Toastmaster Minutes of Meeting 18 August 2008

Word of the day

Emulate

Round Robin

Kerry packer can order any person that he wants to meet him. If you could order any person at any time who would you hire?

Table Topic

What would you do if you are stuck on the lift -> Thran

What kind of restaurant would you make -> Tania

If you could hear only 1 music what would it be -> Ivan

What do you think of Moon Landing is it real? -> Ross

If you win $50 million who is the first person you tell -> Oliver

Do you wing a toastmaster speech -> Kevin

Speeches

Speech #	Speaker	Title	Reviewer
Speaker #1	Tania	Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi	Kumar
Speaker #2	Nikkho	Influence	Nadhira
Speaker #3	Ken	The baseball odyssey	Ajit
Speaker #4	Allan	How did he do it	Ross

Supporting Roles

Time keeper : Jasmin

Gruntmaster: Robert Horvath

Harkmaster: Robert Horvath

Guests

Ivan, Kin, Ranjon.

Minutes of the Meeting –

Word of the day

Ben filled in as word of the day. The word of the day is ‘Confuse’.

Round Robin

Topic: what is your God’s given gift?

Table Topic

3 topics for and against

1. Coffee chain Starbucks recently announced t close more than 2/3 of its stores in Australia. Someone thinks that Starbucks sell cheap & low quality coffee, which doesn’t cope with Australian’s coffee cultural. So Starbucks lost money in Australia. Do you agree or disagree? And why?

Speakers: Robert vs ??

2. Someone suggests that Australian economy is sinking into recession. Do you agree or disagree? And why?

Speakers: Hugh vs Ross

3. Facebook becomes a popular internet social utility to connect with friends and others around the world. However, some people claim that Facebook addictees bring their fetish to work which impacts on their work productivity. Do you agree or disagree? And why?

Speakers: Ben vs Andrejz

Speeches

Maximise Learning, Minimise Time – Yang Xu (evaluated by Ken Brandt)
LETS – Ajit (evaluated by Hugh Kilpatrick)
The Beijing Olympics 2008 – Robert Lu (evaluated by Jasmine Lu)
Blink – Nadhira Razack (evaluated by Allan Gowers)

Supporting roles

Guest: Shannon & Andrejz

Carlos did both Harkmaster and Gruntmaster

Winners

Allan – best evaluator

Ben – best table topic

Ajit – Best speaker

General business

Policy confusion between previous executive and new executives, to be discussed at a separate meeting.