Page 30 - ICAP Newsletter December 2018 Final

Newsletter The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan The general evaluator DTM Mazhar Jamil, after a small activity, called TM Mudassar, TM Adeel, DTM Aneeqa and TM Zeshan to evaluate Table Topics and three Prepared Speakers of the evening. Best Table Topics Speaker: TM Zeshan Saif; Best Prepared Speaker: TM Imtiaz Ali Rastgar; Best Evaluator: DTM Aneeqa Ali and Best of Big 3: DTM Dr. Mazhar Jamil. The vice president Education, TM Mudassar Ghulam Nabi, acted aspresiding officer and welcomed the participants to the 55th meeting held on October 18, 2018. Regarding the theme of the day, he said that though the internet had made us more connected, yet we lived in physical isolation. He shared an anecdote about how a man got disconnected from the web one day and was forced to interact with people in his house. At the end of the day he realised that his father, mother and siblings were quite nice people in person! Toastmaster of the evening, TM Hassaan, spoke on ‘Wi-Fi mania,’ and took the audience TM Khizer, VP Public Relations. He was doing project 1 back to simpler times when mobile phones were used of level 2 of Pathways. He shared his research about only for calls, texts and Snake game. But with the bonsai, a biologically normal plant, that is pronged and internet, phones have gotten smarter and can do much snipped to keep it down to miniature size. It was a long- more than ever before. There is a dark side to all this term project that required dedication, hard work and advancement which has manifested itself in the form of resilience. our social isolation. TM Mustafa, VP Membership, gave a speech on ‘Legend of Mapogos.’ It was a well-researched and captivating The Toastmaster of the evening started Table Topic story of a tribe of lions and how they took territory that session and called on stage the Table Topics master, was seven times the size of Manhattan, known as Sabi TM Abdullah. He had thought of a game wherein Sand. he recounted a scenario to the audience and then called on stage two participants to react to the given The third and last session was of evaluations. The general situation, one at a time, so that the first one started evaluator, TM Azeem, elaborated criteria of evaluation for the story and the second one had to pick up where the benefit of the audience. TM Jawad evaluated Table the first one left off. There were five scenarios and Topic session. TM Mohsin, TM Adeel and TM Shamam 10 participants. TM Abdullah was the Ah-Counter. evaluated TM Mazhar, TM Khizer and TM Mustafa, respectively. Best Table Topics Speaker: TM Xara; Best TM Mazhar, gave his ice-breaker and received a standing Prepared Speaker: TM M. Khizer; Best Evaluator: TM ovation from the audience. The second speaker was Shamam and Best of Big 3: TM Azeemullah. 30 December 2018