Lion City Toastmasters Club

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Speech Marathon 15 Dec + Christmas Party

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Please note the important dates in December:

12 Dec 2008, Friday -- Christmas Party!!!

15 Dec 2008, Monday -- Speech Marathon
More details
below...
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Christmas Party!!! (by Invitation only, no guests, thank you)

Date: 12 Dec 2008, Friday

Time: 7pm - 10 pm

Venue:Orion Condo, 14th floor6C Orange Grange Road (behind Orchard Hotel)

For those driving, parking is free. Just tell the security guard that you are there for the Lion City Toastmasters Club party on 14th Floor.

Members: FREE

Guests/Significant Others/ Spouses: $5 per pax

IMPORTANT: Please bring along a $10 gift for gift exchange. Make it desirable for snatching...:) Witness a new twist to gift exchange

Attire: Casual

Programme:
7:00 Members and Guests Arrive
7:30 TME calls meeting to order Introduction FOOD FOOD FOOD
8:00 Table Topics
8:30 Games
9:30 Gift Exchange
10:00 Home Sweet Home

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Speech Marathon

Date : 15 Dec 2008, Monday
Venue: Geek Terminal
Time: 7pm to 10pm

Speech Marathon Meeting is not our usual chapter meeting. It means we will have NO Table Topics and instead, having 6 to 8 Prepared Speeches for the night.

If you are visiting, you'll get DOUBLE the usual speeches for a normal chapter meeting - at the same price!!!

Lion City Toastmasters Club - Where Speech Excellence Begins...

Geek Terminal55 Market Street #01-01

We meet on every 2nd and 4th Monday of the month

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Workshop Title: "The Essentials of Public Speaking - Developing Speech Ideas"

Date: 24 November 2008, Monday

Time: 7.30pm to 10pm (Registration Starts at 7pm)

Venue: The Geek Terminal, 55 Market Street #01-01

Fee: $30 for non-toastmasters guests, $20 for all other toastmasters. Lion City Toastmasters Club members attend for FREE!

Hurry! Register Now! Limited to 30 seats ONLY!!!
Call Josephine at @97868960 or email lioncitytoastmasters@yahoo.com.sg

Synopsis
Ever found yourself not knowing what to do when you are faced with the prospect of giving a speech? You may be a Toastmaster, but even with the specifications provided in the communications manual, you have no idea how to make it work.
Often enough, even if you know what the requirements are, you are at a loss as to how to decide on a subject topic. Whoever you are, and whatever your quest in public speaking may be, all your concerns will be addressed in this first-ever seminar on the Toastmasters concept of speech education.

Objectives of the Workshop
To highlight the essential skills in public speaking
To help participants maximize on their Toastmasters educational process
To hone the learning process through a review of model speeches

Who Should Attend?
Anyone interested in mastering the essentials of public speaking Toastmasters hoping to give meaningful and insightful speeches
Senior Toastmasters who have to mentor younger members on speaking skills

The Trainer’s Profile: Ng Seng Chuan ATM-Silver
The trainer is Ng Seng Chuan, sole proprietor of Rhetoric Speech Consultants, a speech training centre specializing in the teaching of phonetics and pronunciation, as well as speech improvement and public speaking.
In addition to being an experienced speaker with 25 years of professional involvement, Seng Chuan holds numerous diplomas in speech training (FLCM, LTCL, ALAM). A member Lion City TMC and a mentor at Tanglin TMC, he holds the rank of ATMG, and won the championship trophy for Impromptu Speech at the District 80 contest in Hong Kong in 2007.

To Think About (if you are still undecided!) Many people (Toastmasters included) aspire to be effective speakers. Not as many know how to get there. This workshop is, as encapsulated in our Lion City Toastmasters Club’s motto, “where speech excellence begins”.

Speech Workshop Postponed to 24 Nov 2008

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Dear Members & Guests,

Since 27 October 2008 has been declared as Deepavali Public Holiday, we will not be having any meeting on that day as the venue, Geek Terminal, is not open on that day as well.

As such, after consultation with the Trainer, Mr. Ng Seng Chuan, we have decided to postpone the speech workshop to 24 November 2008 instead.

Thank you for your understanding.

Yours truly,

Ting Chee Kheong
President
Lion City Toastmasters Club

Speech Workshop

2008-10-03T13:55:00.004+08:00

Workshop Title: "The Essentials of Public Speaking - Developing Speech Ideas"

Date: 24 November 2008, Monday

Time: 7.30pm to 10pm (Registration Starts at 7pm)

Venue: The Geek Terminal, 55 Market Street #01-01

Fee: $30 for non-toastmasters guests, $20 for all other toastmasters. Lion City Toastmasters Club members attend for FREE!

Hurry! Register Now! Limited to 30 seats ONLY!!!

Call Josephine at @97868960 or email lioncitytoastmasters@yahoo.com.sg

Synopsis

Ever found yourself not knowing what to do when you are faced with the prospect of giving a speech? You may be a Toastmaster, but even with the specifications provided in the communications manual, you have no idea how to make it work.

Often enough, even if you know what the requirements are, you are at a loss as to how to decide on a subject topic. Whoever you are, and whatever your quest in public speaking may be, all your concerns will be addressed in this first-ever seminar on the Toastmasters concept of speech education.

Objectives of the Workshop

To highlight the essential skills in public speaking
To help participants maximize on their Toastmasters educational process
To hone the learning process through a review of model speeches

Who Should Attend?

Anyone interested in mastering the essentials of public speaking
Toastmasters hoping to give meaningful and insightful speeches
Senior Toastmasters who have to mentor younger members on speaking skills

The Trainer’s Profile: Ng Seng Chuan ATM-Silver

The trainer is Ng Seng Chuan, sole proprietor of Rhetoric Speech Consultants, a speech training centre specializing in the teaching of phonetics and pronunciation, as well as speech improvement and public speaking.
In addition to being an experienced speaker with 25 years of professional involvement, Seng Chuan holds numerous diplomas in speech training (FLCM, LTCL, ALAM). A member Lion City TMC and a mentor at Tanglin TMC, he holds the rank of ATMG, and won the championship trophy for Impromptu Speech at the District 80 contest in Hong Kong in 2007.

To Think About (if you are still undecided!)

Many people (Toastmasters included) aspire to be effective speakers. Not as many know how to get there. This workshop is, as encapsulated in our Lion City Toastmasters Club’s motto, “where speech excellence begins”.

Humorous and Evaluation Speech Contest - 25 Aug 08

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Club Meeting Schedule 2008/2009

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Lion City Toastmasters Annual General Meeting

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Dear Lion City Toastmasters Members,

Please note that the club's Annual General Meeting will be conducted on the 23rd June 2008 (Monday) at the Pines.

Your attendance is required to vote for the next Executive Committee Term 2008/2009

Thank You.
Lion City Toastmasters Club

Goal Setting - Saving lives and Self-fulfilment

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Saving lives and attaining a sense of fulfillment were the highlights of the night, as demonstrated by two speakers - LionCity Toastmasters Club, new member - Vincent Tan & Guest Speaker, Sim Tze Hong of Walton International Toastmasters Club

Vincent made his debut with his ice breaker speech. His confidence in his first speech was contagious as he held the audience attention in the palm of his hands as he spoke.
Definitely an impactful speaker in the making!

