In September, TMCPSE ExCom decided to go for Day picnic to celebrate 300th Milestone meeting. We were excited about venue and date. Soon, Date and venue were finalized. Public Relation team started their own campaign to spread the message to the club as well as the entire Toastmasters fraternity. They went the extra mile to design beautiful posters, record member's amazing videos, etc. and send across to everyone. That adds more fuel to the member's excitement about milestone meeting. Finally, that day arrived with lots of good things in its kitty.
We reached our picnic destination Shantivan at 10.01 AM. We were a little late. The bus journey both to and fro was entertaining. Toastmasters had a ball by playing Dumb Charades game in the journey. People google Mithun Chakravarti, Suniel Shetty movie name to outguess the opponent team. One of the funny names was "Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty", "Khoon Bhari Maang", etc. Somebody asked whether the second word was a pronoun, adjective, or noun. We had good laugh on this game. Star performer of starting journey was many toastmasters but star performer for return Journey was Taaha and Saumya. Saumya played Dumb Charades like game on the mobile phone. Toastmasters helped her to identify the names. It was fun filled and fully entertaining.
The dining hall was very big. One side of the hall, few tables were arranged. Another side, 5-6 Mat arranged to serve people in large numbers. Buffet system arrangement was there to serve people. At breakfast, I heard the big noise and saw small children from different schools had arrived with a big bang. They played with their plates. We were done with breakfast by 10.35. Shantivan campus was developed on big land. Its situated at backwater of Khadakwasla dam. Amazing view of Khadakwasla backwater was available from Shantivan. After some team building games, we had leisure time until meeting time 2.45 PM. All sort of facilities was there for each age group. Cricket net, badminton court, children park with various games were available. Aquarium, meditation hall, functional hall, corporate meetings facilities were there too. I played badminton and within 10 minutes I realized that I need to do exercise daily to become fit. Few toastmasters played cricket. Few preferred to have powernap on the cot under the Bamboo tree. I took 15 minute’s powernap under the Bamboo tree and I feel cool, calm and refreshed. We had lunch at 1.30 PM. We had great lunch. So, I felt the need for the second powernap too after lunch. I had a quick tour around Shantivan. Quickly visited Aquarium, Photo Stand, rabbits house, etc.
Team building activities were very well organized. I like first game i.e. opposite order. Shweta explained the rules where she mentioned game organizer will utter the word and we need to do exactly opposite of that word. “In” means “out”, “left” means “right” and vice versa. We played the same game with our parents in our childhood. Toastmasters played all team games with the same passion as they played different roles in meetings.
We had 2 DSLR cameras. So our Division Director Akshay decided to record the whole meeting by one DSLR and keep another one for photos. A leader is a person who utilizes their resources effectively in critical condition irrespective of his/her resources and their strength in small or large in numbers. His camera’s memory became full. So I recorded few videos. I face one issue while recording and Akshay resolved it instantly. By end of the day, I learn few important tricks of canon camera from Akshay. I bought DSLR a few months ago but never fully utilized it. But due to TMCPSE (Toastmasters Club of Pune South East) day out, I fully used it and learn few tricks as well.
At 2.48 PM, TM Nagmanesh started the meeting with a bang. TM Amith as usual in rocking form with added guitar music flavour in the background. Harshit played guitar in the meeting. Amith starts by playing funny video, one-person dances on the song and he did not care about others. And soon other joined that person and everybody enjoyed. Amith described excellent example at the closure of TMOD address. There were 3 prepared speeches. All speakers attempted it very well. All 3 speeches are nothing but a complete dose of motivation, bravery and entertainment. Richa starts and ends her speech with the quote "If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salts, water, mixed with air." - Nayyirah Waheed. Rohitraj arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to attempt CC1. Nidhi's attempt was good too. By the way, I wasn’t evaluator so I will not analyze them in details. TM Govinda conducted a great TTM session. He invited almost all people to talk about TMCPSE. Club Humorous speech contest winner Pawan poured humour in TTM session with ease. Four members design and deliver ad campaign like professional. Akshay distributed participation certificates to the member who performed in Division Level Humorous Speech and Evaluation contest. Overall it was fantastic meeting with lots of takeaways.
Before going to start return journey, we had cake cutting ceremony and our president thanks, event organization team for their great efforts. It’s nothing but a vote of thanks. And the surprise was a souvenir with Toastmaster logo and member name printed on it for all club members. What is the success formula for any event i.e. Entertainment, fun, member participation, great management, and meeting goals? It was there in 300th milestone meeting. I had a great day with lots of good moments, memories. At approx. 8.30 PM I reached my home.
