Gurney Hydro Toastmasters Club

Table Topic Contest and International Speech Contest 2012

2012-01-30T22:05:00.003+08:00

Looking up for ways to improve your public speaking skills?

Prior to that, perhaps you might want to accept the challenge as a listener to the Obama-style of speeches.

Here is your chance!

Event : Table Topic Contests & International Speech Contest

Date : 01.02.2012 (Wednesday)

Time : 07.30pm – 10.00pm

Venue : Gurney Hotel (Second floor)

Admission is FREE!

Mystery gifts will be given to guests who attend this event.

For more info, please log on to
http://www.facebook .com /gurneyhydrotmc

Or call 012 627 8056 for Vice President of Education.

See you!

Gurney Hydro Toastmasters - Guest Nite, 20th April 2011

2011-04-11T18:19:00.004+08:00

Let Toastmasters help you
break out of your shell !

Having to make a presentation to your colleagues.
Getting called on to answer a question in a meeting.
Being stopped by your boss in the hallway.

All these situations can cause much anxiety, especially if you're not comfortable thinking and speaking in your feet.

Visit our next meeting this coming Wednesday and learn how membership in Toastmasters can help you stretch your wings!

Date : 20th April 2011 (Wednesday)

Time : 8:00pm
(Registration starts at 7:45pm)

Venue : Gurney Hotel - Level 2 Boardroom

As the saying goes, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"-- Lao Tzu. See you this Wednesday. Be there or be square! =)

2011-02-18T08:42:00.001+08:00

It's Contest Time!

Join us this 2nd March 2011 to witness who amongst us in the Club have the gift of gap. Witness the Contest yourself and see who will emerge as our Winner.
See you soon~

Caring For Children Protection Society

2011-01-30T23:55:00.173+08:00

The Children's Protection Society (CPS) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization catering to the needs of neglected and/or abandoned children in Penang. Their priority is to provide children at risk with a safe, supportive and conducive environment (The Shelter).

Their priority is the running of The Shelter, caters for 34 children, ages between 5 to 17. Many of their children came from traumatic and painful background. Therefore, many of their children are not regular school goers, this majority are academically weak when they go to the home.

On a beautiful Sunday (Jan 30), few of us from Gurney Hydro Toastmasters including some friends were present at the Children Protection Society (CPS).

As Chinese New Year is just round the corner, we wanted to spread some love and joy with the children at CPS Shelter. When we arrived, we were delighted to be greeted by some of the children and the housemother - Mrs. Bala that we met two years ago.

Thanks to our members that were present to make this event a successful one and we would also like to extent our special thanks to the followings:

Immediate Past President (IPP) Chan Jyh Woei and his wife Boon Bee for coming all the way from Singapore;

Mr Clement Chang and Ms Betty from Harrisons Trading (Sabah) Sdn Bhd / Ten to Ten Marketing Sdn Bhd for donating seven cartons of Milo for the children;
Ah Kit and Kelly from Ming Xiang Tai Pastry House for their delicious egg tarts and pastries;
UMW Staffs for their kind cash contributions;
Sam Koay             RM 300         Jeffrey Pang         RM 150         Lynx Chong          RM 100
Looi Lai Fung        RM 100        Ng Yong Shan       RM 100         KB Tan                 RM 50
Sandra Cheong      RM 50          Peter Loke             RM 50          Shamsul               RM 50
Ng Kam Pun          RM 50           Fly Lim                  RM 20          Chew Lay Khoon   RM 20
Tan Boon Kai         RM 20         Teh Hun Seng       RM 20          Cheng Chin Seng RM 20
Friends and family for their contributions
Ai Ling, Willie & Natalie Song       RM 200               Helen Lee                    RM 100
Ooi Poh Hua                                   RM 100               Chan Jyh Woei            RM 100
Ai Li                                                RM 50                 Rudi Herrmann             RM 50
Tan Hooi Koon                              RM 50

Attached is the receipt of the workbooks & books that we bought including donations.
We got the children lots of educational materials, cartons of Milos, freshly made egg tarts that smelt heavenly, mandarin oranges, set up the projector, displayed some gifts that we wanted to give out to the children for participating and preparing for the sharing session from both Toastmaster Simon Tan and Sam Koay.

We bought them workbooks, dictionaries, story books, colour encyclopedia and lots of different motivational books such as Stephen Covey, John Maxwell, Dale Carnegie, Andrew Mathews and etc.

