Study Gathering (Dec. 30)

Study Gathering (Dec. 30)
Are you crazy about playing “Monopoly?” It realizes our dream of being a billionaire! This time we’re going to play it in English. Let’s have fun!

Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm, Tuesday, Dec. 30
Charge: Buy yourself a drink!
Place: THE COFFEE & BRUNCH
No.11, Jintian Rd. , Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City , Taiwan
高雄市新興區錦田路11號(THE咖啡)

The picture is from http://www.artline.ro/1_593_Monopoly_9807.html

12/16/2008 Lanuguage Evaluator's Report

Grammarian: Amanda Hsu

1. Please aware time. à Please be aware of time.

2. resist compression，compression為壓縮之意 à 抗壓應寫做resist pressure

3. When you’re emergency, …...à When you’re in emergency, ……

4. If you are possible, you can start to learn .…. à If it’s possible for you, you can start to learn …..

5. A girl I appreciated à A girl I admired / A girl I have a crush on

You are the most beautiful thing have ever happened in my life. (Write it down for your love letter!!)

6. do it hardly à do it harder / try it harder

7. Obama is the president of America. à Obama is the president-elect(總統當選人) of America.

8. do effort à make effort

9. bravo = great

10. fencing劍術

11. Morse code/ Morse alphabet摩斯密碼

12. raise [‘rez] , ex: I raised the flag.

rise [‘raІz] , ex : Sun rises from the east.

Things forgot to share with you:

It’s about the end of 2008. Do you want to know the top 10 everything of 2008?

You can visit the website of Time to check it out!

The following is the linkage of the website.

http:// www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/

12/16/2008 Alex Sher's C7 Speach

C7: time: 5-7 minutes

Title: Morse code

Speaker: Alex Sher date: 2008/12/16

Opening

About 15 years ago l liked radio (walking talking) and l want to be a ham, not a sausage. Do you know what their different? That is if you have licenses, you can use it in the public, but if you do not have any license, you only use it in private and avoid the police to catch you. So today I will use the Morse code to introduce myself. (.. .- -- .- .-.. . -..- … …. . .-. )

that mean I am Alex Sher

Body

The Morse cord was invented by American ,in 1832 his name is 〝Samuel Morse〞it use two objects to touch together, and control the sound happen and touch

.time length expression .The short sound is “dit”. The long sound is “dah”. Then combine the two sounds and variety to express the number and English letter. the language is one of tools easily to be used in the human communication.

On special condition. It may not work. For example when you are Urgent .you can use the style of Mores code with sound or light to express your Situation. Wait someone to assist you. Now I teach you, one is .-,tow is ..-,three is …-,and so on .

( … - - - … … - - - … )

Does anyone know this mean？ It was in the early 19^th Century. At that time a biggest ship of the world is Titanic. Before it sink into water, the operator typed the message for a long time but non person want to believe it, also they thought the message was a joke. Three hours passed, there was one ship passed through and found that was true. The situation was serious but that was too late, there were many people dead already, it was century’s disaster.

Conclusion

If you are possible to study the skill of the Morse code that is a good thing .you may save others and help yourself .For example when you are bullied by your girlfriend .you may strike the signal for rescue. The beautiful angel will appear to rescue you and help you to separate from your ugly girlfriend.

Finally my dear fellow members, I must strike this message expresses my heart to you. ( .. --- ..-)does anyone know？ That is, I love you everybody, I love you so much. Thanks Toastmaster.

出遊心得

每天忙碌的生活中，能偷閒外出並且與同好一同出遊，最是愜意不過的事了，在秋高氣爽涼風徐徐的早晨，一行浩浩蕩蕩二十餘人，大伙就集合在文化中心的大門口，等待著9:30正式出發前往“三地門”。

到達了目的地，沒想到我們的member 中竟然有一位是擁有專業的導遊證的Alex, 他一路帶領我們並且沿途為我們介紹當地的特色（他還帶了領隊專用的麥克風呢）。

終於來到了我們這趟出遊的重頭戲～沙滔舞琉璃藝術空間，那是一間用巧思所搭造的藝術空間，到處都看得到用琉璃所拼成的藝術品，經過老師的解說並呼著2266的口號，同時再來段同手同腳的舞蹈後，我們開始正式體驗琉璃珠的製做，在近千度的火焰下，讓我感受到琉璃珠製做的辛苦，更領悟到文化的保留和藝術傳承是何等的不易。

我一直對自己在藝術上有一定程度的自信，相信自己一定可以做出一個美麗的琉璃珠（再加上 Darlene的鼓勵更是自信滿滿），當時我到處找尋靈感參考著要畫什麼樣式，猶豫著要做那一款的琉璃珠時，來到了展示賣場，其中有一顆不以線條勾勒的圖案，而是以四大色塊（紅、黑、黃、綠）所組成的琉璃珠，當時，我有種被震撼到的感動，因為它的古樸中帶有收斂的包容力，在請教店員之後，得知它是“大地之珠”，於是我不再猶豫當下就決定做大地之珠，更沒想到它所象徵的是財富的意思，這讓我覺得更有意義。

