252th Mid Valley TMC Meeting

By Daniel Lim

It probably wouldn’t come as a shock to you that a UK research found that most sick leaves are taken on Mondays. As to why Monday is a particularly moody day, well, it’s pretty obvious that we’d end up a bit down when returning to work, especially after a fun and rested weekend. In reality, the real reason may be more than meets the eye. Fortunately for us, there are a few simple things we can do to help minimize the ill effects of Monday Blues.

Rule no 1# Have Something To Look Forward To On Monday Nights and to me, it’s attending Toastmaster Club Mid Valley Meeting. Being the 252th meeting and it’s the first meeting of the year 2015 for Mid Valley TMC, the theme is – No Limits. 

It’s indeed a fruitful meeting which allow me has a powerful kick start by gaining new insight out of each project speaker. I started to pick up routine jog the next day after the meeting, I’ll tell why later in the blog.

As always, Toastmaster members and guests arrived to Cititel Hotel 5th level 5 by 6.00pm, which is a good time to mingle around and get to know each other by juice up some conversation while having simple yet delectable Fried Rice and Fried Noodle being served. At 6.57pm,  SAA TM Ivy started to get all the enthusiastic members and guests in to the meeting room.

The first meeting of the year started off with Presidential Speech by ever charming "Princedent" Shim Chee Loon. There are total of 25 attendees in the cozy meeting room, 21 awesome Toastmaster members and 4 great guests. After a round of self introduction by members and guests, here come a specky and prolly the bubbly'st girl  I've ever met - and she is non other than TM Siew Lai Yee as the Toastmaster of The Evening role, she came out a brilliant idea on introduce TMC origin by using presentation slide, which i think she deserves a big Kudos.  Lai Yee follow by introduced all the Role Players for the night. GE of the 252 meeting is TM Chin Yeow Honn, he came with a box of mouth watery cookies. Again, a big thanks to his courtesy, small gesture often can goes a long way. TM Mi Shan as a Grammarian, i go deeper of feminism because of her. Last but not least, ever pose with poise speak with elegance TM Yeap Wei Leeng done his long journey to far far away and back to TMC Mid Valley to take up Time Keeper role where he said there is a limit of time although the theme is - No Limit. 

The meeting turn into exhilarating ambiance the minute a cute guy TM Chong Chee Siong take the floor as a Table Topic Master, he never fail to project a sense of shrewd and uplifting image under his "Cute skin". The first speaker brave enough to volunteer himself to take up the impromptu speech is a member of Toastmaster Mid Valley club, TM Ryan Ting, we all are so excited the heartthrob wannabe Ryan back to the meeting after his missing in action for last meeting, we cant really explain why just one meeting absent make us feel he has left us for long period, maybe we too miss him. The second speaker of impromptu speech is TM Timothy Nagapapa, he is the one who got me believe that the hearsay within the club, he who could paint as Pablo Picasso with his words. The third and fourth speakers goes to guest of the night handsome Dylan and Kenneth. At the end of the meeting, the Best Table Topic Speaker award went to TM Timothy.

The night has came to it climax by the most anticipated prepare speech session. There are 4 speakers, from novice to full fledge season speaker. 

Firstly start with biblical Eve Chong who deliver her virgin Ice Breaker speech - Up and Down

She shared her up and down experience in her life by emphasis without the down part of ones life, you will not aware the "Top of the world" feeling on the up part. She also share a Chinese idiom, Failure is the mother of success. Where Up and Down not just illustrate her teenage and young adult life, but also her job as a dealer representative in RHB investment bank, she experience Up and Down roller coaster experience practically on daily basis by looking at stock market index and investor sentiment. 

Second speaker goes to ever calmed, poised TM Kow Chee Khon (4th Yer), his prepared speech is CC#2 Live A Better Life with Butt. He start the speech by asking what is exactly the purpose of butt, and it's indeed triggered the curiosity within the room and successfully captured audience attention. The correct answer is running. Kow also advocate audience in the house for not abuse the butt by not running. He stated two main reason people dont are first, TOO BUSY, Second, TOO STRESS, he gave a motivation example that US President Barrack Obama runs average 45 mins daily amid his BUSY and STRESSFUL routine. Kudo to TM Kow, i get my ass back in to running the next day of your speech.

Third speaker is TM Ivy Chang, her voice is ever loud and clear, she is doing her project speech 7# Couchsurfing. Christy start her speech by asking how to get free accommodation while travelling, and of course the answer is Couchsurfing, frankly,  i had no idea what is couchsurfing until speech was given by Christy, the key objective of this initiative is to bring together the like-minded traveller who wants to travel like a local and to promote authentic culture exchange. Thanks Christy, I'll definitely try Couchsurfing one day in near future. 

Fourth speaker has the expertise notion about brand, being a brand expert, Ian as usual, dress the part for the meeting by suit up, stand straight, articulate ideas clearly, all hail to TM Ian Lai to deliver his project speech #9 It's Never Too Late, Ian begin his speech asking how many of the audience in the room has make New year resolution, he shares a interesting research that showing 90% people will forget the new year resolution in just three days time. And in his speech, the core message to deliver is punctuality, and remind that we all often has a tendency being late on our own resolution, and he shared a useful way for all the audience to bring back time to think on our feet, who are we to our closest one, to career and to friends, write it on the sticky paper that are provided and stick it at the mirror.


