Battle Of The Sexes Report

Greetings fellow toastmaster, here is the report for the previous meeting held on the 19th September 2007 at UEM Academy (Faber Towers). In respect of the fasting month the time for the meeting was pushed forward from 5.30pm till 9.30pm

The theme of the day was “Battle of the sexes ”We taught it would be fun to participate in this endless battle between men and women (Even though we all know who the real winners are) and true to the spirit of the theme only males and females attended the meeting. The word of the day was “Discrimination”

Listed below are the role players for the meeting.

Roleplayers
TME: CC Mohanan
SAA: CC Tan Kah Yong
TTM: TM Hedzri
TTE: CC Nabil
GE: ATMB Rohijas
AH: TM Dusuki
Timer: TM Surindra
Grammarian: TM Izura

Project Speeches
1. TM Prakash – speech #2 Facial paralysis
Prakash gave an emotional and enlightening experience on Bell palsy
2. TM Dusuki – speech #4 The light of my life
Dusuki talked about his beloved mother whom was the light of his life
3. TM Hedzri – speech #7 There is an I in Cool
Hedzri impressed us by defining the word cool using iPod.
4. CC Nabil – speech #2 Wind of change
An entertaining speech by our resident joker, on the bright side of management.
5. CC Tan Kah Yong – speech #8 Blind date with VIP
Tan speech was about helping the Visually Impaired Person hence (VIP)

The TME for the table topic session was TM Hedzi and the participants are as follows.

Table topics
Participated by: TM Izura, CC Mohanan, CC Tan Kah Yong, Meriam, TM Surindra Mahendra
Topics (in short):
1. What traits of the opposite sex you find attractive and turn off and why?
2. Rejoice is masculine
3. Skoda is feminine
4. Audrey Hepburn’s quote: ‘Men and women are not meant to be together, they should stay next door to each other and only visit occasionally’
5. Lecture by zen master to his disciples on why men and women are like pencil and eraser

This was a very eventful meeting the TME had various jokes about man and women and kept the crowd entertained, all our fellow toastmasters contributed to make this meeting a success. Below are some quotable quotes heard during the meeting.

Interesting quotes
• Come into my room and I’ll give you one whole day of nagging – CC Nabil
• Cannot stand pizza hut over 40 days – TM Dusuki
• Funny-funny things happen to your face – TM Prakash
• It is to the 21st century, what the Monalisa is to the Renaissance period – TM Hedzri
• Categorise things into 3: uncool, cool and subzero – TM Hedzri

What we did different

Based on the suggestion by ATM Rohijas the evaluation session for project speeches was opened to the floor – each speaker would have his own designated evaluator however few minutes were given for comments, feedbacks by others attending the meeting

Awards

As usually the awards were given to the best speaker, evaluator and table topic player and for this meeting it was Maled (pun intended) by our fellow macho toastmasters.

Best speaker: TM Hedzri
Best evaluator: TM Hedzri
Best table topic: CC Tan Kah Yong


So don’t forget to catch our next meeting on the 3rd October with the theme Halloween (TME – by Freddy Kruger himself CC Tan Kah Yong)


Yours truly,
Surin

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