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!!

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 : 14^th 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 !

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!!!