It has been a loooooooooooooooooooooong time (about a week?) since I post any entries. My sincere apologies! Well, a lot has happened for the past one week. On top of the usual public speaking training I conduct, we had our first mini speech contest at Victoria Junior College on Wednesday, with Irene Ang gracing the contest as celebrity judge. (I have a lot to say for this event - shall leave it to another post). On Friday, I had the opportunity to share with over 120 people the art of small talk, which turned out to be highly entertaining especially when we digressed into the art of seduction. And then there was Saturday where I represented NUS in the Division Speech Contest. (Lots more to say!) Oh and yes, I won! (yay!) On Sunday, I hosted a Niche Relaunch Party at Haji Lane.

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Found the above quote at some random blogger’s site. Was bored and decided to spice it up with some (amaturish) designer’s flair and post it here, with well justified reasons of course. Most people are wayyyyyyy too serious when they give their speeches on stage.

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I am talking about the basic presentation workshop that I attended on 20th March (Tuesday). Remember the previous article about going back to basics? Well I walk my talk and signed up for a workshop (by Matthew Linus) so that I can learn and re-learn. Here’s what I got out of the workshop.

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I love this guy! Jason is an award-winning humor columnist and cartoonnist. (Nowadays, everybody is an award winner…) But still, he is worth checking out. I personally like this article a lot and since it’s about writing (grammar specifically), I think you will want to read it too. Enjoy!

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For most of us English is a sentence (buh dum bum). In school we learned the basics followed by their 6,534 exceptions. We discovered, for instance, that “i” goes before “e” except after “c,” then immediately took off to SCIENCE.

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If you get to spend one hour with world class speakers for a one-on-one, personal consultation for public speaking from each of them, what would you ask?

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If you do really get the chance to grill them, pick on their brains, tap on their years of experience, what advice would you ask for?

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Shout out to all of you who have attended the Art of Small Talk workshop conducted in SP last Friday. Thank you for making the three hours so much fun! I was really amazed at how fast you people became friends… (P.S: Though the workshop ended at 9pm, the participants were happily chatting away, not willing to leave. They sure know how to make small talk!)

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I recently got a fullpage feedback from Darren LaCroix (2001 World Champion Speaker). He is one of the champion speakers that I admire a lot. Not only did he gave me very useful and timely insights to improve my contest speech, he also reminded me that to speak like a champion, I have to first THINK like a champion. It all boils down to mindset.

Here’s part of Darren’s feedback.

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