Synopsis of Chapter Meeting on 17 Nov 2011

6 visiting toastmasters attended the club meeting. They were Narvin(Marine Parade TMC), Stanley(NUSS TMC), Letchumanan(Bedok), Christine, Othman and Tracie(NOL TMC).

For the prepared speeches, Justin Fong presented his P2 speech (Organize your speech), Military Leadership, Best Practices for the Business world. He spoke confidently about 3 leadership skills, a) understanding commander's intent, b) decision making and c) after action review. He equated doing business as fighting a war, and with the right leadership skills, one can meet and satisfy the demands of consumers. His speech could be found at "http://voices.yahoo.com/leadership-best-practices-proven-military-leadership-7471684.html"

Our next speaker presented her P3 speech (Get to the point) entitled My Financial Independent Goal. She is a property agent and she discusses her beliefs using the acronym SMART. She urge the audience to Save, Maximize capital appreciation, use Advantages in leveraging, employ Rental yield and perform Timely entry and proper management. With this set of principles she believes everyone would be able to achieve financial independent.

The third and final speaker Ben Xu shared with us his P10 speech (Inspire your audience), Embrace mandarin, embrace the future. He highlighted that mastering the Chinese language has made Singaporeans unique, and this also allowed Singaporeans to tap into the Chinese market. Ben also quoted numerous examples in his speech, like Jim Rogers migrating to Singapore to enable his children to pick up mandarin.

1st evaluator Narvin commended Justin's choice of topic as relevant and applicable to audience, and liked that the speech was split into 3 key points. Justin achieved the speech objectives. However, Justin would need to quote more examples, like what happened to companies that did not adapt the principles.

2nd evaluator Stanley applauded Merry as a credible speaker. Merry's speech was well prepared, with examples supporting her points. She also used an acronym in her speech. Merry could improve her speech with better use of gestures, prepare props in advance and try to connect with the audience better by understanding how to relate the speech to the audience.

3rd evaluator Letchumanan congratulated Ben on completing his project 10. Ben highlighted numerous aspects of the Chinese language, and made references to Lee kuan Yew, Jim Rogers, Chins history and how mandarin is applicable to an economic advantage. He also uses a wide range of vocabulary. Ben would need to appeal to the emotional needs of the audience and should quote examples that the audience can directly relate to.

For the table topics session conducted by table topic master Leena Santore, Leena introduced props consisting of different hats (see below picture for a vivid description).

Othman chose the toque and cheekily used the props on the table to demonstrate a cooking class. Malcolm took the pirate's hat, and informed us that one of his favorite movies is pirates of the Caribbean. He was proud that the movie, Pirates of the Carrabin mentioned Singapore. Su Cheng picked the baseball cap, and shocked the audience when she told us she took up baseball as a hobby previously. Tracie fancied the construction worker safety head gear, and told us her dream of wanting to be an engineer. Last but not least, Benjamin chose the straw hat and discussed about his love on country music. He loved the lyrics of country music, and the lyrics always surrounded the theme love, life and family.

Language evaluator Christine shared with the audience on thee "keep" and "kick it" for this evening session.

For the good use of language:

- Slowly but systematically

- Love, life, lust

- Impeccable use of language

- In life, we wear different hats (reference to the table topics session)

- Kindness begets kindness

- Embrace mandarin, embrace the future

We should note and prevent the use of the below:

- Pronunciation of kiss versus keys

- switch the light on

- Financial independent or financial independence

- Pronunciation of the word "project"

- P10 project is to inspire the audience, not expire

November Chapter Meeting:

Best Speaker : Justin Fong

Best Evaluator: Navin Parwal (from Marine Parade)

Best Table Topics Speaker: Benjamin Gan