ANZ Talk of the Town Toastmasters Newsletter #3

ANZ Talk of the Town Toastmasters – Newsletter #3

July was a pivotal month with numerous achievements to mention.

Firstly – we wish to extend congratulations to Jasmine Zhang, who completed her first ten speeches and will now be progressing to the Advanced Communication series.  Her 10^th speech on achieving her career goal was inspiring and remarkable – more on this later.

Next, we wish to congratulate David Tasker for coming 1st place in the State Championships for Tanguette (a type of a tango).  David will be competing again in three weeks time – we wish you all the best David!

Third – we had a record number of guests attending this session.  Whilst we have capped our membership until August, we encourage the Guest to continue attending as Guests, while suggesting other clubs they can attend to (that are currently taking members).

Lastly, on a sadder note – we farewell Julius Liunardi, who has returned to Indonesia.

Toastmasters – 5 July 2010

Nikkho Shandittho was the Chairman for the evening.  Rachel Seo delivered her Round Robin topic, which was ‘Is marriage necessary in our life today?”  Understandably this led to varied audience response, with married men in the audience saying they had thought of this during their Bachelor years, to married/attached women saying it depended on whether you met the right person.  Another person in the audience had an entirely different viewpoint where they didn’t believe in the Western notion of ‘love’ and instead favouring arranged marriage.    

For the Table Topics questions, Maya Kawashima delivered the following questions and selected the following people to answer:

Hugh – If you have recently been elected as Australia’s Prime Minister, what would be your key policy focus and why?

George (Guest) – If you are a Masterchef contestant and were asked to make your mother’s favourite dish, what would that be and why?

Dave Stewart – If you had the ability to ‘turn back time’, what period of your life would you go back to and why?

Grace (Guest) – What is the best book that you’ve ever read?

Frank – Where is your ideal holiday destination?

Ashish – If you have the option of pursuing a career change, what would that be and why?

Hugh spoke of focusing on health as the Prime Minister, as this is an area that affects all Australians.  George reminisced his mother’s meatloaf, and described the delicious sauce that accompanied it.  Dave’s ideal ‘turning back time’ was to his university days as a carefree Drama student.  Grace’s favourite book was ‘Gone with the Wind.’  Frank’s perfect holiday destination was Europe (and even describing the ‘glow’ of Europe on google map as being one of the key motivation behind his desire to visit there!).  Lastly, Ashish’s desired career change path was to open up his own business from his current IT profession.

We wish to mention special commendations to the guests George and Grace, who bravely answered all the questions without hesitation.  Also a huge commendation to Ashish who volunteered to answer the Table Topic question and did so with ease and confidence.

The following Prepared Speeches were:

Fan Gunawan                                                “Why is Breakfast so Important?”

Yau Yau (Icebreaker)                                 “Best of Both Worlds”

Jasmine Zhang (10^th speech)              “Embracing Change”

May Mei (Icebreaker)                                 “My Life”

Fan highlighted the importance of eating breakfast, particularly fibre and protein, and how eating these can increase your concentration levels.  Next, Yau Yau spoke of her upbringing in both Hong Kong and Australia, and how she feels privileged to have experienced both cultures.  Jasmine spoke of her determination in becoming a Financial Planner and how she overcame obstacles in achieving her goal.  Finally, May Mei spoke of studying Acupuncture in China and becoming a Registered Acupunctural Medical Practitioner in Australia, where she enjoys helping people reach optimal health. 

The following Evaluators were:

Wilmar Lay – evaluating Fan’s speech

Kevin Mitchell – evaluating Yau’s speech

David Tasker – evaluating Jasmine’s speech

Hugh Kilpatrick – evaluating May’s speech

 

Wilmar commended Fan’s use of statistics to demonstrate her argument and for her story-telling abilities.  Kevin Mitchell congratulated Yau Yau on her ease with the audience and delivering her speech with limited use of notes (for a First Timer!).  David complimented Jasmine’s passion and using many personal anecdotes, which strengthened her connection with the audience.  Lastly, Hugh praised May Mei for ‘having a go’ second time round with her Ice Breakers Speech and subsequently delivering an outstanding speech.