在老師的帶領之下，我完成了“大地之珠”，看著每位　member像小學生般認真的完成作品，讓我有一種回到小時候戶外教學的興奮。在大伙完成作品並等待編上帶子做成吊飾、手鍊和項鍊的同時，我們去享受著我們野炊的樂趣，思心的Jason和Lillian 為我和Jane準備了素食的食品，大伙有的煎蛋有的煮咖啡，每個人分工完成大家的午餐，這當中還有　Jonathan全程拍照記錄，大家在飽餐；經過一番寒暄之後就前往沙滔去領取我們期待己久的作品，每個人都興奮的show著自己的作品，而興奮和滿心期待的我從信封中倒作品時，看到的竟是分成兩半的琉璃珠。

當下；我想著“破財”；同時更讓我看見我對這個文化的不敬（因為當時我認為這個作品沒有那麼難完成和那麼神聖）。

在經過店員和老師的解說之下，才知道，有些作品是需要有十年甚至是二十年以上的功力才能完成的，在完成之後而有破裂也是常有的事，當我有些沮喪的接受這個事實，並接下她們感到遺憾所回贈的小吊飾時，貼心的joy拿著她自己完成的大地之珠要交換我那破碎的琉璃珠，內心感到十分的感動，雖不是自己親手完成的作品，但心中生起一份暖暖的同窗之情。

在大家興奮與琉璃珠拍照留念之後; Alex得知這樣的結果，為了不讓我感到遺憾而再次與店長小姐協商。當時的我覺得十分不妥也不好意思為他們帶來這種麻煩。

店長小姐十分有誠意的為我解釋，一個破裂的作品也有可能是上天想要傳達給你的某種訊息，（這點讓深信吸引力法則的我更是震撼不已）這樣的話語在這種充滿靈性的部落裡更增加了它的可能性，這句話就如同在回音谷裏一次次的傳到了我的耳裡。

然後，拿了一條美麗的大地之珠做為不讓我有所遺憾的補償，在充滿感激和意外之下收下這個禮物，一切不敢多想並希望不會造成店家的困撓的心態之下，逃離了這個讓我感到五味雜陳的地方。

回程的路上，方驚覺這個“大地之珠”就是我在展示賣場所驚豔的那顆珠，（吸引力法則再次的印証，而且我一直深信所有在你身邊所發生或出現的事，一定不是偶然的，而且在生命的過程中一定會再有所連結，只是沒想到會這麼快）。

回到家，欣賞者掛在鏡子前的這顆珠，它不僅僅是代表財富而己，還有著很多的美好的回憶，同時還有許多好友的善意的關懷。

by Julia Hsu

Dec. 2008 ALE MAX outing activity PHOTO Slide show

2008/11/18 Lanuguage Evaluator's Report

Grammarian: Darlene Lu

considerable-> it's better to say "thoughtful"
benevolent<-> cruel.merciless.pitiless
very thanks(x) thanks a lot(O)
ah accounter(X) ah counter(O)
I am a chicken(x) I am a coward(O) or I am timid (cowardly)
house chores家事
accidentally無意中地

2008/11/18 Tina Chang's C1 Speech

Hi, everyone! My name is Tina. I’m now a senior in National Kaohsiung Normal University. I major in Chinese Literature. Talking about my personality, I think I am a brave girl and like to challenge things that people think I can’t do. I’ve joined Taiwanese speech competition even though I can’t make any Taiwanese sentence. I wrote down the speech in Chinese and then memorized by listening how my dad pronounce. When my friends heard I was joining a Taiwanese speech, they were surprised and said, “Tina! What are you doing? You should join English speech! Why are you joining in Taiwanese speech?” Well, I’ve already tried English speech when I was 13 and I won the first place. I just wanted to try something different.
I have worked in summer camp in America with only one Taiwanese girl. The other co-works came from everywhere around the world. We worked together for almost 10 weeks. Also, I traveled alone to New York and Philadelphia by guide book. It was an unforgettable experience. I met a lot of nice people and got a lot of help from them. I remembered one time I was going down the road and suddenly came up a man. He asked me, ”where are you come from?” When I answered Taiwan, he was so exciting and said “OH! Cheng Ming Wang! Did you go inside Yankee’s stadium and watch the game?” Actually I was not that interesting on baseball so I answered “yes, I watched his game on TV!”
Besides of brave, I have a benevolent feeling towards all animals. Zoo is one of my favorite places. I can spend one day doing nothing but just looking at lions. There is a can with feeding stuff in my motorcycle just in case to feed stray cats. I once saved a 2-month big stray cat. He was so small and sweet. I helped him to find a new owner. The animal I am keeping now is a dog. Her name is Chapi. She was a stray dog. I found her few weeks ago. She’s nice and sweet. She doesn’t bark unless necessary. Stitch is her favorites. Her habits is to observe what everyone is doing just like an obason(歐巴桑). She follows me everywhere around my home and wants to join everything happened. It is good to have her as a companion. I feel warm when I see her waiting for me by the door.
There are still a lot of things that I can share with you about myself. However, I only get 4 minutes to share. It is nice to join Toastmasters. I hope I can be friends of every one of you. Thank you for your listening.

