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Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club January 2012 Chapter Meeting
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters wishes you and your family a wonderful and exciting 2012!
What better way to start the new year's chapter meeting with new members. Tonight, we welcomed THREE new members. Mimi was officially inducted while Paul And Churn signed up as new members.
And more importantly, we had many guests all the way from Tampines Changkat join us tonight to liven up the atmosphere.
Our prepared speakers did their best with their projects:
Project 5 - Bilson Project 6 - Cheryl AP1 - Kim Siong CC, CL AP5 - Ming Hwee ACB, ALB
Our evaluation were given both by our very own members and guests:
To evaluate Bilson, we had Kelvin Cheng, CC from Tampines Changkat TMC.
Evaluating Cheryl was Ted Chong, CC from Tampinese Changkat TMC.
Shaun Li, CC from Tampinese Changkat TMC evaluated Kim Siong.
Our club advisor Lim Seh Leng, DTM evaluated Ming Hwee.
And tonight's awards go to.....
Best Prepare speaker - Kim Siong Best Evaluator - Shaun Li Best Table Topic speaker - our new member : Paul!
A wonderful evening everyone!
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club December 2011 Chapter Meeting
It was an enthralling night as speakers and guests charmed us with their speeches and evaluations.
Diing Yaw started the meeting with his interesting story that happened to him this week with a fortune teller.
Our Club President Lay Hong then encouraged us to live life with our fullest dedication as she recounted her story with a friend, albeit with a twist.
We also had the privilege to have the following members take up positions in tonight’s chapter meeting:
Timer: Swe Jian Ah Counter: Eddie Ang Table Topic Speaker: Diing Yaw
Our members are making good progress improving and becoming confident speakers, with the following speakers delivering their prepared speeches:
Project 4 - Bilson Bian Project 8 - Joel Ng AP1 - Ho Yen Yuen AP4 - Wee Ming Hwee
And to close of the last chapter meeting for 2011, we would like to welcome our new member - Mimi Lau!
On behalf of all the members in Ulu Pandan Toastmasters club, we wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New year!
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club November 2011 Chapter Meeting
Tonight’s chapter began with an inspirited table topic debate session.
Our first debate was started off on whether Singaporeans are a resonsible bunch of people.
Next, the speakers discussed whether our youths today are responsible or just simply taking things for granted.
Our next topic had strong views from both sides as they drew from their experiences on how our education has(or not) prepared our students for the working life.
The prepared speeches for the evening also added to the inspiritment of the evening.
Bilson gave his Project two speech about selling skills.
Cheryl talked about a common phenomenon around us - our little mobile world, where everything around us is becoming second to our mobile phones.
As for his Project seven, Joel prepared an introduction to why we should invest in the stock market.
Ming Hwee once again proved to be a wonderful humorist with her AP3.
Tonight’s awards went to the following toastmasters:
Best Table topic speaker - Lay Hong
Best Prepared speech speaker - Cheryl Loo
Best Evaluator - Kelvin Thiang
See you in December!
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club October 2011 Chapter Meeting
What better way to start the holiday season(it’s never too early to start) by giving a short introducing of ourselves and our holiday plans. WIth so many people going overseas - from as near to Malaysia to as far as India and New Zealand - it certainly is a well deserved break from this roller coaster year of elections and market turmoil.
We inaugurated three new members: Cheryl, Bilson and Joel.
Just before Cheryl had a chance to rest from the new members oath taking, she was already giving her Project 4 speech about our garden city, and proudly declared Botanical Gardens to be the best park in Singapore.
Mark got comfortable with visual aids as he showed us his DIKW model for his Project 8 Speech.
Ming Hwee extoled the virtue of slow and stead wins the race, with her story of the bamboo and the fern tree.
Seh Leng shared on the leader excellence series, this time focusing on the visionary leader.
Yen Yuen gave some tips and pointers on how to evaluate effectively, a much practised skill in Toastmasters.
The Award winners for tonight were:
Best Table Prepared Speech Speaker - Tie between Cheryl Loo and Wee Ming Hwee
Best Evaluator - Chay Wen Liang
See you in November!
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club July 2011 Chapter Meeting
We kicked off the chapter meeting with table topics. As National day was around the corner, Jocelyn asked the speakers to touch on Singapore’s icons and landmarks. Mark enjoyed the Singapore Zoo, while Denny, first time guest here at our club, commented it was well worth paying $20 for a view of Marina Bay at the rooftop of Marina Bay Sands. Bilson’s topic needed no introduction as he briefly described one of our favourite places, the heartlands’ hawker centres. Hwee Suan then proceeded to promote Orchard Road, where you can shop till you drop. She estimated that it’s at least a ten kilometre stretch of shopping haven! Cheryl talked about our very own shining durian, the Esplanade. Iconic in comparison with the Merlion. To top it off, Jesse shared that the opening up of Tanjong Pagar Railway Station created new green spaces which drew huge public interest. He advised to visit now before it closes.
Tonight, we took the time to thank all our Executive Committee Members and Advisors 2010/2011. Their passion has been evident as we once again, clinched the President’s distinguished club award.
New Club Executive Committee Members
A new chapter has begun, and with the following new executive Committee to carry on the race:
President : Low Lay Hong, CC, CL
VP-Education: Lee Shui Sing, CC / Joseph Ngo
VP-Membership: Jocelyn Goi, CC / Tang Hwee Suan
VP-Public Relations: Joel Ng
Secretary: Tan Kim Siong, CC
Treasurer: Ho Yen Yuen, ACB, CL
Sargeant at Arms: Tan Yong Wei
Immediate Past President: Ho Yen Yuen, ACB, CL
“Can we do it again?”, Lay Hong, our incoming Club President threw the challenge. Success of the club depends on the contributions of the club members. Not forgetting the hard work behind the scenes of our executive committee members in ensuring every chapter meeting and project night is successful and enjoyable.
Prepared Speeches
Francy Nguyen got personal by asking us about our dreams in her Project 3 speech.
Hwee Suan serenaded us to not worry and just be happy in her Project 3 speech.
If money is not enough, remember to focus on what we have in our hands and be happy as Joel presented in his Project 5 speech.
Music is in the air, as Mark whipped out his guitar and played some tunes for us in his Project 5 speech.
Summary of our ribbon winners for tonight:
Best Prepared speech: Hwee Suan
Best Project Evaluator: Rebecca Lee, DTM
Best Table Topic speaker: Cheryl
Overall evaluation
Better late than never, but Kim Siong encouraged members to be early if help is required.
Wiith the closing remarks by our Madam President, it was an eventful night of new beginnings.
Until next time, be happy while you chase your dreams. When money just isn’t enough, sing your heart out. See you.
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club June 2011 Chapter Meeting
This is the last chapter’s meeting for the 2010/11 term. The word of the evening “karuna” was being used frequently throughout the evening.
The meeting started with the Prepared Speech segment. Cheryl delivered her maiden Project 1 “Ice Breaker” speech confidently on the topic “The company we keep” sharing with us the different people she had met in her life.
Joel shared with us his “Euro Trip” winter adventures at Berlin, London and Paris in his Project 4 speech.
Both Diing Yaw and Shui Sing gave us inspirational Project 10 speeches. Congratulations to both of them in attaining their Competent Communicator title!!
Clara shown us how to Diffuse Verbal Criticism in her Advanced Project 3 speech in dealing with difficult customers by using a scenario as a waitress in a restaurant.
The second segment of the meeting was the speech evaluation segment with Kenneth Oh, a visiting Toastmaster, evaluated on Cheryl’s maiden speech.
Jocelyn in her maiden evaluation, evaluated Joel’s speech. Ming Hwee evaluated and provided constructed feedback with karuna on Diing Yaw’s speech. Our club advisor, Seh Leng, evaluated Shui Sing’s speech and Chee Yen, a visiting Toastmaster, evaluated Clara’s speech.
We also have a first timer “Table Topic Master”, Yong Wei who invited volunteers to speak on the different “funny roles” for example being a MRT pusher, a pet food taster in the table topic session.
The awards winners for the chapter’s meeting are:
•The Best Prepared Speech Speaker was won by Shui Sing.
•The Best Evaluator was won by Woon Chee Yen.
•The Best Table Topics Speaker was won by Woon Chee Yen.
