Minutes of 24 May 2010 Meeting

Venue : Tamnak Thai, Jalan HOS Cokroaminoto
Attendees: 13 members, 6 guests
Time : 19:00- 21:00

Theme : Miri Convenion
WOD : Renewal

Meeting was opened by an uplifting VP Membership CC Yuli who solemnly inducted our newest member TM Beli. Welcome to Jakarta Toastmasters Club TM Beli !

Table Topic Master (TTM ) TM Valeriya, Toastmaster of the Meeting (TOM) CC Thomas and General Evaluator (GE) CC Yuli gave comments that were cleverly sprinkled by statements about the benefits of Toastmaters !

A. TTM TM Valeriya led the session with thought provoking questions about husbands and wives !! The speakers were candid in their answers:
- Guest Nita talked about white lies and the naked truth.
- Guest Yoshua said that even though in Indonesia women tend to apologize first due to the culture, it shouldn't be gender related about who apologizes first.
- Guest Cindy explained why women are more appropriate to be the finance manager of the household.
- TM Beli suggested that husbands should give compliments to their wife once in a while.
- Guest Maya told us about how supportive her husband is...

B. Toastmaster of the Meeting CC Thomas allowed us to take a glance in the Toastmasters World, more precisely in the District 51 Toastmasters Convention in Miri (Malaysia) and safely guided us throughout the meeting.

Prepared speakers were:

- TM Subchan - Basics of competencies - BM # 2, Organize your speech (5-7 min), reminded me to increase my "added value" in life...Change or die !

- TM Ika - Work life balance- BM # 2 Organize your speech (5-7 min), suggested how to have fun during the weekend !

- TM Omar- Civil wars do make sense - BM # 6 Vocal variety ( 5-7 min), got very personal and transported us back to his youth in a civil war torn Beirut (Lebanon).

C. GE CC Yuli thoroughly led her team:
- Grammarian CC Rini
- Ah and WOD counter : TM Lisna
- Timer : TM Hotma
- Ballot counter: TM Iman
- Individual evaluators :
TM Olivia, DTM Harlina, CC Rini

Business session:
- Next meeting : 7 June 2010. No meeting on 31 May 2010
- Elections of new Exco (2010-2011) on Monday 7 June 2010...

Hall of Fame: favorites

- TT : Guest Nita
- Prep Speaker : TM Omar
- Evaluators: CC Rini and TM Olivia

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