Cycling in Cijin

This is my first time attained the Outing with the members of ALE MAX , before I really joined this club recently. Thank Newman for inviting me, it was a wonderful activity. However, Newman and me were late to meet the other members because we ridden bicycle from 苓雅 district, where was a little far to Cijin. While we met every one, all people started to hiking at Cihou Mountain. Not spent too much time, we reach our destination, the Cihou Lighthouse, which was built in 1883. The place had a nice view that we could look over the coast of Cijin, where was really a beautiful scenery, this also my first time went there. Then we through a pathway to downhill and passed the coast of mountain, here and now every one could take a breath also enjoyed a sea breeze. Before reaching at the end of this pathway, we through Cijin tunnel where had special artificial scenery, which liked many star in the dark tunnel.
Finally, we ridden along the seaside road to have a dinner at 萬二 restaurant, which had cheap and delicious seafood.

By Roger Huang

(guest of ALE MAX)

Study Gathering (Nov. 25)

Hey, guys! This time we’re going to discuss the article "Leading without Authority” of
TM Magazine Oct. on page 10. Please read it first and bring the magazine with you.

Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm, Tuesday, Nov. 25
Charge: Buy yourself a drink!
Place: THE COFFEE & BRUNCH
No.11, Jintian Rd., Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市新興區錦田路11號(THE咖啡)

You can see photos of the study gathering on Oct. 28 here.
http://www.slide.com/r/l7rGNGez4j9A2wsMhTk79Gid0qfDz9fG

2008/11/04 Fion Chou's C1 Speech

Good morning
You must be confused because I am saying good morning to you all. In our office, this slogan is our opening when ever we have a meeting. It means to say hello to your audience and catch their eyes. Now, from your faces, I am sure I have caught your eyes.

Dear fellow members,
Long time no see. My name is Fion. Actually, I was a member of Toastmaster’s in ALE MAX. So I am a recycled member as Mayna said before. Standing here, I still feel nervous, even though I have already been to several toastmaster meetings. Can you see, my feet are shaking and I feel like a girl going to see her mother in law; but I am also happy to introduce myself to your. Due to a change in my job position, I had to quit toastmasters temporarily. During the past time, when I occasionally met some of your members, it helped me remember the atmosphere whether it was nervous or funny. So here I am.

My hobbies are watching TV and traveling. I can relieve my stress through these hobbies. Through travel, I learn more interesting things. I am not a religious person but an experience I had was unbelievable. In 2002, I traveled to Egypt and we visited a grave under the ground. We saw a coffin with no body inside and the tour guide told us that if you touched the coffin, you would be punished. I did not believe him and I touched it. I didn’t care about this kind of thing and I also forgot what I had done. Unfortunately, something really happened to make me believe in the curse. After one month, I had a car accident with a poor man. I broke his leg and he needed to have an operation. Can you guess how much money I paid him in the end? “Three hundred thousand dollars”, so you can’t help to believe in the curse from Egypt.

I work for an animal nutrition company, which imports ingredients and produces animal feed for poultry and swine farms. You may know my company if you have been to the Dream MALL. My company, CARGILL, is located on Chen Kong road across from Dream MALL. If you look across Chen Kong road, you will see the plant over there. I have worked at our company for eleven years and I am the office administrator. My responsibility is to make sure the office runs smoothly. By the way, I would like to do a survey with you, if you don’t go to Dream MALL, please raise your hand. The survey question is: “ Do you smell bad air when you go shopping in Dream Mall? Do you smell bad air when you go shopping in Dream Mall? If you answer “yes”, CARGILL may be forced to move away from Kaohsiung city and my job will disappear. I am kidding!

To join ALE MAX toastmaster club again is an important decision for me. Until now, every thing has been wonderful and jointing these meetings enriches my life. Thanks to you all for giving me a happy environment to learn in with all of you. Toastmasters.

2008/10/28 Study Gathering

I attended the study gathering of October. I really appreciated Jason who agitates for this kind of activity. Indeed, Learning English cannot be studied well by closing door at home alone. It needs a good interaction and interesting study environments, could bring an interest and keep it going on.

This month’s theme is “Brain Buster”, Mayna offered the books and Tina hosted the game. It is a fun way to view vocabulary and practice asking English questions, also good for brain exercise. We were divided into four teams, each team had to choose a person to answer questions. Everyone enjoyed playing the game and had fun time there.

I treasure this study gathering time, think about daily life, either in the office or at home, a lot of stress in life, it is a good chance to go out to hang out with friends, just relax with a drink and study English. I hope more and more fellow members can spare time to join this activity.

By Jane Yang

Meeting 126 Report

Date: October 21, 2008

Venue: Evergreen Hotel

Theme: Thanksgiving

Toastmasters of Evening was Roger Chen, who is our MVP.

