Meeting #15, December 3, 2009

Another great meeting at Irrationally Motivated, and our enthusiasm and energy allowed us to attract some great new members to our club, including the outstanding Ichi Su and Irene Sun!

We'll be making a few changes to Irrationally Motivated for the new year to emphasise Irrationally Motivated's shift towards excellence and creativity in Public Speaking!

See you all on January 7!

Meeting #14 - November 5, 2009

Irrationally Motivated is rocking along! Our meeting on November 5 was a huge success, with incredible speeches from Paul Lee, Ming Lee, Grace Chuang and yours truly.

We also had a fantastic evaluation workshop session with star evaluators Ichi Su, Keli Yen and Bryian Hung.

See you all in December after Fall Conference

Meeting #14 - October 1 2009

Our Meeting on October 1 was well received - we had some terrific speeches from Sean Yang and Amanda Uy and we also enjoyed a fabulous Advanced Impromptu session from Grace Chuang.

Don't miss our next meeting on November 5!

Meeting #13, September 3, 2009

We were lucky enough to be able to hold Irrationally Motivated's first speech contest!

We had six participants in the Evaluation contest, and Bonita Hsu and Shang Su will go on to represent our club at Area G1 Level.

Let's be there to support them all!

Meeting #12, August 20, 2009

The rescheduled meeting at Irrationally Motivated meant that not so many members were able to take part in the meeting.

Still, the highlight of the meeting was once again our wonderful Advanced Impromptu session in which our members gave superb depictions of the movies Titanic, Forrest Gump and Sex and the City!

This meeting also marked the one year anniversary of Irrationally Motivated Advanced Toastmasters Club - a landmark achievement!

Typhoon...

Unfortunately, Typhoon Morakot hitting Taiwan meant that our meeting on Thursday had to be postponed.

We will arrange a meeting for later in the month!

Meeting #11, July 2, 2009

The new look Irrationally Motivated is now up and running!

We had a tremendous, high quality meeting, with some great speeches from Paul Lee, Shang Su and Grace Chuang. The highlight was new VPM Bonita's energetic and lively CSI-inspired Advanced Impromptu session!

We also were proud to have new members Cindy Wang and William Huang join us! There are some exciting times up ahead for Irrationally Motivated - please become a part of it!

Meeting #10, June 4, 2009

The final meeting of the term brought many surprises! Perhaps it was the horrible rain, but it was certainly interesting to have such a low turnout to the meeting.

It didn't make a difference to the fabulously 'cozy' atmosphere. As usual, we had some wonderful sessions, including a hilarious Advanced Impromptu session from our new VPE, Shang Su.

John Lee from Chinatrust was also fantastic in his role as General Evaluator, and made everyone laugh more than their fair share!

It's also time for the new officer term at Irrationally Motivated. There will be many changes over the next few months, and I'm so excited about the improvements that we'll be making to make Irrationally Motivated the best place to learn in Toastmasters Taiwan!

Meeting #9 - May 7, 2009

Our May meeting was absolutely incredible!

Our three speakers, 2007 Humorous Speech Champion, Shang Su, current Irrationally Motivated VPE, Jewel Hsu, and BID Club President, Ming Tsai, truly brought their best performances for this evening!

The audience were completely blown away and the room was filled with laughter. Irrationally Motivated is really on a roll!

Our next meeting will take place on June 4. 

Confirmation of New Meeting Venue

We're proud to announce that Irrationally Motivated Toastmasters Club will be moving to our new venue at Datong Public Assembly Hall, at 4F, No 33, Section 2, Cheng De Road (close to MRT Zhong Shan)

We're all very pleased with our new venue, and look forward to seeing you join us!

Meeting #8 April 2, 2009

Our April meeting was an extremely entertaining evening! Despite a slightly hectic opening to the meeting, we enjoyed speeches from Yvonne Kao, Paul Lee, and our special guest, demo speaker Tiffany Yen, from Spark Toastmasters Club!

