Christmas Chapter Meeting- 22nd Dec 2009

Sorry for the super late update but I have been partying wayyyy too hard for my own good. Anyways, here goes on what happened on our fateful 22nd Dec party.

We started with a buffet of junk and ended with a buffet of junk.

We also had a special language evaluation by Minzee and Nadirah.

WORDS of the evening: Merry + Cherish

Due to our dear president's short trip to Indonesia , Our VPE 1 Chan Wee Yang, took over and gave a presidential speech on How good do you want to be.

Prepared Speeches
Project 1 Karen
Project 1 Sophie
Project 4 Jerome Wong

Evaluations
Project 1 (Karen) Joan Chong
Project 1 (Sophie) Fahmy Baashim
Project 4 (Jerome) Gerald Ong, ACG, ALB

F i n a l l y,

We had our gift exchange under the snowing Christmas tree.

24th November 2009 Chapter Meeting

Apologies for the delay of the update for this chapter meeting!
m(_ _)m Been bogged down with exams!

Anyway...there were some minor changes to this chapter meeting. There was no:
- Word of the evening
- Table Topics

However! We had a very special workshop by our VPE (Vice President Education) Chan Wee Yang, CC! He gave us an insightful and educational workshop on how to evaluate.

In this workshop, Wee Yang taught us how to evaluate project speakers on:
- The project criteria
- Using the Good- Bad- Good approach
- Include a summary after your evaluation as the conclusion
- Avoid whitewash evaluations
- Avoid false praise evaluations
- Avoid all criticism evaluations
- the TALL methods
- Be audience- centric

We also had Crystal as our guest speaker doing Project 3 and Sean as our evaluator for Crystal's project. =)


Prepared Speeches
Project 1 (The Ice Breaker) - Tchea Hua
Project 3 ( Get to the point- Is it the end?) - Indra
Project 5 (Your body speaks- Bt Merah)- Min Zee
Project 8 (Visual Aids- Something Good)- Jackie Tran

Evaluations
Project 1- Fahmy Baashim
Project 3- Joan Chong
Project 5- Chan Wee Yang, CC
Project 8- Nadirah

Best Project Speaker
Tchea Hua

Best Evaluator
Chan Wee Yang, CC

Last but not least, please remember that we have a DATE on the 19th of December 2009 for our cohesion day! See you guys and babes there!

We'll be having fun and games at The Mind Cafe before heading to Rex for dinner~! After that it's chill out time yo.

Special Chapter Meeting: 24th November 2009

Our special guest, Dr. Elizabeth Sachs, gave us an astounding lesson on how to integrate poetry into our project speeches~!

Tips to takeaway from our little poetry workshop:

- A delighful way to integrate poetry into a speech is when giving a light hearted after dinner speech/toast.

- There is rhythm in a poem- pentameters (iambic and quadrameter). This leads to the importance of vocal variety (P6).

- Advice (quoted from the handout):

• Familiarize yourself with the poem
• Pay particular attention to lineation (end stops and enjambment)
• Hear the meter, style must blend well
• Excerpt the poem
• Sandwich the poem, using its closure to best effect
• Principally present tense for speaking of the poem

- Notable poets to get quotations from:

• William Shakespeare (The Bard)
• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Emily Dickinson
• Robert Frost [I'm not beng bias, but he's a personal favourite of mine. =)]

Word of the evening: Envisage (To foresee/ To visualize)

Prepared Speeches:

Project 2 (Organise your speech- Be a Planeteer): Chng Zhen Cong

Project 9 (Persuade with power- There is more to a story): Devesh Nair

Project 9 (Persuade with power- I need a meal)- Perlin Chan

Winners for the evening

Best Project Speech: Perlin Chan

Best Table Topic speaker: Swee Kiat

Best Evaluator: N.A

And to leave all of you with a delightful poem by E.E Cummings (His style is not like normal poets, so it is as how you see it. They are not typos)

The sky was

the
sky
was
can dy lu
minous
edible
spry
pinks shy
lemons
greens coo l choc
olate
s.
un der,
a lo
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vi
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lets

The FIRST ever SIM Students Toastmasters Orientation!!

17 November 2009 marks the FIRST ever orientation for SIM Students Toastmasters!

What was it all about???

The purpose of this meeting was to :

-Educate: Public speaking knowlege
-Enhance: Relationships/bonding among members
-Enrich: Our toastmaster experience!! Making it more fulfilling for you and I.

Things to take-away from the orientation:
- The reasons behind having the various exco positions ( SAA, Treasurer, Secretary, VPPR, VPM, VPE1, VPE2, President)

- How to perform various roles during the chapter meetings. (Timer, SAA, Evaluator, TME, etc)

- How to announce the format for a project speech! (POETS)

- How to craft a project speech (Body language, visual aids, engagement with audience, vocal variety, cut down on PAUSE FILLERS)

- Know more about the other members in the club

- HOW TO HAVE FUN~~!!

Please visit our FB for more events to come!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80322339274

Happy Birthday Sean and Kenneth!!

