Short video clip of Dr Edlin conducting English for growth class

Fellow MIHRM Toastmasters

Short video clip of Dr Edlin conducting English for growth class on 4/11/2011.

CLICK HERE to view the full course:

For those who missed the class, join us on Friday 18/11/2011.
We also adding a new session called Word building session into our normal meeting.
Member who wish to be role player or doing speech assignment please submit your name.

regards
CK Lim
VPE

English for Growth for Toastmasters

This 10-lesson Programme is specially designed for the working adults who have no time to waste to improve their English language proficiency and to enhance their overall work performance and productivity..  This Programme will help participants  in enhancing their speech preparation,  grammar and diction.

The Programme Content

Lesson 1:	Sentences – Subject & Predicate, Types – Sentence, Question, Command and Exclamation. Illustrations
Lesson 2:	Parts of Speech – Nouns –Gender, Number,  Pronouns – Personal, Possessive, Relative, Interrogative, Demonstrative, Indefinite.
Lesson 3:	Adjectives:  Types - Quality, Quantity, Possessive, Distributive and Demonstrative;  Articles -  Definite & Indefinite, Apostrophe.
Lesson 4:	Verbs – Singular & Plural Verbs ‘To Be’ & their Congruency with Subjects, Tenses – Present, Past & Future, Present Continuous & Perfect, Past Continuous & Perfect, and Future.
Lesson 5:	Adverbs – Of Time, Place, Degree.  Formation of Adverbs.  Prepositions – Definition & Examples
Lesson 6:	Conjunctions – Examples joining Two Words, Phrases and Clauses, Types of Common Joining Words,  Either…Or, Neither…Nor,  Interjections and Some Illustrations.
Lesson 7:	Punctuations & Capital Letters.  Use of Full Stop, Comma, Semicolon, Colon, Question Mark, Quotation Marks & Exclamation Mark.  Capital Letters.
Lesson 8:	Similes, Metaphors & Proverbs.   Common Examples and Usage for Speech Enhancement.  Tips on Word-Building
Lesson 9:	Story Telling – Composition, Oral and Written Exercises.
Lesson 10:	Exercise, Evaluation & Feed-back.  Concluding Words of Wisdom.  Certificates Presentation.

Lesson Schedule:      Twice a month at 6.30 – 7.15 pm on the 1^st & 3^rd Friday of each month for Five (5) consecutive months commencing 4^th November 2011.

Fees Schedule:            1)      For Non-Toastmaster – RM350/-- per head;

                                                2)     For Toastmaster from other Clubs – RM250/- per head

                                               3)      Fees include course materials, light refreshment and privilege to attend and participate in MIHRM Toastmasters Club Meetings.

                                               4)      The first 20 paying participants shall be entitled to receive a specially-autographed book written by Dr. William Lau and edited by Dr Edlin Abraham.  So, do enroll early to avoid disappointment.  Eligibility is strictly on a first-come, first-served basis..

Closing Date:                      18 November 2011 

                             (A special class will be conducted for late registrants)

Venue:                                   Malaysian Institute of Human Resource Management, K2 Upper Ground Floor, Bangunan Khas,  Lorong 8/1E 46050 Petaling Jaya      

Programme Leaders:            Experienced TEFL qualified Toastmasters:

                                                         1)            Dr William Lau, DTM

                                                         2)            Dr Edlin Abraham, ATMG

For Enquiry:      Please contact  (1)    Dr William Lau at 016-3112258; or,                                   

                                                   (2)    Dr Edlin Abraham at 013-3808798

                                                                       

For Registration

Please complete and forward REGISTRATION FORM with the appropriate remittance  by crossed cheque made payable to MIHRM Toastmasters Club before the closing date to:  498-3-2 Wisma Indah, Jalan Tun Razak, 50400 Kuala Lumpur.

Fees can be paid directly to MIHRM TOASTMASTERS CLUB’S  RHB Bank Account No: 21219800010083.  Please email or fax bank-in slip to thcmc2000@gmail.com or 603-92815516.

Enrolment is acceptable though e-confirmation to the attention of Dr. William Lau at thcmc2000@gmail.com

GET YOUR REGISTRATION FORM HERE: SEE PAGE 3

MIHRM emerged as Champion in the District Semi Annual‏

Dear Fellow Members

I take pleasure to announce that our member Stephen Fernando emerged as the Humours Speech Cosntest's Chapion in the
recent Semi-Annual Convention in Malacca on 21-23 October 2011 at the Holiday Inn, Malacca.

