| THEME: |
| GONG XI FA CHAI |
| WORD OF THE DAY: |
| PROSPERITY |
| Attendees |
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| MEMBERS |
| ROLE |
| Ananthan Sanggar |
| TIMER |
| Christine Lum |
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| Huegesh Marimuthu |
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| Lakhmichand, M.A. | ATMB, CL | GE |
| Lourdes Chandramohan | DTM | INV / TTE |
| Mary Barton | ACB, CL |
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| Maureen Ong | CC | SAA |
| Michelle Ong | CC | TME |
| Patricia Kolandai |
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| Premjit Singh |
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| Ranjani Visvanathan | CC | GRAM |
| Ranjit Singh | ACB, CL |
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| Sham Sunder | CC |
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| Shanmugam | CTM | TTM |
| Tan Kay Hwa - Caroline |
| AH |
| SPEECHES |
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| #1 - Tan Kay Hwa - Caroline |
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| "Relax, it's just Me" |
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| #1 - Patricia |
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| "Pot of Gold at the end of the Rainbow" |
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| Mary Barton, ACB,CL | BEST |
| #3 - Entertaining Speaker |
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| "Memories" |
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| SPEECH EVALUATORS |
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| Maureen Ong, CC |
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| Sham Sunder, CC |
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| Lourdes Chandramohan, DTM | BEST |
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| TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS |
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| Tan Kay Hwa - Caroline |
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| Ranjani Visvanathan, CC | BEST |
| Huegesh Marimuthu |
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| Premjit Singh |
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| Michelle Ong, CC |
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1. After the Sergeant at Arms (SAA) Maureen Ong, CC called the meeting to order, the members repeated the Toastmaster’s promise.
2. Madam President, Mary Barton, ACB,CL, then took the floor with her welcoming address.
3. The members in attendance then introduced themselves and told us about what they did during the long weekend (31 Jan – 3 Feb).
4. The toastmaster of the evening, Michelle Ong, CC then reminded all of history of Toastmasters.
5. Lourdes, DTM, then took the word of the day “Prosperity” and used it in Invocation speech. He asked us “what is prosperity means to us?” If we do not know what prosperity is, we would not be able to know how to take steps to be prosperous or when we have prosperity.
6. The control was then passed to Shanmugam, CC to conduct the Table topics session.
7. After a brief introduction on what is the table topics session, members volunteered themselves to be speakers. Among the speakers and their topics are:
| TABLE TOPICS SPEAKERS | TABLE TOPIC | |
| Tan Kay Hwa - Caroline | Your view on [political] party hopping. | |
| Ranjani Visvanathan, CC | What steps have you, as an individual taken to improve the economy? | BEST |
| Huegesh Marimuthu | Do we have press freedom in Malaysia? | |
| Premjit Singh | Do we respect or fear our Malaysian Police? | |
| Michelle Ong, CC | Should we continue to sell raw water to Singapore at a low price? | |
8. The table topics evaluation was provided by Lourdes, DTM, who gave lots of encouragement and pointers to the table topics speaker on how to improve further.
9. Sham Sunder, CC, took to the floor to deliver a joke during the impromptu humorous session after which the meeting adjourned for a 10 minute break.
10. After the break the assignment speeches commenced.
11. Evaluation is the breakfast of champions. General evaluator, Lucky, ATMB, CL, led the evaluation session. Before Lucky invited the assignment speech evaluators to deliver their evaluation, the members gave our two new members a standing ovation. The evaluators then gave their report.
12. The Ah Counter, timer and grammarian gave their reports after which the General Evaluator gave his comments.
13. After the announcement of the winners of the table topics speakers, assignment speakers and evaluators and the business session, the president closed the meeting. See you on 17 February, 2009.
Michelle Ong, CC