The winners for the evening were:

Best Table Topic                   David Stewart

Best Prepared Speech        Jasmine Zhang

Best Evaluator                       David Tasker

Vox Pop with Al Bradtke

1) What made you join Toastmasters?

A crippling fear of public speaking!

I did a short Toastmasters course and, at the end of it, they recommended joining a club so I didn’t stop practicing my public speaking and lose the skills I had learned. Being a slack beast at the best of times I didn’t join a club and sure enough lost all the skills and confidence I had developed. A year later I sucked up my courage and joined ANZ Talk of the Town.   

2) What aspect of Toastmasters do you find particularly rewarding?

Kevin’s tin of biscuits. Also performing a speech well.  

3) Your most memorable speech – the title, and what was it about? (in 2 sentences!)

Pug Puppies 2009. About how I want a pug because they are so funny looking and how my wife won’t let me get one (because they are so funny looking).

 

4) What is the greatest fear that you have overcome? (aside public speaking!)

Just public speaking (and that’s still a work in progress)!

5) Who do you most admire and why?

Comedian Tony Martin. One of the funniest people alive, with a disturbing knowledge of obscure films and TV shows.

 

6) What do you like to do in your spare time?

Rock climbing, reading Proust and taking long walks along the beach. Failing that I like to sit at home and play Xbox.  

7) Something about you that no one really knows?

I’m a former cub scout of the year (Deepdene 1989).
Upcoming Toastmasters events (external)

 

Volunteers needed for various club contests (We help them, they help you).

Put your hand up as a Judge for various contests.

Clubs are requesting for Judges in their Humorous and Evaluation contests. If you haven’t done this before or have not attended the workshop, simply let them know – they’ll be happy for your help.

City Centre TM (same club location as us), require three more Judges / Guest Speaker and a Contest Chair.  Monday 26th July, ANZ Building, 4th level 100 Queen Street, Melbourne.  Time: 6-8, contact Jess jessica.cerejo@gmail.com or Trudy T.Rundle@mitsui.com

Happy Hour Toastmasters Club – Judges needed for the ‘Evaluation and Humorous speech contest’!!

Wednesday 4th August from 5.10 to 7.15pm at 50 Lonsdale Street in the CBD

David Murphy, the VPE of Happy Hour Toastmasters Club for judges for their Evaluation and Humorous speech contest will be held on Wednesday 4th August from 5.10 to 7.15pm at 50 Lonsdale Street in the CBD.  Contact Tania tania.wilson@yahoo.com.au for more details.

Judging and Contest chair workshop:

Saturday July 24th. Starts at 12:30pm and finishes at 4:30pm.

The workshop will be held at the Liardet Community Centre on corner of Lairdet and Nott Streets, Port Melbourne. Melways ref. 2J E4.

We need to know number so we can have the right number of handouts, don’t want you to miss out.  There is a cost of $10.00 that covers tea, coffee and biscuits. The $10.00 will be collected at the door on the day. A receipt will be given.

You can contact Adrienne at adrienneb52@gmail.com or the “Corporal of T&E” at terry@barridge.net or phone 0419318981

 Next meeting

Monday 19 July

**See you there!!**

ANZ Talk of the Town Newsletter #2

Toastmasters Newsletter Edition #2

Welcome to the second edition of the Toastmasters Newsletter!

We commenced the month of June very well with several new faces present at our club. Whilst this has been good news, we have actually capped our membership limit until August this year. This has unfortunately meant that we’ve had to turn away several attendees from becoming members 😦 Nevertheless, we’ve encouraged them to continue attending as guests, or to attend alternative Toastmasters clubs. Some of the feedback from our guests have been extremely positive.  Tej (a Guest) commented, “I can say I was impressed with how everyone tried to help each other and were very welcoming to guests, and also with the feedback mechanisms to help people improve.”

Obviously these are some of the key aspects of Toastmasters: to help improve each other’s public speaking skills in a very supportive environment, whilst becoming more confident with our own public speaking abilities. These were some of the themes covered at the annual Metropolitan Division Club Officer Training (District 73) titled ‘Exceed Expectations’ on Monday 28 June, which was attended by Jess Cerejo, Caitlin McMahon, Tania Wilson, Maya Kawashima and Kevin Mitchell, held at the Australian Post Office Centre on Bourke St. Bert Naik the Division Governor charismatically delivered the Welcome Address. He emphasised on the importance of collective decision making in order to come to an agreeable consensus, and how always sticking to one’s own point can be dangerous and counterproductive.

