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!

Ross is unstoppable !!!

Hey there fellow Toastmasters,

I’m looking forward to seeing you all at our meeting tonight, the agenda is full and looks to be chock full of fun.

An additional draw card element on the agenda for tonight will be the presence of our own Ross Turetsky who two weekends ago WON the DIVISIONAL contest for table topicing.

It’s a wonderful achievement truly worth of our admiration and congratulation. So if you see Ross tonight, be sure to congratulate him and ask him to teach you all his secrets 😉

Ross also represented us the evaluation and international speech contests where he performed admirably.

Go Ross, you’re the champ.

See you all tonight.

Ben.

It’s just a new address to your old website

Hey Guys,

Further to my previous post, I’ve set our old website up at a new hosting site. One unfortunate consequence of this is that the url of the new website is slightly different, so you’ll have to update your bookmarks to reflect the new address, which is ….

http://anztalkofthetown.x10hosting.com/

The good news is that the new host will offer us a number of new facilities one of which will include a mailing list function that may simplify our ongoing communications in the future (I’ll keep you posted).

Thanks for your patience in the site restoration, I continue to look forward to our February assignation.

Kind regards,

Ben.

No Formal Meeting 15th December – Casual Coffee/Drink instead.

Hey Folks,

Christmas is here (it’s undeniable) so your Toastmasters Club will be taking a short break until we restart next year.

I’d like to thank you all for your wonderful contributions, company, assistance and cooperation over the last Toastmasters session.

In place of an ordinary meeting this Monday its been decided to meet at nearby Cafe Segovia for a quiet drink/coffee and a catchup.

Cafe Segovia
33 Block Pl
Melbourne 3000 VIC
(03)9650 2373

To be clear this is social gathering only we will NOT be running any of our usual Toastmasters activities (other than having a bit of a chat).

If you could let me know if you can make it, via email (ben.maslen@yahoo.com), I’ll try and book a table at the venue, otherwise we can just rock up on the night and take pot luck ! 🙂

In any case thanks for a great year, I look forward to seeing you when I do 🙂

Kind regards,

Ben Maslen.

Minutes for Meeting December 1st 2008 – Meeting No. 460

Jon Scheele was our Toastmaster for meeting no. 460.

Word of the day

Sam Patterson made a wonderful ToastMasters debut with the word of the day ‘Heart’ it was used and abused liberally throughout the night, well done to Sam he really showed some great … <lol>

Round Robin

Ken was our man of the night thanks Ken 🙂 .

Table Topic

Tram had us all on our thinking toes with some poignent table topics.

1. Kumar told us what he thought about a possible bail out package for the CitiGroup institution.
2. First time guest Steve jumped into the fray with some comments on the EU providing financial assistance for its less finanically robust members.
   
3. Ben Maslen was caught like a deer in the headlights when he was asked to connect the concepts of ‘A Boat’ ‘A Goat’ and ‘A Moat’.
4. Sam Patterson suggested that if Bill Gates gave him $50 Million to invest there might be a few more pace makers in the world (nice use of the word of the day ‘Heart’ Sam).
5. New member Al Bradtke got all gushy and admited that and ideal Christmas for him would be surrounded by his close family.
6. Ross got asked to pick the last book in the world and made it a history of Australia.

Speeches

1. Ken Gave performed his 10th speech (congratulations CC) on the Victorian Jazz Archives (evalated by Robert Horvath).
2. Nadhira asked us all to look a bit more closely at the common walnut (evaluated by Yang Xu)
3. Will Lo asked us to ponder the implications of waiting for the sky to fall and the self fulfilling prophecy (evaluated by Tania Wilson)
4. Amelia performed her final speech in her advanced manual on ‘ETS: A Key To Green’ and took questions from the floor (well done on finishing your manual Amelia) (evaluated by Ross Turetsky)

Supporting roles

1. Guests:  Steve (winner of most outstanding Guest well done Steve !)
2. Ben Maslen made sure we were paying attention as Hark Master
3. Al Bradtke made a ToastMaster debut as Grunt Master and … um … was … err … doing a fantastic job.
4. Jasmine volunteered at the last minute to be timekeeper (thanks Jasmine you really saved our bacon).
5. Word of the day was administered by Sam Patterson who did a great job despite Ben’s ‘Heartless’ abuse of power in repeating the word ‘Heart’ in as many contrived but ‘Heartfelt’ examples as he possibly had the ‘Heart’ to come up with <lol>

Prize winners

Ross – Best Evaluator

Ross – Best Table Topic

Will Lo – Best Speaker.

Well done and big thankyou to all for a great meeting.

Ross is the winner … again !!

Well done to our own Ross Turetsky on winning the area evaluation contest. Our prayers and hopes are with you as you progress through the competition.

Minutes from the Meeting – October 6th 2008

Alana Coleman was the Toastmaster for meeting no. 457.

I think you’ll all agree she did a wonderful job 🙂

Word of the day

Carlos provided us with the word of the day ‘laconic’. Thanks to Carlos for keeping it short and sweet.

Round Robin

Topic: Ben jumped into the fray and challenged us to respond to “how does space influence your day to day life”.

Table Topic

Tania then grabbed the reigns and lost no pace with 6 quick fire table topics.

1. Kevin was asked for his highlights of 2008 which included a trip to capetown and a challenge to look to local holiday destinations.
2. Neekho was asked what he would do with a little extra time. His response was split between: Work, friends and swimming.
3. Robert Horvath gave us all a glimpse into academic underpinnings of ‘Money makes the world go round’
4. Ajit was queried for his wishlist superpower and responded with his desire to ‘travel through time’.
5. Nadhira gave us a bit of insight into the world of love in response to the quote “diamonds are a girls best friend”
6. And finally Mimi gave us her take on the water crisis problem/solution and explored the use of desalination plants to solve the problem.

Speeches

1. Jasmine told us her tale of a river cruise in China – Jasmine  Zhang (evaluated by Ben Maslen)
2. Ross gave us his pitch on domain name speculation – Ross Turetsky (evaluated by Ajit Ravindran)
3. Tram Tao performed her icebreaker – Tram Tao  (evaluated by Robert Horvath)
4. Robert Lu gave us an insight into the credit crisis and its historical precedents – Robert Lu (evaluated by Nadhira Razack)
5. Jon Scheele re-broke the ice with his icebreaker – Jon Scheele (evaluated by Amellia Xie)

Supporting roles

1. Guests: Selena, Ben, Amy, Sarah and Helen.
2. Neekho stumped us all as Harkmaster
3. Kevin kept us honest as Gruntmaster
4. Carlos kept the peace as both timer and word of the day.

Prize winners

Ajit – best evaluator
Ajit – best table topic
Jon Scheele – Best speaker

Executive meeting.

Capping policy will be suspended pending further review of the clubs membership and goals.

Congratulations to Anz Talk of the Town.

Our Area Governor Karthik Nair wrote recently to congratulate our club on our progress towards becoming a distinguished club within the distinguished clubs program.

Currently, from the 19 clubs in the area Anz Talk of the Town is number 5 (a great achievement).

To reward and encourage us in our further progress the Karthik has instructed me to splurge some area funds on treats and snacks for the next meeting.

I always find chocolate goes down a treat, but if anyone else has some particular suggestions feel free to shoot me a mail with your hearts desire.

But, fundamentally, a hearty well done to all of you for just being yourselves and keeping true to your toastmasters goals and values. Well done.

Ben.