Ralph Toastmasters Club

Agenda - Meeting 15 : 1 Feb 2012

2012-01-31T09:30:00.000-08:00

The Toastmasters Cricket Tournament 2012

2012-01-29T09:34:00.000-08:00

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!

Minutes Meeting 14 : Jan 18 2012

2012-01-18T09:27:00.000-08:00

Agenda - Meeting 14 : 18 Jan 2012

2012-01-18T09:23:00.000-08:00

Minutes Meeting 13 : Jan 4 2012

2012-01-04T09:17:00.000-08:00

Agenda - Meeting 13 : 4 Jan 2012

2012-01-04T09:14:00.000-08:00

Minutes - Meeting on 21 Dec 2011 : Meeting No 12

2011-12-21T09:07:00.000-08:00

Please find enclosed the brief minutes of the meeting.

Agenda - Meeting 12 : 21 Dec 2011

2011-12-21T03:01:00.000-08:00

5th Installation of President and Board for 2010/11

2010-08-05T20:20:00.000-07:00

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

Standard Chartered Speech Crafter Finale

2010-08-04T21:30:00.000-07:00

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

Meeting Agenda Year 5 Meeting 3

2010-08-04T04:09:00.000-07:00

Meeting Agenda Year 5 Meeting 1

2010-07-05T20:37:00.000-07:00

Draft Agenda - Meeting 03 Year 04 - 12th Aug 2009

2009-07-18T01:21:00.001-07:00

Meeting 02 Year 04 - Brief Minutes

2009-07-16T01:27:00.000-07:00

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:

Benjamin: An optometrist who was brought in by Karthik and Niroshan.
Nalinda: A person who is assisting Premelal at Prime lands.

Saman while thanking the guests had indicated that this year, shall be looking into creating quality meetings in contrast to all earlier meetings. This meeting was a witness to the same.

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

On conclusion Hakeem thanked the members while requesting not to vote due to less number of participants and handed control back to the Toastmaster.

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.

Editor for 2009/2010

2009-07-15T02:44:00.000-07:00

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

Agenda for Meeting on 15th July 2009 - 2nd Meeting Year 04

2009-07-14T22:28:00.000-07:00

Agenda for Meeting on 3rd June 2009

2009-05-31T23:43:00.000-07:00

Meeting 22 May 27 2009 Year 03

2009-05-26T00:51:00.001-07:00

Updates online

2009-05-05T22:24:00.000-07:00

I should humbly accept that the reason for not being able to update the blog was the heavy workload. Further, my co-host Ananth has also been travellling extensively thereby had let all you reader down. We shall try our level best to come back on track and update regularly.

Regrets

K!

Recession

2009-05-05T22:17:00.000-07:00

The recession had it the Ralph Club as well with Members opting for greener pastures in life hence putting the bread and butter before the club. We had seen firstly our Danish banker, then Top Gun Chanaka followed by Charter President Chandana then Telephony Ananth and finally logistical expert Nalin. All of them have moved to Australia on short notice. While wishing them the best of luck, let me take this opportunity to invite them if possible to join us for the Ovation 2009 under our Governor Balraj's tenure.

We Sri Lankans are sure that the country will bounce back to normalcy very soon. Look forward to the day when we shall be the greener pasture for so many humans all over the globe.

Green it was and shall be soon..!
K!

Meeting 17 2009 - 6th May 2009

2009-05-05T22:08:00.000-07:00

Back in action

2009-01-03T13:33:00.001-08:00

The website shall be updated for 2009 within this week. Await details.

Patience pays at any cost...

Rgds
K!

AGM 2007/08 Meeting 26

2008-06-11T02:55:00.000-07:00

AGENDA
Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting - 26 Year 02/ AGM
Date: Wed 11 June '08 Time: 1715 - 1935hrs Dress: Office Attire
Venue: Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78 Galle Road, Colombo 03

President CC Premelal Brahammanage Ah Counter CC Ivan Kevitiyagala
Toastmaster CC Karthik Ramachandran Timer TM Rouf Hakeem
R R Master TM Royston Joseph Topics Evaluator TM Sanjeewa Wimalasiri
Topic Master TM Muditha Silva Role Evaluator TM Karthik Ramachandran
Grammarian TM Anton Kevityagala Gen Evaluator TM Sesiri Pethangoda
Word of the Day
Theme of the day

Time Event / Description
1715hrs Registration and Fellowship
1730 - 1732 Meeting called to order by President. Singing of National Anthem.
1732 AGM is in order
Reports from the secretary, treasurer and president during the year 2007/08
Nomination and subsequent election of President and his new board for the year 2008/09
Brief of the President for the year 2008/09
Members views and comments for the incoming year
Closure of formal AGM session

1751 President for the year 2007/08 resumes the formal educational session.
1752 - 1754 President invites the Grammarian to explain the word and thought of the day.

1754 - 1804 President introduces the Timer and Round Robin master to run the Round Robin session.

1804 - 1805 President introducers the Toastmaster of the day to whome control is handed over.
1805 - 1850 The Toastmaster introduces the Ah Counter and conducts the prepared speech session.
No Level Speaker Evaluator
1 CC9 TM Lestor Aponso CC Ivan Kevitiyagala
2 CC10 TM Saman Perera CC Premelal Brahammanage
3 CC10 TM Janaka De Silva CC Chanaka Perera
4 ACB9 CC Premelal Brahammanage CC Chandana Weerasekera
5 ACB10 CC Chanaka Perera CC Karthik Ramachandran

1850 - 1904 The Toastmaster introduces the Table Topics Master and hands over control.for Table topics.
1904 - 1905 Topic Master thanks everyone and hands control back to the Toastmaster.

