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Club No. 858173

Division C, District

Mission of

ToastmastersTo provide a mutuallysupportive and positiv

learning environmen

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 butcircumstances 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 eventhough they are not professional writers. In this issue, Toastmaster Vikas shares his story,

Toastmaster Akhil gathers his thoughts on Patience, Toastmaster Goonjan Mall takes hiscall 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 SoodVP (Edu) - JPKU TM

The Editors Note

Newsletter of the JPKU Toastmasters Club, New Delhi

Vol. 5, Issue 2; February 2011Images


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Februa2 CONTENTSPRESIDENT SPEAKS Page 3President Vikas Kumar shares his thoughts for the club

Vikas Kumar

Valentine Masquerade Page 7An experience of a big toastmasters gathering

- Sanchit Aggarwal

My Story Page 6The big question is What is your story?

Know Thy Toastmaster Page 8Lets get close and personal with our very own toastmasters.Pranshu Arora

Best of the Month Page 10Find out our star performers week by week.

Club Contact Details Page 11

Acknowledgments Page 12

Patience Page 4With contests just gone by, a perfect recipe to achieve ones

true potential - Akhil Sood

JPKU Toastmasters ClubInternational Speech and Table TopicsContest Page 9

Love Is In The Air Page 5A take on Valentines week

- Goonjan Mall


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3 PRESIDENT SPEAKS FebruaryCompetition is part and parcel of our life and we are competing at various platforms through-out our life. Toastmaster also has its share of competitions. In every meeting, we try to betterourselves 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 appreciatethe 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 growfurther.

Carpe Diem.

Thank you.Vikas Kumar

PresidentJPKU 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 atyour 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. Thats 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 havent 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

and we let go all our frustration, not wondering , what impact is going

on the person or the relationship.

Just take a minute out of your lives and think and ponder before you

something and do an ever-challenging act of courageousness. Lets

pledge and start growing some patience within us. Its not hard to dev

there are ample ways but the foremost thing is that you need to be wi

adapt and initiate a change. Lets change our procrastination into a mor

tive patience.

Akhil SoodFebruaATIENCE


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5 Love is in the AirWhen 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 thats there in your

mind isValentine Day.

Everyone has their own reasons.

For those who are in loveyou have to think about your plans for the val-

entine week. And you are worried about the gifts you have to get. Arent

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! Wouldnt 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 Im being foolish, don't know if Im being wiseBut is something that I must believe in

And it's there when I look in your eyes

- Paul Young

Goonjan MallFebrua


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7 Valentine MasqueradeI 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 didnt 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

dont 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 agegroups. I guess thats 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

cellent job at organising, marketing and hosting one of the best parties I ever attend

and I hope to see more events and parties coming from TMWD, because they sim

ROCKED this one!

Cheers!

Sanchit AggarwalFebrua


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FebruarKNOW THY TOASTMASTER8Pranshu 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 totake 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 its not a static job. I am also passionate about mak-

ing presentation just because its 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 dont learnjust 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 speak

club.

Q5: Any suggestions for the Toastmaster meeting in general and f

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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JPKUInternational Speech & Table Topics Contest (Feb 26, 2011)

February 2CONTEST TIME

International Speech

ContestTable Topics Contest

NITYARANJAN

ROBERTOGERMANIAKHILSOOD

SANCHITAGGARWAL

AKHILSOOD


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FebruBEST OF THE MONTH10Here come

the

results!!!

5th February: Rahul Soni12th February: Sanchit Aggarwal19th February: Rahul Soni

5th February: Shraddha Nakra12th February: Akhil Sood19th February: Akhil Sood5th February: Goonjan Mall12th February: Nishant19th February: Pranshu Arora

Here come

the

results!!!


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FebruCLUB CONTACT DETAILS11Our Executive Committee

Vikas Kumar: President

[email protected]

Akhil Sood: Vice President, Education

[email protected]

Shraddha Nakra: Vice President, Membership

[email protected]

Sameep Taneja Secretary

[email protected]

Vinay Jain: Treasurer

[email protected]

Sanchit Aggarwal: Sergeant-at-arms

[email protected]

Venue of Meetings

Vivekananda Vihar, Opposite J.P., Kapur & Uberai, Chartered

Accountants, LGF C-4/5 Safdarjung Development Area,

New Delhi110016.

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]
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FebruACKNOWLEDGMENTS12

Club No. 858173

Division C, District 82

Always Ahead!

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No part of this newsletter maybe printed or repro

without intimating the JPKU Toastmasters Club. All enqand requests should be directed to the clubs public relacommittee [email protected].

To be honest, I am doing this on behalf of Vikas, since hone who had worked over time to make this issue possibnot derail the train of newsletters yet again. I would like

tend my gratitude to everyone who contributed to the newThanks to Vikas and Sanchit for their support. Finally, Ilike to specially mention the names of Pranshu, Goonjan fo

prompt contributions.

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