| THEME: | Evening of POETRY & QUOTES | |
| WORD OF THE DAY: | PASSION |
| Attendees | ||
| MEMBERS | ROLE | |
| Aishah Ayub | ||
| Ananthan Sanggar | ||
| Huegesh Marimuthu | ||
| Lakhmichand, M.A. | ATMB, CL | TTM |
| Loke Kah Sing | ||
| Mary Barton | ACB, CL | GRAMMARIAN |
| Maureen Ong | CC | SAA |
| Michelle Ong | CC | GE |
| Parimala | AH | |
| Ranjani | CC | TIMER |
| Ranjit Singh | ACB, CL | TTE |
| Rema Paul | ACG | |
| Renu Dayalal | ||
| Sham Sunder | CC | |
| Syamala | TME |
| GUESTS |
| Amrit Kaur |
| Audry Fernandez |
| Christine Lum |
| Eileen Crawley |
| Khor See Yimn |
| Lai Ming Leong |
| Lo Soon Hoi |
| Normala Kassim |
| NoorHajran Mohd Noor |
| Puspa Devi E |
| Shanthy M |
| Talitha Charmaine Fernandez |
| SPEECHES |
| Aishah Ayub |
| Basic C&L # 2 |
| "From Fat to Fit" |
| Ananthan Sanggar |
| Basic C&L # 4 |
| "The Power of Thoughts" |
| Guest Speaker |
| Audry Fernandex (Speakers Club) |
| "Sugar & Spice , Naughty & Nice" |
| SPEECH EVALUATORS |
| Maureen Ong, CC |
| Ranjit Singh, ACB, CL |
| TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS |
| (Poem) Rema Paul |
| (Poem) Sham Sunder |
| (Poem) Michelle Ong |
| (Quote) Ranjani |
| (Quote) Ananthan Sanggar |
| (Poem) Parimala |
| (Poem) Eileen Crawley |
| (Poem) Lo Soon Hoi BEST |
Table Topics Speakers were required to either recite a poem or deliver & explain a quote of their own choice...
TTM's Contribution...
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou
--Beside me singing in the Wilderness -
O, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
by Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) - A Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer. In his own country, Omar Khayyam was renowned for his scientific achievements, but not as a poet. His rhymes were rediscovered by the English scholar and poet Edward FitzGerald (1809-83) in the mid-nineteenth century.
----Recited by Sham Sunder -
[ IF ]
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
-- Rudyard Kipling
----
Recited by Michelle
"Desiderata"
-- written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s --
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
----
Recited by Eileen Crawley
Touched by an Angel
Maya Angelou - (1928 - )
We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.
Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.
We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.
----
Recited by Lo Soon Hoi
(composed by him at the meeting)
A wide tarmac to thread on,
A sharp thorn on the rose,
A tears flows down my cheek,
A reek of garbage to chuck in,
Country last, change prevails,
(refer to US presidential election result)
Peasant cheers, bureaucrats jeers,
The revolution sows its seeds of liberty,
(refer to underrated Republican candidate, Ron Paul)
Love and compassion set me free,
Beyond black and white, good and evil,
There's a shades of grey,
Toastmasters is like the body and temple,
Its members are like the blood and disciple,
This is the right place for me to be,
No regrets, an ocular perspective for me to see.
Am happy, it fills the void into my empty soul,
Good riddance, I've yet to find the passion,
Pardon me, my poetry sucks to the core,
Thanks you, am brutally hones, less and more.
----
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