As we are setting up the place, the children amused themselves by watching us and going through the pile of educational materials and gifts that we brought in. Toastmaster Ai Li started the afternoon by introducing to the children Toastmaster Simon Tan and Sam Koay. She encouraged them to pay attention to the sharing, as their active participation during the Q&A session at the end will earn them special gifts that they can pick from the gift table.

The children we all excited when Simon started his sharing by giving out peeled mandarin oranges. He shared with the children on how to reuse the orange peel to make enzyme for cleaning purposes and the enzymes will be ready for use after three months.Some of the children were happily telling us that they do take turns to help out with the some cleaning chores at the Shelter.

After Simon's session, Sam introduced himself and continued his sharing by showing the children a video of Nick Vujicic. The video was about Nick Vujicic, an inspiring man being born without arms or legs but the love he holds overcomes any physical limitation that he faces in life.

Sam encouraged the children to speak up and share their thoughts after watching the video and a lot of them participated actively.

A lot of them were grinning from ear to ear after sharing their opinion and they get to choose their little gift. We started to distribute to them Milos, mandarin oranges and egg tarts at the end of the session.

Lucky us, we had the opportunity to taste some very delicious and fresh from the oven egg tarts and mini chicken pies from Ming Xiang Tai Pastry House.

It was mouth watering and the kids loved it!

Ok, sharing is caring. Pssst, if you're wondering where you can get these tarts, their shop is available along the row of heritage shops at Burma Road on your left after Telekom.

It was a Sunday well spent. I look forward to visiting the children again =) Let us know if you're keen to join us the next time we are visitng Children's Protection Society. See you soon!

Happy Merdeka!

2010-08-31T14:59:00.005+08:00

This is to remind all of the Beauties and Macho guys of Gurney Hydro Toastmasters Club and guess of "our bretheren clubs" that we are celebrating Our Malaysia's Independence day!!

Isn't our malaysian flag pretty? It is called Jalur Gemilang.

You can show your patriotism by wearing your cultural "uniforms".. I mean clothes.. and share us with your Merdeka experiences..

Anyway, please do join us and lets have the merdeka spirit for this ocassion! We will have all sorts of fun, like....

Word of the day
Humourist
Thought of the day
Assignment speeches
Table Topics
Evaluation

And even "FeiLow"ship... come eat and be merry with us..

Waiting for you all at Gurney Hotel 2nd floor.. Thank you..

PS>If you get lost, I'll give u the map... JOANNE.. SAM.. CHAN.. KEN.. Haha:D please refer to them.. k..

It Starts Now

2010-06-28T21:32:00.002+08:00

This Is where it all started, A new term, A new beginning. Let the Magic Begin

Christmas Celebration Meeting

2009-12-13T11:31:00.004+08:00

Christmas starts early for us at Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters...

We're having a joint celebration meeting with Voices Toastmasters this 16th Dec @ Gurney Hotel. Be prepared for the double excitement & fun filled evening that is awaiting you. Experience the joy of sharing thru gift exchange session.

For more details, please email us at gurneyhydrotmc@gmail.com. Be there or be square!

Ho, ho, ho... Merry Christmas!

Yay.. We did it first!

2009-12-13T10:55:00.007+08:00

Congratulations President Chan! We got an email from the District that we are the first in Division S to achieve the Distinguished Club status.

Well done everyone.. Let's keep it up the great teamwork!

Announcement: Tying the Knot (at last)..

2009-10-09T22:28:00.000+08:00

Dear Joanne & Kent,

May love happiness joy, prosperity and harmony ever sweetly surround you both, forever we relay..

With love from all @ Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters

When Was The Last Time You Had A Laugh?!!

2009-08-11T20:46:00.000+08:00

Join us on 19th August 09 @ 1945 @ Hydro Hotel for the one and ONLY!

Program Sheet:

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASjfyQ-ITqLDZGR3NmdoaDhfMzRoajN3ODVkcg&hl=en

Tips & Rules On Crafting A Humorous Speech:

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASjfyQ-ITqLDZGR3NmdoaDhfMTloc2txbThwdA&hl=en

Good Deed followed by Good Food @ Pulau Aman

2009-07-17T13:49:00.000+08:00

Lend a Helping Hand

It was a meaningful weekend…

Association Yee Ran Jing Sheh Handicapped Children’s Home has been around since end of 2002 around Bukit Tengah. They are an independent, non-governmental and non-profit association that is registered under the Jabatan Pendaftaran Pertubuhan Pulau Pinang. They basically provide shelter and care for the physically and mentally handicapped children and adults. Up to date, thay have 56 inmates living in this home.

