Bayan Baru Toastmasters Speechcraft Graduation

On Sunday June 20, when most of us were having dinner celebrating "Happy Father's Day" or watching FIFA World Cup Paraguay vs Slovakia, Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club held a successful Speechcraft Graduation Day. These breaking news photographs, emailed out by Club President Jessica Teo, speak a thousand words. Congratulations to all.

Bayan Baru New Club Officers 2010-2011

Congratulations to the newly elected Club Officers, Committe Members and Auditors of Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club for 2010-2011 from the election held on June 3, 2010.

CLUB OFFICERS OF BAYAN BARU TOASTMASTERS CLUB
Club President: Goh Hock Hai
Vice President Education: Eileyn Chua
Vice President Membership: Teh Ghim Hong
Vice President Public Relations: Katigeyan Kalidass
Secretary: Lee Sze Kuang
Treasurer: Lau Choon Mei
Sergeant-At-Arm: Jack Ch'ng
Immediate Past President: Jessica Teo

COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Mah Swee Chin, Chew Yoon Seng, Lim Kar Ying, Terence Lee, Valyn Chong
AUDITORS: John Yeoh, Rosalind Chan

Bayan Baru Toastmasters - May 6, 2010 Club Meeting

Heartiest congratulations to Vice President Membership Eileyn Chua (left in the pic) for achieving her Competent Communicator from the Club President at this momentous meeting.

Eileyn is the 4th Competent Communicator of the Club this term. As a result, Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club has achieved 10 out of 10 DCP goals as of May 6, 2010. Wa-lah!

There were 5 project speakers - an icebreaker, a final CC project 10 and 3 advanced speeches from Technical Presentation, Persuasive Speaking and Story Telling.

For this meeting, I was the General Evaluator. Following changes were made to the standard meeting program.

1) Project speeches came first before Table Topics session. This allowed adjusting the number of Table Topics speeches according to time left and so this meeting actually ended timely.

2) General Evaluator led the entire evaluation session of the second half of the meeting instead of being led by the Toastmaster. Two heads are better than one. While the Toastmaster focused on getting the entire meeting going, the General Evaluator helped to ensure all the evaluators and coevaluators were on their toes to give their best positive helpful feedback.

3) The Time keeper, Grammarian and Ah Counter evaluated all who spoke during the meeting instead of just the Project Speakers and Table Topics Speakers. Again, everyone received their fair share of feedback on their time taken, language and any non Toastmaster-like utterances of ah, so and OK.

Division N first to achieve President's Distinguished Division Award - Heartiest Congratulations to Division N Governor Koay Kah Hin

Courtesy of DG Ritchie Chong

Breaking news! As announced in the blog of District 51 Governor Ritchie Chong, as of April 30, 2010, Division N (Penang-Kedah, Malaysia) is the first Division out of 15 Divisions in the district (Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia) to achieve the President's Distinguished Division for the year 2009-2010.


(pics: Division N Governor Koay; Division N Pin)

Heartiest congratulations to Division N Governor Koay Kah Hin. You make us in Division N and Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club proud.

Toastmasters International awards for Division level are Distinguished Division, Select Distinguished Division and the highest being the President's Distinguished Division.

Last year for the term 2008-2009, Division N did not even achieve the Distinguished Division Award. So this year for the term 2009-2010, this is a major, mega, quantum jump!

As of April 30, 2010, the total paid up clubs in Division N is 28 which is a net growth of 1 club and 5 out of 7 Areas have achieved Distinguished Area or better. The criteria for President's Distinguished Division award is a net growth of 1 club and 75% of Area achieving Distinguished Area by June 30, 2010. And Division N has done it two months ahead of time. Well done!

Hall of Fame - Division N Speech Champions - Update April 24, 2010

Division N International Speech Champion
1997 A D Ram Kumar (Area N1 - Penang, Penang)
1998 Peter Ng (Area N3 - YMCA Ipoh, Perak)
1999 Saw Chin Bin (Area N2 - MIM Penang)
2000 SL Liew (Area N1 - Butterworth, Penang)
2001 Chee Keng Kok (Area N1 - Butterworth, Penang)
2002 Saw Chin Bin (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2003 Devaraj T Mohd Deva (Area N3 - Teluk Intan)
2004 Saw Chin Bin (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2005 Chee Keng Kok (Area N1 - Butterworth, Penang)
2006 Shankar Kalianathan (Area N6 - Kulim, Kedah)
2007 Bhupinderjeet Singh (Area N5- ACM, Kedah)
2008 Asha Theva (Area N1 - Penang, Penang)
2009 Ong Swee Keat (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2010 Asha Suresh Chand (Area N6 - Oracle Advanced, Penang)




Division N Table Topics Champion
2000 Usha Devi (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2001 Suzerian Francis (Area N4 - Kulim, Kedah)
2002 Ahmed Bazari (Area N1 - Pidato Penang, Penang)
2003 Selvaraj K S Maniam (Area N3 - Batu Gajah)
2004 Audrey Cheah (Area N2 - Penang Seagate, Penang)
2005 Lee Min On (Area N1- MIA Northern Branch, Penang)
2006 Audrey Cheah (Area N1 - Penang Seagate, Penang)
2007 Edwin Hoh (Area N4 - Intel Kulim, Kedah)
2008 Foong Wai Yi (Area N4 - Silterra, Kedah)
2009 Palaniappa Subramaniam (Area N4 - Silterra, Kedah)
2010 Asha Suresh Chand (Area N6 - Oracle Advanced, Penang)