We then broke into our respective Vice President Groups. My group (Vice President Public Relations) spoke about how to better promote Toastmasters to the wider community and how each of the clubs could increase the membership rate. Whilst we at the ‘ANZ Talk of the Town Toastmasters’ have capped our membership, Jess and I believe this is a good opportunity to grow as a group internally, where members can get to know each other better. Some of our suggestions to faciliate this include:

– Organise trivia nights

– Give feedback and suggestions on this newsletter – whilst I write this newsletter, remember this is YOUR paper – I am open to hearing what else you’d like to see on it

– Create a Linkedin group (more on this to follow) – Keep updated on events pertaining to Toastmasters District 73 (covers VIC, WA, SA, and TAS): http://www.d73.toastmasters.org.au If you have any other ideas, please let Tania, Jess, Ajit, Pallavi, Hugh, Kevin or Maya know – we would be delighted to hear from you!

Toastmasters Mon 21 June, 2010

There were over 20 members in attendance. Chris Greig was the Chairperson for the evening, and started by delivering JKF’s famous quote, “Ask not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” Chris then asked us to think of powerful quotes ourselves, to which none of us could match Chris’! The Word of the Day was ‘Temperament’.

Frank Chan delivered the Round Robin topic, which was, “We spend too much money on buying things that we don’t need in order to impress people we do not like.” Many of the women and men in the audience laughed and related well to that saying, with (both) gender admitting to doing this on a regular basis because either a) the items were on sale, b) they wanted to impress the opposite sex, or c) because of peer pressure. Others took a step further – one Guest cynically commented on doing this all the time, particularly at after-work drinks where they buy drinks for those whose names are almost instantly forgotten and whom the Guest would never see again.

Ajit delivered the Table Topics for the evening and selected the following people:

Jess – “If you could design an Australian flag, what would it look like?”

Tej (Guest) – “What does the colour of peace look like to you?”

Grant (Guest) – “What is the worst lie you have ever told?”

David – “What are the lyrics of your favourite song?”

Nikkho – “How do you explain to your partner that running your car into the garage was a good idea?”

Chris – “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

Jess spoke eloquently of a picture of an Australian flag that she drew in primary school, which consisted of the Ayers Rock with the Southern Cross stars above it. Tej described multiple colours that reflected peace and also different types of moods. Grant wryly reminded us that ‘lying is an integral part of us’ and how we (mainly) lie to protect other people from knowing what we really think of them and vice versa! David spoke passionately about his love of lyrics by Bob Dylan and Robert Hunter. Nikkho pictured a scenario where he won $20M on a Germany-New Zealand soccer bet, and how running his car into the garage was a good idea after all. Lastly, Chris asked rhetorically, “My question is not so much why the chicken crossed the road, but what was it doing there in the first place?”

For the ice-breakers, we had Maya Kawashima, Ashish Khurana, Jim Tan and May Mei. Maya spoke of her upbringing in Japan and Serbia, her current life in Australia, and some of the lessons learnt along the way. Ashish passionately spoke about his upbringing in Singapore and aptly described this metropolis. Jim delivered a humorous speech on his upbringing in Malaysia, and how he moved to the ‘money jungle’ of Australia in order to find his ‘money honey’. Lastly, May gave us a picture of her acupuncture study in China.

VOX POP with…Jessica Rose Cerejo 1

) When did you join Toastmasters and why?

I joined in January 2009 to perform well prepared speeches with more impact, and to rid of any slurring.

2) What aspect of Toastmasters do you find particularly rewarding?

Self development opportunities and meeting people. I particularly like how most high profile management positions across the world acknowledge and respect the Toastmasters organisation; and the fact that Toastmasters isn’t JUST about speaking – the leadership component is a great way to grow my leadership skills in a professional setting.

3) What is your most memorable speech given?

Last year at the humorous contest – I learnt so much despite being 5 minutes over time and I had an absolute ball!

4) What is the greatest fear that you have overcome? (aside public speaking!)