After all the insightful information and knowledge from the speakers, we get into cheerful mode as TMC Mid Valley culture, a delectable secret recipe cake will be served every second meeting of the month. We have approximately 10 mins refreshment time. 

When the time came to the last session of the toastmaster event, Evaluation are did by experienced and season speakers TM Ang Chee Yong on the table topic, TM Carmun Chong being the evaluator for Eve Chong, TM Wong Woon Pen being the evaluator for TM Kow Chee Khon, TM Timothy Nakayama being the evaluator for Christy Chang and last but not least is the voted the best Evaluator TM Sharm Siva who is evaluator for TM Ian Lai.

All in all, i felt i have gain a lot by attending Toastmaster meeting. The wonderful part of toastmaster event is not how great the speaker are, or how tremendous insightful of the speech being delivered, to me, it's the community of who spend time to attend the meeting and spend effort to make the meeting happen, at here, we all have a same goal to improve public speaking skill, to advance in life by honing leader skill, in toastmaster community, there are loads of encouragement, louder and extremely good platform to learn public speaking yet can have the upside by get to know new friends who like-minded as your. Although i just deliver my first project speech cc #1, i already can feel confidence toward public speaking. I must show my highest gratitude to whom who came out the Toastmaster ideas, and to the Mid Valley TMC exco who spend lots of effort to keep the club rolling, last but not least, for those havent visit Toastmaster club before, feel free to pay TMC Mid Valley  a visit, It'll worth every minute spent. You have my word. Adios

Toastmasters CC#1 ICE BREAKER PROJECT : MIRACLE

Good morning fellow toastmasters and guest.

I'm Daniel, most of the people associate My name to celebrity, Korean Heartrob Daniel Henney, English actor Daniel Craig, and yes,
not to forget my idol, Hong Kong actor Daniel Wu.

Ladies and gentlement, so when all the speeches are finished then come to the time for you vote for best speakers,
just happen that you cant remember other speakers name, Daniel is a catchy name for you write in the small little piece of paper.


IDEA #1 Fertilize Process
Do you know all of us is a MIRACLE,
Do you know what make you a MIRACLE,
And the answer to that, is not difficult to find,
The Miracle happened when every single of us came to life
Which mean we are the one who claim the victory among few hundreds million peers in a very challenging fertilize process.


IDEA #2 Dont Give Up
As Im standing here now is i have overcame the incredible odds. But, very often, i forgot, I am The MIRACLE especially
life aren't go the way i want.

There are moments in life, we have the tendency to stop believing and give up when it seem its the end of the road.

Raise your hand if you think the current goverment of the country is the end of the road.

Dont give up, Nelson Mandela took many years of his life in Prison to make changes on his country, and we have Anwar now.

When you give up, is very difficult to witness the fruit of victory.

IDEA #3 Story of myself
I can remember when i was at my teenage life, there are two thing i always hope to see it materialize
Firstly, my dad could own a family car, during my primary school, i always admire my little schoolmate are fetch by their parents in car,
i dont know why, i feel more secure and doesnt have to worry about rainy days, and accident inside car.
Secondly, i could have my own room so that i can have a little privacy of myself. I was sleeping with my sis and brother during the old days.

Fresh in mind, when in my young age, i have no confidence on myself, my dad and my mom get into arguement very often.
I made a wish to myself, i want to achieve two miracles in my life as soon as possible.

With the absolute drive to realise my ambition, i enroll myself directly to UM/ University Masyarakat after graduated from SPM,
With short period of time, i bought my very first car, KELISA at my age of 18. Ive change it to bigger car in two years time, to a Proton Gen 2,
which i think is the one of the biggest decision i hope i did not made it back then. I took many years to get rid of the proton

Then i realise my second Miracle, i have bought my very first double terrace house at my age of 26 which where im staying now,
and two years later, i bought another Service Condominium in Kuchai Lama.

And each time i arrive my house, lying on my cozy bed with a 950 threadcounts bedsheet, listening to IL Divo music,
i am grateful that i did not give up but believe MIRACLES will happen in one day. What even better, i could listen to IL Divo music sometimes with my significant half.


IDEA #4 The light at the end of the Tunnel

I have to send to Gratitude to FACEBOOK founder Mark Zuckerberg, because of his able to make Miracle FACEBOOK happened,
i could easily found my mentor IAN LAi through MidValley Toastmasters FB page.



