Minutes of November 2, 2009

Venue : PB & Co, Menara Imperium 29th floor
Time : 19.00 – 21.00
Attendees: 21 of which 9 members, 5 visiting Toastmasters (British and BOA) and 7 guests.

Theme : Be true to thyne self
Word of the day: cohesive
After opening the meeting, Club president CC Matthew informed us about history and purpose of Toastmasters . Then he shared about what happened when he trained people for phone skills, about being aware ( or not) of one’s need to improve one’s skills.

Next he interviewed TM Olivia.and asked her how she felt before and after she delivered her Icebreaker (BM #1) recently.

VP Membership CC Dyah inducted our new member : TM Selvi !

An enthused Toastmaster of the meeting (TOM), TM Lola (British Toastmasters Club) warmed up the meeting with her smile and enthusiastic voice. She said : “ if you cannot be true to yourself, you cannot be true to others”.


TABLE TOPICS SPEECH SESSION :
Table Topics master CC Indri (British Toastmaters Club) challenged us to answer her questions with honesty.. Here are the honest answers !
- CC Thomas shared about a an incident in which he had to consult his conscience.
- Guest Lulu would try to challenge the fire of passion with an unavailable person.
- TM Lulu (Bank of America Toastmasters Club) shared about her eagerness to pursue success.
- CC Matthew talked about better thinking twice before you do something or otherwise get in trouble like Matthew did when he was a kid.
- Guest Henry: told about an encouraging birthday gift from his girlfriend : 5 sweet messages in a bottle.

PREPARED SPEECH SESSION
TM Gusni (British Toastmasters Club) delivered her first speech, the icebreaker entitled “ Outing 2009” . She shared about her experience as a member of the Outing Committee of her company at Anyer.

TM Ronny (JTC) delivered his BM # 9 : Persuade with Power : entitled “Sparkling Jakarta”. He talked about the “drainage wars” and “Borobudur-style garbage heap”
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CC Matthew (JTC) delivered the 4th Speech of the Advanced manual “ Special Occasion Speeches,” Presenting an award: “ It was about giving an award to one of the “ little people” from cleaning service who did a very good job and showed leadership qualities.


EVALUATION SESSION
General Evaluator (GE) ACS/ALB Harry gave thorough constructive feedback and led his team well : Individual evaluators CC Dyah, CC Ivan and DTM Harlina had well observant eyes and ears and were very motivating.
Further teammembers paid a lot of attention : Grammarian TM Kardinal , Timer TM Selvi, Ah and WOD counter TM Olivia and ballot counter prospective member Magda


BUSINESS SESSION
Announcements from our Club President CC Matthew who :
- Was reminiscent about Joint Halloween meeting with British Toastmasters last week !
- Talked about next meeting : 9 November 2009
- Reminded us : to complete at least BM # 6 if you want to join International Speech contest in January –February 2010. If you haven’t reached BM# 6 yet by that time, you are still eligible to join Table Topics contest in the same period.

COMMENTS OF GUESTS
Paraphrasing Lulu : when you learn public speaking : Instead of just being told what to do during a course, it is better to get up and practice.

HALL OF FAME : Favourites
- Table topics speaker : Guest Henry
- Prepared speaker : CC Matthew
- Evaluator : DTM Harlina

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