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Club No. 858173
Division C, District 82
Mission of
Toastmasters To provide a mutually
supportive and positive
learning environment
in which every individ-
ual
member has the
opportunity
to develop oral
communication
and leadership skills,
which in turn foster
self-confidence
FEBRUARY 2011
There I thought, that I had my share of producing the newsletter but circumstances have prevailed yet again and I have been given another responsibility of bringing another colourful issue of the newsletter. The newsletter is a great platform for those who want to pen down their thoughts even though they are not professional writers. In this issue, Toastmaster Vikas shares his story, Toastmaster Akhil gathers his thoughts on Patience, Toastmaster Goonjan Mall takes his call on love and Toastmaster Sanchit Aggarwal shares his experience of Valentine Mas-querade Party he attended with other toastmasters of the club. I hope you will have great time reading it. Akhil Sood VP (Edu) - JPKU TM
The Editor’s Note
Newsletter of the JPKU Toastmasters Club, New Delhi
Vol. 5, Issue 2; February 2011 Images
February 2011 2 CONTENTS PRESIDENT SPEAKS Page 3
President Vikas Kumar shares his thoughts for the club
— Vikas Kumar
Valentine Masquerade Page 7
An experience of a big toastmasters gathering
- Sanchit Aggarwal
My Story Page 6
The big question is “What is your story?”
Know Thy Toastmaster Page 8
Let’s get close and personal with our very own toastmasters.
Pranshu Arora
Best of the Month Page 10
Find out our star performers week by week.
Club Contact Details Page 11
Acknowledgments Page 12
Patience Page 4
With contests just gone by, a perfect recipe to achieve one’s
true potential - Akhil Sood
JPKU Toastmasters Club
International Speech and Table Topics
Contest Page 9
Love Is In The Air Page 5
A take on Valentines week
- Goonjan Mall
3 PRESIDENT SPEAKS February 2011
Competition is part and parcel of our life and we are competing at various platforms through-out our life. Toastmaster also has it’s share of competitions. In every meeting, we try to better ourselves and compete with other toastmaster in prepared speeches, evaluations and im-promptu table topics sections. Besides this every meeting dosage of competitions, we also have the big bang - Speech Competitions. This week, we witnessed club members trying to outperform against each other in Interna-tional Speech Competition and Table Topics Competition. I would like to congratulate Sanchit Aggarwal and Nitya Ranjan for winning the International Speech and Table Topics Contest re-spectively, Akhil Sood was first runners up in both the contests and Roberto Germani was sec-ond runners up in Table Topics Contest. First two award winners of each contest will repre-sent JPKU Toastmasters Club in the upcoming Area C2 level contest where they shall com-pete with toastmasters of other club of South Delhi area. Also, This month we tried a couple of new things in our meetings to make them more inter-esting. These were special movie and book review sections which helped members appreciate the usage of communication for something that they are passionate about. With all the energy our young members bring in I assure you that learning and fun will grow further. Carpe Diem. Thank you. Vikas Kumar President—JPKU Toastmasters Club
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I am very new to a rather unknown
concept of a thought magnet but i am
quite surprised to see how it works.
The moment you get some free time at
your mercy, your thoughts start taking
a shape. There is nothing unknown
about this, but the peculiar thing is that
the thoughts zero down in the same
zone every-time. That’s were the mag-
net comes into the picture.
The things you see and perceive remain forever active and ready for any refer-
ence in the subconscious. I have always been alarmed at the ever increasing
rate of breakups, divorces, involving some of my best friends, the people i
have lived most of my life with and yet when i start comparing this efferves-
cent generation with the one that preceded us, the number diminishes. The
magnet has often attracted my thoughts and they have obliged by wandering
in the same direction, What is the attribute that we are lacking in our genera-
tion and our parents perfected in? They possibly haven’t seen and explored the
world as we are destined to but yet there was something that they could hold
on to their partners and knit a merry relationship.
I am aware that none of us graduate with the idea of learning how to get easy
divorces and break up but somehow we do manage to excel in it. The word is
patience. We lack it. Blame it on the young boiling blood or the social stigma
we grew in but we are just a bunch of irritated people, who have been angry
at reality shows and what not and just wait for a golden opportunity to present
and we let go all our frustration, not wondering , what impact is going to have
on the person or the relationship.
Just take a minute out of your lives and think and ponder before you react to
something and do an ever-challenging act of courageousness. Lets make a
pledge and start growing some patience within us. Its not hard to develop it,
there are ample ways but the foremost thing is that you need to be willing to
adapt and initiate a change. Lets change our procrastination into a more posi-
tive patience.
