This evening, I attended the Taman Indrahana Toastmasters meeting. It was an awesome meeting because the attendees’ energy levels were shooting through the roof. I admit that our normal meetings were already witnessing lofty altitudes of earnest enthusiasm but today it was just so special. It was a fun-filled meeting that was bursting with impassioned intensity. We had 28 Toastmasters and non-Toastmasters – 14 Indrahanians and 14 guests (including 4 Toastmasters from other clubs, i.e. Maxis, Scope, MAICSA and KL Advanced). If I am not mistaken, two or is it three guests (i.e. non-Toastmasters) decided to sign up!
I was one of three project speakers and I was delivering my CC speech # 8 Get Comfortable with Visual Aids. My speech title was “Pens and a Notebook” and my two visual aids were a clutch of six colorful pens (courtesy of the participants at the Star Education Fair) and a notebook that contained samples of my writings (corralled in two hours before the start of the meeting proper). I put myself down to deliver this speech at the eleventh hour only because Thian Seng who was the original speaker was unwell and he had to pull out. The idea of using pens and a notebook was really creative thinking on my part! Sometimes I surprised myself. And I must admit it was a good speech too. In fact, all three speakers were awesome, and so were the evaluators! Even Lily Fu as the General Evaluator was effusive in her praise for the club.
I was one of three project speakers and I was delivering my CC speech # 8 Get Comfortable with Visual Aids. My speech title was “Pens and a Notebook” and my two visual aids were a clutch of six colorful pens (courtesy of the participants at the Star Education Fair) and a notebook that contained samples of my writings (corralled in two hours before the start of the meeting proper). I put myself down to deliver this speech at the eleventh hour only because Thian Seng who was the original speaker was unwell and he had to pull out. The idea of using pens and a notebook was really creative thinking on my part! Sometimes I surprised myself. And I must admit it was a good speech too. In fact, all three speakers were awesome, and so were the evaluators! Even Lily Fu as the General Evaluator was effusive in her praise for the club.
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Prime Minister Najib Razak announced on January 09 the formation of a royal commission of inquiry (RCI) to review the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigation procedures but it will not probe Teoh Beng Hock's mysterious death.Najib does not seem to realize that the most important thing that needs to be resolved is a proper closure to Teoh's sudden and unexplained death. Surely his family deserves to know why he never walked out alive after his protraced session at the MACC. Or is it that Najib does not really care? The fact that a RCI is to be established would indicate that the government is admitting the culpability of the said agency. And by limiting the scope, clearly, no one will be prosecuted over Teoh’s wrongful death. It is hair-raising to imagine that possible malefactors within the agency will continue to enjoy freedom, that they will not be brought to justice.
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Lawyer Gobind Singh Deo echoed Lee Lan’s call to Najib to extend the RCI’s scope of investigations to include the circumstances surrounding Teoh’s fatal fall and not limit it to MACC procedural matters only. Gobind was right when he maintained that Teoh was in the MACC’s custody at the time, and that the MACC must, therefore, be held accountable. Will Najib listen? I shall just have to wait and see.
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