1905 - 1906 Toastmaster requests the reports from the Timer and Ah counter.
1906 - 1907 Toastmaster intorduces the General Evaluator and requests him to handle the evaluations
1907 - 1916 Speech Evaluators' Reports
1916 - 1920 Table Topics Evaluator's Report
1920 - 1922 Grammarian's Report
1922 - 1923 Toastmaster hands back control to the President
1923 - 1935 The President calls for the General Evaluation.
1925 - 1926 The President calls for the Timer and Ah counter reports for all evaluations and reports.
1926 - 1927 The President call for the Role Evaluators Evaluation.
1927 - 1931 The President makes final announcements and requests comments from the audience.
1931 - 1935 The President requests for volunteers for speaches and role player slots.
1935 In absence of any other matter, the President adjourns the meeting.

Agenda Meeting 25 Year 02

2008-05-31T19:35:00.001-07:00

AGENDA
Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting - 25 Year 02
Date: Wed 04 June '08 Time: 1730 - 1940hrs Dress: Office Attire
Venue: Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78 Galle Road, Colombo 03

President CC Premelal Brahammanage Ah Counter
Toastmaster TM Anton Kevitiyagala Timer
R R Master TM Sanjeewa Wimalasiri Topics Evaluator
Topic Master TM Rukshi Oshadi Role Evaluator TM Karthik Ramachandran
Grammarian CC Ananth Selladorai Gen Evaluator TM Chandana Weerasekera

Word of the Day
Theme of the day

Time Event / Description
1730hrs Registration and Fellowship
1755 - 1757 Meeting called to order by President. Singing of National Anthem.
1757 - 1759 President invites the Grammarian to explain the word and thought of the day.

1759 - 1809 President introduces the Timer and Round Robin master to run the Round Robin session.

1809 - 1810 President introducers the Toastmaster of the day to whom control is handed over.
1810 - 1850 The Toastmaster introduces the Ah Counter and conducts the prepared speech session.
Level Speaker Evaluator
1 CC3 TM Nishantha Danthanarayana CC Chanaka Perera
2 CC8 TM Lestor Aponso CC Premelal Brahammanage
3 CC8 TM Sajitha Kevitiyagala TM Nishantha Danthanarayana
4 CC9 TM Janaka De Silva TM Lestor Aponso
5 CC10 TM Ivan Kevityagala TM Sajitha Kevitiyagala
6 CC10 TM Saman Perera TM Janaka De Silva
7 ACB10 CC Chanaka Perera
8 ACB8 CC Premelal Brahammanage TM Saman Perera

1850 - 1910 The Toastmaster introduces the Table Topics Master and hands over control.for Table topics.

1910 - 1911 Topic Master thanks everyone and hands control back to the Toastmaster.

1911 - 1912 Toastmaster requests the reports from the Timer and Ah counter.

1912 - 1913 Toastmaster intorduces the General Evaluator and requests him to handle the evaluations
1913 - 1925 Speech Evaluators' Reports
1925 - 1928 Table Topics Evaluator's Report
1928 - 1930 Grammarian's Report

1930 - 1931 Toastmaster hands back control to the President
1931 - 1932 The President calls for the General Evaluation.
1932 - 1933 The President calls for the Timer and Ah counter reports for all evaluations and reports.

1933 - 1935 The President call for the Role Evaluators Evaluation.
1935 - 1937 The President makes final announcements and requests comments from the audience.
1937 - 1940 The President requests for volunteers for speaches and role player slots.
1940 In absence of any other matter, the President adjourns the meeting.

AGENDA - Meeting 23 Year 02

2008-05-01T10:22:00.001-07:00

AGENDA (New Format)
Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting - 23 Year 02
Date: Wed 07 May '08 Time: 1730 - 1940hrs Dress: Office Attire
Venue: Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78 Galle Road, Colombo 03

President CC Premelal Brahammanage
Ah Counter TM Muditha Silva
Toastmaster CC Chandana Weerasekera
Timer TM Ivan Kevityagala
R R Master CC Karthik Ramachandran
Topics Evaluator TM Nishantha
Topic Master TM Rouf Hakeem
Role Evaluator TM Veerappan Siva
Grammarian CC Ananth Selladorai
Gen Evaluator TM Nirmal Nanayakkara
Word of the Day courtesy Grammarian
Theme of the day courtesy Toastmaster

1730hrs Registration and Fellowship
1755 - 1757 Meeting called to order by President. Singing of National Anthem.
1757 - 1759 President invites the Grammarian to explain the word and thought of the day.

1759 - 1809 President introduces the Timer and Round Robin master to run the Round Robin session.

