Session 125

125th session. That is half of a quarter of a thousand. Nothing to be sneezed at. 

But the outside temperature was on a close chase at 115 degF. If attendance was low, this was surely one of the biggest disincentives.

The session flagged off at 3.20 pm with SAA Viswanath calling the meeting to order instead of TM Raja who called in sick. TM Viswanath described the SAA role as the P-1 speech of every session, given that that is what a session starts with. A nice turn of phrase, TM Vish.

Acting President TM Chaitanya opened the session with a nice story about a yogi and the king which ended with the king realising that he, in his desire to conquer the neighbouring kingdom, was spiritually much poorer than the yogi.

TMOD role was played by TM Saleem, who had chosen as theme "Flashback" that related a series of incidents in his life which had elevated him to higher levels of thinking. Thank you TMOD for this different approach to a TMOD theme. It was indeed interesting.

Timer role was played by MTM Rita who described all the timing criteria suitably.

MTM Niral, a new member, made a debut as Jokemaster, relating amusing incidents out of her experiences in Oman. Good job MTM and may you go from strength to strength.

Wordmaster TM Chaitanya had chosen PRIMORDIAL as word of the day. It was a new and interesting word for many of us and the round robin saw varied application. Some role-players managed to use it as well.

There was only one P-10 speech scheduled today (after TM Raja's P-1 speech was dropped) and TM Vignesh described the criteria of a P-10 speech, which is an inspiring speech, that denotes the completion of the CC manual.

P-10 speech "Dancing without a Partner" was delivered by TM Rajat. Based on how to continue life after the death of a life partner, the speech addressed issues normally avoided by all of us and delivered tips on possible mental preparation.

Table topics were conducted by MTM Khathija, whose topics were the proverbial type, hence easy to speak on. Our guest Dr Anil also had a go.

P-10 evaluation was given by TM Vignesh, applauding the subject and the approach of the speech. He also gave suggestions for improving the speech further.

General Evaluation was carried out by TM Bhaskar, who applauded all the role-players on carrying out their roles well. He had a suggestion for TMOD regarding continuity, since his narrative was being broken by the role plays and enough call-back was not being provided.

TM Chaitanya carried out the business session. There will be no session next week due to Eid holidays. For the 23rd session, if there are too few role-players, a joint session would be attempted.

He closed the session with announcement of the awards.

Best Speaker:      TM Rajat (default)

Best Evaluator:    TM Vignesh (default)

Best TT speaker:  TM Vignesh

Best Role Player:  TM Chaitanya as Wordmaster

See you all again on 23rd June. Eid Mubarak.