On the 11th September 2019, I was at Toa
Payoh South Toastmasters Club, as project speaker. This was my 56th club visit on the
75th day of the Toastmaster year.
The Toastmaster of the Day was Flaming Chew. The timer was Alvin Ho.
Li Shan Shan, in her opening address, spoke about the
events of 9-11 and how it unfolded for her, when she was still in ITE
then. The news was shown while they were
in a lecture. She then conducted a
Pathway workshop for Base Camp managers.
Anthony Leong read out an excerpt from his fathers, “Of
Stone Beasts & Aged Widows”. It was a
complex extract, with great depth, and nuance.
There was a comparison between Peking, and Paris, about a trip to the
Forbidden City in those halcyon pre-war years, and a description of the plants
at the resting place of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, which reminded the author of the maqam
of Shaykh Abu al-Fath Ghiyats ad-Din ‘Umar ibn Ibrahim al-Khayyami an-Nishaburi
(q.s.).
My project speech was about the current kerfuffle in
Hong Kong, and as a finance professional, the challenges involved in moving
funds out of the country.
Jasmine Faith Vahdati reflected on her path, where she
enumerated dating disasters, and meandered about her Toastmaster journey.
Ler Ser Yeang spoke about childhood hunger as a
consequence of war, and conflict. She elaborated on food wastage, and cited
sources, giving numbers, and details, so that we are made aware of the scale of
this outrage. A billion metric tonnes of
food is wasted annually.
The evaluators were Emily Xin Qian, Brian Chye Bei ‘An, Gerald
Ong Wen Shun, and Ivan Lee Kuan Seng.
Best Speaker: Myself; and
Best Evaluator: Ivan Lee Kuan Seng.
There were no table topics.
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