Our meeting on 4th September 2020 ushered in the new month filled with fresh ideas, immense possibilities and opened up unlimited growth opportunities. As always, the meeting was enriching, exciting and enjoyable beyond imagination.
The theme of the meeting, “Beyond Imagination” reflected the club’s vision of achieving excellence and striving to make you a good speaker beyond your belief.
The toastmaster of the day, Nazrul, very elegantly managed to build up our excitement and introduced the guests, speakers, and appointment holders. Our Club President, Ramanpreet, started the meeting by sharing her thoughts and personal experiences on the theme of the meeting. Next, we had our grammarian, TM David who unveiled the word of the day- CREATIVITY. The word of the day complimented the theme of the day and ignited the curiosity and interest.
In the prepared speech section, we had Prasad, tickle our funny bones with his humorous speech on scam calls. Next was TM Diana, who made us travel to South Africa and then spoke about conflict resolution by using the VOCAB technique. If you follow this, then you will be able to resolve any conflict successfully. Then we had TM Sail, who educated us on how to manage our projects efficiently, by revealing her own style in project management. Our fourth Speaker TM Swatantra enlightened us on the benefits and drawbacks of social media and his experience on Facebook. Finally, we had TM Putu who made us realize the value of time and how we can increase our productivity.
The TT segment was hosted by TM Molly and transported us to the world of music. This was superbly crafted to stimulate our grey cells by giving us titles from well-known numbers.
The final segment was the evaluation of PS. Our experienced evaluators Ravi, David, Gwen, Penny, Cher Khim played their roles of mentoring and evaluating the speeches with concrete, constructive and well throughout feedback.
We then had a general, open to all feedback session where members expressed their thoughts on making our sessions even better and beyond your imagination. Our Club president, Ramanpreet, then wrapped up the meeting by declaring the award winners.
Marine Parade Toastmasters continue to excel at Public Speaking and raced ahead to register new members and educational awards over the last couple of weeks!
Let’s start with the meeting on 7th August. There were 5 Prepared Speeches, 6 Evaluations, and 6 Table Topics Speeches and the meeting theme was “Teamwork”!
The Award Winners of the meeting were:
Best Speaker: TM Sachin Nagarajappa
Best Evaluator: TM Gwen Poon Wah Ling
Best Table Topics: TM Charlie Domaoal (Guest from Toastmasters Club of Metro Dagupan, The Philippines)
We had induction of our two new members, TM Supriti Sethi and TM Gurumurey Hariharan.
TM Supriti Sethi started her Toastmasters journey with her first speech – The Icebreaker!
The Awards registered this month are as follows:
1. TM David Osborne completed Level 1 of Effective Coaching Path
4. TM Sail Fan Li completed Level 3 of Innovative Planning Path
5. TM Putu Sanjaya Setiawan completed Level 4 of Visionary Communication Path
6. TM Shiv Barasia completed Level 5 of Leadership Development Path
Sharing a brief summary of the efforts that go in achieving every level in Pathways: Level 1 – 4 Speeches and 1 Evaluation Level 2 – 7 Speeches, 1 Evaluation and multiple roles during meetings Level 3 – 10 Speeches (8 mandatory, 2 elective), multiple roles during meetings Level 4 – 12 Speeches (9 mandatory, 3 elective), multiple roles during meetings, sound understanding of mentoring Level 5 – 14 Speeches (10 mandatory, 4 elective), robust contribution to the club, Path completed!
As always, we meet on the 1st, 3rd and (if there is a) 5th Friday of the month from 7 pm Singapore time. Please visit our Facebook Page for the latest details, or email us at marineparadetoastmasters at gmail dot com.
Marine Parade Toastmasters hosted an educational session on evaluation, titled “Evaluate to help the speaker!” and held a Tabletopics Marathon on 31st July. There were 65 guests who attended at one point in time, and looking at the feedback received, it was a huge success!
DTM Ng Cher Khim (also the District Director of District 80 Singapore) conducted his session that talked about the purpose, process and specific strategies to deliver an excellent, effective and encouraging evaluation to help the speaker. DTM Cher Khim also answered a host of questions driving on his experience at evaluation.
On both sides of the session, we had the Table Topics sessions of impromptu speaking. IPP Putu gave a simple and intuitive framework to follow when answering a Table Topics question and TM Molly gave melodious songs as the cue for Table Topics.
