sbnl 2015 216 (1st issue)

Serendib Breeze (First Issue) Page 1

Installation Ceremony (P3) 14th Annual Awards Night (P5)

Speak-A-Thon (P8) First DTM (P9)

SBNL Editorial Team;

Publisher: TM Abdul Munaf (VPPR)

Chief Editor: TM Sunil Bhat

Chief QA: TM Ifthiquar Noohu

Editor : TM Afdhal Saheer

Facilitator: TM Fazmy Safwan

First Issue

2015/2016


Message from our President

It gives me pleasure to share many important moments and highlights through Serendibs Newsletter publication.

Having gone through a fruitful and busy period of time, filled with many activities in and around Serendib, our Editorial Team has come up with an excellent idea to release such memorable moments with theme-based publications one after another.

I can recall that we had our first ever separate induction ceremony which was unique for Serendib, followed by the gala event Annual Awards Night 2015. That was another excellent outcome of Serendibians unity and hard work. Having a series of mock contests and training sessions, the first Speak-A-Thon (speech marathon as we called it) was another achievement our VP Education team exhibited during this period.

Recruitment of some talented and promising members added strength and value to the club which already has committed and skilful members. This was another milestone achieved by our VPM and AVPM this year. This made Serendib to achieve its first ribbon Smedley Award during August/September 2015. Talk up Toastmasters ribbon has now become a reality too, as we have already added 4 members and two more guests are waiting for induction before 31st March. We are sure our able VPM team will do their best to achieve their target. As of today we have 49 members in the main club.

The current status of DCP is Select Distinguished with 7 points made. We have members yet to complete a few of their projects to earn the balance two points to qualify for the President Distinguished Club status this year too.

It has been experienced that the first half of the tenure gave the team little opportunity to develop the skills of its members. This is due to a series of holiday seasons, induction ceremony, awards night celebration, mock contests followed by Club, Area contests etc..., the President and EXCOM is determined to ease the burden of next EXCOM (2016/2017) to claim the DCP at ease, before January. This will enable the club to get ready for the competitions ahead of time and undergo trainings required to face challenges.

The awareness and demand for Gavel membership increased tremendously. We already reached 50 members in Boys club and about 30 members in Girls Gavel. The EXCOM has already initiated a process to make a shadow Boys Club to manage the currently overcrowd of members and to maintain quality and to provide justice with equal opportunity to all the boys. Soon a separate shadow boys club will become reality.

This year we experienced a record number of contestants participated for Table Topics and Speech Evaluation Contests that created a need for preliminary rounds of contest before the final one. This is a unique situation we manage appropriately.

The results of club contests, the success at Area Contest and Division achievement are remarkable and the entire credit goes to the respected mentors, contestants and the general members who volunteered for the sake of Serendib. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those committed seniors members, mentors and

others for their dedication, understanding and support. MOHAMED I.M. ZUBAIR

President


Installation Ceremony 2015/2016

Serendib Toastmasters and its

Gavel Clubs officers

Installation Ceremony was

held in a grand style on

31stOctober 2015 at Al-Mas

Family Restaurants Banquet

Hall, Al Malaz. This was the

first time in the history of

Serendib Toastmasters Club

that it was held separately outside the annual awards night.

TM Rizan started the

ceremony with his welcome

speech and then Our Area 6

Director TM Prabakara

Magesh was invited to the

stage to discharge the

current Executive Committee

and appreciate them w ith

certificates of recognition for

the successful completion of

their tenure. He then came on

stage to take oath from the

incoming Executive Committee members and Install them

officially for the year 2015/16.


TM Thangasamy was invited to discharge the Outgoing Gavel

executive committee members of both Serendib Boys and Girls

gavel Clubs. Gavel Counselors TM Nirone Dissanayake and TM

Afdhal presented the certificates to the Boys and girls

respectively. Then TM Thangasamy was invited again to the

stage to install the newly elected officers of both boys and girls

clubs and he officially installed the officers for the year 2015/16.

Awards Night 2014/2015

The 14th Awards night of

Serendib Toastmasters Club was held

on 13th November 2015, at the Hilton

Garden Inn, Olaya, Riyadh.

Newly Installed Executive

Committee Members with

Past Presidents Portion of the audience enjoying the

proceedings

Gavelier Girls & Boys

Posing for Group Photo


The Chief Guest

HE Azmi Thassim, the

Ambassador for Sri

Lanka, the guest of

Honor DTM Abdullah A.

Al Sharif, Special

Invitees, Sponsors,

Parents, Gaveliers and

members enjoyed the

gala event which

ended with a Grand

Buffet. The person

behind this success, the Deputy Project Chair TM Mohamed

Hilmy had to say this after the success of the event;

Dear All, I take this

opportunity to thank the

team for making the

Awards Night for the Year

2014/2015, a great

success. Let me give you

a detail brief of

Toastmasters and

Gaveliers who supported

& added value to it...

He ended his

speech saying; I dont

think we would have achieved this success without the team

work with devotion and hard work.

Receiving the Guest of Honor

Chief Guest being introduced to Guest of Honor


Highlight of the Award Winners

Award Name Main Club Gavel Boys

Club

Gavel Girls

Club

Most Enthusiastic Samantha D.

