Session 144

144.

A mathematician would have been happy with that number, being a perfect square. But being a casual weekend club, we are definitely not squares, right?

The session was kicked off 1 minute before time by our acting SAA TM Chaitanya.

President TM Rajat this time spoke of inspirations available in our daily events, in yesterday's Skit Competition, for example. MTM Panna's hard work had been inspirational, as had been Ruwi club's dedication and commitment to rehearsing repeatedly till they got their act just right. Ultimately, the team had won third place while TM G Kumar had been awarded best actor. Kudos to Kumar.

TMOD role was played by TM Ramalingam, who had taken up as subject "Public Relations", taking us through the principles of brand management in the eyes of TMI as well as the aspects TMI expects every PR officer to maintain. It was an exhaustive exposition and well worth going through at leisure later on.

Timer role was played by MTM Rita, who explained the timing rules correctly to the audience.

Wordmaster TM Sumesh introduces the word ABUNDANT to the audience. Being a word easily understood the audience did fair justice to the round robin, including the sentence "The word abundant was abundantly used in the round robin." Nice.

Jokemaster TM Mehta delivered some very funny jokes based on obesity. I personally think theme-based jokes are a good idea. They are easier to compile and they keep the audience tuned to a particular frequency.

There were two speeches scheduled. Evaluation criteria for the first speech, which was a Pathways Icebreaker speech, was described by the evaluator TM Saleem.

TM Shanavas delivered his Icebreaker speech titled "Humiliation Acted as Motivation", taking us through his early years and career and talking about his future plans. Splashes of humour livened up his speech. Good job there TM Shanavas.

The second scheduled speech was a P-10 as per CC manual and the evaluation criteria of this inspirational speech were described by MTM Panna.

P-10 speech titled "Triumph over Adversity" was delivered by TM Pradeep Poojary from Oman Cables Club. Delivered with good body language and personal examples of overcoming adversity, the speech was received well. He also received a standing ovation at having completed his CC manual.

Table topics were handled today by MTM Vaishali, who produced pithy short sayings today, that were ideal for TT. The speakers also did fair justice to them. Nice topics, MTM Vaishali.

Evaluation for the Icebreaker speech was delivered by TM Saleem, who praised the speaker's topic coverage and delivery.

Evaluation of the P-10 speech was delivered by MTM Panna. While praising the speech's title, use of props and personal stories, she suggested a more powerful ending and the use of more pauses to punctuate his paragraphs. 

Ah Counter and Grammarian feedback was given by TM Rajat, who pointed out the number of filler words used by each speaker as well as their good use of the word ABUNDANT by the role-players, which actually was not abundant. He also pointed out wrong usages of English, as well as good usage and nice turns of phrase.

GE MTM Niral gave a short and positive role evaluation while pointing out that the sound system malfunction needs to be taken care before the start of session and the TMOD's role introductions needed to be more personalised.

In the Business Session, TM Chaitanya tentatively signed on MTM Rita as TMOD for the next session, with speeches from MTM Vaishali, MTM Panna and TM Kumar.

President closed the session with the announcing of awards.

• Best Speaker:        TM Shanavas
• Best Evaluator:     MTM Panna
• Best Table topic:   TM Venkat
• Best Role player:   TM Mehta (Jokemaster)

See you all again on 3.11.18.