Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Toastmasters Cricket Tournament 2012
42 Teams had taken part in this cricket tournament which had shown the growth of Toastmasters in Sri Lanka.
Ralph TM had put in one solid team lead by TM Chathura. Ralph won the first round against Millennium Toastmasters where Kapila and Kasun saw that the latter part of the overs were used to hammer in boundaries and sixers.
Later, Ralph as usual got into it's famed spirits enjoying the evening. Taking into consideration that the youngsters were being baked in the hot sun, Ralph had given into Suntel amidst a good fight to head back home early.
Pictures are attached of the Ralph members enjoying the event.
Rgds
K!
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Minutes - Meeting on 21 Dec 2011 : Meeting No 12
Please find enclosed the brief minutes of the meeting.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
5th Installation of President and Board for 2010/11
The 5th Istallation of President Niroshan Nadarajah and his executive committee for the year 2010/11 is planned to be held tomorrow, the 7th August 2010 at the HNB Towers, with Div Gov Kapila Bandara as the chief guest.
The event, will as usual have the mix of professionalism, culture, surprises and fellowship of Toastmastering in Sri Lanka.
Interested persons, please contact Niroshan on 077 306 2222 and confirm your participation at a heavily subsidised price of Rs 1000 per guest and Rs 1500 per toastmasters.
Come, experience the beginning of a new year for Ralph, and their contribution to the world TM movement.
Karthik Ramachandran
The event, will as usual have the mix of professionalism, culture, surprises and fellowship of Toastmastering in Sri Lanka.
Interested persons, please contact Niroshan on 077 306 2222 and confirm your participation at a heavily subsidised price of Rs 1000 per guest and Rs 1500 per toastmasters.
Come, experience the beginning of a new year for Ralph, and their contribution to the world TM movement.
Karthik Ramachandran
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Standard Chartered Speech Crafter Finale
The well looked forward to event for this calender year of Ralph Toastmasters was the finale of Standard Chartered Speechcrafter session's Finale for Goups B and C. This gala event was held at the Grand Orient Hotel on the 9th Jul 2010, where 39 successful participants obtained the certificates.
A speechcrafter programme is a string of meetings held biweekly for corporate or social groups intended solely on improving the leadership and communication qualities. We give a crash course for ideally 10 weeks, where at least 8 weeks will have a special presentor, captioning an important topic which
would enhance improvement to the attendees.
The special presenters are senior, well acclaimed toastmasters, who would give insights of their personal experiences to the audience. The sessions held with SCB had the following Toastmasters who have guided these future leaders from SCB.
Niranjan De Silva - MD Metropolitan & Colombo TM Member
Arunasalem Balraj - MD Gemtrans & Colombo, Ralph TM Dual member
Yusuf Jeevunjee - MD,CEO Jaywise & Colombo TM Member
Ajitha Goonawardane - Personal Trainer & Member Millennium TM Club
Chrishanthi Emmanual - Secy LOLC & Colombo, Ralph TM Dual Member
Dayan DL Fernando - Personal Trainer & Member Serendib TM Club
Maheshi Premaratne - Personal Trainer & Member Colombo TM Club
The professionalism and capabilities of the above, at least in part have glided into the minds of the following who with pride obtained the certificates from the chief guest for the evening Head Consumer Banking Mr Anirban Ghosh Dastidar:
Batch B
Wanamalee Silva
Thivantha Sanjeewa
Channa Herath Gunaratne
Gavin Wijeratne
Ymara Fernando
Jeremy Saverymuthapulle
Andrea de Silva
Andrea Bartholomeusz
Nutan Casseer
Hirushka Fernando
Lilanganie De Silva
Lasitha Wijeratne
Indu Manoratne
Rajith Siriwardena
Tyronne De Zilwa
Tuan Haniffa
Chathurika Hordagoda
Nalin Webster
Ryan De Silva
Sameela Wanniatchi
Inoshe Abeynayake
Delon Kellar
Ruwani Ebell
Shehani Fernando
Batch C
Lasantha Fernando
Menaka Bandara
Shirazdeen Mohamed
Chamalie Serasinghe
Marina Goonawardena
Zarfiya Shamsudeen
Ruwini Jayasena
Achala Symons
Madhavi Daluwatte
Gothami Nagodawithana
Sajeewani Wijetilleke
Keith Rebeira
Melissa Van-Twest
Aravind Nagendran
Bhanushi Dissanayake
The Event finished with each person brimming in happiness and pride both from Toastmasters fraternity and Standerd Charterd bank Team where the earlier were jubilant in their successful training and the latter confident in the new gain in knowledge, leadership and communication.
