Katong Toastmasters Club

There was a special segment hosted by Geri who invited her friend Nic Tan, a technical director to share with us Presentation Skills - Looking & Being Your Best on ZOOM . He shared useful principles of ZOOM such as avoiding windows with light from behind and low camera angle. He also showed pictures to illustrate the principles. In the Prepared Speeches Segment, we had three speakers, including two Icebreaker speeches. First speaker Thomas Ng shared about his academic journey which led him to Chicago. After achieving straight As and a scholarship, he proceeded to New York for further studies and returned to Singapore in 1991. He misses his good ol’ days in NY and looks forward to visiting it one day. Second speaker Yau Hong shared about his life as an engineer and how it’s hardship to be an engineer. Not many engineers actually stay on in the industry, in fact, only 15% of the 15% who make it stay on.   He also shared about a rare cancer that saw him go through 22 operations an

 Our Club President Swarna mooted the idea of a Speech Marathon to give our club members more opportunities to speak and evaluate.  We were all excited and raring to go. After choosing the dates, we launched the Speech Marathon in September 2020. We had three sessions on Thursdays with a total of 12 speakers. Three members Joni, Rubin and Avnish completed Level 1 of their Pathways, and four members Swarna, Geri, Nicholas and Cherylene completed Level 4 of their Pathways. We would like to thank all our EXCO members and club members for their active participation and contributions. Here is a snapshot of our programs and the photos we took, together with the voting results for each session: Session 1: 3 September 2020 Best Speaker: Harleen Best Evaluator: Geri Session 2: 10 September 2020 Best Speaker: Cherylene Best Evaluator: Geri & Cherylene (tie) Session 3: 24 September 2020 Best Speaker: Lydia & Rubin (tie) Best Evaluator: Joni Siah

Our Club President Swarna informed us about the Speech Marathon happening in September and got the members excited about presenting more project speeches. With three extra sessions in September, members will be given more opportunities to speak and evaluate.  We officially welcomed two new members Lydia and Yau Hong with a New Members Induction conducted by our VP Membership Ida Lee.👏👏 Our August online meeting featured four speakers: My First Time by Lydia Ng Lydia was challenged by her daughter Daniella to try a roller-coaster ride a few years ago on their visit to Disneyland. Her first ride was made with eyes shut tight and yelling in fear. On the second ride, with heart still pounding, she managed to pry open her eyes to survey the landscape. On the third ride, she raised her hands and started to enjoy the fast and furious speed of the ride. By the fourth ride, her eyes were wide open and both her hands were punching the wind. They completed 7 rides that night in less than an hou