Akhil Sood
February 2011 PATIENCE
5 Love is in the Air
When you are in love, you get butterflies
in your stomach. Things start to look dif-
ferent. You change. Is all this true? Proba-
bly!
Come February, all that’s there in your
mind is – Valentine Day.
Everyone has their own reasons.
For those who are in love – you have to think about your plans for the val-
entine week. And you are worried about the gifts you have to get. Aren’t
you? I am!
For those who are not yet in love – you are probably waiting for the per-
fect one. You are looking out for Mr. Cupid to fire his love arrow right
through your heart.
And finally, for those of you who are still waiting for an answer, valentine
is the perfect time to propose. Just imagine – you down on one knee, a
red rose and a box of chocolates. And… the answer is yes! Wouldn’t that
be the best moment of your life!!!
Well, as they say, being in love is the best feeling in the world. Go on. Ex-
perience it!
“Love is in the air, everywhere I look around
Love is in the air, every sight and every sound
And I don't know if I’m being foolish, don't know if I’m being wise
But is something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes”
- Paul Young
Goonjan Mall
February 2011
6 My Story
We all are part of a story
We all are the lead in a tale
And if we don’t do what we are told
We all are bound to fail
Its high time we took control of our story
And started living life with a well deserved Glory
Everyone has some story to tell, actually lots
of stories to tell. But when one faces the
question- ―What is your story?‖ At first al-
most all blank out and then they start what
has been going through our heads these days.
The first few lines in the answer to this ques-
tion are very important because it gives a
clear view of the present mental state of the person. It clearly stats the most
important idea going through the mind of the speaker these days.
When this question was posed to me by one of the board members of my or-
ganization, my reaction to speak about my background. To this answer, he
commented that the reason I am still giving my background to this question is
because I am still stuck with my background. I am too proud of the same and
don’t want to move ahead from that glorious past.
It indeed was an eye opener and later when I thought about my story, there was
no clear answer. There were lots of hazy pictures but no clear indication of the
path ahead. Following lines clearly describe my story these days:
I strove to leave my footprints in all the paths I had
trodden
Only to realise that it is the path that had left its foot-
print on me.
I took for granted my shadow that I had dragged along
with me all this while
Only to discover a trembling self find solace in the shad-
ows that I had given birth to.
I searched for a glimpse of me in the image in the mirror
Only to find it peering back at me with unrecognizing
eyes, in a quest for itself.
I watched in awe the shadows dancing to the tune of its fire
Only to wonder if the origin of light is darkness itself.
I wanted to leave my footprints in all the paths trodden
But sometimes it's beautiful to let the path leave it's footprints on my heart
Never to be washed away by the waves of time.
What is your story??
Vikas Kumar
February 2011
7 Valentine Masquerade
I am relatively a new member of Toastmasters Club.
To me Toastmasters club means ―A place to provide a
mutually supportive and positive learning environment
in which every individual member has the opportunity
to develop oral communication and leadership skills,
which in turn foster self-confidence and personal
growth‖, (I am not being a nerd, I am just the Sergeant
at Arms of JPKU club).
Till 20th February, the only social gathering I had attended was OTP – Officers Training
Program. To be honest, till I got the invitation email of Valentines masquerade party by
TMWD, I didn’t even know that Toastmaster clubs can host parties. But it was only after
some time, I got know that this was one of the biggest parties ever hosted by any Toast-
masters’ club.
I was at the party very well on time, and by ―very well on time‖ I mean I was only half an
hour late, which is frankly very good by Indian standard, because it was raining heavily
and it was not easy to reach on time. But to my surprise, most of the people were already
there. I guess the first rule of Toastmasters is very well ingrained into all of us, ―To be
punctual‖.
The party was a delight right from the start. A great venue was selected, both in terms of
approachability and space. As I entered, the first thing that was offered to me was a mas-
querade mask, which was again one of a kind. The food, the ambience and the decora-
tions were simply brilliant.
The ceremony was initiated by Mr. Harish Gupta, Sergeant at Arms of TMWD club. It
was then taken over by Arpita and Rajan, who were the hosts of the party. I must admit
that no one could have done this job better than both of them. The energy they demon-
strated was just mind blowing.
The highlights of the party were the perform-
ances by Tatva Band, Gunjan and Swati Jain. I
don’t think that there is any doubt about that. Mr
and Madam Toastmaster was icing on the cake.
Really nice performances by the people of all age
groups. I guess that’s the beauty of Toastmasters
club; people are not distinguished from others be-
cause of their age or experience; they are re-
spected for their desire to learn and their desire to
improve themselves.
In the end, I must say that Arpita, Rajan, Gunjan, Harish ji and Swati Katariya did an ex-
cellent job at organising, marketing and hosting one of the best parties I ever attended,
and I hope to see more events and parties coming from TMWD, because they simply
ROCKED this one!
