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Issue 1 Year 2010-11

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CONTENTS :

Lift in the year 2025 ( By TM Mushtaq Mohiuddin ) Page 3

Tips for Successful Speaking ( By TM Ashit Korgaokar ) Page 4

Emotional Loss ( By TM Kapil Suri ) Page 5

NMC Community Chapter Club Website Page 6

Family Get Together on 27 Oct 10 ( Photos ) Page 7 – 9

Pencil and Eraser( TM Shameem BV ) Page 10

Do it yourself, Do it now ( TM Abdul Huck ) Page 11 – 12

Photography by Members ( TM Abdul Huck ) Page 13

Club News Page 14 – 15

NMC Club News in Pictures Page 16

Kids Section Page 17 – 20

Editorial Page 21

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Our Communication - Wireless

Our Business - Cashless

Our Telephone - Cordless

Our Cooking - Fire less

Our Youth - Jobless

Our Religion - Creed less

Our Food - Fat less

Our labour - Effortless

Our conduct - Worthless

Our relation - Loveless

Our attitude - Careless

Our Feelings - Heartless

Our Politics - Shameless

Our Education - Valueless

Our Follies - Countless

Our Arguments - Baseless

Our Commitment - Aimless

Our Population - Voiceless

Our Life - Meaningless

Finally, Our existence - Useless ????

Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By,

Mushtaq Mohiuddin Mushtaq Mohiuddin Mushtaq Mohiuddin Mushtaq Mohiuddin

VP EducationVP EducationVP EducationVP Education

LIFE IN THE YEAR 2025 :

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Know your material. Pick a topic you are interested in. Know more about it than you

include in your speech.

Use personal stories and conversational language – that way you won’t easily forget

what to say.

Practice. Practice. Practice! Rehearse out loud with all equipment you plan on using.

Revise as necessary.

Know the audience. Greet some of the audience members as they arrive. It’s easier to

speak to a group of

friends than to strangers.

Know the room. Arrive early, walk around the speaking area and practice using the mi-

crophone and any visual aids.

Relax. Ease tension by doing exercises. Transform nervous energy into enthusiasm.

Visualize yourself giving your speech. Imagine yourself speaking, your voice loud,

clear and confident. Visualize

the audience clapping – it will boost your confidence.

Realize that people want you to succeed. Audiences want you to be interesting, stimu-

lating, informative and

entertaining. They don’t want you to fail.

Don’t apologize for any nervousness or problem – the audience probably never no-

ticed it.

Concentrate on the message – not the medium. Focus your attention away from your

own anxieties and

concentrate on your message and your audience.

Gain experience. Experience builds confidence, which is the key to effective speaking.

A Toastmasters club can provide the experience you need in a safe and friendly envi-

ronment.

Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By,

Ashit Korgaokar CC ALB,Ashit Korgaokar CC ALB,Ashit Korgaokar CC ALB,Ashit Korgaokar CC ALB,

Imm Past PresidentImm Past PresidentImm Past PresidentImm Past President

TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL SPEAKING

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While you cannot predict the future, you can certainly be better prepared for it!!

If we consider our life as a complete journey, we find three stages that are to come in our way, for which we

required money, and we should plan for the same, and on that particular station we can’t compromise on even

on one, for example, one can’t compromise with his children’s higher education. As every one of us aware

that, when the child attains the age of 17, we require money for his/her higher education, whether we have

planned or not. So, by planning well ahead for that need, god forbids nothing happens, if in between anything

happens to us, the child’s future and career will not go as an unfulfilled dream...Prevention is better than cure!

Similarly, every parent wants their children marriage to happen with great pump and show, but maybe in fu-

ture, we don’t need any money for their marriages, as the younger generation doesn’t pain their parents for

searching their better half, they select themselves, though it is a bitter half, and introduce their spouse along

with your grand child!!