What’s coming up in our next chapter’s meeting…..the new term Exco committee installation night! See you.
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club May 2011 Chapter Meeting
It was another energetic, enthusiastic and ZEALOUS evening!
Our Club President Yen Yuen kicked off the meeting by urging us to gain the most out of the toastmasters’ educational program and walk towards SUCCESS.
Many members had taken their FIRST steps that deserve our cheers and claps:
First Time TIMER - Francy Nguyen
First Time Prepared SPEAKER - Joel Ng
First Time LANGUAGE EVALUATOR - Low Lay Hong
First Time TABLE TOPICS MASTER - Mark Goh
Coming together we had the passionate and ZELOUS runner speaker and evaluator pair - Shui Sing and Kim Siong on the art of running and Clara’s ZELOUS demonstration of reading-out-loud project extracted from the book - The Last Lecture.
Special thanks to Division S Governor, Leela, for gracing our meeting and Area B2 Governor, Patrick, for giving up rally speeches to attend this meeting. Not forgetting Sau Ying who came all the way from Yishun despite her cough, to help as a project evaluator.
A summary of our ZELOUS Ribbon Winners:
Best Prepared Speech - Joel Ng
Best Project Evaulator - Lum Sau Ying
Best Table Topic Speakers - Lim Seh Leng & Tan Yong Wei
Lastly, to add a ZELOUS finishing to the chapter meeting, we want to welcome 2 NEW MEMBERS - Bilson Bian and Tan Yong Wei!
We look forward to their MAIDEN SPEECHES on 18th and 31st May (Special Project Nights).
Let’s ACHIEVING GREATNESS TOGETHER in THE CLUB YOU BELONG!
Till we meet again in the next meeting!
5 April 2011
Tonight's Chapter Meeting was vivaciously conducted!
New Members were installed tonight. Joseph Ngo, Tang Hwee Suan and Mark Goh said their Toastmasters' Pledge and members of the Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club witnessed their installations and promises to give their best to support them in their Toastmasters Journey.
The Meeting started with the usual prepared speech segment with Joseph delivering his Project 2 on "Watches". He managed to clinch the Best Speaker ribbon. Congratulations!
The second speaker was Mark who delivered his Project 3 with his "Life Long Learning" in Life.
Diing Yaw who was onto his Project 9 on "Why you should consider a Sales Job?" aimed to persuade us that we are always selling in one way or another.
Yen also delivered her Advanced Project 2 in the Radio Talk Show where she spoke as a guest to a Radio Show on "Speak to the industry professional".
The second segment of the meeting was the speech evaluation segment with Kim Siong evaluated Joseph on his P2; Lee Yoon, visiting toastmaster, evaluated Mark; Ruby, visiting toastmaster, evaluated Diing Yaw; and Stuart, visiting toastmaster, evaluated Yen.
The Best Evaluator ribbon was later won by Tean Lee Yoon.
The Table Topics session was conducted by Jocelyn Goi, CC who invited volunteers to speak on the experience or feeling towards a choosen country. Hwee Suan later won the Best Table Topics speaker who spoke of France where she learned that locals responded better to Mandarin than to the English language!
We would like to thank all visiting Toastmasters in taking time to visit the Club & guests who were brought in by Members and the general public.
Till than... ...
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Mach 2011
It was such an exciting & encouraging evening!
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Interenational Speech & Table Topics contests have officially concluded from 6 International Speech Contestants & 5 Table Topics Contestants!
Let us congratualate all the Winners!
International Speech Contest
Champion - Lim Seh Leng, DTM
1st Runner Up - Ho Yen Yuen, CC/CL
2nd Runner Up - Tan Kim Siong, CC
Table Topics Contest
Champion - Lim Seh Leng,, DTM
1st Runner Up - Clara Tan, ACB, CL
2nd Runner Up - Chen Yuyuan. ACB, CL
Double Champion, Lim Seh Leng, will represent Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club in the Area S4 Contests held on:
26 March 2011 at Fuchun Community Club from 1:30pm - 5:30pm
Do take time off to support the event where you will get to hear more wonderful speeches!
The Contests would not have been possible for the following dedicated Toastmasters who took time to come support this event. They are:
Chief Judge - Angeline Koh, DTM
Contest Chair - Goh Sor Hoon, ACG, ALB
Tally Counter - Wong Kok Wah, ACS, ALB
Tally Counter - Goh Siew Hau
Timer - Linda
Timer - Nicole Tuo, CC, CL
Sergaent-At-Arms - Lee Shui Sing
Sergaent-At-Arms - Cindy Ang, ACB, CL
Sergaent-At-Arms - Koh Lam Seng
Let me also take this opportunity to welcome 2 new members, Tang Hwee Suan & Joseph Ngo!
Cheers and have a fantastic week ahead!
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Gong Xi Fa Cai on 1 Feb 2011
It was a glorious meeting.
The evening started with the playing of Chinese New Year Songs, in Chinese of course, to set the atmosphere.
True to the spirit of Chinese New Year, there was abundance in the meeting. Abundance in the richness of the
speech content by the prepared speech speakers Low Lay Hong, Lee Shui Sing, Ng Diing Yaw, Tan Kim Siong and our
club president Ho Yen Yuen. Abundance in our lovely Yu Sheng refreshment spread lovingly prepared by our feisty
VPE Jocelyn Goi. And abundance in the generous sharing by our evaluators Wee Ming Hwee, Jacky Ha, Kenneth Oh, Tracie Peh and Clara Tan
and the LE for that evening Goh Sor Hoon. Thank you all for making the evening so memorable.
What’s New at the Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club Meeting on 4 January 2011?
Yes, apart from learning the word “New”, from the language evaluator, Wee Ming Hwee, whose attempt as a Language Evaluator at her home club, was also new. We also had a new member, Mark Goh who delivered his maiden speech – “The Ice-breaker” which enticed the audience with his humor and alluring speaking style.
What could you do to overcome the fear of speaking in front of an audience? What could you do to overcome the jitters and let the butterflies in your stomach fly out your words with flow and fluency? Our club president, Ho Yen Yuen had the secrets which she shared openly with the audience with no reservation and wits.
Chen Yuyuan’s speech on setting goals and making and keeping to our new year resolutions was both enlightening and thought-provoking.
Our project evaluators were equally competent and offered invaluable recommendations which value-add much to our members’ speech presentations. Not to forget, our General Evaluator, Sophie Tan who conscientiously observe the meeting procession and had relentlessly shared her views for the improvement of our future club meetings. Kudos to all our invited toastmasters friends.
The meeting ended in a light but totally engaging mood.
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What’s New at the Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club Meeting on 4 January 2011?
Yes, apart from learning the word “New”, from the language evaluator, Wee Ming Hwee, whose attempt as a Language Evaluator at her home club, was also new. We also had a new member, Mark Goh who delivered his maiden speech – “The Ice-breaker” which enticed the audience with his humor and alluring speaking style.
What could you do to overcome the fear of speaking in front of an audience? What could you do to overcome the jitters and let the butterflies in your stomach fly out your words with flow and fluency? Our club president, Ho Yen Yuen had the secrets which she shared openly with the audience with no reservation and wits.
Chen Yuyuan’s speech on setting goals and making and keeping to our new year resolutions was both enlightening and thought-provoking.
Our project evaluators were equally competent and offered invaluable recommendations which value-add much to our members’ speech presentations. Not to forget, our General Evaluator, Sophie Tan who conscientiously observe the meeting procession and had relentlessly shared her views for the improvement of our future club meetings. Kudos to all our invited toastmasters friends.
The meeting ended in a light but totally engaging mood.
December 7, 2010 Chapter Meeting
It was a night worth waiting for! What a propitious way to end the year!
Apart from our members, the room was filled with Club Presidents and contest winners, all of whom are great project and language evaluators, as well as our wonderful guests. The meeting was so highly charged that laughter could be heard from the start till the end of the meeting.
Our SAA, Clara Tan, kick-started the meeting by having us introduce ourselves and sharing with one another our plans for Christmas.
Toastmaster of the Evening, Seh Leng, awe us with her use of language throughout the evening and left us all inspired to know more about the Language Evaluation workshop that will be held on 8 January 2011.
Our first speaker for the night, Francy, was such a great speaker that we almost forgotten that this was her maiden speech. Our little rabbit girl, who hails from Vietnam, shared with us the origins of her name as well as her dreams of opening a Vietnamese restaurant in Singapore.