Cheers!
Sanchit Aggarwal
February 2011
February 2011 KNOW THY TOASTMASTER 8
Pranshu Arora is a new member of the club from Faridabad. He is pursuing his Engineering from local engg col-
lege. Besides studies, he is very passionate about Guitar and speaking. He is a professional teacher for Guitar and to
take care of his other passion speaking, he joined toastmaster.
Q1: How did you come to know about toastmasters and how
have been your experience till now?
I came to know about toastmaster from my PDP trainer in my col-
lege, her name is Mrs. Garima Arora. She told me that if you really
want to improve your skills you should join this club. Now I can feel
that she was evincing in her words. My experience about toastmaster
is really very positive as this is the platform which can lead my life to
live my dreams. Really want to thank Vikas and Akhil was making me
realize what is toastmaster.
Q2: What is Pranshu Passionate about?
I am Passionate about lots of things in life .My life is full of adven-
ture I love doing things that make me energetic and crazy my life is
towards marketing as this is the only field where I can meet new peo-
ple every day and it’s not a static job. I am also passionate about mak-
ing presentation just because it’s an easy way to sell my ideas. And
how can I forget MUSIC IS MY LIFE.
Q3: You mentioned about your love for guitar in your ice -
breaker speech. Can you tell something more about it?
Two years back I start learning guitar, while I was learning I came to
know that music is path to express you and my love for music is just
to express myself. I don’t learn
just playing guitar I love to make
my original compositions. And
know I have even become a mu-
sic teacher now and my dream
is not ending end unless l open a
music school where every child
is free to express his thoughts
through music.
Q4: What are the goals you
have set for yourself vis - a -
vis toastmasters
I have just one goal set in my mind that I want to become the best speaker in our
club.
Q5: Any suggestions for the Toastmaster meeting in general and for fellow
toastmasters of the club?
You guys are great as its such a spectacular way of learning new things
in life. No suggestion because everything is perfect over the club the
member, evaluation, methodology, everything is perfect.
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JPKU—International Speech & Table Topics Contest (Feb 26, 2011)
February 2011 CONTEST TIME
International Speech
Contest Table Topics Contest
NITYA
RANJAN
ROBERTO
GERMANI
AKHIL
SOOD
SANCHIT
AGGARWAL
AKHIL
SOOD
February 2011 BEST OF THE MONTH 10
Here come
the
results!!!
5th February: Rahul Soni 12th February: Sanchit Aggarwal 19th February: Rahul Soni
5th February: Shraddha Nakra 12th February: Akhil Sood 19th February: Akhil Sood
5th February: Goonjan Mall 12th February: Nishant 19th February: Pranshu Arora
Here come
the
results!!!
February 2011 CLUB CONTACT DETAILS 11
Our Executive Committee
Vikas Kumar: President
Akhil Sood: Vice President, Education
Shraddha Nakra: Vice President, Membership
Sameep Taneja Secretary
Vinay Jain: Treasurer
Sanchit Aggarwal: Sergeant-at-arms
Venue of Meetings
Vivekananda Vihar, Opposite J.P., Kapur & Uberai, Chartered
Accountants, LGF C-4/5 Safdarjung Development Area,
New Delhi—110016.
Time of Meetings
Every Saturday, 12:30 p.m.
Whom to Contact
For all queries, please contact:
Vikas Kumar: +91 9560690622 :;[email protected]
Akhil Sood: +91 9810820409; [email protected]
Shraddha Nakra: +91 9899010 702 [email protected]
Sanchit Aggarwal +91 9810906089; [email protected]
Sameep Taneja: +91 9810053909; [email protected]
February 2011 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 12
Club No. 858173
Division C, District 82
Always Ahead…!
Copyright JPKU Toastmasters Club, 2011
No part of this newsletter maybe printed or reproduced
without intimating the JPKU Toastmasters Club. All enquiries
and requests should be directed to the club’s public relations
committee at [email protected].
To be honest, I am doing this on behalf of Vikas, since he is the
one who had worked over time to make this issue possible and
not derail the train of newsletters yet again. I would like to ex-
tend my gratitude to everyone who contributed to the newsletter.
Thanks to Vikas and Sanchit for their support. Finally, I would
like to specially mention the names of Pranshu, Goonjan for their
prompt contributions.
Images is published on the last day of the month. All contribu-tors are requested to send in their entries to [email protected] by the 25th of the month.
Important Links: JPKU Toastmasters: http://jpkutoastmasters.bravehost.com Division C members: [email protected] District 82: http://www.t82.org/