MOM 416
'The Art of Perseverance' by TM Nawaf
'The Art of Perseverance' by TM Nawaf
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Art of Perseverance<br />
by TMOD TM Nawaf<br />
Word of the Day: Otiose<br />
By Word Master TM Anuradha<br />
General Evaluator: TM Reena<br />
Friends of Yoga TMC<br />
MoM # <strong>416</strong><br />
SAA Opening<br />
Presidential Address<br />
TMOD Address<br />
It was TM Nawaf’s first attempt as Toastmasters of<br />
the Day at FOY and he brilliantly conducted the<br />
meeting. Not only we got to know our fairly new<br />
member better but we got some insightful tips on<br />
perseverance. TM Nawaf educated, enlightened<br />
and entertained us during the meeting. Yes<br />
entertained as the TMOD sprinkled humor<br />
throughout. TM Nawaf is an Artist and surely<br />
does have an Artistic approach to life!<br />
The acting SAA, TM Biju, started the meeting almost<br />
right on time. The acting SAA read out the<br />
Toastmasters Mission and asked the audience to put<br />
their mobile phones on silence. The acting SAA<br />
informed about the taboo topics to be avoided<br />
during the meeting. TM Biju thanked TM Dr.<br />
Shankar for the venue and invited the President on<br />
stage.<br />
After an acting SAA, we had an acting President,<br />
TM Shanil, our Immediate Past President. TM Shanil<br />
felt at home on the stage remembering his time as a<br />
President. Every time, the IPP used to share a story<br />
with a valuable message for us to take home. TM<br />
Shanil encouraged the members to deliver speeches.<br />
Speeches are the heart and soul of any TM Meeting<br />
and the struggle of FOY finding speakers is<br />
alarming. Yalla members, get your scripts ready! TM<br />
Shanil felt pride in announcing the Toastmasters of<br />
the day, TM Nawaf!<br />
APRIL 10, 2015<br />
DR. SHANKAR’S POLYCLINIC, DEIRA<br />
CLUB 946137, AREA 66, DIVISION F, DISTRICT 20 PREPARED BY SECRETARY TM EMMA BRUNEAU 1
Word Master<br />
TM Anuradha from Burj TMC was our Word Master.<br />
TM Anuradha is the better half of one of our past<br />
Presidents, TM Mohan Kamath, and it is a delight to<br />
listen to this new TM. The word introduced was OTIOSE<br />
which means futile, useless, ineffective. The Word<br />
Master gave few examples of the usage and<br />
confidently conducted a brief round robin. Well done<br />
TM Anuradha!<br />
Prepared Speech Session<br />
Project 9: Inspire your audience TM Chandrashekar<br />
‘Someone is waiting for you’<br />
TM Chandrashekar cares so much of the FOY members that he<br />
wants all of us to stay safe and for this reason persuaded us<br />
that safety is key and we are responsible to keep ourselves<br />
and others safe. TM Chandrashekar shared a touching story<br />
of his colleage who got injured at work. Accidents can surely<br />
happen and will always happen but we do have a role in<br />
preventing and protecting ourselves. Our President is getting<br />
closer to being a Competent Communicator and we wish to<br />
hear his P10 very soon.<br />
Project 1: Entertaining Manual TM Mohan Kamath<br />
‘Question Mark!’<br />
TM Mohan’s project was meant to entertain us and the<br />
speaker surely did! The speaker had us smiling, laughing and<br />
wondering what was coming next… The speech had all the<br />
elements of an entertaining speech. The speaker had<br />
characters in his speech that we were all familiar with hence<br />
connected us more to his speech. Anecdotes, expressions, and<br />
body language made this speech memorable. Looking<br />
forward to hearing more speeches from this manual.<br />
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Table Topics Session<br />
Hosted by TM Hanif<br />
Khatri<br />
When Our Bollywood Star, TM Hanif,<br />
takes a role, one can be guaranteed that<br />
humor will be there. The Table Topics<br />
Master briefed the audience on the<br />
purpose of holding a TT session.<br />
TM Abhilash<br />
TM Subash<br />
TM Dr. Dayananda<br />
TM Kartik Keyan<br />
Guest Jay<br />
‘A policeman<br />
asked to stop<br />
your car and is<br />
walking towards<br />
you, tell us what<br />
happens next’<br />
‘If you could cure<br />
one disease in<br />
this world, which<br />
disease would<br />
you choose and<br />
why?’<br />
‘Attack issue,<br />
not people!’<br />
‘Give a man a<br />
fish and he will<br />
eat for a day,<br />
teach him how to<br />
fish and he will<br />
eat all his life’<br />
‘Choose a job<br />
you love and you<br />
will never have<br />
to work a day in<br />
your life’<br />
Evaluation Session headed by TM Reena<br />
Speech Evaluation<br />
Evaluation Speech #1 by TM Saju<br />
Evaluation Speech #2 by TM Aravind<br />
TM Saju, our evaluation Champion, had all the ingredients of a<br />
winning evaluation and followed the guidance of our Area<br />
Governor’s session on Evaluation to the T. The evaluator was<br />
impressed by the speech content and confirmed that the speaker met<br />
the speech objectives. A suggestion to the speaker was to have a<br />
call to action and add more humor to the speech.<br />
One champion as evaluator was not enough so we had the Champ<br />
of the Champs (wining two categories at the Area) evaluating TM<br />
Mohan’s speech. TM Aravind was happily surprised by the project<br />
delivered by TM Mohan which he thoroughly enjoyed.<br />
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General Evaluation<br />
Closing Session<br />
An overdue comeback on stage of<br />
the eloquent TM Reena as our<br />
General Evaluator. We know TM<br />
Reena always has a lot to write<br />
and a lot to speak about (you can<br />
ask TM George) but this time TM<br />
Reena ensured not to go overtime.<br />
TM Reena enjoyed the meeting and appreciated the efforts<br />
of all role players. An area of improvement for the club is to<br />
make sure to get the role players in advance so that the<br />
agenda can be released well in advance.<br />
Award<br />
Grammarian Report<br />
And here comes the English<br />
Mastro, the well-spoken TM<br />
Sonali as Grammarian. The<br />
Grammarian pointed out the<br />
great usage of language and<br />
the areas of improvement. As<br />
we Yogis love to learn and TM<br />
Sonali loves to teach, we had a<br />
special session on<br />
‘Euphemism’… Euphemism can<br />
be used to avoid words to be<br />
found rude i.e. a polite way to<br />
give a message, portray a<br />
negative message and so on.<br />
Very educative session by TM<br />
Sonali. Thank you Ms Emcee…<br />
Trivia Master<br />
Best Table Topics Speaker<br />
TM Kartik Keyan<br />
TM Emma had a hard time<br />
controlling the crowd ‘eyeing’<br />
the chocolates. This session<br />
tests the listening skills and<br />
proudly we can say the yogis<br />
are good listeners.<br />
Silent Role Player<br />
Timer/Shoot Master: TM Rajesh<br />
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