"TIME" - 2 July 2012

Last Monday marked as the first JTC meeting under the brand new installed Exco. With the four prepared speakers and five Table Topics speakers, the members and guests were spoiled with such a brilliant meeting. The total members and guests altogether were 23 attendees.

CC Valeriya (ToM) conducted the meeting with her usual energetic persona with “TIME” as her the meeting theme and “beat the clock” as the Word of the Day. She was assisted by the General Evaluator Team led by the General Evaluator, ACB/CL Harry Nizam. The Grammarian was CC Pankaj Rastogi, the Timer was Kevin Meng, the Ballot Counter and the “Ah”/WoD Counter were CC Kardinal.

TM Chong Moon Ong opened the prepared speech session with his project Basic Manual #3 entitled “Inspired to Live, Live to Inspire”. He successfully inspired the audience with his speech as he brought forward the true inspiring story of W. Mitchell. W. Mitchell is an American motivational speaker and business who had undergone 2 major surgeries following 2 terrible accidents: i.e. his motorcycle was hit by a laundry truck and he crashed on take off in a small aircraft he was piloting. Although he was sentenced to life in a wheelchair, we never gives up and is determined to live his life to the fullest. TM Chong Moon highlighted in his speech that W. Mitchell teaches us to not let the challenges we face stop us from achieving our goals. Also, he quoted W. Mitchell that "It's Not What Happens To You, It's What You Do About It".

The next speaker was TM Sai Blackbyrn who wowed the audience with his animated-story-telling style on his project Basic Manual #2 entitled “The Creation of Money”. Here, in a 7-minute speech, TM Sai effectively educated the audiences on the origin of money creation and how it had designed the lending system that is adopted in today’s banking industry. This system has been followed and adopted unwisely until the world was hit by the major banking crisis in 2008-2009.

The third prepared speaker was TM Suryani. She managed to achieve the objective of Basic Manual #2, i.e. get to the point, by delivering a speech about “Growing Older”. With her wit and a touch of her personal story, she successfully turned the topic that is a fear to most of everyone into something that is worth to talk about. Finally, she wrapped her speech up by emphasizing that growing older is such a natural process and thus, we just have to enjoy the process.

Lasty, TM Bena closed the prepared speech session with her project Basic Manual #5 captioned “To Find Beauty in Ugliness”. In her speech she invited everyone to find the good lesson from unwanted situations that we might encounter on daily basis. For example, we have to stand in a crowded bus for 2 hours, or there are those people who try to violate our rights, or some people ruin our good expectations on them. By discovering the good lessons from those ugly situations, we can find the beauty and goodness in life and hence we enjoy our life better.

The four prepared speakers were individually evaluated by TM Robert, ACB/CL Imung, CC Utayanto, and CC Bahtiar respectively.

Furthermore, CC Susanna spiced up the meeting by conducting the Table Topics Session about “Time”. The impromptu speakers were ACB/CL Harry, Guest Agus, TM Robert, TM Pankaj, and Guest Rini.

Eventually, the Ballot Counter, CC Kardinal, announced TM Suryani as the best prepared speaker, CC Pankaj as the best table topic speaker with topic “Time is the longest distance between two places”, and CC Bahtiar as the best evaluator. 

left to right: CC Valeriya (ToM), CC Bahtiar (The Best Evaluator),TM Suryani (The Best Speaker), CC Pankaj (The Best Table Topis Speaker), ACB/CL Harry (GE)

The last but not least was the guests’ comments. The overall feedback was good and some of the guests said that they wish to come as regular. Well, we hope that means a sign up as new member? ;)

JTC Minutes of Meeting, 2 July 2012, prepared by Club Secretary 2012-2013, TM Bena.