Minutes of Club Meeting #1007 - May 27, 2016



Ashirvad - Loyola Hall, St. Marks Road
6:30 - 8:30 pm

Theme: Prevention is better than cure
Word of the day: Uncanny
Meaning: Mysterious
Usage: His behaviour was a bit uncanny

ATTENDEES

CLUB OFFICERS
Esther Roshini Chandy       SERGEANT AT ARMS
Raghunandan Damle          SECRETARY
Joseph Dass                     VP MEMBERSHIP
Prakash Tamhankar           VP EDUCATION

APOLOGIES:
Mahaveer Jain                    TREASURER
Varun Dev                          VP PUBLIC RELATIONS
Cherian Thomas                 PRESIDENT

MEMBERS (26)
Aiyappa Appanna Ponnachanda

Ankit Kumar

Ashish Varghese

Ashresh Nanisetty

Ayyasamy Chinnaiyan

Guruprasad

Jose Paul

Karunakar Dev

Mahesh Vittal Rao

Melvyn Smith

Payal Pankaj Bhulani

Prasanna Kumar Bhat

Rahul Bhuyan

Ratan Shetty

Sanjana OJ

Sapna Chandiramani

Shilpa Samuel

Smitha Roshy

Sreejith Kizhakkilot

Srinivas Akella

Sumitra Manamohan

Swati Panda

Vichur Umakanth

Vijay Vasudev Kalkundri

Vikram Ramalingam R

Vinay Venkataramana

20 Guests

ROLE TAKERS

TOASTMASTER OF THE DAY   Ankit Kumar

TABLE TOPICS MASTER          Sapna Chandiramani

GENERAL EVALUATOR            Sumitra Manamohan

TIMER                                        Vikram Ramalingam

AH COUNTER                           Ayyasamy Chinnaiyan

GRAMMARIAN                          Shilpa Samuel


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TABLE TOPICS
Theme 1: Author of a flop book tries to sell the book to the audience
Melvyn Smith: Book title ‘Diary of a mad uncanny girl’
Karunakar Dev: Book title ‘How to avoid work’
Sanjana OJ: Book title ‘Who will toss my salad?’

Theme 2: Raise a toast and present an award to a Toastmaster who deserves the following award
Esther Chandy: Pump you up award
Vinay Venkataramana: Mission Impossible award
Prasanna Bhat: Foot in the mouth award

Theme 3: Audition for the following roles
Nitin (guest): Uber taxi driver
Vijay Kalkundri: Angry employee who has just been fired
Umakanth Vichur: Salesman who sells vacuum cleaners door to door

Theme 4: Debate
Sreejith Kizhakkilot (for) and Jose Paul (against): OLA/Uber search pricing should be banned

PREPARED SPEECHES

Mahesh Rao delivered project 4 – How to Say It – from the Competent Communicator manual. His speech was titled ‘My first dish – Warm fudge pudding cake’ and it was evaluated by Smitha Roshy.

Rahul Bhuyan delivered project 5 – Your Body Speaks – from the Competent Communicator manual. His speech was titled ‘You don’t always need books to learn’ and it was evaluated by Payal Bhulani.

Srinivas Akella delivered project 1 – The Ice Breaker – from the Competent Communicator manual. His speech was evaluated by Joseph Dass.

Swati Panda delivered project 1 – The Ice Breaker - from the Competent Communicator manual. Her speech was titled ‘My Three Act Play’ and it was evaluated by Ashish Varghese.

AWARDS
The Presiding Officer, VP-Ed Prakash Tamhankar presented the following awards.

Well done for completing CC1 – Swati Panda and Srinivas Akella

Best Table Topics Speaker – Esther Chandy

Best Speaker – Srinivas Akella

Members posed for a group photograph with the trophies won at the recent Coronation 2016, where we won the Best Website award, Spirit of 92 award and Golden Gavel plus, and  VP-PR Varun Dev won a Triple Crown award.

ADJOURNMENT
The Presiding Officer adjourned the meeting at 8:30 pm.
Bangalore Toastmasters Club Website: http://btmc.toastmastersclubs.org
Bangalore Toastmasters Club Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BangaloreToastmastersClub/
Toastmasters International Website:  http://www.toastmasters.org/

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