Announcement: TLI 2 Club Officer Training at 18-Jan-2009

Event: TLI 2 Club Officer Training
Date: 18-Jan-2009 Sunday
Time: 12pm - 5pm
Venue: Intel Penang PG12 Auditorium
Organizing Chair: Thiang Bee Nee, ACB, ALB
Who need to attend: 90% of Club Officers
Benefit: Club will earn 1 DCP points with at least 4 Club Officers attendance

Need help: Club Presidents to check how many club officers from your club will attend and revert to me the number before 22-Dec-2008.

Announcement: Visit Toastmasters Booth at Career Fair

Event: Penang Career Fair Expo 2008
Date: 29-30 Nov 2008 Sat & Sun
Time: 10am - 6pm
Venue: PISA, Penang
Admission: Free
Lucky draw: 1000 pcs flight tickets to win


Help needed: Any Toastmasters who can come on duty in Sunday, kindly contact OC Cheah Ee Liang at 012-4881084.

Announcement: News of District Award from Bali Semi-Annual Convention

Christopher and Peng Yew, congratulations to both of you!
We are proud of your achievement!!


District Toastmaster Of The Year 2007-2008: Mandy Ong Shiow Yee (Div P - Satu Hati Toastmasters Club)


District 51 Area Governor Of The Year 2007-2008: Christopher Choong, CC, CL (Div S - Dell Penang Toastmasters Club) wow !!
















District 51 Division Governor Of The Year 2007-2008: Yoon Peng Yew, ACS, CL (Div S - Vista Penang Toastmasters Club) wow !!

(News Source: This is District news extended from LGET Ritchie's blog - http://ritchierc.blogspot.com/)

Reply message from Immediate Past Division S Governor, Yoon Peng Yew, ACS, CL:

Thank you everyone!
This is the combines achievement of Division S and every one of you. May this inspire the new Division S team to keep our ship sailing and the momentum going for this term so that members and clubs can continue to benefit even more from the Toastmasters program.

Here's the Bali Convention in brief.
1. Contests
Our Division S Evaluation Champion Lilian demonstrated a commendable effort in the Run Off B (semi-finals) on Saturday. We are proud of you, Lilian!
Meanwhile, May Cheah from Taiping, using Sukhdev Singh as a human prop, emerged 3rd in Humorous Speech Contest Finals.

Humorous Speech Contest Winners:
1st: Stephen Fernando -- Division C
2nd: Roger Charles McGowan -- Division W
3rd: May Cheah -- Division S

Evaluation Contest Winners:
1st: Michael Xavier -- Division N
2nd: John Lee -- Division W
3rd: Ahmad Fakri -- Division P

2. Keynote Speakers
International Director for DNAR (Districts Not Assigned to Regions, i.e. outside USA) Poh Kim Siong, DTM and World Championship Runner-Up Loghandran were featured. Loghandran imparted his personal experience and words of wisdom about not giving up after failures, and about his victory being a milestone for all of us "rice-eating people" -- we have the ability to be World Class. The video recording of Loghandran's winning speech "Finding The Rhythm" was also played.

3. Hall of Fame
The District will be delivering trophies to winning clubs for Distinguished Clubs, Select Distinguished Clubs and President's Distinguished Clubs.
Toastmaster of the Year went to Mandy Ong of Division P, Area Governor of the Year went to our Christopher Choong of Division S, and Division Governor of the Year went to someone you know. Division S nearly made a clean sweep of these awards!

4. Coming Conventions.
Apr 2009 Annual Convention: Kuching.
Nov 2009 Semi-Annual Convention: Jakarta .
Apr 2010 Annual Convention: Lutong, Miri
(the Final Convention before D51 splits to two districts) .
The 2010 International Convention's venue has been changed from Sydney, Australia, to Palm Springs, California, USA. (otherwise, it would have been the first one outside North America)

5. Sight-Seeing, Shopping & Photos
More about this later.. Our LGET's blog captures some of the moments (http://ritchierc.blogspot.com/).

Once again, thank you for your dedication in serving the members and clubs of Division S.

Regards,
py

Announcement: District 51 Website Surf and Win Contest #1 Winner

There are 3 winners who contributed the most number of postings to the forum.

First prize winner: Johnson Tang (Dell Penang TMC)
Second prize winner: Soh Fong Wai, DTM (D’Utama TMC)
Third prize winner: SL Liew, DTM (Bayan Baru TMC)

First prize winner will receive a competent leadership manual.
Second prize winner will receive a new member orientation kit for clubs.
Third prize winner will receive a Toastmasters publicity pack.
All prizes are purchased from Toastmasters International.


First 50 Toastmasters who signed up as forum member. They will each receive a district pin.
Winner in Area S6 are:

1) Ng Wei Jern (Seberang Jaya)
2) Johnson Tang (Dell Penang)
3) Ong Wai Yeong (Dell Penang)
4) Lai York Keong (Dell Penang)
5) Yeoh Hui Kiang (Dell Penang)
6) Leong Pooi Mun (Dell Penang)
7) Lim Khee Seong (Dell Penang)
8) Keamalatha (Dell Penang)
9) Jessica Ho (Dell Penang)
10) Christopher Choong (Dell Penang)


Congratulations to all winners!!




















































Announcement extracted from District website.