Thirdly, the retirement stage, Guys don’t worry I am not talking about our old age; I am talking about our happy

and second honeymoon period! Now days, trend has changed, the people want to retire at young age, if I talk

about the time of our fore fathers, the lifestyle was like, they started working at the age of 20 and retired at the

age of 60, that is 40 years of hard work! And the life expectancy was about 75years, so, the retirement period is

just 15 years! But, now the trend has changed and people want to retire at young age when they can enjoy

greener part of life.. In this generation, people start working at the age of 25 and want to retire as early as at

the age of 45 or by maximum 50; so, they wanted to hardly work (!) for just 20 to 25years! And today, thanks to

medical advancement, our life expectancy has increased from 75year to 81years and it means we are bound to

enjoy (!) nearly 30 years of retirement life after our 25 years service life.

30 years! Guys can you imagine during that period we will not do anything except enjoying.. (of course, we will

be given due recognition by our family as Senior citizen, and may have more value added responsibilities like,

EB bills payment, House tax payment, Ration purchase, taking care of the house when our grown up children

are out for a happy vacation, baby sitting your children’s children, etc.,!!

But, it should be understood that, as how living short is sad and bad, living long is also very sad and very bad if

we have not planned our retirement.

As it is known truth that, at the time when our eyes and ears don’t listen to us (at old age), we are with no fixed

salary, and no one is liable or bound to pay us any fixed some, unless we have planned prudently for your re-

tirement!

In my day to day life, I meet lot of people and they blindly trust that the investment in equity or mutual fund or

properties that are made by them are sufficient for their retirement life, but, my dear friends, these are all not

guaranteed or secured, may be at the time of retirement, you may have lot of liquid cash or rental income

from your properties and that may keep you from any economic bombardments, reason being you are a very

good finance manger, but can you presume the same could be the scene when the same is managed by your

spouse, in your absence?? So, on any such above discussed 3 types of contingencies, the planning must have to

be done on considering, god forbids nothing happens, if anything happens to us, there should be some guaran-

teed backup.

Guys nobody can cover emotional loss but, monetary loss we can cover, and that is in our hand. While you can-

not predict the future, you can certainly be better prepared for it.

Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By,

Kapil Suri Kapil Suri Kapil Suri Kapil Suri

Sergeant At ArmsSergeant At ArmsSergeant At ArmsSergeant At Arms

EMOTIONAL LOSS

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NMC COMMUNITY CHAPTER CLUB WEBSITE

www.nmctoastmasters.com

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FAMILY GET TOGETHER ON 27 OCT 2010

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FAMILY GET TOGETHER ON 27 OCT 2010

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FAMILY GET TOGETHER ON 27 OCT 2010

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Pencil: I'm sorry....

Eraser: For what? You didn't do anything wrong.

Pencil: I'm sorry cos you get hurt bcos of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you're always

there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get

smaller and smaller each time.

Eraser: That's true. But I don't really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to

help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I'll be gone and

you'll replace me with a new one, I'm actually happy with my job. So please, stop worry-

ing. I hate seeing you sad. :)

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are

like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They're always there for their chil-

dren, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way... they get hurt, and become

smaller (older, and eventually pass on). Though their children will eventually find someone

new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will al-

ways hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

This is for all parents (and would-be parents) out there.....

Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By,

Shameem BVShameem BVShameem BVShameem BV

PENCIL & ERASER

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Ever since my house was built, I always longed for some fancy outdoor lights on my compound wall and on the pathways. But my father used to advise me, “See my son, there are a lot of people in our

state who have not got any electricity connection yet. Also the government implements load shed-ding and power cuts due to the insufficient power production. So I don’t think it is a nice idea to spend electricity more than what we need in our daily life”.

I felt that my father was right. So I gave up my idea of beautifying my yard with lights.

In February 2009 we lost my father unexpectedly. My mother and younger brother’s family had to stay at home. So the requirement of outdoor lighting became a necessity rather than a luxury due to

security reasons.

After my father passed away, I used to travel home frequently to visit my mother. I leave my wife and two children in Abu Dhabi for these short trips due to their schooling. So I get ample time at home to do anything.

