The Budget Speech 2011 was tabled by the Finance Minister on 13th October 2010. He made it clear that the budget was designed to lay the foundation for Malaysia to become an advanced nation by 2020. Vision 2020. Its another 10 years to go before we can reach our aim to become an advanced nation. Can we? With all the hype around that, we already decided on the theme for our 3rd PNTMC meeting.
It was held on a fine Thursday afternoon on 28th October 2010. We invited TM Shahrizan from Maxis Toastmasters Club as a guest again and he graciously accepted. God bless him.
I was the Toastmaster of the Day, it was my first time really so a bit nervous there. Unfortunately the President had some matters he had to attend to so we were a bit lost without him. We missed him dreadfully. (its true Sharul :p) But aside from some hiccups where i actually forgot to call on the roleplayers’ reports like they didn’t existed (i still could not believe i did that…they had to cue me, and i was still like, “what is it?” for some 10 seconds), and forgot to ask everyone to do a standing ovation for the ice-breaker (only i did a standing ovation for the ice-breaker because i was the only one standing), everything went just FINE..
Just to ensure that everyone has a chance to speak in the meeting, i threw a general question so that everyone can give their own view on Vision 2020. We had a good feedback on that. There was this feedback from TM Shaari Alwi that i remembered and i want to share with you. He said he remembered when our ex PM, Tun Mahathir introduced Vision 2020 (“Wawasan 2020″) in 1991, he was still in primary and he was supposed to draw on paper what Malaysia would be like in 2020. He drew some flying cars, robots and tall towers with people wearing futuristic clothes. I guess at that time we all thought the world would be that futuristic after 30 years. But right now in 2010, it’s not likely that Malaysia will have flying traffic in 2020 right? When we were young we kind of have different views on what a developed nation would be like.
There were 2 speakers that day, and i’m proud to announce our very young Ice Breaker for the only GEM trainee yet, TM Siti Aisyah (She’s only 23 years old..), and TM Abdul Rahman’s unwavering effort for giving out his 3rd Speech..! (he just gave his 2nd speech in the last meeting).
TM Abdul Rahman (Aman in short) gave an interesting speech entitled “I can read who you are by looking at your phone number” (say that in one breath please..
). And we found out he really could. He took the phone number of some ‘volunteers’ and actually told us the person’s behaviour and financial condition. So you better be careful if you give your number to him people. You won’t like it if he says “You’re broke”, would you?
TM Siti Aisyah was surprisingly calm and brave in contrast to her quiet behaviour. I really thought she was nervous, but she didn’t show that at all when she gave her speech. We are so proud of her. Congratulations TM Siti Aisyah.! We want to see more of you and more of the other trainees as well. Next meeting then?
TM Shahrizan gave a marvelous evaluation as usual. He evaluated TM Aman’s speech and gave some tips on picking out a good title and speech. It is a learning experience every time he speaks. Thanks a lot TM Shah..! TM Ezrin was wonderful of course. She evaluated TM Siti Aisyah’s speech eloquently with her soft calm voice. She gave a good motivation to TM Siti Aisyah to continue with more speeches. And was especially impressed with her speech, especially because TM Siti did not at all read from a script for a first speech..! How awesome is that. We (actually me) could really learn from her.
We wrapped up the meeting with the role players’ reports and thereafter we had our double dose (double order) of Dominos Pizza lunch in the meeting room. Thanks to all who came and helped out with the arrangements. See you again at our next meeting!



