The fellowship that followed made possible interaction with each and increased morale where certain members of the trainees who could not open in front of an audience where now unstoppable at the podium was seen in reality.
The fabulous Sri Lankan Dinner saw to it that not only the hearts were full; the tummies were as well.
We are proud of our achievement and further pleased to inform that this series of training has increased awareness within the SCB team. Such is the requirement that the HR of SCB is looking at once again calling for a batch D - the fourth in succession; thus continues the Ralph Toastmaster commitment towards building efficient communicators and leaders in Sri Lanka.
Till the next updates, please feel free to gather information from our main HQ site, http://www.toastmasters.org
Karthik Ramachandran
A speechcrafter programme is a string of meetings held biweekly for corporate or social groups intended solely on improving the leadership and communication qualities. We give a crash course for ideally 10 weeks, where at least 8 weeks will have a special presentor, captioning an important topic which
would enhance improvement to the attendees.The special presenters are senior, well acclaimed toastmasters, who would give insights of their personal experiences to the audience. The sessions held with SCB had the following Toastmasters who have guided these future leaders from SCB.
Niranjan De Silva - MD Metropolitan & Colombo TM Member
Arunasalem Balraj - MD Gemtrans & Colombo, Ralph TM Dual member
Yusuf Jeevunjee - MD,CEO Jaywise & Colombo TM Member
Ajitha Goonawardane - Personal Trainer & Member Millennium TM Club
Chrishanthi Emmanual - Secy LOLC & Colombo, Ralph TM Dual Member
Dayan DL Fernando - Personal Trainer & Member Serendib TM Club
Maheshi Premaratne - Personal Trainer & Member Colombo TM Club
The professionalism and capabilities of the above, at least in part have glided into the minds of the following who with pride obtained the certificates from the chief guest for the evening Head Consumer Banking Mr Anirban Ghosh Dastidar:
Batch B
Wanamalee Silva
Thivantha Sanjeewa
Channa Herath Gunaratne
Gavin Wijeratne
Ymara Fernando
Jeremy Saverymuthapulle
Andrea de Silva
Andrea Bartholomeusz
Nutan Casseer
Hirushka Fernando
Lilanganie De Silva
Lasitha Wijeratne
Indu Manoratne
Rajith Siriwardena
Tyronne De Zilwa
Tuan Haniffa
Chathurika Hordagoda
Nalin Webster
Ryan De Silva
Sameela Wanniatchi
Inoshe Abeynayake
Delon Kellar
Ruwani Ebell
Shehani Fernando
Batch C
Lasantha Fernando
Menaka Bandara
Shirazdeen Mohamed
Chamalie Serasinghe
Marina Goonawardena
Zarfiya Shamsudeen
Ruwini Jayasena
Achala Symons
Madhavi Daluwatte
Gothami Nagodawithana
Sajeewani Wijetilleke
Keith Rebeira
Melissa Van-Twest
Aravind Nagendran
Bhanushi Dissanayake
The Event finished with each person brimming in happiness and pride both from Toastmasters fraternity and Standerd Charterd bank Team where the earlier were jubilant in their successful training and the latter confident in the new gain in knowledge, leadership and communication.
The fellowship that followed made possible interaction with each and increased morale where certain members of the trainees who could not open in front of an audience where now unstoppable at the podium was seen in reality.
The fabulous Sri Lankan Dinner saw to it that not only the hearts were full; the tummies were as well.
We are proud of our achievement and further pleased to inform that this series of training has increased awareness within the SCB team. Such is the requirement that the HR of SCB is looking at once again calling for a batch D - the fourth in succession; thus continues the Ralph Toastmaster commitment towards building efficient communicators and leaders in Sri Lanka.
Till the next updates, please feel free to gather information from our main HQ site, http://www.toastmasters.org
Karthik Ramachandran
Monday, July 5, 2010
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Meeting 02 Year 04 - Brief Minutes
The meeting started on time with quite a packed crowd consisting Lt Gov Mkt Saleem, Governor Mahesh, PD Secr Kapila, Dist Treasurer Saman and Fun night Chair Premelal.
No sooner the meeting was called to order and National Anthem Sung with Gusto by the large gathering of 26 members, IPDG Balraj walked in and joined us.
