My boss is giving Oracle SQL and PL/SQL tuning workshop right now and I feel pretty boring. I am right now sitting at one corner here figuring out how to make technical heavy training more interesting. Here are a few tips which I can think of:
1. Think of the audience first!
My boss just talking away in front and never bother about the students in front! The students with thier laptop in front just surfing away. I think my boss explaination is just too technical. He should put less technical material, like something easier to be understood. This will lighten up the presentation.
2. Have discussion group.
Should have some case study or discussion group going. Have the groups discuss various ways of solving a problem.
3. Prepare well before the presentation or carry on...
My boss is doing all the last minute diagnosing on the problem during presentation, which I think is no good. Should prepare well first.
27 June 2007
How to drive a car safely using what I learn from public speaking.
I always believe I should learn how to apply what I learn from a subject on to another subject. Main reason is I like to save money and time! No need to spend money and time on Safety Driving.
1. Start Early.
I always encourage my members to prepare their speech early. Same goes to driving a car, especially in Malaysia! The reason is because you got to save a lot of time, where there are less traffic. Less traffic meaning less accidents, of course doesn't mean you have to start speeding! Maintain a reasonable speed.
2. Know your audience.
It's always important to know your audience, how to read their facial expression while you are making a speech.
When you're driving a car, you don't read the driver's facial expression, because their are not facing directly at you! What you can do is to read the reaction of the cars in front of you. This will normally give you a rough idea on how challenging the traffic in front of you.
3. Practise, Practise and Practise!
What do you do if you suddenly cannot say a single word from your speech? What if you have an accident when making a speech or driving a car? A good speaker and a good driver shoule always anticipate what will happen next while drivine the speech or car, that's why you need a lot of practise! Practice you driving skill on the road all the time on not so crowded places. Practice side parking and 'L' parking, whenever possible.
4. Visualising
A good speaker always visualize the entire speech. Where should I pause. How long should I stop. What kind of gestures should I give. Same goes to driving a car. One need to know the route to the destination. What is the condition of the road. Which lane should I keep when I reach this part of the town. Which gear should I turn to when I am negotiating this curve. Should visualize this before you start driving.
1. Start Early.
I always encourage my members to prepare their speech early. Same goes to driving a car, especially in Malaysia! The reason is because you got to save a lot of time, where there are less traffic. Less traffic meaning less accidents, of course doesn't mean you have to start speeding! Maintain a reasonable speed.
2. Know your audience.
It's always important to know your audience, how to read their facial expression while you are making a speech.
When you're driving a car, you don't read the driver's facial expression, because their are not facing directly at you! What you can do is to read the reaction of the cars in front of you. This will normally give you a rough idea on how challenging the traffic in front of you.
3. Practise, Practise and Practise!
What do you do if you suddenly cannot say a single word from your speech? What if you have an accident when making a speech or driving a car? A good speaker and a good driver shoule always anticipate what will happen next while drivine the speech or car, that's why you need a lot of practise! Practice you driving skill on the road all the time on not so crowded places. Practice side parking and 'L' parking, whenever possible.
4. Visualising
A good speaker always visualize the entire speech. Where should I pause. How long should I stop. What kind of gestures should I give. Same goes to driving a car. One need to know the route to the destination. What is the condition of the road. Which lane should I keep when I reach this part of the town. Which gear should I turn to when I am negotiating this curve. Should visualize this before you start driving.
21 June 2007
How to get people to meet up by using what I learn from public speaking
I always found it difficult to get people to meet up. What you normally do? I try to apply what I learn from Toastmasters to counter my challenge.
1. Know your audience.
What the people that you going to meet up like? What's thier favourite way of meeting up? Are they quiet people? Do they like to surf the net the whole day? Do they like to meet up face to face?
2. Know your meeting place.
Where they prefer to meet up? Near a place where no need to pay for parking? Fast Food restaurant where you can get a quick bite immediately? Or just the local mamak stall?
3. Don't ever give them a choice. You decide the topic!
Hey! When you are giving a speech, do you ask for the audience what you wanna talk about? You don't do that lah! So you are the one who is going to make choices for them! Influence them with your skills!
1. Know your audience.
What the people that you going to meet up like? What's thier favourite way of meeting up? Are they quiet people? Do they like to surf the net the whole day? Do they like to meet up face to face?
2. Know your meeting place.
Where they prefer to meet up? Near a place where no need to pay for parking? Fast Food restaurant where you can get a quick bite immediately? Or just the local mamak stall?
3. Don't ever give them a choice. You decide the topic!
Hey! When you are giving a speech, do you ask for the audience what you wanna talk about? You don't do that lah! So you are the one who is going to make choices for them! Influence them with your skills!