Shui Sing shared with us how forgetful he was. Luckily, he didn’t forget his speech and we learned how important it is to be patient.
Jocelyn persuaded everyone to volunteer their time and money, not just for others, but for themselves too. She shared on the benefits of giving and reminded us to give our donations before 31 December to enjoy higher tax deduction.
Ming Hwee, our immediate past Club President, is happy to acknowledge all kinds of variations to her name. Indeed, she really lives up to her name and leading a Wonderful, Meaningful and Happy life!
Our great project evaluators, Kelvin Thiang, Coen Tan, Edwin Por and Linda Lam were so inspiring and experienced. Thank you to their wonderful project evaluations and valuable tips on how to make our speeches better.
John Sih was fabulous when he gave us his timers report, together with a short summary of our speeches.
After the refreshment break, our “Santa Claus”, Jocelyn Goi, took over the control of the lectern and invited the members and guest to give an impromptu speech on topics relating to the year end and festive seasons.
After all the actions, it’s time for the results.
Joni Siah gave us a brilliant SSS evaluation of the use of the language. Her speech was so educational and entertaining.
Next was the Ah Counter’s report. Thanks to Yuyuan who so painstakingly recorded all our pause- fillers. Three cheers for Linda, John and Ming Hwee who emerged to have achieved zero pause fillers in their speeches.
The meeting ended with the awards presentation with the winners being Ming Hwee (best project speaker), Coen (best evaluator) and John (best table topic speaker).
Special thanks to our club’s Sergeant-At-Arms, Tan Kim Siong, for preparing the delicious food.
It was a great night of learning, fun and laughter. We all enjoyed it very much and look forward to the next meeting on 4th Jan 2011.
Till then, see you.
The take away message for the night is:
Take control of your life by not having situations around you affect your Life;
Take a positive mindset towards life in that it’s your attitude that will determine your altitude; and
Live life with gratitude.
Do not ask Why? Ask Why not! When Life throws you Lemons, Make Lemonade!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
November 2, 2010 Chapter Meeting
The meeting started off with a round of introduction lead by Sergaent-At-Arms, Tan Kim Siong, on our favourite holiday destination to date. We had Japan trips, Europe Honeymoon, Iceland & Phuket get-aways amongst some of the memorable trips.
There was an amazing turnout of our wonderful guests and visiting Toastmasters that enriched and excited the night's Meeting.
Toastmaster of the evening, Wee Ming Hwee, kick start the meeting proper with our P3 Speaker, Lee Shui Sing on his project speech on "Why he joined Toastmasters" gave our guests some insights to what he gained in his journey over the last year.
AP1 Specialty Speech by our new member, Chen Yuyuan spoke on a project speech that requires no preparation, hence we coined it as a "very long, 5 to 7 minutes Table Topics".
AP3 Speaking To Inform Speech by our Club Presentation on her "Demonstration Talk" taught us how to do Origami by demonstrating how to fold a paper box.
We would like to thank Visiting Toastmasters, Tan Boon Chye, Wong Kok Wah and Patrick Sehoo, for taking time to evaluate our speakers for the night.
Michael Wee, DTM, impassioned Language Evaluation corrected us on the better usage of our English Language.
Guests also had a great time at Table Topics, with Topics selected by our Table Topics Master, Clara Tan, asking volunteers to speak on their views & opinions on one trait of a typical Singaporean what in their opinion is "Uniquely Singaporean"
We had an enjoyable meeting and the message for the evening was: "TODAY is YESTERDAY's TOMORROW" Don't wait till tomorrow to do the things you can do today. Do it NOW
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"5th Oct 2010
It was a lovely evening kicked off by the SAA, Ming Hwee who asked everyone to share their thoughts on:
"Why do you like Toastmaster?"
Positive vibes were hence generated to gear everyone up for the rest of the meeting.
Applause to Kim Siong who did a marvelous job in being a TME for his very first time despite given a short notice of just 3 days ahead of the meeting!
We were fortunate to have 3 visiting toastmasters with us who gracefully took on the appointments as evaluators & allowed our members to learn from them when they spoke with much poise & energy.
Thanks to Bruno, Lee Min & Guan Hau!
Bruno won our hearts to emerge as the BEST EVALUATOR & BEST TABLE TOPIC SPEAKER with his light hearted humor & polished style of speaking.
Our first time guest: Dong Ting enjoyed the meeting & was involved as a timer to keep all of us on time! Hope we could invite him back again as a member in future!
We've 4 members who did their projects tonight & we all learned a whole new insight from them:
Diing Yaw tickled the audience with his speech on "Why do younger guys prefer older women?".
Jocelyn taught us to be safer drivers on the roads so as not to be sorry!
Yen Yuen was eager to share about how to be well-liked & was thoughtful to make summary cards for us.
Lay Hong won the BEST SPEAKER award with her confident & collected demonstration of how to present an award in a special occasion! (no pause fillers noted, wow!)
Lastly, thanks to all for the enthusiastic participants in the table topics set by Shui Sing who was also took up the challenge for the first time as the Table Topics Master for the exciting segment of the evening! Well done!
We heard interesting ideas in dealing with ticklish situations that flipped our minds.
Till the next meeting on 2/11/10! "
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6-Apr-2010
Ulu Pandan Toastmaster Chapter meeting.
The meeting was well started by Seh Leng as the Toastmaster of the evening.
Ming Hwee began the Chapter Meeting by reminding us the importance of the Club's DCP goals.The excitement kicked start with Iron man - Kalvin, to share the soft side of his love & memory to his late mother.
Work life balance can never be easy! Thomas shared with us the tips on how to manage & balance between our work life & personal life.
Storytelling time, the relax moment for the audience began with romance of the boy-girl relationship by Faizah. How about a bedtime story for the races between the rabbit & the tortoise by Cheep Lee? It was the exciting snake fight in Jocelyn's childhood to capture the heart of the audience to win her the best prepared speech speaker of the evening.
‘The Food’ was the follow up with table topics as desserts from Kim Siong. Dorothy, Yen Yuen, Lay Hong & Steven had certainly dribble us with Chicken wings, PoPiah & err..Bats. Perhaps the Bats wasn’t tasted as bad with the long unusual bone that won Steven (guest of the evening) with the best table topic speaker. Guess some of us might want to try it once on how does it taste like!
The enriching evening cannot be conducted without the effort from the project evaluators, appointment holders & the guests.
Dorothy, on her timer role, was keeping everybody on-time to allow Eng Sing to manage the entire meeting schedule flowing smoothly & accordingly.
Lay Hong to meticulously listened for repeated words/sentences as Ah-counter role & not to forget Yen Yuen, who given out gummy candy as token on her maiden language evaluator role.
Thanks to all the project evaluators to help the project speakers - Ming Hwee, Hung Khoon, Clara, Daniel, Leela, Lye Sum.
It was indeed a memorable evening for the participants & audience!
Dear members of Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club,
Thank you for participating and supporting our chapter meeting yesterday! It was indeed a tremendous challenge for us to keep track of the timing.
I believe the meeting left us with FOND memories from ‘how to drive safely’, ‘select the right present’, ‘the importance of exercise’ to ‘how to put your New Year resolutions into action’! The evaluators helped us to become a better speaker by being ‘good’ to us instead ‘nice’. Perhaps I was stumbled and fumbled by the ‘door close’, yet, it has ‘open up the door to room of improvements’! (Hope I didn’t missed out any of your speech title, did I?)
Let us also give a loud applause to Si Lin for her marvelous maiden TME attempt! Not forgetting the other dedicated meeting appointment holders: Shui Sing – SAA, Thomas – Timer, Kevin - Ah-Counter, and Diing Yaw – Table Topics Master. Thank you!
Special thanks to Jocelyn for spreading the joy of Chinese New Year. The Yu Seng taste was fantastic! Hopefully our club will flourish and prosper to another height with the up-beating tossing of 'Lo Hei'!
International Speech & Table Topic Club Contests - 2 Mar 2010
Moving forward, next month (2 Mar 2010) is our annual International Speech & Table Topic Club Contest. All members who had completed at least 6 projects from the Basic Communication Manual will be eligible to take part in the International Speech Contest.
As one of your membership privileges, all members are eligible to take part in the Table Topic Contest which held no prerequisites.
