Katong Toastmasters Club

Katong Toastmasters Club had the good fortune to field two contestants for both the Area Z3 International Speech and Table Topics Contests on Saturday 19 March 2016 @ The Grassroots Club. Leena and Geri were taking part in the International Speech Contest, while Geri and Malcolm took part in the Table Topics Contest. We are delighted to announce that all three of them came in top 3 at the contests!  Here are the results: International Speech Contest Champion        Leena Santore 2nd runner-up  Geri Kan Table Topics Contest Champion      Geri Kan 1st runner-up Malcolm Chen Congratulations!! We are very proud of you! A proud moment for Katong TMC as our members sweep four trophies at the Area Z3 International Speech and Table Topics Contests.

Sergeant-At-Arms Leena got us started with a round of introductions by drawing from a stack of words we must use to describe our day. Some of us had fun, hectic, quiet, sunny and productive days.  President Aarti shared with us two moving stories of fortitude about teenage girls who faced great challenges in life but went on to overcome them. Read the full speech  here . PREPARED SPEECHES Our line-up of speakers included Rosalind, Cwenn, Eliz and Peter. Rosalind presented her Project 1 The Icebreaker about being a dreamer. She had envisaged being a teacher, a nurse and a journalist at different times of her life. However, those dreams did not last long. In the end, she worked in the HR profession. She continues to dream about pursuing other passions in life and urge all of us to never stop dreaming. Cwenn, in her P5 speech entitled "How My Hands Healed My Heart", shared a moving experience about a break-up that pained her deeply and how signing up for a leather-makin

Katong Toastmasters Club made history on 18 February 2016 when it fielded 7 contestants for its International Speech Contest and 5 contestants for the Table Topics Contest.  It was the first time in the history of Katong TMC that we had so many contestants vying for the trophies.   These are some of the contestants in action. In the spirit of celebrating Lunar New Year, we had a Lohei session during refreshments. We had fun tossing and shouting out goodwill, auspicious wishes. Once again, we had the wonderful members from NUS Alumni Toastmasters Club to assist us in organising the contests and to ensure its smooth running. A big thank you to all our appointment holders: Chief Judge           Area Z3 Director Roy Wong Organising chair    Tu Yu Contest chair         Wee Gee Shing Timers                   Guo Cheng, Defriceni Ng Tally Counters       James Wang, Rosalind Wong Sergeant-at-arms Liu Diansheng, Aarti Kabra Logistics               Ida Lee Photographer      

17 March 2016 President's Opening Address by Aarti Kabra Two stories from two different parts of the world caught my attention this week. The protagonists in both were young girls in their teens - girls, whose lives had been turned upside down by a stroke of misfortune, their personal tragedy, big enough to shatter their otherwise calm and peaceful world yet it could not crush their indomitable spirit. Let me share the stories of their fortitude with you all. Nidhi Yadav from India lost 4 members of her family in an accident less than a month ago. The accident that left her with a fractured hand, took away her mother, her grandmother and two younger siblings. While the physical pain has taken its toll, her mental agony has been more acute. Yet it has not stopped the seventeen-year-old from appearing for her Higher Secondary Certificate examinations that began this month. The examination that happens to be THE most important one for students in India - which either make