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NEWSLETTER OF MANAMA TOASTMASTERS CLUB. CLUB 2916, DISTRICT 20
October 2014
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Toastmasters International Updates
Planning a Speech Contest? Ensure
your contest is a success and
contestants are eligible to compete
by using the most up-to-date
documents. Download the
latest speech contest materials for
free, and consider purchasing and
presenting awards to celebrate
contest winners' accomplishments.
Speech Contest Rulebook Update New
versions of the Speech Contest
Rulebook will now coincide with the
Toastmasters program year. The next
version goes into effect July 1, 2015,
and the 2014 version is valid until
then. The rulebook will be included in
the May club officer mailing; clubs
will not receive one in October, as
was done previously.
Happy 90th Birthday
Toastmasters
International! The first
official Toastmasters
meeting was held in
October 1924 in Santa
Ana, California.
Why not celebrate the organization's
milestone with a themed club
meeting devoted to Toastmasters'
history? Check out the 90th
Anniversary webpage for fun
resources to use throughout the
anniversary year.
Coming Soon: The New Toastmasters.org
Stay tuned for announcements on the debut of our new, sleek website.
The redesign will provide easier navigation, interactive multimedia, a
resource library and a new online store.
New Accredited Speaker
Congratulations Barbara Khozam of Escondido, California, for achieving
the Accredited Speaker designation at the International Convention in
August. Accredited Speaker is an elite designation signifying mastery of
professional speaking techniques. Applications for the 2015 program will
be accepted between January 1 and February 1.
Toastmasters International Updates
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Grateful thanks
to contributors:
TM Khalid AlQoud
DTM Kishore Babu
TM Avneesh Mishra
25Manama Toastmasters 50th
Anniversary Celebrations
2Toastmasters International Updates
Speeches
5From the desk of the President
7Editorial
8Education Program – Leadership Development
Contents
10Club Meetings
20Words of the Month
23Birthday Celebrants
21The Journey
The celebration continues as Manama
Toastmasters celebrates its 50th Anniversary.
For further details, turn to page 25
18Stage Breaker
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From the desk of The President
Khalid Amin
President
Self-expression is as vital to human beings as breathing. It is how
we interact with others and the world. It can be supremely fulfilling
or irritably frustrating. Self-expression could take place through
communication, body language or even artwork!
Aren’t we Toastmasters a lucky group of individuals? Don’t we
practice all that and even more? We practice communication in
and outside our meetings! When you smile to a fellow Toastmaster
or a guest in our meeting you are simply practicing self-expression!
You are truly expressing your inner self!
When you give a speech, you are presenting and sharing with your
fellow Toastmasters and guests a piece of art that you yourself have
created!
In Toastmasters, we also practice leadership skills and self-
expression which is also vital for leadership.
To be able to lead one must have the ability to self-express clearly.
No wonder we consider our founder, Dr Ralph C. Smedley to be a
genius. He is the one who said: Self-expression is one of the
first steps toward leadership. Sometimes an individual
gets hold of an idea, and shapes his/her whole life!
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…. and the role of
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Sometimes we don't even think about how we express our inner
reality to those outside. It just happens naturally. At other times,
we may strive to express something and disappointedly fall short of
what we meant to get across.
Isn’t that also another of the difficulties that Toastmasters helps us
to overcome? Whatever issue we may have with self-expression can
be clarified and harmonized with the support of our fellow
Toastmasters!
We joined Toastmasters hoping to improve our communication
skills, but it may take some of us some time to find out that that in
reality, the benefits go beyond this one goal! To quote our founder
again: While most of us may have entered Toastmasters
to learn to make speeches, that benefit is but the
beginning of the good which may come to us, and the
good which we may do for mankind!
Editorial
Chris Noronha
VP Public Relations
People always say it’s good to put “your feelings into words.” But is it
true? If you are anxious, scared, or worried about something, is it
really going to make you feel better to dwell on this anxiety by
speaking or writing about it? The answer, it turns out, is yes. New
research published shows quite clearly that, when it comes to the
phobias we have, simply talking about them helps curb negative
responses to what we fear.
Verbalizing our anxieties seems to help us manage our behaviour.
