372nd Meeting: Remontada!

Filcom International TMC

372nd Meeting Summary

15th February 2020

“Remontada”

The Sergeant at Arms, TM Fouad Al-Fares, came to the venue early to set up the meeting room together with the Ex-com.

Four (4) valued guests did register for tonight’s meeting. However, the decline in member’s attendance is indeed noticeable, where only 15 had attended. Other members were noted to have served as role players in the Area Contest.

MEETING PROPER

The meeting has started on time and then kicked off by TM Fouad Al-Fares, Sergeant of Arms, by reading the mission statement and stating the safety guidelines before handing over the stage to the President who has officially opened the 372nd Meeting. He has then requested the guests to introduce their selves individually before handing over the lectern to the TMOD, Nasser.

Nasser, the TMOD, has brilliantly started his segment by explaining the theme, “REMONTADA” which means “coming back” and played a video of a football team who have not given up and kept coming back until they succeeded. It was indeed engaging and inspiring.

The TMOD then introduced the role players by stating their ‘Remontadas’ before commencing with the prepared speeches.

Grammarian – TM Diana May Tangente

Timer – TM Raffy Gimeno

Ah Counter – TM Manij Lakhey

💼 PREPARED SPEECHES

The first speech entitled, Make Your Holiday a Discovery, was delivered by TM Khadar Abdi Hanan, where he has shared to us his travel adventures in New Zealand and told us his thrilling experience of being bombarded by questions from the immigration officer in which he has answered calmly that let him successfully passed the checkpoint.

The first speech was evaluated by TM Satish Shah.

The second speech entitled, a Eulogy in honor for a Great Man, was delivered by TM Nadim Bitar, where he had opened his heart that is full of compassion and love to his late friend/colleague who just passed away a few days back. His speech indeed was so moving as it was genuine and with pure love.

The second speech was evaluated by TM Diana May Tangente.

The third speech, an in-situ speech, was delivered by TM Joseph Amande. And once again, have proven how seasoned speaker he was. Part of his project is to let the audience ask a question and he will deliver his impromptu speech where he has easily and creatively responded by a well-structured speech and carefully selected wordings. He has then successfully completed his project with flying colors.

The third speech was evaluated by TM Shyam Sundar.

The TMOD has concluded the Prepared Speeches and handed over the lectern to the Table Topics Master.

💼 TABLE TOPICS

TM Michelle Macaraig has chaired the Table Topic Segment where she first explains the mechanics for the benefit of the guests.

Table Topics was hidden in each number where the volunteers have to choose from and answer accordingly.

Five (5) Volunteers have willingly taken the stage including 2 of the guests and spontaneously answered the chosen questions and it was indeed fun.

TM Joseph Amande evaluated the Table Topics segment.

The TTM has then concluded the segment and handed back the lectern over to the TMOD.

💼 EVALUATION

The Evaluation Segment has then commenced after a 10-minute break where the General Evaluator, TM Mohammad Farooq, then called his evaluators and role players to report their observations on the meeting.

The audience was then called to vote for the best evaluator and best segment host of the evening.

AWARDING

The Winners for tonight’s meeting was then announced and awarded with certificates as follows:

🏆 Best Speaker Award – TM Nadim Bitar
🏆 Best Table Topics Award – TM Mohammad Farooq
🏆 Best Evaluator Award – TM Shyam Sundar
🏆 Best Segment Host – TM Mohamed Naser