Email from President of Toastmasters - Dubai Chapter - Dr. VijayKumar Balan

Dear D'Chaps,

We had a great contest on 10th Jan!
Congratulations to all the winners....but then, in a way, all those who participated have won...the process of preparing and participating made them better speakers.
Our next meeting on 24th is again a contest meeting - The International and the Table Topics Contest.
Are you participating this time?
Or, are you destined to miss the opportunity?
The doors are still open.....accept the challenge, get ready and deliver!

Send in your names to TM Khushru, our VP education.
The winners of the last contest were

Evaluation Contest -
First Place: TM Khushru Khandadia
Second Place: TM Ganesh Srinivasan
Third Place: TM Seeta Sagaran

Humorous Speech Contest -
First Place: TM Maaz Ali
Second Place: TM Aadil Kadri

TM Khushru and TM Maaz Ali will represent the club at the area level in the respective contests.

All the best!
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Dr. Balan Vijay Kumar MBBS, DPM, MD (Psychiatry)
Psychiatrist, Al Lulu Medical Center, Sharjah (Phone: 00971 6 5646252)
Mobile - 00971 50 4974614
ae.linkedin.com/in/drbvkumar
President, Toastmasters Dubai Chapter (www.dubaitoastmasters.org)
D'CHAPS - EXCELLENCE THROUGH PASSION

Humourous Contest Speech - Dubai Chapter - 2nd Prize.

The Humorous Contest Speech
It was that time of year 2011 in the Toastmaster's Calendar - Dubai Chapter for the humorous speech contest.
Who would enter?
Since i was travelling i didn't register for it and i went there just to attend it and do the other leadership role. Last moment one of the speaker dropped out and then one of the fellow toastmaster have motivated me to do the speech which i have done in Project 4 - "Absentmindedness"
I decided to take that challenge on the last minute - Imprompto Speech. I had never been in humorous speech contest despite having given humorous speeches before. It would be a challenge and i thought what maximum would happen would be i will not win any prize ... but atleast i have attempted it.
So i have given my nomination to be one of the contestant.
I chose a topic same as Absentmindedness and rehearsed it.
I started recollecting all the points which one of the evaluators has suggested me to take care of while we are giving the speech.
Now the time has come and i did to the best of my ability.

It was a time for the results and ...... surprisingly i got 1st Runner up award for the Humourous Speech Contest - Dubai Chapter.

I can never forget that day .... it was 10th January 2011.

Absent Mindedness - Project 4 - CC Manual

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“My presence of mind is frequently absent.” Rain Bojangles. (Twentieth century musician author artist and explorer.)
Everyone experiences absentmindedness from time to time, but I personally seem to be especially afflicted.
Have you ever walked into a room and forgotten why you walked in there? Have you ever forgotten to give someone a telephone message? Do you occasionally forget where you have put things or what you were planning to do? And if answer is Yes …. Let me give you a good news that you are not alone.
Toast Master of the Day … Fellow Toastmaster and welcome Guests … Good Evening.
Everyone experiences absentmindedness on a regular basis. Absentmindedness is caused by the failure to pay attention to what you need to do.
It is usually caused by one of two different scenarios.
1. The thing you need to do is part of a habit or routine such that it requires very little attention.
2. You are distracted by something that takes your attention away from the thing you need to do.
We do not have Balcony in our house my wife used to put the clothes out on the rope which we have tied across out from the Window. It just happened one Friday I was watching a TV and my wife had to go out somewhere.
She wanted me to dry the washed cloths . Normally I don’t do much of household work but on that day as a good husband I absentmindedly agreed to help her . While doing the job I was thinking also … what a wonderful invention in the form of washing machine has been done. The cloths are almost dry and we need to just put it for some time and its ready for iron and fold to keep in the wardrobe. Any way I have completed the job and was back watching TV.
Few hours later my wife came back and started shouting … Aadil I have given you small job and you are not helping me.
I said what happen Darling ??? I was thinking that she will praise me for my work.
She said the cloths are still in the washing machine. I was taken back with a surprise and started thinking that then what cloths I have put it on the rope to dry. I went in to the room to check personally on what my wife is saying.
She said … my absent minded husband , like rebaking a baked cake ,you have put once again the same clothes which were already dry and which I have just taken out from the rope before going out.
What else can she expect from my side.
Another case ….
In those days in India the place where I am staying … we used to trespass a compound for taking a shortcut to reach on a main road. The owners of the compound used to keep it closed and whenever we used to go on a scooter, we have to get down open the gate and pass by.
My cousin was having his board results and I said let me take you along with me on my scooter. On the whole route I have spoken to him for about 15 minutes giving him a pep talk and tried to keep him motivated. Don’t worry … the result will be good … Blah… Blah ……
Finally when I have parked my scooter in his school and what I saw is my cousin is not there on the scooter. where did he vanish…. I tried to remember that he was there till the time we opened the gate… in fact he only has opened the gate. Suddenly I realized that yes that time after he opened the gate and was trying to close it again .. I thought that he is sitting behind and I drove the scooter. I was also thinking that while I am talking to him in the whole journey and he is not responding because he might be nervous …. Others saw me as a lunatic in soliloquy.
One more absentmindedness incident ......A friend of mine called as Munaf and me were going to a class of Mathematics when we were in 12th.It just happened that a Munaf did'nt came for a few classes. One day while Munaf was not in the class and while we were doing our classwork ... my teacher Pradeep Pandya asked me suddenly ... Aadil ... Is Munaf SICK ... and i have replied absentmindedly ..... No Sir..... he is MUSLIM. Every on bursted in a laugh ... however i didn't even realize it that i have made an absentminded statement.
There has been no medical inventions which has happened to overcome Absentmindedness completely.
But a few suggestions would help you to overcome it to a great extent.
1. Try not to do 2 jobs at the same time
2. Along with Physical exercises ... do mental exercises also .. ie. working on mindteasers/ puzzles / crossword etc.
3. Keep your life disciplined and stick to some regime.
Friends … It is possible to completely overcome absentmindedness, absentmindedly
Oh .... Look i forgot .... i have to finish the project in the time limit !!!!!!!!!!!
Over to you TMOD.