This meeting we have four speaker, first speaker is our recycle member, Maxwell, he did a impressive speech, and TM has a joke about his occupation. He said “if the basement got fire, firefighter, Maxwell would save us”.

Table Topic Master was Newman Chang, who is our secretary. At First he showed everyone a film about fall convention, because his questions were about it.

1. Fist question is after joining the fall convention, how did you feel?

2. The second one is what did you learn form it after the fall convention?

3. The third one is which part did you love most in fall convention?

General Evaluation was Lillian Tseng, who is our IPP. Our evaluators were doing well. All the evaluators point out the speakers’ advantages and shortcomings, so speakers and members can learn from it.

Finally Language Evaluator, Lillian Chen, reminded us some details of grammar and we learned a lot from it.

The awards were go to ............

Best Table Topic : Tina Wen

寄件者 meeting

Best Evaluator: Mayna Chien

寄件者 meeting

Best Speakers was Jason Wu.( You can see his script on the blog).

寄件者 meeting

This meeting we had six gussets come to visit us. Some knew it by net and some was member’s friends; however, they all interest in the club. We are welcome them to visit us again and join us.

At the end, officers had some announcement to make.

10/25, Division D contest will be hold in永達技術學院 at 1:00pm and Mayna will represent Area D3. If members have time at that day, please join it and give Mayna your best wish.

10/26, we will have this month's outing. This time we will ride a bicycle in Cijin. You can invite your friends to join us.

Oct. Outing-- Cycling in Cijin

Photo by: Jason Wu; Newman Chang; Jessie Yen; Ariel Hung

If you have photo want to share with, you can send it to PRVP

2008/10/21 Lanuguage Evaluator's Report

Grammarian: Lillian Chen

I have it at home or in the company= in the "office"

work in 24 hours= work "for" 24 hours

let you feel sick="make" you feel sick

why you don't use= why "don't you" use

each person= each "people"

follow him steps=follow "his" steps

cutting newspaper="dipping" newspaper

thanks for your coming= thanks for coming

you will success= you will "succeed"


From October to December we call it as "Holiday Season" Because in October we have Halloween, in November we have Thanksgiving, and in December we have Christmas

2008/10/21 Jason Wu's A17 Speech

A 17 Title: Let’s join study gathering speaker: Jason Wu
Project: The Technical Speech date: 10/21/2008
Time: 8 to 10 minutes

Objectives:
Convert a technical paper or technical material and information into a technical speech.
Organize a technical speech according to the inverted-pyramid approach.
Write a technical speech as “spoken language,” not as an article.
Give the speech by effectively reading out loud.

In Toastmasters club we can learn English communication skill and leadership, so we came here for those skills, but our meetings just hold twice a month it is not enough let us to improve those skills we need more chance to practice, study gathering provide such opportunity, so let’s join study gathering.

Dear fellow toastmasters, is toastmaster a great system for learning? The answer is clear no doubt absolutely right, because so many researches and evidences can prove that. For example in manual speech session when we are the speaker we have to write the composition according to manual’s objectives before we deliver our speech, manual can teach us how to organize our speech and catch audience’s attention then we can deliver our speech efficient. In current society so many people can’t present their mind efficiently even he is a doctor, they are smart but they don’t know how to communicate, the reason is their composition skill is not good. And The National Commission on Writing they did a research on Business Roundtable’s members in 2004, the report shows that more then 50% companies agree composition skill is important skill for promotion and more then 80% companies will chouse the employee who has high composition skill when they want to hire a person, and in Harvard they force students to join Freshman Writing Tutorial, because they would like to train the future leaders thinking organizing and presenting logically. Composition can train us organizing and thinking logically. So many people agree that composition skill is very important and how lucky we are toastmasters help us to improve this important skill and in the same time we also can improve our English, because we use English to write the script when we write the composition we practice English in the same time. But unfortunately we just hold meetings twice a month, according to my experience that is not enough. When we write the composition usually we will face two problems one is “my English is not good”, because we not use our mother language to write the composition, so you might don’t know which word can describe your thought, you need to improve your English first, there is no short cut only one way can improve your English that is “practice” you need find more chance to practice regular meeting is not enough for you, so we hold study gathering create more chance for you, you should cease the opportunity to join every study gathering. And another problem is “it is difficult to find the topic”, yes so many members told me that they didn’t know what they could write. According to a newspaper editor his observing why children’s composition skill descent, because they seldom do reading and their life are so boring no life experience only school cram school, so not thing can write, if you could not find the topic easily you might have the same problem with those children, so we hold study gathering we can read together share personal experience with each other and discuss together then you can make your viewpoints and experiences plentiful that will be easy to find the topic.

In table topic session, it can train your thinking speed after you hear the question you don’t have so much time to think you must answer quickly, you practice more time your reaction ability can be better and better. When I was a table topic speaker, normally I thought why did you ask this kind of question? I never think about that how can I answer, maybe you have the same problem. So we need to join study gathering, because we will discuss different topics in different study gatherings we will find some topic which we seldom think and we can get more experience from other people their opinion then we can have more experience to answer table topic question.