1809 - 1810 President introducers the Toastmaster of the day to whome control is handed over.
1810 - 1858 The Toastmaster introduces the Ah Counter and conducts the prepared speech session.
No and Level Speaker Evaluator
1 CC2 TM Rukshi Oshadi CC Premelal Brahammanage
2 CC3 TM Royston Joseph TM Rukshi Oshadi
3 CC4 TM Anton Kevityagala TM Royston Joseph
4 CC4 TM Nalin Silva TM Anton Kevityagala
5 CC 8 TM Saman Perera TM Nalin Silva
6 ACB7 CC Chanaka Perera TM Saman Perera
7 ACB5 CC Premelal CC Chanaka Perera
stand by CC8 TM Janaka De Silva standby

1858 - 1910 The Toastmaster introduces the Table Topics Master and hands over control for Table topics.

1910 - 1911 Topic Master thanks everyone and hands control back to the Toastmaster.
1911 - 1912 Toastmaster requests the reports from the Timer and Ah counter.
1912 - 1913 Toastmaster intorduces the General Evaluator and requests him to handle the evaluations
1913 - 1925 Speech Evaluators' Reports
1925 - 1928 Table Topics Evaluator's Report
1928 - 1930 Grammarian's Report
1930 - 1931 Toastmaster hands back control to the President

1931 - 1932 The President calls for the General Evaluation.

1932 - 1933 The President calls for the Timer and Ah counter reports for all evaluations and reports.

1933 - 1935 The President calls for the Role Evaluators Evaluation.
1935 - 1937 The President makes final announcements and requests comments from the audience.
1937 - 1940 The President requests for volunteers for speaches and role player slots.
1940 In absence of any other matter, the President adjourns the meeting.

Minutes of Marathon 4

2008-05-01T10:13:00.000-07:00

There was an excellent fellowship which in fact spilled over to the time we were supposed to start. The meeting began 15 minutes late at 1815hrs and went in order. Few changes were made due to some role players not available. Out of the 8 speakers only 7 had turned up. TM Alex did not make it for the session.

We had one new guest and a total attendance of 19 members with no feminine gender at all.
Every speech had shown an increase in quality.

Ivan was welcomed after his recovery and it was also informed that Douglas Hewage had also undergone a slight heart attack and needs 3 months rest.

The meeting proceeded well and with no table topics ws adjourned at 2015 hrs, 18 minutes later than planned.

4th Marathon

2008-04-28T09:28:00.000-07:00

Agenda

Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting (Marathon 04) 22 year 02
(5.30 p.m to 7.35 p.m)
Wednesday 30 April, 2008
Hotel Samudra, Ceylon Hotels Corporation, Galle Road, Opposite Crescat.

Toastmaster : TM Anton Kevityagala
President : CC Premelal Brahammanage
Table Topic Master : NO TT
‘Ah’ Counter : TM Muditha Silva
Round Robin Master : TM Karthik Ramachandran
Table Topics Evaluator: NO TT
Timer : TM Sridharan Somasundaram
Grammarian : NO Grammarian
General Evaluator : TM Rouf Hakeem

P.M
5:30 - 5:55 Registration & Fellowship

5:55 – 5:57 Meeting called to order by President
National Anthem

5:57 – 6:05 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person
Briefing of the Word of the day and Thought of the day by Grammarian

6:05 - 6:06 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.

6:06 – 6:08 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared speech session

6:08 - 7:30 Speaker & Level Level of Speech Evaluator
1 CC Chanaka Perera AC Bronze 6 CC Karthik Ramachandran
2 TM Nishantha Dathanrayana CC 4 CC Chanaka Perera
3 TM Alexander Sathyanathan CC 6 TM Nishantha Danthanarayana
4 TM Saman Perera CC 7 TM Alexander Sathyanathan
5 Ivan Kevityagala CC 9 TM Saman Perera
6 CC Ananth Selladoray AC Bronze 1 TM Ivan Kevityagala
7 CC Premelal Brahammanage AC Bronze 4 CC Ananth Selladoray
8 CC Chandana Weerasekera AC Bronze 4 CC Premelal Brahammanage
9 CC Karthik Ramachandran AC Bronze 5 CC Chandana Weerasekera

7:30 - 7:50 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master

7:50 - 7:51 Toastmaster hands back control to the President

7:51 - 7:53 General Evaluation

7:53 - 7:55 President’s Remarks / announcements.

7:55 - 7:57 Members Comments

7.57 Termination of formal session

NEXT MEETING IS ON WEDNESDAY THE 7TH MAY. DON’T MISS IT……………..!!!!!!!!!

Agenda Meeting 19 year 02

2008-03-05T09:39:00.000-08:00

Agenda
Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting 19 year 02
(5.30 p.m to 7.45 p.m)
Wednesday 19 March, 2008
Samudra Hotel, Galle Road, Ceylon Hotel School Complex (Opposite Crescat)
off Baudhaloka Mawatha Colombo 07

Toastmaster: TM Anton Kevitiyagala
President: CC Premelal Brahammanage
Table Topic Master: TM Ruwan Senanayake
‘Ah’ Counter: TM Anthony Arnold
Round Robin Master: TM Nirmal Nanayakkara
Table Topics Evaluator: TM Viren Ruberu
Timer: TM Nishadi Dharmaratne
Grammarian: TM Royston Joseph
General Evaluator: TM Sesiri Pethangoda

Word Of the Day: Shall be updated in due course
Thought of the day: Shall be updated in due course

