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First Time (21 Aug)

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The chapter meeting was a memorable one! We had first time visiting toastmasters from SIM and NTU toastmaster club joining us that evening, 2 new guests, Vicky & Eunice and * drumroll *, more guests and external toastmasters than our own members! :) We had a total of 11 participants (guests & toastmasters) for the night. Small crowd, but it's a fun, friendly and heartwarming one. Table Topics Master, Vincent, came up with humourous topics like: "My fake flower died because I did not pretend to water it." - attempted by Rick "Behind every successful man is a woman rolling her eyes" - attempted by Kelvin  Beside that, our new guest, Vicky shared with us a personal story of how she overcome her personal struggle during table topics.  And below are the winners for Table Topics. :) From left: President, Vicky, Rick Rick also shared with us that it was his first time getting a ribbon from the club. He was heartened and grat...

Mini Humour & Evaluation Contest (7 Aug)

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Our club held a mini Humour & Evaluation Contest last Tuesday. It was an entertaining, humourous and refreshing meeting. Unlike usual meeting with prepared speeches and evaluations, the prepared speakers were contesting in the Humour Contest and the champion would be representing our club to compete in Area A2 for the Area Contest; likewise for evaluation contest. Here's a snapshot of the participants for respective contest. Both humourous speakers were funny in their own way and delighted their audience during their speeches. Rick jokes were original, insightful and amusing. Vincent's style was more slap-stick and colloquial. Winner was chosen through voting and Vincent would be representing our club for the Area Contest. For the evaluation contest, it's similar to Humour. Only difference is, we had an eloquent test speaker from Toa Payoh South Toastmaster Club. Raymond from Toa Payoh South Toastmaster Club (right) with our Club President (left) His t...