Friday, November 20, 2009

Congratulations to TM Kenny Lee for completing his ALB!!!

We would like to congratulate our President of MEF, TM Kenny Lee for completing his Advanced Leader Bronze(ALB) yesterday,19 Nov 2009 during our meeting!! Thumb up for him!! We are proud of you !

As we know, Toastmaster International Education Programme consists of Communication Track and Leadership track. For TM Kenny to complete his ALB, he needs to fulfilled the following requirement:-

  • Achieved Competent Leader (CL) award;
  • Achieved Competent Communicator (CC) award (or achieved Competent Toastmaster CTM award);
  • Served at least six months as a club officer (president, vice president education, vice president membership, vice president public relations, secretary, treasurer or sergeant at arms) and participated in the preparation of a Club Success Plan while serving in this office.
  • While serving in the above office, participated in a district-sponsored club officer training program; and
  • Conducted any two programs from The Successful Club Series and/or The Leadership Excellence Series.
The journey in Toastmaster is challenging yet beneficial. His achievement today does not only make him a better leader, but, at the same time, it serves as a motivator to encourage all the MEF members to be like him one day.

We believe that with his passion in Toastmaster journey, his dream to become a Distinguish Toastmaster will become a reality one day...

Monday, November 16, 2009

A Meeting With Suprise

Here comes 5th November 2009 , a day for all MEF members to gather again and grow. We were surprised to have Distinguish Toastmaster and also Immediate Past Division S Governor Charles Tan visiting us for the first time!!! As a DTM, he gave us a lot of encouragement and motivation. Definitely, we learnt a lot from him.

In this meeting, it was very interesting to have a theme about "Halloween". TM Judy, the TOE for the first time asked everyone of us to introduce ourself and asked us to imagine the type of sttire we would like to dress in if we were to go to a Halloween party.. Wow.... our DTM would not want to be other than a man with black suit,imitating a lawyer... Simple yet extraordinary, right? A great warm up for the brain to be imaginative...

Want to know what else we did for this meeting?? Scroll down to know more, as the saying goes "Picture Paints a Thousand Words."







IPP YS Lee shared some messages about the President Distinguished Club award where under his leadership, MEF achieved 9 DCP goals. We are hoping that in this new term, MEf will have the same or better achievement. Yes, we believe we can!!!!!!!!


TM Judy, Toastmaster of the Evening. Look at her!!!! She is in action!!!!!!!



TM Bee Ai presenting her speech of CC7 about ED (Erectile Dysfunction).
It was an interesting yet informative speech for everyone.. Now we know, there is a score for "it".. Haha...


Everyone was focusing listening ...


TM Kenny was presenting "Toastmasters Educational Program" of Succesful Club Series as part of his pathway to achieve ALB. After his speech, all the members are clearer of the journey in Toastmaster. TM Kenny aimed to become DTM in 2 years. How about you?


Sometimes, things are unexpected. Our light for the timer to use had broken down. here come the hero,TM Christopher Choog who was try to fix the plug ...Toastmaster is flooded with multi- talented people.


TM Fion, who was the Table Topic Master.We were asked to continue a story after a sentence created by her about Halloween.


Ding! It is amble card now.... Plan B was used when the light is out of service...


DTM Charles Tan, Immediate Past Division S Governor giving evaluation on TM Bee Ai for her CC7 presentation.


TM Celine giving evaluaton on table topic.


TM Laifung, CC giving some feedback about the meeting as a general evaluator.
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As a whole, it was a fruitful meeting. We does not only gain knowlegde, but, we have also built
a strong bond between all the MEF members.

Dinner Gathering 291009

Toastmasters provide not only a platform to learn communication and leadership skill but it is also a platform for people to build friendship.

In order to strengthen the bond among the members as well as regular guest and visiting toastmasters from other club, a dinner was organized by VPPR, TM Peijun on 29th October 2009 in Tambun Restaurant where nice seafood was served.

A total of 19 people joined this dinner. Beside of MEF club members, there were members from Seberang Jaya TMC & Butterworth TMC join in too. We have also friends which is very close to MEF join us as well.

Some members continue the event by going for some beer time after dinner and it was a wonderful moment for all members.



Group photo.
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Please, serve yourself.
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All are busy eating.
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3 "devils" : (from left) TM Su Huei, TM PeiJun and TM Bee Ai

Sunday, October 18, 2009

MEF Welcomes New Member - Steve Chiam !

To our surprise, this meeting was full of enthusiastic club members!!!!. We could see that most of the new members of this term like TM Boon Khai, TM Steve Chiam, TM Jinggle and TM Celine had been actively taking up role players of the meeting and the remaining one like TM Albert ,TM June, TM Fion and TM MC Liu continued their assignment speech .