The President Saman, recognised the guests and congratulated the three new comers namely Mahesh, Jude and Indiwary with a lovely bouqet of flowers.
Saman proceeded to request the guests to introduce themselves. The guests followed suit:
Saman introduced the Toastmaster Karthik, who started to roll the ball for the day.
Karthik called the General Evaluator Saleem, who in turn introduced his team namely:
Timer - Jude
Ah Counter - Indiwary
Grammarian - Niroshan
Each role player introduced informed the members of the role that they play.
The Grammarian had announced that the word for the day was "Outrageous".
The General Evaluator, on thanking the Toastmaster had taken his seat very satisfied that finally after so many years of being Charter president Chandana's neighbour, this was the first time that Ralph had invited him. The whole club joined him in immediate laughter..!
Karthik then introduced the Round Robin Master Nalin, who took over and explained the Round Robin rules as well as giving out a topic which is talked about today - "The Recession".
The session proceeded very well with the word of the day being used so many a time. By this time, with a packed audience, the meeting was slowing down. We were behind schedule by 8 mins.
The Round Robin master thanked the members and the toastmaster for a fabulous round robin and handed the session back to the Toastmaster.
Karthik then moved into the Prepared Speech session and introduced the first speaker, CC CL Mahesh Jayasinghe. He further requested Mahesh's evaluator Saleem to offer the objectives of the speech.
Saleem, walked front and immediately apologised for not being able to introduce the Table Topics evaluator - Ishani Jayasinghe. He then proceeded to introduce Ishani and then offered the objectives of Mahesh's Entertainment manual speech.
The Toastmaster called on for Mahesh's entertainment speech.
On completion of Mahesh's speech Karthik introduced the next speaker ACB CL Premelal Brahammanage and called on for CC CL Kapila Bandara to read out the objectives of Premelal's ACS5 speech, which Kapila duly did.
Karthik then requested Premelal to "Make his Sale"
Premelal spoke on his own product, which is set of 80 plots of land. The speech proceeded for around 12 minutes where Premelal was able to immediately grab a sale with one plot valuing six hundred thousand rupees.
On completion of the prepared speech session the Toastmaster called upon the Table topics master Hakeem to conduct the Table topics session and handed control over to Hakeem which Hakeem duly accepted.
Hakeem then proceeded to explain the 4 cartoons which the members had to speak on, which was quite an innovative idea. It was at this time that Royston, walked into the meeting.
The following persons spoke on their preferred topics:
Karthik thanked Hakeem for a great job and called upon the General Evaluator to handle his evaluations.
The General Evaluator first called the Timer Jude for his reports and then requested Ah counter Indiwary for hers. Then he requested Kapila to evaluate Premelal's Speech which was duly done. then the General Evaluaotor being the speecha evaluator as well, evaluated Mahesh's Speech.
Saleem then called upon Ishani to evaluate the Table topics which she did so with great exhuberance. The Speakers were happy to hear such an indepth evaluation. The General evaluator thanked every one and took his seat.
Karthik got up and started to thak every one while he was a bit worried with an expression from one specific member of the club. Immediately the toastmaster catching his mistake, apologised and requested the General evaluator to request for the Grammarians report. Saleem immediately got up and being a seasoned toastmaster apologised for his mistake and called upon the Grammarian Niroshan who gave another in depth report with certain corrections that were to be followed.
The General Evaluator thanked the Toastmaster, who in return thanked all the role players and handed control back to the President with a 6 minute delay in timing.
The president, called for the General Evaluation. The evluator thanked for the great opportunity and mentioned only one correction, which is to avoide new comers to take up the Ah counter and timer roles.
The president commented on the Installation on 1st August as well as the importance of CL with the assistance of Governor Mahesh.
The president finally adjourned the meeting 22 minutes late at 1952hrs.
No sooner the meeting was called to order and National Anthem Sung with Gusto by the large gathering of 26 members, IPDG Balraj walked in and joined us.
The President Saman, recognised the guests and congratulated the three new comers namely Mahesh, Jude and Indiwary with a lovely bouqet of flowers.
Saman proceeded to request the guests to introduce themselves. The guests followed suit:
- Benjamin: An optometrist who was brought in by Karthik and Niroshan.
- Nalinda: A person who is assisting Premelal at Prime lands.
Saman introduced the Toastmaster Karthik, who started to roll the ball for the day.
