Minutes of Meeting - 11 August 2005we

There were some different things happened in this 11 August meeting :D The first was, we didn't hold the meeting in the same room like we used to have usually. It still in Waroeng Menteng but it wasn't on the 1st floor, it was on the 2nd floor. The 2nd floor room was much bigger than the 1st one so we had more air to breath hehehehehe... Another different thing that happened was people started coming to our meeting from (around) 17.30. It had never been that way before, so early :D Thanx to our member, Anastasia T. Rahayu, TM, who had come early to the venue to assist the guests. What could the guests do without your help :D ?

The theme chosen for the night was "Stand on your own feet" and the word of the night was "Independent". We chose the theme because we were going to celebrate our independence day on 17 August. Some of the members used their "red and white" attribute, but most of the attendance didn't.

The number of the attendances we had were 37 people, consisted of 19 new visitors (guests), 15 Innovators, and 2 Toastmasters from KBI-DJP (Mien Soenari, ATMS/CL) and Metropolitan (Hani Hongo, CTM). The TOM was Hariyanto, CTM. And the GE was Tanty, ATMB, helped by her great team: Rudyanto Sutardji CTM/CL (as TT), Tunggul, TM - our new member - (as Ballot Counter), Arief Sabaruddin, CTM (as Timer), Arieta, TM (as Ah/WOD counter), and Mien Soenari, ATMS/CL (as Grammarian).

The Table Topics (TT) session was great because toastmaster Rudyanto succesfully involved all the attendances in a fun yet exciting TT game. (TIPS: Game is always a good way to involve many people especially if we have got a lot of guests). Everybody, YES! EVERYBODY were happy and satisfied. As the winner for the TT session was Hani Honggo, CTM (Damn! He was not our member hehehehehe). Congratulation and big applause to Hani Honggo, CTM.

There were 4 prepared speakers and evaluaters:
1. Marilou deAziz, TM with her BM #1, Story of my life. Evaluated by Anastasia T. Rahayu, TM
2. Gajanan, TM with his BM#1, My life. Evaluated by Samoati Siringoringo, CTM/CL
3. Netty D. Kalalo, DTM with her BM #2, Success. Evaluated by Ria Sulaeman, CTM
4. Ineke Kakisina, TM with her BM #6, Swimming lessons. Evaluated by Hani Honggo, CTM
The best prepared speaker was Ineke, TM. She delivered her speech enthusiastically, complete with her fabulous body language. The best evaluator was Samoati Siringoringo, CTM/CL.
There was another wierd but positive thing happened in this session. All the speakers showed up and delivered their speech, as well as their evaluators. No cancelation, no agenda changing, no nothing :D Everybody were there !!! Amazing!!! hehehehe... (If you have been a TOM, you will understand why I call it wierd - because it's rarely happens :D). Thanx and big applause to all the participants in prepared speech session and evaluation session :D

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A little comment about these Fantastic 4:
1. Marilou, that was an amazing disaster story. It should be a disaster story but why did we laugh? hehehehehe..BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T DELIVER IT LIKE READING NEWS (I guess) :D we enjoyed the story :D
2. Gaju (or Gaja hehehe), YOU WERE AMAZING !!! I would believe if you told me that you had joined Toastmasters for a long time :D What a tremendeous speech :D
3. Bu Netty, like ussual.... amazed us with her talent in delivering speech :D No comment for her but complimentssssssssss :D Lucky to have you as a member :D
4. Ineke > the TOM was about to put her as a hot seat because he thought we wouldn't have enough time for the 4th speaker. FORTUNATELY HE DID NOT !! She was on fire :D She showed us the different before joining Toastmasters and after joining Toastmasters :D Lucky I was there that night.
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After all the sessions, finally DTM Netty gave some information to the guest about what and how to be toastmasters.

Congratulation and welcome on board to our 5 new members:
Tony Yoewono, Tatok Sugiarto, Johnson Butar-butar, Yonni Hassan, and Achmad Zar'an.

After all, the meeting of August 11, 2005 was success. Congratulation to the TOM, Hariyanto, CTM and all his teamwork. Looking forward for the next meeting on August 25th, 2005 at new venue "Hotel Cipta".


VPPR