Through observations at the home, it is to note that most of the inmates are bed-ridden and suffer from moderate cases of hydrocephalus (water build-up of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain leading to enlargement and swelling), rheumatoid arthritis (frozen and locked joints) and deformational posterior plagiocephaly (flat facial bones on the back of the forehead).

The committee members are dependent on funds raised through fairs, donations from various NGO organisations and on-off contributions from avid philanthropists. Donations from public can be rather sparse during non-festive season.

All contributions will be utilized for the expansion of the building and other daily use materials that they require.

Gurney-Hydro Club, in collaboration with Hydro Hotel, has visited the Association Yee Ran Jing Sheh Handicapped Children’s Home over the weekend.

In a short period of two weeks, we have raised a whooping RM 9,429 and collected donation in goods from friends and family.

This day would not have been successful if not for support and kind donations from the following:

A group of young & happening kind hearts from Gurney-Hydro Club
Hydro Hotel – GM & staffs
Pentamaster – CEO & staffs
UMW – Sam & colleagues
Agilent – Weng Keong & colleagues
KCS Electrical Sdn Bhd
Sofresh Marketing Sdn Bhd
GST Fine Foods Sdn Bhd
Yogee Enterprise
Flantech
D’Quest Venture
..…and many more kind individuals

After some good deed, we headed off to Pulau Aman for some good food followed by a Toastmasters meeting. Hmmmm? Now, who says Toastmasters ain’t fun? Our pictures says it all.

Everyone was waiting for the boat to arrive at the Jetty. We were so excited when the boat arrive. Little did we realized, we left Lynda and Weng Keong behind. (Of course we went back to get them)

The boat ride only took us about 10 minutes to get us over to Pulau Aman.

Soo Huey and my personal favourite is the Mee Udang Goreng. Yuuuummmmm... After our makan session, we continue with the usual Toastmasters meeting.

Kyle doing his Speech Project No 4 on "How to Say It". Title of his speech was “Waking Up in Turpan”. Hehe, dunno what’s Turpan, well, too bad, you’ve got to be present to find out more.

As for Joanne, thanks for sharing with us on tips on what's required for Humourous Speech Competition.

Just look at her facial expression, you would have known how interesting the “Battle of the Sexes” was :)

Word of the Day by Sam – “KIND”. In French translation by Jacques – “gentil”.

After evaluations and all, we left for Penang about 4:30pm.

That afternoon, we all went home happily knowing that we have all done our little part to change someone else's life. Thanks again for those that had contributed in every ways.

That’s it for now…. Till we blog again. Tada~

Exercising Our Muscles And Traditions @ Pantai Kerachut!

2009-06-21T09:32:00.000+08:00

One fine day (June 7), members of the Gurney Hydro TMC decided to take a stroll in the jungle and to be one with nature at the "End of the World".

It took us an hour to strenuously wade through the jungle trek, among pesky mosquitos, huge ants, and fallen logs. It was so very tough that we had to play a game - everyone in the hiking line had to construct a word based on the last alphabet of a word started by another person, etc.

All the while, Bernard was way out up front leading the way. More exercise needed eh, other members of the Gurney-Hydro TMC?

Thankfully, when we reached the "End of the World", the world didn't end with a sheer cliff off into oblivion. Instead, we were presented with a beautiful beach.

What's to do on a beautiful beach on a lovely sunny day, you may ask?

Well, for one, you could hold a Toastmasters meeting. We held a short Toastmaster's meeting where the TOM was in charge (TOM = Toastmasters of the Morning). Dylan gave an assignment speech and table topics centered around the being one with nature. That is - the topics required the participants to choose an object where they would associate themselves with and give a speech for at least 1 minute. During the process, we learned that the French word for "joyful" is "joyeaux" from Bernard.

Another thing to do on a beautiful beach would be to throw your Immediate Past President (IPP) into the ocean. Yes. This is our wacked Gurney-Hydro tradition of sending off the ex-President at the end of the term. Remember how King Arthur was mysteriously carried off to Avalon in a boat after he was mortally wounded during the Last Battle? We were thinking of something similar, but there was no boat for Queen Joanne.

Incoming President Chan will need to hire some bodyguards next year. Anyone up for hire?

Of course, how could we forget food?? While we were savoring bits and pieces of kuih and sandwiches to make up for our glycogen losses, Wan and Bernard were chatting away on the origins of the universe, Easter Island, evolution, aliens, and string theory.

