Return to Innocence ^^

In the Toastmaster meeting yesterday, I was the Word Master besides presenting my first speech.
The word that I introduced was:

Devote (Verb, used with object)
1. dedicate; pay full attention to something; to give up or appropriate to or concentrate on a particular pursuit, occupation, purpose, cause, etc.
E.g.: to devote one’s time to reading.

2. to appropriate by or as if by a vow; set apart or dedicate by a solemn or forma act; consecrate.
E.g.: She devoted her life to God.

And, for the Thought of the Day:
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

After the meeting, my friend asked me, where did I get the word “devote” from?
Aha, actually, I got it from a song, a famous song of Enigma, and it’s my favorite song as well.
It is the song “Return to innocence” ^^

 

Return To Innocence - Enigma

Love - Devotion
Feeling - Emotion   
Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence   
If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny   
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and miss the chance
To return to innocence   
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence

OK, time to go to bed~! Wish all of you have sweet dreams, and happy weekend!!

First TM speech (CC# 1) - Who am I?

A couple weeks ago, when I was chatting with my friend, my suddenly threw me a question, "Do you know who you are?"

"Me? Of course I know! I’m Kah Moey!"

Then, he said, "No no, I don’t mean such a simple question. What I mean is that, do you know what do you want to be? Do you know what is your interest? What is the future life that you would like to have? And what is your strength that can lead you to achieve you dreams?"
 
"Huh?", I was stunt there, "Who am I then? What is my strength? And what is my future?"

I went back and thought about it… Do I have a dream? Yes! I have, I wan to be a teacher! This is my dream. This is my dream job since I was small. I was influenced by my father who was a teacher before. I was attracted by his teaching skills, his teaching style, when I first saw him teaching in the school. I would like to share my knowledge to other people, and I would like to discover how people learn. Different people learn different ways.

However, after my Form 5, my father discouraged me to be a primary school teacher (because of the low income). Therefore, I continued to pursue my study in Computer Science. After the study in Computer Science, I involved myself in the IT area, from a website developer, to a programmer, to an application support, and now, I’m a business analyst.

My role as a business analyst, I am like a communicator among the business partners and the programmers. I gather the business requirements from the business partners, write the System Requirement Specification (SRS), and communicate with the programmers, explain to them what are the logics for the system.

Although I’m in the IT area, but I still haven’t given up my dream to be a teacher. I wish to teach small kids. Children are the future of the world. We must take the chance to build up their characteristics, build up their good virtues so that they can devote themselves to the world, to the society.

I wish to teach the kids thru the art work. Thru the art work that is done by them, they will be able to learn the philosophies and theories of the life. So, I go and learn up all the art work. I learn painting, I learn paper craft, I learn handicrafts, I learn clay sculpturing, and I even go and learn up the music instrument.

But then, after few years of working life (I have been working for 4 years), I discovered that, the income of a teacher that teaching small kids, are not enough for me to cover my car loan and home loan. Thus, I decided to extend my dream to be lecturer, instead of a teacher.

in order for me to be a good lecturer, I must have good presentation skill, good communication skill, good speak skill. That is why, right now, I’m standing here, giving my very first speech to my fellow Toastmasters. I hope that, thru these meetings, I will be able to train up my skills, to be a good lecturers.

I hope that, within 5 year time, I will be able to achieve my dream, to be a lecturer!! ^^

My first speech in TM

I have been preparing my very first CC TM speech for quite some time. Today, while I was practicing the speech, I tried to record down my voice. Here is the recording. XD 

Title: Who Am I?



Yeah, I know… my voice is not strong enough, I wished to speak with more “ohm”, but seemed like not successful. =.=" Anyway, it is still a good try for me, at least. I hope that I could present better to my mentor tomorrow. :)

And, this coming Thursday, it will be a great day for me to share my speech to other TM members. XD

NLP

Recently, I bought a book regarding NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). It is not a programming book (Nah… I don’t do programming since I graduated from University), but is a book on how to increase a person’s determination and passion on his own goal achievement.

I have been searching for the books regarding NLP for long time. However, it seems to be hard to get this kind of books in Malaysia, or even in Penang. And now, I have got it! Once I got to see it, I immediately bought down the 2 books, and I was so excited!! The books are in Chinese, they were originally written by 2 Japanese NLP trainers separately, and lately they were translated into Chinese.

I just started to read the first book, which is training book, train us to drill down into our minds to get the actual goals of our life, and it shows us how to achieve the goals step by step. The book “Secret”, seems to have the same theories as what NLP mentions, and it can be said that Secret is part of NLP. NLP teaches in a more detailed way, and provides the guidance towards success.

I really like this book a lot!!  ^^

2009 / 2010

It is a new year, year 2010. Through out the day, I have read thru many blogs, which were talking about the feelings that they had or the events that they met within last whole year of 2009. Here my turn to talk about mine.

In year of 2009, I changed my sleeping habit. Although I didn’t manage to change the habit totally, as I am still thinking that sleeping is an enjoy activity, and sleeping can refresh myself from tiring life. However, I started to learn a lot of things, started to enforce myself not to sleep if it was unnecessary, especially during noon time of weekends. That was the reason why, I started to learn clay modeling, to avoid myself from feeling sleepy. XD

In year 2009, I thought of improving my English, and so I joint Toastmaster Club. The idea was brought up by my colleague. She suggested me to join Toastmaster club with her together, and so, I started another new experience of my life. The first time I stood on the stage, it was not a real stage, and I was just standing in front of my fellow toastmasters, I trembled when they called for my names, and I was forcing myself to say something for 2 minutes! =.=" Anyway, it has passed at the end, and I got encouragement from the fellow toastmasters. The feeling was great!! From there, I noticed that, I should speak in a slower manner, so that I could have more time to think what should I say next, and speak slower would calm down myself too. I am still learning about it, and I used it in a job interview. ^^

In year 2009, I got a great appraiser from my co-workers and business partners regarding my job performance. The appraiser comforted me and raised me up from my emotional downturn. Although I got no promotion due to the company economy downturn, and we did not even got the salary increment, but it was really revivable to me. ^^

In year 2009, how much I had achieve? How was my performance in terms of life improvement? I would rate myself as 78% achievement. It was a B level. :P Haha~ I hope that this year 2010, I would have a huge breakthrough in improving my life, not only my life style, my career, but also my habits, my thoughts and my actions. :)