Singing in public. I have a terrible signing voice so I joined a choir for 5 sessions last year to overcome this fear. Maybe that could be my next speech!? I am yet to overcome my fear of ball sports! I am still scarred from my childhood. When I was 10 years old I was watching the boys playing football. I quickly learnt that standing near the goals posts wasn’t a wise move. I thought I was nearly dying, when in fact I got winded (lungs deflated) by the football. I’ve signed up for volleyball but haven’t gone to a game yet!

5) Who do you most admire and why?

My mum. For her resilience, strength and determination.

6) What are your interests/hobbies?

Giving things a go. My hobbies and interests always change as I’m always trying new activities. My main interests are eating scrumptious food, crazy dancing, adrenaline activities,appreciating the little wonders and everyday magic of the world, travelling, music, arts, culture and my number one: laughing.

7) Something about you that no one really knows?

“I am your father” I eat chocolate – every day, probably more like every 2 hours! Sub orbit the earth (or into space if i can afford it) for my 50th birthday. Clowns scare me.

Next meeting

Monday 5 July ANZ Buiding Level 4, 100 Queen St, Melbourne

**See you there!**

‘ANZ Talk of the Town’ Toastmasters Newsletter Club No 7419, District 73

‘ANZ Talk of the Town’ Toastmasters Newsletter

Club No 7419, District 73

Welcome to the first edition of the ‘ANZ Talk of the Town Toastmasters’ newsletter for 2010!  We have commenced the year very well with the appointment of the following positions:

President:                     Jessica Cerejo

VP Education:              Tania Wilson

VP Membership:            Pallavi Murthy

VP of PR:                       Maya Kawashima

Secretary:                     Caitlin McMahon

Treasurer:                     Ajit Ravindran

Sergent at Arms:           Kevin Mitchell

‘Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest’

Monday 31 May

We hosted our first club competition titled ‘Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest’.  Congratulations to Pallavi Murthy, Alastair Bradtke, Robert Horvath and David Stewart, who delivered high quality and witty speeches.  The following were their speech titles:

Pallavi Murthy ‘Corporate Jargon’

Robert Horvath ‘A Glaring Injustice Against Incompetent People’

Alastair Bradtke ‘Public Transport a Rand ’

David Stewart ‘Revenge’

Special thanks to our Guests for judging: David Murphy, Robert Kinghorn, Cue Lam, Joanne Philipps and Max Tay.

Pallavi began by explaining why she dislikes corporate slogans and her preference for her manager to speak plain English.  She used visual displays to demonstrate how she interpreted the ‘corporate’ metaphors like ‘keep your eye on the ball’ and ‘socialise’.  Robert gave us a very witty and insightful speech on why it is important not to discriminate against ‘incompetent people’ (no references to any political parties here! J).  Alastair spoke of his intense dislike of catching the overcrowded number 112 tram to work except for the day these men chroming was somewhat of an aberration. Last but not least, David factitiously reminded us not to give our children unusual names, for the fear of raising deviant and rebellious adults (by using the example of the Archbishop Fieldflower Goe who rebelled against his Athiest parents!)  David was the Winner.

Annabelle Ong was the Guest Speaker for the evening where she spoke passionately on ‘Why Germany Deserves to Win [The World Cup].”  She was confident, made plenty of eye contacts and overall had very convincing arguments.  Ajit Ravindran won the ‘Best Evaluator’, followed closely by Ross Turetsky in Second Place and David Tasker in Third Place .

Vox Pop

Every week I will be selecting a Toastmasters person and asking them about what aspects of Toastmasters they really enjoy – and to learn a little bit more a bout them.

Interview with Tania Wilson

Why did you join Toastmasters?

To get over a crippling fear of public speaking!

What aspect of Toastmasters do you find particularly rewarding?

The opportunity to step out of my comfort zone and challenge myself – all part of personal growth

What is your most memorable speech given?

I have a short-term memory so I’ll say my most recent speech: Be your own Superhero

What is the greatest fear that you have overcome? (aside public speaking!)

Always working on a number of fears at any given moment, however, a fear I have conquered is the fear of serving up inedible food to dinner party guests!  This fear stopped me hosting dinner parties for years but I now hold regular dinner parties and no-one has ever been poisoned 🙂

Who do you most admire and why?

