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Meeting Minutes Feb01 2012 |
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Written by Coco
Theme of the Meeting: ROOTS
Our first meeting after the big Chinese New Year festival holiday was really very light-hearted. Like our former VPE Joyce, in her fresh red coat, said during the greeting session, most of us had spent the whole holiday eating and sleeping. Many of you may still be recovering from the after holiday symptoms. We Chicers felt lazy and soft as you in the first working week after holiday, but I believe many of us at the meeting (me a good example) felt reenergized after the meeting.
Tim was the role-model of February 1 meeting of Chic Toastmasters. He dressed handsome as usual. Yet this time, he was especially responsible, and made extra efforts to perform the role as the Toastmaster. He spoke to the guests voluntarily, asked the role-takers about their hometowns before the meeting and made the introduction of role-takers very personal and closely related to the theme. His body language also was more influential.
Our president Hubert was not at the meeting. Always-passionate-Gale was the ready backup, to open the meeting and arrange an extra and quite unique prepared speech and this had made the meeting very special, funny and educational. What’s more, Gale didn't lose any chances to show his care about others. This time, he asked Liu Xia to take the challenge to evaluate the very special prepared speech by TI's 1995 World Champion, David Nottage's speech, Get up. What a brave girl, Liu Xia. You are very relaxed and confident when evaluating the world champion.
Holiday seemed a good time of reflection. Two prepared speeches, Yi's Let this Journey Never Ends and Dancy's How to Keep Positive, were both very thought-provoking. Yi's narration of her life was plain in language and delivery, like heart-to-heart talk between two friends, but we still could feel her way of striving for a better life and self-improvement. Dancy tried something new, on the other hand – a box of chocolate, to introduce the topic. With this, the audience couldn't refuse to come out of Yi’s journey and be attracted to a new personality, sweet and gently enthusiastic Dancy. Congratulations to Dancy on another Best Prepared Speaker award!
Funniest part is the table topic session, when Lorraine volunteered to come to the stage. She was aggressive. Instead of choosing a number herself, she asked Coco to choose one for her. So interaction between these two people carried on, until those words came out of Lorraine's mouth, "OK, suppose you are my husband" "I will not divorce you, I love you." Pity on Lorraine, the most difficult question. A woman in a foreign country married to a foreigner, who can't communicate with anyone around her because of language... Surprise is the miserable story Coco came up with became funny and interesting when dealt with by Lorraine. Finally, the happy ending - Coco, supported by a devoted and confident woman, “his” fictional wife Lorraine, won the Best Humor award!
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MEETING MINUTES JAN18, 2012 |
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Written by Coco
Theme of the Meeting: Young as Spring
We were just a few days away from Spring Festival holiday. While we were busy packing for our big family reunion of the year, Chicers still gathered on the regular meeting day to hold the last meeting of Chinese lunar year 2011.
January 18th meeting of CHIC Toastmasters features the efforts by officers and support by role-takers and members. Hubert was highly conscious of Chinese Spring Festival. The opening by him was still warmed up by greetings between participants, after which we found most members and guests prefer the festival regards 恭喜发财 better. Gale, our tireless VPE, today brought us a new resolution again, to speak English no matter during the meeting or the break. That's really a good appeal. He was loving person as usual too. As Vivian was leaving us for PhD study in Britain for at least one year. He lighted a small beautiful candle and recited a poem written by him to Vivian. It's really a wonder a person can be so relentless in both striving for improvement and caring for others.
Tim dressed still very handsome for the meeting, but the color was a little different, purple (kind of), which our TTE Xiuhua kindly reminded is perhaps the gay color in certain countries. Yet, seems Tim is going to have his honeymoon next year, so...haha. Ninan, long time no see. You've really done a good speech, especially considering this is your ice breaker speech and you just got your topic one day before the meeting. You were not shy at all on the stage.
TTM Lorraine arrived at the meeting venue just on time. Still, it's a happy surprise to see her at the back of the classroom, smiling very confidently, ready to go on the stage and announce her very tricky topics. This time, Lorraine, you succeeded in dragging all the table topic speakers into your scenario. All of them were so obsessed with thinking hard and weaving those little funny stories in the forest. We were enjoying the moment when people got cute and lovely by trying that hard.
We probably thought Lorraine created a difficult situation for Xiuhua to evaluate the session. For the topics for most of the time were kept as secrets from the audience. Still Xiuhua did a wonderful job. She won the Best Evaluator. (Aurally I thought she should be the most powerful woman at this meeting.)
The last meeting of Chinese lunar year 2011, we still kept our meeting very uniquely CHIC. Joke-master was here done by Jon. He really worked very sincerely for this special Chic role, by collecting all funny and shining points during the meeting and frequently using them in his unique personal story. He even got underwear as his prop. What a thought.
