Meeting No - 216 Minutes

MEETING ATTENDEES:

TM Selvan	TM Anand Narayanan
TM Prasana	TM Vivek
TM Sujith	TM Rajesh Velpandian
Guest Vivekanand	TM Vijay
TM Shankar Narayanan	TM Shriram
TM Sakshi	TM Karthikeyan
TM Sidharth	TM Supraja

MEETING ADORNMENT

MEETING ENGAGEMENT REPORT

10:00 A.M - SAA CALLS FOR MEETING

SAA, TM Sriram, opened the meeting, explained the mission and vision of Toastmasters. TM Sriram then handed over the control to the Presiding officer TM Vijayaragavan.

10:05A.M - PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Presiding officer, TM Vijayaragavan shared with us an interesting story about a successful person. A terrible accident occurred, a six year old boy lost his family and after that his aunt took care of him. He spent all his summer vacations working as a salesperson in a textile shop in Coimbatore. He came out with flying colors in his 12^th grade, joined the top most engineering college in the state and entered into an M.N.C company and became a successful person in life. With this TM Vijayaragavan started the meeting #216 by saying ' THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO INVENT IT'.

10:15 A.M - PRESIDING OFFICER INTRODUCED THE TMOD

Presiding officer, TM Vijayaragavan introduced the TMOD; TM Sidharth.TM Sidharth introduced the theme ' THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO INVENT IT ' and the word of the day 'CONSPICUOUS'. TM Sidharth then explained the various segments in a toastmasters meeting.

Word of the day: CONSPICUOUS

Meaning: Obvious to the eye or mind

Theme of the day: The best way to predict the future is to invent it

10:20 A.M - GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION

The TMOD, TM Sidharth, then handed over the control to the General Evaluator, TM Anand Narayanan. 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 Sujith

Ah Counter- TM Shriram

Grammarian- TM Rajesh V

10:30 A.M - PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

Prepared Speech	Project	Speaker	Speech Title	Evaluator
1	CC#4	TM Prasana	'Redefining moments’	TM Karthikeyan

TM PRASANA started his speech by sharing with us about two redefining moments in life... There was a girl who was a day dreamer and an imaginative person. She comes from a empty-handed family and started to work in a barber shop. Once a film director came to the shop for a hair cut and pointed out at her saying that she was beautiful and she was brimming with joy. He made a casual remark but it created a great impact in her. She approached the director for a chance to act and finally became a famous Swedish actress. He also came up with another story of a thief who was caught by the cops for his mischief. He was in his unconscious state during the investigation and he was told that he was dead. But he recollected the half a sentence “Amadeus toes are inverted in nature” uttered by an old man.  He responded to the investigation that he hasn’t committed any mistake and he was freed. He thanked the old man and he was transformed into a new person. In both the cases, they were redefining moments.

Prepared Speech	Project	Speaker	Speech Title	Evaluator
2	CC#4	TM Vijay	'Lessons from the agenda’	TM Vivek

TM Vijay started his speech by saying that it was in January, one fine Saturday at 7pm, he went to a corner Xerox shop to take photocopies of agenda. The shop owner, Tamizh provides high quality products with low cost and often the place was crowded. He owns a 2BH flat with 20 Sovran’s of gold and a happy family. When he enquired about Tamizh’s history, he came to know that he was an alcoholic addict 10 years ago. One night after consuming alcohol, he mistook Perungalathur railway station to be his house and slept there. His family left him and resided in their native place. Finally he convinced his family and promised that he will not drink. 10 years had passed and he still lives up to his promise. He concluded by saying that it’s okay even if you fail in life, you can still do it.

11:00 A.M –TABLE TOPIC SESSION

An interesting Table Topic session was conducted by TM Sakshi. She had a variety of topics which were enjoyed by the audience. The speakers were as follows:

	TT SPEAKER	TOPIC
1	TM Shriram	Breathe in the future and breathe out the past.
2	Guest Vivekanand	Sleepless and dream more.
3	TM Selvan	Your future is as bright as your faith.
4	TM Supraja	Take a chance and don’t look back.
5	TM Shankar Narayanan	Always believe the best is yet o come.
6	TM Vivek	You’re born to be real and not perfect.
7	TM Rajesh V	Love is the master key that opens the gate of success.
8	TM Anand	Once a person is determined to help themselves there is nothing that can stop.
9	TM Sujith	May be its not about the happy ending, it’s about the story.
10	TM Karthikeyan	Leading means running fast to keep ahead of the people.
11	TM Vijay	Stars cannot shine without darkness.
12	TM Prasana	Nothing ever happens like you imagined it will.
13	TM Sidharth	Sometimes you will never know the value of a minute until it becomes a memory.

                                                                                   

 11:35 A.M – EVALUATION SESSION

SPEAKER	PROJECT	EVALUATOR
TM Prasana	CC#4	TM Karthikeyan
TM Vijay	CC#4	TM Vivek

TM Sujith, TM Shriram and TM Rajesh V were called to share the Timer, Ah-Counter and grammarian report for the session respectively.

TM Anand, 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	TM SELVAN
ROLE PLAYER	TM ANAND
TAG ROLE PLAYER	TM RAJESH V

11:55 P.M – Moments of Truth (MOT)

DTM Karthikeyan, conducted the MOT in order to achieve the clubs goal.

12:00 NOON – MEETING ADJOURNED

Presiding Officer adjourned the meeting to the 17th of JULY2016 and invited us all for high tea.

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Supraja A

Secretary

Chennai Speakers forum

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