Chief guest Fr.Francis Guntapilly,Region Advisor Marketing John Bosco Abraham,Founder president Robinson Dsouza,Founder member Siraj Ur Rehman,Past Presidents Umakanth,Aaron Watson,Rajdeep Manwani,Sumitra Manamohan, Debabrata Dutta ,Theresa Chinnappa ,Arun John Mathias,Pawas Chandra,toastmasters and distinguished guests.
At Bangalore Toastmasters, we have always lived by the concept of family. I am overwhlemed to see that huge family right in front of me. We are truly indebted for sparing your time to be part of this celebration. You are all the true champions for Bangalore Toastmasters club.I also wish to acknowledge our District Governor,Nagaraj Rao who wanted to be at this fucntion but could not due to prior engagements.He has given his wishes and blessings to us through his message in our newsletter.
By the factor of luck,chance or randomness, as I stand here to start the celebrations of our 750th meeting, I have two thoughts.
Having a colourful 750th meeting is definitely worth going for.However, I believe the heart and soul of our club lies in our regular meetings. As tall buildings cannot signfy the progress of a nation one outstanding meeting cannot make our club the best.And thats why we should excel in our regular meetings.I am grateful to my committee members who made this vision a reality.Every committee member have given their best and have done their tasks to prefection.I am proud of guys – Tony Simon,Aniket Singh,Ganesh Santhar,Elango,Arvind Dhar,Bikash Bansal and most importantly our SAA Ajay Pandey.We need to carry foward like this with the same vigour.
The second thought is on the progress we have achieved by these 750 meetings.How different are we from a club which is 25 meetings old?If we cannot show that difference these 750 meetings will become a baggage for us.In that endeavour to outclass ourselves we may sometime have to go beyond the boundaries of toastmasters international.Our theme EXPLORE_IDEATE_CHANGE talked in these lines We did exactly that for instance, when we conducted a story teling contest purely devised and modelled in Bangalore Toastmasters club.Way to go ,Bangalore toastmasters.This is just a start.
All in all , I envision the club to give maximum attention to the regualr meeting and to go way beyond the set rules so that we can raise the bar not just of Bangalore toastmasters but that of Toastmasters International as well.Toastmasters,let’s explore more.And for now let’s celebrate the moment of glory.
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Hey Jindow,
Even i wanna join this club man.. u never took me when we were working together in sap... now i m back to India.. look for a job to me too man in ur company.. i ll give u company for all the meetings....
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