The truth is out there...

It was already past noontime when the feeding frenzy ended, so we ended up taking a few more photos and hitching a boat ride back to the main entrance of the hike.

Alas, we were still hungry so we ended up at "No Eye Deer" for our late lunch. It's really confusing if you tell people over the phone that you are at "No Eye Deer" for lunch, but it's not as bad as say... the place called "Bed" (in Bellissa Row). Imagine telling "I am in [insert shop name] with John and Mary, you wanna join?"

That would make a grown man blush.

New Members Induction Ceremony cum Hydro Hotel Visit

2009-04-17T16:41:00.000+08:00

Date : 5th April 2009
Venue : Hydro Hotel,
Batu Feringghi, Penang

Members of Gurney Toastmasters enjoyed the best of Hydro Hotel's Buffet Sunday Hi-Tea, especially the pudding! ehem..and we meant it!

It is a 'ritual' for a new member to be inducted into the family of any Toastmasters Club. (Normally, induction is held on a yearly basis during Joint Installation Banquet dinner but we do have our own induction at the club level. )

This time round, our induction coincides with the F1 Sepang Race 2009 and we were so spoilt to be inducted at Hydro Hotel by the poolside.

Three new members, one 'used-to-be' member and five Gurney Toastmasters members gathered for a Sunday Buffet Hi-Tea with a plan, not to take over Hydro Hotel but to spread the goodness of Toastmasters in the hotel itself! Nothing was hard to do as the General Manager himself was inducted that day.

Programme of the day :

2.30pm START : Hi Tea @ Coffee House next to Poolside.

Wonderful environment and lots of varieties of food. Everyone was happy and relaxed catching up and getting to know one another more.

4:00pm Hotel Tour to the Meeting Room, Business Centre, Rudi's Office, Lounge etc.

4:30pm Meeting started by Ai Li, TOE.
Welcoming speech by Sam Koay, IPP
Word of the day by Rudi

- "AUF WIERSERSEHN!" (German : until we meet again)

Humour session by Sam & Muthu.

Assignment speech by Soo Huey

- "What have you missed today?"

5.00 pm Table topic session with 8 participants
Speech evaluation for prepared speech by Yap Heng Weng
Table topic evaluation by Muthukumaran.

he, he commented that he never had evaluated 8 table topics before in his entire history with Toastmasters! Everyone had fun and was actively participating :)

Induction Ceremony by Cheah Ee Liang (Area S3 Governor)

- Announcement of new members with Mentor
Chan - Dylan (Mentor)
Rudi - Ai Li (Mentor)
Weng Keong - Sam (Mentor)
Kyle - Joanne (Mentor)

5:45pm Meeting ended. Closing speech by Dylan.

It was indeed a great induction ceremony for the new members and a great gathering for all!

WH Yap (Renesas Toastmasters Club) , Soo Huey (Achievers Toastmasters Club) and Ai Li

Kyle Lee (new member), Lynda and WK Wan (new member)

Jyh Woei (new member) and Sam

We had a few comments from the guest who joined us in the gathering and as usual,

"Gurney Toastmasters Club is ALWAYS THE MOST HAPPENING CLUB ~ EVER!"

* We wish to thank Muthukumaran (Penang Advanced Toastmasters Club), WH Yap (Renesas Toastmasters Club), Penny Ooi (Maverick Toastmasters Club), June Lim (YMCA Toastmasters Club) and Cheah Ee Liang (Area S3 Governor + Renesas Toastmasters Club) for making the event a more successful!

Division S International Speech and Table Topic Contest 2009

2009-04-03T16:46:00.000+08:00

After several undefeated challenges from Club contest to Area then it is the time for Division Contest!

Every contestant in this contest is already winners! Some won the mind of the judges, some won the hearts of their admirers, some won the attention of the girls and others that were present, took home something priceless - the experience!

Division S International Speech and Table Topic Contest 2009 was held in Penang Adventist Hospital's Nursing College Hall. And mind you, it was so packed that the hospital might even consider to extend the hall!! :)

Both contest was participated by Champions of each Area, in total 7 Areas in Division S. That means, each contestants will need to face their competitors from 7 different background and experiences!

Gurney Toastmasters Club was representated by the President, Joanne Tan, who won the Area S3 Table Topic Contest and was the 1st Runner Up for the International Speech Contest. She represented the Area S3 to compete in the Table Topic contest, and mind you! It was a real tough topic!

