Toastmasters Meeting at INTI ... A new leaf...

Last evening, indeed, was a new beginning for Students Toastmasters club.

Sunday, Usman and Sadiq came out with a good idea of having the meeting in an open space for public view. It worked very well. Good response from students.

The highlights of the events,  are few things:
1. The venue - its our Debate place. Since Debate is been off for a while, it seemed a strategic place to get students attention. The purpose was met.
2. Guests - New faces have a high say. Our guests created a good impact and added value to the meeting.
3. Table Topics  - Very realistic. Topics varied from Culture, Discipline, Smoking, Goals and Flexibility.
4. Table topic speakers- Interesting. People have different perspective of life, totally.

• Discipline - Ika was the first one to speak - I am sure She would have thought I was the one who mentioned her name. But No Ika. She said that she did not follow discipline and she defined the term discipline(very debate, I know you can't get away with it). But the speech was good. She said that different people follow different level of Discipline. One area to improve- a lot of ah..mm..ah..gap fillers...(why don't you join toastmasters?)
• Culture - Sobere( Am I saying it correctly? ) said Culture is the most important trait one must have than money and ???? ( are you sure?) Fluent speech. Right mixture of delivery, volume, body language. Just nice. 
• Goals- one of the girls was suggested to speak but she declined out of fear. (You should join!) But another girl volunteered. It was a good speech- having short term and long term goal.
• Flexibility - Mohd said that being flexible makes one surviver. He was slightly nervous. He said he is joining. 
• Smoking - Our Mo. Easy style. There is no difference between smoking a cigar and smoking some leaves.(????) He defended that a smoker shouldn't be called a fool but his action of smoking.(Verbatim - a smoker is not a fool but the act of smoking itself is foolishness.Wow! - any smokers, don't be angry with Mo, its just a speech.) Natural speaker. 
• The weather was stuffy and hot. Suddenly I saw Jeromy brining fans and I was wondering many things in my mind. But the moment I saw Mr Tan, I knew it was him who arranged for fans. (Thank you Mr Tan!) 
• Mr Tan was satisfied with the effort. He is helping us in establishing the club. 
• Yusuf - English is a crazy language- it was entertaining. Why do we say a hot cup of coffee..shouldn''t it be a cup of hot coffee? Fun. 

Did I miss anything? Overall there was a positive vibes. The effort paid off. The Trio needs a good round of(Yusuf's style) applause.

Keep up the good job! Let us do something new in the next meeting.

I can't forget the days that I had struggled with every single thing for this club.(Dr Julie, Mr Alex, and very very few of my friends know)  Perhaps, it needed its own time?!