Tuesday 28 July 2015

Joint Meeting of SUTM & UNMC; 16. 07. 2015

We decided to have another joint meeting after 2 years. This time is with University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) Toastmasters Club!  Although July is an exam month, this joint meeting was extra vibrant and fun! The night was well-spent with all the great, passionate speakers.

The theme of the night: Mandela Day.

During the meeting we had ...






Our club president, Victor Ong, DTM, 

who as always filled the meeting with humor. 







president of UNMC Toastmasters Club, 
Alireza Parpaei, ACB, CL.

He who revealed a bromance story between he and Victor Ong.
(What story? Scroll till the end of the post! *wink*)






our very dear Division D Director - 

Sivalingam, DTM, who was the GE of the night.






As usual, we had table topics and speech assignments sessions. 





TME of the night - Alagumenal from UNMC Toastmasters Club. 
She did a great job as a TME. 





The picture says it all. She explained clearly what Toastmasters is ;) 





Table Topics Master - Shen Tze from UNMC Toastmasters Club.

His topics were very challenging yet exciting and interesting! 





You may see from the facial expressions (pictures below)

of those speakers who took up the challenge ... 
































Then, we had the great, passionate assignment speakers from UNMC Toastmasters Club.






 "Do not wait for something to happen, make it happen."









It was a very articulate and descriptive speech. Kudos! 





Certainly a very good persuader. Look forward to your persuasive speech!





After all the speeches, it was time to get some feedback from our evaluators!
























Now ... 

This is the moment you've been waiting for ..

May I present you the ..













BROMANCE! 
(or maybe not. I'm just kidding)

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*Jokes aside*


THE AWARDS OF THE NIGHT:





Our best table topic speaker: Ronald Fedora





Our best assignment speaker: Shreyasi Hait





Our best evaluator: Mirosha Somasundram, CC





Last but not least, the group photo! 






Asian English Olympics 2015

Sooooooo......


This is late. Like SUPER late. Buttttttt..... DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FAR OUR MEMBERS HAVE GONE?! :O 

Our university was invited to send representatives to compete in The 7th Asian English Olympics organised by Binus University in Jakarta, Indonesia every year. We were to compete among the best of certain countries in Asia. 

The English Department with Jonathan Moh, Victor Ong, and Dr.Nagiah, decided to send 3 fortunate members, based on their progress ;

Marilyn Lai
Mirosha Somasundram
Thinesh Naidu 

Jonathan Moh was sent as an observer.

They were there from 9th February till 15th February 2015.  

The participants were a part of the Speech session. There were multiple areas such as News casting, debate, Storytelling, etc. Well, we know why we took part in speech, don't we?

The contest officially commenced on 10th of February






This picture contains participants from Macau, Indonesia, The Philippines, and Malaysia.



The process of the whole contest was.... CRAZY. I mean it. Our contestants had to go through several rounds to proceed to the next level.

There were Preliminary Round 1 and 2, which was held for 2 days. Only after they make it through from top 64 to top 32, they get to enter Octo Finals. Octo Finals was the toughest yet, as it was Extemporaneous Speech. One of our contestant got through to the Quarter Finals ; Humorous Speech Round.

We are proud to announce that our member emerged as the top 10 out of the top 64 who competed from all over Asia. 

 http://aeo.mybnec.org/winner.php?compe=Speech#




The hospitality and great food made our members feel at home, and... they seriously did not feel like leaving. Cross my heart and i hope to die. The people there were so so friendly and the bond formed is going to remain for life. 


Taken in the waiting room during contests






The contest ended with a wonderful Gala Night. A large group selfie was taken to end this amazing journey.



This collage right here sums up pretty much everything. Though we did not make it into finals, we made it by becoming better speakers, making great friends, and learning new cultures.






Here is more of the contest journey compiled by the lovely Marilyn Lai on Youtube! 

ENJOY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA-kiSvVzHA