Silva Firas Cassim

Thachitri

Arunagirinadan

Most Improved Mohammad

Saheer

Zamil

Zameek Sarah Kamil

Outstanding Officer Ferasath

Cassim

Hasheef

Uwais

Ragavi

Thangasamy

Most Dedicated Gihan Tissera Kevin Peiris Aarah Ahmed

Most Committed Hathim Taslim Hamdan

Afdhal Ameera Rizni

Most Supportive Farhan A

Gafoor Imad Ameer Suruthi Leon

President Award Rizan Anver Firas Cassim Nuha Rizan

Abdul Munaf Aziz (Main Club)

Stefanie Christine (Girls Gavel Club)

Naveeth Riyas (Boys Gavel Club)

OUTSTANDING TOASTMASTER/GAVELIER OF THE YEAR 2014/2015

Other Toastmaster/Gavelier Awards 2014/2015


Speech Marathon (Speak-A-Thon)

The club conducted

the speech marathon on

Tuesday 01st December with a

great success and

appreciations by the 4 Guests

and 25 Members who were

there to witness a life-times

wonderful speeches and a

Member achieving a great

milestone. As for the Synopsis;

Toastmaster of the evening,

TM Ferasath invited the

evaluators to read the speech

criteria and then called the

speakers one by one.

The first

Speaker was TM

Jazuli who

gave his Ice

Breaker,

explained

where he was born, who his

parents were, where he

studied and his first and

current work. He had a very

good flow and was very

confident. The second

Speaker TM Jaan, who

opened the speech vibrantly

to do the CC manuals 4th

project. He started his speech

by giving us

some data

about the

number of

suicide deaths

in Sri Lanka

and then

slowly moved to a mini story

about a friend of his and his

colleague, a calm lady

teacher. He kept the

audience captivated and

curious. It was a marvelous

speech, quite dramatized. The

third speaker was TM Farhan

again from the CC Manuals

4th project. TM Farhan started

describing about his native

area Helboda,

where he was

born and

raised up. He

spoke about

the

breathtaking

landscapes and a rich cultural

heritage, the land of Paradise

that Sri Lanka was blessed with.

He invited the entire members

and guests to visit these

places when they travel next

to Sri Lanka. He had a great


flow and was

very vibrant.

The fourth

speaker TM

Gihan did the

4th project

from the CC manual. Our

Evaluation champion again

displayed his great talent in

speech delivery, where he

spoke about mistakes and

how we have to learn from

them. He had a great voice,

great flow and was very

confident.

The fifth

speaker

was TM

Fazmy

whose

project

was the 3rd speech from the

ACB manual Story Telling.

He started to narrate his

personal story, according to

the criteria in the manual to

describe about his own

experience about finding a

life-partner. He had very good

humor, voice modulation and

was very vibrant.

The sixth and the final

speaker was TM Thangasamy,

who was delivering his final

speech from ACG Manuals

10th project. TM Thangasamy

exhibited a live show on

television, where he explained

about mail merging

techniques in Microsoft Word,

step by step.

His presentation was

very smooth and informative.

The entire

crowd got

the easy

techniques

of mail

merging

and

everyone showed their

gratitude for TM Thangasamy

for bringing in an important

presentation.

TM Afdhal was invited

to the lectern by the host to

give a presentation on how to

prepare speeches from CC4

to CC6. He gave a very useful

presentation for members who

are in line to finish their

speeches to get qualified for

the next Club Contest to be

held in January.


Serendibs First DTM

The Presiding officer TM Zubair together with VP

Education, Asst. VP Education, and Past Presidents

recognized the great achievements of TM Thangasamy,

who had just completed all requirements to become

the Distinguish Toastmaster (DTM), the first ever active

DTM of the club. Our President

and VP Education TM Gihan

honored TM Thangasamy with

the ACG and DTM Pins. The DTM

ribbon was presented to DTM

Thangasamy by TM Kolitha. The

entire crowd gave a standing ovation to

DTM Thangasamy and wished him all the best.

DTM Thangasamy speaking to the audience while

appreciating persuaded all members to finish their speeches fast.

He asked the members, not to look for perfection in their speeches,

and said that it was the responsibility of evaluators to motivate the

speakers to do better.

Fellow members had this to say on his achievement;

Heartfelt Congratulations DTM Thangasamy!

DTM Thangasamy, made it with his passion and determination and we are very proud of his achievement, today. He is the first member among us who started his CC in our club and achieved the most prestigious DTM award within the floors of Serendib. In his journey to achieve DTM title, he had learned a lot and given all what he learned to Serendibians and other toastmasters in Riyadh.

TM Zubair,

President

Congratulations DTM

Thangasamy, we are

lucky to have you in

our club. You are a role

model for us.

Wishing you more

success in the future

TM Imamudeen,

SAA


Members Corner

My Experience as a Gavelier (This Article was missed to be published in the Annual Serendib Breeze magazine)

It has been

two months

since I

joined the

Serendib

Girls Gavel

club, It gives me an immense

pleasure to be in this globally

recognized organization

which has helped more than 4

million people around the

world to better their speaking

and leadership skills and to

emerge as leaders. When I first

joined as a guest I was feeling

a bit nervous, but later after

getting inducted as a Gavelier

and started doing Table

Topics and Prepared

Speeches I had some

confidence which I am happy

about. Weeks passed by as a

Gavelier and the confidence

in me developed further. I

know as a fact that one day I

can become one of the best

speakers. This platform will

help me throughout this

journey. There are senior

Gaveliers who are willing to

help me in my upcoming

projects. The biggest strength

are the Gavel counselors from

the Serendib Toastmaster club,

whose excellent guidance

and dedication are of

immense value. I am not here

because anyone forced me

to, but because I wanted to

improve my speaking skills and

one day to become a good

competent and public

speaker. So far through my

progress, I have achieved the

best speaker ribbon and my

ultimate goal is to become

the Gavelier of the Year.

Finally I would like to

encourage my friends who

are still not Gaveliers to join

this wonderful club which

gives us a chance to

experience speaking in front

of an audience and to

develop good leadership skills.

10th Nov 2015

Gavelier Christina Almeda

Serendib Girls Gavel Club

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