Different Hues of Happiness

 

Best Speaker : Mr. Abdul Azeez, Best Table Topic Speaker, Ms. Gina Amoyen Monis, Best Evaluator Mr. V.P. Menon

Happiness is the Key to Success” –set the theme for the 13^th Blue Ocean Toastmasters’ Club meeting at the Park Regis Hotel recently. It was presided over by Toastmaster of the Day, Pankaj Abhimanyu Khankal, who explained how happiness can come to people in different ways  and that there is no specific definition of happiness .

“There are 7 billion people in this world live in different environments and have different notions of happiness  : 400 million  are entrepreneurs, 430 million are unemployed,  577 million are older than 64 years, 800 million work in industrial jobs, 1.9 billion are too young to work,”

The President  of the Blue Ocean Toastmaster’s Club, Mr. Abdul Azeez, set the pace with his power-packed and awe-inspiring speech. He talked about his happiness derived from his family consisting of his father, his wife and four daughters –how his family supported him through as good times and bad. How as a young boy he would clean trucks to add a mere Rs. 50 to his wealth to the time he shaped himself as a major business player in the UAE.  

Mr. Azeez, said he learnt more from his father than any management book. “In those days he used to practise what management gurus are writing about today”, he recalled.  

Ms. Amrita Singh a champion public speaker and Blue Ocean Toastmasters Club Best Speaker talked about “How to Communicate Effectively at the Workplace”  --focusing on the different nuances of public speaking. She highlighted in particular the importance of voice modulation and pause while driving home a point in any speech.