FEBRUARY 2014

Issue 8 , Volume 7

ICAB Voice

Communicate & Articulate http://icab.toastmastersclubs.org

ICABers in Action

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ICAB TOASTMASTERS CLUB

Club Number: 824350

Area 76, Division A, District 20

Issue 8 dated 03 March 2014

Volume 7

Editor Mohit Malkani

Publisher C.A. Gopalakrishnan

Executive Committee

President CA Gopalakrishnan 39569405

VP - Education

Uday Shanbhag 39276481

VP - Membership

Sridhar Seethapa-thy 39624908

VP - Public Relations

Charles Itty 39247453

Secretary Radesh Krishna 33477955

Treasurer Kurian Thomas 36315777

Sergeant at Arms Amin Mansuri 33570354

Past President & Mentor

BVS Prathap 39204169

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Page No.

From the President’s Desk 2

The Editorial & Letters to Editor 3

Welcome to the ICAB family 4

Awardees in regular meetings 5

Commit to Conquer 6

Our Story 7

3 Keys to Happiness 8

Pursue your Passion 9

Hitting the Wall 10

Ice Breaker 11

The Boring Meeting 12

Best wishes & successes 13

ICABers—Lets meet 14

ICAB Voice was awarded the Capti-vating Communique award for 2012-2013 and 2011-2012. Further, ICAB Voice ennobled the Best Newsletter award in Division A for 2012-2013. Previously, ICAB Voice was adjudged “Second Best” in District 79 in 2008-09 and it was awarded fifth place during 2007-08.

Promise!

From the President’s Desk

Dear Toastmasters Thank you!! You must be wondering why I am thanking you all. There are a number of reasons for thanking. One is for your patience with the President. Our Editor had completed his task well in advance and was waiting for the President’s message. I was away and after a hectic short vacation, returned only on the 1st. It took me almost 8 days to catch up with the official work that I found so many excuses not to write the President’s mes-sage. Then it is for your efforts to improve yourself on a continuous basis. As the QMS goes “continuous improvement”. All your success depends on this. The want to improve on a daily basis. Congratulations for your spirit of learning the TMI way. Thank you also for attending the meeting consistently and encouraging your fellow members in their endeavor to improve. Thank you for writing valuable articles to en-rich ourselves and contributing to our Voice. We all had taken an oath when we became members of the club to attend the meet-ings regularly, to take up the roles in the meetings, to support our co-members and to evaluate positively. I would urge you all to keep up the word and continue doing the good work. Lastly, Thank you all for promising to attend the Area Contest to encourage our Cham-pions. One and all, Thank you very much. Best regards Gopal

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After the scintillating performances in January at the club contest, ICABers have been using the regular meetings for warming up for the Area contest due in March. TM Dilip Jain participated in the club contest of the Krypton Advanced Toastmasters Club (KATAC-2014) on 28th February 2014 and was an award winner in all four categories . In Evaluation and Table Topics he was placed first and Humorous and International Speeches he was placed second. Congratulations to our TM Shaukat Lokhandwala who achieved DTM status. Our member Raunaq Desai participated in the Angels Toastmasters Club meeting held on 22nd February, 2014 and won the best evaluator award. The December 2013 and January 2014 issues of the ICAB Voice are uploaded to the District 20 website and can be viewed through the following link http://d20toastmaster s.org/index.php/media -center/

newsletters/club-newsletters After a very interesting stint as Editor, I am handing over the editorial responsibilities to our enthusiastic TM Vinod Anand, who has once again been helping in compiling this issue. Henceforth, you may send your articles directly to vinodanand15@hotmail.com. Need-less to say, I am around to assist when required. Your Editor TM Mohit Malkani ____________________________________________

Feb 11, 2014

Dear Mohit,

Being a long time witness to the jour-ney of ICAB's Voice , I must say the VOICE summaries and engulfs in it the quality enhancement and value additions which members have bought in the club over the years. Right from the front page , President's col-umn, Editor's Column and all articles....you have cap-tured the DNA of the club.

You deserve the credit of giving the reader a compre-hensive and accurate idea about the quality of our club meetings, speeches & professionalism with which we conduct ourselves as Toastmasters. Thanks for making every effort to ensure that the VOICE remains the soul of ICAB. My special congratulations to Vinod for his maiden and impromptu contest participation after a very short time in ICAB. All great leaders were just individuals before they were pushed by circumstances to become one. Regards, Raunaq.