Downgrading from Wira 1.5 to Myvi 1.3
Why I come to this toasmaster meeting, is purely coincidence. I just bought a manual car last week.
All the while I was driving my automatic transmission Wira 1.5 since 1999. Last week, I bought a Myvi 1.3, manual transmission. I am trying to adapt myself back to manual by doing a lot of practise on the road.
While passing by this area, I hit a lot of traffic, and I am horrify with the traffic. My self-confidence starting to drop tremendously! I need to boost my self-confidence and I happen to know around this area, there's a club meeting tonight! That's the most perfect place to boost my confidence!
That's why I am here! :D
All the while I was driving my automatic transmission Wira 1.5 since 1999. Last week, I bought a Myvi 1.3, manual transmission. I am trying to adapt myself back to manual by doing a lot of practise on the road.
While passing by this area, I hit a lot of traffic, and I am horrify with the traffic. My self-confidence starting to drop tremendously! I need to boost my self-confidence and I happen to know around this area, there's a club meeting tonight! That's the most perfect place to boost my confidence!
That's why I am here! :D
20 June 2007
Eyeballs and Dog Sense
Called Pris from SCTMC.
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Pris: Yeah! I would really like to come to your club, as an evaluator, but currently my work is really up to my eyeballs!
Me: Well, you still have your eye brows, forehead, and some hair left. Not that bad!
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Pris: Wow! You are an IT Consultant! You must be very intelligent!
Me: Not really. You need to have a lot of common sense.
Pris: Well, I bet I can't become one because I don't have these senses! I only got cow sense.
Me: You don't need cow sense! All you need to have are orang utan sense, camel sense, and panda sense to become a good programmer.
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Pris: Yeah! I would really like to come to your club, as an evaluator, but currently my work is really up to my eyeballs!
Me: Well, you still have your eye brows, forehead, and some hair left. Not that bad!
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Pris: Wow! You are an IT Consultant! You must be very intelligent!
Me: Not really. You need to have a lot of common sense.
Pris: Well, I bet I can't become one because I don't have these senses! I only got cow sense.
Me: You don't need cow sense! All you need to have are orang utan sense, camel sense, and panda sense to become a good programmer.
How my Granny wake me up when I was young
Don't feel like get out of bed this few mornings. The weather is so cold, just don't feel like getting up!
I remember when I was young, when I don't feel like getting up in the morning, my granny wil use all her might to pull me off the bed!
This morning I feel the same thing again...
How I get up this morning? I just imagine my granny pull me out of the bed. It's works for me! That's how the power of visualisation works!
I remember when I was young, when I don't feel like getting up in the morning, my granny wil use all her might to pull me off the bed!
This morning I feel the same thing again...
How I get up this morning? I just imagine my granny pull me out of the bed. It's works for me! That's how the power of visualisation works!
19 June 2007
Learn Something New Everyday
Had lunch with an ex-colleague and husband 2 days ago, Syl and Mat.
Mat just move to another company recently.
Mat: ...I just resigned from my previous job, and move to an oil company, because there are no career advancement for me there. I don't have anything to do. Most of the employees there just sit around and do nothing...
If I am Mat, I definitely will not leave the company but starts to 'chase my dreams' during my free time in the company. That's what Do some self studying. I am trying to do this in my current workplace.
I regret I never did this when I was in my 20's. Wasted a lot of precious time doing nothing, especially in my first company.
I remember when I was in my 20s, a few of my seniors, in their 30s and 40s, always give me advice, never waste my time but I never listen to them.
Now, when I am in my 30s, I finally realized what they meant. If we want be become successful, we need to advance in our life! We need to take up challengers, to become a better person everyday; continue learning something new everyday.
Mat just move to another company recently.
Mat: ...I just resigned from my previous job, and move to an oil company, because there are no career advancement for me there. I don't have anything to do. Most of the employees there just sit around and do nothing...
If I am Mat, I definitely will not leave the company but starts to 'chase my dreams' during my free time in the company. That's what Do some self studying. I am trying to do this in my current workplace.
I regret I never did this when I was in my 20's. Wasted a lot of precious time doing nothing, especially in my first company.
I remember when I was in my 20s, a few of my seniors, in their 30s and 40s, always give me advice, never waste my time but I never listen to them.
Now, when I am in my 30s, I finally realized what they meant. If we want be become successful, we need to advance in our life! We need to take up challengers, to become a better person everyday; continue learning something new everyday.
18 June 2007
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.
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.
05 June 2007
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.
29 May 2007
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.
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?
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.
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.
21 May 2007
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/
http://cutecomputer.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/boot-cdrom-through-grub/
14 May 2007
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?
11 May 2007
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!
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...
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! :)
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!
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.
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