During my trip in February 2010, I decided to do something interesting and useful. Before my trip I did some homework to install a solar power panel and a compound wall light using this power. As it was an experiment, I did not want to install a high power system. So ordered a 12V 5W solar power

panel and a few LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) from www.ebay.in. Those items were promptly deliv-ered before I reached home.

12V 5W Solar Panel A pack of 100 LEDs 16 LEDs soldered and mounted on a lamp holder

The LEDs are the light of the future. It does not require much power compared to the traditional CFL / Incandescent / Halogen lamps. You can see most modern flash lights and emergency are equipped with LEDs. Other advantages are that they do not produce much heat, and their lifespan is

longer compared to the above lamps.

The lamp with its cover prior to installation

I have always loved electronics. When I was a student, I liked to assemble simple hobby circuits for my friends. So working on this project was very easy for me.

DO IT YOURSELF, DO IT NOW!

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The overall schematic

1. Solar Panel

2. Input Charge Regulator

3. Battery

4. Light Sensing Circuit

5. LED Lamp

The scheme works like this: When there is sunlight, the solar panel produces power. This power is used to charge a lead acid battery. At night, the battery will give power to some LEDs which produces the light.

12V 7.2 AH lead acid battery

I had to insert a charge regulator (item #2 in the schematic) to control the input voltage to a con-stant value as well as to protect the battery from overcharging. I also introduced an LDR (Light De-pended Resistor) circuit in between the battery and light (item #4). When the light falls on an LDR it

will either activate or deactivate a circuit, depending on the design of the circuit. So this circuit can switch on or switch off the lights connected to it. The LDR was positioned in such a way that when there is daylight, it will switch off my outdoor light and vice versa. The lamp will be automatically turned on when it is dark and will be turned off in the morning. Cool, right?

The solar panel after installation The 16 LEDs at night The LED lamp after installation

My project was successfully completed. It was a pilot project. I am glad that for below 90 US$ I could setup a prototype renewable energy system. In the future, I will expand this scheme, installing a more powerful solar panel and a high capacity battery bank. Then I can connect more lamps to this

system and reduce the energy I consume from the grid.

Dear Toastmasters, please look around. Is there anything that we could contribute to

keep the planet earth green? It can be an idea of recycling anything, planting a tree, saving water or using alternative energy sources. Think about our future generation. Think about something that you could do, and do it today and do it yourself!

Contributed By, TM Abdul HuckContributed By, TM Abdul HuckContributed By, TM Abdul HuckContributed By, TM Abdul Huck

DO IT YOURSELF, DO IT NOW!

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Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By, Contributed By,

TM Abdul HuckTM Abdul HuckTM Abdul HuckTM Abdul Huck

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEMBERS

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CLUB MEETINGS :

NMC Community Chapter Club commenced their year 2010-11 with the election of Club Officers. Many of the

Roles were picked by new and fresh toastmasters and continue to serve the Club under the guidance of Senior

Toastmasters..

Meeting No 138 – It was a combined Meet with Inner Universe toastmasters. The highlight of the meeting was

the General Evaluator role was picked by MTM Seema Shetty. The Best Speaker was TM Loluck Baby and the

Best Evaluator was TM Santosh Shetty.

Meeting No 139 – It was a combined Meet with KERA Toastmasters. The highlight of the Meet was the

Toastmaster of the Evening role was picked by MTM Seema Shetty. The Speaker was TM Ashit Korgaokar and

the General Evaluator was TM Santosh Shetty.

Meeting No 143 – It was a Family Get Together ( Open Air Meet ) at Airport Garden. The Families and the kids

were part of the Meet. The dinner was prepared by the families.

CLUB MEMBERS PARTICIPATION IN DIVISION AND AREA :

The Club Members continued their roles and participation in the Area and Division. TM Praveen Rao was elected

as the Assistant Division Governor ( Education ) and TM Ashit Korgaokar was elected as the Assistant Area

Governor ( Education ).