ICABers Warming up for the Contest Season

From the Editor’s Desk

Feb 10, 2014

Dear Mohit, It was an excellent masterpiece and a read.. Practically since I had witnessed all the speeches I really loved reading it again. It was really fantastic re-living all the moments and I could visualize all the win-ning performances by Raunaq, Sridar, Shaukat, Sanjay, Dilip , Sumit and am really charged up for all future meetings and all future voices… . Best Regards Amit

Dear Mohit, Feb 08,2014

I was missing ICAB - The voice brought back all the

fond memories.

Thank you

Anil

Feb 08, 2014

Dear Mohit,

Another wonderful edition of ICAB Voice. You have

really set new standards.

Congratulations and a big thanks for your

great efforts

Regards

Sanjay

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Welcome to the icab family

Name: Santhosh TV

Working with: Ebrahim K Kanoo BSC(c)

Family members: Spouse—Jeenet C Thomas

Son —Melwin Tom

Daughter - Rose Anne

Why did I join TMI: To improve the public speaking skill and explore new knowledge avenues

January 8, 2014

Congratulations Toastmaster! You've sponsored five or more new members during this year's annual membership-building contest. As a result of your hard work and dedication, you will be receiving a five-member sponsor pin in the mail.

Wear this pin proudly and show it to other members of your club to challenge and encourage them to match your achievement.

Sincerely,

Toastmasters International

www.toastmasters.org

LETTER FROM TOASTMASTER INTERNATIONAL TO

VP MEMBERSHIP ON INDUCTING 5 NEW MEMBERS

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Awardees in regular meetings

12th February Meeting No. 216

26th February Meeting No. 217

Best Speaker TM Kurien

Best Table Topic speaker Guest Rangarajan

Best Evaluator (Joint) TM Kapil & TM Raunaq

Best Speaker TM Kannan

Best Evaluator TM Amit

First Timer Award TM Santhosh

Best Table Topic Speaker

TM Somaskandan

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Commit to Conquer By TM BVS Prathap ACB, ALB

“If I commit once, I don’t even listen to my own self” goes a famous movie dialogue. In my case, if I commit to myself then I don’t listen to myself to meet the commitment. But if I commit to others, I put in a lot more effort to meet the commitment. Most of my achievements in life are only due to my commitment to others.

For one thing, I regularly committed the date of my next assignment to VP Education, though I don’t have any speech ready. This was very important given that I used to work late every day during the early years in Bahrain and it was very easy for me to say that I do not have time for com-pleting CC and ACB. Once committed and the name is in agenda, withdrawal of name is like accepting defeat to the entire club members. If I remember correctly, such a withdrawal happened only once or twice during my CC. There were reasons, but they are excuses as far as my commitment to commitment goes.

It was a year end during one my jobs. We had a team of 14 members, one month time and an unmet target of a large number or reports. Feeling the pain of my boss, I committed 20% of the load. My boss was obviously skepti-cal since he did not believe it was humanly possible. I had to work night and day, but I delivered what I committed. And the result – my boss quotes this incident to this day, though I left the company years ago. And personally I had immense self-satisfaction.

Commitment to seemingly impossible goals and then achieving them gives me immense pleasure. I am sure it would be the same with all of us. I was trying to analyze where I learnt this from. I think I learnt this trait during my school and college days, when we students used to commit ‘the impossible’ during our sports and cultural meets and then deliver. But I guess we students should credit Sathya Sai Baba for teaching us this aspect. As an example, He announced publicly during November 1990 that there would be a super specialty hospital in Puttaparthi village, completely free, operating exactly after an year. There were no plans drawn, no funds received on the date of an-nouncement and no one ever attempted such a project. There were many obstacles as in any other project, and yet, exactly an year later, it was ready. Similarly he announced, again publicly, that there would be water supply for hundreds of villages in Anantapur by 1995. Again it was thought to be impossible. There were many more exam-ples, but I think that’s where I learned this trait.

In 2012, during the start of my term as a president, I made certain commitments to the club. Though as an Excom, we know that many of the factors are not even in our control, we committed publicly so that we would be bound by it. What we achieved is much more than what we would have without public commitment, at least knowing my nature.

For all the new toastmasters who are struggling to complete the CC, try this method – Commit and Conquer. I can guarantee you that it would give you immense satisfaction. And then, let me commit something here – I would lose 12 kgs of fat (not weight) before June 10th (Ya, ya, my birthday).

