Ice breaker
Hi, a very good evening madam president, fellow toast master and friend. My name is Gary. Today I will be doing my first project. “Ice breaking”. Okie to start off, let me point out one mistake a lot of people is making, … unintentionally. My name Gary is spelt as G A R Y and not G A R R Y. Let me teach you a way to remember it, just remember this 4 words “Girl always remember you”. You take out the first letter of each word, that make up my name.
For my today’s project I will be telling you what I had done in the past, what I am doing now and what I am going to do in the next future. Basically it will be like a fast track short story of my life in 6 minutes and under.
Past
My family consists of my father, my mother and me. I do not have sibling hence I am the only child and there is both good and bad being an only child. When I was young, I was not allowed to play toy or watch TV. My father used to be a very strict. My parent gave me my sets of keys when I was 6, and I was taught to be very independent. I would buy my own lunch, bring myself to school and take my own bus. During school, I was always the rebellious and problematic kid in class, always getting into trouble. I guess I didn't get enough attention that I wanted. However, it was this lack of guidance and negliance; I had to learn everything by the hard way which later proven to be a working formula for me.
I am a late achiever. I had taken O level 4 times before passing as a private candidate. By then I was already 23. Compare to my peers which are 19 when they go college, I was already 4 years late. My interests are computer and graphic design, but my mum had always wanted me to do accountant for career prospect. In the end I had compromised by taking up civil engineering. That time I thought civil engineer can design building, obliviously I was wrong. I do not know what happen to me, suddenly I became very focus and objective driven, I quickly jump from a grade E student to a grade A student, I even got sponsorship for my education and grant entry to local U. I mean nowadays degree grad is not that uncommon but for my standard, I think I manage to surprise a good couple of people.
Present
Currently I am working off my bond with my company. SembCorp, a water recycling company. I was assign to project development where we manage the construction schedule and stuffs. It’s a good company however, I realize I do not have the passion to move along this career path. Being a late achiever never get to me and bring me down, instead I was graced the opportunity to take the long way and meet a diversified group of people. It trained me to see things from a different perspective.
This year I met with an unfortunate event. I used to ride a motorcycle. I got all my licenses revoked for drink driving so I was forced to sell away my motorbike. I had to retake my Class 3 driving and current still doing my Final Theory Test. For better or for worse, this could be the only reason that I quit riding. Just like the Iphone tagline: “It changes everything.” My whole lifestyle had to change drastically, I mean I had been riding for 5 years already. So not used to taking public transport.
Luckily, this unfortunate events didn’t literally "kill" me but instead had made me stronger. I am blessed with an optimistic personality, I always get to see the bright side of everything. Every mistake that I had made was a lesson well learnt. To me, learn from mistake is the most efficient way of learning. Hence my motto in life is : ”If you never made any mistake, you have learnt nothing new”
Future
So moving forward, I am still in the progress of orientating my direction in life. My inspiration is to be like Steven Job or Donald Trump. They are all the big players in the top earning millionaire. A common trait is that they are both a great sale man and a great entrepreneur . Actually I am quite inspirited by those you sees selling brooms outside NTUC. They stand there speaking assertively like a stand-up comedian, it's so fun to watch. I think toastmaster can help me to become an extrovert speaker like them. I am planning to start a small handphone business and of course I wish to end up a person like Steve Job.
So to wrap up, I am enjoying my moment now. I am glad I when through all the ups and downs, the right decisions and the bad one. I believe in what I had done in the past made me who I am today. And I am very proud about myself task far. I was thinking of a good way to end off with a nice conclusion. It will not go too far off by using famous quotes. So… I would like to end my speech with an anonymous quote from my facebook “The richest person is not the one who has the most, but is the one who needs the least.” Thanks you. Wesley Kam is my evaluator for project 1.
Pros were clam, good attempt for project 1.Good use of humor and acronym
Cons were multiple grammatical errors. wrong uses of English. Face too strict looking.
Recommend to watch English sitcom like "How I meet your mother". Do not refer to notes too often.
1 err, 1 erm, 1 ok, 2 so, 1 and, 2 "I mean", I right, 1 ya, 1 alright. Fail fail fail. -_-"
Others:
Using of SWOT for evaluation. Speech intention, Well-research, Organizing and Topic. (Enya)
Using of STAR for job interview preps, Situation, Team-involvement, Action and Result (Sam)
Prompt answer entry, A girl become a women when...? A caterpilla become a butterfly when...? A toastmaster become a toastmaster when...? (Enya)
Quote of the day (Melissa)
"You are not a failure if you don't make it. You are a success because you try."
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