Earth Day

The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 21st April, 2013. Total 13 people attended the meeting.

                                                

Oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the Presiding officer was TM Hanif who shared the information regarding the Earth Day which is annually celebrated on 22nd April. Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Fazal who shared the story of a seagull. The theme of the meeting was “Change.” Table Topics Master was TM Panjwani. General Evaluator was TM Parveen. TM Hanif was the Table Topics Evaluator.

Our fellow Toastmaster, TM Iqbal Saeed paid a visit to a Toastmaster club in Guangzhou. We wish him all the best!

    

Following topics were assigned during the Table Topics Session:

a) TM Khalid: Law and Order Situation in Pakistan.

b) TM Liaquat: Load-shedding

c) TM Parveen: Inflation

d) TM Mansoor: Corruption

e) Rehan (Guest): Good Governance


f) TM Hammad: Education

g) TM Hanif: How to save rupee from devaluation as a finance minister.

h) TM Aqeel: the effects of Interest rates on the businesses

i) Amir(Guest): Foreign Direct Investment

j) TM Anwar: Gas Load-shedding


k) TM Fazal: No Go Areas


l) TM Shahrukh: Rules and Regulation.

Two speeches were delivered during the prepared speeches session. TM Mansoor presented his second project from the Competent Communicator manual and he was evaluated by TM Hanif. The title of his speech was Change. The second speech was the Ice Breaker delivered by TM Anwar and he was evaluated by TM Liaquat.



Educational presentation was delivered by TM Shahrukh from the “Successful Club Series.“ The title of the presentation was ”KEEPING THE Commitment.”

Winner of the Table Topics session was TM Mansoor while TM Anwar was the winner of the Prepared Speeches session.

Weekly Meeting Review

        The joint meeting of the Professional Toastmasters Club and the Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 14th April, 2013. Total 9 people attended the meeting. The theme of the meeting was the “Leadership.”

        The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and then the lectern was handed over to the Presiding officer, TM Fazal. The Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Panjwani. Table Topic Master was TM Rafi. The roles of the General Evaluator and was performed by TM Shahrukh, who was also the Table Topics Master.

        Roles were performed by TM Hammad as the Word-Master (Word of the day was 'Recieved'), TM Roshan as the Ah-Counter, TM Parveen as the Timer, TM Shahrukh as the Grammarian and the Vote-Counter.

        

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

a)       TM Roshan Zamir: The most beautiful city.

b)       TM Panjwani: Ingredients for a good mode of communication.

c)       TM Shahrukh: Non political presentation on the power of vote.

d)       TM Hammad: Where you see yourself in 10 years.

e)       TM Parveen: Results are pouring in.

f)        Anwar (guest): Importance of Games in Character building.

g)       Rizwan (guest): Indoor Games.

h)       TM Fazal: Mind sharpening games.

        In the Prepared Speeches session, two speeches were delivered. TM Fazal presented Project 10 from the Competent Communication manual. The title of the speech was “you can’t predict your future.” It was evaluated by TM Shahrukh.

        The second speech was presented by TM Parveen from the manual, Humorously Speaking, from the Advanced Communication Series. She presented her first project and was evaluated by TM Rafi.

        TM Fazal was declared winner of the Prepared Speeches session as well as the Table Topics session. TM Shahrukh was second in the Table Topics Session while TM Parveen came second in the Prepared Speeches session.  

Communication Skills

The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on April 7th, 2013. The venue of the meeting was the Carlton Hotel. Total 14 people attended the meeting out which three were guests.

Oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by the President of the Professional Toastmasters, TM Adnan. TM Mujeeb was the Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Liaquat was the Table Topics Master and TM Zafar was the General Evaluator.

Roles were performed by TM Shahrukh as the Word Master (Word of the day was Albeit); TM Adnan as the Ah-Counter; TM Panjwani as the Timer; TM Perveen as the Grammarian and TM Adnan as the Vote Counter.

The theme of the Table Topics was the “Problems of Pakistan”:



a) TM Haider—How to control the economic situation.

b) TM Zafar—How to improve the condition of the labour.

c) TM Shahrukh—How to improve the Parliament legislation.

d) Roshan Zameer (guest)—Independence of Judiciary.

e) Ashraf (guest)—Heavy debt of Pakistan.

f) TM Adnan Motiwala—How to overcome the law and order situation.

g) TM Adnan—Issue of Governance.

h) TM Parveen—How to improve the education system of Pakistan.

i) TM Panjwani—Eradication of Corruption in Pakistan.

j) Rizwan (guest)—How to stop the devaluation of the Pakistani Rupee.

k) TM Fazal—What measures to be taken for the growth of the Agriculture Sector.

l) TM Mujeeb—Population Explosion

Two prepared speeches were delivered in the second session. The first speech was delivered by TM Hammad who was evaluated by TM Shahrukh. He repeated his Ice Breaker form the Competent Communicator manual. TM Panjewani delivered his project 6 from the Competent Communicator manual and he was evaluated by TM Fazal. The title of his speech was “Communication Skills.”

The winner of the Table Topics session was TM Rafi. And winner of the Prepared Speech session was TM Hammad.

Because we live for the first time!

One of the members rightly said during his speech that, “We do everything in life for the first time. It can even be your first speech. Because we also live for the first time!”

             
The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 31st March, 2013. Total 10 people attended the meeting, out of which one was a guest.

The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by TM Zafar. The Toastmaster of the Evening was TM Mansoor and TM Sattar was the Table Topics Master. In the Evaluation session, TM Khalid was the General Evaluator and TM Shahrukh was the Table Topics Evaluator.

The Roles were performed by Amir (guest) as the Ah-Counter; TM Hammad as the Word-Master (Word of the day was Information); TM Shahrukh as the Timer and TM Zafar as the Grammarian.

