92nd session

As one young guest at the last session said: "I like the club experience here because people are quite involved".

No doubt. And young... and enthusiastic... and colourful.

TM Raja was back in town and happily donned the mantle of SAA once again.

The session was opened by President MTM Panna who this time moved away from her usual story to talk about her experience at the recent Teacher's Day celebrations at her school. This time the function had been held on two different days - one day of fun and games with only teachers and another evening gathering at the auditorium where people dressed to their heart's content. It is only by seeing people in different situations that we get a total picture of their personalities and this builds a closeness among the staff. Similarly, in Toastmasters, we must take care to project our true selves through our speeches (not borrowed material and opinions) so that our personalities also become evident to the group and it becomes a close-knit one. A different sort of message Prez, and very welcome.

TMOD role was played by MTM Vaishali and what a vibrant show it was with her theme of "Colours"! She played Holi with the theme throughout the speaker introductions, describing their favourite colours and related personality traits and giving us little snippets of information about colours. A well-designed script MTM and a confident presentation.

Time criteria were explained by MTM Roman, who decided to  indicate red flags to the TMOD as well.

Wordsmaster TM Vishwanath introduced the word CADENCE to the group, meaning rhythm. A new word to most of the audience, the round robin was a learning experience for all.

Jokemaster TM Kamil related a few well-chosen non-spouse jokes, which were well-appreciated.

There were two speeches scheduled today - a P-7 and a P-5. The P-7 criteria were explained by TM Rajat.

TM Venkat delivered his P-7 speech titled "Oil Drop". P-7 encourages the speaker to Research the Topic. TM Venkat had done well to choose a topic of interest in this part of the world and he found it easy to produce data to support his points. 

Criteria for the P-5 speech were explained by TM Ramalingam. Being a Body Language speech, he had had us in splits as he started his speech with many body movements.

P-5 speech was delivered by MTM Kaviya, titled "Once Upon a Time", who was repeating her performance in order to improve the same from last time. It was an engaging speech about story-telling and the influence it has on everyone's lives. There was scope for body language, which was used by the speaker well.

Table Topics were conducted by MTM Swati, who had prepared topics on coloured slips, the topics being based on the theme of Colours. Perhaps the best one was "Colours are the smileys of nature". Good job there, MTM.

TM Rajat and TM Ramalingam gave their feedback to the respective speakers, praising their efforts. As usual there will always be room for improvement.

Harkmaster TM Mathen played off the left field against the right field and his questions did proper justice to both the sides. We will not declare the winners here!

Grammarian TM Nagesh found very few mistakes in grammar; in fact he lauded a lot of good usage of English. However he made the point that the word of the day could be more usage-friendly as very few speakers could include the word in their speeches.

General Evaluator TM Raja started off by congratulating SAA Raja on having done a perfect kick-off! To be fair, he praised almost all the role-players and repeated the comment of the Grammarian regarding the word of the day.

Business session was conducted by TM Mathen, who was shocked to find that there were suddenly no speeches ready for next week in spite of so much prior planning! Luckily TM Raja stepped in and volunteered and TM Venkat decided to repeat his P-7 speech, so we have two entries slated, thank God!

President adjourned the session after announcing the awards:

• Best Table topic    :     Bhaviya (guest)
• Best Evaluator:           TM Rajat
• Best Speaker:              MTM Kaviya

There is a Toast Fest organised next Saturday morning at ABA school, which is a Division event. Please do roll up with lots of guests. 

Afternoon, we will have our session as usual.