The contest is one of the most fulfilling events of the year which you get to learn by observing the more experienced speakers and have fun at the table topics. Who knows you maybe the next to represent our club in the Area S4 contest?
April Chapter Meeting
Hurry! Please book your speaking slot with the VPE for April Chapter Meeting ASAP! Only 5 speaking slots and 1 back up speaker slot are available, first come first serve.
Project Night - 30 March 2010
Can't get a speaking slot? Not to worry, we have a special Project Night on the 30 Mar (5th Tue of March). Please kindly book your speaking slots with the VPE. 10 speaking slots are available!
Wishing you a bountiful and wonderful Chinese New Year!
Best wishes,
Ming Hwee
The Ulu Pandan Speechcraft Workshop had been successfully concluded on 22 Dec 2009! We are delighted to extend a warm welcome to six of our speechcrafters who had signed up immediately to be our member! Welcome Davy, May, Kim Siong, Ding Yau and Si Lin!
Not forgetting the contributions of members of Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club, Thank you very much!
Following the speechcraft workshop, the up-coming events of Ulu Pandan TMC in the month of January and February 2010 will be:
1) Monthly Chapter Meeting
Date: 2 Feb 2010, Tue
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Ulu Pandan CC, Level 8, Conference Room
2) Ulu Pandan TMC Social Gathering
Date: 23 January 2010, Sat
Time: 4pm – 6.30pm (Bowling)
7pm (Dinner)
Venue: Marina Square.
5th January 2010:
Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club started the year's Chapter Meeting on 5th January 2010. It was a fantastic night where we had 4 guests, visiting Toastmasters and 3 new members on top of our enthusiastic Club members attending the night's Chapter meeting. A wonderful preview to "Avater" on preserving the world we live in by Cheep Lee and an enlightening view to why we should not be finding happiness by Jocelyn. How to Live Life with Enthusiasm by Yen Yuen. And we had two great stories by Faizah on her School Bullies and Seh Leng's recollection of her helping her friend in cheating in a school exam.
Special Thanks to Saddiq, JIn Hwui, Rebecca and Gabriel on project and language evaluations.
Special Thanks also to appointment holders, Kephren and Rulph.
Ulu Pandan Speechcraft Workshop – Nov/Dec 2009 Intake
Dates: 24 Nov, 1 Dec, 8 Dec, 16 Dec, and 22 Dec 2009.
Venue: Ulu Pandan CC
Time: 7.00pm -9.30pm
Price: $100 (Passion card member)
$120 (non-Passion card member)
Contact person: Ho Yen Yuen, 97119340, yy79@hotmail.com
For more details, please visit http://ulupandanourhome.wordpress.com/
3th Oct 2009:
It was vibrant and delightful evening with members like Kalai and Teo Cheep Lee took up the challenge of different meeting roles for the first time. Commendable effort for Kalai’s maiden attempt as the Toastmasters of the Evening! Cheep Lee presented the hilarious and delirious table topics about animals and flying insects which aroused numerous humorous memories and imagination of the participants. Not forgetting to extend a warm welcome-back to one of our long-lost members, Quek Soo Hoon. Congratulations to Faizah for completing the basic communication manual! Sincere appreciate to the visiting toastmasters Joni Siah, Jei Sim, Lim Eng Hwa, Patrick Seehoo, and Frederick Kok for their valuable feedback and guidance to our speakers and members.
19th Sep 2009:
Congratulations to our fellow member Lee Eng Sing for emerging as the 2nd-runner up in both the Area S4 Humorous Speech And Speech Evaluation Contests last Saturday at Tampines Changkat CC!
Lee Eng Sing’s impressive achievements have honored ‘The Club Where You Belong’ – Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club.
1st Sep 2009 :
Our members participated actively in the humorous contest on the 1st Sep 2009.
Congratulations to the following winners:
Winners of the Humorous Speech Contest are:
Champion: Lee Eng Sing
1st-Runner Up: Ho Yen Yuen
2nd-Runner Up: Lim Swe Jian
Winners of the Speech Evaluation Contest are:
Champion: Lee Eng Sing
1st-Runner Up: Wee Ming Hwee
2nd-Runner Up: Ho Yen Yuen
Our champion, Lee Eng Sing, will represent our club in the Area S4 Humorous Speech & Evaluation contest. Details of the Area S4 contest are as follows :
Date : 19 September 2009 (Sat)
Time : 2 - 5 pm
Venue : Tampines Changkat CC
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21 Jun 2009 : The June chapter meeting was well attended by our members, visiting
toastmasters and guests. Our President opened the final chapter meeting in
her term as President with a motivating speech and she thanked all exco
members.
Our incoming President, Wee Ming Hwee took on the role of a General
Evaluator with great ease and provided valuable feedbacks. We would like to
thank all visiting toastmasters and members for taking on their respective
roles for the evening. We look forward to seeing all our members and guests
in the next chapter meeting.
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9 May 2009 : It was a serious evening softened by the TME Wee Ming Wee's cheerful and
innocent smile and laughter. We had both first time speakers, as well as
seasoned speakers. Our new member Eng Sing clinched the best speaker award
for the evening with his well prepared maiden speech. Visiting toastmasters
Stuart Ralls enchanted the audience with his evaluation and was rewarded with
the best evaluator award for the evening. Both our members and visting
toastmasters participated actively and enthusiastically in the table topics
section. The best table topic speaker award was won by visiting toastmasters,
Katherine. A big thank you to all appointment holders and everyone who made an
effort to attend the meeting. We hope to see you again in our future meetings.
- 14 April 2009 : Congratulations to Doana and Ming Hwee who have attained the CC award in
this meeting. We look forward to having them climb to greater heights
together with us.
We welcome Lynn and Eng Sing who have joined our Ulu Pandan family. We hope
they will grow and glow with their active participation in our club.
Finally, we would also like to thank all visiting toastmasters and friends
who have helped us in the various roles in the meeting.
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23 March 2009 : Our members participated actively in the International speech and table
topics contest on the 3rd March 2009. There were 6 contestants in the
international speech and 8 contestants for the table topics contest.
Congratulations to the following winners:
International Speech Contest:
Champion - Lim Seh Leng
1st runner up - Low Lay Hong
2nd runner up - Shabana Tyebally
Table topics contest:
Champion - Wong Loke Yeow
1st runner up - Lee Eng Sing
2nd runner up - Clara Tan
The champions of both contests will represent our club in the area contest
on 27 Mar 2009 at Tampines Changkat CC. Please come and support them if
you're free on that day.
We would like to thank all the judges and the visiting toastmasters who
helped us in the various roles.
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9 February 2009 : We welcome the first new member in the year of the ox. Congratulations to
Arun for taking the first step towards a fruitful learning journey.
The speakers for the evening were well prepared and presented interesting
speeches. Toastmaster Yen Yuan brought us on a sightseeing trip around
Singapore while Doana won the hearts of the audience with her vivid
demonstration of vocal variety and clinched the best speaker award for the
evening.
Of course the first chapter meeting in the year of the ox is incomplete without
"Lo Hei". Our members and guests had a roaring good time tossing the
"Yu Sheng". After the auspicious dish, we adjourned to the evaluation
segment. We would like to thank all our evaluators for giving our speakers
constructive feedbacks and all other visiting toastmasters and guests for their
time and help.
We wish everyone success in tackling all trials and tribulations that you may
encounter and may your creative juices flow like river in all your future
speeches. Gong Xi Fa Cai.
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13 January 2009 : We had a good start to the new year with 3 new members inducted. Let's
welcome Beh Hooi Chigh, Faizah and Kalai to our club. We are confident that
they will bloom and grow with active participation. We have a few guests
visiting us for the first time. We hope to see them again in future
meetings. We would also like to thank all visiting toastmasters who had
helped us in the various roles as evaluators.
We wish everyone a happy and fruitful year ahead.
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9 December 2008 : One can always count on friends. We thank our visiting Toastmasters from Brilliant Advanced, Queenstown, Raintree, Jurong Town, Cairnhill, Cheng San, Toastmasters Club of Singapore and AIA Changi Toastmasters Clubs for rendering their valuable services as our evaluators. It is through the diversity and variety of speech style and delivery that the meeting hit off on a high note right from the beginning till the end. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all !
