Katong Toastmasters Club

For our club's 6th Anniversary, we had invited Craig Teo as our Guest Speaker and 4 visiting toastmasters: Daniel Tran from Vietnam TMC, Lee Min from Singhealth TMC, Florence Boey from Toa Payoh Central TMC and RIchard Sng from Tiarel TMC. SAA Leena kick-started our chapter meeting by reminding us that the June school holidays is around the corner, and requested the floor to share with one another their most memorable school holiday. Items shared were video gaming, overseas trips, the 80's kampong life and spending quality time with family. Benjamin Gan, our club's Charter President, gave us the opening speech. He shared with us the history of the club, an appropriate theme for the club's 6th anniversary. The club was initially located at Singapore Swimming Club, where sumptuous food was always served during meetings. The club ran into a brick wall when the management of the clubhouse realised that most members of the Toastmasters Club are actually non-member of t...

Good evening District Governor Aziz Mustajab and fellow toastmasters. It is, for me, a great privilege and honour to be installed as your president of Katong Toastmasters Club. The position and role of the president, glamorous as it may sound, calls for being fully committed and having a deep sense of responsibility. I would like to begin by thanking the previous committee team members of 2010, for having taken us through a very rewarding and eventful year. A very special vote of thanks should go to Nik Chua, our immediate past president, and Joni Siah, (who is now our VPE in the new term), for their very valuable contributions. They have done us proud. It is to Toastmaster Joni’s credit, that she has brought much glory and recognition to our club, by winning the championship award for the Best Evaluator in District 80 Competition of November 2010. And there a more great news. Through our 3 talented members, Cynthia, Benjamin and Joni, whom participated in the rec...

There were 2 guests Xiang Zhen and Brice and 3 visiting toastmasters District Governor Aziz Mustajab from Civil Service College & Siglap TMCs, April Tan from ACCA Singapore TMC, and Steven Choon from Joo Chiat Culture TMC. SAA Joni welcomed everyone warmly and invited everyone to introduce themselves and share about one thing that had brightened their day. These included the bright room, being able to attend the meeting, and having DG Aziz grace the meeting. The meeting kickstarted with the installation of incoming EXCO by District Governor DTM Aziz Mustajab. Each officer held the gavel in turn and promised to fulfil their duties to the best of their abilities. The following officers were present: President Ida Lee VPE Joni Siah VPM Leena Santore, Cynthia Koh VPPR Yeo Choon Liang Secretary Zhuang Yan Treasurer Merry Tjandra SAA Patrick Ang In her opening address, incoming President Ida motivated us to become a part of something...