November Edition: TIPS For Clubs

November 2008 TIPS e-Newsletter is available now!


Featured news ---> Help in Hard Times
There’s no doubt that many Toastmasters are facing challenging times. With corporate cutbacks, Wall Street woes and other worldwide financial difficulties, we’re all feeling the stress of the day.....read on from TIPS e-newsletter.

(Toastmasters International is publishing monthly e-newsletter since May 2008.
It is a monthly publication to Club, Area and District Officers for circulation to members.)

Division Calendar is up!

Team,

You can view all club meetings and Division activities in one page now! It helps to better plan your schedule and you will not miss any learning opportunity now.....
Click picture below to our public calendar for all years.















Kindly contact AG Johnson Tang if you want to add your activity to the public calendar.

Tips for Table Topics Preparation #3

Another useful article found from Toastmasters website.

Some techniques to prepare Table Topics Speech, read here.

Announcement: District Soaring Area Governor 2007-2008 Award

Fellow Toastmasters,

Join me to congratulate Immediate Past Area S6 Governor, Christopher Choong, CC, CL on his achievement!!

District Soaring Area Governor 2007-2008 Award wow!!









Cheers,
Johnson Tang, CC, CL
S6 Area Governor 2008-2009

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Best wishes to Christopher:-

Motorola Penang Toastmasters Club President 2007-2008, Lim Wei Cheang, ACS, CL :
Heartiest congrats to you, as you definitely deserve this award and honour :)

Motorola Penang Cyber-Speakers Toastmasters Club President 2008-2009, BT Loh, CC :
Hear ye hear ye!!! Indeed you are an asset to us all!

S6 Area Governor 2008-2009, Johnson Tang, CC, CL :
Congratulation to you and we're proud of you on this award!!
You've been my roles model in toastmasters journey.

S7 Area Governor 2008-2009, Thiang Bee Nee, ACB, ALB :
Congratulations on your achievement :-).

Division S Treasurer 2008-2009, Joanne Tan, ACB, CL:
Great news for a celebration. Dinner on u tonite? Everyone's invited? hehe...
Indeed it is great to have a Toastmaster friend like you, and you've touch many in their journey to reach higher in their confidence. Congratulations!!

Asst Division S Governor of Marketing 2008-2009, SH Lim, ACS, CL:
Christopher, Congratulation, you sure deserve it.
Proud to be part of your team mate.

Dell Penang Toastmasters Club Treasurer 2008-2009, Lai York Keong:
Pride and Joy of TI and Dell Pg Toastmaster Club.
Congrats on your achievements!!

Dell Penang Toastmasters Club, Vice President Public Relations 2008-2009, Lim Khee Seong, CC, CL:
Congratulations ！！！
Tahniah ！！！
恭喜你！！！
おめでとうございます！！！

Dell Penang Toastmasters Club member, Azmy Taufeck:
Good on ya Chris!

Dell Penang Toastmasters Club member, Tan Poh Ai, CC :
Christopher, Congrats to you on this big achievement!

Asst Area S6 Governor of Education & Training 2008-2009, H'ng Siew Lee, CC, CL :
Awesome, Christopher, very inspiring! Congratulation!

BM BigFoot Toastmasters Club President 2007-2008 ARTHUR KOLANDASOO, CC, CL:
Syabas Chris,
You are THE guy…….. . You deserve this award my man….. Take care.
Arthur

Dell Penang Toastmasters Club Immediate Past Vice President of Education, Jeffrey Ong, CC,CL :
Congratulations ChrisTopHer , way to go .Kudos…all DPTM members.

Dell Penang Toastmasters Club, Sergeant-At-Arms 2008-2009, Lim Teik Lai, CC, CL :
Congratulation! :)

Announcement: District 51 Club 90% Renewal Submit On Time Recognition

District 51 Club 90% Renewal Submit On Time Recognition Winner:


MCA Bukit Gelugor Toastmasters Club - all 26 members awarded with District Theme Pin


Congratulation to Club President Sunny and the Team!
Area S6 proud of your achievement!

Tips for Table Topics Preparation #2

Found this article is very useful for new member in prepare for Table Topics Speech.

The author is Jack M. Kantola, DTM, a Toastmaster for more than 30 years, is a member of Riverside Breakfast Club 1348-12 in Riverside, California. He was runner-up in the District 12 Table Topics Contest in 2004.

"......Maybe we should change our expectations for Table Topics. Instead of going for a perfect response we should strive for perfect learning. ...." read on more....

Where are we in Division S ? (Nov check point)

This is status update for clubs in Area S6 listed in Division S DCP achievement.
2 out of 4 clubs are ranked at top of Division S DCP Performance Stack Ranking.

Keep it up, team!