Humorous Speech Contest

On May 12^th, 2011, Professional Toastmasters Club organised a humorous speech contest. The venue was Beach Luxury hotel and time was 6:00 p.m.

The Contest Master was TM Fahim and Toastmasters pledge was observed by TM Izhar. Contest Judges included TM Iqbal Saeed, TM Raffiuddin Hayder, TM Iqbal Bakshi and TM Zia PAracha. TM Nazir Vaid was the Chief Judge. TM Mehmood performed the role of Timer.

Speakers were informed of the ground rules and it included time limit of five to seven minutes, considering the content, speech development, effectiveness, delivery style, body language etc.

There was a funny sketch presented by TM Dr.Avan and TM Maneckji after the first speaker of the contest.

Following is the list of names of speakers and their speech titles:

a) TM Hera: Why do I lie? I am running out of reasons!

b) TM Adnan: Fear of wife.

c) TM Sajjad: Life sentence.

d) TM Suleman: make life fun

e) TM Shahrukh: the value of x and the love of y.

f) TM Khalid: Toastmaster Experience.

g) TM Shabeer: Should we act on consultant advices.

h) TM Fazal: Life is a box of chocolates.

Winner of the contest was TM Sajjad. TM Fazal was the first Runner-up and TM Khalid was the second Runner-up. The guests who attended the contest shred their opinion and presented an idea of holding such contests on regular bases.

simplest form of charity is smile

We had our last meeting on 5th May, 2011. The venue for our meeting was Beach Luxury hotel. Total 19 people attended the meeting out which three were guests. The time to start our meeting was 6:30 p.m.

The meeting was presided over by our President, TM Fahim. He said the best and simplest form of charity is smile. It is a valuable asset for a speaker and one out of 19 is bound to respond you with a smile in return.

Toastmaster of the meeting was TM Panjwani and Table Topics Master was TM Mansoor. General Evaluator was TM Sajjad and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Fahim.

Roles were performed by TM Mehmood as the Timer and the Vote counter, TM Khalid was the Gramarrian and TM Adnan was the Ah-counter. TM Dr. Avan was the Word-master and the word of the day was “destiny.”

TM Mansoor conducted the Table Topics session and asked everyone to answer by completing the line, “if I was…” Speakers enjoyed and responded well to the topics. TM Izhar explained us how to break a bad news to his father, TM Khalid had to choose between a million dollars and a beautiful girl, TM Muneer was asked to speak on, “If I was the boss”, and TM Ibad spoke on, “if a girl flirts with me.” TM Khalid even improved his topic and made it difficult for himself by saying that what if he has to choose between Angelina Jolie and million dollars.

In Prepared Speeches session, TM Dr. Avan presented her Project three from the advance manual Interpretive Reading and it was evaluated by TM Farid. The book chosen by her was “Pride and the Prejudice.” TM Shabeer presented his Ice Breaker from the manual Competent Communicator and it was evaluated by TM Izhar. He spoke about C.F.C. and told us that success comes from good judgment and good judgment comes from experience but experience comes from bad judgment. Third speech was presented by Haris and his project six was evaluated by TM Shahrukh. He spoke about mother. TM Aqeel presented his project four from the Competent Communicator manual. He spoke about success and the speech was evaluated by TM Fahim. Last speech of the day was delivered by TM Shahrukh and it was project three from the advance manual Specialty Speeches. It was evaluated by TM Farid. The occasion chosen by him was fund-raise and he spoke about Brailler.

Table Topics were evaluated by TM Fahim and TM Shames Tabreez was invited to speak for our Club.

Winner for the Table Topics session was TM Izhar and TM Khalid was the runner-up. Winner for the Prepared Speeches was TM Haris and TM Shabeer was the runner-up.

The boss's jokes are always funny

We had a wonderful meeting on April 28th, 2011. Our venue was Beach Luxury hotel and time of our meeting was 6:30 p.m. Our presiding officer of the meeting was TM Fahim and TM Haris was the Sergeant-at-Arms.

Toastmaster of the Evening was TM Khalid, Table Topica Master was TM Atif and TM Dr. Avan was the General evaluator. TM Bakshi was the Table Topics Evaluator.

The roles included TM Dr. Avan as the Timer, TM Tahir as the Grammarian, the Ah-counter and the Vote-Counter was TM Farid and Word-master was TM Sajjad. The word of the day was ‘diligent.’

Table topics session was amazing. Interesting quotes were presented with a little bit of their background. TM Hera was suppose to choose between hell and heaven for the sake of friendship, TM Farooq spoke about leader and confidence, TM Fahim explained that guests would smell after 3 days, TM Bakshi told us to forget our bad memories if we want to live a happy life, TM Nadeem Chandna made it clear that boss's jokes are always funny, TM Dr. Avan informed us about the soar throat, TM Haris made us realised that if man is not perfect then why practise and our last speaker was TM Farid who informed us that life is not at the other end of the cigarette but it is on T.V.

In middle of the sessions, videos of the Toasmasters champions were played for us to learn and improve our speaking. The title of our favourite speech was, ‘the sink full of green tomatoes.’

Prepared speeches were delivered by TM Mansoor (Ice-Breaker) who was evaluated by TM Bajshi, TM Aqeel (Project three from Competent Communicator Manual) who was evaluated by TM HAris, TM Jaan Ali (Ice-Breaker) who was evaluated by TM Fahim and TM Shahrukh (Project two from Specialty speeches) who was evaluated by TM Farid.

TM Nadeem Chandna was the winner and TM Haris was the runner-up for the Table Topics session. TM Shahrukh was the winner and TM Mansoor was the runner-up for the prepared speeches session. TM Bakshi was the winner and TM Farid was the runner-up for the best Evaluator.

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.