Meeting No - 231 Minutes

MEETING ATTENDEES:

TM Sowmya	TM Basheer
Guest Parthasarathy	TM Vijay
TM Manoj	TM Rajen
TM Rajesh V	TM Sidharth
TM Karthik	TM Janani
TM Sujith	TM Faisal
TM Thiagarajan	TM Shriram

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.

Presiding officer, TM Vijayaragavan. started the meeting #231.

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

Presiding officer, TM Vijayaragavan introduced the TMOD; TM Karthik. TM Karthik  introduced the theme 'Be the change’ and the word of the day ' Inculcate '. TM Karthik then explained the various segments in a toastmasters meeting. 

Word of the day: Inculcate

Meaning: Teach and express by frequent repetitions

Theme of the day: Be the change

10:20 A.M - GENERAL EVALUATOR INTRODUCTION

The TMOD TM Karthik then handed over the control to the General Evaluator, TM Basheer. 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 Faisal

Grammarian- TM Sidharth

10:30 A.M - PREPARED SPEECH SESSION

Prepared Speech	Project	Speaker	Speech Title
1	CC#6	TM Vijay	'Mr.Invisible'

TM Vijay started his speech by saying  that Have you ever seen one of your friend’s photo appearing in news channels and newspapers, Last December, I was watching the news I was shocked to see one of my friend and colleague Vivek photo in CNN, and NDTV. Oh my god. The new headlines read – “Techie Shot dead in Hyderabad” Vivek’s ambition was to become an IPS officer. He was toiling hard for the UPSC exams. When he failed for the second time, He was taken over by Mr invisible – who goes by the name Depression. As a result , he committed suicide. Friends, if you find one of your friends, family members with symptoms like Anxiety, Pessimism , Feeling of guilty or worthlessness, Feeling restless, difficulty concentrating , Sleeplessness ,Mood swings they need care and treatment. Mr. Invisible is not invincible. Depression can be cured. There are many ways to cure Depression like medicine, psychotherapy and other things like getting active and avoiding isolation. If not treated depression will cause problems in family, at work, it will affect the physical health of the person. In one such extreme case, an elderly couple - lost their prodigal son, a state ranker. Because no one was there to guide Vivek when it was needed, 2 sisters lost their brother; we all lost a cheerful colleague. Let’s not allow another Vivek succumbing because of depression.

Prepared Speech	Project	Speaker	Speech Title
2	ACG#3	TM Rajen Menon	'It happened one sunday'

TM  Rajen Menon started his speech by saying that we were a group of youngsters , all of us neighbors . Every Sunday we used to go for cycling. On one such day, one of the boys got lost. We were going down avenue road, where the late Anna liked the boys sister was in tears. Our group leader had a bright idea. Let’s back track. Accordingly we went back, on the way in front of Anna s house we found our lost group mate... a middle uncle was with him. He was none other than the late CM of Tamil Nadu C.N Annadurai.

TM Thiagarajan gave a demonstration.

11:00 A.M –TABLE TOPIC SESSION

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

• TM Siddarth - The media controls how and what we think.
• Guest Parthasarathy - The time is always right to do what is right
• TM Manoj - A weapon that is not used often, rusts!
• TM Shriram - Ability is nothing without opportunity

• TM Selvan - You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
• TM Faisal - Take everything you like seriously, except yourself.
• TM Sujith - Burden's become light when cheerfully borne.
• TM Janani - Peace is possible if we can inculcate it.

• TM Karthik  - Taking up captainship in team games instills leadership qualities.

11:35A.M –EVALUATION SESSION

SPEAKER	PROJECT	EVALUATOR
TM Vijay	CC#6	TM Rajesh V
TM Rajen	ACG#3	TM Selvan

TM Sujith, TM Faisal and TM Sidharth were called to share the Timer, Ah-Counter and grammarian report for the session respectively.

TM Basheer, 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

PREPARED SPEAKER	TM Vijay
EVALUATOR	TM Rajesh V
TT SPEAKER	TM Siddarth
ROLE PLAYER	TM Karthik
TAG ROLE PLAYER	TM  Siddarth

12:00 NOON – MEETING ADJOURNED

Presiding Officer adjourned the meeting to the 28th of November 2016 and invited us all for high tea.

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