Nelson Mandela – for never giving up – and what an amazing difference he has made!

What are your interests/hobbies?

Ashtanga Yoga, Rock Climbing, Reading Novels and searching for the perfect coffee!

Something about you that no one really knows?

I’m a lounge room dancer, can juggle and, despite being a rock climber, am petrified of heights!

Upcoming events

Next session – Monday 7 June, 2010 @ 6pm (sharp).

Hope to see you there!

Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 7th of December 2009

ANZ Talk of the Town ToastMasters (07 December 2009)

by: Caitlin McMahon, Club Secretary

• Club President, Hugh Kilpatrick opened the meeting.
• The toastmaster was Robert Horvath.
• Word of the day: Intrepid, meaning fearless, bold or brave
• Round Robin presented by Christopher Greig: “Christmas seems to be starting earlier every year. If this keeps going, what are we going to do?”
• Table topics presented by Ben Maslen:

• 1. Should we sign the ETS, or wait and work out the details first? Yang Xu
  1. What makes a good public transport system? Allan Gowers
  2. How will you spend the Christmas break? Frank (guest)
  3. Are office Christmas parties a good thing? Caitlin McMahon
  4. Is Christmas too comercialised? Jasmine Zhang
  5. What was the best gift you ever received? Pallavi Murthy
  • 1, 3 and 5 evaluated by Ross Turetsky. 2, 4 and 6 evaluated by Ajit Ravindran.

Prepared speeches:

David Tasker – Ice breaker: “Slow and easy wins the day”.

David is an accomplished speaker who has just joined Talk of the Town Toastmasters club.

Key points:  Find your own tempo

Do what others do, and do it really well.

Evaluated by Hugh Kilpatrick

Kevin Mitchell – “Leave them laughing”

Key points: Get to know your audience

Make them laugh in the first 30 seconds

Know the room

Evaluated by Tania Wilson

Time keepers report by Rachel Seo.

Gruntmaster report by Elizabeth Montgomery

Word of the day report by Jasmine Zhang. Robert Horvath used ‘intrepid’ the most times (9).

Awards:

Best table topic: Jasmine Xhang

Best evaluator: Ajit Ravindran and Hugh Kilpatrick

Other business:

Hugh encouraged the clubs advanced speakers to deliver more speeches to continue their public speaking development and inspire the newer speakers.

Elizabeth Montogomery is moving interstate and will not be attending this club any more.

Next meeting is January 18^th 2010

ToastMasters Minutes 9 July 2009

ANZ Talk of the Town ToastMasters    ( 9 July 2009 )  

Toastmaster: Yang Xu

 

1.Word of the day:

Plush. It is an adjective, characterized by extravagance and profusion. Synonyms are lavish, lush, and plushy.

2.Round robin

What does “Globalization” mean to you? How does it affect your life?

3.Table topic

3.1 What motivates me ?

Answered by Chris. Firstly, put on the pressure to do things. Secondly, to expect the rewards at the end.

3.2 What interests me most is?

   Answered by Jasmine. It is the money that interested her most.

3.3 When I let my hair down?

Answered by Caitlin as a guest. When she is going out with friends,   or for food, meals, or others.

3.4 What makes me successful?

Answered by Pallavi. When things really interest her and she is really  passionate about them.  

3.5 The worst punishment for me?

Answered by Celina. She lost nearly $ 2000 as the fine for an over withdrawal.   

3.6 When you walk bare foot on the sand?

Answered by Allan. It could be holiday, and he will think about where he should take for the next holiday, where he is from and headed to.

4. Evaluators for table topics:

  Nikkho for odds numbers, and Sam for even numbers.

5. Prepared speeches

5.1 Ice breaker speech from Henry Lee.

There are three main points in Henry’s speech.

First, he came to Australia alone at the age of 11. He had experienced many difficult but meaningful, memorable and enjoyable things.  He has learned how to be independent.

Second, the year when he was 14 was Henry’s best year ever in his life. Staying in off-campus location with a wonderful experience of village life, he has learned how to appreciate to work with others; and found a balance between emotion and the spiritual in life.

Lastly, the aim of joining the toast master meetings is to improve Henry’s pubic communication skills.   