THE END

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I remember an immensely meaningful and beautiful line in

a Bollywood movie called Shor which always stays with me “Zindagi aur

kuch bhi nahi….Teri Meri Kahani Hai”. Our life is a collection of short sto-

ries, which are distinctly different from one another. They happen at dif-

ferent point of our lives but in the end all culminates to become “The”

story of our life.

These stories include story of our childhood innocence, naughty teenage, love story, story of our career, story of

our struggle, story of faith, story when miracles happened, stories which make our eyes numb and moist, stories

which make us laugh and stories which breaks our heart.

The most intriguing aspect of our story is that though it is our story, it’s not written by us, we are not its Author.

Author is the one who knows what to write while in our case we don’t know what would be written. The authors of

our story are the “experiences” which we have in our lives. If we try to assess ourselves today on what we are and

what defines us, we will find that it is the result of what we have learnt from our past experiences. We would have

made some conclusions; either consciously or subconsciously, based on our past and would be applying it now and

in the future. In other words, we would be framing our future story based on our past.

The biggest sources of experiences are our relationships. They have a profound impact on our lives. Be it with par-

ent, friends, relatives, spouse, children or a professional one. Does that mean that a good or a bad relationship will

determine our story? The answer is “No”.

Some relationships are a matter of choice for e.g. professional, spouse, friends while some are a matter of chance

for e.g. parents, children…the just happen. However, whether that relationship will be good or bad is absolutely a

matter of chance. We cannot determine whether that relationship will turn out to be good or bad unless we ex-

perience it. Therefore, a good or a bad experience might affect our past and present but it will never impact our

future unless we permit it to. It is absolutely our prerogative to decide how we are going to let it impact the rest of

our life.

It is said that when a person dies the story of his life flashes in front of his eyes. The things which we did - both

good and bad. Our achievements and our failures. The experiences which we enjoyed and didn’t. The dreams

which we could achieve and couldn’t. It is upto us on how we want to see the story of our life when we move

on. The worst thing which we can do to ourselves is blame our lives as continuous tragedy by hanging on the

bad experiences and multiply them.

Lets us create a positive impact of our experiences on our lives because life is not a pre-written book which is just survived by us; instead, it is a jour-ney of well-woven rainbows of our own experiences as it is true that .... Zindagi aur kuch bhi nahi….Teri Meri Kahani Hai.

Our Story

By TM Raunaq Desai CC, CL

THE END

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12th April 2007, a cute small child coming out of a labor room, excitedly being placed in my arms and a small tear

of happiness rolled from my eyes. My daughter, my Tanisha being with me. To world Tanisha means “ambition”

but to me tanisha meant “pure happiness”. And immediately I went into deep thoughts can I achieve such happi-

ness continuously? If yes how?? Today I would share with you all 3 simple keys to happiness which I have discov-

ered ever since that date to remain happy continuously.

In this regards, I am reminded of an anecdote where a King went to a yogi (learned man) and asked him “Sir how

can I get happiness?” The yogi showed a butterfly to the King and asked him to catch it. The king went behind the

butterfly but could not catch it. Exhausted when he sat down, the butterfly came and sat on the king’s shoulder.

That’s when the yogi said, Maharaj Happiness is like this butterfly the more you chase it the more it would run

away. But if you sit and look within you will find happiness very much within you. Indeed Happiness is very much

within us and we need to find out our own definition of happiness.

My first key to happiness comes out of Nike advertisement which says ‘Always look on the bright side of life.’ Op-

timism in living everyday life might just be the key to true happiness. I am reminded of how happy TM Subash is

since he is very optimistic. In his class 5 his teacher asked him “Subash - If u have 15 chocolates and u give 5 to

Pooja, 4 to Archana and 3 to Bhakti what will u get ? Subash immediately replied Sir! I will get 3 new girl friends.

So to be happy Subash did not concentrate on loss of 12 chocolates but concentrated on 3 new girl friends…

Optimism helps to be happy…So this is my first key….

My second key to happiness is quite simple - live in present. I have discovered that half of our time goes in crying

about past and other half in worrying about future. Where do I live in present? I realized that today is exactly the

future about which I was worrying about yesterday. Past is history, the future is a mystery. But today’s a gift and

that’s why they call it present. So next Key to happiness is simple. Just resolve to live in present and be happy.