Closing
I want finish my ICE Breaker speech by Albert Einstein qoute, There's only two ways to live your live, One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

建立良好的人际关系

首先，要牢固地树立起这样的信念：我是造物主的独特创造，在这个世界上，没有跟我完全相同的第二个人。天生我才必有用，我的存在一定会有价值，我也一定能够找到自己存在的价值，因为我是独一无二的！要相信自己的能力，学会在各种活动中自我提示：我并非弱者，我并不比别人差，别人能做到的我经过努力也能做到。认准了的事就要坚持干下去，争取成功；不断的成功又能使你看到自己的力量，变自卑为自信。这样，在任何情况下，你都会对自己说：我能干好。在工作和生活中，你就会有自尊、愉快、好胜等良好的心态，从而在工作和生活中取得成绩。
　　其次，要克服自卑心理。自卑心理是由于自我认知发生偏差，过多地低估自己，怀疑、轻视或看不起自己，而形成的。比如常受他人指责或限制、自我消极暗示、性格内向、自尊性过强等。这就需要正确地评价自己，多看看自己的优势，尝试与活泼开朗的人交谈，通过一次次成功的体验和尝试来增强自己交往的自信心，同时勇敢地接纳和接受自己，扬长避短，坦荡地与他人接触和交流。同时找自己的优点让自己从心理上认可自己，当然也可以请你的好朋友帮你悉数自己的优点，使自己从优点之上挺立起来。也可以观察你周围的同事，在他们的身上也存在着缺点，这样你就可以平衡自己的心理。不要总认为别人看不起你而离群索居。你自己瞧得起自己，别人也不会轻易小看你。能不能从良好的人际关系中得到激励，关键还在自己。要有意识地在与周围人的交往中学习别人的长处，发挥自己的优点，多从群体活动中培养自己的能力，这样可预防因孤陋寡闻而产生的畏缩躲闪的自卑感。针对自己的弱点制订一个逐步训练的计划，并坚持不懈地执行。比如主动向人际交往比自己强的同事请教；主动接触长辈和同事，并以礼貌性语言和行为对待他们；……。充分认识自己的能力、素质和心理特点，要有实事求是的态度，不夸大自己的缺点，也不抹杀自己的长处，这样才能确立恰当的追求目标。特别要注意对缺陷的弥补和优点的发扬，将自卑的压力变为发挥优势的动力，从自卑中超越。
　　第三，从小处、容易处着手，首先做自己胜任和掌控的事（自己不能胜任的事，不要立即强制去做），获得自信心之后再做较为复杂的事，就像上楼梯一样一步一步地实现目标。同时要时时处处站在他人的角度来考虑问题，经常要与别人合作，在取得成绩之后，要与他人共同分享；给他人提供机会，帮助其实现生活目标；当他人遭遇到困难、挫折时，伸出援助之手，给予帮助。在此需要牢记的是“朋友需要你今天帮助，千万不要等到明天”。
　　第四，以真诚、信任、尊重的心态和行为对待他人，同时要以宽阔的心胸接纳他人的不足和缺点，“金无足赤，人无完人”，何况每个人都有自己的生活方式和性格特点，所以对别人要抱着诚挚、宽容的胸襟，对自己要怀着自我批评、有过必改的态度，就能结交到不少的朋友。
　　第五，要善于把紧张情绪放松。使用一些平静、放松的语句，进行自我暗示，常能起到缓和紧张情绪，减轻心理负担的作用；在任何时候都要对自己有自信心，并不时用内心的语言激励自己：“我很棒”、“我表现得很好”、“人们都很喜欢我”。
　　第六，充分利用你身边的好朋友，将自己的困惑、苦恼、郁闷向他们诉说（当然也可以用写日记的形式），他们肯定会替你分忧解愁，体谅、理解和帮助你走出困惑、苦恼、郁闷的心境，进而化解或消除你的自卑感。同时要抽时间多参与集体活动。这样既可以培养自己多方面的兴趣爱好，以爱好结交朋友，也可以互相交流信息、切磋思想和体会，达到融洽人际关系的目的。
　　第七，要多向周围的人学习，在工作中、社团中，多观察周围的同事，特别是那些你觉得交往能力和沟通能力特别强的同事，看他们是如何与人相处的。通过观察和模仿，你渐渐地会发现，自己的人际交往能力会有意想不到的改进。
　　第八，要掌握沟通的技巧。与人沟通时，要注意倾听，倾听的时候，要面带微笑，最好别做其他的事情，并给予以表情、手势、点头等方面适当的反馈，特别是当对方有怨气和不满需要发泄时的倾听，更能显示一个人的素质和修养水平；在表达自己思想时，要讲究含蓄、幽默、简洁、生动，给他人提意见、指出错误时，要注意场合，措词要平和，以免伤及他人自尊心；与他人谈话时要有自我感情的投入，这样才会以情动人。
　　第九，要有意识地去选择和培养一些兴趣爱好。共同的兴趣和爱好也是你与朋友建立深厚感情的途径之一。很多在事业上有所建树的人都不是只会闭门苦读的书呆子，他们大多都有自己的兴趣和爱好。业余爱好不仅是人际交往的一种方式，还可以让大家发掘出自己在读书以外的潜能。例如，体育锻炼既可以发挥你的运动潜能，也可以培养你的团队合作精神。
　　以上仅仅给你点了一些步子，人际交往的方式方法还有许多，希望你能根据自己的具体情况借鉴参考，你的朋友杨永龙祝你拥有一个和谐的人际关系网络，更祝愿你在这个和谐的人际网络之中生活得如鱼得水。

Record High Sales Achiever

When June is still freshly in mind, July says Hello which hit hard on my head. 