Abbreviation
TM – Toastmaster
TMCPSE – Toastmasters Club of Pune South East
PR – Public Relation Team
TMOD – Toastmaster of the day
TTM – Table Topic Master
ExCom – Executive Committee
CC – Competent Communicator
We reached our picnic destination Shantivan at 10.01 AM. We were a little late. The bus journey both to and fro was entertaining. Toastmasters had a ball by playing Dumb Charades game in the journey. People google Mithun Chakravarti, Suniel Shetty movie name to outguess the opponent team. One of the funny names was "Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty", "Khoon Bhari Maang", etc. Somebody asked whether the second word was a pronoun, adjective, or noun. We had good laugh on this game. Star performer of starting journey was many toastmasters but star performer for return Journey was Taaha and Saumya. Saumya played Dumb Charades like game on the mobile phone. Toastmasters helped her to identify the names. It was fun filled and fully entertaining.
The dining hall was very big. One side of the hall, few tables were arranged. Another side, 5-6 Mat arranged to serve people in large numbers. Buffet system arrangement was there to serve people. At breakfast, I heard the big noise and saw small children from different schools had arrived with a big bang. They played with their plates. We were done with breakfast by 10.35. Shantivan campus was developed on big land. Its situated at backwater of Khadakwasla dam. Amazing view of Khadakwasla backwater was available from Shantivan. After some team building games, we had leisure time until meeting time 2.45 PM. All sort of facilities was there for each age group. Cricket net, badminton court, children park with various games were available. Aquarium, meditation hall, functional hall, corporate meetings facilities were there too. I played badminton and within 10 minutes I realized that I need to do exercise daily to become fit. Few toastmasters played cricket. Few preferred to have powernap on the cot under the Bamboo tree. I took 15 minute’s powernap under the Bamboo tree and I feel cool, calm and refreshed. We had lunch at 1.30 PM. We had great lunch. So, I felt the need for the second powernap too after lunch. I had a quick tour around Shantivan. Quickly visited Aquarium, Photo Stand, rabbits house, etc.
Team building activities were very well organized. I like first game i.e. opposite order. Shweta explained the rules where she mentioned game organizer will utter the word and we need to do exactly opposite of that word. “In” means “out”, “left” means “right” and vice versa. We played the same game with our parents in our childhood. Toastmasters played all team games with the same passion as they played different roles in meetings.
We had 2 DSLR cameras. So our Division Director Akshay decided to record the whole meeting by one DSLR and keep another one for photos. A leader is a person who utilizes their resources effectively in critical condition irrespective of his/her resources and their strength in small or large in numbers. His camera’s memory became full. So I recorded few videos. I face one issue while recording and Akshay resolved it instantly. By end of the day, I learn few important tricks of canon camera from Akshay. I bought DSLR a few months ago but never fully utilized it. But due to TMCPSE (Toastmasters Club of Pune South East) day out, I fully used it and learn few tricks as well.
At 2.48 PM, TM Nagmanesh started the meeting with a bang. TM Amith as usual in rocking form with added guitar music flavour in the background. Harshit played guitar in the meeting. Amith starts by playing funny video, one-person dances on the song and he did not care about others. And soon other joined that person and everybody enjoyed. Amith described excellent example at the closure of TMOD address. There were 3 prepared speeches. All speakers attempted it very well. All 3 speeches are nothing but a complete dose of motivation, bravery and entertainment. Richa starts and ends her speech with the quote "If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salts, water, mixed with air." - Nayyirah Waheed. Rohitraj arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to attempt CC1. Nidhi's attempt was good too. By the way, I wasn’t evaluator so I will not analyze them in details. TM Govinda conducted a great TTM session. He invited almost all people to talk about TMCPSE. Club Humorous speech contest winner Pawan poured humour in TTM session with ease. Four members design and deliver ad campaign like professional. Akshay distributed participation certificates to the member who performed in Division Level Humorous Speech and Evaluation contest. Overall it was fantastic meeting with lots of takeaways.
Before going to start return journey, we had cake cutting ceremony and our president thanks, event organization team for their great efforts. It’s nothing but a vote of thanks. And the surprise was a souvenir with Toastmaster logo and member name printed on it for all club members. What is the success formula for any event i.e. Entertainment, fun, member participation, great management, and meeting goals? It was there in 300th milestone meeting. I had a great day with lots of good moments, memories. At approx. 8.30 PM I reached my home.
Abbreviation
TM – Toastmaster
TMCPSE – Toastmasters Club of Pune South East
PR – Public Relation Team
TMOD – Toastmaster of the day
TTM – Table Topic Master
ExCom – Executive Committee
CC – Competent Communicator