Last but not the least simple key to happiness is to keep expectations under check. There is no limit to which an

expectation can go which leads to utmost frustration. Once my grandmother took me to Goa beach. A huge wave

came and took me inside water. My grandmother fell on her knees and said “Oh God please return my

Amit..That’s all I ask..A moment later another huge wave came and I was thrown out ..unhurt..She checked me go

make sure I was ok..then she looked up in anger and said to God..when we came here Amit had a watch on his

wrist ..where is that ???....Oh grandmaa be happy u r Amit is with u in one piece ..curtail your expectations ..make

them realistic.

So dears I made a vow to myself to have the highest optimism possible, have limited realistic expectations, live in

present and be happy for ever.

Friends in pursuit of happiness i realized that happiness just can’t be pursued but it can be very much achieved as

well. It’s so simple to be happy but it’s so difficult to be simple. Dalai Lama has rightly said “Happiness is not some-

thing ready made. It comes from your own actions.” and Denis Waitley has rightly summarized “I had blues becos I

had no shoes until upon the street I met a man who had no feet.

3 Keys to Happiness

THE END

By TM Amit Shenoy

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On 26/11/2008 terrorist attacked Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai. Taj had more than 600 employees working in the hotel that night. Many of them sole breadwinners in their family. The natural human instinct during a terrorist attack would be to save your life. How many of these employees you think would have fled and how many would have stayed backed? Any guesses………Harvard Business School conducted a case study and they were amazed to find that none of the employees that night left the hotel. In fact some of the staff safely escorted the guests out of the hotel only to return back. There were no manuals, training provided by Taj to the employees under these cir-cumstances. Even Mr. Ratan Tata had no explanation for this behaviour. So what was different at Taj? After doing some research they found that the recruitment process was very different. The hotel would always recruit the frontline staff not from big metro cities but from smaller cities like Haldia, Nasik, Chandigarh and they would recruit students for their attitude and not for grades. They would ask the head masters that which students would have respect for older people, for their parents, teachers. They were looking for students who had passion to serve the people. Imagine Sachin Tendulkar trying to make a career by directing a movie in Hollywood, Steve Jobs in cricket and Ste-ven Speilberg by trying to develop products for Apple. I am sure most of us would agree that this would have been a big disaster for them. Sachin never went to college while Spielberg was kicked out of film school in California be-cause of his grades and Steve was a university drop out. But one thing is common - they all had courage to identify and pursue their passion. They were not sure about the success they would achieve but took the risk of doing something they were passionate about. What is passion? Passion is defined as a powerful and compelling emotion. In other words you have an emotional connection with something that feeds your motivation. The moment you think about it triggers your motivation, gets you excited, and inspires you. Who can find your passion? Well it’s simple – you. How? By asking yourself questions like

1. What would you like to do if money was not the object?

2. Hours fly by when I do what activities? What activities give me a sense of accomplishment? Passion is grown and you are not born with it. When you work somewhere that you are passionate about, putting in the extra hours doesn’t hurt as much because you don’t feel like you are forced to do it. It makes the experience that much more enjoyable. It will be easier for you to work longer on something you can relate to. How many times have you heard this question being asked…. to or by you...So do you want to be a doctor or an engineer? Sometimes I wonder whether these are the only two career choices you have in life? Let’s not force our dreams on children and allow them to pursue their passion. Today you have so many career op-tions and it is important to choose the right one. It is not important to choose the most popular or paying profes-sion but it is important to be number one in the profession you choose. Money, Fame should not be a defining cri-terion for making a carrier choice. Passion will help to achieve excellence and success will follow. This is what hap-pened with Sachin, Speilberg & Jobs. I know some of you must be thinking it is easy to make these statements while difficult to follow at this stage of life given our commitments. Well I have solution for them also. It is never too late you can always pursue your passion even now by allotting sometime during weekdays and also during weekends. Do something which you are passion-ate about and see how it positively impacts your rest of the week since passion is perpetual motivation. Walt Disney was told that no one would ever pay to be entertained by a mouse – but you have Tom & Jerry. The

sperm that fertilizes the egg has survived the odds of 250 million to one. Get it! As long as you live you will never

face such dramatic odds. Our working careers will consume most of our lives, so take a vow today to persistently

pursue your passion and enjoy life.

Pursue your Passion By TM Ankur Lalaji

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How many of you indulge in sports activities. I know about TM Uday, he is often seen monopolizing the GDN sports

section. Mr President, fellow toastmasters, welcome guests, a very good evening

The game of squash involves 2 players whacking the ball back and forth on to the designated wall space till one

player is unable to retrieve the ball before it pitches more than once in the play area. One of the unique aspect of

this game is that the players are in the same play area standing next to each other unlike most other sports where

the opponents face each other. Today’s session is devoted to extolling the game and its virtues.

