Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Vote E T Lee as your LGM for term 2008/2009


District Officers,
Division Governors ,
Area Governor ,
Presidents ,
Vice presidents of Education,
And all delegates to the Penang Annual Convention,


Good Morning,


My mother fractured three of her left ribs about a week ago and she is still suffering from excruciating pain. As such I am not able to attend the annual convention this time. I will see you in the Convention in Bali.

Instead I take this opportunity to write to you from my blog and to convince you to vote me in as your Lieutenant Governor of Marketing for the term 2008/2009.

I joined Toastmasters in 1980- 28 years ago. In fact I mooted the idea of forming the first Toasmasters Club in Penang, The Butterworth Toastmasters Club , right in my office in Perai, Butterworth. Today this club is still thriving in Penang.

In 1997, I was the Organizing Chairman for the PANSEA annual convention in Johor Bahru. At this convention we organized the world's first District level Mandarin programs which included the first- ever District level Mandarin Speech competitions. For the last ten years , Mandarin programs have elvoved to become an important part of all anual and semi anual conventions in District 51.

Over almost three decades of being a Toastmaster , I have served as clubs officer at all levels. I was President of the Seberang Jaya Toastmasters Club in 1986, the President of Johor Bahru Toastmasters Club in 1995, just to name a few. I have conducted many Toastmasters educational modules and served in different capacities at Area and Division levels. I have in fact served as Division Governor for two terms ie 1997/98 and 2007/08.

I have never served as a senior officers at the District level. In fact, nobody form Johor has been elected to the District administration. We do not even get an invitation to serve in appointed positions.

I believe this is about time Toastmasters in Johor get the opportunity to go higher. You can help us to do that.

Please use your vote in your hand and VOTE E T Lee, DTM in as your next LGM.

Your have seen me worked diligently for the District in the 2006 Annual Convention in Johor Bahru. Some of you have heard me spoke passionately about issues that need attention at the 2007 Medan convention. So do not hesitate. Vote me in as your next LGM at this convention.

If you need further information about me you may visit

Or speak to me in person on skype , skype ID : feedtech


I reaslise that some of you may not be attending the Penang convention. If you are unable to go, please make sure that you make use of your vote through a proxy and VOT ET LEE, DTM in as your next LGM.


I thank you for your attention. If you vote me in this year, you will be assured that I will bring in a lot of new dimensions to the next district administration, member services and the long -awaited improvement in communication between District and the members.


Have a nice stay in Penang.


E T Lee, DTM Candidate for LGM 2008/09







Friday, April 11, 2008

Back to Basics

Most of our clubs here meet twice a month and each meeting normally last for two and a half hours. That means we spend only about five hours a month on Toastmasters. It is a very small time slot indeed. And during that limited time we were hoping to be able to achieve what we came to Toastmasters for.

It is very important to be focused in what we do in order to achieve any degree of success in our quest to be a good Toastmasters. Any distractions (acitivities conducted in place of normal meetings ) such yoga sessions, treasure hunts, mountain climbings etc will eat away time we have allotted to Toastmasters. Such activities are not what we came to Toastmasters for !

We were drawn together by the desire to be good speakers and leaders. Lets just make sure that we involve ourselves in activites that will enable us realise those aspirations.