Written by: Pamela Lau
“Good Things Come in Pairs” on 22 April 2016
“Good things come in pairs” returns for our second edition at our cozy Tai Seng stage. Before the informal meeting starts, guests and members enjoyed a fabulous networking session while tasting the delicacies of the home-cooked dishes, coupled with healthy bananas.
At 7.30pm, our Sergeants-At-Arms (SAA) Maureen Suryani cheerfully came on stage. With a sweet and calm voice, she welcomed and invited first time visitors to give their self-introduction and their plans for the weekend.
Our Toastmaster of the Evening (TME), Catherine Lai took the stage confidently.
During our first edition (8 April 2016), our Club President, Chai PeiShan shared in her Opening Address on the importance of double “M”: Mentor and Mentee when she explained the meaning of the theme and emphasised on the “Mentor- Mentee” relationships for growth. Our confident VPE,Chye Bei’an stood on stage as Acting Club President. He delivered his improvised speech explaining the meaning of the chapter meeting’s continued theme in the ambience of couples i.e. the Husband and Wife.
The prepared speeches session of the evening were empowered by four talented members: Shawn Lee, Christopher Kusumowidagdo, Chye Bei’an and Wendy Lee.
Toastmaster Shawn Lee delivered his Project 2 speech “Alias” with a very clear message of how he adopted another name for himself. The strong opening of his speech allowed him to engage the audience from the start of the speech and the flow of the message was so smooth and easy to be followed by the audience and this made his speech so amazing.
Christopher Kusumowidagdo, a passionate Toastmaster delivered his inspirational Project 10 speech with dramatic actions and inspiring words. He did it very well whereby theaudience were inspired by the gist of his speech “Have Faith”.
Our VPE, Chye Bei’an delivered his maiden Advance Project 1 with a folk tale entitled “Uncle Sai, White Horse”. His speech was entertaining and enjoyable as the audience anticipated to find out about where the white horse went to before returning to Uncle Sai with one black horse and one black and white horse.
Wendy Lee delivered her Advance Project 2 very well where the audience were entertained by her sharing of the differences between man and women.
The meeting continued with evaluation session hemmed by 3 of our members, Arva Rangwala, John Cheng, Richard Ong and visiting Toastmaster, Jaric Ng. All four outstanding evaluators delivered their evaluation with impressive, invaluable advice to help members and audience appreciate the value of feedback.
The most exciting part of the meeting was the table topics session. The topics’ master of the evening, our new member Tan Qing Lin who hopped energetically on to stage with a handful of cards. These intriguing cards contained all the topics for the fun improvised speeches. Qing Lin did a great opening as his cards were fast given out. There were 11 volunteers, namely Pamela Lau, Roy Teo, Thian Hock, Freeman, Arva, Richard Ong, Maureen Suryani, Chandran, Joe Tan, Chye Bei’an and Shawn Lee. Among all, the most entertaining table topic speech was the speech delivered by Chandran Kanapathey who won the best table topic speaker of the evening. The audience were amused by his unique way of relating the speech with the topic he randomly picked.
The meeting ended with presentation of awards to the best speaker, Shawn Lee and the best evaluator, Jaric Ng and best table topic speaker, Chandran Kanapathey.
The second edition of “Good things come in pairs” meeting came to its full completion with many guests feeling impressed and motivated by the programme. Guests and members are looking forward to the next edition of MMTMC meeting titled, “Madhatters Night”.