Guest Speaker, Sim, was speaking on " Tai - Ji" and how it can revitalise your organs - appealing to the audience to achieve a balance, healthy lifestyle through practicing "tai-ji". His specialty speech had the audience listen attentively and laughing in stitches through his humor but nonetheless, he was effective in employing sales tactics as required by the speech manual and fulfilling his Advanced Project #3 of "Selling A Product".

Sanjeev, our table topic master for the evening - leveraged on Mother's Day and formulated the table topics segment with the alphabets M.O.T.H.E.R.S.D.A.Y.
- giving the participants free rein to conjure the theme of their table topic, making the normally nerve-wrecking segment a breeze! Thanks Sanjeev

Our valiant guest, Siew Eng, was humorous as she participated spontaneously in the table topic segment, offering her slice of life "tibit"

Yet another achievement by Lion City Toastmasters, Josephine Teo, when she finished two educational segments in one night! Bravo Bravo!

A Successful Communication Workshop!!

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The Communication Workshop 2008 organized by Lion City Toastmasters Club on 29 March 2008 was a raving success!

More than 30 people attended the workshop held at YWCA Fort Canning Lodge, coached by Lion City Toastmasters Club's very own award-winning speaker, Ng Seng Chuan, complemented by our competent emcee, Yeow Chern Chou

Seng Chuan highlighted some common mistakes public speakers make when delivering their speeches and the techniques one can adopt in order to wow the audience.

The workshop was very interactive as the audience engaged in group discussions and exchanged their views on a sample speech made by the coach.

Both Chern Chou's & Seng Chuan's comic timing loosen up the crowd and participants were very active duing the Q&A session. By the end of the workshop, everyone left with the knowledge of delivering better speeches and of course smiles on their faces!

If you are interested in joining Lion City Toastmasters Club,
please contact Ms Josephine Teo at lioncitytoastmasters@yahoo.com.sg

or check out our homepage at
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~august/lioncity.html

Dues are... due!

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Sebastian fantasising about the ability to fly...

Christine extolling the virtues of a mother's love

Ronnie wrapping up for the guests. 3 for 3 - good job guys!

Josephine on her ultimate lap

William communicating non-verbally

It was pouring, it was the week after the international speech competition - and what a climax that was, and it was the week club subscription fees were due. Perhaps that explains the lacklustre turnout. Hopefully after a 3 week hiatus and the commencement of a new subscription term, we will resume from the high of the recently concluded competition.

Don't forget to pay Hwee Min your club dues!

Guests Sebastian, Ronnie and Christine gamely obliged by participating in Table Topics; everyone had a shot at it, and Josephine was dubbed Best Table Topics Speaker for the night.

William shared the importance of non-verbal communication with everybody during his prepared, invoking participation from the audience as he did so, while Josephine wrapped up her final basic manual speech project by sharing her experiences from Suzhou to the present.

And so that wraps up the month of Mar... As we enter the month of April, just a final word - don't forget to pay your dues!

Battle Among the Creme De La Creme

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The excitement had already started way before the contest!

Josephine & Guek Eng

And the competition begins...

External Judges

Role Bearers for the Night

It was a battle among the creme de la creme, at Lion City Toastmasters on the 10 March 2008.

A panel of 7 external judges led by D2 Area Governor, Ms Chin Mei Har, arbitrated the International Speech & Table Topic Contest.

The crowded room of audiences on Monday night, witnessed the gallant contestants of Lion City Toastmasters Club battle it out during competition.

The eventful night saw a total of 9 contestants participating in the competition. Every single one of them had put up a sterling performance!

Bravo to all these contestants who had displayed inspiring and entertaining prepared / table topics speeches!
Josephine Teo, Goh Kheng Chuan, Ting Chee Kheong, Yeow Chern Chou, Ng Seng Chuan, William Tan, Johnny Tan, June Tan, Darren Joe

Winners List Prepared Speech

Ng Seng Chuan
Yeow Chern Chou
Goh Kheng Chuan

Winners List Table Topic

Yeow Chern Chou
Ng Seng Chuan
Darren Joe

Thank You to all the judges and role bearers and especially our Contest Chair, Augustine Lee for a job well done!!

Come support our Lion City representatives at the Area D2 Competition to be held in the SRC in April 2008

Click here for more pictures captured during the night!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

Communication WorkShop 2008

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Coached by Award-winning public speaker,
Mr Ng Seng Chuan

on 29 March 2008 (Saturday)

Captivate Your Audience

When speaking to a room full of audience, are you able to hold the attention of the crowd? Are you able to articulate your thoughts & opinions in a clear and concise manner? Are your listeners impressed by your presentations?

Master the Techniques To Communicate Effectively

A 3-hour speech craft workshop, organized by Lion City Toastmasters Club, will enable you to speak more confidently. Using the various techniques taught by our experienced, award-winning veteran speaker, you will learn to express your thoughts or share an insight more persuasively, convince and awe your listeners!

COME JOIN US AT THE WORKSHOP !
To be held on 29th March 2008 (Saturday)

Enhance your public speaking skills
Experience the thrill of holding an audience in the palm of your hand and
Feel your confidence soars!

Click here for more details
http://www.rankbooks.com/speech.asp

**Early Birds Special is available for ALL TOASTMASTERS!
(regardless of clubs)

$10 Discount!!

YuSheng / "Lo Hei" & The Debate Over Valentine's Day

2008-02-12T04:55:00.000+08:00

Lo Hei !!! or YuSheng is considered a symbol of abundance , vigor and prosperity

Digging in!

Hoarding the Yusheng...

Anxious to start...

11th Feb 2008

The 1st Chapter Meeting in the lunar calendar in the Year of the Rat for Lion City Toastmasters Club!

The Word of the Day "Recapitulate" was introduced by Diana Low and resident language evaluator, Ng Seng Chuan, taught the members how to enunciate the word properly.

Fellow toastmasters warmed up by describing their attributes according to the zodiac animal sign they were born in...

Jason Bay, our Table Topic Master of the Evening, dished out quotes on love and friendship in accordance of the approaching Valentine's Day (which falls on the 14th February). The members all had a go at it!

Both Josephine Teo and Augustine Lee made their speeches for Project 7, "The Power of Belief" and Advanced Project 1 "Insure your Health , Protect Your Wealth" respectively.

During the break, at the brilliant suggestion of Ting Chee Kheong, the members held an impromptu "Yu Sheng" session! Check out the pictures taken during the feast!

A debate on "Why should men buy gifts for their significant others during Valentine's Day" divided the room into the women's team versus the men's team.
Throughout the session, there was a lot of hilarity. After an approximate 25 minute dialogue, there was still an unclear resolution, ringing true to the phrase, "Men and women are from different planets!"

Adviced by the women's team, spending $10 per stalk of rose and giving the bouquet of flowers to their wife/girlfriend on Valentine's Day will definitely save the men 364 days of nagging...Guess we shall wait and see if its true!

Recapitulating...
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Best Table Topic Speaker: Ng Seng Chuan
Valentine's Day debate speaker: Diana Low

Click here for photos taken during that meeting
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

"If I were to run as the next Prime Minister of Singapore..."

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Elizabeth Sim (right) smiling into the camera was the timer during the meeting.

Darren - Table Topic Master

Member Hwee Min (left) and guests Sean (middle) and wife Lily (right)

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The recent headliners of the 2008's US Presidential Campaign have been dominating the local papers and such have triggered the thoughts of our Table Topic Master, Darren Joe.