The theme for the Table Topics was "Education." Following speakers were assigned the topics:

a)    TM Khalid: Why our institutions are not safe?
b)    TM Zafar: Women Education: liberal and conservative views.[he shared with us the example of the great Meera Bai.]
c)    TM Mujeeb: Medium of our education is still undecided.
d)    TM Hammad: Teacher's Behaviour.
e)    TM Mansoor: Choice between Cambridge and Metric system
f)    TM Shahrukh: Role of a Degree
g)    Amir (guest): What will you do differently if you are asked again to repeat your 8th grade.
h)    TM Aqeel: What will you do with one million dollars.

Two Prepared speeches were delivered. TM Zafar presented his first project, the Ice Breaker,  from the Competent Communicator manual. He was evaluated by TM Sattar. TM Adnan Motiwala also presented his Ice Breaker and he was evaluated by TM Mujeeb.

Formal tone must be used

While presenting his Grammarian report, TM Imran pointed out that the informal words (like, so that etc) should always be avoided and formal tone must be used while quoting someone.

The combined meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 24^th March, 2013. Total nine members attended the meetign. Excluding TM Sohail who joined us later in the evening.

The oath was observed by TM Shahrukh and the meeting was presided over by TM Zafar Iqbal. The Big-3 included TM Sattar as the Toastmaster of the Evening, TM Daniyal as the Table Topics Master and TM Liaquat as the General Evaluator. Table Topics Evaluator was TM Zafar Iqbal.

Roles were performed by TM Jaan as the Ah-Counter, TM Panjwani as the Word-master (word of the Day was “Creative”), TM Imran as the Grammarian and TM Aqeel as the Timer.

The Table Topics Master created an imaginary water project company and assigned every speaker a designation in that company. The catch, however, was that every member had to explain himself before and after the training.

Speaker                                Designation

TM Zafar Iqbal                   HR Manager

TM Jaan                             IT Guy

TM Sattar                           CEO

TM Shahrukh                      Jealous Colleague/ Production Manager

TM Aqeel                           Chairman of the Board

TM Imran                           Engineer

Tm  Panjwani                      Finance Manager

TM Liaquat                         Warehouse Incharge

TM Daniyal                         Marketing Manager

TM Sohail                           Manager MIS

Prepared Speech was presented by TM Shahrukh which was evaluated by TM Panjwani. Project eight of the Competent Communicator manual was repeated and the title of the speech was “The Power of the Vote.”

A brilliant book review session was conducted by our learned member, TM Zafar Iqbal. The reviewed book was The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak.

Media is making a monkey out of the masses

TM Fahim rightly said that the media is making a monkey out of the masses by feeding them junk when he was asked to speak during the Table Topics sessions.

Combines meeting of Professional Toastmasters Club (PTC) and Clifton Toastmasters Club (CTC) was held on 17^th March, 2012 at the Carlton Hotel. Total twelve members attended the meeting.

Toastmaster’s pledge was observed by TM Shahrukh who was also the Toastmaster of the Meeting. TM Zafar Iqbal was the Presiding Officer. TM Jaan Ali was the Table Topics Master, TM Sajjad was the General Evaluaor and TM Fahim was the Table Topics Evaluator.  

Roles were performed by TM Sattar as the Ah-Counter and Vote counter, TM Naveed as the Word-Master (word of the day was bleak), TM Fazal as the Grammarian and TM Fahim as the Timer.

The theme of the Table Topics session was, the “Media and the Mass Communication.”

   

      SPEAKERS               TOPICS

a)      TM Mujeeb:   Globalisation and Mass Communication

b)      TM Naveed:   Role of Media in Cultural Imperialism

c)       TM Fazal:     Democracy and Media

d)      TM Fahim:     Effects of Media on Masses

e)      TM Adnan Motiwala:    Is the role of media same in dictatorship as in democracy?

f)       TM Sajjad:     The role of PEMRA nowadays.

g)      TM Sattar:     Media’s Rules and Ethics

h)      TM Zfar Iqbal:            Media and Money

i)        TM Shahrukh:           What is the importance of a case being highlighted in media

TM Dniyal presented a prepared speech from the fourth project of the Competent Communication manual. The topic of the speech was “The brain is our universe.” The evaluator of the speech was TM Hanif Sattar.

Combines Meeting of 10th March, 2013

The combined meeting of Professionals Toastmasters Club and Clifton Toastmasters Club was held on 10^th March, 2013. The venue of the meeting was Carlton Hotel. Total 15 members participated.

The oath ceremony was observed by our young member, TM Taimur, who handed the lectern to the Presiding officer, TM Adnan. Toastmaster of the Meeting was TM Shahrukh, Table Topics Master was TM Adnan, General Evaluator was TM Hanif Sattar and Table Topics Evaluator was TM Khalid.

TM Chandna was the Time. Word-master and Grammarian was TM Liaquat Ali and word of the day was “Conviction”. TM Bakshi was the Vote Counter and the Ah-Counter.

Table topics session was dedicated to the Women’s Day (8^th, March). Prepared speeches were presented by TM Daniyal and TM Sajjad who were evaluated by TM Bakshi and TM Rafi Haider, respectively. A special session was also organized where TM Zafar Iqbal presented the audience with the insight of the fiction novels with specific reference to the major themes of the four major novels. TM Daniyal was the winner of the Prepared Speeches Session.

For Next Meeting:

Toastmasters of the Meeting: TM Shahrukh

Table Topic Master: TM Khalid

Table Topics Evaluator: TM Hanif Sattar

General Evaluator: TM Sajjad

Prepared Speeches: TM Daniyal and TM Taimur