For a good communicator the first step is listening then finds the wick point to persuade with your audiences let them accept your viewpoints, in evaluation session as an evaluator you have chance to practice this ability you should listen to the speech analyze the speech then tell audiences your viewpoint you should find a good way to communicate with them let them accept your thought, but it is not only one way to communicate, because every one has his own personality you should use his way to communicate with him, so you need to talk to more people you should communicate often, and study gathering gives you more chance to do it.

According to research, people learn by listening they only can remember 10% people learn by watching they only can remember 20%, but you learning by reacting you can remember 70% and though experiencing you can remember 80%, so in toastmasters we will learn by doing it is a real great study system, but only twice a month it is not enough, so we hold study gathering we practice in study gathering study gathering afford more chance to practice for you.

Study Gathering (Oct. 28)

Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm, Tuesday, Oct. 28
Charge: Buy yourself a drink!
Place: THE COFFEE & BRUNCH
No.11, Jintian Rd., Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市新興區錦田路11號(THE咖啡)

Could you answer 1000 questions? We’ll play “Brain Buster” this time!
Stretch your brain to its limit with it. Challenge yourself. Challenge you friends!

Meeting 126 Report

Meeting 125 Report

Date: October 1st, 2008

Venue: Evergreen Hotel

Theme: Quotation

The President, Jason Wu was out of country. This time’s meeting we had EVP, Tina Wen as Acting President.

This meeting we had Induction Ceremony and hold by Jonathan Chen, who is our charter President. Welcome Fion Chou, Frances Lee, Newman Chang, Tina Chang, and Yi-Lian Feng to be part of ALE MAX member.

Toastmasters of Evening was Mayna Chien, who is new Area D3 Evaluator contest winner. On this meeting, we had four speakers. They did an excellent and wonderful speech, so everyone pass it

Table Topic Master was Amanda Hsu. Her questions were…

1.The most horrible news during these weeks is the existence of Melanine(三聚氰胺) in milk and some other food. Are you worried about it? What did you do to deal with this problem?

2.The second one is the crazy about the movie “Cape No.7”. It’s quite unbelievable that so many people supporting this film. Do you prefer to watch movie made in Taiwan or foreign movie? Why?

3.The first prize of the lottery 威力彩 has accumulated to one billion one hundred fifty million dollars. It’s quite great to win so much money. Will you buy the lottery? What would you do if you won the first prize?

General Evaluation was Alex Sher, who is our humorous member. Our evaluator team were doing well. All the evaluators had point out the speakers good and bad points for speakers and members to learn it.

Finally Language Evaluator, Lillian Tseng, helped us to remove the fog of the quotations, and we learned not only the meanings of word but also the spirits.

The awards were go to ............

Best Table Topic : Tina Chang

Best Evaluator: Lillian Chen

Best Speakers was Tina Wen.( You can see his script on the blog).

We were happy that this meet we had six gussets come to visit us. Some was found us from the net and some was some member’s friends; however, they all interest in the club. We are welcome them to visit us again and join us.

At the end, officers had some announcement to make.

10/25, Division D contest will be hold in永達技術學院 at 1:00pm and Mayna will represent Area D3. If members have time at that day, please join it and give Mayna your best wish.

10/26, we will have this month's outing. This time we will ride a bicycle in Cijin. You can invited your friends to join us.

2008/10/07 Lanuguage Evaluator's Report

Grammarian: Lillian Tseng

Quotation = 引用,引證[U]; 引文;語錄[C]
a sentence or phrase from a book, speech etc which you repeat in a speech or piece of writing because it is interesting or amusing

Quotation mark = " "
one of a pair of marks (' ') or (" ") that are used in writing to show that you are recording what someone has said

Famous Quotation:
1. When there's a will, there's a way.
(有志者事竟成)

2. Have life not introspecting, worthy to be alive life.
(沒有經過反省的人生，是不值得活的人生)

3. Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.
(別問國家可以為你做什麼，要問你可以為國家做什麼)

4. No matter you believe you can or can't, you are right.
(不管你相不相信，你是對的)

5. Knowledge is power
(知識就是力量)

Reference Link: http://bsd.wkjh.tpc.edu.tw/~301/t_13.htm

2008/10/07 Tina Wen's A1 Speech

A1 speech（Warm Up Your Audience, 5 to 7 minutes） by Tina Wen
Title: What will you do in the future? delivered on Sep. 2 (AMTC)

(Opening)
One day, some celebrities were standing around a newborn baby.
Then the general said, “Look! He’ll be a general in the future. I can see from the way he kicked!
A bank president said, “No. From the way he made a fist, I think he’ll be a banker.”
Finally, a president said, “I believe he will be a president in the future. Look, he is still wearing a smile when pee his pants and wet his bed.

