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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Serendib Breeze (First Issue) Page 7
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
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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.
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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
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Serendib Breeze (First Issue) Page 10
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