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The last of our contest preparation meeting was themed “Race to the Finish Line”, in which we had several interesting speeches, a fabulous educational speech, and the final practice for evaluation. Ikhwan delivered his BM7 last week, speaking about “Polyglot”. Polyglot is a multi-linguist, or someone who can speak several languages. He said that being a polyglot has many benefits. Better learning abilities, avoids Alzheimer, and also makes the polyglot become the citizen of the world, not just of one country, for he/she is able to understand the languages of many countries. Suraj gave a really entertaining BM3 about his life as an Indonesian-Indian. Describing the funny things he experienced, making the whole room laughed hysterically to his humor. It was a very entertaining speech! Ikuyo-san before her speech. Ikuyo-san performed his AM in which she played a role of a Kumon area manager with Lia as the owner of a Kumon class. She did an interview, asked for ...

Our second meeting of contest preparation series was themed “The Joker’s Night”. Erwin as TOM Last Wednesday, we tried to strengthen our resolve to join and participate in the contest. The word “contest” is always a bit scary isn’t it? Sometimes we doubt that we’re good enough to join one, believing we’re not amazing enough to be a part of it. We tried to manage the anxiety about this preconception that night. First, though, we enjoyed speeches from the prepared: TM Iwan delivered his BM6, doing lots of characterizations in a speech. He told about the good defeating the bad, always. He gave his trademarked kung fu moves to color his speech, with lots of fighting sound effects. It felt like watching a Hong Kong action movie ^____^ TM Ikhwan also delivered his BM6, connecting the movie of Superman: Man of Steel to us all. “We are all heroes inside ourselves” was his message. That’s why, we must persevere in all trials and dig deep inside, the stren...

Kicking up July in high spirit, we motivators started the month with contest preparations! The menu for the night. Our contest of Humorous Speech and Evaluation is scheduled for July 24 th , 2013. To prepare it, we set practice sessions the whole month. The theme on July 3 rd was “Building Confidence”, as confidence is one of the most important modals to be a champion. Prawsident as TOM The table topic questions were about how to be more confident, led by Ikhwan and participated by Muqsith, Tantia, and Arief. Ikhwan as TTM and Arief as Table Topic participant. Muqsith participating in the Table Topic. Following the theme, Christina delivered her BM2, telling a story about her friend from high school, who was insulted repeatedly by their teacher, often being called “stupid” at class. She used the experience as a motivation and worked harder to be a better person. The result? She’s working at the Australian Embassy now ^____^ Christina’s message is to ...

Rain? Traffic jam? What are those petty hindrances for Motivators? Nothing! To prove that we won’t be defeated by those two public enemies, we enjoyed our meeting immensely last Wednesday! The theme is “Green Lifestyle”, as the last of our June’s “Loving the Environment” theme. Our Toastmaster of The Meeting was Agi, who colored the night with his witty and interesting comments. The table topic was joined by Christian, Lineola, Ikuyo, Erwin, and Ikhwan, stating their opinions about various subjects, ranging from organic food to the recent haze in Sumatra that causing effects on Singapore  and Malaysia. We had five interesting speakers too! Ayu from Essentials delivered her BM1, telling a story about herself. Ayu wants to be “just Ayu”. The one and only. She told about her dream of being a manager two years after she starts working. And guess what? She made it! Her strategy of reaching her dreams is to share it to the people she knew. That w...

Our dearest Jakarta Toastmasters Motivators Club is having its 13th anniversary, and of course, we celebrate in style! Inspired by the elegance of Hollywood's Classics, we had our Elegant Party on June 19, 2013 at Menara Standard Chartered. Hosted by the Brilliant Bena from JTC (who looked diva-esque in her blue dress) and Kool Kelvin (who looked extra cool in his new suit - btw, trivia: how much do you think the suit cost? He asked that to us after the party), the event started splendidly. They definitely got talent to be MCs. Entertaining, hilarious, yet still elegant. What is Toastmasters? This video was played at the beginning of the party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydMbhmG8imY The event was even more special with the birth of our new Competent Communicators (CC). Not one, Ladies and Gentlemen, but two! Yes, I repeat, two CC sin one day. They are our very own Satriyo Adhi and Ariel Wylie Tio. Satriyo confidently delivered his BM10, depi...