5.2 Hacking the bird in the sky from Willar.

Willar talked about how to make money from birds’ nests. He mentioned the secret of the buildings for hosting those special kind of bird for the harvesting of birds’ nest are highly valued.

He noted that these houses must be in the right location ( which should  be close to the sea, ideally 100meters above sea level, at around 26 to 30C degrees Celsius ) and the floor to ceiling height should be at least three-storey high.

In addition, system for letting in sun light and high frequency speakers are the other two attributes to attract the special birds.  

5.3 Briefing: A year on the executive from Ben.

Ben has mentioned three things he has learned from being a president for one year. He has learned sophisticated and professional communication skills at many levels. He noted that being proactive is the key to achieve goals. He has learned and practiced how to encourage team work to achieve group objectives. The most enjoyably part in the past one year was to help new members to get to know the functions of toastmasters and to participate to improve their public effective speaking skills.

 5.4 Speaking to inform: story of a GFC from Ajit.

Ajit firstly briefly mentioned the definition of GFC (global financial crisis) and then explained and demonstrated the implications on/from the U.S and spread to other countries.

It led to the second point that banks set interest rate differently and independently from the reserve bank.

Lastly, what things should we do in this current situation. He has kindly suggested three things: start saving; buy what you can afford; and give away the valuable things that you do not need but help others out.  

6. Evaluators for the prepared speeches.

Jess

Jasmine

Robert

Ross

 

7. Rewards

      Best table topic: Chris

Best evaluator: Ross

Best Speech: Ajit

 

8. Hugh closed the meeting by rising three encouraging and profound questions:

Why do we join toastmasters?

How can we be better?

What should we do now and next?

Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 15th of June 2009

Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 15th of June 2009
The meeting opened up by Ben Maslen introduce himself as the last role of Presidency before transferring the role to Hugh Kilpatrick on the next meeting.
Apologies : there are 3 cancellation of speakers; luckily we still have 3 speakers for the meeting.
Word of the day: Behemoth – it means very big.
By Sam Patterson.
Round Robin: What’s the painting that has inspired you?
By Nikkho Shandittha
Table Topic:
By Ajit Ravindran.
Due to the shortage of speakers, everybody is given a chance to speaker
1. Speaker: Hugh
Question: Tell me a situation where you ran over a cat.
2. Speaker: Nikkho
Question: Imagine that you are the only human on earth; and you see a cow; how do you figure out how to milk a cow?
3. Speaker: Jess
Question: If there is a bad habit that I have to break what is it?
4. Speaker: Sebastian
Question: Imagine that you are the only human on earth; and you see a lion; what would you do?
5. Speaker: Palavee
Question: How do you convince your boss that you deserves a promotion?
6. Speaker: Matt
Question: If God ask you to create a tv channel what would you do?
7. Speaker: Henry
Question: What’s the worst movie that you ever saw and how do you sell it to the audience?
8. Speaker: Damien
Question: Is the freedom of speech is important to you?
9. Speaker: Tor
Question: Please debate that freedom of speech is not important?
Prepared Speeches:
1. Speaker: Tor
Title:  It’s about me
Description: This is Tor’s icebreaker speech. He’s 25 years old professional from Norwegia. He live in a small farm while he’s young and joined the army before graduating from a master degree in science and finance. He worked at BCG and have a chance of visit to Melbourne. Why he want to join toastmaster? To conquer the stage fright!
2. Speaker: Jasmine
Title: What can you live without?
Description: Jasmine’s speech is about invention. She mentioned about 4 things to stimulate invention. Firstly is the human imagination, an example is the human robot invention. Secondly is the total irritation, an example is the typewriter invention. Thirdly is the accident, an example is the post it note. Finally is the observation of nature, an example is the invention of barbwire. She’s quoting a famous quote on her speech: “to invent you must seeing what everyone is seeing, but thinking what not everyone is thinking”.
3. Speaker: Ross
Title: Seminar Specials
Description: Ross speak about the seminars that he attended and he learn from people selling in the seminars whether or not it’s a scam or real thing. He outlined what a scam is; why is there a need to sell; how do the speakers used psychological tricks to make you buy such as scarcity and humour. This is a fun and informational speech about seminars.