The said Constest results are as follows:

1st Place: Stephen Fernando

2nd Place: Lee Si Wen

3rd Place: Ivan Cheng

The above three contestants are all from the clubs in the Klang Valley.

Reults of the Evaluation Contest are as follows:

1 Palaniappan

2 Dennis Wee

3 Fabian Fidelis

Heartiest Congratualtions to the above winners; in particular our member, Stephen Fernandor,
who really kept the flag of MIHRM flying high and mightily.

I trust and encourage more of our members attending the Annual Convention in 2012 at the
Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre. Details will be announced in due course.

Please be reminded we will be having a joint meeting with IEM on Thursday 27 Oct 2011
at the latter's venue next to Pizza Hut. Please contact our VPE soonest if you intend to
volunteer to play a role at the said meeting. It is going to be a meeting to clebrate the
Deepavali.

See all of you there.

Dr William Lau
President
MIHRM.

President report on Friday 7/10/2011 Meeting

Honored Guests, Fellow Toastmasters and Friends

We had an exciting and enjoyable meeting on Friday 7 Oct 2011,, which saw the return of our beloved ATMG Dr Edlin Abraham and Daisy, whom we so dearly missed. Believe you me, he introduced Toastmasters to and brought more than ten of his friends and associates to the meeting. The number of guests brought in by any single past member was historic since the inception of our club on 30 Jan 1999.

The said eclipsed with the official club visit of our charming Area C2 Governor, ACS Lee Meng Tze. Her presence and participation in the club’s meeting indeed brought grace and luster to the meeting. Besides, she took the opportunity of installing our three Exco Members – Phang Chew Yee as VPM, Boon Sin Cheang as Treasurer and Rosidah as SAA followed by distributing the name tags to the entire EXCO members. For your information the line up for 2011/2012 Exco is as follows:

President : DTM Dr William Lau
VPE : CTM Lim Chee Kuan
VPM : CC Phang Chew Yee
VPPR : TM Rick Sim
Secretary : CC Erin Lee
Treasurer : CC Boon Sin Cheang
SAA : TM Rosidah SAA convened the meeting sharp at 7.30 pm and set the meeting ambience by getting all present to introduce themselves. CC Boon presented his invocation message – >From Impossible to Possible.

CC Alex Lu ably conducted the Table Topics Session and the topics chosen were challenging indeed. Our guest Sharon emerged as the Best Table Topics Speaker. President Dr William Lau presented her with a ribbon.

We had two impressionable assignment speakers - TM Sirajo of Stamford who completed his 8th Speech Assignment, “Fitness 101” from the Basic Communication Manual and CC Vincent Chow of TAR College did his 5th Advanced Communication Manual assignment on “Obama’s 2004 Democratic Keynote Address”. Their respective speech evaluators were CC Vincent Soon and ATMG Dr Edlin Abraham. They based their evaluation on the sand-witched method. President Dr William Lau congratulated our ACB Stephen Fernando who emerged as the Champion as the Division C Humorous Speech Contest on 1 Oct 2011. He will be representing our Club, Area C2 and Division C at the District Semi Annual Humorous Speech Contest on Sunday 23 Oct 2011 in Malacca. Members are encouraged to attend the said Semi-annual Convention to lend moral support to our beloved Stephen.

Dr William Lau further announced that MIHRM is going to launch a 10-lession English Language Program for Toastmasters as well as non-Toastmaster effective 4 November 2011. Details are being finalized and clubs in the Klang Valley will be notified. At the same time, 10 minutes will be allocated at each meeting to fortify the vocabulary of members.

SAA ought to be congratulated for organizing the food and meeting infrastructure. Top marks for choosing the curry puff and the kuih2- muih2 which were all consumed.

The guests were satisfied with our meeting – friendly, fun and enjoyable. See you at the next joint meeting at 7.00 pm on Thursday 27 Oct 2011 at the Wisma IEM. For direction please call our VPE C K Lim at 019 3125100 or VPM Phang at 012 6643412.

Look forward to meeting with you at our next meeting.


Dr William Lau
President, 2011/2012

The Humorous Speech Contest (Division C).

Dear FEllow Toastmasters,

Please to inform you that our member Stephen Fernando emerged as the Champion in the above closely fought Speech
Contest that was held at the UMW Assembly Plant premises in Shah Alam yesterday 1 Oct 2011.

Stephen will represent our Club, Areas C2 as well as Division C in the coming Semi-annual Conference Humorous
Speech Contest scheduled on Sunday 23 Oct 2011 at the Holiday Inn, Malacca.