This is true whether we are trying to get over our fear of insects or
giving a speech in front of a live audience.
One of the hardest things to do when communicating with someone
is expressing yourself. How many times have you said something that
just didn’t come out the way you wanted it to? Some people have a
fear of expressing themselves. They are afraid to say something that
might cost them a friendship and as a result they bottle everything up
tight and seize up at the mere thought of sharing their true emotions.
Be yourself. Even though you are consciously trying to be more
expressive, it does not mean that you have to act like a totally
different person.
When we express ourselves, we are creative which in turn helps us to
achieve our goals more effectively. It leads us to new pathways and
“Find yourself and express yourself in
your own particular way. Life is nothing
but a dream, and if you create your life
with love your dream becomes a masterpiece of art ― Don Miguel
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believe me, you will hardly
believe what you find out
about yourself. An ideal way
of venting and finding
yourself. What more could
you ask for?
Here are some tips :
Evaluate Interest –
Find out each member’s needs and goals so you can help them reach
their objectives. The Member Interest Survey (Item 403) is a useful tool
for accomplishing this. Base the focus of your club’s educational program
on the results of your search.
Analyse Reasons For Missed Meetings –
• Are members missing meetings because of their time or location? If
other members agree, consider adjusting the time or location of your
meetings.
• Do meetings run too long? A shorter program might encourage
attendance.
• Do members have enough opportunity for participation? Try a rotation
method that allows everyone a chance to fulfill all meeting roles.
Nurture Potential Non-Renewals –
Once members reach their original goals, suggest new ones, such as the
advanced communication and leadership tracks. Are members “burned
out” from fulfilling too many meeting roles? Lighten the load as needed.
Part 4 of a 4 Part Series
Leadership Development
Educational Program
Back to the basics of Membership Retention
You’ve attracted members, but how do you
retain them?
The first thing to know is why each member
joined. What were the intentions and goals of
each person? If you don’t know, it’s time to
ask. After all, you can’t actively retain
members if you don’t know why they joined
in the first place.
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Educational Program
Despite your best intentions, members will leave. Members leave
Toastmasters for a variety of reasons; it’s important to find out why.
Here are some of the most common reasons members leave their clubs,
along with suggestions for how to encourage them to stay.
• Too many other commitmentsSuggest a break to take care of
commitments. Check back with them in a few months to see if they are
able to come back.
• Inconvenient meeting timeThis might also be the case for other
members. Take a poll to find out if another time works better. If not,
suggest the web page www.toastmasters.org/find to find a club with a
more convenient meeting time.
• Pressure to work too quicklyRemember that Toastmasters
programs are self-paced. It is important to encourage members while
allowing them to work at their own pace.
• RelocationWhen members move away, wish them well and suggest
they visit www.toastmasters.org/find to look for clubs close to their new
homes.
The aim is to fulfill members’ needs. When members know how to
succeed within their club or district, membership retention increases.
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Master of Ceremonies
TM Hannah Karanja
Theme : Ideal Jobs We’ve Never HadTM Hannah Karanja
Educational Session By
TM Claire CosgroveTM Khalid Amin
Best Commentator – TM Majeed Dhaif
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Club Meetings
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Master of Ceremonies
TM Somaya Al Jowder
TM Somaya Al Jowder
DTM
Joel
Indrupati
DTM
Kishore
Babu
Guests At The Meeting
Club Meetings
Theme : Wisdom Of The Ages
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Best Speaker –
DTM Joel Indrupati
Club Meetings
Best Table Topic
Commentator –
TM Edmore Mleya
Best Evaluator –
TM Hannah Karanja
continued…..
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Theme : Think Pink For OctoberDTM Khalid Al Qoud
TM Claire Cosgrove
Evaluators DTM Kishore Babu and TM Tanaji Ahmed
Club Meetings
Master of Ceremonies DTM Khalid Al Qoud
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TM Tosin Arowojolu
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Best Commentator –
TM Victoria Cox
Best Evaluators –
DTM Kishore Babu
and TM Tanaji
Ahmed
Club Meetings
Best Speaker – TM
Tosin and TM Claire
( A Tie)
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Theme : The World Of BooksDTM Kishore Babu
TM Edmore MleyaTM Rashid Maymoon
General Evaluator TM Amina Al Hajeri
Club Meetings
Master of Ceremonies DTM Kishore Babu
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Jokemaster TM Khalid Amin
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Best Speaker TM Edmore Mleya
Club Meetings
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Best Evaluator TM Claire Cosgrove
A guest nabs the Award for Best Commentator
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Ice Breaker Speech
“Next is Kishore Babu of 4th Standard.”The crowd turned their heads. I rose from the chair and paced slowly tothe stage, climbed up with the help of a teacher..Held the microphonestand like a pro..looked at the crowd..and began..