Today is the birthday of our dearrrrr members.........Sean Loke (President) and Kenneth (Immediate Past President)!!!!!!!! Dun Dun.

Other November babies include: Crystal Loke!

The chocolate cake was nice...thanks Fahmy!

Also!!!!

Today is the FIRST initiation of our Mentor-Mentee system is SIM STUDENTS TOASTMASTERS!

YAY!

The mentors are:

Chan Wee Yang, CC
Sean Loke, CC
Kenneth Lee, CC

Anyways....

Word of the evening: Vivid

Project speeches
Project 1: Ultra
Project 6: Joan
Project 8: Nadirah
Advanced Project 8: Kenneth, CC

Project Speech Evaluators
Project 1: Perlin
Project 6: Wee Yang, CC
Project 8: Sean Loke, CC
Advanced Project 8: Katherine Choo, ACB, CL

Best...
Table topics: Sean Loke, CC
Speaker: Kenneth Lee, CC


Reminder: 17 November 2009 = Orientation day! Please do turn up for TONS OF GREAT FUN AND GAMES!!!!!!!!

Halloween Night!

Good evening ghosts and ghouls,

On the 27th of October 2009, we celebrated Halloween Night!

Witches, vampires and of course, Bedroom Hero was there!

Project 1: Crystal Loke and Chng Zhen Cong

Project 3: Lim Wai Kit

Project 4: Mike

Project 5: Suwandy

AP 7 (Story telling manual- AP2: Let's get personal): Kenneth Lee, CTM



Best Speaker: Kenneth Lee, CC, CTM

Best Evaluator: Perlin Chan, CC

Best Table Topics: Sean Loke, CC


Word of the Evening: Smart

13 October 2009 Chapter Meeting: Supermodel Theme

Themed Meeting: SUPERMODEL NIGHT!!!

WORD OF THE EVENING: Scintillating/ Scintillate

Visting Toastmasters:

John Sih, DTM (SIM 1 TMC)

Ong Lye Sum, ACB, CL (ITE TMC)

Gerard Lim, CC (NTU TMC)

Kok Yee Keong, CC (Chong Pang TMC)

Prepared Speeches

Project 2- Clare Leong

Project 7- Fahmy Baashim

Avanced Project 6- Kenneth Lee

Best Table Topics Speaker:

Peter (NTU TM)

Next Chapter Meeting: 27 Oct 2009; Halloween Theme

Themed Meeting: Hari Raya (29 Sept 2009)

Word of the Evening: Down (Preposition, Noun, Verb and Figuratively)

Speeches: Project 1: Shi Hui and Yu Zhen
Project 4: Calvin Low


Best Table Topics: Suwandy

Best Evaluator: Chan Wee Yang

Congratulations!

STUDENT WEEK 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please come down to support our booth at the Atrium @ SIM HQ!

Student week will be from 22nd Sept to 25th Sept.

Don't miss the opportunity to CHECK US OUT!
(Students who sign up will get a token!)

Chapter Meeting- 15 Sept 2009

Word of the evening:
PROGRESS - Process of developing or improving

Prepared Speeches:
Suwandy: Project 4- Goals (of life)
Min Zee: Project 4- Winne the Pooh and friends
Fahmy: Project 6- Love Guru
Nadirah: Project 7- Hari Raya Overseas


Best Table Topics: Jo Ee & Suwandy
Best Speaker: Nadirah
Best Evaluator: Perlin Chan

Congratulations!!!

SIM students Humorous Speech and Evaluation Club Contest

SIM Students Toastmasters club presents her first…

Humorous speech and evaluation contest

What is it: Club level - Humorous and Evaluation Contest

When is it: 18th August 2009

Where is it: SIM HQ


Objectives for Humorous Speech Contest

· To provide an opportunity for speakers to improve their speaking abilities and to recognize the best as encouragement to all.
· To provide a competitive setting
· To provide an opportunity to learn by observing the more proficient speakers who have benefited from their Toastmasters training.
· To recognize the value of humor in speaking.

Objectives for Speech Evaluations Contest
· To encourage development of evaluation skills and to recognize the best as encouragement to all.



Please contact the exco members for more details on this contest.

See you there! =)

UOL CCA FAIR 2009!!!!!!!

Hey Toasties and honoured guests,

Do look out for our SIM STUDENTS TOASTMASTERS BOOTH during the UOL CCA FAIR!

Dates: 6 and 7 July 2009

SIGN UP AND GET A TOKEN!!


Our next chapter meeting....

Date: 7th July 2009
Venue: RM 4.11
Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm

See you there!!


Cheers,

SIM Students exco

DIV B International Speech and Table Topics Contest!

Hello all!

Following his success in the Area B4 International Speech Contest, our President Kenneth Lee will be competing in the Division B Contest held this coming Saturday, 25th April.

Details are as follows:

Time: 2pm - 5pm
Venue: SIM (Clementi Road), LT 3.12

Do come down! It'll be a great learning experience for all, as we'll be seeing the winners from other areas onstage too.

See you there!