Today, i get to know my sales for June-14 been hitting record high in my company history for an individual. While i somewhat not extraordinary happy with this exceptional result, perhaps i can foresee that these coming few months gonna be challenging due to several reasons, of course, as i always believe in, the ship not gonna sink as long as there is not leaking. So i will keep staying positive, do what has to be done. 

July-14 Priorities

Career :

-Maintain good sales momentum with existing clients, and focus to build new clients to cushion competitive market condition

Monthly objective : 

-Begin my ass learn to master my english command by two simple steps, first follow up tone by watching two english drama. Second, seize chance to communicate with foreigner

Family :

-Have dinner with parents weekly whenever im not travel outstation

Monetary :

-Reduce spending, rekindle the passion to property investment although i have no fund now. A piece of thought worth time thinking, Owning property in KL upscale address Mont Kiara had just came to my mind this morning, perhaps i should do some study to gauge whether if it a feasible move.

-Start to identify good and potential area for future optical business venture. 

Relationship:

-Nothing much in my mind now. Maybe i rather improve myself as a whole first. 

Body & Mind:

-Been push up 120 repetition daily basis. Good to maintain, just need little bit more effort on diet part.

-Read relentlessly to my mind exercise. Oblige to read article, or any helpful reading material on daily basis. 

Quote of the day

"People often say motivation doesn't last long, well, neither does bath, that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar

How to Become a Millionaire by Age 30

Although im a little late for this but still i would like to strive for it! 

Here are the 10 steps that will guarantee you will become a millionaire by 30.

1. Follow the money. In today’s economic environment you cannot save your way to millionaire status. The first step is to focus on increasing your income in increments and repeating that. My income was $3,000 a month and nine years later it was $20,000 a month. Start following the money and it will force you to control revenue and see opportunities.

2. Don’t show off -- show up! I didn’t buy my first luxury watch or car until my businesses and investments were producing multiple secure flows of income. I was still driving a Toyota Camry when I had become a millionaire. Be known for your work ethic, not the trinkets that you buy.

3. Save to invest, don’t save to save. The only reason to save money is to invest it.  Put your saved money into secured, sacred (untouchable) accounts. Never use these accounts for anything, not even an emergency. This will force you to continue to follow step one (increase income). To this day, at least twice a year, I am broke because I always invest my surpluses into ventures I cannot access.

4. Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

5. Treat money like a jealous lover. Millions wish for financial freedom, but only those that make it a priority have millions. To get rich and stay rich you will have to make it a priority. Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.

Related: LISTEN: How to Make a Million Dollars Online

6. Money doesn’t sleep. Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays, and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have a great work ethic. When I was 26 years old, I was in retail and the store I worked at closed at 7 p.m. Most times you could find me there at 11 p.m. making an extra sale. Never try to be the smartest or luckiest person -- just make sure you outwork everyone.

7. Poor makes no sense. I have been poor, and it sucks. I have had just enough and that sucks almost as bad. Eliminate any and all ideas that being poor is somehow OK. Bill Gates has said, "If you’re born poor, it’s not your mistake. But if you die poor, it is your mistake."

8. Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

9. Get your money to do the heavy lifting. Investing is the Holy Grail in becoming a millionaire and you should make more money off your investments than your work. If you don’t have surplus money you won’t make investments. The second company I started required a $50,000 investment. That company has paid me back that $50,000 every month for the last 10 years. My third investment was in real estate, where I started with $350,000, a large part of my net worth at the time. I still own that property today and it continues to provide me with income. Investing is the only reason to do the other steps, and your money must work for you and do your heavy lifting.

10. Shoot for $10 million, not $1 million. The single biggest financial mistake I’ve made was not thinking big enough. I encourage you to go for more than a million. There is no shortage of money on this planet, only a shortage of people thinking big enough.

Apply these 10 steps and they will make you rich. Steer clear of people that suggest your financial dreams are born of greed. Avoid get-rich-quick schemes, be ethical, never give up, and once you make it, be willing to help others get there too.

Impromptu Speech Tips

P : Point—State your point to the question.
R : Reason—State a reason why you raised your point.
E : Example—Give an illustration which supports your above-mentioned case.
P : Prep—Which leads us to the next point.

By employing this strategy, you “daisy-chain” your response to the table topics and could speak endlessly about the topic given to you.

Example,

Topic : Is Batman is more intelligent than Superman ? Elaborate on your answer.

Point : I believe with great conviction that there is incontrovertible evidence that Batman, the caped crusader demonstrates a much greater intellect than Superman, the Man of steel.
Reason : One of the reasons is that Batman, having no supernatural powers, relies solely on his wits and technology whereas Superman is blessed with the powers of flight and superhuman strength.
Example : In the latest confrontation with the Joker, Batman outsmarted the Joker by causing the Joker to slip on a banana peel and fall into gigantic toilet bowl. The latest comic shows Superman beheading Lex Luthor with a casual flick of his index finger and sending his head into planetary orbit.
Point : Which brings us to the question of Superman’s brutality that which could only be found in basest of primates.