P.M
5:30 - 6:00 Registration & Fellowship
6:00 - 6:03 Meeting called to order by President
National Anthem
6:03 – 6:15 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person
Briefing of the Word of the day and Thought of the day by Grammarian 6:15 - 6:17 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.
6:17 – 6:18 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared speech session
6:18 - 6:53 Speaker & Level Level of Speech Evaluator
1 TM Rouf Hakeem CC 1 CC Karthik Ramachandran
2 TM Nalin Fernando CC 4 open
3 TM E M Wijetillake CC 4 TM Anton Kevitiyagala
4 TM Ruwan Senanayake CC 4 CC Premelal Brahammanage
5 TM Ivan Kevitiyagala CC 9 TM Ruwan Senanayake

6:53 - 7:03 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master

7:03 - 7:20 Table Topics session
7:20 - 7:28 Timers, Ah counter's reports and evaluations of table topics
7:28 - 7:29 Topicmaster thanks all and hands back control to the Toastmaster
7:29 - 7:30 Toastmaster hands back control to the President
7:30 - 7:34 President calls for the Grammarians comments
7:34 - 7:38 General Evaluation
7:38 - 7:42 President’s Remarks / announcements.
7:42 - 7:45 Members Comments. Selection of role players for the next meeting on 2nd April 2008.
7.45 Termination of Meeting.

Minutes of Meeting 18 year 02

2008-03-05T08:56:00.000-08:00

Dear Toastmasters,

Please find enclosed the minutes of the meeting referred above:

Meeting was called to order late by 6:15 pm due to the heavy rain.
The president lead the National Anthem with Gusto and introduced the Timer TM Anton Kevitiyagala. He further introduced the Round Robin master TM Ivan Kevitiyagala who lead the session on the topic of controlling our temper. Most of the members picked the last word and Ivan ended the session with an example of how he controls his temper at his residence by just lying low - A take home for us..!

The president then introduced the Toastmaster of the day TM Royston Joseph who duly introduced the Ah counter TM Rouf Hakeem and called on to the first speaker TM Sanjeewa Wimalasiri on successfully reading the objectives of his speech by CC Premelal Brahammanage.
Sanjeewa spoke on Photography.
Next the Toastmaster requested CC Karthik Ramachandran to read out the objectives of TM Ruwan Senanayake's level 4 speech on Reasoning.

The ah counter and Timer were requested to give their evaluations and the evaluators requested to evaluate the respective speakers. Apparently, Sanjeewa Wimalasiri was requested to give another try on his speech as the evaluator felt the objectives could have been met better. His being a higher level, was evaluated in a very critical manner. On the other hand, TM Ruwan's Speech was commended and evaluated with minor improvements.

The toastmaster subsequently handed the controls to the topic master TM Sanjeewa Wimalasiri who immediately jotted down seven topics on the board which was responded well by speakers TM Wijetillake, TM Royston, TM Ivan and TM Nirmal Nanayakkara. Due to constraint in time, topics were restricted to 4 and the evaluations of the same performed by CC Premelal Brahammanage.

The topic master handed over control to the Toastmaster on thanking his role players. The toastmaster in his turn thanked the role players again and handed control back to the president.

The president called the Grammarian for his report where CC Karthik Ramachandran stressed on grammar with tenses, plurality, pronounciation of certain words beginning with 'S' (Style , Smile); 'V' (Love, Vehicle) and 'W' (Wet, World). It was stressed that for 'V' one has to bite the lower lip with the upper teeth and for 'W' the lips should be curled around in an 'O' shape. This was practised and taken up. Finally, it was stressed to avoid using the word 'thing' whenever a specific matter or event could replace the same.

The president thank the Grammarian and made a few suggestions, namely; Paying the club dues on time; attending the full day training programme on 29th March 2008 and the Conference for TM Sri Lanka. He stressed that we should have a mass on the conference day.

The president called upon the general evaluator TM Lalin who was very critically constructive with respect to the time we started, the National flag being placed in a place which should be changed and other improvements with respect to the meeting.

Finally the president called for the role players for the meeting on 19th March 2008. Once done the meeting was adjourned on time at 7:35 pm.

Next meeting was requested to start at 6pm on the 19th March 2008 at the OPA.

Rgds
VP Ed 2007/08

2008-03-04T09:39:00.000-08:00

Agenda
Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting 18 year 02
(5.30 p.m to 7.35 p.m) Wednesday 05 March, 2008 (OPA)

Toastmaster: TM Royston Joseph
President: CC Premelal Brahammanage
Table Topic Master: TM Sanjeewa Wimalasiri
‘Ah’ Counter: TM Rouf Hakeem
Round Robin Master: TM Ivan Kevitiyagala
Table Topics Evaluator: TM Janaka De Silva
Timer: TM Anton Kevitiyagala
Grammarian: CC Karthik Ramachandran
General Evaluator: TM Lalin Fernando

Word Of the Day: Abrupt

5:30 - 5:50 Registration & Fellowship

5:50 – 5:53 Meeting called to order by President
National Anthem
5:53 – 6:05 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person
Briefing of the Word of the day and Thought of the day by Grammarian
6:02 - 6:03 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.
6:03 – 6:04 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared speech session

6:04 - 6:37 Prepared Speeches

1 TM Ruwan Senanayake CC
2 TM Veerappan Sivagurunathan CC
3 TM Ivan Kevitiyagala CC
4 TM Sajitha Kevitiyagala CC
5 TM Sanjeewa Wimalasiri CC

6:37 - 6:45 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master
6:45 - 7:10 Table Topics session
7:10 - 7:18 Timers, Ah counter's reports and evaluations of table topics
7:18 - 7:19 Topicmaster thanks all and hands back control to the Toastmaster
7:19 - 7:20 Toastmaster hands back control to the President
7:20 - 7:24 President calls for the Grammarians comments
7:24 - 7:28 General Evaluation
7:28 - 7:32 President’s Remarks / announcements.
7:32 - 7:35 Members Comments /selection of speakers & role players for next meeting
7.35 Termination of Meeting.

