The only speakers for the meeting were Patrick Ah-Vane, James Benoit, Bipin Gooriah and myself, each of us attempting various speech levels.
I myself talked about Information Security and how important it is to safeguard your personal information from malicious people wanting to take advantage of these for financial gain. Credit card security, online banking, viruses, almost anything that contains confidential data. All this does seem new and complicated but the bottomline message is that anything to do with the Internet, remember: “Precaution is better than cure”.
James on the other hand captivated us with his level 8 speech, “The Dragon Slayer in all of us”. For a moment, I thought I was living a remake of “Star Wars”, because his speech was accompanied by a triplet of swords which he drew one after the other, to the amusement of some, and to the surprise of others!!
Bipin was completely different, he was calm, friendly and took us along a pleasant journey throughout anecdotes of his life. For an ice-breaker speech, it was impressive, Bipin showed no fear whatsoever….that shows a good kickstart at toastmasters! Keep it up!
“No Stress” was the motto of Patrick – his level 9 speech gave us some insight on how to eliminate stress. To that Patrick, may I add: “no work, no stress!” :-)
Whilst the judges were deliberating, Anna tried to challenge us at table topics. I must admit that it was whole bunch of fun and laughter. A perfect way to end our meeting.
Finally the prizes went to: James Benoit for best speaker, myself for runner-up speaker, Luc for best evaluator and Shaffiq for runner-up Evaluator.
Way to go for the first night of speeches!
Sabrina
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