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25.01.2022 They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.

24.01.2022 A great theme: What if...? What if there was a face to face opportunity to participate in communication and leadership training in an encouraging and supportive... environment where you can have a nice meal and some laughs with friends? What if we told you, you can get that and much more at The Rydges Hotel, 116-118 James Ruse Drive, Rosehill from 6pm. Meeting starts at 6:30. See you there See more

23.01.2022 Monique nailed it a few minutes ago in her interview during Candidate Showcase (all part of District 90 virtual Conference) on her road to the elections tomorrow where she is standing for the District Director role. Anyone else wishing to show support, leave a comment below and we can pm zoom details. For anyone wishing to see who the candidates are for the various roles to be voted on you can click on https://www.d90toastmasters.org.au/districtofficercandidate

22.01.2022 Last night we had another great meeting! It was themed "You are what you think" and both the prepared and impromptu sessions definitely had members and guests thinking! Congratulations to Alicia Leise and Vicki Sheehan who took out the ribbons on the night! If you missed it we have another meeting in two weeks! Our next meeting themed "Autumn Leaves" is on the 5th March at Rydges Parramatta. We meet at 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start. As always visitors are welcome - please RSVP by using this link: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca

22.01.2022 Join us this Thursday for our meeting themed "The Great Debate"! We meet on Zoom at 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start. If you are a visitor please register your attendance and you will be sent details on how to join us online: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca Have you been wondering about how we are using Zoom on our online meetings? You can read all about it in our blog! https://parramattatoastmasters.wordpress.com//zoom-meetin/

21.01.2022 Our member and good friend...

20.01.2022 What if - A great theme, so much to say. Enjoy some photos from Meeting number 1432

20.01.2022 What a night! We had 52 people join us all together for our meeting tonight! We had members from near and as far as Brisbane, Dubai and the Philippines ! We had an array of speeches tonight that were very fitting to the theme "The Great Debate"! We started the night off with a collaborative Table Topic! Members were split into different breakout rooms and asked to come back to pitch an idea for our blog: https://parramattatoastmasters.wordpress.com/ ...We had 6-7 people in each group coming up with different ideas and they then came back and pitched their ideas to Gary and Elizabeth WIlson who then debated on which pitch was best! In the second half of our session we had six speeches. Vanessa Francis did her Icebreaker, Barbara Mifsud spoke about her mentor Old Ed, John New and Michael Fong spoke about leadership (REMINDER: Elections are soon so please nominate yourself if you are interested in joining the executive for 2020-2021), Elizabeth Wilson debated who she was as she explored her family history and Veronica Bayani who joined us from the Philippines presented her personal speech "When everything burns". They were evaluated by Karl Pereira, Edim Hujdur, Suben Subenthiran, Sean Leise, Matt Tonkiss and David Griffiths. We also inducted our newest member Deborah Phillips! Rob Tibbertsma, her neighbor highlighted her journey so far! Congratulations Deborah! We are excited to see your Toastmasters journey! Welcome!!! It was a wonderful night! The Best Speaker was Veronica Bayani, Best Evaluator David Griffiths was and Best Table Topics went to Group 4: Mandy C, Matt T, Michael F, Omar I, Laurie and Ann, Naomi N, and Vivek Signal! Well done everyone!!!

19.01.2022 Congratulations Parramatta Toastmasters Club - Home Club of the District Director 2020-2021 Monique Tonna

19.01.2022 Tonight #RotaryClubofParramatta's guest speaker will be Mark Tannen. Mark is a real estate auctioneer and has been a member of Toastmasters since 2011. Ma...rk is on a mission to help anxious people speak with confidence in public and to share real life messages that can help impact the world for the better. Join us Rydges Parramatta 6 for 6.30pm start. See more

19.01.2022 Tonight was our first #virtual meeting! We had 22 members join us online for our meeting themed practice makes perfect! The meeting was a testament to the theme as we navigated through the digital world! We had table topics, 3 prepared speeches Anu Vijayan presented a virtual presentation on Jallikattu, Sue Ismiel presented a personal speech "A beautiful mind" and Sabesh Sitsabesan shared his aspirations and these were followed by our evaluations by Gary Wilson, James Nieradka and Michael Said. We also had our first online visitor - thank you for joining us April!