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16 November 2008 : It was an evening filled with enthusiasm, entertainment, and enticement (the
home-cooked dinner was a big draw). Once again, our invited guest has raised
the bar for conducting the table topics session in a refreshing and
challenging way. This has made our table topics session the most exciting
segment of our chapter meeting with surprises in store at every chapter
meeting. So, members, invited guests, and potential members, do not miss out
on our future chapter meetings.
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14 October 2008 : At our chapter meeting on 7 October, members and guests were treated to a sumptuous dinner prepared by our club president and treasurer. Of course, dinner is incomplete
without our signature dish - pizza! Having satisfied our hunger, we proceeded to satisfy our
intellectual craving.
We welcomed a new member Doana Tan who confidently delivered her maiden speech and
gained much praise from her evaluator and all present.
The table topics session was conducted in a refreshing way by our guest Coen Tan. He had all table topic speakers acting as auntie/uncle/sister/ms agony, dishing out advice to the chosen problems. For this meeting, we had a general evaluator Esther Lim ACB who gave very constructive feedbacks on the general proceedings of the meetings and to all appointment holders. With these feedbacks in mind, we hope to do better in future meetings.
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14 September 2008 : Congratulations to the winners of our Humorous Speech Contest on 2 September 2008 : Lim Seh Leng ACS,CL (Champion) ,Tanveer Haider Khan (First Runner-Up) and Lim Swe Jian CC (Second Runner-Up).
- 14 September 2008 : Congratulations to the winners of our Evaluation Contest on 2 September 2008 : Lim Seh Leng ACS,CL (Champion), Tanveer Haider Khan (First Runner-Up) and Lim Swe Jian CC (Second Runner-Up).
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10 August 2008 : The August chapter meeting was a fun-filled session full of humour and
intellectual stimulation. The richness of language used by our speakers
intrigued everyone present. Our language evaluator, DTM Rebecca Lee stumped
most of the toastmasters by introducing a lesser known word, urbane.
Nevertheless, a number of toastmasters urbanely sprinkled their speeches
with the word of the day.
There was also a surprise item planned. The surprise was so carefully
guarded that no one knew what it was till the TME announced the item as it
was not highlighted in the program - Our member, Farida Mustanir gave a
surprise farewell speech as she's relocating to Dubai in the middle of
August.
Our Ah Counter, CC Mohd Saddiqi, gave the Ah Counter report in a very
refreshing and interesting manner.
The meeting ended on a high note as we left the conference room with fond
memories of the evening.
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3 August 2008 : The club welcome new blood in the first chapter meeting in the new term with the
installation of 2 new members, Ho Yen Yuan and Yap Wy-en. Wy-en went on to
present his maiden speech and won the best prepared speech speaker award. He
also shared the honour of the best table topic speaker with Rubel Khan. The
best evaluator for the evening went to our friend of Ulu Pandan, Rebecca
Lee DTM. Not to be outshone, Yen Yuan took on the role of timer like a seasoned
toastmaster.
We would like to thank immediate past district governor Michael Wee DTM for helping us to install the new Exco Members for the term 2008/2009. The club would also like to thank the Immediate Past President, Lim Swe Jian CC and her team for their time and efforts in the past term.
We certainly look forward to an exciting and fruitful term under the leadership
of our new President, Shabana Tyebally CC.
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28 June 2008 : We sincerely thank our club president Lim Swe Jian and our member Rubel Khan for running the last mile, in spite of their busy schedules, to complete the last project speeches of their ACB and CC awards respectively. We salute them for their dedication and commitment to help our club attain the President's Distinguished Club award for term 2007/2008.
- 28 June 2008 : We would like to thank the outgoing area S4 and incoming area S4 governors for rendering assistance at our club meeting on 3 June 2008, as well as visiting Toastmasters from Jurong Town Corporation, Brilliant Advanced TMC etc for adding variety and vibrancy to the meeting. We would also like to welcome aboard the latest addition to our club Toastmaster Quek Soo Hoon.
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1 June 2008 : On 30 May 2008, we held our Annual General Meeting. We welcome aboard the elected Exco for term 2008/2009 as follows : President : Shabana Tyebally CC
Vice President Education : Wee Ming Hwee, Li Ying CC
Assistant Vice President Education (aka member of Education Subcommittee) : Sam Yap
Vice President Membership :Lim Seh Leng ACS,CL
Vice President Public Relations : Low Lay Hong CC, Wong Loke Yeow
Secretary : Clara Tan ACB,CL
Treasurer : Lim Swe Jian CC,CL
Sergeant at Arms : Eddie Ang CC, Lim Hong Jin
Auditor : Tham Hock Mon, Loh Ming Li CTM,CL
Immediate Past President : Lim Swe Jian CC,CL
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26 May 2008 : We sincerely thank our friends from Cheng San, Nee Soon East and Fuchun Toastmasters for coming and bringing life and colour to our meeting on 6 May 2008 through their evaluations. We sincerely welcome our speechcrafters Rich Liow, Sam Yap and Anand Wong into our Ulu Pandan Toastmasters family. Welcome aboard ! We will be realigned to area S4 for the term 2008/2009. We sincerely thank all our club members and friends for supporting the realignment.
- 18 April 2008 : Small is beautiful. Although the turnout was small for our chapter meeting on 1 April 2008, it was still a boisterous and lively meeting with the help of members, visiting Toastmasters and the creative table topics session hosted by DTM Rebecca Lee.We also welcome aboard the latest edition to our club Lim Hong Jin !
- 18 April 2008 : Congratulations to the winners of our International Speech Contest on 4 March 2008 : Farida Mustansir CC (Champion) , Lim Seh Leng ACS,CL (First Runner-Up) and Low Lay Hong(Second Runner-Up).
- 18 April 2008 : Congratulations to the winners of our Table Topics Contest on 4 March 2008 : Shillina Phua CL (Champion), Clara Tan ACB,CL (First Runner-Up) and Lim Swe Jian CC (Second Runner-Up).
- 19 Feb 2008 : We thank visiting Toastmasters from Gelpa, Civil Service College, Nee Soon East and Brilliant Advanced for their sterling evaluations at our chapter meeting on 5th February 2008. We welcome the latest addition to our club Wee Ming Hwee, who served as our sergeant at arms on her first meeting at our club. Welcome aboard !
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13 Jan 2008 : 8th January 2008, the date that ULU Pandan Toastmasters Club had
its inaugural chapter meeting for the year 2008. It was off to a great
start! Not only did we have a long and exciting list of speakers but we
also had an equally long and distinguished list of visiting toastmasters.
Besides the very formal introduction round required of every meeting, this
time the Toastmaster of the Evening(TME) threw open a beginning of a story
to the meeting. Each person had to contribute a line or two to continue the
story. The story took many turns and twist and it was hilarious to see how
it ended. Feedback on such wake-me up activities were good! So future TMEs,
please remember to include similar acitivities. Our speakers presented a
range of varied topics which most certainly made for an interesting evening.
Not to be outdone, the evaluators too made eloquent speeches to praise
their speakers and recommend areas of improvement. Our table topics segment
also saw our solo guest of the evening taking her first steps to public
speaking. The evening ended on a high note as the best speaker, best
evaluator and best table topics speaker were announced. It was a fitting
start to the new year!
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4 Dec 2007 : The word of the day, "galvanize" recommended by the English evaluator, Joni
Siah, indeed set the tone for the evening. Our new member, Wong Loke Yeow,
did his best for his Ice Breaker Project and was in turn praised by his
evaluator, Mr Lee for his unique way of introducing himself to the
attendees.
Farida Mustanir did her Project Ten and thus earned her the Competent
Communicator award with her captivating speech on "Margin".
The Ulu Pandan Toastmasters' Club would like to thank the following
evaluators for their time and contribution to the chapter meeting: Kelvin
Thiang, ATMB, CL, Esther Heng,CL, Stuart Ralls, and our Club Mentor, DTM
Richard Sng.
Our thanks also to the following appointment holders without whom we would
be unable to conduct our meeting smoothly: Flora Yong, CL, Tham Hock Mun,
Clara Tan and Lim Seh Leng.