Agenda - Wed 05 Dec 2007 - Meeting 11 Year 02

2007-12-04T03:43:00.000-08:00

Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting 11 year 03
(5.30 p.m to 7.35 p.m)Wednesday 05 December, 2007
(Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78, Galle Road)

Toastmaster: President: Table Topic Master:
CC Ananth Selladoray CC Premelal Brahammanage Manjula Thawalapitiya

‘Ah’ Counter: Round Robin Master: Table Topics Evaluator:
Nishantha Danthanarayana Veerappan Sivagurunathan Ivan Kevitiyagala

Timer: Grammarian: General Evaluator
Sesiri Pethangoda CC Chandana Weerasekera Royston Joseph

5:30 - 5:50 Registration & Fellowship
5:50 – 5:53 Meeting called to order by President, National Anthem
5:53 – 6:05 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person
6:02 - 6:03 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.
6:03 – 6:04 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared speech session
6:04 – 6:55 Speaker & Level Level of Speech Evaluator
1 Lalin Fernando Ice Breaker Ivan Kevitiyagala
2 Anton Kevityagala CC5 CC Ananth Selladoray
3 Saman Perera CC6 CC Premelal Brahammanage
4 Sanath Silva Ice Breaker Saman Perera
5 Sajitha Kevityagala CC6 CC Chandana Weerasekera
6:55 - 7:10 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master
7:10 - 7:20 Table Topics session
7:20 - 7:23 Timers, Ah counter's reports and evaluations of table topics
7:23 - 7:24 Topicmaster thanks all and hands back control to the Toastmaster
7:24 - 7:25 Toastmaster hands back control to the President
7:25 - 7:27 President calls for the Grammarians comments
7:27 - 7:29 General Evaluation
7:29 - 7:32 President’s Remarks / announcements along with Installation feedback.
7:32 - 7:35 Members Comments /selection of speakers & role players for next meeting
7.35 Termination of Meeting- (Installation committee to stay back and Finish accounts)

Agenda - Wed 21 Nov 2007 - Meeting 10 Year 02

2007-11-14T08:44:00.000-08:00

Ralph Toastmasters Club - Educational Meeting 10 year 02
(5.30 p.m to 7.35 p.m)
Wednesday 21 November, 2007
(Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78, Galle Road)

Toastmaster: President: Table Topic Master:
CC Chanaka Perera CC Premelal Brahammanage TM Anton Kevityagal

‘Ah’ Counter: Round Robin Master: Table Topics Evaluator:
CC Karthik Ramachandran TM Nithila Muhunthan TM Sanjeeva Wimalasiri

Timer: Grammarian: General Evaluator
TM Wijitha Kumara CC Ananth Selladorai TM Saman Perera

Word of the Day -
P.M
5:30 - 5:50 Registration & Fellowship

5:50 – 5:53 Meeting called to order by President
National Anthem

5:53 – 6:05 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person

6:02 - 6:03 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.

6:03 – 6:04 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared speech session

6:04 – 6:55 Speaker & Level Level of Speech Evaluator
1 Sanath Silva Ice Breaker TM Saman Perera
2 E M Wijetillake CC3 TM Anton Kevitiyagala
3 Nalin Silva CC5 CC Chandana Weerasekera
4 Saman Perera CC6 TM Ivan Kevityagala
5 Ivan Kevitiyagala CC7 CC Karthik Ramachandran
6 Sanjeeva Wimalasiri CC7 CC Ananth Selladorai
7 Premelal Brahammanage ACB2 CC Chanaka Perera

6:55 - 7:10 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master

7:10 - 7:20 Table Topics session

7:20 - 7:23 Timers, Ah counter's reports and evaluations of table topics

7:23 - 7:24 Topicmaster thanks all and hands back control to the Toastmaster

7:24 - 7:25 Toastmaster hands back control to the President

7:25 - 7:27 President calls for the Grammarians comments

7:27 - 7:29 General Evaluation

7:29 - 7:32 President’s Remarks / announcements along with Installation feedback.

7:32 - 7:35 Members Comments /selection of speakers & role players for next meeting

7.35 Termination of Meeting- (Installation committee to stay back and Finish accounts)

Minutes Meeting 08 Year 02

2007-10-17T09:47:00.000-07:00

The meeting had an excellent gathering with 7 guests. Total attendance was over 25.
Proceedings started on time.
The Grammarian had presented his word of the day - " "
The round Robin session was given a topic to be spoken on as "Partners"
Ananth was Introduced as the Toastmaster of the day.
The prepared speeches session took off on time.