Congratulations to them for starting their journey in Toastmaster. They are so great and full of courage, and that is the spirit we want !!

In addition, we also had a new member induction session to recognize our new member, TM Steve Chiam officially in MEF Toastmaster Club. He joined us after 2 visits as a guest to MEF. TM Steve Chiam, we welcome to this big family!!!!! Glad to have you here…

Below were some of the happening moments in the meeting… Check this out…


Beginning of the meeting



TM Celine Choy, Toastmaster of the Evening.
It was her first time as TOE after joining for almost 2 months.




Kenny inducting new member, Steve Chiam



TM Boon Kai conducting Word of the day.
The word of today is : Ounce




TM Steve conducting Thought of the Day even he was just inducted as new member.

It was a motivated thought, "Write your sad time in sand, write your good time in stone".


Assignment Speech Session


TM Albert presenting his CC1: Albert Break the ice.
He shared a lot of his life stories..


TM Fion Teoh presenting her CC3.
Ever feel so near yet so far?? It was a motivated speech..



TM June doing her CC1 and share how she met her "September".
Wow.....



TM MC Liu presenting her CC2.
She is really an animal lover........



Table Topic Session



TM Kim Leong in action !


TM Bee Ai looks so serious !

Our guest, Andrew Teh alsotook the chance to participate in Table Topic session.


Evaluation Session


Kenny giving his evaluation on TM June's speech


Why WP Lee, ATM-G, CL hold his hand when giving evaluation ?


TM Justin of Seberang Jaya TMC giving evaluation to all table topic speakers.


MEF Past President, CW Lee, ACS, CL sharing some suggestion to new members on how to do better


Our Area Governor, Erik Ooi, ACB, CL sharing some updates with the club.


Our VPPR, TM Pei Jun annoucing latest activity with all members.


Club President, Kenny Lee CC, CL giving away guest kit to Andrew Teh who is of the guest on that night.

The meeting ends at 1030pm. Everyone is anticipating for our next gathering at Tambun Restaurant on 29 Oct 2009 for yummy seafood!!

Thursday, October 8, 2009

UPCOMING ACTIVITY FROM MEF !!

Do u speak more than u listen ??

Have u ever encounter any situation where u could not get the message given by your boss or friends and as the consequences, u create a big misunderstanding and miscommunication, or worse, embarrassment?


The strongest quality that great communicators and successful people have in common is that they have learned listening effectively. Good communication is not obtainable without the art of effective listening. If you would like to listen better or more effectively,here come the opportunity!!!

MEF is organising a workshop titled " How to Listen Effectively". The purpose of this workshop is to let the public learn the skills of listening which at the same time, improve your communication skill. The details are as below:-

Date : 14th November 2009 (Saturday)

Time : 2.00-6.00pm

Venue : Jit Sin Alumni (Bkt Mertajam)

Fees : RM20 ( refreshment and notes included)

Speaker: DTM Charles Tan Chia Lih

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Speakers Profiles:

He has conducted numerous workshops for Toastmasters in Division S as well as having the responsibility as an Internal Trainer (Effective Presentation Skills) for the organizations that he works for. He was the Division S Governor for term 2008/2009 and led Division S to become a President’s Distinguished Division with support from his amazing team.

He is currently serving as a Sales Team Manager in a well known job recruitment company.

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How to reach us?

Email us at mef.tmc@gmail.com

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How to contact us?

Celine 012-4668589 PeiJun 012-4929443


Limited seats only. Get your ticket today to avoid dissapointment!



"Good Leadership starts with good communication."


MEF achieved Smedley Award 2009~2010


More info at http://www.toastmasters.org/NonNavigableDocs/2009-Smedley-Awards.aspx. We are at page 44.

For the first time in MEF history, the club achieved Smedley Award and this is another great news after achieving 3 DCP goals in only 3rd month of the term !

Smedley Award is an award given away to the Toastmaster Club when the club has fulfilled the listed criteria in the membership programme of Toastmaster International. The criteria is a club must has added five new, dual or reinstated members during the months of August and September.

Up to date, MEF has welcomed 9th new member into the club already.

Bravo to the club for another great achievement !

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Another Fun Meeting in MEF !

We have proven that learning can be fun in a way.We just had a good LAUGHTER in todays meeting. It was fun, memorable, positive and encouraging. At the same time, we still managed to learn from each other.

Today,we are proud to have different members taking up chances and started their journey in Toastmaster to learn something new in each meeting.
Many members in MEF begun to take up different role in this meeting and many of them were actually the first timer for the role!!!! Guest what??? They did very well !!