Our next meeting will be held on Friday, August 7, from 7 pm Singapore time. Please register here or simply email us so you don’t miss out on the agenda and Zoom link for the meeting!
Our Second Meeting was another enjoyable Friday evening on 17th July as we had some fantastic speeches and lots of action!
The meeting theme was “Strive for excellence, not perfection!” and our Toastmasters delivered another quality meeting.
5 Prepared Speeches from members at L1 to L5, 6 Impromptu Speeches, 6 Evaluations and guests tuning in from India and Singapore! TM Dr. Sneha Gaud Sharma from Impact Toastmasters Club, Indore, India joined us for this meeting. The world has become a smaller place for Toastmasters to excel!
The Award Winners were:
Best Speaker: TM Hwee Koon Tan (Queenie)
Best TableTopics Speaker: TM Thomas Chen
Best Evaluator: TM Gwen Poon Wah Ling
Here is the group snapshot of our meeting!
Our next meeting is on Friday, July 31st at 7 pm Singapore Time. Please message us if you would like to join!
3. TM Swatantra completed Level 3 of Dynamic Leadership Path
4. TM Queenie Tan Hwee Koon completed Level 3 of Persuasive Influence Path
Sharing a brief summary of the efforts that go in achieving every level in Pathways: Level 1 – 4 Speeches and 1 Evaluation Level 2 – 7 Speeches, 1 Evaluation and multiple roles during meetings Level 3 – 10 Speeches (8 mandatory, 2 elective), multiple roles during meetings Level 4 – 12 Speeches (9 mandatory, 3 elective), multiple roles during meetings, sound understanding of mentoring Level 5 – 14 Speeches (10 mandatory, 4 elective), robust contribution to the club, Path completed!
Way to go Marine Parade Toastmasters! Looking forward to an year full of achievements!
As always, we meet on the 1st, 3rd and (if there is a) 5th Friday of the month from 7 pm Singapore time. Please visit our Facebook Page for the latest details, or email us at marineparadetoastmasters at gmail dot com.
Marine Parade Toastmasters had their first meeting (online Zoom Meeting) yesterday, 3rd July 2020 (Friday). This was the first meeting for the Executive Committee for 2020-2021 term and the meeting was a great success.
As the Club focuses on quality meetings and quality membership experience, this meeting embodied the mantra of success for the new team. 5 mesmerizing orators making speeches about varied topics like “Secrets for Success”, “Mental Health”, “Spelling Bee”, “Astrology” and “Digital Toastmasters” took Storytelling and Speechcraft to new heights!
The impromptu speaking session had 6 speakers, with 2 guest speakers from Dubai and from Singapore. As we all know, TableTopics Session helps us practice our impromptu speaking and enables us to think on the feet – just like we would do during a job interview or during an elevator speech!
Finally, the best part of Toastmasters is the Evaluation Session. This time, we had 5 evaluators who shared encouraging feedback with the speakers. They also helped speakers with specific tips to improve their speeches. There was a 6th evaluation of one of our evaluators, which is a part of L1 project of Pathways. In Toastmasters, you always keep improving!
The ExCo made a few announcements as we started the term. First, the Toastmasters International Convention will be held Online from August 24 to 29, completely free of charge for members and non-members! Details can be found here: https://www.toastmasters.org/events/2020-international-convention/faq
Second, we welcome our newest member, Ms. Supriti Sethi, to the club. We wish her a rewarding Toastmasters journey!
Third, our next meeting will be held online on Friday, July 17th, 2020. Please contact us here, over our email or through our Facebook Page.
The Award Winners of our meeting last night were:
Best Speaker: TM Shubha Mahajan Best TableTopics Speaker: TM Thomas Chen Best Evaluator: TM Prasad Bakre
Here are some fantastic pictures of our meeting, courtesy TM Gwen Poon Wah Ling, ACG, CL!
The last Marine Parade Toastmasters meeting was our clubs Annual General Meeting during which we elected our club new Executive committee members. Thank you to all of our members who made special effort to be present and let to achieve the quorum for AGM since at least 50% + 1-member vote is required for the elections.
Nazrul Islam opened the meeting and shared his personal story about the covid outbreak situation that let us better understand from his personal experience about the covid.