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18 Nov 2007 : It was a night of toasts to four speakers doing their Advanced Projects,
namely Lim Swee Jian, Eddie Ang, Li Ying, and Shabana Tyebally. More toasts
followed when two of them devoted their prepared speeches on the theme of the toast. It was
also a night of unexpected reunions -- Tan Teck Lee and Li Ying "reunited"
with our Chapter Meeting after a period of absence and Low Lay Hong met her
secondary school classmate, April Tan, (who was our evaluator), after a period of 20
years.
We take this opportunity to induct our new member,
Wong Loke Yeow into our club.
We would also like to thank our evaluators: Kenneth Cheong, Pauline Lim,
Jave Zhou, and April Tan for helping us with evaluations.
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9 Oct 2007 : There were 4 prepared speeches at the Chapter Meeting on 2 Oct. Among them was the humoroursly speaking project by the President as her opening address. The "yen" was
the word of the evening handed out by Nathaniel Koh DTM whose chosen word provided
the "yen and the zen" for more sharing, knowledge and networking. The
Meeting also saw 2 evaluators who are champion speakers themselves, thus
lending themselves the "yen" for providing valuable feedbacks.
The committe would like to thank the following for their valuable participation
and contribution:
Evaluators: James Keok ATMG,CL, Juey Ong CTM,CL, Ng Cher Khim CL, and Mohd Hijazi ACS.
Appointment Holders: Clara Tan ACB,CL, the Table Topic Master; Low Lay Hong, the Ah
Counter and Shabana Tyebally CC, Timer.
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9 Sep 2007 : The Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on 4 Septermber saw 27 attendees at the function. Club member Farida Mustansir, the champion of the Humorous
Speech captivated the audience with her mesmerizing speech, entitled,
"CountYour Blessing", while member Lim Seh Leng, was the champion of the
Evaluation Contest. The Club would like to express its heartfelt thanks to the
judges, appointment holders and other guests for making the Contests a
wonderful evening of contest and laughter.
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9 Sep 2007 : Our heartest congratulations to the following winners of the Humorous Speech Contest on 4 September 2007. They are Farida Mustansir (Champion), Lim Seh Leng (First Runner-up) and Tanveer Haider Khan (Second Runner-up).
- 9 Sep 2007 : Our heartest congratulations to the following winners of the Evaluation Contest on 4 September 2007. They are Lim Seh Leng (Champion), Farida Mustansir (First Runner-up) and Angie Chew (Second Runner-up).
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21 Aug 2007 : Our monthly August Toastmasters meeting went on smoothly on 7th August 2007. The meeting was opened by our recently inaugurated president Ms Lim Swe Jian, who opened the meeting with a wonderful speech recalling her childhood days and the lessons that were learnt along the way. Although a first time, our Toastmasters of the Evening carried herself well and smoothly co-ordinated the meeting. We had a good round of presentations from our junior toastmasters who were doing their project 3 and project 5 speeches while one toastmaster was on her way to completing her project 9 speech. Our guests for the nights, Tan Meow Hui from Tampines West, John Choi from Radin Mas, Wong Kok Wah from Brilliant Advanced added to the stimulating and cheery evening. They came to lend their experience and weight to either provide the word for the day, evaluate or dare us with mind challenging table topics or simply support the Ulu Pandan Toastmasters. All in all, it was a good evening with everyone accomplishing their roles to the nines. Looking forward to our Humorous Contest on 4 September. Hope to see you there!
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9 July 2007 : It was an evening that Lim Swee Jian CC and Eddie Ang CC should treasure its moment: the former was formally installed as the President of the Club for the new term
and the latter putting up his best performance for the first time as the
Toastmaster of the Evening. Our bubbly and fun-loving President, in her maiden
speech, pledging her intention in maintaining the status of the Club.
The club would like to thank District 80 Governor Michael Wee DTM for helping to
install the new committe members for the new term headed by Lim Swee Jian. Our
thanks also went to our distinguished guests: Area Governor Stanley Chen CC,
Rebecca Lee, John Choi and Tay Wee Leong, as well as the visitors.
Last but not least, we would like to thank the Immmediate Past President Loh Ming Li CTM/CL and her executive committee for their unrelenting commitment and effort for garnering
the President's Distinguished Club for the second consecutive year
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17 June 2007 : Our club closed the 2006/2007 term with 10 DCP goals. We are now a President's Distinguished Club. Well done Ulu Pandan ! Credit goes to all members of Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club for helping to achieve the goals. We also produced 2 more competent communicators, Li Ying and Eddie Ang at our 5 June 2007 chapter meeting. Congratulations Eddie Ang and Li Ying ! Please do not stop delivering your speeches. Lastly, our new member Dave Teo did not go unnoticed for his credible performance as the Toastmaster of the Evening for the first time. Well done Dave !!
- 17 June 2007 : Our annual general meeting was held on 22 May 2007. Let us welcome our 2007/2008 Executive Committee !
President : Lim Swe Jian CC
Vice President Education : Low Lay Hong
Assistant Vice President Education (aka member of Education Subcommittee) : Dave Teo, Ana Juntilla, Irene Ng Chew Yee
Vice President Membership :Eddie Ang Khea Chwee CC, Li Ying CC
Assistant Vice President Membership (aka member of Membership Subcommittee) : Jenny Quah, Annie Png
Vice President Public Relations : Angie Chew Chuan Eng, Farida Mustansir
Assistant Vice President Public Relations (aka member of Public Relations Subcommittee) : Tanveer Haider Khan, Goh Chin Kwee
Secretary : Shabana Tyebally CC, Adair Ngo Khay Soon CTM, CL
Treasurer : Lim Seh Leng ACS,CL
Sergeant at Arms : Clara Tan ACB,CL, Tham Hock Mon
Immediate Past President : Loh Ming Li CTM, CL
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8 May 2007 : It is a night of many firsts. Our new member Ana Juntilla successfully hosted the evening's programme as Toastmaster of the Evening for the first time. Well done Ana ! We produced our first competent communicator for this term - Tyebally Shabana. Well done Shabana ! Clara also completed her first Advanced Communicator award, the Advanced Communicator Bronze award. Congratulations Clara ! These achievements have enabled our club to move from the Distinguished Club status to Select Distinguished Club status.
- 3 Apr 2007 : We produced our second competent leader, Loh Ming Li, our club president for the 2006/2007 term at our chapter meeting tonight. Congratulations Ming Li ! We extend a warm welcome to our 10 Speechcrafters who have enrolled with the Speechcraft workshop last week 27 Mar 2007. And we welcome the latest addition to our Ulu Pandan family, Irene Ng. Welcome aboard !
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12 Mar 2007 : Our heartest congratulations to the following winners of the International Speech Contest on 6 March 2007. They are Farida Mustansir (Champion), Low Lay Hong (First Runner-up) and Lim Seh Leng (Second Runner-up).
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12 Mar 2007 : Our heartest congratulations to the following winners of the Table Topics Contest on 6 Mar 2007. They are Farida Mustansir (Champion), Lim Seh Leng (First Runner-up) and Loh Ming Li (Second Runner-up).
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13 Feb 2007 : Our first competent leader Adair Ngo was minted at the chapter meeting on 6 Feb 2007. Congratulations Adair ! It was indeed an evening well spent with well prepared and inspiring speeches. That evening, we also discovered a hidden talent amongst our midst - our very own relaxation mistress, Farida Mustansir who took us through a set of body movements to unwind the day's worries and tension. To all our project and language evaluators from NUS, Singapore Polytechnic, Braddell Heights, Dover and Tampines Regional Library, you have been simply superb ! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. To all members, thank you for your spontaneous participation. You have all been wonderful and have demonstrated the unique Ulu Pandan spirit of camaraderie.
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11 Jan 2007 : At the chapter meeting on 9 Jan 2007, we witnessed 3 "Firsts". First, our club had the honour to have our club mentor and friend, DTM Richard Sng deliver his enlightening project 7 speech. It was also the first time that our member Lay Hong attended our meeting after a long absence. She had this to say about the meeting : "After an absence of 3 months, it was good to be back to witness a roomful of dynamic people delivering dynamic speeches and evaluations. It was indeed a dynamic start to a dynamic year ahead." We had our first new member of the year, Mandar Salunkhe, who joined our club that night after dropping by for the first time. Welcome aboard Mandar!
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31 Dec 2006 : Let us welcome our new member Goh Chin Kwee. Welcome aboard Chin Kwee !