Nalin Silva spoke on Source chain management, evaluated by TM Saman
Manjula gave his icebreaker on a new tone/layout, evaluated by CC Premelal
Anton spoke on offshore Sri Lankan maids, evaluated by CC Ananth
Sanjeeva spoke on Bribery, evaluated by TM Janaka de Silva

However, It was noted that Nalin and Manjula had exceeded the time thus delaying the proceedings by 10 mins.
Table topics session started 15 mins late, thus allowing only 4 speakers to speak. The first t stand was our guest from India-Delhi. This was followed by Ivan, Anton and another guest.

Toastmaster on obtaining control from the Topics master handed back same to the President.

The General evaluator noted the mistakes and put them out in order.

By tis time time had passes 7:30pm. We were running late.

The Grammarian, Mr. Balraj had promised to Blog his report tomorrow.

President remarked on settling the Installation accounts and calling for cricket lovers t take part on the match planned on 04 November 2007.

The following gentleman had requested for speech slots for the First meeting in November, as all slots for the last week October have been taken up and confirmed.

Lalin Priyadhashana - CC 1
Premelal Brahammanage - ACB1
AL Balraj Arunasalem - ACS

At 7:52 pm the meeting was adjourned.

Agenda Meeting 09 Year 02

2007-10-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 31 October, 2007

(Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78, Galle Road)

Time: 5:30 pm till 7:30 pm

Toastmaster: CC Chandana Weerasekara
President: CC Premelal Brahammanage
Table Topic Master: CC Ananth Selladoray
‘Ah’ Counter: TM Lalin Priyadharshana
Round Robin Master: TM Ivan Kevityagala
Table Topics Evaluator: CC Premelal Brahammanage
Timer: TM Nalin Silva
Grammarian: CC Ananth Selladoray
General Evaluator: CC Chanaka Perera

Word of the Day -
P.M

5:30 - 5:50 Registration & Fellowship

5:50 – 5:53 Meeting called to order by President
National Anthem

5:53 – 6:05 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person

6:02 - 6:03 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.

6:03 – 6:04 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared
speech session

6:04 – 6:40 Prepared Speech session
Speaker Level Evaluator
1 TM Sanath Silva CC Project 1 - Ice Breaker to volunteer
2 TM Chandrasekeran CC Project 1 - Ice Breaker to volunteer
3 TM Nirmal Nanayakkara CC Project 3 to volunteer
4 TM Alexander Sathyanathan CC Project 6 to volunteer
5 TM Saman Perera CC Project 5 to volunteer

6:40 - 6:52 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master

6:52 - 7:10 Table Topics session

7:10 - 7:18 Timers, Ah counter's reports and evaluations of table topics

7:18 - 7:19 Topic master thanks all and hands back control to the Toastmaster

7:19 - 7:20 Toastmaster hands back control to the President

7:20 - 7:23 President calls for the Grammarians comments

7:23 - 7:26 General Evaluation

7:26 - 7:28 President’s Remarks / announcements along with Installation feedback.
7:28 - 7:30 Members Comments /selection of speakers & role players for next meeting
7.30 Termination of Meeting

Cricket - 04 Nov

2007-10-11T09:18:00.000-07:00

Cricket has been a topic generally spoken during roun robin sessions or table topic sessions within our meetings. Never have we ever got a chance to play it.

Apparently, the opportunity for each toastmaster to play the dream game with fellow toastmasters is just around the corner.

Ralph, being an energetic, fun loving, innovative club feels that we should not have 1 team. Not even 2 ,but with the grace of god, say three. The only matter stopping us is the rule that each time Has to.........I repeat...HAS TO have one lovely lady. Thereby, Janaka is on the hunt to track down the ladies to fill in the gaps.

However, the following teams have been outlined. Interested persons are requested to jot in their names with the teams they would like to be in with.

Team A - Ralph 'Presidents League'
(The Seniors within Ralph Toastmasters)
Premelal
Chandana
Nishantha
Nithila - She is the female...if most did not know....!
4 more to be chosen/ to volunteer

Team B - Ralph 'Dreamers'
(The young and Energetic - who dream a lot.....about whom? don't ask me...!)
Janaka
Karthik
Sajitha
Lady- yet to be chosen
4 more to be chosen/ to volunteer + the above Lady

Team C - Ralph 'Warriors'
(Firm, committed, go-getter types....their attitude shows it all)
Ananth
Siva
Chanaka
Lady - Do we have any more????
4 more to be chosen/to volunteer + 1 Lady to be found by Janaka....!

Cricket it shall be when Winter starts....Enroll....!!

K!

Agenda - Meeting 08 Year 02

2007-10-10T09:54:00.001-07:00

Wednesday 17 October, 2007

(Samudra Hotel, Ceylon Hotel School, 78, Galle Road)

Time: 5:30 pm til 7:30pm

President : CC Premelal Brahamanage
Toastmaster : CC Ananth Selladoray
Topic Master : TM Sesiri Pethangoda
Timer : TM Lalin Priyadhashana
Ah Counter: TM Ivan Kevityagal
Round Robin Master: TM Sanath Silva
Grammarian: AL Arunasalam Balraj
Tabel Topics Evaluator: TM Janaka De Silva
General Evaluator: TM Saman Perera

5:30 - 5:50 Registration & Fellowship

5:50 – 5:53 Meeting called to order by President, National Anthem

5:53 – 6:05 Introduction of Timer and Round Robin Session- 20 seconds per person

6:02 - 6:03 President introduces the Toastmaster and hands over control.

