Minute of Meeting, January 7' 2013

“THE NIGHT OF RESOLUTION”
WoD : Drive

The Night of Resolution was a merely a night of wishes that all of toastmaster and guest coming with new hope in this meeting. We could see the spirit of new life from everyone. The Toastmaster of the meeting (ToM), TM Agus opened with sang a song and asked all the members sang together.

 After that ToM asked Guest Laras to shared her resolution for this year, there were she wanted to develop her english speaking skill, drove a car, pursued her master degree, and proposed by her boyfriend.

ToM also invited a member, long time no see member that was TM Harry Nizam to shared his resoutions. He said that he wanted to got less fat and more sincere loving his family by giving more quality time instead of making money. What a lovely resolution!

Left to right: TM Agus, Guest Laras, ACS CL Harry

We also knew that behind the great ToM always there a Great Team, ToM was featuring with The General Evaluator (CC Bena), Grammarian (ACS, CL Harry Nizam), Timer (TM Suryani), Ballot Counter (TM Dina), and “Ah” and WoD Counter (TM Martha).


Left to right: CC bena, TM Suryani, ACS CL Harry, TM Martha, TM Dina

In the prepared speech session, we had really good speaker. The 1st speaker was TM Barbara who just complete her BM #1 entitled “Believe in Yourself”. A topic that really related to her story life and connected with all the audiens. One of her story life of being believe in her self was when she failed in national examinations (mathematic subject) while she was a brilliand student even when she was in 5 years old. But her mom always courage her to get up and started to believe in her self until she got the almost perfect score in math and also get to favourite university. TM Barbara were evaluated by DTM Harlina Indra who really complimented in her gesture, organize speech and rarely reading notes which is a good job for BM #1. She also advised her to improve her speaking by eliminate using a note.

The 2nd speaker was TM Vergi who completed his BM #2 entitled “Go for Extra Mile”. He told us about a child who really passionate in making his dreams come true although there were lot of challenges. Although he was thingking that he really stuck in English but in the other hand he got the part time job helping people learning english. He also got the 1st rank in his university and this child was no other than TM Vergi. He believe that the different between extraordinary and ordinary people was just extra so he put extra efford to get his extra brighter life. TM Vergi was evaluated by CC Neeraj who appreciated in his confidency, strong opening and closing statement which is the purpose of this manual. He also suggested TM Vergi improved his movemenet in stage and also practice more so he could eliminate using notes.

The 3rd speaker was TM Lubis. This night was really great night for him because he finally completed his BM #10 entitled “The Light At The End Of The Tunnel”. This story was about his up and down life. After loose everything in 1986 in his shipping business, TM Lubis started a betel nut business which was quite success in export trading industries in Bangladesh and Pakistan. He got the bank loan/credit to develope his business but suddenly national crisis came in those destination country. The bank took everything. TM Lubis and his wife strugle really hard to fulfill daily life and also keep support the education for their child. In this condition TM Lubis remembered the message from his parent that was “you will not be burden more than your limit”. Finally TM Lubis could get up from this situation by started a new business in tuna fisheries with his japanese friend. TM Lubis said i am 20 years old with 45 years experience but i am still learning. TM Lubis was evaluated by CC Valeriya who complemented in his ability to connect the story emotions to the audience, his quotations and his spirit of life. She also suggested him to be pay more attention in techical matters such as projector etc.

The 4th speaker was TM Ivan who represented “Education Session” about “Closing the Sale”. He talked about how to make a win-win closing startegy to make more and more active member in Toastmaster from the prospective guest. Our sales was all about the meeting. Thats why fullfilling the meeting standard was very important such as begin and end the meeting on time, arrived early and prepared, club officer fulfiled their responsibilities, meeting proceed at good pace etc. He also shared the benefits joining Toastmaster : improve speaking abilities, leadership development and better social skills whis were very important in our lives. And for the closing the sale, TM Ivan gave us tips (Compare-Lose-Opinion-Story-Example). TM Ivan was evaluated by ACG Henrietta who gave closing evaluation session.


Left to right: TM Barbara, TM Vergi, CC Lubis, CC Ivan, DTM Harlina, CC Neeraj, CC Valery, ACG Henrietta

The next agenda was Table Topic Session which lead by ACB, CL Imung Hikmah. She led this session brilliantly. The 1st table topic speaker was TM Thomas who speech about his resolution in his life. The session continued with impromtu question from DTM William who let a controversial topic “The Resolutions are made to be broken” Guest Tom tried to accepted this challenge by talked his argument that he was agree to this sentence because time was changing and so do your life was changing. The next challenges was accepted by Guest Rakesh who speaks about how far will you let your resolutions go? He answered somehow things happen different with your expectations and in that condition you might let it go. For example when you wanted to succed in the office but in the other hand you dont want to sacrifice your family time. At that time you need to pick a choice. The last speaker was Guest Abiem who talking about his most memorable success resolution in his life was pursuing his dream to be a Master of Ceremony.

Left to right: DTM William, DTM Imung, TM Thomas, Guest Tom, Guest Rakesh, Guest Abim

Finally, Tha Ballot Counter TM Dina announced TM Lubis, Guest Abim and CC Neeraj as Best Speaker, Best Table Topic Speaker and Best Evaluator. Lets celebrate new year as the new beginning of our life. J

Hall of Fame
Left to right: TM Dina, CC Lubis, Guest Abim, CC Neeraj, TM Agus

JTC Minutes of Meeting, 7 January 2013, prepared by Club Secretary 2012-2013, TM Dina Novita

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