23rd October 2006
Toastmasters, founded in 1932 celebrated its 82nd anniversary on the 22 October 2006. To mark this joyous occasion, LionCity Toastmasters Club organized a barbeque at our ever-humorous Club Treasurer, Guek Eng’s condominium.
The perfect and cordial host, Guek Eng treated the club members to an array of sumptuous cuisine. Our Club President, Kheng Chuan, also pitched in generously with his selection of food snippets. His beef hotdogs had won him some nods of approval!
Some of the former club members also joined in the barbeque fun!! They included Kiat Bee, Daryll and their adorable baby girl. Chern Han, alongside Sanjeev and his family who took time off, made an appearance as well! Chee Kheong, the romance guru of the club attended the gathering with his wife – the subject of his many speeches. And our regular guests - Joey , SK and their bundle of joy, bonded further with the other club members at the barbeque.
A special segment of the night included Kiat Bee, renowned among club members as a marvellous story-teller, entertained everyone with her ghost stories! Just in time for some harmless, pre-halloween scare!
It was a wonderful night celebrating TOASTMASTER INTERNATIONAL DAY with a Barbeque ~ LionCity Toastmasters Club Style!
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* Photographs contributed by Vinod Menon
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With June Tan taking on the role as the ToastMaster of The Evening , Guek Eng started the session rolling with introducing the word “Deprecate”.
The club also had the privilege of 6 guests attending the meeting. 3 of whom hailed from AIA-Changi Toastmasters & 1 from SIA Toastmasters ; namely, AIA Changi Club President, Mr. James Keok , Ms Delia Wong ,Mr. Fernando Young and SIA's Shrida. Both Mr. Shrida and Ms Delia Wong did their prepared speeches from the Advanced Project Manual.
It was a welcoming sight to see Joey, a guest at a previous Toastmasters meeting, attended the night’s event alongside with her husband, Mr. S.K Ong – who was an extremely good sport and participated actively throughout the night’s meeting.
An Invitation!
There will be a BBQ cum Storytelling Night instead of our conventional Chapter meeting on the 23 Oct 2006 – celebrating the international event “TOASTMASTERS DAY”. It’s time to barbecue, binge and bond. Come with a ghost story, urban myth, a joke and a riddle!!
Interested parties, please contact Linn Loh @ likkielinnie@gmail.com
Or Goh Kheng Chuan @ kheng@singnet.com.sg
Spot the Word/ Phase
~ noted by Diana Low @ the meeting
“for the responsibilities that I am shouldering”
“part and parcel of your life as an entrepreneur”
“why cry over spilled milk?”
“lost the zest for life”
“I am nothing but a nervous, fragmented wreck”
“Why do we get sick? So that we can heal. Why do we heal? So that we can find”
“The pen is mightier than the sword. The pen can cause tens, hundreds and thousands of men to raise their swords.”
“to being liberation in the darkest time”
“the power to abuse, the power to use and the power to put to good use”
“beaming with hope”
“if you can write a book, you can rewrite your future”
“if you think you can achieve, you can. If you think you can’t, you are equally right too”
“your health or your wealth”
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
25th September Meeting - Laughing the Monday Blues Away...
25th September 2006
Augustine, the Sergent-At-Arms of the evening (SAA) made a novel suggestion of using the word “oxymoron”, throughout the evening’s Toastmaster’s session. The evening saw some creative usage of the word in some instances. A clever ploy!
The Table Topics session revolved round the theme "Imagination". Some Topics included hypothetical questions such as "If you were to have a tattoo, where would you have and why", "If you were to create a SILLY public holiday, what would it be and why". The ingenious session saw some creative stories conjured by the members, tickling the audiences’ funny bones. Our comical Club President won the round with his funny pick-up line.
One of the night’s highlights was Chee Kheong's speech who delivered the speech in an impromptu manner. He titled his speech "A Toast to Goh Kheng Chuan".
He engaged the audience’s attention by requesting each individual to describe the Club’s President, Goh Kheng Chuan in one word.
Chee Kheong cleverly summarized the words and turned them into an acronym which was both entertaining and funny. Truly a good method to laugh the Monday blues away!
Augustine, the Sergent-At-Arms of the evening (SAA) made a novel suggestion of using the word “oxymoron”, throughout the evening’s Toastmaster’s session. The evening saw some creative usage of the word in some instances. A clever ploy!
The Table Topics session revolved round the theme "Imagination". Some Topics included hypothetical questions such as "If you were to have a tattoo, where would you have and why", "If you were to create a SILLY public holiday, what would it be and why". The ingenious session saw some creative stories conjured by the members, tickling the audiences’ funny bones. Our comical Club President won the round with his funny pick-up line.
One of the night’s highlights was Chee Kheong's speech who delivered the speech in an impromptu manner. He titled his speech "A Toast to Goh Kheng Chuan".
He engaged the audience’s attention by requesting each individual to describe the Club’s President, Goh Kheng Chuan in one word.
Chee Kheong cleverly summarized the words and turned them into an acronym which was both entertaining and funny. Truly a good method to laugh the Monday blues away!
~ Thanks to Linn Loh for the contribution
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