What's On?

Message is the purpose of communication; not the words in the communication.

Dear Friends,

Are you able to recall that statement? The chances are high if you had attended our last IUAD Alumni meeting which was held jointly with IU Toastmasters Club on Sept 2 nd, 2007.

The registration process started at around 7.30PM and members and guests started coming even before that time. It was nice to see the overwhelming crowd coming for the meeting. It included both the IU Alumni and Toastmasters members and also fellows Toastmasters from different clubs like Abu Dhabi Toastmasters, Millennium Toastmasters and Abu Dhabi ICAI Toastmasters to name a few.

Well, the meeting got started at around 8PM by the opening address from the President Mr. Sudha Datta. He welcomed the audience and assured that we are going have a very exciting meeting. Which ofcourse, we did have! He then introduced Mr. Raman Kumar to conduct his Meditation and Relaxation session.

Mr. Raman Kumar briefed us on what meditation and yoga is all about and lead us through a beautiful 10 mins of meditation session. It made us all calm and relaxed so that we can enjoy the rest of the meeting with a peaceful mind. Big thanks to Mr. Raman Kumar for conducting the session on a very short notice and conducting it wonderfully.

After the meditation session it was time to introduce the speaker for the night. Though, the introduction given by me was very short, but in a way it opened an opportunity for the speaker to introduce himself in a perfect manner. J

Before, the speaker Mr. Maaney Paul, starts his session Madam Shazia presented a bouquet as a token of love on behalf of IUAD.

The stage was all set, flip chart was on place, audience were sitting with keen interest and in complete silence, the speaker started his introduction by sharing how he evolved to be a motivational speaker and trainer. He then mentioned the subject of his talk "Being an Effective Person". Let us now see some of the gems from his hour long interesting talk.

Personality is an area which belongs to infinity.

Three things are involved when we communicate with others, words (5%), body language (55%) and tone (35%). Use all of these in right proportion to make the communication effective.

A good communication consists of confidence and concern.

Concern is to see things from others perspective.

Emotional beauty is much more important than the physical beauty.

Every single word that we utter has an equal reaction going in our body.

Lack of confidence can take the physical beauty out of the person.

With money/post/beauty/ youth/heart as the factor we cannot communicate confidently.

Be people with people i.e., be human with human.

Fear, which exists with us, is the reason what we are today. It is the phobia that we have to remove which exists at our conscious level.

Message is the purpose of communication; not the words in the communication.

Mind can recall on what it was concentrating.

When the eyes lock with an object, even mind locks with it.

Hearing is the weakness that is acquired by a person unknowingly.

While you are hearing, imagination doesn't work. If you are listening then you can imagine what you are listening.

In excitement the time appears to shrink whereas in pain it appears to expand, as if it is not moving. And finally…

Become a loveable person.

Change the attitude and make a comfort zone for others.

Hate the persons' deeds not the person.

After that wonderful talk, he was so generous to accommodate a few questions from the audience to clarify any doubts that they might have. Few members took the opportunity and have their doubts cleared.

After his session, he was presented with a memento by Mr. Anil Kumar.

The meeting ended with the closing remarks by the President but the second interesting part of the meeting has just begun – Dinner with the IUAD family members and guests!

As always, the food of Foodlands was delicious, mouth watering and finger licking. There was Aachar(pickle) , papad, salad, curd and Dahi Wada to start off with. Seems like Dahi Wada has won the permanent place in the menu list – good sign for a food lover! Then there were variety of chapattis, veg fried rice with two curries, ofcourse one veg and the other non veg – paneer and chicken. For the desert we had tasty fruit salad, which was in much demand that the waiter had to refill it twice or thrice. In all the food and the time spent together with the like minded people was truly admirable. Well, if you think that I wrote a little extra about the food, you can imagine I am fasting! J

With Love!

Abdul Lateef