Show them you are vulnerable and touch thier hearts!

Just did my Speech #10, "Inspire the Audience" and this is what my evaluator commented:

Good Comments
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"It's good that you can laugh at yourself. Even you came in last most of the time in your class, you failed your Mathamatics Exams, etc. You still can find humor and laugh over it!
You just told the others that you're vulnerable. You show the weaker side of you, as a human. Do you know that audience like to see a weaker side of a speaker? Because this make the character (you) more real. This made you more human.
Some speaker doesn't like to show the weaker side. The speaker doesn't talk about his flaw, his weaknesses, his failuers, etc. It's just too perfect, to be a speaker; a human...."

Points of Improvement
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"Somehow your speech doesn't touch me. You did told us your weakness, and how you overcome it. You got the message, but you did not connect your message with the audience. The audience does not feel the urgency to change. You did not sink the message into the heart of the audience.
What I suggest to you is to 'touch' and 'scold' the audience heart by asking something that's common to us like: 'How many times you plan stop smoking and you always says wait for tommorow, and when tomorrow comes, you never stop and you want to wait for another tomorrow?' (Try to 'scold' the audience a bit) 'Do you know that you have also KILL your love ones because you have made them to become 2nd hand smoker as well!?'
After that, make sure you don't let your audience hanging like that, says something that lift them up again like: 'One less smoker in the World doesn't mean the cigratte company going for brankcrupt.' Er... Maybe that's a bad example, but just get the audience attention first by saying some funny stuff. 'One less smoker meaning one more happy family.'

And always supplement a few good quotes: 'People tell you you cannot do something it's because they cannot do it themselves' - Persuit of Happyness, Will Smith.

Have fun! :)"


To connect with the audience
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1. Touch
2. Scold
3. Uplift
4. Good quotes.

Speech #10

I am ready for #10 this coming Monday! I'll talk about how the trip in Vietnam had changed me. Still thinking of the title.

Bump into another SMTD classmate - PKL

Bump into PKL, another one of my classmate 2 weeks ago, and only today I can recall her! Left message and SMS to her colleague to contact me but some how have not call me back? Call her again later.
So funny, that day she cannot recall me and thought that I am the brother of the classmate that she knows!
She really put on weight. That's why cannot recognize her.

KIA Citra water tank gone case last Sunday night!

About 10km before Pagoh, notice tempreature rising. From Half to 3 quarters! Switch off Air con but tempreature mantained but down to half. About 5km before, fingers itchy, turn on air con! Tempreature rising reach FULL! Panic a lot but do not show face in front friends!

When reach Pagoh Rest Area, whole car stop, cannot start anymore. Wait 1 hour cool down.

After fill car with water, still cannot start car, wonder why? Later inspect, pipe burst!

Lucky CPT friends around :) Call TOW truck, and only charge RM$400 bundle with passenger seat! Good Deal.

Suspect did not close cap properly? Not sure my self. Maybe I only secure one side of the cap, not both. Terry called saying most of the time, human nature will secure cap properly. Agree with him - but still not sure about myself?

Just become the President in my TM Club.

In the TM Club, 3 things need to look at first:

1. Mentoring Program

EXCO will be the mentors.
Explain Benefits using own testimony.
What one need to do: Impromptu, Speeches, and Roles
Reach DCP

2. Speechcraft
Involve as evaluators only, not participant. Learn more this way?

3. Club Visits
To promote Club and get experience.
Return 'favor' to other clubs.

boot CDRom from redhat linux grub

Just learn how to boot CDRom from redhat linux grub:

http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/boot-cdrom-through-grub/

Happy Mother's Day to my Grandma, wherever you are

Oh... I really miss my granny a lot. Wherever you are Granny, Happy Mother's day and I really miss you a lot. ;-)

Thinking positive and a dream

Last night I had a dream where I get RM$60,000 worth of scholarship! Wonder this is because I started to tell myself to think positive, and to smile more to others?

After 1B - Magic Games, Paradigm Shift and Being Fat

After 1B I found something weird happened to me! I found out that I become very fat(oh)!

I try to use what ever I learn from 1B like playing magic card games (tought by P*Yoh) and cutting paper games to reduce my weight, but somehow it's not sternous enough lah... Cannot cut down weights.

Then I use the Magic number game (with my weight and a few other numbers) and I found out something interesting! I tried the xy-x-y method and this is what I found out:

75-7-5 = 63 = 6+3 = 9

100-1-0-0=99=9+9=18=1+8=9

4321-4-3-2-1=4311=4+3+1+1=9

I always get 9, what ever number I use! I try to figure out where I see the 9 before, very familiar lah somewhere... THEN I found out that it's from the Happy Chart! If someone use the calculation, she will always get the number 9! The most extreme one:


1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
Slim-----------------------Super Duper Fat

The participants will always get No. 9! The Super Duper Fat!

Imagine how dangerous this method if it falls to the wrong hand! Remember the Scratch and Win Scam We had a few years ago in M'sia?