- 22 Dec 2006 : First of all, we would like to extend our warm welcome to our new member,
Ana Juntilia for attending our 5 Dec chapter meeting after completing her Speechcraft Sessions.
The words of the day, vitality, vigour and verve introduced by the Club Mentor, DTM Richard Sng, added spices to our language usage and liven up the whole atmosphere that was dampened by slight delay and inclement weather.
The lively session was further maintained by the enthusiasm injected by the four guests, namely, John Choi dishing out his table topics in an invitingly manner, Rebecca Lee delivering the best evaluation report of the evening, Patrick Chang ACB and Mindy Ding, both offering
their valuable and constructive suggestions to the speakers. We would like to thank them for their attendance and particularly for making the meeting a wonderful evening of learning, sharing and
entertaining experiences.
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3 Dec 2006 : Let us welcome Ana Juntilla and Dave Teo, 2 recent graduates of our speechcraft workshop (conducted on 7,9,14,16 and 28 Nov 06) who have joined our club in Dec 06. Welcome Aboard !
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22 Nov 2006 : We had the pleasure and privilege to do our part for the Ulu Pandan community. On 8 Nov, we were invited to present a programme at a camp organised by the Ulu Pandan Citizens Consultative Committee Education and Welfare Subcommittee and the Youth Executive Committee for teens from Ulu Pandan. It is titled "I-CAN" for "I CAN COMMUNICATE, I CAN ACHIEVE, and I CAN BE NURTURED". It's purpose is to enable the teens to build their self-confidence and practise their communication skills.
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15 Nov 2006 : The Ulu Pandan November Toastmasters meeting was not an ordinary monthly
chapter meeting. It also signalled the start of our Speechcraft course over a period of 5 sessions. Besides our regular agenda, whereby our Ulu Pandan Toastmasters delivered their project speeches, the Speechcrafters were given a preview of the setting in which a toastmasters chapter meeting is held, the management and the organization of such a meeting whereby toastmasters are expected to take on various appointments. A total of 13 people enrolled for the Speechcraft course. During the fast and furious table topics round, Speechcrafters were invited to participate to get a first-hand feel of standing in front of a group of people and sharing their opinions on a chosen topic. The meeting ended on a high note as usual with feelings of accomplishment and camaraderie all round. We look forward to seeing our Speechcrafters in the subsequent sessions.
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5 Oct 2006 : Every chapter meeting is a mystery to all because we do not know what
awaits us. We had a fun English lesson by Pauline Lim CTM, the bubbly VPE of Choa Chu
Kang TMC.
The guests were jovial and encouraging; our members had a wonderful
time interacting and sharing public speaking tips over break. It is with
much regret that many of our members were unable to turn up for the meeting.
Learning is a life long process and public speaking is no different.
The 3 hour session enables us to unwind after all the hard work in preparing for the meeting, to
measure our progress in public speaking and to evaluate our personal growth and improvement for the month.
We are pleased to announce that UPTMC is organizing a 5 session
Speechcraft Workshop in the month of November 2006. The workshop will be conducted by
our Club Mentor, DTM Richard Sng, who was the champion of both the Area S2 Humorous
Speech Contest as well as the Area S2 Evaluation Contest.
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12 Sep 2006 : It was with eagerness that all club members especially the first timers anticipated the arrival of the Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contests on 5 Sep. Farida Mustansir, stood out because of her ability to be realistic and relate to the audience.The other participants,however,were no less impressive. Eddie Ang's naration of humorous jokes had everyone laughing heartily. Seh Leng was able to express herself clearly, her words accompanied with appropriate facial expressions and Margaret's witty speech held the full attention of the audience. First timer Low Lay Hong did an excellent job as the contest chair. Congratulations.
- 12 Sep 2006: Congratulations to the following winners of our Humorous Speech Contest :
- 12 Sep 2006 : Congratulations to the following winners of our Evaluation Contest :
- 7 Aug 2006 : A two-session Evaluation Workshop was conducted by our Club Mentor, DTM Richard Sng. It aims at developing the existing members to be skilled Evaluators as well as enhancing the overall status of the Club. The workshop was well received with 15 attendees mainly from the Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club.
- 7 Aug 2006 : The August Chapter Meeting saw 5 prepared speech projects. Vimal Sachdeva CL and Lim Seh Leng ATM-B/CL presented their Advanced Manual speeches while the other 3 were doing their basic Communicator speeches. The attendees were asked to fill in the Member Interest Survey as part of the ongoing effort to gauge the needs of the members. The best speaker award for Prepared Speeches went to Lim Seh Leng while the Best Table Topic Speaker award was clinched by Farida Mustansir, a relatively new comer to the Club. The club sincerely thanks visiting Toastmasters Toh Hung Jui, Wu Shuling CTM, Joni Siah CTM for their helpful and delightful evaluations, and Quek Geok Cheng for her assistance as Sergeant at Arms for the evening.
- 10 July 2006 : Year 2005-2006 has been a very significant year for all. We have clinched many new awards under the able leadership of ATMB, CL Lim Seh Leng. Seh Leng was awarded both the Area Z2 Toastmaster of the Year as well as Division Z Toastmaster of the Year awards. Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club also achieved the President's Distinguished Club award for the first time.
Our young and articulate CTM, Loh Ming Li, is our new President for Year 2006-2007. She will be supported and assisted by a team of friendly, jolly and fun-loving Exco members. We are honoured by the presence of District 80, LGET, DTM, Michael Wee, who has kindly taken time off from his busy schedule to install the club officers during our July chapter meeting on 4 July 2006.
The July chapter meeting was well attended by members and guests from other clubs. The evening's Best Prepared Speech Award went to TM Low Lay Hong, for her interesting topic entitled Learn, Share and Grow.
- 11 June 2006: Our last chapter meeting for the 2005/2006 TI year was held on 6 June 2006. Although the date contains 3 occurences of the number 6, which may not be auspicious according to biblical definitions, none of us was aware of its significance until a guest pointed it out. Fortunately, the meeting proceeded without a hitch. We are very grateful to visiting Toastmasters ATM-B/CL Rebecca Lee from Brilliant Advanced and Gabriel Chen Yong Chao from Alumni Toastmasters Clubs for broadening our horizons with their helpful and enlightening project evaluations. Our club mentor DTM Richard Sng never failed to amaze us with his erudite learning and his impactful and edifying evaluation of the speech evaluations and language used. We attained 9 DCP goals that evening to become a President's Distinguished Club. Congratulations Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club !
- 2 June 2006: Our annual dinner cum general meeting was held two nights ago on 30 May 2006.
Let's welcome our 2006/2007 Executive Committee !
President : Loh Ming Li CTM
Vice President Education : Lim Swe Jian
Assistant Vice President Education (aka member of Education Subcommittee) : Low Lay Hong, Yip Chee Hung, Yong Yan Yi
Vice President Membership : Lim Seh Leng CL
Assistant Vice President Membership (aka member of Membership Subcommittee) : Eddie Ang, Shirline Cho, Li Ying
Vice President Public Relations : Shillina Phua CL
Assistant Vice President Public Relations (aka member of Public Relations Subcommittee) : Angie Chew, Shabana Tyebally, Julie Ong, Farida Mustansir
Secretary : Clara Tan CL
Treasurer : Adair Ngo CTM
Sergeant at Arms : Tham Hock Mon
Immediate Past President : Lim Seh Leng CL
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2 June 2006: Our WriteCraft : The SpeechWriter Workshop ended on a high note last Friday 26 May. It has been a memorable experience for our club members. We are indeed very grateful to our club mentor DTM Richard Sng for sharing so generously with us the finer points of crafting good speeches.
- 6 May 2006: It was a night of double joy as our Vice President(Membership) Loh Ming Li and Sergeant at Arms Margaret Gan delivered their speeches for project 10 of the basic communications manual and attained the Competent Toastmaster (CTM) award during our May chapter meeting on 2 May 2006. On that night, our new members Chee Hung, Eddie, and Lay Hong embarked on their first projects under the new competent leadership track as they took up various meeting roles such as Ah-Counter, Timer and Sergeant at Arms. Many thanks to the many visiting Toastmasters who hail from as far as Tampinese Changkat, Thomson, Kowloon Singapore and AIA Changi, and have entertained and edified us with their useful and constructive feedback and comments for the speech and language evaluation segments of the night's programme.