For the Speech Evaluation Contest, the placings were 1st: Fabian Fidelis 2nd: Robert Ram and 3rd: N K Valli. Congratulations
to IEM and Robert for being victorious in the said contest.

VPM Phang Chew Yee, SAA Roshida and yours truly attended the said Contest to give moral support to our member
Stephen although a greater number would have been more encouraging. For those who have not attended any
District 51 Conference or its Semi-Annual, I sincerely advise you to sign up for it. By being a participant, you would be able
to know members from other clubs and divisions in the District.

The registration fee for the above semi-annual conference still remains at RM400/- provided you confirm in writing to TM Tan
Eng Suan at xenotime@gmail.com and pay up not later than 7 Oct 2011. Kindly extend a copy of your communication to TM Azizah
at azihas2003@yahoo.com.

I encourage as many of our members to do your speech assignments and volunteer yourself for any role at the coming meeting on
7 Oct 2011. Please bring your basis communication and leadership manuals.

Watch out for our English Lanaguage Programme to be launched in November this year.

Dr William Lau
President

President report on Friday 23 Sep 2011 Meeting

Dear Fellow Members

We had a wonderful meeting yesterday evening.

The meeting was called to order by acting SAA, CTM CK Lim at 7.40
pm. Yours truly welcomed PDG Low Yat Seow, DTM and our
octogenarian guest Francis Choong, The role of TME was played by DTM Low Yat
Seow while our champion ATMS Stephen Fernando as the GE,

Dr Lau shared his recent experience and discourse with President Obama in regard to his plan to create jobs for the people of America. He said that President Obama was intrigued with his proposed idea on self-employment as a way to encourage gainful employment of the American unemployed graduates. As such, President Obama invited him for a special dinner with him. This was made possible because of the training Dr Lau received from TI whose education programme helped enhance his confidence and communication skills to interact with people at
all levels and from all walks of life.


DTM Yat Seow shared his benefit he derived by joining TM. According to him it was not
the title and meetings that attracted him since 1996. IN the course, he uncovered the secret of happiness - that is, by giving, he is blessed by receipt in abundance such as friendship and joie de vivre.

There were two speakers, TM Ravin and CC Boon who undertook respectively the maiden ice-breaking speaking assignment and advance speech assignment entitled "Colesterol taken from the 'Speak to Inform' Advance Manual.

Our charming Aera C2 Governor, ACS Lee Meng Tzu conducted the discharge and installation ceremony.

Dr Lau, CK Lim, Erin Lee and Boon were respectively intalled as the President, VPE, Secretary and Treasurer. during the second half of the meeting by our charming Area Governor.


ATMB Michael, CC Chew Yee, TM Rick Sim and Roshida will be installed during the Area C2 official visit to our club on Friday, Oct 7, 2011. Please ensure your presence on this auspicious day. Let us all give a roaring welcome to our Area Governor.


Our guest Francis Choong was impressed with the TM meeting and the club applauded his sage message and melodious song about life and extended a wam welcome for him to join our club.

We take this opportunity to thank CC Datin Teoh for her wonderful and delivious Nasi Lemak. Absentees must be missing it.



Announcement - Coming Events

1) Saturday, 01 October 2011 - Division C Humorous & Evaluation Speech Contests 1.00 pm at UMW Toshiba Assembly Plant, Shah Alam.

(Admission free; food provided. Come and give your champions
from Area C2)

2) Friday, 7 Oct 2011 - Area Governor official visit to MIHRM

3) 21-23 October 2011- Semi-annual Conference in Holiday Inn, Malacca

(Our regular meeting on 21 Oct 2011 is cancelled due to the said
Conference)

4) Thursday, 27 October 2011 - Joint Meeting with IEM TMC at Bangunan IEM. (Deepavali Celebration)

Those who wish to play a role at our club and joint meeting or do a speech assignment, please submit your name and assignment to our VPE CK Lim.
Please introduce TM to your friends and associates and invite them
to our next meeting,

The strength and success of our club depends upon its members contributions.

Dr William Lau
President

Meeting 9 Sep 2011

Dear Fellow Members and Friends


The Club had a very successful meeting last Frdiay, 9 Sep 2011. About 20 Toastmasters including guests from IEM TMC attended
the meeting. We welcome our members Datin Teoh and Lindsey Ting back.

The meeting started on time at 7.30 pm. The TME was CTM Erin Lee while the GE role was played by CC Alex Lu of IEM.