1. Scratch 1 star - get an Iron
2. Scratch 2 star - get a TV
3. Scratch 3 star - get a Car but need to pay $5,000 first!

And the scammers always want you to get the 3 stars! Hope it doesn't falls into the wrong hand lah!

Hey! Suddenly I found out myself that, instead of complaining of being FAT, I just had a paradigm shift to enjoying all the magic games! Wow!

After 1B, this is what I learned:

1. Magic Games
2. Paradigm Shift
3. Don't eat so much during breaks!

Phase 1A and Phase 1B CPT

After 1A I tell myself if I want to be positive, I need to smile more to others. Where should I practice this ah? I did this by smiling to my own colleagues. And it works!
But at that time, a lady just joined to company and my colleague thought that I want to impress her...

MIM** TM and Speechcraft Program

2nd time attended MIM** TM club meeting yesterday. 1st meeting I was a grammarian and 2nd time I was a Ah-counter.

Found out they agree to have Speech Craft Program with us Mid Valley! :)

Will KIV and plan for a Speech Craft for the members! :)

Phase 2 assignment and must complete in 2 weeks

M* call me and want us to complete the CPT phase 2 assignment in 2 weeks, just before the 26 - 27 th trip to Senai! We have to:

1. Find 4 brochures, make comments and give points of improvement.
2. Read 2 books, our favourites, put into 5 slides and come out with a training program.

In 2 weeks! Very scared lah! Spending some time now doing them lah!

Mind Mapping and Speech #10

I need to get my #10 out before end of next month, and am using some mind mapping techniques and I hope this can help me.

TM President

Should I become the TM President? If I commit, I have a few things in my mind that I need to do, like make us to become more quality speakers than just getting more members.

Came back from CP Training, intensive training

Last weekend was brutal for me! I never did something that is so crazy in my life before. I did 2 presentation on stage during CP's 1A and 1B and looks really bad!

I really underestimate the training program! Never expect it to be so intensive.

I think I did not meet Mickey's expectation... Need to do better the next 2A and 2B next weekend.

Only 10% or less can make it to the Top!

Scary when Mickey told me there are only 10% can have the ROI return! He said this is happened in other fields as well, like any degree program we're persuing, job, etc.

I am trying to count how many of my Uni mates become successful after another 5 years? 10 years?

I found Mickey

Toastmaster for me is like a gymnasium. You can find all the equipments here to make you strong, make you tough, make you hard.

But these equipments may hurt you if you do not use them properly. You maybe injured. You maybe sick.

You need someone to show you how to use this equipment properly. You need someone to show you the right path. The right direction.
To have the right mindset.

Just like Rocky Balboa in the movie Rocky, you need an instrutor, a mentor. You need 'Mickey'! Everyone need a Mickey. Have you found
your Mickey yet?

I think I have found 'Mickey'.

My broken toe nail

On my way down from Mt. Kinabalu, the constant hitting of the shoe on the toe nail, causes the nail constantly knock on the toe. This creates a lot of friction between the toe and the toe nail. I took a Panadol and painkiller tablets to got down. Don't really feel the pain.

Only Tuesday I went to see the Doc, because I thought the good old nail can still 'stick' back to the toe - but this is not the case!

Yesterday went to see the Doc and he remove my toe nail, and wanted me to keep the nail as a reminder. "This is a doctor's order!" he said. Ok. I kept the nail.

While operating my toe, he told me he also climb the mount before, bout 2 years ago, with a whopping 92kg.

"Look at the bright side, You only lost your toe nail." says the doctor.

"No. I lost my toe nail, and need to pay you too."

The doctor promise to give me a 'resonable' fee.

I got the doc's name card, promise to give him a call, if I happend to climb the Mount again.

Nice chap.

Take 3 steps, stop, count to 5, stop, Repeat.

After Laban Rata (3272.2M), the air was so thin that I need to use the '3-5' approach:

1. Take 3 steps.
2. Stop and count to 5.
3. Repeat from 1.

That's how I get to reach Low's peak, the summit of Mt. Kinabalu, just like the Chinese Proverb "Even small knife can bring down an oak tree!"

Why you want to go?

"Why do you want to go there?" When I tell people, I want to climb Mt. Kinabalu, I have friends asking me this question. Since the first time I went camping back in 1991 in Taman Cahaya Sri Alam in Shah Alam, my parents already asking me the same question, with addtional questions
like, "Any snakes there?" "What if you are injured?" "Don't you feel uneasy/ uncomfortable facing all the unknown?"

It is tough, because I need to shape up myself before every trip.
It is very uncomfortable, because of the sweat, rain, leeches, sore toes.
It is always unknown to me, what lay ahead.

Wasn't Life like that? We always feel uneasy, uncomfortable, uncertainty, etc. to try out new
things, adventures.

I think I do it because it's good for the mind and soul; to face the unknown.

Be brave. Need to be brave. I am training to be brave to face the unknown, either in life or just a simple trip to a jungle.