"A Word A Day, You Will Learn A Whole Dictionary Someday" Do you agree on the idea, and why?

Stood tall with nothing but butterflies and words...flabbergasted with the topic, she carried on by saying that Toastmasters programme is already a dictionary itself! With every meeting's "Word Of The Day", it sure has helped her through many speechless moments. And eventhough a dictionary is worth a great study, but a teacher would worth more than what she needs. And she quoted her friend from US, Mr Solomon Olin, a tourist who was a great teacher to her throughout his 2 months, as he stayed in Penang, he taught her the meaning of being a human and how to be successful in mind, body and soul. Her last sentence was "It is never easy to learn a dictionary, but it was never easy to learn to be a meaningful human being. Thanks to the dictionary for the words and meanings, but thanks to people we meet for their guidance and great moments shared, priceless!"

Our Winner, the Division S' 1st Runner Up in Division S Table Topic Contest 2009.

Ushering the 'Chai' to Gurney Toastmasters!

2009-04-02T08:48:00.000+08:00

With everyone all ready to usher in the year of Ox this Chinese New Year, Gurney Toastmasters are still in the mood of having their speech done and a traditional reunion with everyone in the 'family'.

We have been practising our tradition of having a reunion dinner together, if not, a reunion for all the members, past and present.

This year, with no exceptional reasons, "yee shang" was the main attraction! Supporting Gurney Hotel in their quest for charity, we purchase the "yee shang" for a great celebration after the meeting.

Wikipedia.com :

Yusheng , yee sang or yuu sahng (simplified Chinese: 鱼生; pinyin: yúshēng) is a Chaozhou-style raw fish salad. It usually consists of strips of raw fish (most commonly salmon), mixed with shredded vegetables and a variety of sauces and condiments, among other ingredients. Yusheng literally means "raw fish" but since "fish (鱼)" is commonly conflated with its homophone "abundance (余)", Yúshēng (鱼生) is interpreted as a homophone for Yúshēng (余升) meaning an increase in abundance. Therefore, yusheng is considered a symbol of abundance, prosperity and vigor.

At the same time, we have 2 new members that decided to join our Gurney Toastmasters family. What a great celebration indeed!

New members profile :

Kyle Lee

Profession : Engineer
Reason of joining Toastmasters : To learn and improve communication skills

Chan Jyh Woei

Profession : Senior Account Officer

Reason of joining Toastmasters : To improve communication skills and brush up on his leadership skills too

* More about members feature up next , stay tune!!

GurneyTMC Caring Project

2009-01-24T17:35:00.000+08:00

To many, Chinese New Year celebration is about having a great family dinner together in our cozy dining room with lots of fish, chicken, meat, vegetables and of course, great drinks!

To some, it's that time of the year where holiday begins with $$ and this is especially meaningfull for kids who love the feeling of 'ang pow' filling up their pockets and bags.

To children at the Children Protection Society, it's a whole different story.

With a little thought of sharing and a little effort to keep the spirit of giving and sharing a great Chinese New Year, Gurney Toastmasters Club members initiated a visit to the Children Protection Society (CPS). The centre, located at Scotland Road, Penang, is a shelter for children who were abused, tortured and even abandoned by their parents, and loved ones.

With approximately 30 children under the care of 2 house mother, the centre provide shelter, food and studies for the children aged between 5 till 18 years old. These children are from all over Penang and are from different races, but living together means a lot to them as support for each other are very strong can easily be found here, at the Children Protection Society. Don't be surprised when you meet some of very intelligent and active children there!!

We were there last night from 8pm till 10.30pm, to offer our help in terms of entertaining and guiding the children towards a better education journey. We separated the children into 2 groups, the primary school and secondary schools.

Sam, Ai Li and Benjamin Liaw (PAH Toastmasters Club) took the lead in providing education and motivation talk to the secondary school children while Joanne, Dylan, Wooi Fun (Intel Toastmasters Club) and Denise (Intel Toastmasters Club) brought some joy with games to the kids of those in primary school. We were glad that Mable, our long-missed member showed up with some dictionaries and even Mr Khoo and wife (Penang MCA Toastmasters Club) came with balloons sculptures to captures the heart of everyone there!

Thanks a million to everyone who offered their heart and hands to help cheer the children at CPS last night, 23rd January 2009. With this, i attached the pictures for your viewing pleasures and of course, with hope that you, would offer your love to those in need, especially during festive seasons like this.

* Gurney Toastmasters Club would like to extend our deepest appreciation to everyone that sent who send their love and support for this project by sponsoring money and food for the orphans.