Winners:
Best table topic: Ross
Best Speaker: Jasmine
Best Evaluator: Ben

Toastmaster 1st of June 2009

Toastmaster 1^st of June 2009

Word of the day: Factious

Round robin

What’s the most delicious food you ever tasted? and what’s the most exciting experience over the last month that you ever had.

Table topic

1. Kevin
   1. What do you want to do on the long weekend?
2. Kumar
   1. Given that Australia is going to be a Republic; should Australia removed the Queen’s birthday?
3. Al
   1. What are the most interesting places that you’ve been with?
4. Ross
   1. What interesting things happened today?
5. Tram
   1. The swine flue outbreak; what will you do if you are locked in the house for 2 weeks?
6. Palavee
   1. If you moved into a new house. Is there a task that you hate?

Prepared speeches

1. Celina Yu
   1. Title: My new start:Melbourne.
   2. Description: Celina mentioned about her spoilt background as the youngest in the family in China. She transitioned her life as she leave china to go to Australia to study that’s when she learned how to discipline herself and get great results.
2. Sebastian Yap
   1. Title: A face in the crowd.
   2. Description: This is Sebastian icebreaker speech. He mentioned about his background: which is a study person in Singapore and his motive to got into the mysterious ‘university of his choice’ and ‘workplace of his choice’; that battled him to travel across the world into Shanghai and London. He also mentioned about his wide variety of hobbies which include: soccer, golf, penthouse, student accommodation, music, fine food and of course.. study.
3. Tania
   1. Title: Road Rage
   2. Description: Tania mentioned about her life as a motorcycle driver. She describe about the traffic congestions and the statistics on the traffic.

Award

Best table topic: Al

Best evaluator: Nikkho

Best Speech: Tania

Minutes of Meeting 18th of May 2009

Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 18^th May 2009

This is the club’s 20^th Anniversary. The meeting opened with Kevin’s introduction to the chartered members and other members that created the club 20 years ago:

1. Bernie – non chartered member
2. Maggie – Ex president
3. Kyle
4. Hazel – Past president and founder of Curri club (a toastmaster for indigenous Australian)
5. David Miller – Chartered member
6. Margaret – Area governor and president.

General evaluation: Max Wallen -> Competition winner from Australian Post

Word of the day: Festive

Round robin: What’s your most memorable birthday or anniversary?

Table Topics:

1. Should bar owner be responsible for alcohol related issue?
   1. Speaker: Margaret
2. Do you think the legal minimum for alcohol should be lifted to 21?
   1. Speaker: Bernie
3. Do you think the government should rise budgeting to tackle the global financial crisis?
   1. Speaker: Maggie
4. What do you think about ticket inspector behaviour?
   1. Speaker: Jasmine
5. You got caught speeding, how do you talk yourself out?
   1. Speaker: Kyle
6. If you can go back in time to the age of 10. What advice would you give to yourself?
   1. Speaker: Felix

Table topic evaluator: Helen is not present, so Ajit replaced her.

Break : A lot of refreshment of food and wine

Prepared Speeches:

1. Title: Passion
   1. Speaker: Hugh
   2. Description:
      1. Hugh talked about passion. What is passion? Previous toastmaster who is passionate about something. Hugh’s passions include music and education in the northern suburb. What isn’t passion include something that the outcome isn’t important and emotional aspects on things. How to get passion? Look at something that motivates you and decide to be a force to be reckoned with.
2. Title: Grabbing the 2 edge swords
   1. Speaker: David Miller
   2. Description:
      1. David speak about the 2 edge swords, which is our ability to speak. He quoted Edward’s statement: ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’. The reason is because the sword’s effect is localized while the pen’s effect is about influence. He mentioned about his career as a credit analyst role at ANZ (Now it’s already automated), but because he got speaking ability, that’s something that cannot be automated. He mentioned about 2 things that you can do to improve your speeches: firstly get a video camera and secondly collect quotes. He concluded nicely with a statement from Abraham Lincoln: “I will prepare and someday my chance will come”.
3. Title: Where are you from
   1. Speaker: Chris Greg
   2. Description:
      1. This is Chris icebreaker speech, Chris spoke about what do you call home and where are you from. He mentioned that he was born in New Zealand but moved to Sydney and then moved to Melbourne again. He also stated that the two most common questions that people asked the first time they met new people are: what do you and where are you from. So, he put emphasized the importance of where he’s from.
4. Who is this man called George.
   1. Speaker: Hazel
   2. Description:
      1. Hazel told a chronological story line about a man called George whose life story is embed with pictorial description of his life through letters sent between George and a few of his friends. The story started out beautifully in the event of the wizard of oz at July 1941 and flow around the periods of wars and several near to death experience and ended at 1945. In the closing part of the story, Hazel mentioned that his dad’s name is George; however, she didn’t mentioned whether there is no direct connection whether George in her story is the same as George her dad.

