The New Beginning

Professionals Toastmaster Club held its last meeting before the holy month of Ramzan on July 7^th, 2013. The usual club meetings will be resumed after Eid. Total 12 people attended the meeting. The main attraction of the meeting was the induction of the new club officers with TM Hanif Sattar as the new President of the club. We all wish him Godspeed!

Professionals Toastmaster was also lucky as its member, TM Zafar Iqbal, wrote an article based on the theme of its meeting of 23^rd June, 2013. It was published in Business Recorder: www.google.com.pk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brecorder.com%2Farticles-a-letters%2F187%2F1203848%2F&ei=5YHeUceWK6nx4QS8toHYDg&usg=AFQjCNFDsVLcT_DraZ9KTvUSkragnd0yvQ&sig2=RUubckzMa-caW2NsMBDhbQ&bvm=bv.48705608,d.bGE. The title of the article is, “Forces of success in businesses.”

The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the lectern was handed over to the Presiding Officer, TM Sameer. Toastmaster of the Evening was TM Hanif and Table Topics Master was TM Parveen. TM Fazal was the General as well as Table Topics Evaluator. The theme of the meeting was, ‘Patience.’

Roles were performed by TM Furquan as the Timer, TM Ferozi as the Ah-Counter and TM Arshad as the Word Master. The word of the day was ‘Prod.’

In Table Topics Session, following topics were assigned to the speaker:

Speaker                           Topics

TM Sameer:  Is our government in a hurry?

TM Fazal: Your impression on rallies.

TM Shahrukh: Hast in journalism.

TM Hanif: Stuck in Traffic Jam.

TM Ferozi: How to be patient in face of terrorism?

TM Furquan: Do you believe in luck?

TM Zohaib: Life is an opportunity to be availed.

TM Qadeer: Life is precious, take care of it.

TM Arshad: People are always late and not on time on special occasions.

TM Shimaila: Favourite Season.

TM Asiya: Do you consider yourself a lucky person?

TM Parveen: Your experience as a Toastmaster.

In the end, TM Sameer conducted the inauguration ceremony and handed the gavel to TM Hanif as the new President, marking the new beginning for the Professionals Toastmasters Club.

“The Man Who Loved Music”

The Professionals Toastmasters Club held its weekly meeting on 30^th June, 2013. The venue of the meeting was Carlton Hotel and the time for assembly was 3:30 pm. Total 12 people attended the meeting, out which four were guests.

 

Meeting was called into order by the Sergeant-at-Arms, TM Shahrukh. The meeting was presided over by TM Rafi. Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Shahrukh, TM Rafi was the Table Topics Master, TM Hanif was the General Evaluator and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Motiwala.

 The roles were performed by TM Hanif as the Ah-Counter, TM Zafar as the Grammarian and TM Haroon performed the roles of the Timer and Word-master (Word of the Day was Atrocity).

Prepared Speech was delivered by TM Zafar, He presented his Project 6 from the Competent Communicator manual. His evaluator was TM Mujeeb and the title of his speech was “The Man Who Loved Music.” His speech was a beautiful narration of a historical event in form of an exchange of dialogues between Baz Bahadur and Tanseen.

Hope & Lassitude

Professional Toastmasters Club held its meeting on 23rd June, 2013. Total 11 people attended the meeting. The Presiding Officer was TM Rafi Hyder and the oath was observed by Sergeant-at-Arms, TM Shahrukh.

Toastmaster of the Evening was TM Hanif, Table Topics Master was TM Fazal, TM Panjwani was the General Evaluator and TM Rafi was the Table Topics Evaluator. The theme of the meeting was, “Hope.”


Roles were performed by TM Danial as the Ah-Counter and Grammarian, TM Hanif as the Word-Master (Word of the day was Lassitude) and TM Adnan Motiwala as the Timer.







Prepared Speeches were delivered by TM Zafar and TM Shahrukh. TM Zafar presented his Project 5 from the Competent Communicator manual and the title of the speech was, ‘as luck would have it.” It was evaluated by TM Hanif Sattar.

The second speaker was TM Shahrukh. He presented his second project from the advance manual, Interpretive Reading. He was evaluated by TM Mujeeb.

The meeting was concluded by a beautiful poem of Faiz Ahmad Faiz by Zafar Iqbal which celebrated the meeting’s them, “Hope.”

                                                
 

Moonlight in Summer

Professionals Toastmasters Club held its meeting on June 16^th, 2013. The attendance was thin. Only five members attended the meeting but they managed to make it a success. 

TM Shahrukh observed the oath as the Sergeant-at-Arms and handed over the lectern to the Presiding Officer, TM Fazal. Toastmaster of the Evening was TM Parveen and Table Topics Master was TM Shahrukh. TM Zafar Iqbal performed the role of General Evaluator as well as Table Topics Evaluator.

Roles were performed by TM Hanif as the Timer and as the Word-Master. Word of the day was “Tumult.”

The time for the Table Topics Session was modified (3-4-5). The theme of the Table Topics session was “Summer.” Following are the assigned topics:-

     a) TM Parveen: When your air condition is not working?

     b)  TM Fazal: Is winter better than summer?

     c)  TM Zafar: Share any memory related with the season of summer.

     d)  TM Hanif: How to kill time and distract your time during power outage.

     e)   TM Shahrukh: Moonlight in summer.

Prepared Speech was delivered by TM Zafar Iqbal. He presented his fourth project from the Competent Communicator manual. He was evaluated by TM Hanif and the title of his speech was, “Defining the Happiness.”

Real Happiness and True Love

                Professionals Toastmasters Club held its meeting on June 2^nd, 2`013. Total eleven people attended the meeting out of which three were guests. The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the Presiding Officer of the meeting was TM Zafar Iqal. 

                Toastmasters of the Evening was TM Parveen, Table Topics Master was TM Aqeel and General Evaluator was TM Hanif. Table Topics session was evaluated by TM Shahrukh.

                Roles were performed by TM Panjwani as the Ah-Counter, TM Shahrukh as the Grammarian, TM Zafar as the Word Master [Word of the Day was ‘ex gratia’], TM Ali Hasan was the Timer and TM Mujeeb was the Vote Counter. 

                Three speeches were delivered in the Prepared Speeches sessions. First speech was delivered by TM Zafar and it was evaluated by TM Hanif from the Competent Communicator manual and the title was ‘Legal Aspects of International Transactions’. 

TM Panjwani repeated the 3^rd project from the Competent Communicator manual which was evaluated by TM Parveen. The title of the speech was ‘Listening and Leadership’.

The third and the last speech delivered, was by TM Shahrukh and was evaluated by TM Mujeeb. He presented the 1^st project from the Advance Manual, ‘Interpretative Reading’. The project name was ‘Story Telling’ and the title of the speech was, ‘Real Happiness and True Love’.

Winner of the Table Topics was TM Ali Hasan and TM Shahrukh was the runner-up. Winner of the Prepared Speech Session was TM Panjwani and TM Zafar Iqbal was the runner-up.