He structured tonight's table topic questions by asking,

"If you are a candidate, contending to be the next Prime Minister of Singapore...how would you approach the following national issues"

Subject matters ranging from the recent hike in taxi fares, questions if Singapore is a happy country to recent statistical survey of surging permanent residents, were tackled by the members of Lion City Toastmasters Club and even one of our spontaneous guest, Sean.

Sean, who attended the meeting with his wife - Lily, won the glory of being voted the Best Table Topic Speaker when he spoke on the challenges that Singaporeans are facing right now. Congratulations Sean!

During the prepared speech segment, coincidentally, the theme of our three speakers centred around the core principle of time management.

Josephine's vocal variety speech called to mind the importance of making time for issues that matter while June delivered a speech where she provoked the audience's thoughts of making full worth of our lives. Angela's advanced project had her speaking on the benefits of time management.

For more pictures captured during the night, check it out at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

New Members Induction 2008 !

2008-01-14T22:22:00.000+08:00

New members & their mentors

New members being inducted officially into Lion City Toastmasters Club

Guest, Angela Lansbury

Table Topic Master of the Evening, Johnny Tan with Guest, Jonathan Siah

Best Table Topic Speaker, Chern Chou

Lion City Toastmasters Club ushered in the New Year 2008 by inducting 6 new members! Bravo!

Our Vice President of Membership, Josephine Teo, conducted a cozy induction ceremony to officially swear in the new members.

William Tan, Johnny Tan, Darren Joe, Jason Bay, Elizabeth Sim and Madhavan Ekanathan (Absent) were installed as members of the Lion City Toastmasters Club on 14 Jan 2008!

Under the mentorship programme headed by Ting Chee Kheong, every new member will be assigned a mentor to assist them in crafting their first few prepared speeches.

Members of the club also participated by pledging to support the newbies in their quest for self-development and make their toastmasters journey a rewarding and fulfilling experience.

There to participate and witness the ceremony were 2 Guests, Angela Lansbury and Jonathan Siah - who googled us! Thank You!

Londoner, Angela, a frequent guest to the club, last visited Lion City 2 years ago in Year 2006. It was a pleasant surprise to see Angela drop by again! She was full of praises for the club when she took up the role as the General Evaluator for the night. Thanks Angela for your generosity!

Johnny Tan, the Table Topic Master of the Evening, added a new twist to the challenging segment.

Participants were asked to formulate stories off the cuff, using words picked in complete random. To spice it up further, participants had to link their stories to scenarios left off by the previous speaker!

It was a ball of laughter, watching participants cook up incredible tall tales. Chern Chou did a dazzling job of summarizing the theatrical segment, drawing relations to the real world.

The two prepared speech speakers, Darren Joe and Diana Low, each spoke on Project 2 and Project 6 respectively.

Darren spoke on the latest fad of how people can google each other and conduct background checks on individuals through their online identities; such as employers assessing potential employees' virtual representation through social networks like Friendster, MySpace or Facebook. Such methods may soon become a reality in Singapore! Great foresight Darren.

Diana gave a speech on the subject "Nag" when she chanced upon a "aunt agony" email published in a male lifestyle magazine. She talked about the different classifications of nagging and related examples of its occurence between the men and women.

Click here to view more pictures taken during Monday night.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

Lion City Toastmasters Club accorded the "President's Distinguished Club" title for 2006 /2007 !!

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(L-R) Augustine Lee, Past International Director holding the plaque with Goh Kheng Chuan, our Immediate Past President. Under the latter's leadership, LionCity Toastmasters Club achieved the 2006/2007 "President's Distinguished Club" status.

(L-R): Ng Kwee Coo (Area Z2 Governor), K.Beate Richter (Area 21 Governor, Division E, Shanghai) and Friedhelm Maur (President of Pudong TMC, Shanghai)

(L-R): Sporty Toastmaster of the evening, Ting Chee Kheong donning the Santa Claus hat and prepared speech speakers; Jason Bay & William Tan

Richard Sng from Brilliant Advanced Toastmasters Club, was the appointed Language Evaluator for tonight's chapter meeting.
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It was a resounding success & accomplishment for the Lion City Toastmasters Club and a perfect finale for the last chapter meeting of Year 2007 held on 10 Dec 2007, Monday.

It was announced by our Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM) & Past International Director (PID), Mr. Augustine Lee, that during Mr. Goh Kheng Chuan's reign as the Lion City Toastmasters Club President for the Term 2006/2007, his competent leadership has steered the Lion City Toastmasters club to achieve the status of "President's Distinguished Club" 2006 , fulfilling 10/10 goals to qualify for the prestigious title!

Congratulations to Mr. Goh Kheng Chuan for excellent captaincy and the exco team of 2006/2007 for this distinguished title!

We were very honored to have Mr. Richard Sng, of Brillant Advanced Toastmasters Club, graced the chapter meeting as the Language Evaluator.

Also joining as guests were, Area Z2 Governor, Miss Ng Kwee Choo, who brought guests Mr. Friedhelm Maur, President of Pudong Toastmasters club, Shanghai, China and his wife, Mdm. K. Beate Richter, Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) & Area 21 Governor, Division E, District 85P of China.

There is also our guest, Mr. Lawrence Cheng, who is ardently striving to experience the Toastmasters journey again. Thank you for visiting us. We enjoyed your presence and we hope to see you soon!

Ex-member, Belinda Lou, had also made a surprise visit to the club after a long hiatus! She had been keeping up-to-date with the club's development through this very blog and we were really glad to have her visit us again! Welcome back Belinda!

During the night's chapter meeting, new members, Jason Bay & Darren Joe made their maiden speeches; Project 1 - "Icebreaker" where we learnt more about them.

William Tan, our fervent toastmaster did his Project 2 as well. He had also generously sponsored the Christmas Chocolate Log Cake.
Thank you so much William!

Our sporty Toastmasters of the Evening, Mr. Ting Chee Kheong, donned a Santa Claus hat to add to the festive atmosphere. His wit and comic-timing never failed to bring laughters to the club's meeting.

To celebrate the joyous holiday season, LionCity Toastmasters Club had a mini-gift exchange session where each member brought a mysterious present to swap with one another - and so, everyone returned home with a gift and a great smile!

In close, the LionCity Toastmasters Club wishes everyone Happy Holidays & a wonderful 2008 ahead!

Click here for more pictures taken throughout the night.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

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11 th Chapter Meeting
10 December 2007

27 Nov 2007

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New Friends from Near & Far...

Josephine & Elizabeth, all smiles for the camera.

Madhavan from India made his maiden speech that night.

Friedrich (left) from Germany, won the Best Evaluator Title

Californian Darren (centre) & Johnny (right) interacting during the break.

William, also making his P1 speech, was voted Best Speaker for the night.

For more pictures captured during that night, go to
www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

27 November 2007

The meeting held on 27 Nov 2007 was definitely an exciting one - many 'first's for LionCity Toastmasters Club in fact!

New members, William and Madhavan made their maiden speeches - Project 1 Icebreaker.

Elizabeth who also attended the night's meeting, participated actively at the Table Topic Segment. Bravo for her!

Friends from afar, such as Friedrich, who hailed from Germany, shared with us on the numerous toastmasters club in Munich. He also took on the role as an evaluator.
Many Thanks Friedrich!