Respected Teachers, my dear friends, Good Morning..Today I am goingto talk about..About..About..I went blank..blind. fell on the stage..cracking the stage..the microphonestand on top of me..When I opened my eyes I was lying on a bench with my classmates andteachers around..
That was my first speech..I was born in a village near Kannur, in Keralain a communist family. Naturally, Inquilab Zindabad was the first thingI must have said as a kid because every one says that...though we didnot know what it meant those days. Our village was so remote we didn’thave electricity. In fact in my house we got power connection only in1985.
I never buckled my shoes, I never went up the hill to fetch any pail ofwater..Yes, Nursery rhymes were something I heard when my son wentto kindergarten. We never had or never heard anything calledkindergarten those days.. At the age of 6 we went to 1st standard. Nouniforms..no shoes..we walked barefoot to school wading throughknee-deep water in the paddy fields.
DTM Kishore Babu
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Ice Breaker Speech
Our house was near the railway track. Every 30 minutes or so a trainwould pass by..There would be tremors when the train passes by, andgradually the floor of the front room cracked and every two or threeyears we had to repair the floor. We were so used to trains that ourroutines were linked to the trains. Parasuram has gone. I have to go towork. Jayanti is coming. Its 10.30. In our house, dinner was served onlyafter the Cochin Express passed at around 8.45. If the train ran late weate late. Imagine if that train didn’t run that day!
The high school was 7kms away and I used to walk all the way, becausethere was no bus on that route. I was a good student and scored goodmarks but when I went to college I felt learning mathematics was awaste of time. Algebra, calculus, trigonometry..They are still Greek tome.
My first job was in a bank. A dream job those days. But in my case itwas a disaster. Big ledgers, Bank book, cash book etc etc..My job was toenter the daily collection using the calculator. But, every time I totalled,I used to get a different figure. Six months later I resigned and set off toMadras, the big city. After a year I got into a company called KenyonEckardt, the 15th biggest Advertising Agency in the world as a Visualizeand very soon became one of the Art Directors. After seven years, Iwanted to set up my own agency but soon realized that financemanagement was not my cup of tea. May be it could have beenattributed to my super skills in mathematics. I closed shop and went towork again..
But, all along I was like a hermit crab, hiding in my shell, with nointeraction with the outside world. but Toastmasters has helped me tosee a new light. However, I still remember the first day I came toManama Toastmasters. When I was asked to introduce myself, I wassweating and my knees wobbled. During the break, I just slipped outand went home, only to come back after a gap of three months as facinga gathering and saying three words was a monumental task for me, buttoday, here I am and guess what, you are listening to me!
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ColourNoun
Meaning :
Property possessed by an object as a result of theway it reflects or emits light.Example :
The lights flickered and changed colour.
CulminateVerb
Meaning :
To reach the highest point or degree.Example :
Hours of hard work culminated in a fruitfulmeeting.
FamiliarityNoun
Meaning :
Close acquaintance with or knowledge ofsomething.Example :
His familiarity with the works of Thomas Hardy.
Words Of The Month
IlluminateVerb
Meaning :
To light up, to enlighten intellectually or spiritually.Example :
A flash of lightning illuminated the house.
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Ice Breaker Speech
I am not frozen and shivering because I have a fear of public
speaking….it’s the ice in my mind that’s not yet broken.
Thank you … I know I could count on you Toastmasters who will go to
any extent to comfort & encourage their fellow Toastmaster by even
laughing at such pathetic physical humor. Now that the ice is broken let
me tell you one more thing. A study has shown that people often smile
when they are frustrated. Look at VP Education who is already smiling
and I haven’t even begun my speech.
