Dear MMTMC Family Members,

What are your fondest memories of the club’s 13^th Anniversary on 20^th November 2015? My fondest memories have to be those of all of you who were present to make this event heartwarming. My heartfelt appreciation and thanks to the organizing committee and appointment holders for all your effort in the most elaborate, entertaining and engaging birthday bash.

Elaborate:

Stepping into the hall, I was greeted by colorful displays of superhero-themed balloons, and a wall of intricately hand-cut spider web designs.

Most special of all, was the photo booth that was set up with props for us to use when taking polaroids for souvenirs. The organizing committee even invited cosplayers to pose with us at the photo booth. There were characters like Ghost in the Shell Major Motoko, Super Mario Luigi and a pretty Victorian-era English lady.

The members of our organizing committee also dressed up as superheroes: Catherine was the beautiful Batwoman, Tommy, the righteous Robin Hood, Maureen, the babyish Babs Bunny and Christopher K, the zealous Zorro.

No party is complete without delectable food. We had the luxury of ten-course menu in a romantic outdoor deck that set the perfect ambience for guests and members to get to know one another better.

Entertaining and Engaging:

Energetic Karen & Chandran kick started the evening as wonderful TMEs.

Then we had the honour of having three distinguished guests sharing with us the hallmarks of leadership: International Director Mr Patrick Oei, District Director Ms Tay Yiang Ping and Club Mentor & Past District Governor Mr Michael Rodrigues.

Truly, as Mr Patrick Oei has defined “A great leader is one who breeds more new leaders”. MMTMC embodies this belief and on this joyous occasion, we had Past Presidents and previous EXCO members who have witnessed how far we have come over the past 12 years to share in our celebrations. The appreciation of their dedicated commitment and contribution was led by our Club President, Chai Pei Shan. Surely, this would serve as a great inspiration for all, bringing MMTMC to greater heights together as a family.

What would a superhero night be without challenges for the superheroes to save the world? Our table topics masters Dexter and Benjamin skilfully crafted an improv game based on the theme. The improv game called for quick thinking and the task was to solve a contemporary societal issue. We had three crises that Jacky, Michell & Janty’s teams had to solve.

Next came the showcase of our Superheroes’ talents that made us laugh non-stop. Su Anne & Tabita danced energetically Bollywood-style for us. Siew Onn charmed us with sweet talk. Vicky sang Happy Birthday a-la Marilyn Monroe. Eleven-year-old Zoya, who dressed up as Thor entertained us with her frank sharing on how much she loved to hate her weekend language classes. Aaron, aka Sharon, stunned everyone with his impressive cleavage, hot pants and titillating dance.

Then the presentation of awards commenced:

Aaron bagged the most coveted Talent Award of the night. Michell’s team (Aaron and Mike Lee) won the improv table topic. The Best Dressed awards went to Danny, who made a tall and dashing Captain America and Nancy, whose Florence Nightingale was both beautiful and sweet.

The night was truly a testament of how close-knit the MMTMC family is. And as hospitable hosts, you can be sure that the guests all looked like they were having a blast!

The big night culminated with the singing of the Happy Birthday song to MMTMC and our enjoying the tasty superheroes cupcakes and the chocolate cakes Zoya baked especially for us.

The birthday celebration may be over, but the memories stay forever. We are a family that eats, drinks, laughs and grows together.

Remember, Money Mastery Makes Members Matters!

Cherishing these moments,

Wendy Lee

TME (Desmond & Zhang Yuan)

“Eureka!” was the theme for Money Mastery (Singapore) Toastmasters Club chapter meeting on 9 Oct 2015. Eureka depicts the story of Archimedes, who has made discovery that has profound contribution to Science. Our Toastmasters of the evening (Desmond Yam and Zhang Yuan) related Eureka to the journey of discovery in Toastmasters.

In the opening Address of our Club President, Chai Pei Shan, aptly related “Eureka!” to 2 events.

Firstly, “Eureka” sounds like “You-Rika”.  It is an encouragement for our homegrown talent, Rika, who will be representing Money Mastery in the Division D Humorous Speech Contest on 10, Oct 2015.

The second event is the launch of “Improv” session in the Eureka Meeting programme. “Improv” stands for improvised table topics. It is the first ever being done in Money Mastery and probably first in Toastmasters club in Singapore.

There was also another reason to cheer and shout Eureka.  Traveling toastmasters Jason Topp & Lyn Cassar from Algester Toastmasters (Australia), together with their son, David, visited MMTMC on that evening.  We are grateful and honored to have Jason and Family to visit our club in spite of the short vacation in Singapore.

Language Evaluator Zaid explaining the Word of the Day – “Muse”

We are honored to have ALB/ACB Zaid Yassin as our Language Evaluator.  As Language evaluator, Zaid introduced the word of the day “Muse” and encouraged everyone to use the word throughout the meeting

Our prepared speech session was just as exciting with 4 speakers. Two of the speakers were first timers, Toastmasters Maureen Suryani and Toastmasters Shaun Pang who gave their maiden prepared speeches. Even as first timer, the audience was captivated by their high standard of speech deliveries.

This was followed by the Project evaluation session. It was another good delivery by 4 experienced toastmasters.

The climax of the night was the Improv session. Our Table Topic Masters, CC Wendy & Toastmaster Arva did a fabulous job to create fun improv topics where our many of our guests have the chance to participate in the Improv session.  The rule of the improv is such that when the speaker was given a line to speak for 2.5 mins, the speaker could be interrupted by 3 “money changers” who will shout “change”.  When “change” is shouted, the speaker will retract the last statement said and change to a different subject.  The improvisation trains the imrov speaker to think on their feet quickly and created lots of fun & entertainment to the audience as well.

Table topic Master explaining the role of “Money Changer” in the Improv session

Mike Lee was the first and the best improv speaker.

Zaid wrapped up language evaluation with his witty and fun prognosis on the use of grammars and good phrases throughout the programs.

In the closing ceremony, our club president delivered the award to the best speaker, best project evaluator and best table topics.  The best prepared speech speaker went to Toastmaster Arva Rangwala with her witty speech title “Queen of Venus without Mars”. The best Project evaluator was Toastmaster Michelle Sheya Wong and the best improve speaker was Toastmaster Mike Lee!

It was a high energy evening throughout! We look forward to the next formal meeting theme on 13 Nov – “Masquerade!”