Just like previous meeting, there were some visiting toastmasters as well as guests joining our meeting. They were :

1. WP Lee, ATM-G from Butterworth TMC & Oracle Advance TMC
2. Christopher Choong, ACB, ALB from Dell Penang TMC
3. TM Justin from Seberang Jaya TMC
4. Joanne Tan, ACB, CL from Gurney-Hydro TMC
5. Cindy (guest)
6. Stephanie (guest)
7. Sky (guest)

The club also celebrated our member's birthday that day too and she is 1 of our new member, TM Jinggle Lee! A small cake was prepared and presented to her.

More photoes as below :

Assignment Speakers


TM Tan Book Kai, CC1 : Mini's Hobby.
Hey... How come soft ball isn't soft???
We should ask him, as he was the state player in softball..

TM Jinggle Lee, CC1 : Yinggle, ginger, junggle or jinggle bell
Ever wonder why she has so many names??
She explained it in her speech....


TM Sim Bee Ai, CC5 : Monkey Island.
Is Monkey Island full of monkey?? Who stolen the motorbike in the island??
Monkey?? She shared her experience in her CC5...
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Table Topic Sessions
Table topic master, Celine : How many senses we have in our body?
yes... we have 5 senses...(Eye to see, tongue to taste, ear to listen, nose to smell and hand to touch).. This is the theme for the table topic session...


Celine was feeding Justin (visiting toastmaster from Seberang Jaya TMC) with sugar for his tongue to taste ! Wow .... Justin should feel very happy about it !


Laifung, CC in action.She got a good nose... She chose to smell with her nose and she got it right.. Yes, it was a perfume......
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Our VPE, Sam, CC presenting his table topic speech.He has choosen his hand to touch, and he link the wine glass to something romantic... Is he somebody romantic too??


TM Angie in her new hair style presenting table topic speech. Full of motivation attemping her table topic speech from what she saw, a computer mouse....
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Our regular visiting toastmaster, WP Lee, ATM-G doing some action in table topic speech.
He claimed that the song that he heard (by Akon:Loney) was one of his favoutite song...



TM Pei Jun doing her general evaluation.She is always very encouraging..
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Club president, Kenny Lee, CC CL sharing some message on the closing speech.
He said PASSION AND PATIENCE !!!!!!!!!!!!



Happy Birthday to TM Jinggle Lee who will celebrate her birthday on 4th October ! Look at her smile... so sweet...........

Overall, it was a joyful meeting.... We hope to see more members grow and benifited from Toastmaster meeting...Again, LEARNING CAN BE FUN!!!

Monday, September 28, 2009

MEF Did It Again !!!!



It was a double celebration in the month of September!!!

Last 2 weeks, MEF Toastmaster Clubs have just achieved 3 DCP goals in just 3rd month of the term 2009/2010, according to the latest update from Toastmasters International ! Now, we are proud to witness another VICTORY gained by MEF last week !!!

Kenny Lee CC, CL , our President of MEF Toastmaster Club, had become the CHAMPION in Area S8 for Evaluation Contest in Area S8 Humorous Speech & Evaluation contest which was held on 27 September 2009 at Safira Country Club.

This contest was a competition that gathered all champions & runner-ups for 3 clubs (MEF Toastmaster Club, Seberang Jaya Toastmaster Club and Team Flantech Toastmaster Club) from previous club level contest last month. It was indeed a tough and competitive competition to become the champion for Area S8.

Kenny will be representing Area S8 and compete with other 7 area's champion (S1 to S7) in Division Level for Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest on 4th October 2009 in Komtar.

We are absolutely PROUD of him !!!

We sincerely wish him all the best in his coming Evaluation Contest next month. We will give our full morale support to him. Like he always says “ A thousand of success begins with a single step”. He is proving it….

Sunday, September 20, 2009

A Suprise Meeting For Pei Jun

For those who has been in MEF for quite some time, you may ask who is Pei Jun or you may think she is our new member...But trust me, she is someone you may know. Who is she ? She is none other than ....


Ta Da ~~ ! Yeap, Pei Jun is our VPPR and that is her new name. Sam & Suhuei had prepared this birthday cake for Pei Jun silently to celebrate her birthday during our meeting.


We had also celebrated for YS Lee & Steve where their birthday also falled on September too.


TM Celine was conducting Humor session.


Crowded ...


TM Kim Leong was conducting Thought of The Day. Good Job !


TM Felix in action !


Happy Birthday to you ~~ Happy Birthday to you ~~


Erica who is a guest presenting her table topic speech.


Another guest, SH Liang who is from Muar presenting his table topic speech.


Chun Chuan who visited to our club 2nd time presenting his table topic speech.


TM Su Huei who is our Secretary currently was giving evaluation to all table topic speakers.