Karthik called the General Evaluator Saleem, who in turn introduced his team namely:
Timer - Jude
Ah Counter - Indiwary
Grammarian - Niroshan
Each role player introduced informed the members of the role that they play.
The Grammarian had announced that the word for the day was "Outrageous".
The General Evaluator, on thanking the Toastmaster had taken his seat very satisfied that finally after so many years of being Charter president Chandana's neighbour, this was the first time that Ralph had invited him. The whole club joined him in immediate laughter..!
Karthik then introduced the Round Robin Master Nalin, who took over and explained the Round Robin rules as well as giving out a topic which is talked about today - "The Recession".
The session proceeded very well with the word of the day being used so many a time. By this time, with a packed audience, the meeting was slowing down. We were behind schedule by 8 mins.
The Round Robin master thanked the members and the toastmaster for a fabulous round robin and handed the session back to the Toastmaster.
Karthik then moved into the Prepared Speech session and introduced the first speaker, CC CL Mahesh Jayasinghe. He further requested Mahesh's evaluator Saleem to offer the objectives of the speech.
Saleem, walked front and immediately apologised for not being able to introduce the Table Topics evaluator - Ishani Jayasinghe. He then proceeded to introduce Ishani and then offered the objectives of Mahesh's Entertainment manual speech.
The Toastmaster called on for Mahesh's entertainment speech.
On completion of Mahesh's speech Karthik introduced the next speaker ACB CL Premelal Brahammanage and called on for CC CL Kapila Bandara to read out the objectives of Premelal's ACS5 speech, which Kapila duly did.
Karthik then requested Premelal to "Make his Sale"
Premelal spoke on his own product, which is set of 80 plots of land. The speech proceeded for around 12 minutes where Premelal was able to immediately grab a sale with one plot valuing six hundred thousand rupees.
On completion of the prepared speech session the Toastmaster called upon the Table topics master Hakeem to conduct the Table topics session and handed control over to Hakeem which Hakeem duly accepted.
Hakeem then proceeded to explain the 4 cartoons which the members had to speak on, which was quite an innovative idea. It was at this time that Royston, walked into the meeting.
The following persons spoke on their preferred topics:
- Mahesh - Sri Lankan News
- Sesiri - Celebrating victory
- Niroshan - Sri Lankan News
- Shantha - State of our hospitals
Karthik thanked Hakeem for a great job and called upon the General Evaluator to handle his evaluations.
The General Evaluator first called the Timer Jude for his reports and then requested Ah counter Indiwary for hers. Then he requested Kapila to evaluate Premelal's Speech which was duly done. then the General Evaluaotor being the speecha evaluator as well, evaluated Mahesh's Speech.
Saleem then called upon Ishani to evaluate the Table topics which she did so with great exhuberance. The Speakers were happy to hear such an indepth evaluation. The General evaluator thanked every one and took his seat.
Karthik got up and started to thak every one while he was a bit worried with an expression from one specific member of the club. Immediately the toastmaster catching his mistake, apologised and requested the General evaluator to request for the Grammarians report. Saleem immediately got up and being a seasoned toastmaster apologised for his mistake and called upon the Grammarian Niroshan who gave another in depth report with certain corrections that were to be followed.
The General Evaluator thanked the Toastmaster, who in return thanked all the role players and handed control back to the President with a 6 minute delay in timing.
The president, called for the General Evaluation. The evluator thanked for the great opportunity and mentioned only one correction, which is to avoide new comers to take up the Ah counter and timer roles.
The president commented on the Installation on 1st August as well as the importance of CL with the assistance of Governor Mahesh.
The president finally adjourned the meeting 22 minutes late at 1952hrs.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Editor for 2009/2010
Dear Friends,
We have a new addition - officially: The Editor for the year 2009/2010.
Let me be the first to welcome TM Muditha who resumed duties as the official editor of Ralph TM. He shall keep you posted with updates, agenda's and so on. I shall always be there on the side to aid, but all the formal queries are to be addressed to the Editor.
Good Luck for the ensuing year.
Rgds
Karthik - Administrator
We have a new addition - officially: The Editor for the year 2009/2010.
Let me be the first to welcome TM Muditha who resumed duties as the official editor of Ralph TM. He shall keep you posted with updates, agenda's and so on. I shall always be there on the side to aid, but all the formal queries are to be addressed to the Editor.
Good Luck for the ensuing year.
Rgds
Karthik - Administrator
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