Division N Humorous Speech Champion
1997 N Ramakrishnan (Area N3 - YMCA Ipoh, Perak)
1998 N Ramakrishnan (Area N3 - YMCA Ipoh, Perak)
1999 Peter Ng (Area N3 - YMCA Ipoh, Perak)
2000 Rubiah Ahmad (Area N3 - Teluk Intan, Perak)
2001 Ong Swee Keat (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2002 Ong Swee Keat (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2003 Ahmad Bazari (Area N1 - Butterworth, Penang)
2004 Rubiah Ahmad (Area N3 - Teluk Intan, Perak)
2005 Shankar Kalainathan (Area N6 - Kulim, Kedah)
2006 Ahmad Yusry (Area N4- Siltera, Kedah)
2007 Michael Rajesh (Area N4 - Intel Kulim, Kedah)
2008 Michael Xavier (Area N2- Bayan Baru, Penang)
2009 Tan Teik Poh (Area N3 - YMCA, Penang)




Division N Evaluation Champion
1999 Varpal Singh (Area N3 - Taiping)
2000 ?
2001 ?
2002 ?
2003 Chee Keng Kok (Area N2 - Butterworth, Penang)
2004 Sue Chan (Area N6 - Seberang Jaya, Penang)
2005 S Palaniappa (Area N6 - Siltera, Kedah)
2006 Bhupinderjeet Singh (Area N5 - ACM)
2007 SL Liew (Area N2 - Bayan Baru, Penang)
2008 Audrey Cheah (N6 - Penang Seagate)
2009 Asha Suresh Chand (N6 - Oracle Advanced)

Best Division Newsletter and Best Club Website

Heartiest congratulations to Division N, Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club and all the other winners. Announced Results from District 51 Official Website:

BEST NEWSLETTER - AREA / DIVISION LEVEL
Division S
Chief Editor: Johnson Tang, CC, ALS
Editors: Yoon Peng Yew, ACG, CL & Charles Tan, DTM, Celine Choy, CC & Justin Manikam & Lim Khee Seong, CC, CL
Division Governor: Lim Seow Hoe, ACS, CL

Division N
Editor: John Yeoh, ACS, CL
Division Governor: Koay Kah Hin, ACB, ALS


BEST WEBSITE - CLUB LEVEL
Tawau Toastmasters Club (Area K2)
Webmaster: Lee Chye Ewe, DTM
Website: http://tmtawau.blogspot.com
Club President: Rosslin Peter Rosen, ACB, CL

Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club (Area N2)
Webmaster: John Ung Soon Hock, CC
Website: http://www.bbtmc.org
Club President: Jessica Teo Siew Foon, ACB, CL

MEF Toastmasters Club (Area S8)
Webmaster: Kenny Lee, CC, ALB & Celine Choy, CC
Website: http://www.MEF-TMC.blogspot.com
Club President: Kenny Lee, CC, ALB

Toastmasters CC, ACB Pins and Ribbons

Wonderful photos of pins and ribbons of Competent Toastmaster and Advanced Communicator Bronze taken by Bayan Baru Club President Jessica Teo. The club bought these original items from Toastmasters International World Headquarters in California and dished them out to club members who have achieved these educational awards. One more reason to be a member of Bayan Baru Toastmasters, Penang Island, Malaysia.

District 51 to spin off a new District 87 and belong to Region 14

A bit history. Back in 1993, District 51 started with Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. Later, Hong Kong, Brunei and Macao joined. Then in 2004, a new District 80 was created for Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macao.

And as of July 1, 2010, another new District 87 will be created for Indonesia, Brunei, Sarawak, Sabah and Labuan.

Also Hong Kong and Macau will be moved from District 80 (Singapore, Thailand) to District 85 (China, Hong Kong, Macau).

District 51 will then cover just Toastmasters Clubs in Peninsular Malaysia.

All 83 Districts worlwide will be divided into 14 Regions. District 51 will be in Region 14.

Region 14 (effective July 1, 2010)
- District 51 - Peninsular Malaysia
- District 75 - Philippines
- District 80 - Singapore, Thailand
- District 87 - Indonesia, Brunei, Sarawak-Sabah-Labuan

Congratulations Bayan Baru Achieving President's Distinguished Club 2009-2010

I attended tonight's meeting on April 15 Thursday night at PSDC, Penang island where Jack Ch'ng and Lim Kar Ying completed their project 10 to achieve Competent Communicator and Club President Jessica Teo and Division N Governor Koay Kah Hin completed their 10th Advanced Project speech to achieve their Advanced Communicator Bronze. As a result, Bayan Baru Toastmasters Club has achieved 9 DCP goals to become a President's Distinguished Club again for year 2009-2010. Congratulations to all members of Bayan Baru Toastmasters.

Results of N2 Area International Speech and Table Topics Contest 2010

Just received email news from Bayan Baru Club President Jessica Teo on the results of the Area N2 Speech contests held jointly with Area N6 at Altera, Penang today.

The results are:

Area N2 International Speech Contest 2010
Champion : Chong Shih Jun - Intel Penang
1st runner-up: Ong Swee Keat - Bayan Baru

Area N2 Table Topics Speech Contest 2010
Champion: Jerry Low Weng Hai - Intel Penang
1st runner-up: Pavaani Thannimalai - Intel Penang