Members in Raya mode and meeting room furnished with fairy lights and flowers.
Hello all,
Nearing the end of Raya month, we did our 2nd club meeting and sure enough the theme was associated with Raya. However, we decided to do something different because we miss Deepavali and Chinese New Year too. So we came up with the One Raya theme so that all of our colourful festivities can be celebrated. (Actually we just want to see our S-A-A officer, Gana to wear his dhoti. Huhu. So cute.) To bring out the festive vibe, the meeting room was decorated with Raya fairy lights and also ehem..artificial flowers, thanks to our decorator, TM Mohd Yani.!
It started a bit late, but the meeting was so fun. We invited some of our aspiring GEM trainees to the session just to let them experience more of toastmasters. And indeed they did. One of them even sang her favourite Raya song. Our Table Topic Master was our own VP Membership, TM Nurul Azirah. She provided some ‘gotcha’ fun questions on a nice slideshow and succeeded to make the Table Topic Session relaxing. Hence the ever ready volunteers.
The Joke Master Session was handled by TM Gana with some funny and memorable TV ads from Petronas and TNB on Hari Raya. We should get more videos in for our next meeting session. Its just an excuse to watch some media of course.
We had special guests that afternoon. Our petite and brilliant mentor TM Nirmala Shanmugam and her talented buddy TM Shahrizan came to our rescue although a teenie bit late. We were in dire need of an evaluation and attention. TM Abdul Rahman aka French Photographer was our first speaker that day. Exceptional as he was, he came up with quite an opposite title for such a merry theme. His speech is called, ” My Gloomy Raya”, and he recalled to us all the gloomy moments he had when he celebrated his Raya. He didn’t manage to make everything gloomy that day because it actually sounded funny. I for one laughed confusingly when he said, ” I need a wife”, although i didn’t think it was appropriate at the time. However, a positive evaluation from the very understanding TM Shah made it all understandable. Thank you TM Shah for that marvelous evaluation and TM Aman for making us had a fun time listening to your humourous speech..! 
The second speaker was TM Mohd Yani, who is very passionate about Cycling. His speech title is, ” How Cycling Improved my Life”. Calm and collected, Yani’s manly voice resonated powerfully through out the room like a James Bond speech to one of his ladies during one of his successful missions. He influenced us to join him cycle through the jungle and get sucked dry by leeches. It was compelling. We girls almost wanted to. And so did TM Nirmala. TM Nirmala was very impressed with Yani’s impressive speech and (and we do too..!) gave a comprehensive view of his performance and superb advice that could be used by all of us toastmasters.
TM Shaari gave his first ice-breaking speech..Congratulations..! Since we know you’re so shy. We can’t wait to hear your next one..!
Anyway, i just realised that all of our male speakers didn’t read from a script at all. Talk about confidence..!
All and all, we had a great time, especially after eating the Nasi Beriani Power brought all the way from Sungai Buloh! Scrumptious..!
This is kind of impromptu but its a good thing i'm cool about it! Yey Shaari!
Who wants to listen about my very gloomy raya?
Join me ladies..i'll make sure cycling is the best decision you'll ever make..(Tempted ladies?)
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