Yours truly acted as the TTM. Our member ACB Stephen Fernando was adjudged the best TT session. He responded impormptu
to the topic, "Cowardice sets the Benchmark for Bravery". The best assignment speaker on the subject "Maintain Your Website You Must"
was ACG Robert Ram while the ACB Stephen Fernando was the Best Assignment Evaluator. Congratulations to the winners.

President recognised the success of ACB Stephen Fernando in respect of the recent Area C2 Humorous Speech and Evaluation Speech Contests
held on Thursday, 8 Sep 2011 at the IEM Penthouse. Stephen emerged as the champion and 1st Runner-up of the said two contests respectively.
He will respresent our Club at the Divison C Humourous and Evaluation Speech Contests scheduled at 2.00 pm on Saturday, 1 October, 2011 at the UMW
Toyota Motor Assembly Plant in Shah Alam. Admission is free and members are encouraged to make time to attend the said contests as well as
to give moral support to our speech champion.

From : Dr William Lau, DTM
President

MIHRM Toastmasters - Humourous Speech and Evaluation Contest (19Aug)

Fellow MIHRM Toastmasters

Our club Humorous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contest has been successfully completed on the 19/8/2011.

Congratulations to all contestants for your courage to participate in the contest. This is the true spirit of toastmasters.
To all roleplayers and organizing chair, we appreciate your dedication and hardwork to make this contest a success.

And now the winnners:

Speech Evaluation Contest:
Winner: Stephen Fernando
1st Runnerup: Mano Sabaratnam
2nd Runnerup: Boon Sin Cheng

Humorous Speech Contest:
Winner: Stephen Fernando

Congratulations to all winners. Winner will represent our club in the area contest.
Area contest will be at IEM on 8th September 2011. Come and support our winners.


regards
CK Lim
VPE

Meeting 5 August

5 Aug 2011, we are back to our usual meeting after 2 weeks.

President Dr William Lau was away, nevertheless we have our dedicated VPE Ck Lim to get the thing done. He did not fail to amaze us with his eloquence and enthusiasm, the meeting still goes on without the president.

We have our regular guess Vincent Soon also a second time new comer Mr.Yong.

TME Stephen Fernando inspired us by telling us about toastmasters movement in Indonesia also with some of his valuable experiences when he visited the country.

For the first part of the meeting, Table Topic Master Rick Sim prepared interesting topics for the session. He provided topics on working experience, everyone spoke their mind on the given topics.

We have a 10 minutes break, everyone had some small chat and refreshment before we move to the second session.

In the speech assignment session,TM Roshida delivered her third speech, with the title “smile”. She spoke about her denture problem, how she got her braces and lastly how a smile would reduce the pain in her mouth.

We move on the general evaluation session. General evaluator Vicent Soon took over the session.

Table Topics evaluator Boon has the opportunity to evaluate several season speakers, he point out the good point that speakers has and also gave a few suggestion of improvement to the courageous speakers.

Credit to our dedicated member Rick Sim,  who took 3 roles in a meeting,  as Table Topics Master, Language Evaluator and Speech Evaluator.

Finally General Evaluator Vincent Soon gave positive comments on the role player performance

The meeting ended with joy and everyone is looking forward to the next meeting which will be our club contest.

2nd meeting on (developing a website for your club)

17 July Saturday, after the meeting at Faith Toastmasters, we have our 2nd meeting regrading the development of the our website. We have participant form many different clubs, and Robert Ram explained about how to get fresh content for our website, submitting URL to the search engine, also a little about video editing. We learned a lot new technique and idea, it helps a lot in the development of our new website.

Meeting 15 July 2011

At 15 July 2011, our  newly elected SAA Roshida kick off the meeting with a great atmosphere.

President Dr William Lau did not fail to amaze us with his eloquence and enthusiasm, despite the poor attendance, the meeting still goes on. We have guess form Stamford College invited by our very distinguish toastmaster non other than Stephen Fernando.

TME CK Lim inspired us by telling his great journey on getting through the Bersih Rally in order to attend the toastmasters TLI, club officers training in Taylors University Lakeside Campus.

For the first part of the meeting, Table Topic Master Boon prepared interesting topics for the session. He provided topic on "What Is ?", everyone spoke their mind on the given topics.

We have a 10 minutes break, with nice coffee some simple cakes and curry puff.  

Due to the poor attendance, we do not have any speaker for the day, and we move on the general evaluation session. General evaluater Stephen Fernando took over the session.

Table topic evaluator Lucas from Stamford College Toastmasters gave a very valuable feedback for the courageous table topics speakers.

The meeting ended with joy and everyone went back with a smile on their face.

Welcome to our website

Welcome to our new website