My Toastmaster Club's Mentor-Mentee Get-Together lunch

I was told it was the first time that they had a mentor-mentee get-together. We had lunch, and went to Du Viet, a Vietnamese restaurant at Level 4 KLCC.

I had no problem at all with what I'm about to say, but I found this slightly bizarre: Each of us had a cap of RM 30 for ordering lunch. Being in this company I am now, I have not experienced getting capped for lunch. We always order whatever we want as long as reasonable and not so expensive la right.. So I wondered how my Toastmaster club here getting the funds..does the management sponsor by subsidizing some funds? I didn't dare ask, yet.

Anyway, I had fun. I think we all had fun. My mentor was sitting far from me since there were close to 20 of us, but I found great company among all the other peeps. I saw them during the club meetings, but we are sitted so far apart. Plus, I'm not that initiative to strike a conversation. And most of time, we are there to listen to speeches. Therefore, the lunch was a great mingling activity..we all sat closely together as opposed to club meetings, so talking wasnt really optional. Hey, we are a Toastmaster member anyway!

I think I talked quite a lot too (and it fascinated me how I can warm up to people, contrary to what I think I am) and they keep convincing me that I should enter the Table Topics contest this Wednesday. I declined many times, because I don't think my first Table Topic in a contest environmnt is a good idea..

But coming back to office just now, I thought, maybe I could try.. Plus who knows I might win some shopping vouchers? Now I'm contemplating..hmm...
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Observing Evaluators

I have only been joining Toastmasters for one of the clubs in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a little more than a month. For today's session I have volunteered to be the Timer for the first time. But I shall get to that later.

What I wanted to say is about a newbie observing how being an Evaluator works. Well, yes being an Evaluator requires you to evaluate one of the person who did his/her prepared speech on that day. And I think one of the criteria to being a successful evaluator is to address the good points and the not so good ones. You lace the bad ones with the good ones so that even if the speech really sucks, you still have something good to say such as, "your voice is audible, I like it when you project your voice like that".

That is fine when he/she does hv an audible voice when that's the only good thing that you can say about his/her speech. But like today, man, one of the speeches I think quite bad for an ACB speech (I am almost impelled to say "sucks" but hey, cannot mah, this is Toastmasters!), and yet they evaluator said "Your speech is really good, I really enjoyed it" *dropped onto the floor*

I can't meddle with my words that's for sure. In the future if I were to become an Evaluator, (which I have to coz I need it yo complete my CL), strategically I will have to choose my speaker so I don't have a hard time trying to think of what to complement him/her.

Overall I found Toastmasters to be great. It is a positive environment to train oneself to public speak. I think I enjoyed it, but on the "kurang hebat" speaker, one thg I'm telling myself: hello I might well be like that kan..how would I know right? So don't kutuk sekarang!
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