YOU ARE INVITED!!!

Sometimes, we want a break. Sometimes, we want to have fun. Sometimes, we want to hang out with our friends. Sometimes, we want to listen to the waves pounding. Sometimes, we want to witness the beautiful sunset. Sometimes, we want to just laze around. And sometimes, we don't know what to do. If you are having the "sometimes" mood now, join us for our trip to Port Dickson!!! Sometimes, we don't just meet at 5th Floor Cititel, we meet by the beach too...

Details as follows:

Date: 14 - 15 May 2011
Venue: Private Bungalow @ Port Dickson
Contribution: RM120

Your contribution covers:
1) Lots of eating (1st day lunch, 1st day BBQ dinner, 2nd day breakfast, 2nd day lunch, and snacks in between)
2) Accommodation
3) Transportation
4) Games
5) PD tour

Feel free to join us (even if you are not a Toastmaster yet). As we have limited rooms available, this invitation is on "first-come, first-served" basis.

If you would like to join us, please contact Travis Lai at 017-666 8203.

CONGRATULATION PAUL TAN & MOSES WONG!!!

GREAT news to our fellow Toastmasters!!!

I am ecstatic to report that Paul Tan (our Club President) won the CHAMPION and Moses Wong won the 3rd prize in Area G3 International Speech Contest for the term 2010 / 2011.

President Paul Tan will represent Area G3 to grab the trophies at the next level at Division G on 30th March 2011.

We warmly welcome all toastmasters and guests to come to support our President and also witness the birth of winners, and most important, to experience how to improve public speaking skill in a short time.

Below are the details for those who are interested to attend our Division G International Speech & Table Topic Contest.

Date: 30th March 2011

Time: 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm

Venue: Malaysian Insurance Institute, Jalan Sri Semantan Satu, Damansara Height

Club Level International Speech & Table Topic Contest [2010 / 2011]

It was a truly amazing contest on 24th January 2011 (Monday) with almost 10 courageous contestants were competing against each other for the Mid Valley Toastmasters club level annual International Speech & Table Topic Contest for the term 2010 / 2011.

Every past competitor will agree that contests are a perfect way to grow skills and confidence RAPIDLY. Therefore, speech contests are a unique and exciting part of the Toastmasters program. Everyone who has completed at least 6 speeches in the Competent Communicators Manual is encouraged to have fun and stretch themselves by entering our club's International Speech Contest.

Please join us congratulating the winners of our Club Contest. The 1st and 2nd prize winners of each of the contests will represent our club to fight for the area level award.

The results are as below:

1. International Speech Contest

• Champion : Moses Wong


• 1st Runner Up: Paul Tan Poh Leong
  

2. Table Topic Contest

• Champion : Moses Wong


• 1st Runner Up : Loh Chia Hur


• 2nd Runner Up: Travis Lai
  
  

SMK Subang Utama Youth Leadership Program 2011

We have done it again! Mid Valley Toastmasters Club organized a Youth Leadership Program for SMK Subang Utama from 21st to 23rd January 2011 for 24 participants. Throughout the 3 days, the participants were trained to be a better speaker and a better leader. It was a successful program as we saw marked improvement in all participants, especially Dalila, a participant who could not complete her speech during the ice breaker session when she broke down and cried, but completed her final speech successfully with confidence. Dalila truly deserves the award she won, the award for the best improved participant.

To bring out the best in the participants, we organized a contest at the end of the program for the participants to show case their newly acquired skills. The participants delivered a variety of speeches ranging from a simple speech on shampoo to thought provoking speech on happiness in life. While all the participants deserved to be winners for their awesome performance, we had to make the difficult decision to select the best 3 speakers from the contest. The winners were:

Champion: Anne Marie

1st Runner Up: Jen Ning

2nd Runner Up: Sinthu Suresh

Congratulations to all participants. We hope you are now equipped with the shoes (and socks!) to start your journey of a thousand miles… All of you are AWESOME! Well done!

To view more photos, join our Facebook page (Mid Valley Toastmasters Club) at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24868919976

New Year, New Resolutions

On 10 January 2011, Mid Valley Toastmasters Club held the first meeting of the year 2011. In line with the New Year theme, our President Paul Tan requested all of us to write on a piece of paper our resolutions for the year. All of us happily wrote down our resolutions and handed them to our President, who later announced that our resolutions would be posted on our blog to let the world know of our resolutions! If law of attraction works or if we feel pressured enough to start working towards our resolutions to avoid being deemed publicly as failure, we will see our resolutions being fulfilled by 31st December 2011!

Are we really going to achieve our resolutions? Only time will tell, and we shall review this again come 31st December 2011. So, here you go, resolutions of our members and guests:

As usual, we had laughters, and took home with us several learning points from the meeting, which included a notable quote from one of the table topics speakers, Yaohan, that "Success is simple... but not easy". Yaohan reminded us that the formulae for success is out there and is not a secret. The formulae to succeed is simple as there are tonnes of books and resources to guide you, but achieving success is not easy as we need determination, hard work and focus in following the formulae.

The night ended fabulously with presentation of certificates to the following winners:

Best Speaker of the Evening: Terry Netto
Best Table Topics Speaker: Adrian
Best Evaluator: Christine Ong