18.01.2022 Join us this Thursday the 4th June for our first hybrid meeting. We will be meeting both face to face and online! Our face to face meeting is at our usual venue Rydges Parramatta. If you are a visitor and interested in joining us please register https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca

18.01.2022 Join us on the 2nd July for our first meeting of the 2020-2021 year meeting themed "What if?". We meet at 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start. It will be a great night with both impromptu and prepared speaking. As always visitors are welcome - please RSVP by using this link: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca

18.01.2022 Life Philosophies, congratulations to Bhupen KC on becoming the newest parramatta toastmasters member!! #d90toastmasters

18.01.2022 Its officially the start of Autumn! Join us for our first meeting of March this Thursday (5/3/2020). We meet at 6:15pm in the Steeds Room at Rydges Parramatta. As usual we will have impromptu speaking and prepared speeches. Visitors are always welcome!

17.01.2022 On Thursday we had our Changeover meeting! We said farewell to our executive for the 2019-2020 year and thanked Wendy Lipski (President), Sabesh Sitsabesan (Vice-President Education), Rob Tibbertsma (Vice-President Membership), Christine Huynh (Vice President - Public Relations), Anu Vijayan (Secretary), Edim Hujdur (Treasurer), Omar Ikhrais (Sergeant-At-Arms) and Michael Fong (Immediate Past President) for their service. We acknowledged the achievements of our members ove...r the 2019-2020. The Winner of the Clubs Toastmaster of the Year Trophy was Sabesh Sitsabesan, the Presidents Recognition Award for Outstanding Service to the Club went to Christine Huynh and the Presidents Encouragement Award for Most Improved Toastmaster went to Barbara Mifsud. The Peter Poulson Memorial Award for Best Speech of the Year went to Vicki Sheehan. We also celebrated years in Toastmasters marking Suben Subenthiran and Gary Wilsons service to Toastmasters. We also welcomed our new executive for the 2020-2021 year. Welcome to Sean Leise (President), Rob Tibbertsma (Vice-President Education), Vicki Sheehan (Vice-President Membership), Alicia Leise (Vice President - Public Relations), Andrew Emerson (Secretary), Suben Subenthiran (Treasurer), Marko Matic (Sergeant-At-Arms) and Wendy Lipski (Immediate Past President). We know they will do amazing things and are looking forward to the first meeting of the 2020-2021 year on the 2nd July.

16.01.2022 Update from Candidates Showcase, now listening to interviews for the positions of Division Directors. Guess who is conducting the Western Division Candidates interviews?? Our very own John New!!! Great questions and a great job as interviewer..

16.01.2022 On Thursday we had our first hybrid meeting! We had members presenting both face to face and via zoom! It was wonderful to meet face to face and also include our online members. We had lots of measures in place including our social distancing spoon, temperature checks and lots of sanitiser! Throughout the night we had a number of speeches including a roast! We also had an educational presented by Matt Tonkiss and we also inducted Jack Xu! Jack Xu recently completed his the Speech Craft course and we are excited to have him on board! We wish him the best of luck on his Toastmasters journey!

16.01.2022 Make it happen!! In a period of uncertainty, this theme definitely holds true to the fact that we are all in charge of our own destiny!! Congratulations to Matt for best Speech, Monique For best Evaluator and Wendy for best Table Topics.... #d90toastmasters

15.01.2022 An Anzac tribute written and published by my Grandfather Rev. Allan F Heiner . Lest we forget

15.01.2022 On Thursday the 21st of May we had our meeting themed "From Boss to leader". We had a variety of speeches on the night which spoke to theme. We also inducted two new members! Congratulations to April Guilandro and Avik Sarkar who joined the club - We are excited to see you grow and develop on this journey! Mike Kano-McCallum took the ribbon for Best Table Topics, Best Speaker was awarded to Wendy Lipski and the Best Evaluator was Matt Tonkiss. Chairperson Edim Hujdur als...o handed out his own wooden spoon! It was awarded to Ron Mariott! If you missed this meeting - you have a second chance! We have our meeting themed "Second Chance" on the 4th June. We hope to see you there. We meet at 6:30pm-9:30pm online. If you are visitor and would like to join us please register here: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca and you will receive details on how to join our meeting.

14.01.2022 Great day at Western Division contest today! Seven members came along to cheer on Vicki and Alicia. Vicki represented Parramatta Toastmasters in the International Speech and Table. Topics contests.... Alicia represented Western Gourmet in the Evaluation contest!!! And bring home the trophies they did!! Vicki was runner-up in both contests. And Alicia WON the evaluation contest!!! Congrats to both for a wonderful result!! Alicia will now continue onto the District Evaluation contest that will be held at the Annual Conference at Port Macquarie on 29th, 30th and 31st May.

