First time (19 Nov)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Indeed, this quote rang true for the meeting that evening. Let's take a look at what happened this evening.

The Prepared Speech segment, we had a total of 3 speakers. The first speaker was Bernard Kok. He just joined us a month ago and was doing his maiden speech this month. As they said, "strike while the iron is hot" and Bernard seemed to be doing so. The second speaker was Yong Chin. He's also doing his first maiden speech. The third speaker was Melissa about how to relax and wind down in a fast pacing life.

Alvin, our club President, was the timer for the first time as well. In Toastmaster, regardless of your position, we provide a conducive platform for all to learn regardless of your position or background.

The special training that evening was conducted by Vincent. He shared about tips and framework on how to make statistics interesting so people can remember and basics on good powerpoint presentation techniques.

Even for evaluators, we had first time evaluators Robin and Chiew Ping as well as Pei Zhi, who is also relatively new to evaluation.

We had two additional roles that evening from the usual program. One was Ah Counter. This is where the appointment holder took notes of every speaker's pause fillers like "ah", "er", "lah" etc. This appointment was done by Vincent. The other role was General Evaluator. We had the honour of having our sister club member, Simon Foo, ATM, CL to help us out. Apparently, he's also one of our past Presidents a decade ago. The role of General Evaluator is to help us improve the general flow of the program so we can run things more efficiently in the future. He complimented us on areas where we'd done well and pointers on where to better our program.

Last but not least, pictures of the winners and a group photo.
 Melissa was the Best Speaker for the evening. 

 Pei Zhi winning Best Evaluator. 

 Robin had the Best Table Topics. 

And 2 photos of our group photo at the end of the session.



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