6:03 – 6:04 Toastmaster introduces "Ah" counter & conducts the Prepared speech session

6:04 – 6:40 Prepared Speeches
Speaker & Level Evaluator
1 TM Nalin Perera CC Project 3
2 TM Manjula Thawalampitiya CC Project 1 - Ice Breaker
3 TM Anton Kevityagala CC Project 4
4 TM Sanjeeva Wimalasiri CC Project 6
5 TM Saman Perera CC Project 5

6:40 - 6:52 Call for report of Timer and ‘Ah’ Counter & Evaluation of speeches
Toastmaster Thanks everybody & hands over control to Topic Master

6:52 - 7:10 Table Topics session

7:10 - 7:15 Timers, Ah counter's reports and evaluations of table topics

7:15 - 7:16 Topicmaster thanks all and hands back control to the Toastmaster

7:16 - 7:17 Toastmaster hands back control to the President

7:17 - 7:21 President calls for the Grammarians comments

7:21 - 7:24 General Evaluation

7:24 - 7:26 President’s Remarks / announcements along with Installation feedback.

7:26 - 7:30 Members Comments /selection of speakers & role players for next meeting
7:30 Termination of Meeting- (Installation committee to stay back and Finish accounts)

Joint Meeting with Colombo Toastmasters Club

2007-10-10T09:43:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, the 10th October was a great day for Ralph Toastmasters Club as it was our first joint meeting, and that too with the prestigious Colombo Toastmasters Club at the Taj Samudra's Lower Crystal. The meeting, per plan had begun on time and indeed we saw that the organization was somewhat different to our meetings. A dedicated registration table, placed at the entrance to track all entering; the Grammarian's role being given quite a lot of weightage; and only 3 speaches thus allowwing more time for Table topics. Further, at the beginning, the invocation being read is another which we could look at.

However, I had personally felt that the warmth is generally better with Ralph. For example, I for a matter of fact, found it difficult when walking in as only my fellow Ralph members greeted me. I believe, it is this simple fact of making each guest welcome within the club, where we - Ralphy's score a goal.

But, I should once again re-enforce that there was a lot of take home for us, to plan out our future meetings with such changes for the betterment of Ralph Toastmaster's club.

We, are about to change....Dont Resist it...!

K!

Hidden word of the day and Free Association

2007-09-22T07:58:00.000-07:00

The last Toastmaster meeting was a very peculiar one. To start with most of the members were stuck in an expected but unexpected traffic block in front of the army head quarters. In fact the member had decided to have the meeting while they were waiting for the important VIP to make his entry or exit from the HQ. This gave a good reason for the meeting to start late. Even I was behind schedule but the events mentioned above perfectly suited me.

The meeting started and the president in consultation with the senior members decided to give the round robin session a cold shoulder and moved to the prepared speeches directly. While Janaka was basking with pleasure with the company of a fairer sex, Alexander was at it in educating the members about Reiki. For those who missed out the speech Reiki is a technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. The next was an inspiring icebreaker by TM Royston Joseph. He made us realize how important it is to relax and take a laid back approach in certain aspects of life.

Balraj took the entire membership by storm. He introduced to us the term called Free Association. Most members thoughts started wondering to all parts of the world about there associations with what ever! He enlightened the membership as to how to make impromptu speeches. Free Association is a psychoanalytic therapy, spontaneous, uncensored verbalization by the patient of whatever comes to mind. He made sure that all the members are fully relaxed and also educated most of us as to how to breathe in life. Surprisingly, the two members who volunteered to demonstrate the breathing technique actually ended up increasing there carbon dioxide intake rather than oxygen. He also made sure that the membership caught up with the round robin and table topics. Well done Balraj we need people like you to make sure the club breaths!

The word of the day was dexterous. The grammarian showed is dexterity by inserting the word of the day in such a way in the agenda that no one noticed. However I have nothing to regret as in this whole exercise the grammarian report was also given a cold shoulder. Sorry K!

Message by Ralph TM mentor

2007-09-22T07:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Ralph Members

I just wrote my message to the Raplh souvenir. I wrote some thing and cut it off since I did not want our guest and the public to read.

I thought I will share that with our group only. The words go like this,

Chandana’s dedicated leadership in the first year especially calling every member and following up on them makes our members realize how much they miss. More importantly he makes members who don’t attend meetings to feel guilty of them selves although
They have paid their subs to be a member.

I know some of my friends who was brought to the club by me will enjoy this.

Mistakes in Toastmasters

2007-09-15T01:08:00.000-07:00

I was at the Toastmasters meeting last Wednesday, and since we had more guests than members that evening (I know members of other clubs are jealous), the guests did a round of introductions. I remember the first time I had to introduce myself and at that time what went in my mind was to become a good speaker and to complete the communications manual. I did not want to stop coming to Toastmasters as I continuously use the meetings to test material and delivery. This is because making mistakes in Toastmasters is all part of it.

I find many guests and even members still having the stigma that making a mistake in Toastmasters during a speech or round robbin session is an embarrassment. I find Toastmasters to be a great environment for making mistakes and taking risks. I’ve done purely management and technology related, and for once gave a speech on adultery. The supportive atmosphere of Toastmasters allows me to experiment well beyond the edges of what I’ve had the opportunity to do in front of other audiences. And I find that Toastmaster audiences appreciate a bit of wackiness and creativity, since they’ve already seen standard prepared speeches loads of times before.