DIVISION TRAINING PROGRAM :

The Club Members continued their participation in the Training Sessions conducted by the Division Training. The

Training attended by the Members were,

Training for Club President and VP Education

Training for Club Officers

Training for Judges Training

Training for Chief Judges Training

Training for Contest Chair

COMING EVENTS :

The coming events include the Club Meeting No 150 which will be combined Meet with NMC Corporate Chapter

Club’s 200th Meeting. It is schedule on 03 Feb 11.

NMC CLUB NEWS

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NMC CLUB NEWS

OUR AIM AND FOCUS :

Our aim and focus is to achieve the DCP Points. The Club focus is on the following members

for achieving the DCP Points.

1. TM Sumit Bhanot - To Complete CC Track ( Competent Communicator )

2. TM Loluck Baby - To Complete CC Track ( Competent Communicator

3. TM Lancy Fernandes - To Complete CC Track ( Competent Communicator )

4. TM Mushtaq Mohiuddin - To Complete CC Track ( Competent Communicator )

5. TM Aby Mathew - To Complete CL Track ( Competent Leadership )

6. TM Sumit Bhanot - To Complete CL Track ( Competent Leadership )

7. TM Ashit Korgaokar - To Complete Advance CC Track ( ACB )

8. TM Seema Shetty - To Complete Advance CC Track ( ACB )

OFFICE BEARERS ( NMC COMMUNITY CHAPTER CLUB ) ( TOASTMASTERS ):

1. TM. Santosh Shetty - President

2. TM. Mushtaq Mohiuddin - VP Education

3. TM Naresh Kaundal - VP Membership

4. TM - VP Public Relations

5. TM Shukku Beker - Secretary

6. TM Lancy Fernandes - Treasurer

7. TM Kapil Suri - Sergeant At Arms

8. TM Ashit Korgaokar - Immediate Past President

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TM SHAMEEM BV TM SHANAVAS BV MTM DEBBIE REID

NMC COMMUNITY CHAPTER CLUB TOASTMASTER ( NEW FACES )

TM RAJESH KAMATH

MTM LAKSHMI MENON

NMC CLUB NEWS IN PICTURES

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KIDS SECTIONS

SKETCHES DRAWN BY SAFIA MUSHTAQ GRADE 5,

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CHOUEIFAT

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KIDS SECTIONS

SKETCHES DRAWN BY AYISHA ABDUL HUCK

GRADE 4, ABU DHABI INDIAN SCHOOL

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KIDS SECTIONS

Gavelier Rohith, Son of a Dedicated Toastmaster Praveen Rao

Rohith Rao on Project 10

Rohith Rao receiving Best Speaker Award

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KIDS SECTIONS

Amina Abdul Huck

Ameena Abdul Huck won the first place in sports for running in KG I section in Abu Dhabi Indian School

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Contact :

Editor Sub Editor Publisher

Mushtaq Mohiuddin Shameem BV Santosh Shetty

VP Education 050-5820123 President ( CC ALB )

050-5622479 050-4138530

Hello Toastmasters,

The year 2010 has finishes with a bang and it has definitely been a year of Achievements for our club

and adding a feathers to the cap is our first edition of the NMC Community Newsletter.

The NMC Community Toastmasters conduct meetings with different themes, Apart from the Normal Meetings

within our club, we do the Combined Meetings with other Clubs. One such meet was the Family Get Together on

27 Oct 10, where the spouses and the kids attended the Meeting.

Many more Meetings are expected in the next couple of Months which includes the 150th Meeting.

I hope you all will enjoy reading the very first edition and would like to thank all the Toastmasters for

their contributions .We are stepping into 2011 with lot more Competitions and Contest in store. Special thanks to

TM Shameem for his assistance in preparation of this Newsletter.

But your contribution is vital for NMC Community Times.

Keep Contributing……!! Cheers !!!!!!!!

Mushtaq Mohiuddin

VP - Education

Website: http://www.nmctoastmasters.com

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