Welcome to West Coast Toastmasters Club!

Our club believes in developing and enhancing one's communication, public speaking and leadership skills through building upon one's confidence.

To do this, we not only provide an atmosphere filled with genuine support and encouragement, but also comfortable environment so one can feel at ease.

If you have the 2nd or 4th Saturday afternoon of the month free, pay us a visit!

Once again, the club met again on a warm and sunny Saturday afternoon for a meeting. The meeting was kicked off to a rousing start as Club President Yew Meng Hau presented 2 awards to the outstanding members : Distinguished Toastmaster William Lim and Competent Leader Mike Lian. DTM William Lim completed a momentous feat by achieving his second DTM Award and in recognition, Toastmasters International presented him with a plaque deserving of his stature. CL Mike Lian also completed his Competent Leader Manual and received a commenmorative ribbon from the District Office.

The Club President's opening address was on the fast moving times and that, what may seem like expert opinions given at a particular time may soon turn out to be wrong with time. With that, the first session of prepared speeches got underway.

There were 4 prepared speeches that afternoon and each of the speakers brought something to the stage. Toastmaster Tan Hong Yue, in her maiden speech, introduced herself to the club and shared with us about her love for dancing and shopping. Toastmaster Deepak taught the club about the SCUBA method to handle troublesome email and improve productivity whereas Toastmaster Sathappan added it with his speech on simplifying issues and making life simple. Finally, Toasmaster Yew Meng Hau summed up the session with his speech on Game Theory.

During the evaluation session, each of the 4 evaluators provided insightful evaluations to the individual speakers to improve on their speeches.

During the table topics session, each of the speakers picked an item from Table topics Mistress Nicole's Wonderbag. Their task : to promote and advertise their item. Items ranging from tissue paper to a pen, a notepad to torchlight, nothing was to mundane that cannot be sold.

At the end of the meeting, the Club President gave out the ribbons for the best speakers. The Best Prepared Speech Ribbon went to Toastmaster Deepak, The Best Evaluator Ribbon went to CL Mike Lian and last but not least the Best Table Topics Speech went to Gregory Chan. The Club President then closed the meeting with a speech reminding members to strive for higher ground.

Once again, remember to turn up for the next meeting which will be the CLUB CONTEST !