14.01.2022 Due to the current climate tomorrows scheduled meeting will not be running at Rydges Parramatta! Instead we will be running a virtual meeting! Members will receive a link that will allow them to be a part of the meeting! Apologies for any inconveniences caused!

13.01.2022 We are set for our Grab your passports theme. Members and guests will receive a passport and a boarding pass. Everyone is off to a different continent

13.01.2022 Can you spot the additional guests that we had in our meeting tonight? Mike Kano-McCallum is holding them! Mike presented an fairy tale tonight and had some awesome props to assist! We also had a speeches by Omar Ikhrais "Dont get dismayed", Rob Tibbertsma "This time is different...or is it", Karl Pereira presented "The Importance of Social Media and Networking Technologies" and Matt Tonkiss showed us through educational software and sold it to us! During our business sessi...on we voted on a motion on notice through a google form which allowed us to collected responses instantaneously! We also had a poll at the end of the night that showed the results live! The Best Table Topic went to Mandy Chiu, Best Speaker was Rob Tibbertsma and Best Evaluator was Vicki Sheehan. We done to everyone tonight! Thank you to the members who tuned in tonight! We had 33 people online! If you missed it you can join us in two weeks time on the 16th April!

13.01.2022 This Anzac Day we remember and thank all our service men and women. Lest we forget.

12.01.2022 Happy Australia Day!! #d90toastmasters

12.01.2022 Join us tomorrow for our online meeting themed "Lest we forget". We meet at 6:30pm - you can come online earlier to test your audio/video. If you are visitor and would like to join us please register here: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca and you will receive details on how to join our meeting.

12.01.2022 Congratulations to our Cumberland Division Director Hendrick Lianto and Cumberland Area Director Geoff Pullen for such outstanding professional achievements. Parramatta Toastmasters Club is immensely proud to have you leading our Division and we look forward to our ongoing collaboration

10.01.2022 What a great afternoon!!! Area 13 International and Evaluation Contest proved to be a very fruitful for Parramatta Toastmasters! Vicki Sheehan won the International Speech Contest, and the Evaluation Contest was won by Alicia Leise - representing Western Gourmet Toastmasters. ... Ron Marriott placed a very strong 2nd in the Evaluation contest. The full results were:- International Speech First - Vicki Sheehan (Parramatta TM) Second - Matt Gardiner (Winners Circle) Third - Karl Zhao (Justice) Evaluation Contest First - Alicia Leise (Western Gourmet) Second - Ron Marriott (Parramatta TM) Third - Sarah Morrissey (Winners Circle) We had thirteen members there this afternoon, not only to cheer our representatives on, but also helping out with the contest. Ian Lipski - International Contest Toastmaster Karl Pareira - Evaluation Contest Toastmaster Wendy Lipski - Toast Michael Said - Chief Judge Mandy Chiu - Laughmaster Sean Leise - Counter And of course a club judge, who should remain anonymous!! A big thank you to our very competent Area 13 Director Sally Lai for a well run contest! A great event Thanks to all who came along and enjoyed the extremely high standard of speeches, evaluations, and the camaraderie of Area 13!!

10.01.2022 Remembrance Day is symbolised by the poppy, which flowered on the battlefields of World War I. It is commemorated on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the moment when hostilities ceased on the Western Front and is traditionally a day to remember the members of the armed forces who have died in the line of duty. #d90toastmasters

09.01.2022 Last Thursday night Parramatta Toastmasters’s had their Annual Speech Contest: Congratulations to the winners of the night: 1st place: Gary Wilson 2nd place: Vicki Sheehan... 3rd place: Michael Said Well done to all the participants on the night! #d90toastmasters

09.01.2022 This week we had an array of speeches at our meeting themed Spring into Speechcraft. A meeting which celebrated our Speechcraft that is starting this week. Marko Matic presented his Icebreaker, Michael Fong spoke about the individuals he will be looking up to when little Matty arrives. Peter Steinhour highlighted the role that mentors play in our lives as he spoke about three mentors that have shaped his life, Monique Tonna presented her High Performance Leadership Speech... Behind the Line and spoke about the incredible journey that she has been on. Gary finished off the night off with a speech entitled The odd one out. Congratulations goes out to Monique Tonna who took out Best Speech of the night, Ron Marriott won Best Evaluator, Wendy Lipski had the best Table Topic, Marko received his Icebreaker ribbon and Monique Tonna took out the Stirrers Spoon. We also inducted our newest James Nieradka to our club! James completed our Speechcraft course last year. We wish him all the best on his Toastmasters Journey. Would you like to come along to one of our meetings? Visitors are always welcome. We meet every fortnight and our next meeting is on the 20th of February.