This experimentation has greatly broadened my range as a speaker. I’d never given a humorous speech or used props or tried unusual delivery methods before joining Toastmasters. But now I’m convinced it’s actually less risky to take risks. As a speaker I find I have a better chance of success if I stray a bit off the “safe” path. If I give a speech just like anyone else would, even if my content and delivery are excellent, the reception will usually be lukewarm. I’m not providing enough value to the audience. But if I do something a bit odd or unusual, it keeps the audience awake and attentive.

What Toastmasters has shown me is just how important it is to keep the audience entertained while you attempt to educate them.

Make this better before the Installation

2007-09-13T00:57:00.000-07:00

I know that each and every person of you is busy. However, it would not take much of time to suggest vital facts with respect to this site. The long term plan is infact to have a backup online from Agenda's to minutes of all important meetings. Even the Grammarian role would be easier with the Grammarians slips out before the meeting is on and out to check.

The spell check is also linked so that you dont have to check the online dictionary.

If you need a new house, Ive popped a link for you to get in touch with. Easy payment options available for all, esp toastmasters, better ones for ladies...lol.

The Toastmasters site is also linked for quick references along with a few other links for professional development.

However, It is open for suggestions. Please make it an option to login whenever you can to suggest your valuable details.

In the meanwhile, i have been on the lookout for a good Toasmaster's Logo. It is not available online or I cannot find the necessary link. Please send me the link if you have it.

Lets meet soon before the installation.

awesome...!
K!

Humour and Evaluator's contest

2007-09-10T10:23:00.000-07:00

The Humour contest for which our super weights Siva, Premelal and Chanaka are planning to take part, is to be held on 15th September 2007 at Kurunagela. For those who would like to take part and encouraging our participants, please communicate matters to me in order to avail transport procedures and suggest the financial pie, if any.

However, our area governor did mention that a suggestion to postpone the same to the 22nd Sep is sought after. Lets all hope for the best.

There is also an evaluations contest cum workshop, for which further details shall be posted in the days to come....!

K!

Members List

2007-09-10T10:18:00.000-07:00

Dear Ralph Toastmasters,

I am pleased to inform that the members names have been added along with the next project they are planning to perform soon. Please check and offer your suggestions. If you need to make a change, please mail me at kar79j@hotmail.com or comment on this blog. We need this sorted out to prepare the roster for a planned movement upwards the ladder.

Looking forward to your immediate action.

K!

Cracking start

2007-09-10T01:17:00.000-07:00

It has been only few weeks of the Toastmaster year and the club is already making a good showing. President CC Premelal Brahmanage even though is yet to be formerly installed has had a cracking start (at least the post meeting water sessions!). With his dedication towards the Toastmasters cause, all can be assured of the fact that this year, like the previous year is going to be filled with action. VP Ed. CC Karthik Ramachandran has already got into action in two fronts. On one side he has initiated the blog (and we must all appreciate this fact) and on the other side he is breaking hearts at Standard Charted Bank as if it is anybodies business.

I think the key for us to start in this manner is the unimaginable effort put in by CC Chandana Weerasekera. I still remember him calling every Wednesday (I thank the current president for replacing the miserable call with a beautiful ladies voice). That reminds of the fact that I have not heard Nithila’s beautiful voice for quite some time.

The moment that got me very excited had nothing to do with official achievements. The excitement came of the fact that Last meeting was shocking (I am still recovering) as there were more guests than members! TM Janaka De Silva was at his best and I can assure you that this Toastmaster year, he will have cent percent attendance. My recommendation to the President is that we must focus Janaka’s energy to complete all the ten speeches within this year.

Finally for us to make sure that this cracking start makes it thorough, all members must pay there dues on time. I haven’t seen TM Ivan Kevitiyagala (treasurer) around for sometime. I think he is mentally preparing himself to receive the large sum of money as subscription.

Installation of 2nd President

2007-09-09T09:25:00.000-07:00

29th September, happens to be the mos important day for us this year when the incoming President CC Premelal Brahmanage shall be installed as President. The event is being lined up and shall be informed within a week. Therefore, we request all of you to keep this date free in your calendars, as its a once in a year, innovative, and Ralph-type event.

Await details.

Rgds
Karthik
VP Ed

Whats 'Toastmasters' ?

2007-09-09T08:46:00.000-07:00

The first question that comes to mind is.....do we get to taste wine or liquor?
Sorry, but the answer is NO!

Secondly, Is it about giving Toasts'?.....Somewhere close, but still NO!

So, What are we?

The Toastmasters club is an organization started by Mr. Ralph C Smedley, for creating a pathway for good energetic and fluent speakers. The meetings are dedicated to making you better communicators as well as Leaders. The Toastmasters is also looked at as a professional degree, where for every speech/ evaluation made, you shall be evaluated and given the pro's and con's to make you better every time.

For further questions, please feel free to login to http://www.toastmasters.org and re-discover a whole new world.

Warm Regards
Karthik

Who are we?

2007-09-09T08:41:00.000-07:00

We are the members of the Ralph toastmasters club, who have a different attitude with the exotic Sri Lankan tradition and Spice. What we follow is the norms of the regular Toastmasters International and implement the same in our own way to maximize the benefits of the same.

If you would like to experience us, feel free to drop in to our meeting place any time and feel at home.

Warm rgds
Karthik Ramachandran
VP Education