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