08.01.2022 Our Clubs new President - Sean Leise - will be opening up meeting #1 of the new Toastmasters year with the theme WHAT IF? this Thursday night 2 July at The Rydges Parramatta but first lets give that lectern some TLC and maybe even a bit of a facelift.

08.01.2022 Blue and Gold..... what’s your passion?? An amazing night filled with great speeches and a supportive atmosphere!! #d90toastmasters

07.01.2022 Tonight we had our meeting themed "Lest we forget" We had an array of speeches and many spoke to the theme. David Griffiths who joined us all the way from Dubai started us off on theme speaking about his personal experiences about Anzac Day. Ian Lipski also gave a toast to courageous people on the front line. Alicia Leise also spoke to theme with her Anzac Day 2020 speech which also featured guest trumpet player River who played the The Ode. During the night Elizabeth Wil...son presented an educational on Toastmasters and reminded us why we all joined Toastmasters. We had a live poll after the speeches and the Table Topics ribbon went to Deborah Phillips, Best Speaker went to Christine Huynh, and the Best Evaluator went to Michael Fong. Well Done to all the speakers tonight! Congratulations to Vanessa Francis who was inducted into our club tonight. Welcome Vanessa! We are looking forward to your Toastmasters journey! Thank you everyone who joined us tonight from near and far (we had two visitors from Dubai). We meet again on the 30th April and the theme will be "The Great Debate".

07.01.2022 Come and be part of this amazing program! #d90toastmasters

07.01.2022 A great meeting last night: we paid our respect to Elizabeth Wilson, hosted our annual Evaluation contest, welcomed back our outstanding and multiple award winning member Christine Madelene and much more. Another typical Parramatta Toastmasters’ meeting - Where Leaders are Made #d90toastmasters

07.01.2022 Another keen and nervous group of participants have decided to step out of their comfort zone and attend our Speechcraft course #d90toastmasters

06.01.2022 Don’t miss out on Parramatta Toastmasters Annual Speech Contest!! Please RSVP as spots are limited due to COVID. #d90toastmasters

05.01.2022 Join us on Thursday the 20th of February for our meeting themed "You are what you think". It will be a night of impromptu and prepared speeches! We meet at 6:15pm in the Steeds Room at Rydges Parramatta and finish at 9:30pm. As always visitors are welcome - please RSVP by using this link: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca

05.01.2022 Just a reminder for tonight’s Toastmasters Meeting. Theme of the night is Blue and Gold! What is your passion?? Please don’t forget to rsvp your spot as spaces are limited due to COVID.

05.01.2022 Join us on Thursday the 21st May for our meeting "From boss to leader"! It will be a great meeting with impromptu and prepared speeches! We meet at 6:15pm on zoom for a 6:30pm start. If you are visitor and would like to join us please register here: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca and you will receive details on how to join our meeting.

04.01.2022 #d90toastmasters

04.01.2022 Join us next week on the 19th March for our meeting themed "Practice makes perfect". We meet at 6:15pm for a 6:30pm start. It will be a great night with both impromptu and prepared speaking. As always visitors are welcome - please RSVP by using this link: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca

03.01.2022 Join us this Thursday 6th February for our meeting themed "Spring into Speechcraft"! There will be prepared and impromptu speeches. We meet at 6:15pm in the Steeds Room at Rydges Parramatta and finish at 9:30pm. As always visitors are welcome - please RSVP by using this link: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca Have you missed a few meetings? Catch up on what has been happening our newsletter The Parra-Natta: https://www.parramattatm.org.au/Site/pdfs/natta.pdf

03.01.2022 We have our CHANGEOVER meeting coming up on the 18th June. It will be a wonderful night as we celebrate all that has happened in 2019-2020 and welcome in the new executive for 2020-2021! If you are coming please make sure you register using the link: https://parramattatoastmasters.corsizio.com/c/5ed0e5256c05e The meeting will cost $25 which is inclusive of the meals for the night. We hope to see you there.

