MEETING ATTENDEES:
TM Sriram
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TM Selvan
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TM Vijay
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TM Jayaram
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TM Pravin
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TM Sankar
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TM Faisal
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TM Srikar
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TM Rajesh N
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TM Rajesh V
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TM Bharathi Goel
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TM Manoj A
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Guest Prahalad
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Guest Murali
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MEETING ADORNMENT
MEETING ENGAGEMENT REPORT
10:00 A.M - SAA CALLS FOR MEETING
SAA, TM Faisal, opened the meeting, explained the mission and vision of Toastmasters. TM Faisal then handed over the control to the Presiding officer TM Vijayaragavan.
10:05A.M - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Presiding officer, TM Vijayaragavan opened the meeting and started describing about KABALI fever on the weekend. Many diehard fans of Rajinikanth could not get the tickets for the coveted first day first show. The reason is there is a limited number of theatres and the demand is more. Similarly, in our country population is more and opportunities are less. Most of our youth lack certain important skills, when they graduate. As per the CII survey of group of Corporate employers - 3 out of every 4 graduates do not possess the life skills that could help them to survive the job. The toastmasters movement, and CSF as a club should be proud of helping our country bridge this gap.
With this TM Vijayaragavan started the meeting #218.
10:15 A.M - PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD
Presiding officer, TM Vijayaragavan introduced the TMOD; TM Pravin.TM Pravin introduced the theme ' LEARN, UNLEARN AND RELEARN' and the word of the day 'TRANQUIL'. TM then explained the various segments in a toastmasters meeting.
Word of the day: TRANQUIL
Meaning: Calm; Free from disturbance
Theme of the day: ‘LEARN, UNLEARN AND RELEARN’
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The TMOD, TM Pravin, then handed over the control to the General Evaluator, TM Shriram. He told that this meeting with him as general evaluator will have constructive criticism which will make us a better speaker. He then requested the TAG team, to brief the objectives of their roles.
Timer –TM Srikar
Ah Counter –TM Shanker
Grammarian –TM Jayaram
Timer –TM Srikar
Ah Counter –TM Shanker
Grammarian –TM Jayaram
10:30 A.M - PREPARED SPEECH SESSION
Prepared Speech
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Project
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Speaker
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Speech Title
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Evaluator
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1
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CC#3
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TM Faisal
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'Bionic arm’
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TM Rajesh N
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TM Faisal started his speech by explaining about bionic arm, one of the major advancements in the medical field, lending a hand to the handless and helpless amputees. It is a human made electronic, robotic hand known as prosthetics arm. Oldest form of bionic arm was used by the Ancient Egyptians. Bionic arm is a device that substitutes a loss or a defective hand which are often lost through trauma or congenital disorder. Bionic arm consist of electrodes, electronic speed controller, micro controller and motor. This is the world’s first touch sensing prosthetic arm with a least weight and compact design. He concluded his speech by saying that let’s all put our hands together and support for the progress of bionic hands!!!!
TM Manoj started his speech by saying that he is a very strong advocate of his belief and he believed that there are two types of people living in this world. One who doesn’t bother to take any risk and the second type is the one who likes taking risk. He feels that he is a part of second type and not the lazy sparrow type. There was a lazy sparrow, which heard about a beautiful place and decided to go spend its rest of the life there. Since it is very lazy to search the path, it decided to seek the help of other animals to reach the destination. The animals agreed to help provided the sparrow offers them one of its feathers as a favour. Finally, the sparrow reached its destination but realized that it has lost most of its feathers to fly. He also narrated an example from his collage life where he had a friend who secured 96%in his 12th grade. As the days passed he became more lethargic in his academics and had around 23 arrears in his 7th semester and cleared it at once in 8th semester. He concluded saying that life is like a hare and turtle race. So we should not stop when we reach the peak, since even the slowest turtle can easily overtake us.
Prepared Speech
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Project
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Speaker
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Speech Title
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Evaluator
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2
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ACS#1
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TM Manoj
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' The Restless’
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TM Selvan
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TM Manoj started his speech by saying that he is a very strong advocate of his belief and he believed that there are two types of people living in this world. One who doesn’t bother to take any risk and the second type is the one who likes taking risk. He feels that he is a part of second type and not the lazy sparrow type. There was a lazy sparrow, which heard about a beautiful place and decided to go spend its rest of the life there. Since it is very lazy to search the path, it decided to seek the help of other animals to reach the destination. The animals agreed to help provided the sparrow offers them one of its feathers as a favour. Finally, the sparrow reached its destination but realized that it has lost most of its feathers to fly. He also narrated an example from his collage life where he had a friend who secured 96%in his 12th grade. As the days passed he became more lethargic in his academics and had around 23 arrears in his 7th semester and cleared it at once in 8th semester. He concluded saying that life is like a hare and turtle race. So we should not stop when we reach the peak, since even the slowest turtle can easily overtake us.
10:50 A.M –EDUCATION SESSION
TM Vijay explained about the DCP ( Distinguished Club Points) program. In short it is a 10 point scale on which a club's quality and progress is made. A club prospers when its members grow and improve their communication and leadership skill. Then ten DCP points is a standard indication of how healthy a club is.
11:00 A.M –TABLE TOPIC SESSION
An interesting Table Topic session was conducted by TM Rajesh V. She had a variety of topics which were enjoyed by the audience. The speakers were as follows:
- TM Selvan - The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is illusion of the knowledge.
- TM Jayaram - Empty your cup so that may be filled become devoid to gain totality.
- TM Shankar - It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent but those most adoptive to change.
- Guest Prahalad - Learning is the ultimate game where you never run out of levels.
- TM Bharathi Goyal - Tell me and i forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
- TM Srikar - I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
- TM Manoj - We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,
- Guest Murali - The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
- TM Sriram - Licence, Bus stop, 30minutes
- TM Vijay - Mentor, Discipline, office
- TM Praveen - Briefcase, Apple, Washington
- TM Faisal - Robot, Time, Sand
- TM Rajesh N - Library, Girl friend, Dual
11:35 A.M – EVALUATION SESSION
SPEAKER
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PROJECT
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EVALUATOR
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TM Faisal
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CC#3
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TM Rajesh N
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TM Manoj
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ACS#4
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TM Selvan
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TM Srikar, TM Shanker and TM Jayaram were called to share the Timer, Ah-Counter and grammarian report for the session respectively.
TM Shriram, General evaluator, then shared the overall feedback of the session. He appreciated the good things in the meeting being the Energy and the meeting being conducted in a formal and structured manner and the meeting could have started a little early.
11:50 P.M – BEST PERFORMERS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
TT SPEAKER
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TM Vijay
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ROLE PLAYER
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TM Pravin
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TAG ROLE PLAYER
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TM Jayaram
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12:00 NOON – ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. A combined meeting with Chennai Communicator club planned on Aug 7
2. CSF's 225th meeting on Sep 18
3. Club humorous and evaluation speech contest on Sep 4th
4. New member Shrikar received his new member kit from Tm VIjay
12:00 NOON – MEETING ADJOURNED
Presiding Officer adjourned the meeting to the 31st of JULY 2016 and invited us all for high tea.
For any feedback/suggestions, please contact:
Supraja A
Secretary
Chennai Speakers forum
E- mail: supraja.asb@gmail.com