After the meeting, we had a very exclusive picture with elegant, beautiful Vivian Xu. Some officers were already planning for the work after the holiday (and we especially recommend you to attend Toastmasters Spring Conference in Hangzhou), but after all, let’s get relaxed and enjoy our new year holiday first. 各位，预祝新年快乐啦！
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MEETING MINUTES JAN11, 2012 |
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Written by Alpha
Theme of the Meeting: Patience
What a wonderful meeting! It was very cold outside, but our meeting room is packed with hot members and guests, around 40 people, We had a lot of fun!
Our first time toastmasters Andrew started meeting with two interesting stories and conveyed a very good message “ how patience works in the current fast and stressful society”. Nicely done, Andrew! Jon, Xiuhua and Yolanda delivered their prepared speeches full of creativity, humor and imagination. If you missed out these speeches, I strongly suggest you checking videos on our website. Congratulations to Jon, Xiuhua and Yolanda for leveling up in the CC journey!
Our prepared speeches evaluators “got a new husband” Jennifer, “knowledgeable with glasses” Vivian Li and “fashion icon” Tim delivered their encouraging and helpful evaluations to our prepared speakers. Thank you very much!
Michael hosted table topic session creatively by asking everyone writing down a question and name and select question randomly. It was a lot fun! TTE Dancy delivered an very detailed evaluation which helps TTM and participants a lot. Dancy has been very active recently which probably explains why she has made a lot improvement. This also applies on our Timer Ninan and Ah-counter Derek. Great improvements and keep up the good work!
It was a great Wednesday evening will be remembered for a long time and hope to see in the next meetings!
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MEETING MINUTES JAN4, 2012 |
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Written by Xiuhua
Theme of the Meeting: Job-hopping
Good time is always too short, another two hours of laughter and fun.
Highlights of the night:
- Very well-prepared speeches
If you were not that, you miss the excited story of how Lisa and Ivy watch the world- famous musical “ Notre Dame de Paris” with an obviously wrong ticket which still cost 300 RMB after hard bargaining with the scalper（黄牛）;
You miss the chance to hear the how Tim tailor-makes a job for himself and brands himself into a “fashion specialist” in a foreign country within 3 months.
You miss it.
- “Over-qualified” guests
Who are the “best table topic” and “most humorous” of the night? Our guests! More and more elites from the financial sector and multi-lingua are checking our club recently. We are facing the challenge of diversities! Let’s take Jeff as an example: he starts his conversation with Dan with “hi pretty girl!” and had to end up with a very upset “ Sa yo na laさよなら” after getting fluent Japanese reply from Dan to his flirt. 多么失败的人生…
- Insightful evaluations
Just note who are in the team: Jennifer, Gale, Andrew. It is just an art to give good evaluations.
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meeting minutes dec28, 2011 |
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Written by Coco
Creativity never ends. December 28 meeting of CHIC Toastmasters was abundant with crazy weird ideas.
A lot of little creative things produced by our members: First, the opening of Hubert, video, light off, black, quiet, like we were in a movie theatre, after that, shaking hands, hugging, high ten, very good exercise to warm up the atmosphere. Then, the agenda, CHIC vision, mission and the ad for our coming birthday party, thank you, Dancy and Gale. When the meeting finally started, it’s Rita’s music for signaling that time is up, then, Vivian’s game for the table topic session and the very creative gift, sunflower pillow from 失恋三十三天, and Joyce, the GE, acting like a director, with red hat and sunglasses to add a lot of fun while taking charge of the whole evaluation team… this list just goes on.
Coco finally had her day today. Best prepared speaker, Best humor. Award day for Coco to quickly make the harvest of all previous hard work. Thanks to the audience. But she could have been more confident on the stage if the real love expert, our guest from 世纪佳缘, Melody (not the one in the club), was not in the room.
Gale was an ambitious and diligent guy. His problem was not only his, we all want to talk with beautiful girls or handsome boys fluently, that’s a big reason why we came to CHIC. Yet, Gale succeeded in turning all the casual desires and small wishes into really serious business. To be always so devoted and hard working is not simple.
Tim has finally been appearing in the meeting regularly. Humor was a piece of cake for him. With his easy character and wonderful language (We love native speakers…), we all were led into reflection on our CHIC journey. Thanks from CHIC to Tim for using the theme “Resolutions” to lead us all think how important CHIC is in our life.
Hubert was repeating his role as open-chair, speech coach and president, again today. Same with Cecelia, who was doing Ah-counte, he has always been very modest and selfless to serve others. Now, instead of a president, I almost think he is the cheerleader of our club. Surly also host of every meeting. No wonder guests are growing every meeting.
Speaking of guests, they were really very fluent, very energetic; some of them were actually very powerful. Promising future for CHIC. Current members, just work harder.
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