A night of fun (19 Feb)

It was a night of fun that evening. We had a mix of great mix of visiting toastmasters, friendly guests and of course, our very own members.


SAA, Chiew Ping, kicked off the meeting with a interesting ice-breaker. She asked about what we did with our Chinese New Year (CNY) celebration for this year. There were a lot of eating, gambling, visiting and more gambling. Of course, all gambling in the spirit of CNY.  :)



This evening was also Chiew Ping's first opening address as acting Club President because our President, Alvin was not around. She shared about the Chinese culture lion dance and how having a good team work is essential even for a performance like lion dance.

We had a total of 3 speakers for the evening, Vincent Tatan from Whampoa Toastmaster Club doing Project 6 and new members Chun Kwang and Fion doing their Project 1.

Vanessa took on the role as Table Topics Master and she had prepared an interesting theme of transport related articles. Some of the volunteers who took up the challenge below.


 Vanessa being the first time in Table Topics Master.

 Priscilla, a guest, taking on Table Topics for first time. 

 Vincent Tatan, from Whampoa Toastmaster giving his shot. 

 Chun Kwang, trying out the table topics. 

 Mike, also a guest, trying table topics for the first time.

Priscilla, another guest, attempting the question.


After refreshment break, the program resumed with evaluations.

 Darryl, from NUS Toastmasters delivery his insights on Vincent Tatan's speech. 

Vincent Chua and Chiew Ping also gave their evaluations on Fion's and Chun Kwang's speeches. 


Lastly, we had the honour of having Siao Yan from Toa Payoh South Toastmasters giving us her take on the evening's usage of English language.





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