Master of Ceremonies, Mr. President, fellow Toastmasters and guests,
there is a small town in India ….Well, there are many small towns in
India but this one is very close to my heart because 51 years ago I was
in that town as the youngest of 4 siblings. Financially - we had enough
for our needs, though not enough for my greed. My father was a teacher
and my mother a social worker. Strangely the town was called
MusafirKhana. Musafir means traveller and khana means abode. So,
Traveler’s Abode. Quite unlike its name, never did any traveller come to
this place seeking abode. Not even did Columbus land there by mistake.
Musafirkhana has another meaning – waiting room. That probably
defines the place more aptly because, to me, it appeared that life had
been waiting there forever - waiting ….to be lived..
TM Avneesh Mishra
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Ice Breaker Speech
I grew up in that place with another 5000 of its inhabitants - about a
1000 females, 1000 males and the rest were cattle and dogs. Yes, we
had more of them than us. But we all co-habited in peace and
tranquility. The town was quite backward. The primary school that I
attended had no desks and chairs and so we sat on the ground on mats.
No electricity, no running tap water. In the name of healthcare we had
a dilapidated government clinic and a few quacks. Despite all this
backwardness, we were a very liberal society. Men walked hand-in-
hand with other men, arms thrown around one another’s shoulders and
also around the waist and yet nobody raised an eyebrow. Women did
the same and more. Nobody raised an eyebrow. We were very liberal,
you see and happy. I guess that’s why our population could never catch
up with that of the cattle and dogs.
17 years of my life in a town like that made me tough and my resolves
tougher. So, when I left home to join an Engineering college to stand on
my own two feet, they didn’t tremble. While on one hand there was
sadness to leave my friends behind, on the other there was excitement
to make new ones. While on one hand there was sadness due to leaving
my family that loved me unconditionally, on the other there were my
dreams that I loved unconditionally. That was just the beginning of a
long journey of a village bumpkin who, on a personal front now, has a
beautiful wife and two loving, grown up children and who on the
professional front heads a company. I may not have achieved all my
dreams but I certainly enjoyed this journey of fulfilling them. Even as I
stand here in front of you with some more dreams to fulfill, I am still
enjoying the journey and my feet aren’t trembling.
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DTM KhalidAl Qoud
06 October
TM May Abdul Aziz12 October
Birthday Celebrants
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DTM Vijay Boloor
23 October
Birthday Celebrants
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TM Chris Noronha
12 October
Manama Toastmasters 50th Anniversary Celebrations
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For further details : https://www.facebook.com/speechchefs
Register here : tinyurl.com/speechchefs
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Why COMPLICATE Life?
Missing somebody? …… Call
Want to meet up? …… Invite
Want to be understood? …… Explain
Have questions? …… Ask
Don’t like something? …… Say it
Like something? …… State it
Love someone? …… Tell it
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.We hope this newsletter has been informative and helpful. Do let us know what you enjoyed
and what you would like to see in future issues.
Contact the Editor on mtmbahrain@gmail.com
Executive Committee : June to December 2014
Khalid Amin
President
Edmore Mleya
VP Education
Rashid Maymoon
VP Membership
Chris Noronha
VP Public Relations
Tanaji Ahmed
Secretary
Laxman S. Rathore
Treasurer
Ammar Madan
Sgt. At. Arms
Abraham Joseph
Librarian
Sub-
Committees
Education TM Khalid AlQoudDTM Kishore Babu
Membership TM Hannah KaranjaTM Amina Al Hajiri
Public Relations TM Hannah KaranjaTM Sumaya Al JowderTM Claire Cosgrove
Secretary TM Claire Cosgrove
Treasurer TM Tom Oomen TM Claire CosgroveTM Mohd. Farhan
Sgt-At-Arms
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• Toastmasters International affiliated.
• Formed in Bahrain in 1964
• Helps you become confident and comfortable
in speaking to an audience.
• Improves communication & leadership skills.
• Cordial & friendly atmosphere.
For further details please visit,www.manamatoastmasters.orgwww.manamatoastmasters.blogspot.com
Toastmasters International
• Non-profit Organization.
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For further details please visit,
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Visit
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