BTC MEETING August 20, 2009
In the spirit of the celebration of our Independence Day, the meeting was opened by President Ina with the salute: Merdeka!
Most members, true to form, wear red and/or white.
Cok Ratih opened the prepared speaker session with her speech:
First Trip Abroad. She gave amusing recollection on 3 main points:
Going hungry for 10 days in Mexico because there was not enough rice for the dance troupe members, climbing the stairs to her 25th floor hotel room tired from the trip and heavy bags hanging from both her arms, and living and smelling of cajuput oils for a month until New York. The project she was working on was 'How To Say It'. She had the audience in stitches with her stories and the way she said it. What she lacked in fluency she made up plenty in charm and humor.
Michele Cempaka was on the fast track with the delivery of her second speech in less than a month after her ice breaker. Her speech was titled 'The Power of Reiki', informing and persuading the audience to embrace Reiki as a powerful alternative to western medicine. Michele continued to impress us with her confidence and good speech. Her writing background definitely was an advantage.
Ina Jones, our president worked on her 2nd Advanced Communication Bronze project, an entertaining speech called 'Know Exactly What You Want'. An experienced and meticulous speaker, Ina showed the audience that even a good speaker continues to improve with Toastmasters.... Eloquence and confidence, combined with rich content designed to inspire, a great speech made.
Amran Hidayat spoke last and wowed all of us with his ice breaker speech, which he delivered smoothly and confidently, without using notes. His achievement was even more impressive due to his acceptance of the assignment (to give a speech) only a few hours before the event. Amran was called to replace Miranda who was supposed to speak but lost her speech on the very same day of the meeting.
Ina was voted Best Speaker of the Meeting.
The Table Topic Session was led by first timer Table Topic Master: Mei Fang. Mei Fang was applauded for courage and willingness a more difficult leadership role. For a chance everyone was allowed to draw a lottery, although only the 'lucky' ones would have a chance to do an impromptu speech. Cakra, Sri and Govinda won the 'lotteries' The topics revolved around the use of the words Independence and Freedom.
Govinda was voted Best Table Topic Speaker.
The four speakers were evaluated by Tjie Strong and Suzanne D'Angelo, who both did such great jobs as evaluators of two speakers each. Both gave strong performances that reflect excellent preparation and effective evaluations.
Suzanne was voted Best Evaluator.
Ida Wijaya as Toastmasters of the Meeting got to practice her rusty MC-in skills. She kept the pace and the mood of meeting vibrant and uplifting.
Reski did an excellent job as a General Evaluator, very through, very observant and able to offer constructive and motivating feedback. It's always amazing and fascinating to see how members transform and grow through taking on various leadership roles.
The Food was truly excellent. Our first all-vegetarian fare prepared by our vegetarian member Suzanne D'Angelo.
The meeting ended before 9 pm, after some announcement regarding members' progress and goals by Miranda as VP Education.
It was another quality meeting as usual, fast paced, interesting and fun. The length of time people hang out after the meeting was a direct indication of how good and fun the meeting was. Members lingered and kept talking about the meeting, and already planning on roles to undertake for the next meeting.
In Toastmasters one thing never stops: Personal Growth. There's always room for improvement. You never stop learning. Learning is SEXY, Growth is SEXY!
We, members and Toastmasters guests obviously benefited a lot from attending Toastmasters meetings.
What about you? Do you want to grow naturally, organically and effortlessly? Would you like to befriend and network with people who are positive, supportive, love to learn and fun to be with? Do you want to improve your presentation skills, your leadership skills, and impact people around you positively?
See you at the next meeting, Sept. 3rd, same time, same place....
MERDEKA!
Miranda
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Aug. 6th - A Bombastic Meeting
August 6, 2009.
W.O.D (Word of the day: Bombastic)
Last night’s meeting was well attended with surprise guests including Tommy, a Jakarta toastmaster member, Amran and Jason. Bali Toastmaster president Ina Jones, opened the meeting in her usual lively manner, and introduced the ‘word of the day’, which was ‘Bombastic’. The TOM was Iyan, who did a great job of explaining the program for the evening. He introduced the GE, Suzanne, who headed up the team which consisted of CC Cakra as Grammarian, Ellen as Timer assisted by Ribek, Cok Ratih as the Ah and WOD counter, Michele C. was the ballot counter.
Reski gave an excellent speech for her 5th project which focuses on ‘your body speaks’. Her speech entitled: ‘Our Family Dentist’ was a fascinating account of her life on Java and how her grandmother played the role of family dentist, pulling out teeth with rudimentary pliers covered in a foul tasting mixture of oil and herbs.
Strong gave a great evaluation of Reski’s speech complimenting her on her excellent delivery and clear organization. The only suggestion he made was that perhaps she could’ve asked someone from the club to come sit in a chair while she mimed her grandmother’s actions of pulling out a tooth!
Since there was only one speaker, Ina nicely filled out the meeting by asking a total of nine people to participate in ‘Table Talk’. Each person was given a quote or word which she or he had to speak about for at least 1 minute. Sasha won the table talk session with her great talk on the meaning and uses of the word ‘play’. Amran also did a wonderful job with his talk about ‘The 3 methods we many learn wisdom’. Suzanne talked about her quote: ‘Don’t go around saying the world owes you anything’, giving an eloquent talk about how we must honor the earth.
It was a fun evening for all and we look forward to seeing many of you at our next meeting!