Area Governor, Shang Su, presided over our new Evaluation workshop, and our three evaluators delivered incredibly accomplished performances as a result!

Please come along to our meeting next month, on May 7!

Meeting #7 March 5, 2009

This was the first meeting under our new President, Cameron (me!). Not only that, but we had our first meeting at our new venue, Datong Public Assembly Hall!

We had two speeches today, Cameron (me again) rehearsed his contest speech, and Paul Lee told us about management.

Area Governor Su Yuan joined us, and together we had discussion about the direction that the club will be taking!

Please join our next meeting on April 2!

Meeting #6, February 5, 2009

An era has come to an end.

Our esteemed President, Emily Murray has sadly left Taiwan and made her way to New Zealand. February's meeting was our final meeting under her inspirational leadership.

We enjoyed two speeches - Amanda Uy's A13 speech telling us the tale of the Lady of Shalott, and Paul Lee's speech on Supply Chain Management. 

Our club will also be meeting at a new venue beginning next month. Please stay tuned for information on our new venue!

Meeting #5, January 8, 2009

The first meeting of 2009 brought an expertly delivered speech from Pamela Yang, on How to Deal with Jetlags. Joyce Hong told us about her scary experiences getting lost in her speech entitled Smangus. Finally, Paul Lee told us of the Seven Steps of Selling.

We also had an excellent Table Topics session, run by Sophia Lai, and our favorite Advanced Impromptu session involved some entertaining poetry analysis, run by Amanda Uy.

Our next meeting will be on February 5!

Meeting #4, December 4, 2008

Our December meeting had some entertaining speeches from Leslie Lin, Paul Lee and Valerius Lee.

Jewel Hsu did a great job as Toastmaster!

Our next meeting will be in January - see you there!

Meeting #3 November 6, 2008

Irrationally Motivated's 3rd meeting took place on Thursday, November 6. Due to a last minute overbooking, we were forced to move our meeting to Mr Brown Coffee nearby. 

We still had a wonderful meeting regardless, with a wonderful Advanced Impromptu session by Ming Lee and Jonathan Chen's guest Humorous speech amongst the highlights.

We also had prepared speeches from Valerius Li and Paul Lee!

Our next meeting will take place on December 4. Please drop by! 

Meeting #2 - Installation Ceremony - October 2, 2008

Irrationally Motivated's second meeting was conducted last Thursday.

Leslie Lin delivered his A5 speech, entitled "Keep Walking" - a moving account of the perseverance of his father in law's childhood.

Paul Lee informed us about "The History of Accounting" with his A21 speech.

In addition, our president, Emily Murray delivered her Humorous Speech Contest speech for our enjoyment!

Sophia Lai did a marvellous job as Toastmaster of the Evening. We had a large turnout for our Charter and Induction ceremonies, confirming Irrationally Motivated Toastmasters Club is sure to grow ever stronger in the future!

Next meeting is on November 4 at 7.30pm! Please join us!

Meeting #1, September 4, 2008

After months of demo meetings, we finally had our first official club meeting on Thursday.

Jude Wei gave a descriptive reading of the Love Story of Niu Lang and Zhi Nu for his A1 speech.

Cameron Chow gave an attempt at his A2 humorous speech, seeing Life as a Videogame.

And Sophia Lai presented her A6 speech telling us about The Edible Cosmetic - Squalene.

Another highlight included the tremendous Advanced Impromptu session presented by Jewel Hsu, involving some fabulous role plays, and Bonita Hsu's Table Topics session, focussed on positive ways of looking at negative situations. Amanda Uy did a wonderful job as Toastmaster of the Evening.

Irrationally Motivated is growing strongly as a club!

Next month's meeting on October 2 will include our charter and induction ceremonies. All are very welcome to join!

Irrationally Motivated is now a Charted Club

We are pleased to report that Toastmasters International have confirmed the charter of Irrationally Motivated Advanced Toastmasters Club.

We are looking forward to many successful meetings in the future!