And so on and so forth…

Let’s have a harder example,

Topic : If there is a Statue of Liberty in the east coast of the United states. Please explain the significance of building a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Point : Liberty without responsibility will result in chaos and anarchy.
Reason : While a Nation like the United States may find comfort in truth, justice and the American way, the lack of responsibility will find justice very elusive indeed.
Example : While the “Land of the free” could brag about the freedom of speech in their society, can a Caucasian ever have the freedom to utter the words “nigger” without reprisal or litigation in New York or death in the Bronx ?
Point : Which leads us to the point where by the liberties of a society is limited by the responsibility exercised by it’s citizens.

For Intermediate speakers : Speech frameworks

The PREP technique is all it takes to survive a gruesome one to two minute table topics session, but for longer speeches, the constant use of this framework, could put the most attentive speakers to sleep. Intermediate speakers consider the following frameworks which could be constructed to supplement their speeches. If the speaker’s level of proficiency were a pimple it’d turn dark and purple at this stage.

Three of the most commonly observed frameworks are highlighted here.

a) Basic framework

This style begins by an introduction to the subject matter, a definition to the problem and plenty of sign postings which guide the listener to the actual body of the speech. The body of the speech contains about 2 to 3 PREP cycles which reinforces the point the speaker wishes to make. And the speaker concludes the speech by a call to action or reaffirms his stand on the subject matter. The speaker would usually employ the phrases “First of all”, “Secondly” and “Finally” to break his speech down into logical components.

b) Pros/Cons Framework

This framework considers a yes/no problem like “Should abortion be banned in Singapore”.The speaker then proceeds to use the “On one hand…”and the “On the other hand…” in the speech body to consider both sides of the coin, then the speaker concludes by taking a stand and giving the reasons why one case is stronger than the other.

Caution : Practiced wrongly, the speaker will seem to be indecisive at a taking a stand so be sure to make one case weaker than the other.

c) Chronological

This framework applies to questions where historical examples be used to reinforce the points the speaker has to make. Questions like “Is the feminist movement still relevant in modern society today?” The speaker could begin the body of the speech by using the words “In the past,,,” and then subsequently use the words “Now times have changed…” and even take the opportunity to contemplate the future by considering “Perhaps in the near future we would be able to…”

Advanced speakers : Unique Selling Propositions

The greatest speakers have something special which distinguishes them from other speakers in that they are unique and offer something to the listener be it hope, joy or enlightenment. At this point, you should think of Marilyn Monroe who has that pout which made her a legend or Jennifer Lopez’s….errrrmmm….beautiful face.

Here are the possible things advanced speakers do to make their speech truly memorable.

a) The Flirt : Charm the audiences by enforcing a personal stake in the presentation.

Many impromptu speakers flirt with the audience and end up with most of the awards when the event is over. This technique keeps the audience riveted by picking on someone from the audience – this creates a personal atmosphere. Occasionally, if a roast becomes inappropriate when used on someone else, the speaker would often employ himself/herself as subject matter.

A Microsoft salesman in a technical conference had probably made arrangements with a fellow employee to seek permission to use him in a speech delivery would begin by saying “Suppose our friend, here James, is feeling naughty and decides to do this to the operation system because he does not want his boss to see these pictures…”, it makes the audience attentive and brings a human dimension to the speech.

b) The Laugh-a-minute : Just employ humor over and over again

Everybody likes a jokes or two, so long as the joke is politically correct and does not involve a pair of donkeys and a beautiful princess. ( you are supposed to laugh at this point…)

When employing this technique, the speaker uses humor, his improvisation and some jokes he heard in the past and blends it in his speech. Puns could be used as well if it is tasteful in nature.

“He is arguably the best public speaker in this club. To say that he is the best public speaker would lead to a heated argument. “

or

“Urggh !!! It was so bad, a bed-ridden quadriplegic in an intensive care unit could play the piano better than her daughter did !!! “

c) The fountain of knowledge : Tap into books for knowledge and wisdom

The problem with “knowledgeable” people is that they seldom possess the right skills to package the information to make it interesting, this technique is therefore risky at best. The speaker has to read widely and possess special skills, here are a series of leads which could allow a speaker to dazzle the audience with his showmanship and knowledge.

- Quotes

A speaker always has a arsenal of 20 or so quotes which can be used for most occasions.

- Ancient philosophy

The speaker should focus on general themes which could only be covered by such a subject matter like Happiness, Decisiveness, Friendship, Wisdom. The occasional reference to a philosopher like Socrates could reinforce the point made in a speech. It would also be useful to understand that people have begun thinking about the same questions that we have

- Business / Management

For working audiences the occasional reference to Peter Drucker or Bill Gates may be used to show how well informed you are. More importantly, many motivational speakers tend to give jaded audiences the impression that they lack solid content in their presentations.

