Learing Experience from Oasis New Member Kit

Thanks for Derek and Betty's invitation. It's my great pleasure to leave my first message in Oasis's blog.

My name is Kit, a new member who joined Oasis in November 2010. Joining Oasis is an intimidating experience for me, because public speaking has long been my weakness since school days. It’s after some struggle and consideration that I finally decided to take the plunge.

To say a little bit about my feelings about joining Oasis, I have learned a lot through the few meetings I attended. And I truly love the atmosphere of Oasis. It's friendly, encouraging, supportive, and fun. I can see and feel it every time I attend the meeting. On top of all these, it's great to have other eight new members (and those who newly joined) learning with me together. Thanks Oasis and all the members for giving me such a great learning opportunity! And I am looking forward to the next meeting.

Kit Ng

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle

Tongue Twitter Challenge, Toastmasters Challenge by Betty Law

I’m Betty and joined Oasis Toastmasters Club since Nov, 2010.  The experience in Toastmasters club for me is always Fresh, Challenging and Inspiring.  Oasis is FUN!

Last week, I joined Toastmaster Open Day on 29 January, 2011.  It’s first time I can see many seasoned toastmasters from Division H, K, G giving their speeches in English, Mandarin and Cantonese respectively.

Surely, our club president Derek and chief mentor KF also delivered speeches sharing their experience of running 2 clubs (what a hard job!) and running in-house club for the corporation.

Apart from prepared speeches, those seasoned toastmasters also demonstrated delivery of short speeches for table topic, i.e. impromptu speech.  Since Chinese New Year is approaching, the topics were all related to our fortune, such as 桃花運 (I really don’t know what it is called in English.) happiness and health.

Furthermore, there was a section of the tongue twitter challenge in Cantonese and English.  “Fish Fries Fresh? Fresh Fish Fries?”  My tongue already twisted after taking part of this section.

Guests, members, organizers all enjoyed this function very much and I can’t wait to join our next meeting of Oasis in February.

Betty LAW

OASIS Corner

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Oasis Regular Meeting 24 Jan "CAREER" After taste

Edward brought us questions about Job and Career, Focus or Multi task, Job or Family and Buying a flat for your children.

Our District Champion Donald Yee brought us some insights about how to present your winning speech, with 1) adjusting Inspirational and entertaining value in different level of contests, 2) be different, 3) be yourself, 4) open minded, 5) aim at champion in your mind, 6) rehearse, rehearse and rehearse....... so everyone of you can be a Champion, Let's enroll the contest to Jess and Leo.

Our President Derek shared with us his own 4Ps in his me time, his own 4Ps are not Marketing strategy, his 4Ps are 2 club's president, Professional Accountant and Parent, he shared with you how he allocated his resource and time, and persuade us to find your own 4Ps.

Here is Oasis 4Ps:
Peer Supports: Oasis brings us full of Peer supports
Public Speaking: Oasians are eageer to improve their Public Speaking Skills
President Supports: Oasis great leaders and Presidents (Derek and Past Presidents) help you develop your leadership skills
Programme: Great Programmes are coming from time to time, Contests, Team Building Camp

How about your 4Ps?

Steve

Oasis Quarterly Recognition Award Programme JAN-MAR 2011

Dear Oasians,

In Jul to Sep 2010, we have organized a Quarterly Recognition Award Programme (QRA) and successfully encouraged Oasians to participate in taking meeting roles. Finally, Tony Cheung, Grace Cheung and Jimmy Yau were the winners to get a Toastmasters Medal.

To encourage every Oasians to have a good start in Toastmasters in the year of 2011, we have revamped the game rule to relaunch the QRA programme for Oasians to join together.

See the game rule below, call Jimmy Yau, VPE to take role.

Competition Period: All meetings from Jan -Mar 2011 (including the coming speakathon but except contest meeting)

Point(s) and Function
1 point: Attend a meeting/ Bring a guest (max 3 points per meeting)/ Invite GE or Workshop Leader/ SAA

2 points: Game Master/ Joke Master/ Table Topics speaker/ Prepared speech speaker/
Table Topics evaluator/ Individual Evaluator/ Ah Counter/ Timer
Leave passages/comments at Oasis Blog (at least 150 words) (2 points max per week)
*You may choose to leave comment directly or email to Wilson/Steve for uploading

3 points: Toastmasters of the evening/ Table Topics Master/ Grammarian/
General Evaluator (non oasis meeting is acceptable)/ Workshop leader

Point Chart will be announced after meetings. Award winning ceremony will be held on Club Anniversary in April. So sign up for project, take up role and call friends to come to meeting now.

Let’s have fun, because Oasis is FUN!

Membership, Oasis Toastmasters Club

Oasis Regular Meeting 10 Jan 2011 "Entertainment" After taste

Welcome to Share your feelings/ comments (with at least 150 words) towards the theme or about our meeting, you can gain 2 points per week of Quarterly Recognition Award, Let's post and have FUN, because Oasis is FUN

6 New Oasians explore their Leadership Potential at COT 8 JAN 2011

Today I just saw a group of new oasians, Betty, Jess, Kit, Leo, Robin and Wilson, attent the Club Officers Training to learn and explore their leadership skills.

I saw our potential committee members were dreaming.
They dreamed about the way they walked though project by project,
They dreamed about what they could contribute to Oasis,
They committed:
To Attend every meeting?
To Take every role?
To Achieve CC?
To Achieve CL as well as taking every role once?
To Attend contest?
To Visit club and special training?

As a seasoned member in club, I would suggest you to take out your CL manual, see how you can collect points to achieve CL, and suggest you to plan your own schedule to finish CC, such as 1.5 years, if you take a quick look of CC manual, you will see there are lots of important skills you will gain in public speaking and don't forget the core value of toastmasters is public speaking.
Keep it up, our future new blood of Oasis

Steve, VPM