Project 1 - Ice Breaker

I completed my toastmaster project 1 on 14 May 2009.

Outline of my speech:

I begin the speech by introducing myself as a reinstated member of the club. Reason why I suspended my subscription with the club, which is to pay more attention to my pregnant wife. My life now revolved around my bb boy, who is 15 mths old. The learning lesson I derived from him, that prompted me to reignite my passion to public speaking and goal of becoming a competent communicator. Learning from the bb, when he is learning a new skill eg. crawling, he will keep repeating the actions till it becomes automatic to him. Then he proceeds to work on the next skill, eg standing. Practice makes perfect.

I am naturally a shy person and hv been a science student all my life. Till one day it donned on me that if I were to always do the same thing, I would always get the same thing. I decided to change to business degree instead. Predominately female. Unstructured. Though I din meet my wife there. Nonetheless, it changed the way how I work with people, how I interact with them, How I see things, How I think. But it indirectly led me to my wife. I was a project manager in my first job, where my wife was doing temp jobs there.

Something abt blood pressure

I saw all that coming. Escalating weight increase. Sleeping later each day. Increasing work pressure.Interrupting sleep due to night feeds and Waking up in the middle of night to make sure my son is sleeping. Procastinating every chance of exercising. Consuming junk foods.

Then it started with a throbbing vein in the forehead. Something is not right. It slowly developed to a stiff neck. And the pain seems to stay on. That's prompted me to check my blood pressure.

To my horror and disgust, the sytolic pressure is beyond 80 and the diatolic is at borderline 140.

I started to panic. I read up on high blood pressure in books and internet. I started popping in fish oil and calcium. I even started to sleep early but I did not rest well. I kept waking up in the middle of the night. I remembered a TCM formula involving celery and carrot to be consumed before noon daily.

Today is the third day. While coming to work, another thought came to my mind. No matter how many pills I pop in, how many rest I take, how many celery or carrot I consume, if I do not adopt a relaxed and slow pace, the high blood pressure will not disappear.

Right Supplements + Enough Rest + Right weight + Proper Execise + Healthy Lifestyle = Good Health

No money can buy you good health. The choice is yours. Prevention is better than cure.

Vinson caught viral infection on 11/12/2008

It's our first encounter over the first 9 mths of his life. There is no precedence for us. We got edgy and flustered with his every cry. We simply have no idea what's wrong.

Is it unfair?

It's the annual appraisal exercise again. It suddenly dawned on me that it's not how hard you work but rather it is the relationship with your boss or the boss of other departments that counts. Sometimes, I wonder if one should work so hard and not being appreciated. It is unfair!!!

One was ranked as non-performer. It does not mean that he can't perform. It makes a difference whether someoone can't perform or unable to perform as he is not given the opportunity to do so.

It's a habit. Your mom used to do everything for you!

My wife made this comment today when she saw the bag of new clothes that she bought for me lying on the floor in the service balcony.



I completely agree with her. Some habits including living habits never changed.

200 pounds beauty

I caught this Korean movie with viv last sat. I thought this was another korean slapstick. But I am wrong. It made alot of people wet their hankies.

The story is simple. Han-Na is a overweight and unattractive girl with a warm heart but blessed with an unbelievable voice from God. Han-Na has always wanted to be a pop-singer, but due to her appearance, could only work as a faceless singer. She provides the vocals for a popular singer named Ami, a beautiful young lady that can't carry a note to save her life.

Most of the more amusing scenes are about how people treat her differently. Yet with this simple story, 200 Pounds Beauty has attracted more than 5 million viewers in Korea and the movie is still doing well at the box office.

The key lesson learnt from this movie is success comes with huge sacrifices, which are irreversible. Sometimes, life can be sweet just as it is.