(Body)
What will you do in the future? When I was an elementary school student, my friends often asked me this question. Come on, I was only six, how did I know? But here came the problem, the most common topic you had in the composition class is “What will you do in the future?” To write a composition was really difficult for a kid. The first idea I got was to be a teacher! I want to be a teacher! My teacher is the most powerful one in the world. So I wrote, “One day I will be a teacher because I can punish my students freely and feel no guilty.”

Then I entered junior high, I became an independent teenager, not a stupid kid anymore. At that time, I disliked teachers, parents, rules and social values. In order to show I’m special, in the composition class, I chose so-called “tyrant” to be my idol. “I want to be someone like Emperor Qin Shi Huang because he was cool. He had the Great Wall of China built. And it was the only construction that Neil Armstrong could see when he walked on the moon surface. Qin Shi Huang was cool because he unified the Chinese units of measurement such as weights, measures and currency. The only thing he lost was that he didn’t burn out all books so that’s why I have to study in this stupid classroom.” I didn’t know how I got the courage to write it. Luckily, my teacher seemed to be open-minded. And I still got an A.

The Emperor of Qin Dynasty didn’t affect me much. When I became a high school student, I was still a normal person. Under the pressure of entering a good college, I stopped dreaming, and followed my parents’ expectation- to be a doctor. I knew almost nothing about being a doctor. People said it was a job with high salary and status. And the most important is that I would have the chance to marry the son of hospital’s executives. I pushed myself to study courses I was uninterested. Of course, my grade was like a patient with weak heartbeat…expired finally.

(Conclusion)
”No matter what they tell you,No matter what they do,No matter what they teach you,What you believe is true.”

When listening to this song, I realized something. Just like the lyrics, I can’t deny what I believe. And I can't be what I'm not. Now if you ask me my dreams, I’ll say, “I hope I’ll have courage to pursue my dreams. No matter it’s easy to realize or not.” “I hope that no matter I want to be a teacher, a doctor or a superstar, no matter I succeed or not, I’ll enjoy every moment and have fun.”

Congratulation

Congratulation Mayna Chien Win the 1st place of Evaluation Contest and 3rd Place of Humour Speech Contest. Mayna you are so great.

Mayna will represent as D3 contestant to attend the Division D Contest on Oct. 25th in 永達技術學院. Make a notes on you calendar to attend the Division D Contest and show your support to Mayna.

Meeting124 Report

Date: Sep. 16, 2008

Venue: Evergreen Hotel
Theme: In-Club Contest

It was once of year Humorous Speech and Evaluation contest. Hans Lin was Humorous Contest Masters.Even thought that he had forgot some part, but he still did the great job to create a good atmosphere so that contestants won't be that nervous.

Henry Tsai was Evaluation Contest Masters. It was his first time to be a Contest Masters, but he did well and couldn't see that he was nervous.





We had Roger Chen, Mayna Chien, Alex Sher as our Humorous Contestants.










Lillian Tseng, Mayna Chien, Wade Wu, Jason Wu were Evaluation Contestants.
They did the wonderful job.








Thank you Tina Tu, who is both ETC and KTC's member, also the winner of Division D Public Speech Contest, to be the test speaker.






Thank you Doris Liu to be the chief judge and Catherin Chang, Rose Lee, Eirc Liang, Casey Lin Jessice as judges.









Humorous Contest award go to....
2nd place Roger Chen









1st place Mayna Chien









Evaluation Contest award go to .....
2nd place Lillian Tseng









1st place Mayna Chien




Mayna Chien and Lillian Tseng will present the club to attend Oct. 5th Area D3 Contest in Kaohsiung Medical School. Therefore, please come show up and show your support to them.

September Outing_Movie Watch

Photo by: Roger Chen
If you have photo and want to share with, you can send it to PRVP

2008/09/17 Announcement

Joint Meeting With Elite Toastmasters
On this Friday, we going to have a joint meeting with Elite Toastmasters. It is a good change we can learn somethings from other Club and communicate with other Toastmasters members. Please show up on that day as possible as you can
Date: Friday, Sep. 19, 2008
Time: 7:19 pm
Venue: Lees Hotel (麗景大酒店,大洋廳 高雄市五福一路106號二樓)



Outing--Movie Watch
On this Sunday, we will going to watch a film call "The Bucket List". If you haven't see this movie, you must come. If you already saw it, it is the movie will make you see one more time. Sing up it now, you wouldn't regret. You will regret if you are coming. You can see more information on the information section.
Date: Sunday, Sep. 21,2008
Time: 10:10 am~ 03:00 pm
Venue: 高雄市前金區光復一街4巷1號3樓 (亞太植牙中心)
Fee: members--$250
no members--$300
Contact with: Lillian Tseng or Julie Tsai


Study Gathering--Let’s talk about Taiwan’s siao-chih(小吃) in English!
Do you like Taiwan’s siao-chih(小吃)?Which one is your favorite? Have you been to Liouhe Night Market with your foreign friends, but say nothing only “Good” when eating oyster omelet? Let’s talk about food in English! Then you would know how to introduce Taiwan’s siao-chih next time.

