Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters Club

Is there anything missing in your life? We all want so many things, even though we already have so much: - The perfect partner - The perfect job - The perfect house - The perfect car - Yearly vacations - More hours in the day to accomplish things But imagine what all these things are to a refugee.  For them, they just want to be close to their loved ones.  Even if they can have 5 minutes to see for themselves that their loved ones are well, that is more than enough for them. After a lively discussion on our theme, it's on to the assignment speeches. Speaker #1: Samuel Ch'ng Samuel gave his signature humorous speech on his New Year's resolution to get fit and his observations of the people he sees at the gym. Speaker #2: Bryant Oon Oh wow, what a title for his speech - F###!  It definitely got everybody to pay attention.  Bryant was redoing his CC10 and his title definitely got people to pay attention.  The title actually stood for "Food" an...

How would you introduce yourself, for example, in an interview where you are asked to tell people a little bit about yourself? You may think it's easy because the subject of "You" is something that nobody knows better than yourself. But you have to bear in mind that there is a fine line between introducing yourself in a way that will make the right impression on people and coming off as a shallow person that nobody can take seriously. Many people, when asked to introduce themselves, will proceed to give a narration of their life story including their first dog, their childhood spats with the rude kid in the playground, a litany of the leadership positions they've held from pre-school through college and the list goes on. You must bear in mind that you have a very limited amount of time to make an impression.  Truth be told, nobody wants to know about your entire life's history and in fact, some things, they don't need to know.  So make sure you make...

Kickstarting our meetings for the year 2018, we decided to go with the theme, "Living on the Edge", because after all, outside your comfort zone is where life begins. We definitely agree on this and Toastmasters is where people get to constantly continue to push their limits, expanding the so called "edge". This is evident in the assignment speeches for the night: Speaker #1: You Wan Xuan Wan Xuan spoke about the horrors of war in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.  She had been to Japan recently and shared the knowledge she gained whilst visiting the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. Speaker #2: Bryant Oon Bryant did his CC10 with the aim of inspiring the audience.  He didn't only give a speech, he went above and beyond by singing, something not seen very often in a Toastmasters Meeting. Speaker #3: Sheryl Lee Our resident Game of Trones wiki did Assignment 2 from her Advanced Communicator Speaking to Inform Manual on The Wall from the series which intrigued ev...