Darren, from California, joined us at LionCity Toastmasters Club officially as a member! Welcome!

Josephine, our Vice-President of Membership, VPM, ingeniously set the table topic questions in origami-style tags - adding a new twist to this ever-challenging but interesting segment!

Centred around the Thanksgiving theme, questions such as "Why we should be thankful towards our enemies.." evoke hilarious responses from the members. The participation was very spontaneous as everyone took part in the table topic segment!

It was a tough decision during voting time for the "Best Table Topic Speaker" but eventually, Hwee Min came out tops winning the honor as "Best Table Topic Speaker". Congratulations!

Our last meeting for the year of 2007 will be held on 10th December! See you there!

Announcement: Next Meeting will be on 27 November 2007

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The next Lion City Toastmasters Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, 27 November 2007, instead of the usual meetings on Mondays due to the Pine's Club annual Dinner & Dance.

This change is only applicable to the 4th week of November 2007.

Subsequent club meetings will be held on every 2nd and 4th Mondays of the calendar month as per usual.

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Club Meeting on 12 November 2007

New member to the club, Johnny Tan, took up the role as the Toastmaster of the Evening and did a good job, adding humor and establish a comfortable setting for the club's meeting.

As Table Topic Master, Clint revved up the club members' creative juices by serving up interesting items bought from a local shop as table topic questions. These items, ranging from Chinese teabags to facial cleanser, were the table topic questions that audiences would have to attempt to promote. Several of the speakers were incredibly imaginative and responded with great comic timing!

During the prepared speeches segment, Cliff, Josephine and Clint spoke on their experiences with Clint on his research on caffeine and coffee-farmers; Josephine on her recent house-hunting episode and Clint's character-reference of an ex-coworker and his marketing tactics.

Check out the photographs below captured during the meeting!

Immediate Past President, Goh Kheng Chuan

Member June & Augustine with new member, William
(Left to Right)

Cliff and Clint - the two prepared-speeches speakers

Vice-President of Membership, Josephine in the red shawl

2 More New Members for October 2007

2007-10-22T11:52:00.000+08:00

Lion City Toastmasters Club is proud to welcome 2 new additions, namely,

Madhavan Ekanathan and Jason Bay!

Welcome!!

LionCity Welcomes 2 New Members!

2007-09-25T03:17:00.000+08:00

The LionCity Toastmaster's Club is delighted to welcome 5 guests on 22nd September '07.

Thank you Darren, Charles, Cynthia, Soon Boon, Elizabeth and Johnny for visiting us at the club! We truly appreciated your presence!

The Monday's night meeting ended with more jubilation as 2 of the guests, Elizabeth Sim and Johnny Tan, decided to sign up and join the LionCity's family!

We look forward to seeing you progress in your journey as a LionCity member - achieving growth both as an individual and also as a group with the Club!

LionCity Placed 3rd in Area D2 Humorous Contest 2007

2007-09-23T00:41:00.000+08:00

LionCity's Seah Guek Eng, was placed 2nd runner-up when she competed in the Toastmasters Area D2 Humourous Contest held on the 22nd September '07 at NSRCC.

Congratulations Guek Eng!

LionCity's 5th Chapter Meeting

2007-09-21T10:41:00.000+08:00

The LionCity's Toastmasters Club will be holding its 5th Chapter Meeting, this coming Monday, 24 September 2007, at 7pm.

The Club President, Ms Linn Loh, will be giving her Presidential Address.

Segments such as the Table Topics & Prepared Speeches, will resume in accordance after her address.

See you on Monday!

Support LionCity Reps @ the Area D2 Competition!

2007-09-11T04:41:00.000+08:00

Winners Seah Guek Eng of the Humorous Speech Contest & Goh Kheng Chuan of the
Evaluation Contest, will be representing LionCity Toastmasters Club to compete in the Area D2 Level.

Both LionCity representatives will meet winners from 5 other toastmasters clubs, to compete in the upcoming Area Division 2 Competition.

So head down to NSRCC to support LionCity's Guek Eng & Kheng Chuan on 22nd September, Saturday.

Go LionCity!

Details are as follows;

Event: Toastmasters Club Area Division 2 Competition
Date: 22 September 2007, Saturday
Time: 1.30pm - 5.30pm
Venue: National Service Resort & Country Club (NRSCC)
Guest Fee: $5

For directions to the NSRCC venue, please refer to

http://www.esrcc.com.sg/contact/location.html

Winners List of the LionCity Toastmasters Club Contest

2007-09-11T00:15:00.000+08:00

Congratulations to all participants competing in the club's "Humorous Speech" & "Evaluation Speech" contests!

Here are the winners for the respective category.

Humourous Speech Contest

1st: Seah Guek Eng
2nd: Ng Seng Chuan
3rd: Goh Kheng Chuan

Evaluation Speech Contest

1st: Goh Kheng Chuan
2nd: Ng Seng Chuan
3rd: Augustine Lee

Our winners will compete with 5 other club winners in the Area D2 Contest on
Saturday, 22nd September. We wish them success!

Go LionCity!

The LionCity Toastmasters Club Competition 2007 is here!

2007-09-06T03:45:00.000+08:00

Come join us at LionCity Toastmasters Club on Monday, 10th September to see eight of our toastmasters vie for the covetous titles of
"Best Humorous Speaker 2007" and "Best Evaluator 2007"

Competing in the "Best Humorous Speaker 2007" Category

Ng Seng Chuan
Goh Kheng Chuan
Seah Guek Eng
Supriyo Sircar
Cliff Ngooi

Competing in the "Best Evaluator 2007" Category

June Tan
Augustine Lee
Clint Poole
Cliff Ngooi
Ng Seng Chuan
Goh Kheng Chuan
Supriyo Sircar

23 July 2007 - A Call For Action

2007-07-23T09:45:00.000+08:00

23rd July 2007

Today’s meeting started with a call for action from our Club President, Ms Linn Loh - to accept more challenges and work diligently to complete our speeches.

Keeping with that theme, our latest new club member, Amit Roy introduced himself to us in his icebreaker speech (Project 1). We welcomed Amit aboard the Lion City Toastmasters and wish him great success on his journey to become Competent Toastmaster!

Club Immediate Past President, Goh Kheng Chuan (CL), shared his humorous wisdom with us in an educational speech. He helped us understand the key elements we might consider when delivering an effective humorous speech which are bound to keep the audience laughing.

The Lion City Toastmasters Club also had two guests that joined us for the meeting.

The Art of Using Humor

2007-07-22T08:55:00.000+08:00

To prepare members for the coming humourous speech contest, I recommend you to take a look at these two sites.

http://artofspeaking.org/

Watch videos of funny speakers in action, learn a trick from them and win the contest! Here is one I thought it's so funny.

http://www.artofspeaking.org-a.googlepages.com/powerpoint-funny
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This site provides additional materials for you to learn how to be humourous.

The Art of Using Humor in Public Speaking
by Anthony L. Audrieth

http://www.squaresail.com/auh.html

Cheers

GOh Kheng CHuan

LionCity Toastmasters Club New Exco Term 2007/2008

2007-07-09T20:39:00.000+08:00

"Shape Ourselves...Shape The World"

For more pictures taken during the night, use the following website
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

With the concluding of the LionCity Toastmasters Club Executive Committee 2006/2007, the rein has been handed over to the charge of new Club President, Ms Linn Loh and her team of members, forming the new Executive Committee of 2007/2008.