During the meeting Cher Khim, our toastmaster guru, delivered a great learning Session – how to Deliver Speeches That Deliver Results.
We started the AGM with a great review. VP Education, VP Membership, VP Public Relations and Treasurer, and Secretary of the outgoing 12th ExCo gave updates on the past 2019-2020 Toastmasters year and the results and achievements of the club. The President Shiv Barasia rounded off nicely with his President’s reflection. Prasad as a Secretary, took minutes of the AGM proceedings! The complete AGM minutes will be sent out to MPTMC Members – please keep a lookout for it in your inbox.
🌱MPTMC 2020-2021 Executive Committee🌱: – President: Ramanpreet Kaur Bhatia – Vice President Education (x2): David Osborne & Tan Hwee Koon (Queenie) – Vice President Membership: Jacely Voon – Vice President Public Relations: Prasad V Bakre – Secretary: Nazrul Islam – Treasurer: Shiv Barasia – Sergeant-at-Arms: Shubha Mahajan – Immediate Past President: Shiv Barasia
The new ExCo will start work in July – annual office terms run from 1st July through 30th June Thank you Shiv and outgoing exco team for your excellent service – and a warm welcome to Ramanpreet and incoming exco team into your new roles. Congratulations to all New Exco Members and wish them all the best for a challenging year ahead! ✊🥳
The year 2020 has been challenging and difficult for all of us with all bad events that kicked in: The Health care systems encountered great impact and required many resources to detain the virus outbreaks, quarantine, lockdown many more measures took effect. The world has been utterly reshaped and new standards and rules have been established.
Even though the year was very challenging, 2020 has brought many new learning opportunities and great achievements for the club. Nonetheless all the hardship, the year was very successful for Marine Parade Toastmasters Club. We are very happy to recall all the achievements of the club during the 2019 – 2020 period:
The club has hold 22 chapter meetings
The first Debate session was organized in September 2019
In the end of October, a New Marine Parade Toastmasters Instagram account started
The New year we started with a Toastmasters Pathway presentation with a special guest Anand Ariyarathinam, DTM Pathway Management for Leaders
On February 21st, 2020 we had the first meeting online, on Zoom platform, which allowed our club to survive this hard period and offered many new opportunities to learn public speaking skills while performing on the digital basis.
We are also very happy to announce and Congratulate Ng Cher Khim as a District 80 Director for upcoming 2020-2021
Our Marine Parade Toastmasters club has reached the President’s Distinguished Club status in 2020
The joint meeting with Kembagan TMC as a learning opportunity for both clubs was organized
We are very proud, happy and absolutely excited by having such a great speakers and fellow toastmasters in our Marine Parade Toastmasters club. 2020 started with the International Speech 🏆, Humorous Speech 🏆 and Table Topics🏆Contests which brought us the winners:
International Speech 🏆 First Place: Gwen Poon Wah Ling Second Place: Shiv Barasia Third Place: Penny Radcliffe
Humorous Speech🏆 First Place: Shubha Mahajan Second Place: Penny Radcliffe Third Place: Shiv Barasia
Table Topics🏆 First Place: Shiv Barasia Second Place: Anuj Velankar Third Place: Penny Radcliffe
Each Top 2 of each contest has represented the Marine Parade Toastmasters club in the Area A4 Contest.
Shubha Mahajan journey is so much exciting and inspiring. It is a great success story. After winning in the Club contest she also has won at the area A4 Contest and was nominated to represent the club at Division A in the District 80 Contest. This is an amazing journey and a great achievement. After the contest Shubha commented: ” Thanks again to all the club members, the experience so far has been great. Learning is amazing and yet so so much to learn. I feel very to be a part of this family. 🙂”
We are also so much happy and enlightened that Paulson Thomas, CC, CL who was a participant in the Table Topics contest in District 80, Division U Contest. After the contest Paulson commented: “For me, this is the first-time reaching the District stage after 4 years! Still learning. TT contestants are very capable and professionals. I learned a lot too in this journey.”
We all know it takes great time, courage and patience, as well as enthusiasm and inspiration to make a speech and to deliver it to the audience. Whenever it is a real stage, a club meeting room full of fellow toastmasters and guests or a computer screen it is always a challenge to present it smoothly, with a correct grammar and language style, with a proper body language. The speech usually also includes various rhetorical devices and other speech components to make it engaging and interesting for the audience. Hence it sometimes might be a great challenge to perform and not to forget all the planned details.
