"A New Beginning" on a "A Special Day"

080808, a special day for many people around the world; many couples chose that date to walk down the aisle, and many chose to stay home waiting for China Olympic Opening. And, most importantly 080808 also marked a special beginning for Vistana Toastmasters Club. Besides having the meeting on this special day, the meeting started at 8.08pm, we have 8 attendee (many stayed at home for Olympic Opening Ceremony), and 8 table topic speakers.

Although there were only 8 persons attending the meeting, but 'SIZE DID NOT MATTER', the number of attendee did not weaken the 'chemistry' of the meeting. It started with our Madam President, Toastmaster Sarimah sharing her 'Secret', a book that she read recently, Table Topic Master, Ainul turned all of us into Sportsmen and Sportswomen in Olympic by her topics all related to Olympic games. It ended with wonderful evaluation session conducted by our honourable guest from KL, CTM Parasakti.

So? What's so special about the meeting? First of all, we had all our exco members dressed formally that evening for our second purpose; that was to launch our new implementations to improve club performance and enhance learning curve of members and guest.

After all the effort from the team of Vistana Toastmasters Club and guidance from Klang Valley members, we are glad that we see positive results in membership strength and meeting quality. On 8 August 2008, 8.08pm, we officially announced few changes that we would like to implement in Vistana Toastmasters Club, it might be common things that other strong clubs doing all the time, but over here we could not due to our membership strength in the past.

The new implementations including the launching of:

No. 1: Mentoring Program,

No. 2: in order to improve meeting quality, we formalized of Role Players' duties and responsibilities, meeting roster for members to pre-plan speaking slots and roles; and theme for every meeting to add varieties to spice up meeting ambient.

No. 3: club website as a place for Vistana Toastmasters to share our Toastmaster-ing experience and nametag to increase the sense of belonging.

080808, a brand new beginning to Vistana Toastmasters Club, and this new beginning will mark new challenges for us here to make Vistana Toastmasters Club a better club. A place we learn, we share, we enjoy and we proud of.



Pohlin
TME for 080808
Vice President of Education

A New Beginning

The Chinese believes that the number 8 will bring you luck, lots of luck. Well, we at Vistana believe that too, that's why we had our 08.08.08 meeting themed as 'A new beginning'.

And yes, what a new beginning it was. But i'll let the pictures speak for themselves first... more report after the break guys!... Stay tune to this blog aite!