To all the staffs at UMW, thank you for sponsoring in kind of purchase of dictionaries, reference books, motivational books and chess games.

To Joan Chan (Penang YMCA Toastmasters Club), thank you for your monetary support and advise for the project.

To KK Chee (Butterworth & Penang Advanced Toastmasters Club), Past District 51 Governor, thank you for your kindness in communicating with Tan Mark Bookstore which leads to the sponsoring of books and very useful workbooks for the children.

To Tan Mark Bookstore Manager, thank you for your kindness and support towards the project.

To Mr Soon Guan Pin from Thye Sun Hup Kee, thank you for sponsoring MILO drinks, water tumbler and exercise books for the children.

And here are the pictures!!

Sam giving motivational talk to the children in the secondary school.

Looking like a teacher, Sam!!

Joanne, Dylan and Wooi Fun helping out Ming in his charade acts.

Joe, one of our favourites, he's a life-wire!!

Q&A Session

Dato' Khoo (Penang MCA Toastmasters Club) with his balloons scultures!!

Some of the slides for the motivational talk by Sam , speech about encouragement, displine, confidence and future..

Joanne, Dylan, Wooi Fun and Denise in the secret talk with the kids..on the deepest darkest secret.

*The most heartache talk is from Joe, he was abused by his uncle - with belt and long stick.

Dylan in his 'too-too train sentence' game..

Check out Chun and Wooi Fun ! Priceless smile!

Chun, 7, a great fan of Nicholas Teo...sang us 'Tong Hua' at the end of the game.

The girls, Meena, Huey Ling, Letchu and Banu in their Tamil song..cute!

Sam and Ai Li helping out and briefing the kids on the books, which will be placed in their 'mini library' created by us.

Some of the books, games and MILO sponsored. Thanks a million to all the sponsors!!

Presentation of the sponsorship...

Ang Pow session!!

Balloon pic with the kids!!

Last but not least, a picture for all!! It is indeed a great memory and a great way to start a new year of the Ox!!

Halloween Toastmasters

2008-11-11T12:59:00.000+08:00

Organized by Farlim and MCA Penang Toastmasters Club, the joint Halloween themed meeting was held on 28th October 2008 at Northern Tower, Penang. The meeting was attended by Joanne, President of Gurney Toastmasters Club, as the 'devil'...

The themed meeting was a well-done job as it has a great arrangement of programme and the atmosphere of all participants make it a success!

Lights were off with a masked skeleton hanging at the white board, with creepy music from famous ghost story, craved pumpkin, funny looking hotdogs and biscuits as well as reddish syrup served as drinks...indeed, interesting meeting.

The table topic was very exciting as it represent Halloween with treat or trick style, members will have to choose their sweets and speak from the title attached to the sweets. And not to forget, Christopher Choong with his noisy sound effect each time an applause...

Christopher and KhooBY with the 'bloody eyeballs' drinks..

President of MCA Penang, Khai Shing.

Huan Chee Giap with his speech on CPU.

Carmen and her speech on the importance of taking care of our ears.

Last but not least, a picture with all the 'ghost' of Halloween!!

From Left : Andy Lim (Farlim Toastmasters Club), Christopher "Hotdog Ghost" (Penang Advanced Toastmasters Club), Joanne Tan "Red Devil" (Gurney Toastmasters Club) and Eleanor Ooi "Black Widow" (Voices Toastmasters Club)

Hari Raya Bersama Gurney Toastmasters Club

2008-11-11T12:43:00.000+08:00

It's a multinational country, and multi-cultural celebration...so, we decided to have out Hari Raya Aidilfitri meeting on the very first day of Hari Raya itself, 1st October 2008.

Gurney Toastmasters Club has always been popular for organizing interesting themed meeting and this great celebration was not an exception eventhough it was the first day of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri celebration.

The festive celebration meeting was attended by non-malays but the meeting was so much about different culture of Malaysia. The table topic was about the Malay culture and even, the food served was more of Hari Raya kuih-muih than normal cakes and cookies...

Ms President as a nyonya :)

Sue wont the Best Evaluator award while Chris won the Best Table Topic award presented by the president.

Area S Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest

2008-11-11T10:42:00.000+08:00

Gurney Toastmasters Club was represented by the champions of the club in the Area S3 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest, Joanne Tan for her "Are You Man Enough?" humorous speech and James Leong for the Evaluation Contest.

