Pick up a book and change your perspective!

A good December to all of you public speakers!

When was the last time you have read a book or novel? Do you think that read is worth a share?
Please come down to Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters club and share your ideas on reading at:-

VENUE: YMCA Centre, Jalan Macalister, Penang

TIME: 8pm - 10pm

DATE: 3rd December 2014

Please contact President Sam Koay (017-6739098) or Ai Li (017-5823699) for further details!
We hope to you see there too! :)

So you think you can DANCE????!!

Hello Again!!!
How many of you have watched the show called "So You Think You Can Dance"? Do you think you are able to dance better than the person who won in the show? If yes, then join us for our "So You Think You Can Dance" Speech Contest. It will be held at Gurney Beach Resort at 8pm sharp on the 28th of August. It will be one of the most exciting and memorable nights as you will be able to see who will "dance" better on stage with their "movements". Just come and dance with us!
* Admission is free and to public.

Our Next Meeting!! 21st AUG 2013

Dear All,

Our next meeting is on the 21st of August 2013. Our theme will be a Hari Raya theme.So, please try to dress in your most awesome "baju raya" ya. We will be providing some snacks as well as some raya packets which is packed with SECRET..Wanna know the SECRET? Join us and find out about it. It will be an exciting night to remember. See You! :)

How fun??

Hey there Fellow Toastmasters and guest. Want to know how fun we are in Gurney-Hydro Toastmasters Club? Now, I am going to show it to you through a few pictures.

 Say hello to our Toastmaster's of the Evening, CC1 speaker of the evening and the evaluator!!!

 

The TOE and the Boss, which is our Mr. President 

Having their relax session by talking and talking non-stop. LOL!

One of the pioneer member and the rest of the men. Looking all "macho".

We will post up more fun and exciting pictures in the future, so make sure you check out our blog soon for new updates.
Do join us for the next meeting which will be held on the 21st of August 2013 at Gurney Beach Resort. See you there!

New details about our new "Home"

Hello again. This coming Wednesday (31st July 2013) we will be having our meeting at Gurney Beach Resort, which is our new "home". Our new home is located opposite of Gurney Tower / Gurney Hotel. Members and guest will have to sign in through the guard house.Our meeting starts at 8pm to 10pm on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month.
Do come by and join us with lots of fun during the meeting.

Good Deed followed by Good Food @ Pulau Aman

Lend a Helping Hand

It was a meaningful weekend…

Association Yee Ran Jing Sheh Handicapped Children’s Home has been around since end of 2002 around Bukit Tengah. They are an independent, non-governmental and non-profit association that is registered under the Jabatan Pendaftaran Pertubuhan Pulau Pinang. They basically provide shelter and care for the physically and mentally handicapped children and adults. Up to date, thay have 56 inmates living in this home.

Through observations at the home, it is to note that most of the inmates are bed-ridden and suffer from moderate cases of hydrocephalus (water build-up of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain leading to enlargement and swelling), rheumatoid arthritis (frozen and locked joints) and deformational posterior plagiocephaly (flat facial bones on the back of the forehead).


The committee members are dependent on funds raised through fairs, donations from various NGO organisations and on-off contributions from avid philanthropists. Donations from public can be rather sparse during non-festive season.

All contributions will be utilized for the expansion of the building and other daily use materials that they require.

Gurney-Hydro Club, in collaboration with Hydro Hotel, has visited the Association Yee Ran Jing Sheh Handicapped Children’s Home over the weekend.

In a short period of two weeks, we have raised a whooping RM 9,429 and collected donation in goods from friends and family.

This day would not have been successful if not for support and kind donations from the following:

A group of young & happening kind hearts from Gurney-Hydro Club
Hydro Hotel – GM & staffs
Pentamaster – CEO & staffs
UMW – Sam & colleagues
Agilent – Weng Keong & colleagues
KCS Electrical Sdn Bhd
Sofresh Marketing Sdn Bhd
GST Fine Foods Sdn Bhd
Yogee Enterprise
Flantech
D’Quest Venture
..…and many more kind individuals

After some good deed, we headed off to Pulau Aman for some good food followed by a Toastmasters meeting. Hmmmm? Now, who says Toastmasters ain’t fun? Our pictures says it all.

















Everyone was waiting for the boat to arrive at the Jetty. We were so excited when the boat arrive. Little did we realized, we left Lynda and Weng Keong behind. (Of course we went back to get them)







The boat ride only took us about 10 minutes to get us over to Pulau Aman.

















Soo Huey and my personal favourite is the Mee Udang Goreng. Yuuuummmmm... After our makan session, we continue with the usual Toastmasters meeting.


Kyle doing his Speech Project No 4 on "How to Say It". Title of his speech was “Waking Up in Turpan”. Hehe, dunno what’s Turpan, well, too bad, you’ve got to be present to find out more.

As for Joanne, thanks for sharing with us on tips on what's required for Humourous Speech Competition.

Just look at her facial expression, you would have known how interesting the “Battle of the Sexes” was :)


Word of the Day by Sam – “KIND”. In French translation by Jacques – “gentil”.

After evaluations and all, we left for Penang about 4:30pm.

That afternoon, we all went home happily knowing that we have all done our little part to change someone else's life. Thanks again for those that had contributed in every ways.

That’s it for now…. Till we blog again. Tada~

Exercising Our Muscles And Traditions @ Pantai Kerachut!

One fine day (June 7), members of the Gurney Hydro TMC decided to take a stroll in the jungle and to be one with nature at the "End of the World".

It took us an hour to strenuously wade through the jungle trek, among pesky mosquitos, huge ants, and fallen logs. It was so very tough that we had to play a game - everyone in the hiking line had to construct a word based on the last alphabet of a word started by another person, etc.


All the while, Bernard was way out up front leading the way. More exercise needed eh, other members of the Gurney-Hydro TMC?

Thankfully, when we reached the "End of the World", the world didn't end with a sheer cliff off into oblivion. Instead, we were presented with a beautiful beach.

What's to do on a beautiful beach on a lovely sunny day, you may ask?

Well, for one, you could hold a Toastmasters meeting. We held a short Toastmaster's meeting where the TOM was in charge (TOM = Toastmasters of the Morning). Dylan gave an assignment speech and table topics centered around the being one with nature. That is - the topics required the participants to choose an object where they would associate themselves with and give a speech for at least 1 minute. During the process, we learned that the French word for "joyful" is "joyeaux" from Bernard.

Another thing to do on a beautiful beach would be to throw your Immediate Past President (IPP) into the ocean. Yes. This is our wacked Gurney-Hydro tradition of sending off the ex-President at the end of the term. Remember how King Arthur was mysteriously carried off to Avalon in a boat after he was mortally wounded during the Last Battle? We were thinking of something similar, but there was no boat for Queen Joanne.

Incoming President Chan will need to hire some bodyguards next year. Anyone up for hire?

Of course, how could we forget food?? While we were savoring bits and pieces of kuih and sandwiches to make up for our glycogen losses, Wan and Bernard were chatting away on the origins of the universe, Easter Island, evolution, aliens, and string theory.

The truth is out there...

It was already past noontime when the feeding frenzy ended, so we ended up taking a few more photos and hitching a boat ride back to the main entrance of the hike.

Alas, we were still hungry so we ended up at "No Eye Deer" for our late lunch. It's really confusing if you tell people over the phone that you are at "No Eye Deer" for lunch, but it's not as bad as say... the place called "Bed" (in Bellissa Row). Imagine telling "I am in [insert shop name] with John and Mary, you wanna join?"

That would make a grown man blush.