preparing speech…

I am now preparing for my presentation, preparing for my speech. Monday, will be a memorable day for me. The presentation on Monday will create a history in my life!! Haha~

I presented my speech to mum just now, and the comments I got from her was that, I talked too fast, and the audience may not have the chance to catch up for what I was saying. Yes, I know that, and I was trying to slow down my speed, but I couldn’t… My speed kept on increasing once I started to talk. Nah… there must be a way, nothing is impossible, I know.

When I talk fast, my mind would be jammed up, and I couldn’t get the chance to think about what I was gonna talk about next. Yeah… I definitely need to improve that, need to slow down my speed. My speaking speed is not fast when I speak Chinese though. Hmm… Probably, I really need to train up myself to think in English… Is it possible to change this nature? I will have to try.

Wish me luck, hope that I will sucess in my presentation on this coming Monday!! :D

p/s: honestly, I am thinking if I should change my writing style from a formal one to be an informal one. It is just too formal for me, and I don’t really get use to it… =.="

Certificate

I just snapped a photo of the certificate I got for attending the training program last Saturday.

Yea, I am going to start my own training for the preparation to present a speech of the very first project in Toastmaster Club. It is an easy one – Ice Breaker speech.

I planned to talk about my ambitions. Yes, I am now getting nearer and nearer to my ambition, my ambition since I was small. I hope I will succeed to achieve it!! ^^

Criteria of a good speech

Before go to bed, I just wish to put on few words to this blog. I attended a seminar held by Toastmasters Club in KDU Penang on last Saturday. The seminar with title “Speech Contest Judges Training Program” was actually to teach us how to be a judge.

To be a judge for the contest, a person not only need to be a member of Toastmasters Club, he must have completed 6 projects for Communication Competence (CC) and above.

Although I haven’t reached to the level to be a judge, but at least, I know what does the judges look for in a good speech. The judges are just the ordinary audience as the rest of the people in the contest. It’s just that, they have the authority to judge people, to give marks to the contestants.

From the perspective that judges are looking for, I know how I should do in order to deliver a good speech. It is not only for the judges to judge how good I speak, but it is to train up my speaking skill in order to have better communication skill and presentation skill with people. Below are the criteria of a good speech delivered to the audience.

1. Challenge the mind – it’s to challenge our mind to give a speech / message which is out of the ordinary one. Do not under estimate the audience. They can be cleverer than you. So, we need to think of the contents that are beneficial to the audience. Make sure they will bring home with some useful information. Thus, we need to study a lot, do survey, so that we are delivering the correct information to the audience.
2. Touch the heart – Be yourself, and create connection with the audience. Tell something that you have experienced and be informative to the audience.
3. Tickle the funny bone – To make the audience enjoy your speech, and not to be a too serious one. It can be a humorous speech, which do not need to be funny, but will let audience think about it, and laugh.

I know, the above 3 points are only the theories. I will need to practise more to get those 3 points realistic. How far I can go to train up my skills? I do not have the answer, but I would like to try, so that I know, how far I can increase my own value of competencies.

The most challenging part of each meeting, is the table topic session, as we need to talk about a given topic on the spot. This is really challenging my mind in order to think fast, not only take care of the messages that I would like to pass to other people, but also need to take care on the grammar, vocabularies, body language, eye contact, etc. This is not an easy way, but I know, I have to go through that, no matter how, no matter what.

I remember, last time, one of my teachers told me, if I would to improve my English, I would need to train up myself, not only to “speak” in English, but need to “think” in English too.

Ha, anyway, I still like Chinese a lot. I will never stay away from Chinese, just because, I am a Chinese. ^^

Good night, everyone!

My imagination?

Today, I’m released a bit compared to last week, as most of the issues for the project have been fixed during the weekend.

I read a lot of blogs after back to home, and found a nice drawing blog~ It’s about drawing, the blogger posts all his master pieces up in his blog, and they are so nice! This is the ideal blogging way in my mind since I started blogging in year 2005!!

However, I’m not good in imagination. Even if I have the inspiration of drawing something, I can never draw it nicely. Whatever in my mind, something else is produced. I imagine a tiger, it may ends up a cat on the paper. =.=”

See, this it is. Hehe… I laugh at myself when I look at it…. Haha
 

Anyhow, this is a good way to release my stress. I’m a happy-go-lucky person, but I still have stress, although the word “stress” had never come into my mind until I started to work in the current company. What a lucky girl I am! :P

I will continue to produce “unwanted” drawing when I’m free. It could be a few minute work, or a few hour work for drawing, as if we are drawing using our hands with the real brush and colors, not the Photoshop brush. Hehe

Good night, and sweet dreams!

Time is precious

During my childhood, I always thought that I had too much free time. And, I always tried to find something to do, in order to fill up my free time.

Gradually, I grew up, yet my thinking was still the same, I was just too free that I like to sleep a lot. Whenever I had so called “free time”, I always filled up the time with a nice sleep.

Up till last year, I realized that, I wasted too much time for sleeping. Having a good sleep is necessary, but it was just too much as if I was a decadent. In fact, I’m interested in numerous fields, from languages to cultures, from crafts to arts, from music to instruments, from stars to astrology, from movements to meditation, etc. However, I was just a lazy-bones that did not want to take initiative to involve myself into the erudition of those fields.

I was thinking, am I too late to start it now? What I should do, is to start the first step to be enthusiasm for those fields. I know, once I started it, I will never have a chance to regret of doing it, and I will not.

Hence, I started to learn swimming, yoga, zither, and learn clay modeling this year. I believe, only practice makes perfect. Now, I even attend Toastmasters club, so that I could improve my English and public speaking. From the learning, I got to know which activities are suitable for me, and which are not. Even if I felt not comfortable with the activities, or probably because of the environment, I still learned something, which will always stay in my heart. I do not want to be a mistress of a department, or a company, but I just want to be a mistress of my destiny, my dreams. :)

Time is precious in our life!