03.01.2022 Why stop at overcoming stuttering? Suben has selflessly been serving our organisation for 20 years. So many roles and inspiring examples. Today he serves you as a dedicated and highly competent club treasurer. So proud and privileged to call him a friend. Congratulations Suben

03.01.2022 Tonight, we had our elections for the 2020/2021 year which was run by Gary Wilson. We had a live vote for presidency as there were three members who put their hand up for the role: Sean Leise, Karl Pereira and Sabesh Sitsabesan. It was amazing to see such leadership from our members! Congratulations to Sean Leise who will be the president for the 2020/2021 year. Congratulations also goes out to Rob Tibbertsma (VPE), Vicki Sheehan (VPM), Alicia Leise (VPPR), Andrew Emerson... (Secretary), Suben Subenthiran (Treasurer) and Marko Matic (Sergeant at Arms) who also are also part of the executive for the 2020/2021 year. Tonight, we also had an array of speeches, Deborah Phillips and Michael Said did their icebreakers, Marko Matic encouraged us to be kind, Vivek Signal toasted to the uncertainty we face and Suben Subenthiran spoke about the secrets behind leadership and attaining our goals. Our ribbon winners tonight included Anu Vijayan for Best Table Topic, Best Speaker went to Michael Said and Best Evaluator was Ron Mariott.

03.01.2022 Do you get nervous when presenting? Do you dread having to do public speaking?? Why not come along to a Parramatta Toastmasters meeting and experience a night filled with great speeches and a supportive atmosphere!! When: December 3rd Where: Parramatta Rydes Hotel Time: 6.30pm to 9.30pm... #d90toastmasters

02.01.2022 Is this true for you? Learn how our club contestants face this fear by seeing them in action at our annual inspirational speeches contest on Thursday 3rd December. Where? at the Rydges Hotel in Parramatta from 6:00pm for 6:30pm start. See you there... #d90toastmasters

02.01.2022 Some good news from our former member Andrew Iverson. Congratulations to the happy couple

01.01.2022 This week on Thursday the 2nd April we will have our meeting themed King of our Hearts . We will be running our meeting online on zoom! We meet at 6:30pm - you can come online earlier to test your audio/video. If you are visitor and would like to join us please register here: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca and you will receive details on how to join our meeting.

01.01.2022 There was change in the air tonight with our meeting Autumn Leaves Ron Marriott changed up our usual table topics with round of table topics that saw duos come up and practice their interview skills. We had a Talk show host Tom MacDonald interview movie star Peter Steinhour. Christine Huynh became a golfer and was interviewed by presenter Udo Moerig. Michael Said became Warren Buffet and was interviewed by Sue Ismiel. Monique Tonna was given the role of a tra...vel expert and was interviewed by Elizabeth Wilson. The last person to be interviewed was Cybersecurity expert Anu Vijayan by Suben Subenthiran. We also had a wonderful night of speeches which also included two toasts! Congratulations again to Vicki Sheehan and Alicia Leise on winning the Area 13 contests and special mention to Rob Marriot who placed second in the Evaluation Contest! A huge congratulations also goes out to Gary and Elizabeth Wilson who will be celebrating their diamond anniversary this month! Tonight Best Table Topics went to Christine Huynh, Best Speech went Wendy Lipski and Best Evaluator went to Alicia Leise. The Stirrers spoon was awarded to Ian Lipski! Thank you to all the members and guests who joined us tonight. A special thanks also goes out to the International Director Region 12 David Templeman, Udo Moerig, and Tanya Wickham. If you missed this weeks meeting dont stress! We will be meeting at the again on the 19th March!

01.01.2022 Life Philosophies, what a great meeting, great speeches and and induction of a new member!! #d90toastmasters

01.01.2022 Members and guests of Parramatta Toastmasters Club, #d90toastmasters you’re in for a treat, next week we have our members representing the Club at the Area 13 Table Topics and Humorous Speech Contests. Please register and come show your support. It’s on zoom at 10am on Saturday 14th November. Best wishes to our contestants...

01.01.2022 Join us this week on Thursday the 7th May for our meeting "You can change the world"! It will be a great meeting with impromptu and prepared speeches! We meet at 6:15pm on zoom for a 6:30pm start. During the meeting will also be having our elections for our 2020/2021 Executive! If you have been thinking about putting up your hand of any of the roles we strongly encourage you to do so! Being part of the Executive is a great way to develop your leadership skills. More information about the executive roles is on our website: https://www.parramattatm.org.au/exec.htm If you are visitor and would like to join us please register here: https://bit.ly/2GAP7Ca and you will receive details on how to join our meeting.

01.01.2022 Parramatta Toastmasters Club leading the way in the District to put into action the vision of our respective International Presidents on our symbiont relationship. Looking forward to more collaboration and joint ventures with Rotary