Speaking for myself I have never been much of a sports playing guy. During my younger days I tried my hand at

various sports like cricket, volleyball, badminton, marbles, top etc and found that I am more adept at sitting and

watching others sweating it out. Most of the sports information I had garnered was from greedily devouring the

sports section of the hindu newspaper with the daily morning coffee. As for squash, like with F1, it was a very dis-

tant sport and the only pitifully meagre information i possessed was the existence of a couple of players.

A couple of years back, during the Jul/Aug school holiday period when the family tends to spend a few extra days in

India and time weighs heavy, I was invited by a friend of mine to try my hand at squash. I was quite skeptical about

the whole affair. Because by this time my physical abilities had considerably deteriorated as the only exercise I had

everyday was the walk to and from the car park. And I had never seen the inside of a squash court before.

The racquet was like the one used for badminton, light and easy to wield. The ball however, was ridiculously small,

no bigger than a lemon and when it was dropped on the floor, it just stayed down contradicting the bouncing quali-

ties of a rubber ball. The first time around it was hugely disheartening. My friend gave me a valuable tip to get ac-

climatized to the game quickly. He mentioned that one has to desist from random heaves and concentrate with the

notion that the wall on the opposite side represents one of your closest associates. Imagine that the wall on the

opposite side represents your spouse or your boss and then notice the transformation in your efforts to get at the

ball. Needless to say my level of play immediately improved by a few notches and I started hitting the wall with

renewed gusto, the hitherto lemon sized ball beginning to look like a football. A sports shops to me was like a la-

dies lingerie shop, i.e. I would pass by it without giving it a second glance. With my increasing affinity towards the

game, I started enjoying scouting sports shops for the various accessories required in playing the game comforta-

bly. And to clarify, the luring was with only with sports shops, my indifference to the lingerie’ shops continues.

One of the most important positive outcome for me personally from this new activity was that I found it greatly

reduced stress levels. After a heavy day at work, walloping the ball is invigorating with the tiredness from the day

vanishing within a few minutes of getting into the court.

As with everything, there are negatives one of which I would like to highlight. i.e. the game is extremely demanding

on the body. One is prone to injury as the sudden twists and turns takes its toll especially on knees and ankles.

I would like to conclude by strongly recommending that each and every one of us take time from our busy sched-

ule and play a physical sport to keep mind and body fit. And if there is an easily accessible court i would advocate

squash as it is not only close to my heart but also for some of the benefits I would like to summarize,

- Sheer joy from just playing the game, every person who still continue playing a sport will know this feeling

- Regular playing keeps one physically fit and reduces stress and keeps one mentally agile

- Diverts ones’ time away from hazardous activities like excessive snacking and watching tv

- Skill sets required to play at beginner’s level is one of the easiest.

- Only one other player is required, unlike in other others games a battalion of players are needed

- As it is indoors, it is not seasonal, game can be played throughout the year

Hitting the Wall

By TM Vinod

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Does anybody know what the longest word is in the English language?

'Smiles'. Because there is a mile between its first and last letters.

Based on today’s theme I will start with a famous Quote: A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) .

I am Sandeep Sharma, born in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan in 1974, Place is very well known for textile Industry and world famous brand BSL suiting's is from the same place.

Sandeep means a lamp which emits light. I was brought up in Mumbai and again went to Rajasthan for schooling. I studied in a Central School in Rajasthan. Thereafter I came back to Mumbai for graduation and completed B. Com. from University of Mumbai. I completed CA in 2008. I also completed Diploma in Import Export Management from Indian Merchant Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai. I worked as Senior Software Auditor with Financial Technologies India Ltd. for four years and gained good experi-ence in software audit. Prior to that I worked as Chief Accountant in an Import export company in Mumbai. I also have fair knowledge of Gujarati and Marathi. My strength includes sincerity to my duties, honesty and hard work. I am a good listener and developed myself to work in diverse circumstances. I feel I am proactive; self motivated and have positive approach. My hobbies are to take part in holy festivals and yoga and stand behind needy people. I always try to improve my professional skills and speaking ability to strengthen my confidence. I have zeal to serve the society by participating in various welfare programmes for uplifting mankind and improve living standards and education of the people. My family includes my father who is Finance Manager in a company and my mother is homemaker. My wife Sharda is a qualified teacher and blessed with two children Shreyash and Hemang, Shreyash is studying in sixth standard in Mumbai and very sharp and obedient, Hemang is three year old and a cute child. I have one brother who is Regional Marketing Manager working with Eveready company in Mumbai. He is very successful in his field of sales and marketing and resourceful personality with helping nature. I also have three sisters. I would like to share one personal incident that I was suffering from Typhoid and admitted to hospital. It was the time of Ganesh Utsav in Mumbai. I was severely affected by the typhoid the chances of recovery is very less. During that time when I was in hospital I had seen two three deaths in the hospital which also made me afraid about the death. But due to blessings of the God Ganesha I recovered and in this incident I had seen the death from near. So we always have to be faith in God as without blessings no one can do anything.

