Chinese New Year Themed Meeting

On 25th February, while it is still in Chinese New Year, MEF have a special meeting where it was a CNY themed meeting.

The meeting was run in a very unique way where there is only game session, table topic session and makan session.

Beside of MEF members, there is also visiting toastmasters and some of MEF old members turn up to support the meeting.

Want to know how was the ending? Just have a look on the photo below and you will find the answer !

The success of this meeting comes from club VPE, Sam Ho, CC and 2 of his pretty assistant - Celine Choy, CC & Judy Lim, TM.

Good job, team !



Everyone go back with a red packet ~~

You will be suprise that John Oon, TM is a very interesting Table Topic Master.

Joint International Speech Contest and Table Topic Contest 2010

On the 2nd Feb 2010, MEF TMC and Seberang Jaya TMC had organized a Joint International Speech Contest and Table Topics Contest at Safira Club. Around 50 people has turned up for this event.

Speech contest are important part of the Toastmasters International education programme. Speech contest provide an opportunity for proficient speakers to gain contest experience, and they provide interesting educational programmes for members and the public. They also allow those Toastmasters who are not participating in the contest to learn by observing proficient speakers.

The result of the competition are as below:

A) International Speech contest

Champion : TM Celine Choy
1st Runner Up : TM Lee Yee Siong, ACB, CL

B) Table Topic Contest

Champion : TM Lee Yee Siong, ACB, CL
1st Runner Up : TM MC Liu
2nd Runner Up : TM Kenny Lee, CC, ALB

All the champion and 1st Runner up for both International Speech Contest and Table Topic Contest will be representing our beloved MEF TMC for the next level which is Area Level Contest on 7 March 2010 competing against winner from Area S4 and Area S8 .

Good luck & congrats to all the winners & participants !!

MEF TMC achieved Distinguish Club level

Congratulation to MEF TMC for achieving Distinguish Club status at early time!!!!!!!!!
Information about the qualification needed to achieve it is as below:

Distinguished Club Program

Toastmasters International's Distinguished Club Program/Club Success Plan focuses on Club education and membership growth. All Clubs are automatically considered in the Distinguished Club Program, which begins July 1st and ends the following June 30th. Progress is tracked at World Headquarters based on information submitted by the Clubs.

10 Goals

1. Two CCs
2. Two more CCs
3. One ACB, ACS, or ACG
4. One more ACB, ACS, or ACG
5. One CL, AL, or DTM
6. One more CL, AL, or DTM
7. Four new members
8. Four more new members
9. Minimum four officers trained each training period
10. One semi and one officer list submitted on time

Membership Requirement:

At year-end a club must have At least 20 members, or a Net growth of at least five new members

Clubs that meet the membership requirement and do the following earn recognition:

- Achieve 5 of 10 goals achieves Distinguished Club

- Achieve 7 of 10 goals achieves Select Distinguished Club

- Achieve 9 of 10 goals achieves President's Distinguished Club

Just for general sharing, MEF TMC is one of the 5 clubs who achieved it on the second term.
Other club which successfully awarded are:-

1) Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters Club (President: Chan Jyh Woei, CC)

2) MEF Club (President: Kenny Lee, CC ALB)

3) Dell Penang Club (President: Lai York Keong, CL)

4) Farlim Toastmasters Club (President: Tan Chia Harng, CC, ALB)

5) Bukit Mertajam Toastmasters Club (President: Bernard Ewe, ACS, CL)

With this achievement, MEF TMC will strike harder and aim for Select Distinguish Club!!!
All the best!!!!!!

MEF Attended TLI2 with full attendance !

On 6th December, 2009, 7 officers of MEF TMC participated in the Toastmasters Learning Institute 2 (TLI2) in Intel PG12 with full attendance of 7 club officers.

TLI is important for club officers to learn new skill so that they can grow & develop the club better. In addition, it is also important for club officers to attend as it contribute 1 (Distinguished Club Program) point to the club.

By attending 2 TLI with at least 4 officers turn up, MEF successfully earn the 1 DCP point but must important is we believe that all of us learn a lot in the training and managed to have some fellowship with officers of Div S & N.

7 officers from MEF. From left to right : PeiJun, Su Huei, Bee Ai, Kenny, Felix, Sam & YS Lee.


Senior officers of District 51.

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VPE Sam giving some sharing during discussion hour.

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Area S8 in discussion under the co-ordination of AG Erik Ooi.

Welcome New Members of MEF

Before the year of 2010, another 2 new members had join MEF and making the club even stronger.
They are :

1. TM Andrew Teh Tatt Huat (right)

2. TM John Oon Eng Leong (left)

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Let's welcome them become part of the MEF family.

Together we can achieve even better !

A Brand New District 51 Website

While many of us thought the District website was "abandon" for quite some time since there is no new updates, the webmasters and his team is actually preparing a suprise to all of us.

On 1st day of 2010, the brand new District 51 website was launched. Applause should be given to those who work hard for the brand new website.



Just log on to www.tmdistrict51.org to find out yourself our brand new district website !

Happy New Year 2010

On behald of MEF Toastmasters Club, wishing all a Happy New Year 2010.