- 16 Apr 2006: Congratulations to our Vice President(Education) Adair Ngo for achieving the Competent Toastmaster (CTM) award during our April chapter meeting on 4 April 2006.
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9 Apr 2006: Many thanks to parents and students from the "Dairy Farm" Gavel Club as well as guest evaluators DTM Richard Sng, Flora Yong CL and Charles Lim ATM-B, CL for bringing much liveliness and variety to our chapter meeting on 4 April. We are grateful that our club mentor DTM Richard Sng has kindly agreed to begin the meeting with a short vocal warm-up exercise session. We are also grateful that our club mentor Patrick Chang ATM-B, CL has come all the way from Bishan to join us for our celebration dinner after the meeting.
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2 Apr 2006: Congratulations to our VPPR Clara Tan for emerging second runner-up during the Area Z2 Table Topics Contest held on 1 April at Grassroots Community Club.
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12 Mar 2006: It felt as though the stars had descended on our International Speech and Table Topics Contests on 7 March 2006. There were 57 or more toastmasters and guests that evening. Besides our distinguished panel of judges, we were honoured to have CCMC member Mr Lee Peng Shu to be the guest of honour for the contests.
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12 Mar 2006: It was also at the International Speech and Table Topics Contests on 7 March 2006 that we concluded our speechcaft workshop which began on 7 February 2006. We would like to warmly welcome our speechcrafters Yip Chee Hung, Low Lay Hong, Yong Yan Yi, Eddie Ang and Shabana Tyebally who have decided to join our Ulu Pandan family as they embark on their toastmasters journey. Welcome aboard Chee Hung, Lay Hong, Yan Yi, Eddie and Shabana !
- 12 Mar 2006: Congratulations to the following winners of our International Speech Contest :
- 12 Mar 2006: Congratulations to the following winners of our Table Topics Contest :
- 12th Feb 2006: We opened our Speechcraft workshop at our chapter meeting on 7 February 2006. That evening, we were privileged to have with us our supportive club mentor DTM Richard Sng and ATM-S/CL Devi Harridas who helped to open our Speechcraft workshop with much panache through their brilliant "Introduction to Speechcraft" item and language evaluation respectively. We were also happy to witness the presence of our club sponsor Lin Ming who dropped by in spite of her busy schedule. Our VPE Vimal Sachdeva completed the second project from the Successful Club Series and attained his Competent Leader award that evening. Congratulations Vimal !
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5th Feb 2006: We successfully hosted the International Speech and Table Topics Contests for Geylang Serai Toastmasters Club on 4 February 2006. It was indeed a memorable Saturday afternoon with many of our own club members as well as the distinguished panel of judges, turning up in full force to render service to the event.
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3rd Feb 2006: In the tradition of Ulu Pandan Toastmasters Club, we held our annual dinner cum get together at the Jurong Country Club on 2 February 2006. In line with the spirit of Chinese New Year, it was a happy reunion for our club with our supportive club mentors DTM Richard Sng and Division Z Governor ATM-B/CL Patrick Chang, club sponsor ATM-B/CL Lin Ming, and charter members such as Lilian and Brian. We were also privileged to have the gracious presence of our Area Z2 governor CL See Chak Wah to be part of the Chinese New Year celebration of our club that evening.
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10th Jan 2006: We opened the year with a visit by our Area Z2 governor CL See Chak Wah on 3 Jan 2006. He also served as the meeting's general evaluator. Thanks Chak Wah for the many constructive comments to improve the meeting's proceedings. We were also privileged to have with us for that evening, Able Toastmaster Edward See, and visiting toastmasters DTM Chan Boon Hwee and CTM Simon Ho for bringing much colour to our meeting with their evaluations.
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18th Dec 2005: Three brave members Margaret Gan, Vimal Sachdeva and James Keok represented our club at our Toastmasters Idol contest on 10 Dec 2005. All three put up memorable performances. Our Sergeant at Arms Margaret Gan cooked her way into the hearts of the audience and judges with her live cooking demonstration when she became one of the six finalists out of fifteen contestants. James regaled the audience with his mischievous jokes and our Vice President of Education (Vimal Sachdeva) sang his heart out with a Hindi Bollywood love number. Thank you Margaret, Vimal and James for your wonderful performances at the Toastmasters Idol contest!
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18th Dec 2005: Our VPPR Clara Tan attained her competent leader (CL) title at our chapter meeting on 6 Dec 2005. Congratulations Clara ! We also presented our IPP Shillina Phua with the distinguished club award for her 2004/2005 term. Not to forget, we will like to thank all visiting Toastmasters for dropping by during our chapter meeting on 6 Dec 2005.
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2nd Dec 2005: Ulu Pandan TMC bade goodbye to a dear friend and devoted mentor, Ms Lilian Lau on 11 Nov 2005. Lilian sponsored the club in 2002 amid her busy schedule as District Governor during the same period. She continued to support and mentor the club and would never fail to attend every EXCO meeting to ensure the team kept their spirits high. Her relentless kindness and kindred spirit to the Club will always reside in our memory.
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2nd Dec 2005: What better encouragement can a club receive than those that come from the endorsements of potential members? Four new members have staked their hearts to join our Club during our last chapter meeting on 8 Nov 2005. From now on, we will embark into an adventurous journey of learning, sharing and growing together. A warm welcome to the new members to our family - Angie, Li Ying, Lydon, and Julie.
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4th Oct 2005: We are proud to announce that Vimal Sachdeva our VPE has attained his CTM award! Thank you to all visiting Toastmasters for participating in our meeting, and thanks to all Non-Toastmasters for dropping by. We hope to see you again at our November Chapter meeting.
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18th Sept 2005: Congratulations to our member James Keok for emerging first runner-up in the recent Area Z2 Humorous Speech Contest on 15 Sep at Chua Chu Kang CC.
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7th Sept 2005: Thanks to to guest toastmasters from NUS Alumni, NTU Alumni and Grassroots Toastmasters Club for graciously accepting our invitation to be our language/project evaluators at our Sep 6 meeting.
It has been an extraordinary night filled with laughter and much amusement. Our guests and fellow toastmasters shared much of their personal insights and wisdom as they attempted the challenging Zen-inspired table-topics.
- We had the first successful run of our Experiential Pronunciation Workshop on 3 September 2005. It was attended by 47 people from the public. Our sincere thanks to our club mentor Richard Sng DTM and guest toastmaster Flora Yong CTM for helping us to run the lecture and the pronunciation challenge segments. Many thanks to all our club members who helped in one way or another, during the preparation for as well as on the actual day of the workshop. Here are a few of the comments from the Experiential Pronunciation Workshop participants : "
The Pronunciation Session
- Good examples given to enhance understanding
The Games Session
- Good try to spike interest and understanding of earlier speech
- A very good and interesting talks but time is insufficient (Serene Chua)
Value of workshop
- Interesting and Enlightening way of gaining everyone's interest to see the
importance of good pronunciation.
- Excellent! (Heng Li San)
Overall
- interesting workshop as it imparts skills in a non-formal manner
- Fun & loving group & great participation (Heng Li San) "
- We will like to thank our guest toastmasters from Brilliant Advanced, Singapore Swimming Club, Chua Chu Kang, Grassroots, AIA Changi, IPFAS, Money Mastery, Queenstown Mandarin and Singapore Health Nurses for taking time from their busy schedule to help us with our first Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest on 2 Aug 05.
- Congratulations to the following winners of the Humorous Speech Contest :
- Congratulations to the following winners of the Evaluation Contest :
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Congratulations to our VPM Robert Koh on becoming a Competent Toastmaster, our club's first for the term 2005/2006 on 5 July 05!
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Let us congratulate our club president Shillina Phua for attaining her Competent Leader (CL) title on 7 June 05!
With this, we manage to achieve the goal of becoming a Distinguished Club for the first time!
- Let us welcome our new Executive Committee for 2005-2006 :
President : Lim Seh Leng
VP(Education) : Vimal Sachdeva, Adair Ngo
VP(Membership) : Robert Koh, Loh Ming Li
VP(Public Relations) : Clara Tan, Adrian Lim
Treasurer : Tham Hock Mon
Treasurer Mentor : Anthony Seow
Secretary : Shirline Cho, Lim Swe Jian
Sergeant-At-Arms : Margaret Gan
Immediate Past President : Shillina Phua
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