- Great Literature

Another general field which demonstrates how people behave in interesting circumstances. Ralph Waldo Emerson is probably the most misquoted writer in the Toastmasters movement. The poet/philosopher has written widely in topics like “Self-Reliance”, “Love” . The ever popular William Shakespeare has written works which paints a pictures of the human condition in various circumstance in many of his Great works.

- History

The ability to remember a date will be viewed favorably by a discerning audience. More importantly the ability to relate the various events which happened in the past with some degree of accuracy would mean that the audience would be informed of history, thus, ensuring that “history does not repeat itself”.

Conclusion

We’ve covered some fundamental aspects of impromptu speaking to an audience and reviewed some techniques found within the Toastmaster movement. We examined the various frameworks that could be employed for different forms of questions and we finally considered some means to make the impromptu speech a memorable one.

If you, kind reader, would like to have just a summary of this entire article, I guess I could only conclude that impromptu speech could be trained. Whether you are a novice, expert or guru, there would always be room to develop a new technique or style to dazzle the audiences in the next club meeting.

Horse and Foot

Fruitful April?

3rd week of April-14.

It seems like a Fruitful week to me. A relatively stunning start for week as Eyes Time verbally agreed to sign a IT2 deal by commit 480k business deal across 5 years time.

Follow by 90% close deal rate on offering ZEISS new product Digital Lenses package, 8 out of 9 clients had signed up the package which sort of boosting the on fire momentum. Its definitely a potent for maintaining higher self esteem.

There is another half a million business deal to close on tomorrow. To make a beautiful landing for this potential one of the remarkable week of the year, im gonna rush back to KL from JB tonight to make it happen.

Ever since i graduated from secondary school back in 2001. 13 years i had been working in the optical industry, i think is time for me to invest in optical retail business, is time for me to structure out and leverage my experiences in this field to pave the road for better future. Met up with a client in Bt Pahat on this Tuesday, after nearly half a year they operate the shop, i find their concept is just decent for current market scenario of running an optical business, i spoke to him and his interior design cum his GF, they are both interested to invest in KL with the same concept.

In the year of horse, is time to catch the ride get going toward a prosperous journey.

Agenda:


Time frame : Materialize within 2 years from now
Location : Survey around KL matured, Up and coming area.
Connection : Tracing, Inspecting, Leverage




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"Ships are safe in the harbour, but this is not what ships are built for"

All I live for is now
All I stand for is where and how
All I wish for are magic moments

As I sail through change
My resolve remains the same
What I chose are magic moments

Because ships are safe in the harbour
But that is not what ships are made for
The mind could stretch much further
But it seems that is not what our minds are trained for

We call for random order
You can't control Mother nature's daughter

Ships are safe in the harbour
But that is not what ships are built for

The witch hunter roams
The scary thing is that he's not alone
He's trying to down my magic moments

As we sail through change
Ride the wind of a silent rage
And sing laments of magic moments

January 2014

Mix feeling.

Got promoted to Area Sales Manager just a day before the chinese new year. Pay rised by 20% basic. January lens and instrumentation sales has been the highest record in my 4 years in the company. Also, for the first time i won good money during CNY. It's indeed a decent kick start for year of Horse, but i somewhat have some sort of mix feeling within. This feeling keep buzzling in my mind especially in the entire CNY, and even more pronounced when im on my way to Marcus house, perhaps what lied beneath the housing area is a lot of my memory in the past many years. I thought im decisive enough to get over it, i have got everything look promising for me now, its what i dream of, strive for.... Just the person that i thought would be my journey partner to the destination, changed. This matter me more than i thought it would.

Putting that aside. I must focus on doing the right thing to thrive in career and lifelong goal. Along with personal development and family.

Principles:

Career : Leadership, role model, proactive
Lifelong goal : Commitment
Personal development : Practice make perfect
Family : Love, tolerance
Relationship : Integrity, trust, understanding

Strength : Negotiation
Weakness : Discipline

Im hereby to make a commitment to myself. I will commit to maximize my strength and improve my weakness.

Article

During a seminar, a woman asked," How do I know if I am with the right person?"

The author then noticed that there was a large man sitting next to her so he said, "It depends. Is that your partner?" In all seriousness, she answered "How do you know?" Let me answer this question because the chances are good that it's weighing on your mind replied the author.

Here's the answer.

Every relationship has a cycle… In the beginning; you fall in love with your partner. You anticipate their calls, want their touch, and like their idiosyncrasies. Falling in love wasn't hard. In fact, it was a completely natural and spontaneous experience. You didn't have to DO anything. That's why it's called "falling" in love.

People in love sometimes say, "I was swept of my feet."Picture the expression. It implies that you were just standing there; doing nothing, and then something happened TO YOU.

Falling in love is a passive and spontaneous experience. But after a few months or years of being together, the euphoria of love fades. It's a natural cycle of EVERY relationship.

Slowly but surely, phone calls become a bother (if they come at all), touch is not always welcome (when it happens), and your spouse's idiosyncrasies, instead of being cute, drive you nuts. The symptoms of this stage vary with every relationship; you will notice a dramatic difference between the initial stage when you were in love and a much duller or even angry subsequent stage.