Please read this article first and bring it to the study gathering.
Popular Food Culture in Taiwan:
http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/food/


Date: Tuesday, Sep. 30
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm,
Charge: Buy yourself a drink!
Place: THE COFFEE & BRUNCH
No.11, Jintian Rd., Xinxing District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
高雄市新興區錦田路11號(THE咖啡)

Meeting 123 Report

Date: September 2nd, 2008

Venue: Evergreen Hotel

Theme: Employability

Toastmasters of Evening held by Alex Sher, who is SAS in the club. By his leading, we have wonderful night. From what I remembered, it was Alex 2ND time to be Toastmasters of Evening. In the hole meeting I could see that Alex had improve a lot on not speak "ah" word. Because he only get 3 "ah" in the meeting.

This time we have Word of the Day Session. It held by Jane Yang. The word we learned was "boycott"

On this meeting as usual, we had three speakers. They did an excellent and wonderful speech, unfortunately, two speakers' speech were so fantastic cause them over time.

Table Topic master was Darlene Lu, who is our Table Topic Queen. Her questions was focus on Job.

1.What's your ideal job? 2.What kind of job you wouldn't do ? 3.If you could choose your job, what would be your priority? 4.Would you still like to work until you're old? Those questions are related to our life, because it will affect to our life. Think harder.

General Evaluation was Vincent Wang, who is our senior member. By his leading the evaluator team were doing so well. All the evaluators had point out the speakers good and bad points for speakers and members to learn it. Unfortunately, two evaluators were doing so hard that they over timed.

The most happy things was some old friends come to visit us and Julia Hsu finally back to the team and Maxwell will back to ALE MAX again.

The awards were go to ............

Best Table Topic : Matt Yu

Best Evaluator: Mayna Chien

Best Speakers was Roger Chen.( You can see his script on the blog).

President, Jason Wu, present Competent Communicator (CC) Award to Julie Tseng and Lillian Tseng to congratulation them finish C10 speech. Lillian Tseng also get Old Competent Leader (CL) Award, who had been served at least six months as a club officer and conducted any two programs from the Successful Club Series and/ or The Leadership Excellence Series.

At the end, officers had some announcement to make.

Next meeting (9/16) will be our In-Club Contest.9/19,we will have joint meeting with Elite Toastmaster Club. AT 7:15pm in 麗景Hotel.

9/21, we will have this month's outing. This time we will watch a film call "The Bucket List". You can invited your friends to join us.

2008/09/02 Lanuguage Evaluator's Report

Grammarian: Mayna Chien

Say: The company is closed down. Don't say: The company is closed. (closed down sounds like they are closed forever, not just for the day.)

Say: The show girl was hurt. or She was injured. Don't say: She was damaged. (damaged is more for things, not for persons.)

Say: Tks for the great speech. Thank you very much for the speech. Don't say: Very thanks the speech.

Say: Tks for coming. Don't say: Tks for your coming.

Say: Alex is an insurance broker. Don't say: He's a insurance salesman.

Say: She's my pen pal. Don't say: She's my letter friend.

Say: I wanted to become s super model when I was a sixth grader or when I was in my sixth grade. Don't say: I wanted to become a super model when I was sixth degree.

Say: Do you mind coming here? Don't say: Don you mind come here? ( mind always comes with Ving)

Say: I feel nervous whenever I stand behind the lecturn. Don't say: I feel nervous whenever I stnad behind the stage. (To see the difference between a lecturn, you can google it with images.)

2008/09/02 Roger Chen's C6 speech

C6 speech ( Vocal Variety, 5 to 7 minutes)
Title: You are disqualified!
Delivered on 2008/9/2(AMTC)

Objective:
• Use voice volume, pitch, rate, and quality to reflect and add meaning and interest to your message..
• Use pauses to enhance your message.
• Use vocal variety smoothly and naturally.

(Opening)
Thinking the situation: you spent a lot of time to prepare your speech, you have written a script and revised it several times, you rehearsed again and again almost you can remember every word in you script. Finally you delivered your speech in meeting, thanks god, you didn’t forget to many sentences, but your evaluator said: you are disqualified! What do you feel in that time?

(Body)
My dear fellow members,

In our life, not everything is perfect, somethings we faced some unexpected situation like you fail a speech or test, you lose a big customer or even you are fired by your company. In that time, you might feel lost something in your mind especially when you put a lot of effort on the job. Yes, it is called as frustration. We used to face frustration in our life. How do you cope with frustration.

