The 168th Meeting of OATM kicked off with great gusto on 18th September at 8 pm. The Acting Sergeant-At-Arms MTM Lourdes Igmidio kicked off the meeting reminding the members about the club mission and informing the guests about the taboo topics.
The Club President TM Helbert Cual welcomed the members and the guests to the Club and opened the meeting. He also introduced the Theme of the Evening “Change your Thoughts, Change Your Life”.
The Toastmaster Of The Evening TM Ravi welcomed the guests and setoff the theme for the meeting by quoting Dr Wayne Dyer “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change”.
Wordmaster Waqar Ali introduced the Word of the Day “Rifacimento” which means ‘A literary work recast to adapt it to a change in the circumstances of the time. / A recast or adaptation.’ TMOD Ravi then encouraged the participants to use the Word of the Day in a sentence starting with “If I were Superman/Woman for a Day, I would change……” in the Round Robin session.
We had 2 speakers for the meeting TM Jan Micheal and MTM Lourdes Igmidio – both of who were attempting Advanced Project Speeches. We were entertained to a lovely story and an engaging speech about becoming self-employed.
Seasoned TM Fidel Ismael then took over the stage to deliver an engrossing Table Topics session that saw the speakers get motivational quotes and were given a minute to elaborate on them.
TM Romeo Agregado who was the General Evaluator for the day opened the Evaluations Segment and welcomed the evaluators MTM Monalisa Bondoc and MTM Gemma Ruzol who delivered fantastic evaluations on the prepared speeches.
TM Floro Salvador then took over the stage as the Ah counter and Grammarian as he highlighted the common mistakes we were all guilty of during the evening.
Also CONGRATULATIONS to our well deserved winners :
Prepared Speeches : MTM Lourdes Igmidio
Table Topic Winner : TM Michael Fortes
Best Evaluator : MTM Gemma Ruzol
Overall it was a fantastic evening where we all went through an introspective journey of becoming aware of your thoughts, deciding the areas to change in your life and taking decisive action. We all shared our change list and we agreed that the power of our thoughts will ultimately help us realize those dreams of ours.
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