We are very happy for our club member working hard and actively participating in club meetings and for their achievements. Many personal achievements form very big one such as Ramanpreet K Bhatia – for the Pathway track – for completing yet another milestone, second path under Pathways “Visionary Communication”. Many congratulations to:
Putu Sanjaya Setiawan, CC, CL, VC3 for completing level 3 of pathways, Visionary Communication 🏆
Swatantra S Bhatia, DL2 for completing level 2 of pathways, Dynamic Leadership 🏆
Sachin Nagarajappa for completing level 1 of pathways, Innovative Planning 🏆
Hwee Koon Tan, IP2 for completing level 2 of pathways 🏆
Diana Narbutaite, PI2 for completing L1 under Persuasive Influence. 🏆
Adam Ahmad Samdin, for completing Level 1, of Innovative Planning 🏆
Shiv Barasia, LD4 for completing Level 4 of Leadership Development 🏆
Anuj Valenkar for completed his level 3, of Persuasive Influence 🏆
The upcoming Friday, June 5th, 2020 during our General Annual Meeting we will hold the elections for the 2020-2021 Executive Committee. As to the situation given this will be the first online elections for the club history. The attendance is important not only to reach quorum, but also to help the club to choose and bring the best New ExCo members for the next term so that they accordingly could help the club in creating great learning perspectives and seeking heights in their new journey 2020-2021
Toastmasters Pathways. It is the way to develop your skills and help others in your club develop theirs. Pathways helps you learn communication and leadership skills that you need to succeed. We are so happy to announce that Marine Parade Toastmasters Club will have the special gues Anand Ariyarathinam, DTM Pathway Management For Leaders, who will present the Toastmasters Pathways on the 17th of January 2020.
At the same time, this day will be a very important day for Club history, since the International Speech Contest will be held on the same day.
It is a unique opportunity to join and experience the power of a speech. Please come and join us for the Event!
Marine Parade Toastmasters’ Club AGM (Annual General Meeting)
Quorum for AGM is essential, i.e. at least 50% + 1 member, and we achieved quorum tonight – Thank you to all of our members who made special effort to be present!
We started the AGM with a great review what the club has achieved. VP Education, Membership, PR and Treasurer, of the outgoing 11th ExCo gave updates on the past 2018-2019 Toastmasters year and President Putu rounded off nicely with his President’s Reflection. Prasad was already in his element as the incoming Secretary, as he took minutes of the AGM proceedings!😁 The complete AGM minutes will be sent out to MPTMC Members – please keep a lookout for it in your inbox.
Next, the anticipated Election time!
Contenders for the roles gave impassioned speeches, imploring members to vote for them. We love our members who stepped up for the 2019-2020 Executive Committee, despite their busy schedules and commitments. We would not be able to continue to deliver quality Meetings without volunteers to prepare and run them. Ultimately our club is run by volunteers and it can only be as good as what we put in!
The stars of the night were our newly-elected Executive Committee (ExCo) – say hello to our new Club Officers for 2019-2020!
We are proud of the following elected individuals who will lead, inspire, and serve our medley family of Marine Parade Toastmasters Club for the 2019 – 2020 Term! 🤗
The new ExCo will start work in July – annual office terms run from 1st July through 30th June. Congratulations and a grand Thank You to our 2019-2020 Exco for your commitment to serve our Club!✊🥳
Prior to AGM, we held a mini-version of chapter meeting, wherein we heard 2 prepared speeches. XiaoHao taught us to use ‘DBS’ in our daily quest to learn to say ‘No’ and Gwen gave a rousing rendition of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech. 💪 Sachin and Fan Li were our elegant #Evaluators. Thank you to all the guests and especially to Molly for the lovely #homemade kaya! 😍
Stitches from the Special Screening – we all were rolling in laughter from Cher Khim’s uber-humourous, powerfully-delivered speech in Cebu, at the Philippines District 75 Conference earlier this year (April 2019).
So many things happened on this night that we had to continue the ‘toast’ bit outside. 😁 (lots of pics that tell stories) Bubbles were passed around as we gave a toast to 🎉Cher Khim🎉 for being elected as Program Quality Director for Toastmasters International District 80 i.e. for the whole of Singapore. 👈🥂
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