First off, here is a look at the LionCity Toastmasters Club Term 2007/2008 President, Ms Linn Loh and her maiden presidential speech...

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Good evening Immediate Past President, Goh Kheng Chuan, fellow toastmasters, guests, welcome to the first meeting for the new term 2007-8.

I consider it my privilege, my honour that you have entrusted the leadership role to me. To borrow Gordon Brown’s words, it is with humility and pride that I accept the role.

Let me first thank our Past President, Goh Kheng Chuan for taking Lion City to greater heights. Under his strong leadership, his tenacity, commitment, Lion City in the previous term clinched the President Distinguished Award. In other words, we achieved NINE goals out of TEN. With that, I would like to highlight the new executive committee that we’re going to maintain the achievement. I’m setting a new goal for this term - the club has to achieve 11 goals out of 10.

Today’s meeting marks a new beginning for the new exco to map out and implement new initiatives to meet our club’s demands and challenges.

Today’s meeting also signifies a time for the exco to review our systems, continue with some of our best practices and adopt the best practices of other clubs. In other words, I promise continuity as well changes. (what do I mean by best practices? For example, Diana has set up a blog which she manages it by herself. OR we will continue with the handbook that CK started, which KC modified it and now our exco will continue)

Today’s meeting is an opportunity for me to remind the new exco to justify the trust given to us, to justify our endeavours. Yes, we are here to serve but not to spoon feed our members, not to take over your duties and responsibilities as members, we are here to enable our members to improve your communication skill and be leaders of communication.

Today’s meeting spells a new chapter for our members to re-examine our speaking aspirations (why we are here), and if necessary, to re-define our speaking goals (what we want to achieve) and a new chance for us to be more resolute in achieving our goals.

Today’s meeting is an opportune time for me to share with you my vision for our club.
The theme for Toastmasters International this term is Shaping ourselves….Shaping the world. Before we can shape world, we’ve got to shape ourselves. How do I envision Lion City Club Members to shape ourselves?

What I envision
L – Leader
As Lion City Club Members, we are called to be LEADERS of Communication. By that I don’t mean a position in the exco. I don’t mean having titles behind your name. Communication is more than public speaking. Communication is about speaking and listening. To master the skill of communication is to be able to speak in a diverse social context. (that includes dating a girl or seducing a man or woman). 2 weeks ago, The Economist ran an article that said that people with better communication skills have better chances of getting married.

To develop our communication skills, the exco also decided that our monthly meetings and will be conducted in the toastmasters manner. That means, every exco member has to give her report in 5 minutes. So we’ll be more efficient and productive.

I – Influencer / Increase Lion City Members are also called to be influencers in our world. To influence our family, friends, colleagues, new people who come into our world, your sphere. However, before we can shape world’s opinions, attitude, we’ve got to check ours and determine if we need to change our attitude and world view.

I also stands for increase. Yes, we are called to increase, to fill, to populate the club. A minimum of members would be 8. I would like to see more guests signing up and staying on as members.

O – Overcomer
We are also called to be overcomers. This club offers us opportunities to overcome our inadequacies, fears and weakness. We can’t change the world unless we take pain to shape, transform our weakness to our strength and overcome our fears.

N - Noteworthy When we are Leaders of communication, an Influencer and an Overcomer, we are truly noteworthy members of Lion City Club. – The time starts now for us to work towards being those roles.

How can the Exco help us to Achieve our full potential?
A leader, an influencer and overcomer must be competent. We’ve a choice - stay or get out of our comfort zone. - accept or shy away from new challenges. Try a role that you have never done before. (Taking up office as President is stepping out of my comfort zone) Try something that you’ve done before but do it better than previous record. Just look at Augustine. Augustine did not rest in his laurels. Augustine completed his CTM in less than 10 months and it’s his 4th time. KC, Sanjeev also take up the challenge to be guest evaluators in other clubs. They made a choice to step up and take up new challenges.

Initiatives to Be Instructed / be Instructor & Increase our Value
The exco will introduce a few initiatives to raise our members speaking skills. One of which is the mentorship programme. I’m putting in place a mentor system for all new members. VPE is managing the programme but I’ll personally ensure and this programme kicks off successfully and efficiently.

This term, we’ll still invite guest evaluators so that we can learn from other club members. We’ll continue with our in-house educational segment. Seng Chuan is going to conduct a series of 20-30 mins education segment. I would also expect our club to invite other club speakers to instruct us in our educational segment. We’ll also hold 1 speech craft workshop for the public and our members. (I’m even thinking of a speech craft session entirely for women) I would like to introduce a 1.5-2 minute tutorial session where every member can be an instructor.

The exco will also open up opportunities to members to help out whenever their schedule permits or on an ad hoc manner. The task force will be spearheaded by the exco. But non-exco members are encouraged to join the task force. 1) maintenance of our blog . 2) Speech Craft sessions

Teachable In order to improve, we need a teachable heart. We need to be willing to work on positive and constructive feedback give to us. Teamwork, Trust – to cultivate teamwork spirit, I would appeal our members to affirmative and encouraging (that’s essential if you want to be a leader of communication). The Exco is also going to have our own bonding session called ladies nites. We’ll open up to other female members of the club (if you feel left out, please check if you wear a skirt)

YES! So if you step out of your Comfort Zone and step up to new Challenges, participate in our initiatives that will increase your value, be teachable and be part of the team, you will be shaping yourself as you work towards being a LEADER of Communication, an INFLUENCER, and an OVERCOMER. Then, YOU will be ready to shape your world!

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Our 30th celebration was a SMASH!!!

2007-05-20T05:53:00.000+08:00

As LionCity Toastmasters Club turned 30 on 26 March 2007, the attendance was smashing! Our bash held at the Pines played host to its existing pool of members, guests and even ex-members who found time to grace our birthday party, bringing back some tints of nostalgia.

The distinguished guests included Mr Dayal (D2 Area Governor) and Mr. Poh Kim Siong (District 80 Governor) who encouraged the LionCity club by presenting a set of advance manuals to encourage members to do more advance projects and also a special PIN, spurring us to achieve 10/10 DCP Goals, to attain the "Distinguished Club" Status.

Guest of Honour, Mr. Ong Sing Tion, Division D Governor, was invited to present the 5 and 10 years award to outstanding members and dedicated members.

Special Thanks went out to Ms June Tan, our witty emcee, and also Ms Dharma and her husband who came in early to decorate the venue! Thanks a lot for making the evening a huge success!

Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/ for pictures captured!
Look under "LionCity Toastmasters 30th Birthday Bash"

The entire speech made by LionCity Club President during the celebrations.

"For those who have known me for a while would know that I have no cash and no class. So, when I heard that we are celebrating our 30th birthday, I only have 3 wishes in my mind. They are – Wine, Women and Song.

If you ask any men like me, what makes them happy? They will say wine, women and song. So, I got a few people to sponsor some wine for tonight. Thank you Mr Dayal and Seng Chuan for the wonderful wine.

