The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
- Henry David Thoreau
Monday 28 February 2011
Sunday 27 February 2011
What is better..a lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?
A Truth that's told with a bad intent; Beats all lies you can invent;
What is better……a lie that draws a smile or a truth that draws a tear?
Toastmaster TM Sameer started the meeting by welcoming everyone and informing the guests all about Toastmasters. The theme for the meeting was Truthfulness.
What an absolute meeting. There were three prepared speakers. TM Rayees Syed delivered his 4th Speech from the Advanced Manual - Speaking Under File, his title was "Convince your Inconvenience". An excellent speech from TM Rayees. TM Jabair delivered his 6th speech from CC Manual - Vocal Variety. His speech title was "The Half Truth". TM Noman Herl delivered his Ice Breaker. WOW, what a speech. He was the man of the day! We wish all the best to all the toastmasters for a the wonderful performance.
The Table Topics session conducted by one the most enthusiastic and energetic member of the Club TM Basharat was very entertaining. TM Basharat explained the audience the purpose and importance of Table Topic Session. It was indeed a very well prepared session. Great Job TM Basharat.
TM Naveed was the evaluation chairman. TM Syed Waqas Javed evaluted TM Rayees Syed. TM Ahmad Zaitoun evaluated TM Jabair Ali and TM Sameer evaluated TM Noman. TM Naveed Hussain evaluated table topics session as well.
It was indeed a wonderful meeting.
Winners for the Meeting held on 22nd February, 2011
Best Speaker - TM Nouman Herl
Table Topics - TM Malik Sb.
Best Evaluator - TM Naveed
Best Assistant - TM Arshad
Big Three - TM Basharat
There was once a boy who liked nothing more in the world than to win. He loved winning at whatever it may be: football, cards, video games... everything. And because he couldn't stand losing, he had become an expert in all kinds of tricks and cheating. He could play tricks in practically every situation, without being noticed; even in video games or playing alone. He could win without ever being caught.
He won so many times that everyone saw him as the champion. It meant that almost no one wanted to play with him, he was just too far ahead of everyone. One person who did play with him was a poor boy, who was a bit younger. The champion really enjoyed himself at the poor boy's expense, always making the boy look ridiculous.
But the champion ended up getting bored with all this. He needed something more, so he decided to apply for the national video games championship, where he would find some competitors worthy of himself. At the championship he was keen to show his skills but, when he tried using all those tricks and cheats he knew from a thousand different games, well... none of them worked. The competition judges had prevented any of the tricks from working.
He felt terribly embarrassed: he was a good player, but without his cheats, he couldn't beat a single competitor. He was soon eliminated, and sat there, sad and pensive. Finally, they announced the name of the tournament champion. It was the poor boy from home. The one he had always beaten!
Our boy realised that the poor boy had been much cleverer than himself. It hadn't mattered to the poor boy if he lost and got a good beating, because what he was really doing was learning from each of his defeats. And from so much learning he had been transformed into a real master.
From then on, the boy who had loved winning gave up wanting to win all the time. He was quite happy to lose sometimes, because that was when he would learn how to win on the really important occasions.
Moral: The desire to always win at everything, to the extent of resorting to cheating, is the greatest obstacle to winning when winning is most important!
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