Minutes of 12 October , 2009 Meeting

Birds of feather flock together. That’s what DTM Harlina wrote in her sms to me.

That night, TM Taufan didn’t come to the meeting. Yet, although he has resigned as our SAA, he managed to prepare dinner for us. There were 2 choices of menu for dinner.

There was the usual nasi rames, since a lot of us Indonesian needed to eat rice in our daily meal. But there’s also other choice, gado-gado. I find it very thoughtful of him to prepare another option of menu since some of us felt that we needed to have more vegetables and of course there’s someone among us who was a vegetarian.

It was very thoughtful of TM Taufan to provide dinner for us. He is truly a sparkling star!!

Yes, the theme that night was THE STARS. The word of the day was SPARKLING.

I believe the theme affect our meeting in some ways. First, it was a full house meeting. We had 24 people coming last meeting (Yes, CC Vanessa counted correctly—continuing her email on this matter). We had 11 guests, including our beloved long time guest ACS/ALB Wivina. The guests came from various back ground. There were people from Price Water House Coopers, US Embassy, Engineering consultant, UNDP, a long lost member of one Toastmasters club in Banda Aceh, and others. Oww, including CC Matthew’s parents, whom he’d been sounding for the past one month.

Second, the room was very warm that night. We had been enjoying a cool room for weeks, and somehow that night was sooo warrrm…… I bet the sun was present in the room with us that night!

Since there were a lot of guests, in the opening remarks CC Matthew introduced a little bit about Toastmasters and how many club there are worldwide and in Indonesia.

As TOM that night, CC Dyah enthusiastically explained to us the various meanings of the stars, ranging from those sparkling thing in the sky at night, zodiacs, from boy bands, Brad Pitt, star fruits, and others. I have to say that I was impressed with her effort to search and put them nicely in the slides. I was also impressed by TM Ivan and our new sparkling member TM Kardinal who rushed to help CC Dyah when there seemed to be a problem with the slide. I was sooo gladdd to have an IT person as our member. Goodbye slide and laptop problem!!

Special that night, we had an induction session of TM Kardinal. I found the induction was sooo entertaining. CC Dyah was playing her role as ‘Headmistress’ , saying ‘you must…’, ‘you must…’, and ‘you must…’ to the obedient TM Kardinal who replied with ‘I will…’, ‘I will…’, and ‘I will…’.

Another thing that CC Dyah impressed me that night was she managed to link the previous session / speaker with the next one with a matching theme. She introduced me as a Pisces when she called me up as General Evaluator (by the way, this is the thorough report of me being General Evaluator). To play my role, I was very much assisted by my sparking stars; TM Yuli as Grammarian and Ballot Counter, TM Olivia as The Timer, and TM Kardinal as Ah& WOD counter.

Having been influenced by the famous American Idol, ACB/CLB Imung hosted the Table Topic Sessions cheerfully. Instead of having people to come and answer questions, she added some touch to the session. Guest Ping and TM Ivan stood up while Guest Jackson, Guest Dilla, and Guest Randy played the role of Simon, Paula, and Randy, had to give comments to them. It was funny to see some guests were hesitant at the beginning to either be too nice (in the case of Guest Dilla playing Paula Abdul), or being harsh (as in the case of Guest Jackson as Simon Cowell). After one round, they enjoyed and imitated the Idol judges very convincingly.

We have 3 prepared speakers that night:
§ TM Ronny talked about his favorite subject, health. He shared which sweeteners were safe and which were not. He was evaluated by CC Ivan.
§ CC Matthew gave a roast to ACS/ALS Wivina. As the star that night, she really couldn’t help to stop laughing. (there were actually some people walking out of the PB&Co office peered inside to see what’s happening in the room!!)
§ CC Vaneessa confessed about her crazy conversation with the master, Vincent Van Gogh.

HALL OF FAME!!
Best Table Topic Speaker : Guest Jackson
Best speaker: CC Matthew and CC Vanessa!
Best evaluator : ACS/ALS Wivina

At the end of the meeting, Guest Jackson said that compare to the other 2 clubs that he visited previously, our JTC was the funnest! YEY US!

We will have the usual meeting next Monday. Please make our theme SNOW or COOL or FREEZER?

And for the last week of October, we will have a combined meeting with British Toastmasters. So we will not have the meeting on Monday, but onThursday, on October 29 in WTC.

See you next Monday!

Minutes prepared by JTC Secretary TM Fathia

Image added by JTC VPPR DTM Harlina from deverenigdeverenigingen.be/kuuk/downloads/materiaal/sterren.jpg