Then, I thought we must have the songs, so I suggested to our VPE that we can have some karaoke to make it fun. I know we don’t have a Superstar like SRC Toastmasters Club has, but I am sure there are Singapore Idol wanabes in Lion City. Among us here tonight, our ex-member, Ronald is a great singer and he married a song bird who can sing better than our local superstar, Sun Yan Zhi. Ronald where are you? Seng Chuan and myself play the piano, Hwee Min plays the guitar, Chee Kheong is a singer too, he sang during his wedding, So, Mr Dayal, there is no shortage of talents in Lion City, one day we shall have a talent contest.

But the karaok idea was turned down by the VPE, because she thought, Karaok is chessy. But I must agree, KTV entertainment is for dirty old men.

So, I thought, how about lucky draws to add some excitement? The treasurer told me we don’t have cash to buy prizes so I said. Well, its not the prizes but the fun that is important. I have a brand new toaster to give away and we can name the prize – Breakfast for two at a 5-star hotel. Or we can say win your dream car but we give them two dollars worth of TOTO ticket. Or a romantic candle light dinner for two but we gave them two packets of instant noodles and two candles. The VPE didn’t agree and said that we will cheapen the affair. So not to make our club go bankrupt in other ways, I went to buy 4D on Wednesday in the hope that I could ask the god of fortune or Ti Gong to sponsor us good prizes. I bought our club number. Anyone know what is our club number?

Its 2086.

I wack 10 big 10 small out of desperation. I screamed on Wednesday nite when I watched teletext, it came out 3rd prize! But when I look carefully, the number was 2096. 2096! Wa piang! I was so close to winning $10,000 dollars.The number 8 becomes 9. So, even Ti Gong didn’t support me, if not tonight you will be eating sharks fins and winning holidays to Bangkok.

Ok, forget the lucky draw but what about the women? Luckily, here at Lion City, we have no shortage of women. I think we are blessed with ladies luck! Just look around, do you see attractive ladies among us?

Do you remember other ladies that were once in our club? – Audrey and Sophia? Sophia is here with us tonight and I am very happy to see her, Sophia can you please stand?

Then some of us would remember Cynthia Zhang from China and not to mention the numerous gorgeous ladies who walked in on their own as guests, and also guests brought by ex-member Mark Chow, Mark was running a model agency so we got constant supply of eyes candies, I also remembered a few guests brought by Boon Huat and also our charming member Chern Chou .

Mr Golam can confirm this, after meeting us at last week’s contest, he decided to join our club. Mr Golam, you can try dating any of our female members, but make sure you hand in the cheque for the membership dues first.

Finally, I stopped any further attempts to make it more cheesy. I went to sit under a tree and pondered over the reasons for celebration.

What is the reason for celebration?

We celebrate because this is a club that is powered by passion, united by the spirit of volunteerism and governed by the principle of to give is to receive. The VPE is not paid to plan the program for each meeting, to plan education segments for you, the evaluators are not paid to give feedback to fellow speakers, none of us are, whether we play the roles as an audience, a speaker, a timer, a tme , a table topics master or, an evaluator we are not forced to do what we do. We do what we do because we know that only by doing, and by helping others to grow, we can then grow and excel.

So, why are we celebrating? I say, it is because of you, you the fellow members. There is no home without a country, there is no club without its members.

You are the only reason why it is worth celebrating. So, Happy Birthday to you and happy birthday to Lion City Toastmasters club.

Here is a MTV created by Hwee Min, dedicated to all of you.

Toastmasters of the Evening...."

You are Invited to LionCity Toastmasters Club 30th Birthday Bash!

2007-03-12T08:13:00.000+08:00

One of Singapore's oldest Toastmasters Club, the LionCity Toastmasters Club is going to celebrate its 30th Birthday Bash on the 26th March 2007.
You are invited!! Come join us for the celebrations!!

Check the below invite for more details!

26th February 2007 - International Speech and Table Topic Contest

2007-03-12T08:03:00.000+08:00

26th February 2007

LionCity Toastmasters Club International Speech and Table Topic Contest

LionCity Toastmasters Club experienced an exciting round of competitive participation from worthy contestants during the International Speech and Table Topic Contest.

Contestants charmed the room with their passionate and inspiring speeches, lending a voice to champion their beliefs.

Here are some of the highlights:

The Club had the honor of Area D2 Governor, Mr. Dayal Khemlani, presiding the Contest as the Chief Judge alongside with his entourage of 4 other judges.

International Speech Contestants & Respective Title of Speech

Yeow Chern Chou - “This, too, shall pass away”
Goh Kheng Chuan - “That Elusive Thing”
Ng Seng Chuan - “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”
Sanjeev Gathani - “Insanity of Choice - Murders of the Unborn”
Seah Guek Eng - “Material Girl”

International Table Topic Contest

“One generation plants the trees, and the other enjoys the shade”

Ng Seng Chuan
Yeow Chern Chou
Goh Kheng Chuan
Sanjeev Gathani
June Tan
Felicia Low

During the night, LionCity Toastmasters Club presented an Appreciation Award to the Immediate Past President, Felicia Low, for her outstanding service and dedication to the club during her term of presidency of the club from 2005~2006.

For pictures, please check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/

Great Jamming Speeches!

2007-01-29T17:23:00.000+08:00

Great Jamming Speeches!

Quoting from the Club’s President, Goh Kheng Chuan, Monday’s meeting (22nd Feb 2006) was
“... a meeting that went overtime for a good reason. Jam packed with good speeches and education segment.”

Educational Segment - Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream”

Supriyo did an education segment with a creative twist! He extracted various lines from the American’s legendary American civil rights movement leader, Martin Luther King’s famous and outstanding speech – I HAVE A DREAM.

The audience was first asked to read the different excerpts from the speech to practice using vocal variety, pitch, pauses and the injection of emotions. The original version of the politician’s speech was played back in sound bites with audience spotting the differences and how the usage of speech techniques can rev up emotions of the listeners and became of the defining moments in American History.

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Kheng Chuan who was preparing for his advance project, presented “The Sales Training”, where he attempted to sell the exercise gadget – The Rebounder. Armed with his mini trampoline, he did a live demonstration on how one can use the trampoline to aid in exercising. A definitely entertaining experience, coupled with humor and persuasion. Amused members even tried their hands at the exercise gadget, contributing with positive feedback.

June Tan, on her Project 5 speech demonstrated on the innovative ways of using the mirco-fibre mop. Through the use of body language, (one of the requisites in P5), she showed the audience the benefits of using the mop. She also let on a little interesting trivia on how she practiced her salsa moves using the mop while cleaning, killing two birds with one stone!

Cliff Ngooi, who took on the role as the Table Topic Master, did the most innovative table topics in history!! He asked members to pick a piece of paper from one glass containing half of the topic and another piece of paper from another glass containing the second half of the question. Thus through mixing and matching, a question is formed, tickling the brains of the members. Innovative!

A familiar face, Theresa , who was both the General Evaluator and Language Evaluator had once again impressed the room with her eloquence and charm, giving the thumbs up for the night’s meeting.

Happy Holidays!

2006-12-20T14:37:00.000+08:00

The LionCity Toastmasters Club wishes
everyone

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

~ LionCity Executive Committee 2006/2007

Word of the Day: Exuberant

2006-12-06T09:55:00.000+08:00

27th November 2006

The members and guests who convened for the chapter meeting on 27th December had a lot of fun incorporating the word of the day into their conversational and presentation skills.