At this point, you and/or your partner might start asking, "Am I with the right person?" And as you reflect on the euphoria of the love you once had, you may begin to desire that experience with someone else. This is when relationships breakdown.

The key to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person; it's learning to love the person you found.

People blame their partners for their unhappiness and look outside for fulfillment. Extramarital fulfillment comes in all shapes and sizes.

Infidelity is the most common. But sometimes people turn to work, a hobby, friendship, excessive TV, or abusive substances. But the answer to this dilemma does NOT lie outside your relationship. It lies within it.

I'm not saying that you couldn't fall in love with someone else. You could. And TEMPORARILY you'd feel better. But you'd be in the same situation a few years later.

Because (listen carefully to this):

The key to succeeding in a Relationship is not finding the right person; it's learning to love the Person you found.

SUSTAINING love is not a passive or spontaneous experience. You have to work on it day in and day out. It takes time, effort, and energy. And most importantly, it demands WISDOM. You have to know WHAT TO DO to make it work. Make no mistake about it.

Love is NOT a mystery. There are specific things you can do (with or without your partner), Just as there are physical laws Of the universe (such as gravity), there are also laws for relationships. If you know how to apply these laws, the results are predictable.

Love is therefore a "decision". Not just a feeling.

Remember this always: God determines who walks into your life. It is up to you to decide who you let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let GO..

Breakthrough Challenge

This clip keeps me working at this hour!

Step1: Write all empowering and disempowering emotions you feel weekly. Circle top 2 for each
Step2: For the disempowering ones, identify the antidote (i.e. for fear, replace with courage)
Step3: Practice that emotion. Study what you do to go from scared to strong. Use physiology. Make it a real biochemical change (not easy but work on this)
Step4: Condition it. Do it 4 times a day 7 days in a row


1a. Empowering emotion:

a. I had convinced Hanizah to commit business deal and sign buck order deal. Feel satisfy.
b. Signed commitment with TruView on paperbag commitment scheme.


1b. Disempowering emotion:

a. Feel extremely stress on handle the account that stretch my limit.
b. Bad news from S&V that new branch in NU Sentral had delayed. Means the instrument i had committed 3 units to Paul before April on hanging.
c. 8 days off for Korea trip, lose focus on work cause there are just a lot of works havent finished yet. Main pressure come from.



2. Antidote:
a. Focus and take it as a challenge to stretch my limit. Be organize, plan ahead breakdown by month, week and day.

b. Work out a plan for S&V for 1 i.Terminal and find others 2 by potential ECP. ie: MJ OUG, TruView

c. Remains 6 days before depart to Seoul, make sure settle the on hand task to have a care free vacation.

Financial Planning (Article)

