Weekly meeting, July 22th, 2010

We had an interesting evening yesterday during Professional Toastmasters Club Meeting. Despite thin attendance, all the attendees enjoyed themselves. The meeting was presided by TM Fahim and was conducted by TM Iqbal Bakhshi. Table Topics session was conducted by TM Shahrukh.

TM Sajjad Zahoor gave presentation from better club series and TM Shahrukh evaluated the presentation.

Evaluation session was conducted by TM Fahim and table topics speeches were evaluated by TM Hassnain. Interestingly there was a tie among all the table topics speakers.

Meeting Update July 08, 2010

July 07, 2010 has become a pivotal day in the history of Professionals' Toastmasters Club, as the club has successfully organized "Communication Skills Development" Workshop in the Institute of Psychology (Affiliated with Karachi University). I really appreciate the efforts of our Past President (Mr. Sajjad Zahoor) our Current President (Mr. Fahim-uz-Zaman) and all the other seven (07) toastmasters who devoted their time before the the workshop for preparation and on the day of workshop to deliver excellent speeches in front of external audience.

Moreover on July 08, the club's weekly meeting was organized at Conventional Location (Beach Luxury Hotel), but since most of the toastmasters were present in last day's Workshop and the weather forecast of the city was not good either so attendance was low and only five (05) people attended the meeting. Despite of low attendance, Toastmaster Master of the Evening (TM Hussnain Yaser) and Table Topics Master (TM Sajjad Zahoor) have put up a great show. As all the participants have been given the speaking opportunity twice to express their ideas and thoughts in Table Topic Session. Toastmaster Sajjad Zahoor gave some serious and some very humorous topics to the toastmasters. The second table topics session was purely based on humorous speeches which really made the meeting more lively and interactive.

Toastmaster Maneckji presented his 10th Speech of the Basic communication manual and has joined the Circle of Competent Communicators. He has become the fifth toastmaster who started their journey with PTMC and achieved the Competent Communicator Award. Congratulations!! to Toastmaster Maneckji.

Toastmaster Nazir Vaid was the General Evaluator as well as Table topics Evaluator, who offered good evaluations to all the speakers along with highlighting some areas of improvement. I am sure that toastmasters will work on his suggestion to improve their communication skills.

Meeting Update, July 1st, 2010

We had yet another interesting session of the Professional Toastmasters Club meeting. Altogether 12 people attended the meeting. The meeting was conducted by TM Hanif Sattar and was presided over by TM Sajjad Zahoor. Table topics session was conducted by Maneckji.

Prepared speeches were delivered by TM Chohan, TM Umer and TM Maneckhi. TM Chohan delivered speech on body language from Better Speaker Series.

TM Umer delivered speech on Organizing Your Speech from Better Speaker Series.

TM Manecjki delivered speech as part of the project 9 from basic manual.


Evaluation session was conducted by TM Fahim and table topics were evaluated by TM Umer. TM Harris was voted as the best table topics speaker.

During the meeting installation ceremony for the incoming executive committee also took place. Following is the list of members of new committee for the next 12 months:

TM Sajjad Zahoor: Immediate Past President & VP (Membership)
TM Fahim uz Zaman: President
TM Umer Ahmad: VP (Education)
TM Iqbal Bakhshi: VP (Public Relations)
TM Mahmood: Secretary
TM Avan B Aga: Treasurer
TM Harris Sajjad: Sergent at Arms

We had yet another eventful evening during Professional Toastmasters Club meeting on Thursday June 24th. The meeting was conducted by TM Izhar and was presided over by TM Sajjad Zahoor. Table topics session was conducted by TM Hanif Sattar with a little bit of an interesting twist!

TM Junaid delivered his ice-breaker.

He was evaluated by TM Chang.

TM Fahim delivered speech on 'Concluding Your Speech' from 'Better Speaker Series'



TM Chang and TM Catherina delivered Farewell speeches




TM Chang was voted as the best table topics speaker. Nominations for next term's executive committee were also announced during the meeting.

Weekly meeting update, June 10th, 2010

We had another interesting session of professional toastmasters club meeting today. Altogether 16 people attended the meeting. Out of them 15 were the members and 1 was a guest. The meeting was presided by TM Sajjad Zahoor and was conducted by TM Mahmood. Table topics session was conducted by TM Chang.

Altogether four prepared speeches were delivered during the meeting.

TM Maneckji delivered prepared speech as part of the project 8, get comfortable with visual aids.

His speech was evaluated by TM Umer.

TM Ava delivered speech as part of the project 1 from the advanced manual, story telling.


Her speech was evaluated by TM Iqbal Bakhshi.

TM Fahim delivered speech from the project 10 of the basic manual, inspire your audience.



His speech was evaluated by TM Chohan.

TM Umer delivered speech as part of the project 4 from the advanced manual, speeches by management.



His speech was evaluated by TM Sajjad Zahoor.

Evaluation session was conducted by TM Umer and table topics were evaluated by Iqbal Bakhshi.

TM Iqbal Bakhshi was voted as the best table topics speaker and prepared speech by TM Avan was voted as the best.

Meeting Update, June 3rd, 2010

We had a great meeting yesterday. Eleven people attended. There were three speeches by Yasir, Maneckjee and Shahrukh. Table topics were conducted by Dr. Avan. You should have seen me wearing a Santa Clause hat and Shahrukh a witch's hat. Alas TM Fahim was not present so you won't be able to see some real funny pictures. Table topics were evaluated by Izhar and evaluation session was led by Hanif Sattar.

Weekly meeting held on May 27th, 2010

We had an entertaining and informative session of Professional Club during the weekly meeting. Altogether 16 people attended the meeting and out of them 14 were the members and there were 2 guests. The meeting was conducted and presided over by TM Sajjad Zahoor. Table topics session was conducted by TM Umer Ahmed.

Altogether four prepared speeches were delivered during the session. TM Chang delivered speech as part of Project 7 from basic manual, 'research your topic'.

His speech was evaluated by TM Hanif Sattar.

TM Shahrukh delivered the speech as part of project 10 of basic manual, 'inspire your audience'.

His speech was evaluated by TM Umer Ahmed.

TM Iqbal Bakhshi delivered speech from advanced manual 'Specialty Speeches', project 3 'sell your product'.


His speech was evaluated by TM Hanif Sattar.


TM Harris delivered speech as part of project 3, from basic manual.

His speech was evaluated by TM Chohan.

The evaluation session was conducted by TM Mahmood in the capacity of General Evaluator. Table topics session was evaluated by TM Hanif Sattar.

TM Chohan was voted as the best table topics speaker and prepared speech by TM Harris was voted as the best.