Word of the Day: Exuberant
- adjective

1. enthusiastic: lavishly abundant: an exuberant welcome for the hero
2. abounding in vitality; extremely joyful and vigorous
3. extremely good; overflowing; plentiful; exuberant health
4. profuse in growth or production; luxuriant; superabundant: exuberant
5. extreme in degree, size, or extent

President of the club, Kheng Chuan took on the role to “Spot the Word” during the meeting session. Beautiful phases and sentence structures were adopted by both members and guests. Here’s a look at some of the highlights.

Rhyming

“A man gets excited by anything that walks, talks and wears a skirt”

Alliteration

“Smiles, simple and strong”
“practice, practice and more practice”
“when you fail to plan, you plan to fail”

Metaphor/ Mental Images

“that gave me an adrenaline rush”
“take a step back”
“digest information, digest knowledge”
“hit it on the nail”
“as beautiful as cindy Crawford”
“bubbly personality”
“nerve-wrecking”

Power Statement

“praise her to no end”
“when you use te3chnology effectively, there can be opportunities”
“data can be crunched”
“the quest of immortality/technology”
“today I advocate to you”
“market your availability”

Others
“think tank”
“opportunities abound”
“the things that will solve this is wisdom”
“watershed”

A webtool to help you craft your speech

2006-11-12T13:47:00.001+08:00

http://www.school-for-champions.com/writing/speechaid.htm

If you get stuck writing your speech go to the link and let the speech generator get you started. Try it.

PODCAST For Toastmasters

2006-11-05T22:26:00.000+08:00

Dear Members

Do you know what is a Podcast? I was trying to learn how to do my own podcast today and I thought, hey is there a toastmaster club in the world which do podcasting? So, i googled the words "Toastmasters and Podcast". Wouldn't it be great if our members can hear great speeches from toastmasters all over the world for FREE! This is exciting isn't it. Ii is like being present in a toastmaster meeting without physically been there! Now you can hear speeches from a toastmasters meeting of a club in California, New York and anywhere in the world!

So, I am going to share with you what I found. I am excited about my discovery and I hope you find this a great educational resource. Perhaps you can also think about how we can do our own podcast to the world coming from a club in Singapore! Can we be the first club in Singapore to do PODCASTING? Do you want the world to listen to great speakers from LION CITY TOASTMASTERS CLUB? Well, WHY NOT! Check out these links and be inspired!

If you don't know what is a podcast, read this:
http://podcasts.yahoo.com/publish

Now, you got an idea what is a podcast, check out what other toasatmasters club in the world have done using this internet audio technology!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/AhUmEr

http://toastmasters.podomatic.com/

http://www.podcastingnews.com/details/feeds.feedburner.com/
TitusvilleToastmasters3018/view.htm

http://odeo.com/channel/20879/view/

If you guys found a great site tell me please,are you ready to do TOASTCAST TODAY? Let me know.

Kheng Chuan
President

Celebrating TOASTMASTER’S DAY with a Barbeque ~ LionCity Toastmasters Club Style!

2006-10-27T14:57:00.000+08:00

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!

9 October 2006

2006-10-11T12:26:00.000+08:00

* Photographs contributed by Vinod Menon

9 October 2006

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”

25th September Meeting - Laughing the Monday Blues Away...

2006-10-03T14:20:00.000+08:00

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!

~ Thanks to Linn Loh for the contribution

Hightlight: "The Art of Writing Powerlines" WorkShop

2006-09-18T08:48:00.000+08:00

The Art of Writing Powerlines

11th September 2006

LionCity Toastmasters Club President, Mr Goh Kheng Chuan, conducted "The Art of Writing Power Lines" WorkShop, to share his experience and knowledge on writing power lines when crafting a speech. His speech crafting tips were delightful and the audience was definitely drawn to his presence. Overall, the successful workshop left a memorable and enlightening effect on the audience.

Member June Tan reprised her role as the Table Topic Master. Putting her creativity to full throttle, she collected a few items found in the bathroom as subjects for the table topic session. Some items in her basket included a hairbrush, a tube of toothpaste, a bottle of hair conditioner, a small mirror etc. Member Diana Low won the round when she talked about her recent dental trip when she chose a packet of dental floss as her topic.

A big round of applause to Dhamayanthi Devanan for making her debut speech at the LionCity Toastmasters’ meeting! Her Ice Breaker speech saw her recollect fond memories of her life; her early childhood of frolicking with the deers in her hometown, her university days peppered with friendships fostered with close friends, meeting her husband and eventually settling in Singapore.

Member Seah Guek Eng finished first in the Prepared Speech session with her moving story on a true story, titled, “Linda”. Guek Eng wooed the audience with her powerful speech on Batam’s child prostitution by peeling the petals of a white rose, metaphorically symbolising the loss of child innocence, exposing the vulnerable side of the child to the social ills of the world. A well-deserving win!

Click on the link below for more pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/sets/72157594287613161/

Notes For Education Segment Download

2006-09-11T17:14:00.000+08:00

Pls try this link to download the pdf files for the education segment on "The Art of Writing Powerlines" There is a little homework at the back for you to try.

Point your mouse and right click and choose "Save Target As"

www.rankbooks.com/powerline.pdf

Humorous / Evaluation Speech Contest

2006-09-03T17:57:00.000+08:00

LionCity Toastmasters Club
Humourous / Evaluation Speech Contest
28 th Aug 2006

The club held a hilarous and entertaining round of the Humourous / Evaluation Speech Contest on the 28th August 2006.

Judges from other honourable clubs were cordially invited by our amicable Chief Judge, Mr. Dayal Khemlani to preside over the two contests.

Contestants in the Humourous Speech contest had both the judges and audience laughing in stitches, entertaining the crowd with 'slices of life' snippets . Thank yous to Ting Chee Kheong, Ng Seng Chuan, Seah Guek Eng and Goh Kheng Chuan for their side-splitting pieces! Kudos to Seah Guek Eng and Ng Seng Chuan for bringing props; a toilet seat cover and a care-bear soft toy! Talk about ingenuity!

The Evaluation Contest continued ,with participation from Felicia Low, Goh Kheng Chuan, Diana Low and Ng Seng Chuan as the room listened intently to the speech by test speaker, Ting Chee Kheong.

Special thanks to Alice Chin for the pictures!

Head to http://www.flickr.com/photos/lioncitytoastmasters/sets/72157594266190708/ for photos captured during the contests.

Our In - House Educational WorkShop - "Effective Evaluation"

2006-08-20T12:43:00.000+08:00

Our In - House Educational WorkShop - "Effective Evaluation"

Our In - House Educational WorkShop - "Effective Evaluation"
Thanks to our Vice - President of Education, Linn Loh, Lion City Toastmasters Term 2006/2007 held our very first In-House Educational WorkShop - Effective Evaluation!
Our member, *Ng Seng Chuan(ATM-Gold) gave us an insightful approach on improving our evaluation skills. Using various methods, coupled with his usual humorous persona, the energy level of the workshop peaked when members were given a chance to voice their opinions and asked questions on how to better evaluate a speaker.

* Ng Seng Chuan is a speech trainer by profession, specialising in public speaking and pronounciation courses. He has won the International Speech contest as well as Humourous Speech Contest up to District (South-East Asian) Level (2nd runner up at both events)
He also came in as first runner-up in the recent Impromptu Speech Contest in Singapore (2006)

Guest Speaker

Ramesh Muthusamy injected more vitality when he joined the Lion City Toast Masters Meeting as a Guest Speaker.
The former national debater '97-'98 spoke on his competiting piece. "Defining Moments. Defining Moments. Ramesh Muthusamy".
Dramatic, yet humorous. It was an energetic kick-start to the day's meeting!
Lion City ToastMasters Club wish him luck in the competition!