Although Gurney Toastmasters Club was merely a club of 2years old, we have managed to produce great challenger, good competitor and guess what, interesting play of fighting spirit!!

The Area S3 & S7 contest was held at Dell Penang's cafeteria and the turn out was massive to witness the champion to represent the Area for the Division Contest.

Humorous Speech Contest

Joanne Tan : Gurney Toastmasters' Champ, Area S3's 1st Runner-Up...

From Left : Contest Chair, Area S3 Governor, Champion "Super Muthu", 1st Runner-Up Joanne Tan and Organizing Chair...

Evaluation Contest

James Leong : Gurney Toastmasters' 1st Runner-up, Area S3's 1st Runner-Up..

From Left : Area S3 Governor, Champion Christopher Choong, 1st Runner-up James Leong, Contest Chair, Organizing Chair...

Who say Toastmasters don't know how to party??

2008-11-10T15:27:00.000+08:00

It was rainy season, and we actually planned for a poolside party with pirates theme, but then again, better not get ourselves wet, else, everybody else might end up knowing a feverish Toastmaster than a real Toastmasters.

So, members of Gurney Toastmasters Club gathered and planned for a party for everyone, especially to promote the club and to promote the benefit of public speaking and communicating.

"Cowboy Party" was the theme, 6th September 2008 was the date and 50 people was the turn out. Unfortunately, we are only able to share a few pictures as the cameraman was unable to upload the photos taken on that night to the President. The party was held at 1 Persiaran Gurney multipurpose hall and was attended by toastmasters and residents of the apartment.

Anyway, it was a potluck party with Division S Education and Training Director Christopher Choong, was specially invited from speak on the importance of listening and speaking as well as the confidence of public speaking.

*Pictures will be uploaded once received. Apology.

Cameraman, Joseph Chen from Sungai Ara Toastmasters Club.

Sam explaining about Toastmasters to guest.

Hooi Koon and Ying Ying, our long lost friend.

Good luck to Ying Ying on her new journey in career in Kuala Lumpur!!

The 3 musketeers!
Dylan, Kent and Chris as the wired cowboys!

One for all, all for one!!

Humorous Speech & Evaluation Contest 2008/09

2008-11-10T14:00:00.000+08:00

Gurney Toastmasters Club and Maverick Toastmasters Club had our joint club Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest 2008 on 27th August 2008.

Each year, there will be 2 important contest for each club to select her champion to represent the club, and hopefully till the World Stage. Contests will be divided into Humourous and Evaluation Contest; and Table Topic and International Speech Contest. While the Humorous Speech and Evaluation Contest will be held at the end of the year, which is on the early term of a fiscal year, the Table Topic Contest and International Speech will be held towards the mid of second term.

This year, Gurney Toastmasters Club hold hands in hands with the Maverick Toastmaster Club in organizing the contest. And as usual, the winner will be representing the club for the Area Contest, then to the Division contest and to the District Contest.

Anyway, the amazing part this year was, the organizing team made of Gurney Toastmasters and Maverick Toastmasters only had their meetings online through emails and yet, the event was successfully organized with great entertainment from the participants.

Less word, more pictures...enjoy!!

The Organizing Chairman, Kent Ho, his first time to chair a contest!

The trophies for the contest.

Winner for Gurney Toastmasters Club for the Humorous Speech Contest is Ms President, Joanne Tan for her speech entitled : Are You Man Enough?

Humorous Speech 1st Runner-up, Mr Vice President Education, James Leong

Humorous Speech 2nd Runner-up, Mr Vice President Public Relations, Chris Lee

This year's Evaluation Contest won by Mr Immediate Past President, Sam Koay

Evaluation Contest 1st Runner-up, Chris Lee

Evaluation Contest 2nd Runner-up, James Leong

Last but not least, a pic for all!!

From Left : Gabriel Gim (Humorous Speech and Evaluation Champion of Maverick Toastmasters Club), Eugene Cheah (Gurney TMC), James Leong (Gurney TMC), Chris Lee (Gurney TMC), Sam Koay (Gurney TMC), Penny Ooi (Maverick TMC), Joanne Tan (Gurney TMC), Kent Ho (Organizing Chair). [back] Dylan Yeoh (Humorous Speech Contest Chair), Lynx Choong (Gurney TMC) and Area S3 Governor Cheah Ee Liang.

Joint Installation Dinner 2008

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Joint Installation Dinner was held on 2nd August 2008, the event was the most memorable for many as it marks the starting of teh new term for 2008/09 EXCO of both Division S and Division N in District 51.

