T hey say that laughter is

the best medicine and

boy we were treated to a
double dosage of laughter
at the 2008 Area “ S”
Humorous Speech and
Evaluation Contest
on 27 September 2008.

Hosted at Nee Soon

East Toastmasters Club,
the event saw the most
humorous of the crop from
the trio of Seagate AMK

TMC, Fuchun TMC and the host club.

FREE
Pink reigned the day as 5 formidable
contestants pit their humorous skills against FLOW
each other in a bid to tickle the funny bones
in the room. Their aim: To beg you to stretch
your laugh lines and laugh at them for 3 hours
OF
on a Saturday afternoon. And they sure did.
LAUGHTER
Needless to say, the generously hearty
laughter from the very receptive
audience were turned on effortlessly.
Order of the day: Free Flow Of Laughter

Representing our dear club ( Nee Soon

East) were Kenneth Goh and Lin Yihao.
Kenneth “ irritated” us with his tsk-onducing
rendition of his most annoying day ever,
which included public buses stopped at Yihao
places faraway from bus stops. The speech in
ended aptly with an abrupt “ ring tone”. action
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 The latter fondly recall ( albeit painfully) the
sheer trauma of going through T.T ( “Totally
Terrible”) or more commonly known as Table
Topics. Didn’t I heard a sigh, somewhere?

The eventual champion, Pragash Karuppiah,

who hails from Seagate AMK TMC, brought
the house down with his hilarious speech
on the “ Massacre of the English Language”
while holidaying in Thailand. The land of
smiles sure gave Pragash lots to smile about.
He told us about the amusing, sometimes
crude, Thai-to-English mis-translations.
Kumaran and the big winner
Very Entertaining, indeed and it
clearly left the audience in stiches. Congratulations to all
winners and contestants for
daring to make themselves a
target board for laughter. You
all have shown that humour
is so much more than slap
stick, larger-than-life actions
( turn to Jim Carrey or PCK
for that). It takes precise
timing and concise courage
to light up even the most
jaded in all of us.

Till we laugh again, next year

< Winners, All

Winners
Winner : Pragash Karuppiah ( Speech)
Evaluator: Kelvin Thiang ( Evaluation)
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