Table Topic

Member June Tan came up with a very creative method when she played the role of the Table Topic Master. Using foreign currencies as the topic, it was a refreshing approach! Kudos to June Tan!

New Members!

A warm welcome to 2 new members! Ms Dhamayanthi Devanan and Mr.Willliam Woo for joining us as guests and immediately signing up!!!

Our 1st Meeting for Term 2006/2007

2006-07-30T18:42:00.000+08:00

Club President Goh Kheng Chuan and member Cliff listening in...

Guests and Members listening in to the table topic segment

Cliff making his Project 4 speech on '3 steps that one must possess to becoming a millionaire' - a hilarious twist to the usual get rich quickly guide!

Chern Chou's win for Best Table Topic

Chee Kheong on winning Best Evaluator

Linn - Winner for Best Speaker

For more pics on the 1st Meeting for Term 2006/2007, please click on the following link

http://community.webshots.com/myphotos?action=viewAllPhotos&albumID=552676699&security=uoKoZp

Keep coming back to this blog to see more updates .

More pictures galore can be found in

http://community.webshots.com/user/LionCityToastMasters

Installation of Executive Members for New Term 2006/2007

2006-07-30T18:32:00.000+08:00

Lion City ToastMasters Club invited the Area Governor, Mr Dayal Khemlani to install the new exco members.

We thank the 2005/2006 Exco Members for their contributions to the club for the past term.

Present in the picture are :
Vice President Education (VPE) Goh Kheng Chuan (CL, CTM)
Vice President Membership (VPM) Loh Lik Lin, Linn
Sergeant At Arms (SAA) Augustine Lee (DTM)

And here is our newly appointed exco members for term 2006/2007!
President: Goh Kheng Chuan (CL,CTM)
Vice President Education (VPE):
Loh Lik Lin, Linn
Vice President Membership (VPM):Diana Low
Secretary: Tok Hwee Min
Sergent At Arms (SAA): Belinda Lou

Not in the pictures include,
Vice President Public Relations (VPPR): Supriyo Sircar
Treasurer : Seah Guek Eng
Immediate Past President(IPP) : Felicia Low (CL,CTM)

I Have a Dream

2006-07-24T17:25:00.000+08:00

http://www.sojust.net/speeches/mlk_dream.html

A great site on public speaking should include one of the most memorable speeches of all times.

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.April 23, 1963 Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

Public Speaking Tips

2006-07-23T20:11:00.000+08:00

http://www.speaking-tips.com/

Someone said to me that, there is nothing you cannot find on the internet. Well, the problem is you find trash most of the time.

So, here is one that I feel is a gem among the rocks.

Start reading this first!

http://www.speaking-tips.com/Articles/A-Short-Guide-to-Effective-Public-Speaking.aspx

Education Resource

2006-07-23T15:08:00.000+08:00

Dear Members,

As promised during our first meeting for the term, I have created the links to some of the best resources on the web on speech crafting.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/rhetoricaldevicesinsound.htm

Complete index to and partial text and audio database of the 100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century, according to 137 leading scholars of American public address, as compiled by Stephen E. Lucas (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Martin J. Medhurst (Baylor University). Find out who made the cut and experience the power of rhetorical eloquence in this provocative list of "who's who" in American public address.

I urge members to visit this site and download the full text of some of the speeches and study them. Learn the techniques that great speakers use. The use of alliteration, oxymoron and metaphor among other devices.

http://stars.nhb.gov.sg/public/index.html
Some of our ministers are great public speakers -- Lee Kuan Yew, S Rajarathnam etc. So, here is the site that archives all the speeches since 1950s onwards. Some of the National Day Rally speeches by Goh Chok Tong and Lee Hsien Loong are also excellent readings. Goh Chok Tong is well known for his use of metaphors.

So this is the start of the Education Resource segment and hope we can add more useful links in the future. Enjoy.

Regards

Kheng Chuan

Presidential Speech - 10th July 2006

2006-07-23T15:01:00.000+08:00

Presidential Speech: 10th July 2006

Good evening Immediate Past President, Felicia Low, fellow toastmasters, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first meeting for the new term.

Under the leadership of Felicia last year, I am pleased to announce that we had achieved Select Distinguished Club. We have achieved 7 out of 10 DCP goals. This is indeed an achievement so let us give ourselves a round of applause.

Now, this means that as your new President, I have to set a higher goal this year and steer the club to achieve President Distinguished Club by achieving 9 out of 10 DCP goals. We have to cruise ahead and not to remain on the shores of our comfort zone.

Members! CAN WE ACHIEVE IT?

Yes, we can!

We can achieve it for two good reasons.

Firstly, more than half of our members are doing P5 and above and they are on track to complete their 10 projects to achieve their CTM title. So, by the term ends in 30 June 2007 after about 22 meetings we will have at least 4 CTMs or even more. For myself I will be aiming for my ATM Bronze title and I am determined to finish my outstanding 8 projects. I also know Chee Kheong is equally determined to get his ATM title.

Secondly, we have a dynamic and capable EXCO this year. Most of the members of the EXCO have weathered through the financial and membership crisis last year and have emerged stronger, and even more dedicated to serve in the club.

With such a strong and supportive team, we cannot fail.

I am fully aware of the responsibilities as President and I pledge my best efforts to continue to uphold the good management and prestige of this club.

In addition, I owe fellow members an even more important duty and that is the duty to ensure the education progress of our members. Why is this important? It is important because, this is why the club exists. This is why, you pay $330 membership a year.

To fulfill that duty we must maintain and improve the quality of our speeches and to help us do that, I have proposed to the EXCO, to create an educational resource which will comprise the following:

a) An archive of good speeches by past and present members
b) Web articles and tips on public speaking
c) Scripts and MP3 recordings of famous speeches made by great speakers around the world.
This lectern had heard countless speeches which had won the hearts and minds of its audience since its existence, but we have not. I wish somewhere in this lectern there is a built-in recording device with a playback button for us to replay those wonderful speeches. Unfortunately, no such device exists. But those speeches were our heritage, our history but they had faded with time. So, I hope, we can archive good speeches starting this year.

During my free time, I surf the web for articles and scripts of great speeches. Now, I want to share them with you because what is the best way to learn than to learn from the best?

I will personally collate the materials and place them either on a website or a blog as suggested by Diana though I am totally new to blogging. We will build it up, day by day, week by week, month by month. I hope after we have established this resource, future presidents and members will build upon it and benefit members of the club. More details and initiatives will be announced later after I have discussed the details with the EXCO.

Dear members, it will be an exciting year, but there will be challenges ahead and we must be willing to participate, to help one another to achieve our common aim which is to sharpen our public speaking skills. With your support and commitment, I am confident that we can all work together for the greater prestige and success of Lion City Toastmasters Club.

Welcome to Lion City Toastmasters Club, New Term 2006/2007

2006-07-14T14:19:00.000+08:00

The first meeting of the Lion City Toastmasters Club 2006/2007 , held on the 10th July 2006, was led by the newly appointed President, Mr. Goh Kheng Chuan and his fellow exco members at the Pines.

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