Winners:

David Miller – Best speaker

Ajit – Best evaluator

Maggie – Best table topic

Minutes of Meeting 4th of May 2009

Toastmaster 4^th May 2009

The meeting starts with election for executive committee.

–          President: Hugh and Ross nominated themselves and Hugh won the presidency title.

–          Vice President Education: Nikkho won the position.

–          Vice President Membership: Vacant

–          Vice President PR: Vacant

–          Secretary: Celina won the position.

Congratulations to all of the winners of executive committee!

Word of the day: Fastidious

Round Robin: (Continuing the story) Starts with Ajit & Captain Cook arrive at the island.. ending with I arrived in toastmasters

Table Topic:

1. Do swine flu deter you from going overseas?
   1. Speaker: Ajit
2. Are you a believer in global warming?
   1. Speaker: Sam
3. With four horses are put down, should horse race be banned?
   1. Speaker: Jasmine
4. How would you solved victoria water shortage?
   1. Speaker: Al
5. The first home owner scheme is creating issues, should it be discarded?
   1. Speaker: Tram
6. Does Melbourne need a second AFL stadium?
   1. Speaker: Tim

Prepared speeches:

Carlos didn’t turn up, so we have 2 speakers:

1. Title: Dragonboat
   1. Speaker: Wilmar
   2. Description:
      1. In his 7^th speech wilmar talked about what interest him into dragon boat. He mentioned that it is healthy to be a dragonboat paddler and it is fun to be with the paddlers.
2. Title: Do you want to be my friend
   1. Speaker: Felix
   2. Description:
      1. In his icebreaker speech, Felix talked about 3 things: his passion, his love of music and what he would like to do before he died. His passion would be tennis, his music taste is jazz and he would like to speak to George Bush before he died. He concluded nicely that if he wants to be your friend, we need to vote for him.

Education and supporting roles:

Word of the day winner: Nikkho – said 4 times

Next meeting roles:

Next meeting will be the club’s 20^th anniversary. The following is the agenda:

–          Tania: Table topic

–          Kumar: Round robin

–          Robert: Wordmaster

–          Speakers: David

–          Time keeping: Jess

–          Harkmaster: Sam

There will be plenty of food and alcoholic beverages. So please come!

Minutes of meeting 20th April 2009

Word of the day: Equivocal and Unequivocal

Round Robin: What do you want to be when you were young?

Table topic:

1.       If you could be a person in the room for a day. What would you do?

a.       Speaker: Jasmine

2.       I was inspired by a tv show the apprentice. Imagine yourself as a project manager. You have to choose 2 person in the room as your business partner. Who would that person be and how do you outline your business.

a.       Speaker: Ross

3.       Tell me a situation where you have think outside of the box.

a.       Speaker: Sam

4.       Imagine yourself as a movie director. What kind of movie do you want to make? And tell us about your movie script.

a.       Speaker: Chris

5.       Imagine yourself as a columnist in cosmopolitan magazine and you are supposed to write a romantic article. What would you write?

a.       Speaker: Felix

6.       Has anyone in here watched groundhog day? Image if your day is repeated everyday, what would you do?

a.       Speaker: Carlos

Prepared speeches:

1.        Craig Coonan

a.       Topic: HR at ANZ

2.       Jessica Cerejo

a.       Topic: Icebreaker about unequivocal life

3.       Nikkho Shandittha

a.       Topic: Do you believe in fortune telling

4.       Alaistair Bradtke

a.       Topic: Dog’s day

Word of the day winner: Nikkho

Prepared speech winner: Alaistair

Table Topic winner: Sam

Evaluation winner: Matt Morrison

General Business: club’s 20^th anniversary