Attended by more than 360 members all over Penang, it was a recognition of those who've been putting their best effort for the betterment of Toastmasters movement in both the divisions. The Joint Installation Dinner was held to introduce the new EXCO for the new term as well as to recognize the effort of many throughout the year. This annual event was held at Gurney Hotel, Penang this year and it was indeed a great hardwork payoff for the committee members as this time around mark the most attendance so far.

Gurney Toastmasters Club was also recognized as yours truly, Joanne Tan was recognized as the Toastmasters of the year 2007/08 and the Area S3 Toastmasters of The Year 2007/08.

Enjoy the pictures!

Gurney Toastmasters Club EXCO for the year 2008/09. Where is James, my VP Education??

Gurney Toastmasters Club President 2007/08 Sam Koay and President 2008/09, Joanne Tan.

What's a dinner without food? Sam and Chris proves it all..the importance of food! hehe..

The luckiest man, Chris is the only person who got the lucky draw. A toaster, to prove he's now, a true toastmasters...

The men in the club, Kent, Eugene, Sam, Lynx ans Chris.

Benedict Tan, Sergeant At Arms of Gurney Toastmasters Club.

Dylan Yeoh, Honorary Treasurer of Gurney Toastmasters Club 2008/09

Eugene Cheah, Honorary Secretary of the club.

Chris Lee, Vice President of Public Relations 2008/09

Lynx Chong (with spectacles), Vice President Membership 2008/09

The President, taking oath to serve the club to the best of ability. Yup, to the best of ability!

Oath from all the Presidents of clubs in Division S and Division N for the year of 2008/09

Promise of all the Toastmasters in attendance to assist and bring the best of Toastmasters to the club and to the public!

Toastmasters of the Year for 2007/08 - Club Level

Toastmasters of the Year for Area S3 2007/08

Toastmasters Leadership Institute (TLI) Training 2008

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It was merely a week before taking over the Club EXCO role for the fiscal year of July 2008 ~ June 2009, Toastmasters from around the Division N & S of District 51 were invited to a TLI Training in Dell Penang on 29 June 2008.

The training is to provide enough education and platform for future EXCO members of the clubs to learn about their role and responsibilities in managing the club. Each club EXCO will be given an educational training to prepare themselves to serve the club for the year.

Each role of President, Vice President - Membership, Education, Public Relations, Treasurer, Secretary and Sergeant-At-Arms were given trainings and explanation on how to manage the club's welfare and the club's meeting, especially.

EXCO members for Gurney Toastmasters 2008/2009

President Joanne Tan

Vice President Education James Leong

Vice President Membership Lynx Chong

Vice President Public Relations Chris Lee

Treasurer Dylan Yeoh

Secretary Eugene Cheah

Sergeant-At-Arms Benedict Tan

Please take note that starting from September 2008, Gurney Toastmasters Club meeting will be held on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month. Should you need more information, please do not hesitate to email joanne_tij@yahoo.co.uk (President Joanne Tan) or jamesleongek@yahoo.com (Vice President Education).

June Babies

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Kent and Chris celebrated their birthday on June 25, 2008.

Well, am not going to reveal their age, but yes, they're both SAA (Single And Available)..

Here goes some pictures for the record!

The birthday boys..

The candle blowing ceremony..

The meeting of 25th June 2008.

Rhythm of Life, 1st Runner-up in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in the World Championship of Public Speaking 2008

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It was indeed a great news for District 51 as a champion is born!!

Copied from an email from Richard Chong @ Ritchie ACS / ALB, Lt.Gov Education & Training 2008/2009 on August 17, 2008.

--- August 16th 2008 ~ 4pm Calgary, Alberta, Canadian Time & Date

District 51 2008/2009 - "The Courage to Conquer"

Dear Esteemed Division Governors & Area Governors,

District 51 shall now be fill with pride and joy after the results of the 2008 World Championship of Public Speaking.

The winning speech of K.Loghandran entitled "Rhythm of Life" has indeed find its way to the audience of approximately 1,ry600 people as well as to the judges hearts.

LOGANDRAN KRISHNASAMY was announced as the 1st runner-up of the 2008 WCPS. His speech revolved around the theme that asked us
to find the rhythm in our life, to live life to the fullest and to dance to the rhythm of our life!

We are now very proud to finally not only having a finalist in the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking but a proud winner in itself. Congratulations to Loghandran and District 51.

For Pictures & to send congratulatory messages ,please visit http://ritchierc.blogspot.com/