T/Ms meetings - Murphy's Law Is Everywhere

This blog hasn't been managed for some time. So why not put the meeting minutes I wrote for my club here.

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Tonight was a night full of surprises, wonders and flexibility. Murphy’s law played tricks on our meeting. Yet, team work and T/Ms spirit prevailed, and we had another enjoyable meeting like always.

Surprises? Robert brought six or seven of his colleagues to the meeting. They really helped warm up the atmosphere. For the first time in many months we had four speakers and they all showed up and fulfilled their assignments.

Wonders? Quite a few meeting roles were open. Before the meeting, we had two assignments untaken. When the meeting started, GE hadn’t showed up because of her job. The attendance rate was a bit low. The club President Randolph went to get the agenda and meeting material from his office realizing that VPE Grace couldn’t come. It took him only seventeen Minutes, almost impossible during traffic hours, to get to the venue just in time to take over the opening given by acting President in time. Murphy tried.

Flexibility? Shortly before the meeting, all the meeting roles were finally filled up. Some members had to take two meeting roles. Debbie was asked to host the Table Topics Session besides being the Variety Session Master. Ray was both the Ah counter and the Vote counter. I myself, the GE took kind of three meeting roles, too, acting President, Language and General Evaluation. Murphy did it again.

The other important factors that made tonight’s meeting successful were:

1. A romantic theme “Romantic” generated interest and sharing from the audience. Carl and Randolph’s sharings were beautiful and touching. The 1st love was too good to forget; to be real romantic one has to do double what the beloved one expects.
2. Besides setting the beautiful theme of the meeting, TME Carl did a good preparation to ensure interesting introduction and smooth transition.
3. Variety session and Table topics masters Debby Ho did a wonderful job in creating laughter and
Threw questions related to daily lives to get both members and guests to comment on the topics.
4. Four manual speeches given by Marc Liang, Jamie Liu, Jo Shih and Larry Lee made tonight’s meeting truly educational and informative.
5. For senior members John Wen, Randolph Chiang, Mike yang and Choi Chang, give truly practical and helpful evaluations.

At last, I must say together we tied the bolts and nuts precisely to make the fruitful and enjoyable meeting possible no matter how hard Murphy had tried. By Trini Ding, DTM