For most people, the first feeling is lose. Oh! I am a loser, I lose again like I use to be. I remember when I was 16 or 17 years old, I still desire love, but in that time I was fat so my friends called me fatty, and grils do not like to date with a fatty boy like you have been watched from movies. Therefore, I tried to make gril friends by mail, that means someone gave me a girl's name and address, and I wrote letters to her but we didn’t see each other in that time. Since I am good at writing, so I usually can got a chance to date with the gril. Because we never meet each other, so we usually select a public location such as train station or department store to meet (the old President department store is a good place to meet your ‘letter friends’) and we used to ask the other to bring something as a clue to identified each other. For example, I will bring a rose and the gril will bring a book. The time’s up and the answer is disclosed, we meet each other. But, almost every time, that gril said ‘sorry, I have to go because I have a urgent thing, bye’ or ‘sorry, I am not Miss Wu, you got the wrong person’ After then the girl disappeared, even I still write letter to her. Oh! I lose again! I fail again!
The second reaction to frustration is angry, you might feel angry to who makes you feel frustration, or even you feel angry to yourself. Angry is a normal reaction to frustration, you feel angry because you care about it. However, the point is your reaction after you feel angry, you become positive or negatieve. Once you have a negative thinking toward the frustration, you will become ‘withdraw’ that means you will try to escape, you don’t want to try again. So, I didn’t make ‘letter gril friends’ anymore, because my heart is broken. However, if you keep a positive thinking, you will review yourself and learning from the frustration, then you will have courage to try again and do it better.

We usually to talk about ‘EQ’ nowadays, and recognise EQ is a very important factor to make people more successful. The ability to cope with frustration is the key to elevate your EQ. In my opinion, Toastmasters is a very good place to help you improve the ability of deal with frustration. You have to deliver speechs and your evaluators will give you suggestions. Somethings, you are be disqualified and you should deliver speech again and again and you might feel frustration. You should say ‘thank you’ to your evaluator, because they also have to has enough courage to say ‘you are disqualified’! Moreover, Toastmasters is also a good place to let you try again and again and members always give you positive suggestions. I real business situation, people do not offer you too many chances to try!

(Conclusion)
My dear fellow members, no one is perfect, that is why we are here. We try to find out our unperfected part and learn how to improve it. So, please keep positive manner if your evaluator said ‘ You are disqualified’!, because they help you recognize your unperfected part and offer you a chance to do it again. So, Thank you Toastmaster!

study gathering之世界大不同

前幾天toastmaster辦了個活動，是個簡單的英語聊天，由英文比較好的人擬幾個題目然後用英文討論，因為覺得是個練習的機會就去參加看看，雖然因為不太會搶話所以聽多過說，但是這些題目還蠻有深度的，學到的東西是不一樣的。

其中有一個題目是如果你有小孩，你會怎麼教育他，大家說出自己的看法，有這樣的機會和很多人open mind討論這些，其實我覺得是很不錯的機會。

這些人都比我年長一些。有些人在不久將來將遇到這些問題，有些人未雨綢繆的從自己的生命經驗中，把答案都想好了。

其實我覺得這個問題很深，這並不是很簡單的問題，因為想這個題目的時候，我有種感覺是在檢視自己的過去的生命經驗，喜歡的和不喜歡的經歷，都會反映在教育小孩子的方針裡。有人覺得一個小孩只要學會負責任，和解決問題的能力，學校教育並不是最重要的。有的人則偏向自己有能力的話，能夠付出就多付出一些，希望小孩少走一些冤枉路。可以感覺的出來，大家都很努力的過生活，或許身上有不少的傷痕，但是他們越挫越勇。

相較之下，我似乎是幸福多了，求學的過程中都還算順利，父母幾乎都不干預我的決定，可以說羅馬都是自己造的，雖然好像是有些搖搖欲墬，哈哈~但是就是甘願。如果硬要找出可以更好的空間的話，大概就是少了引導與鼓勵。我想如果有一天我必需照顧小孩的時，我覺得每天再忙都要抽半個小時關心小孩今天做了什麼，然後給與回饋，因為回饋是很好的胡蘿蔔。

by Newman Chang

[活動] 納尼亞˙哪裡呀

【納尼亞˙哪裡呀】活動，希望大家覺得很好玩。夢時代實在很大，假日人又多，到處都擠來擠去，連我這個知道關卡地方的主辦人都走的好累、好辛苦。活動一開始有些混亂，大家都不知道要怎麼解題，讓我緊張了一下，如果都解不出來那不就糗大了，好在玩過一次後都有慢慢步上軌道。我想可能是許多人都已經脫離玩這種遊戲很久很久。謝謝五位小關主，這次活動修改又修改，人數變來又變去，好再有你們支持與幫忙、給我想法、協助活動設計，才讓活動有個完美的ending。我也要謝謝大家給我機會在八月辦活動，讓我去台北前，可以留下個什麼給大家J
　　2006年4月我加入ALE MAX Toastmasters：那時覺得大家很遙不可及，我就像個路人甲，只是剛好與你們待在同個會議室當中。2008年9月我暫時離開：謝謝大家的祝福，現在的我能深深感受到大家"一起"的感覺。Fall con.康康舞表演、採草莓、meeting後85度C喝茶聊天討論事情、Outing、studying gathering，兩年半的時間從C1到C8，說長不長、說短不短，但卻有滿滿的回憶在，很高興認識大家。我在台北會好好讀書，回高雄也會繼續參加meeting的。

by Jenny Hung