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.