Written by: Michele Cempaka
W.O.D (Word of the day: Bombastic)
Last night’s meeting was well attended with surprise guests including Tommy, a Jakarta toastmaster member, Amran and Jason. Bali Toastmaster president Ina Jones, opened the meeting in her usual lively manner, and introduced the ‘word of the day’, which was ‘Bombastic’. The TOM was Iyan, who did a great job of explaining the program for the evening. He introduced the GE, Suzanne, who headed up the team which consisted of CC Cakra as Grammarian, Ellen as Timer assisted by Ribek, Cok Ratih as the Ah and WOD counter, Michele C. was the ballot counter.
Reski gave an excellent speech for her 5th project which focuses on ‘your body speaks’. Her speech entitled: ‘Our Family Dentist’ was a fascinating account of her life on Java and how her grandmother played the role of family dentist, pulling out teeth with rudimentary pliers covered in a foul tasting mixture of oil and herbs.
Strong gave a great evaluation of Reski’s speech complimenting her on her excellent delivery and clear organization. The only suggestion he made was that perhaps she could’ve asked someone from the club to come sit in a chair while she mimed her grandmother’s actions of pulling out a tooth!
Since there was only one speaker, Ina nicely filled out the meeting by asking a total of nine people to participate in ‘Table Talk’. Each person was given a quote or word which she or he had to speak about for at least 1 minute. Sasha won the table talk session with her great talk on the meaning and uses of the word ‘play’. Amran also did a wonderful job with his talk about ‘The 3 methods we many learn wisdom’. Suzanne talked about her quote: ‘Don’t go around saying the world owes you anything’, giving an eloquent talk about how we must honor the earth.
It was a fun evening for all and we look forward to seeing many of you at our next meeting!
Written by: Michele Cempaka
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contests 2009
On Saturday, August 1st, 2009, Bali Toastmaster's held their first official contest with two competitions. The first competition was an evaluation contest to determine who had the best skills in evaluating a speech. Contestants were: CC Miranda Suryadjaja, CC Tjie Strong and CC Ida Bagus Cakra Sudarsana. Michele Cempaka gave a wonderful icebreaker speech that contestants had to evaluate in privacy and then in turn deliver their evaluations in front of everyone explaining the positive aspects of Michele's speech as well as any areas that could be improved. All of the evaluators gave very good evaluations, however CC Tjie Strong was voted the best evaluator.
The 2nd half of the competition was a humorous speech contest. Contestants for this competition were CC Tjie Strong, CC Cakra, TM Iyan Yaspriyana and CC Miranda. Iyan's speech about a stuttering man who desperately wanted to work in a religious bookstore was very entertaining; many people couldn't stop laughing as Iyan successfully portrayed the stuttering man who made a big book sale by asking the customer if she'd like him to read the books or did she prefer to just buy them? Iyan's speech won 2nd place. Cakra gave a funny speech about a woman who made her fortune with ducks. Strong dazzled the audience with his speech about . Miranda won 1st place with her captivating speech: 'Laugh sooner' which she eloquently presented, proving to the audience that she loved laughter by showing everyone her laugh lines. She confessed that one day, when she gets a face lift, she'd make sure to tell the doctor not to remove her laugh lines, just the wrinkles.
Ida Wijaya, the contest chairwoman, did an excellent job with the running of the contest. Her poise and professional demeanor are to be commended. Chief judge Carlo Warella assisted by contest judges Suzanne D’Angelo and Ellen Elizabeth did a wonderful job of evaluating and choosing the winners. Thanks go to the ballot counters: Michele B. and Anya, the time keepers, Mei Fang and Ina Jones and of course the Sergeant of Arms, Reski who did a stand up job of monitoring the contestants despite the fact that she was under the weather.
Strong, Miranda & Iyan will go on to the area contest on August 15th which will be held in Bali, to compete against Soroako, Borneo and TNC Toastmasters. Congratulations on a job well done everyone! We look forward to more Toastmasters’ contests in the near future.
Contributed by Michele Cempaka.
The 2nd half of the competition was a humorous speech contest. Contestants for this competition were CC Tjie Strong, CC Cakra, TM Iyan Yaspriyana and CC Miranda. Iyan's speech about a stuttering man who desperately wanted to work in a religious bookstore was very entertaining; many people couldn't stop laughing as Iyan successfully portrayed the stuttering man who made a big book sale by asking the customer if she'd like him to read the books or did she prefer to just buy them? Iyan's speech won 2nd place. Cakra gave a funny speech about a woman who made her fortune with ducks. Strong dazzled the audience with his speech about . Miranda won 1st place with her captivating speech: 'Laugh sooner' which she eloquently presented, proving to the audience that she loved laughter by showing everyone her laugh lines. She confessed that one day, when she gets a face lift, she'd make sure to tell the doctor not to remove her laugh lines, just the wrinkles.
Ida Wijaya, the contest chairwoman, did an excellent job with the running of the contest. Her poise and professional demeanor are to be commended. Chief judge Carlo Warella assisted by contest judges Suzanne D’Angelo and Ellen Elizabeth did a wonderful job of evaluating and choosing the winners. Thanks go to the ballot counters: Michele B. and Anya, the time keepers, Mei Fang and Ina Jones and of course the Sergeant of Arms, Reski who did a stand up job of monitoring the contestants despite the fact that she was under the weather.
Strong, Miranda & Iyan will go on to the area contest on August 15th which will be held in Bali, to compete against Soroako, Borneo and TNC Toastmasters. Congratulations on a job well done everyone! We look forward to more Toastmasters’ contests in the near future.
Contributed by Michele Cempaka.
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