"BE SIMPLE AND TAKE IT EASY" - 26 November 2012
“Fellow Toastmasters and Distinguished Guests, do you
know that chaotic environment encourages creativity? So tonight, loosen your
collar, take it easy, break the rules! Yes, you can do that because I am your
ToM for tonight’s meeting!” That was the opening mark done by CC/CL Ivan
Nurhadijaya when he introduced the meeting theme yesterday, “BE SIMPLE AND TAKE IT EASY”.
Old saying says “Behind
Every Successful Man is A Great Woman” but our ToM believes that “Behind Every
Successful ToM is A Great GE”. ToM then called upon the General Evaluator, CC Neeraj
Khiani to introduce his GE Team. They were TM Arief Rasyad (from Sandoz Toastmasters Club) as the Grammarian; TM Nurdrajat as the Timer;
TM Suryani as the Ballot Counter; and TM Dina Novita as the “Ah” and WoD (modest) Counter.
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| left-right-up-down: CC Neeraj (GE); TM Arief (Grammarian); CC/CL Ivan (ToM); TM Joko (Table Topics Master); TM Aday (Timer); TM Dina ("Ah" and WoD Counter); TM Yani (Ballot Counter) |
Moving on to the prepared
speech session, TM Kusnawara broke
the ice by delivering his BM #1 entitled “How Understanding People is Important to
Achieve Your Goal”. Besides briefly telling the audience about his
family, TM Kus inserted a story that he recently experienced. His story was
about a chaotic and dilemmatic experience as he had to juggle between taking
his beloved mother―whose knee suffered from an illness― to a hospital and at
the same time trying to attend a seminar in which he was the speaker in time
regardless the heavy rain and vicious traffic (Jakarta is a darling, remember?).
TM Kus was evaluated by TM Benazir, who saluted his massive
energy, his story-telling style, and the fact that he had organised his speech
(opening, body, closing). For his future speeches, TM Benazir suggested TM Kus
to use clearer transitions when he moved from one section to another. Also, she
advised TM Kus to relax himself and slow down his tempo when he emphasised the message
in his conclusion.
The second and last prepared
speaker was TM Syariful Alamsyah Lubis,
who presented his 8th project entitled “Brief Intro on Shipping and Types
of Ships”. Romantic sea life gist and beautiful quotes are the main benefits
that the audience will always get every time our Captain Lubis takes over the
stage. Last night, as expected, our premonition did not miss! Using some cracking-up
photos in his slides, TM Lubis made his presentation entertaining. He was evaluated by ACG Henrietta A. Kristanto (Etta) who complemented him on the
entertaining photos and beautiful quotes. ACG Etta suggested TM Lubis, to
simplify the content in his slides to several lines to help the audience follow
his presentation. Also, she advised him to eliminate unnecessary jargon or
technical terms in his speech since that might cause confusion for the
audience.
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| Clockwise: TM Kus; TM Lubis; TM Bena; ACG Etta |
Furthermore, the Table Topics Session was led by the Table Topic Master, TM Joko Purnomo who threw out all-about-simple
topics who were apparently not so simple to answer by the simply daring
impromptu speakers! Those spontaneous speakers were TM Martha Octavia, Guest VJ
Nambiar, Guest Marada, Guest Abam, and TM Dwiardi Vergiawan.
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| Clockwise: Guest Abam; TM Martha; Guest VJ; TM Vergi; Guest Marada. |
Moreover, the meeting was
even more special as DTM William Lim
from Singapore gave his resourceful Educational Session, “Presenting at Your Best”. Clearly,
after his session, the audience immensely benefited from his handy tips on how
to capture attention, to speak with confidence, and to leave a lasting
impression when a speech is delivered. He also showed to the audience some great
approaches to craft speech so that it strengthens the ideas of the speech
effectively.
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| DTM William Lim gave out his educational session "Presenting at Your Best" |
At the end of
the whole sessions i.e. prepared speech, table topic, and evaluation session,
the Ballot Counter, TM Yani, announced ACG
Etta as the Best Evaluator, and Guest VJ as the Best Table Topic Speaker.
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| left-to-right: ACG Etta; TM Yani; DTM William; Guest VJ; CC/CL Ivan |
The 23 simply wonderful
people adjourned the meeting with simply happy feeling and they simply could
not wait until the next meeting to come!
JTC Minutes of Meeting, 26 November 2012, prepared by Club Secretary 2012-2013, TM Bena.
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