and then announce the title of the speech.
c) The General Evaluator should evaluate the evaluators.
d) In Table Topics session, always, first invite an experiences Toastmaster so that the rest can learn from him.
e) And the evaluation session should also be timed.

Our guest Stevie Davies also shared his thoughts with us. He said that in communication, words are 7% but the body movements are 72%. He agreed with the use of exaggeration in a humorous speech and that the Toastmasters will help us morph into something very special.


Winner of the table Topics Session was TM Shahrukh and TM Jameel was the runner-up. Winner of the Prepared Speeches was TM Jaan Ali and TM Shahrukh was the runner-up.