Famous saying of a wise man : “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” Jim Rohn

Ice Breaker

By TM Sandeep Sharma

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MEMBERS’ RESPONSES WHEN

QUESTIONED BY TMOD ON AN UNUSUAL

MEETING THEME THIS MONTH

“BORING”

Questions 1. What was the boring aspect that made you join ICAB?

2. What negative aspect was killed by ICAB in you?

TM Tom Pothen

Once I happened to hear a boring speech. OHHHHH GOD. When the speaker was uttering I C U, I was almost about fall from my seat. I was looking for some change since I always listen to entertaining speeches from my boss. “Requirements” speech from wife again entertaining etc.

Previously I used to fight with my wife when she asked for new churidar or Jewelry. Now I learn to tell her look, in the present costume you look prettier than Aishwarya Rai. Only improvement you need is to change the bangle from your left hand to the right.

TM Karthik G.

I was so bored of dramatizing and dancing on the floor that I decided I should become a good speaker. So I joined ICAB.

I used to be a very boring feedback provider. ICAB killed that boring aspect in me by teaching me ef-fective evaluations.

TM Amit Shenoy

I was so bored of being at home on 2nd and 4th Wednesdays that I decided that I should be in some very good club and hence joined ICAB.

I used to be a very boring story teller. ICAB killed that boring aspect in me by introducing me to bril-liant story tellers like Karthik.

TM BVS Prathap I was bored of making people sleep in my official meetings .

I am aghast that after joining ICAB, people actually laugh on my jokes. Luckily not on all jokes.

TM Raunaq Desai I wanted to make by routine and boring weekdays more interesting and productive.

I though my brain would shrink into a boring button and rust into the air if i dont start using it beyond the obvious.

TM Mohit Malkani

I was so bored of not speaking effectively in public that I decided I should become an effec-tive speaker. So I joined ICAB.

I used to be a very focused on speech content irrespective of the audience interest and feedback. ICAB killed that boring aspect in me by teaching me to focus more on delivery and customer satisfac-tion.

TM Uday Shanbhag

I was so bored of routine daily schedule, so I thought of joining ICAB just to be, in the company of good speakers and friends

I used to be a serious person and never speak in the public. ICAB killed that boring seriousness and thought me how crack jokes and to laugh at some one else’s jokes.

TM Vinod A wonderful opportunity to bore others with speeches and what better forum than ICAB

I was so laidback and absolutely bereft of initiative, now this ICAB is forcing me to make speeches, be a grammarian, get associated with voice and so on and so forth

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Best wishes to our members for a happy

and successful year ahead

31st January Raunaq Desai

Dear TM Raunaq, Thanks a lot for giving me valuable tips of evaluation before I gave the evaluation. It helped me to make the structured evaluation speech. I will keep your points in mind for the future evaluations. Thank You ICAB members for giving me an opportunity to take up the role of an evaluator. Regards, Shilpa Dhume VP-PR Angels Toastmasters Club

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ADVANCED

MEMBER TM DILIP JAIN

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About ICAB Toastmasters Club ICAB Toastmasters Club is a chartered club under Toastmasters International, focusing on predominantly training Indian Chartered Ac-countants improve their public speaking and leadership skills through education and mutual support. The club meets at 7:15 PM on every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of a Month at Mer-cure Grand Hotel, Seef. For further informa-tion about ICAB Toastmasters Club please visit http://icab.toastmastersclubs.org.

About Toastmasters International Toastmasters International is a nonprofit edu-cational organization that teaches public speak-ing and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. Founded in October 1924, the organization currently has more than 292,000 members in 14,350 clubs in 122 coun-tries. Each week, Toastmasters helps more than

a quarter million people of every ethnicity, educa-tion and profession build their competence in communication so they can gain the confidence to lead others. For information about local Toast-masters clubs, please visit www.toastmasters.org.

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