Financial planning strategies in the 21st Century need strategies of the new era -- strategies for the info-tech era, that can bring multiple streams of increasing prosperity. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Money to buy whatever you want... houses, cars, travel, freedom. Surplus to share with the people you care most about. Security. Peace of mind.  Below are some financial planning strategies for the 21st Century. Understand the Value of Money Learn how to value each and every ringgit that flows into your life. Because you can achieve financial freedom on just a Ringgit a Day! That's right. A Ringgit a day. When you think about it, financial freedom all starts with a single Ringgit. You see, prosperous people don't think a ringgit "is just a ringgit." They imagine it is a seed... a money seed... that has the power to grow into a huge money tree, giving off fruit to fulfill every one of their dreams. And they are absolutely right. So, how much is one those seeds really worth? That depends on how long you let it grow and at what rate of growth. Let's suppose you take one ringgit and put it into a special bank account that will let the ringgit grow, untouched by taxes and fees. How long will it take for this ONE SINGLE RINGGIT BILL to grow into a MILLION RINGGITS? That depends on what interest rate the bank account pays. If it's like ordinary bank accounts, paying 3 to 6% interest, then it's going to take a long, long time. At 3% it will take 468 years for a single ringgit bill to grow into a million ringgits. But at about ten percent interest, it will grow into a million ringgit at only 56 years. And 10% returns are historically achievable by proven investment instrument such as unit trust or investment linked funds with long term investment horizon. Remember, money that's compounding never sleeps. Every second of every day. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year. You've got to figure out a way to get money working for you instead of you working for money. And all it takes is a few lousy bucks a day! You don't have to be a financial genius. You don't have to own a big company. You can do it from your kitchen table using the money that you're now foolishly throwing away. If you just re-divert a few of your ill-spent ringgits and funnel them to some well-timed investments, you can achieve financial success. It's within your grasp. Constantly save. Consistently Invest. Like clockwork. Old Faithful. It might be boring. It might be dull. It might be hard. It might take discipline, persistence, sacrifice. No matter. Just do it. Suppose you could sock away RM200 per month. You set a target to have it grow at 20% per year for the next 20 years. Now, 20% is no small feat, but with some fancy stock picks, some real estate and perhaps a small business on the side, you think you can pull it off. According to a financial calculator, RM200 per month at 20% for 20 years grows into RM632,000. Not bad! Now, suppose, instead of starting now, you wait a year to get started. This leaves you only 19 years of growth instead of 20. How much is in your bank account in 20 years from today? Only RM516,000. That's RM116,000 less than what you could have had if you had started on schedule. In other words, your procrastination cost you RM116,000 future ringgits! Procrastination is expensive. For each of the 365 days that you waited, your future portfolio was shrinking by over 300 ringgits. (116,000 / 365 = RM317.81) In other words, every day you put this plan off, costs you RM300 future ringgits. Every hour you wait costs you more than RM13. You are wasting 13 ringgits an hour, 24 hours a day. What if you were to invest the same RM200 per month over thirty years? The cost of waiting that extra year is now a whopping RM842,803. That's right! Waiting an extra year cost you almost a million future ringgits. That's over two thousand ringgits a day. Or almost RM100 per hour! Let me say this again for emphasis. Every day you wait, every hour you delay, is like burning up your financial future. Do it now. Yes, it will take sacrifice. It means deferring gratification for a while to allow your money tree to grow. When you prematurely pick the fruit from your money tree, you stunt it's growth and this can dramatically slow down the time for you to enjoy a fully matured, fruit bearing money tree.   Control It Most people have one simple faucet or main source of income -- their job. This income flows into the bathtub of their life and flows out through the drains at the bottom. Most everyone spends every sen their earn. They never retain any money in savings. They spend it all. Obviously, the only way to have an overflowing prosperity in your life is to plug up those holes and to turn on more faucets... to have multiple streams of income. The key to financial planning is cash flow management. You've not only got to get the cash to flow into your bathtub. You have to manage the leaks so that there is money left over at the end of the month (profit.) With this profit you buy stuff - assets. You may also buy stuff by going into debt. The object of the money game is to accumulate enough assets so that eventually the income from your personal assets will support you instead of your personal skills.   Save it Strategy #3 is to save money. Wealthy people love to save money... you know, to buy things at wholesale. They never like to pay retail for anything. And now, you know why. But they don't stop there. You see, anyone can save money by buying at a discount... but do they save the money that they save? That's the hard part. A friend of mine quit smoking and was bragging about the RM50 a month she was saving by not smoking. I asked, "Where is the RM50?" She didn’t know. She had saved the money but she hadn't saved it... put it away. When you save money by changing your buying habits, take the money out of your purse or wallet and get it out of your spending grasp. Put it into a savings jar, and frequently deposit this money into your savings account. That’s when you’ve truly save it. And here’s another tip. Would you like to learn how to cut your living expenses by 30% in 30 seconds? You would? Well, take out your credit cards, put one away for emergencies, and cut up the rest. Statistics have proven that this simple exercise will automatically and almost effortlessly cut your living expenses by an average of 30% over the next 12 months.   Invest it With the money you’re saving plus the 10% of the money you pay yourself off the top, you must learn how to invest your money at billionaire rates. Anyone can park their money at 3%. The trick is to get it to grow at 10 to 20%. There are many traditional investments that are ideal to park your money. At the low end of the interest scale are bank savings accounts and fixed deposits. Then, you have government treasuries and bonds. Up the ladder are corporate bonds... then the stock market... and some of the most popular investments these days... Mutual Funds or Investment Linked Funds.  You should have money in all of these areas. Imagine a series of buckets where money is siphoned off from your bathtub. The first bucket should be your emergency bucket. Let your 10% flow there first until you have at least six months worth of living expenses saved. You'd be surprised how many people in this country are only one pay-cheque away from bankruptcy. Don't let that be you. This money should be in the safest place, a bank account at the highest interest rate you can find where you can access to your money within days. Once this first bucket is filled up, the stream of 10% will overflow into one of three additional buckets -- labeled, conservative investments, moderately risky investments and very risky investments. If you are older, you should have more of your money in the conservative bucket. The younger you are the more risk you can take. Check your investment risk profile with our Risk Profile Test. The best way to invest for average people is in Mutual Funds or Investment Linked Funds. A mutual fund is a collection of individual stocks purchased by a major company and managed by professionals. You give them a small amount of money, they add it to that of thousands of other investors and they watch over it for you.  Here are a few rules about investing. 1. The longer you invest (leave your money in the market) the lower your risk. 2. Don’t invest unless you’re willing to leave it for 5 years or more. It's sole purpose is to grow and compound. Anything shorter than a year is gambling. 3. Remember, it's almost impossible to buy low and sell high in the short run. So don't play the market. 4. The key is long term dollar cost averaging. Dollar cost averaging simply means, you should invest every single month, regardless of where the market is heading. Don't even read the newspapers... just buy month in and month out. Over the long run, this is the best strategy. Do it automatically. Inform your mutual fund company to automatically withdraw the funds from your account each month.   Shield It Making money is one set of skills. Keeping it is another. As you work toward your financial goals, you will need to learn how to preserve the wealth you are creating.  The worst mistake one can make today is leave large amounts of personal assets unprotected. Get a liability insurance, get a health and life insurance -- you don't want to spend all your hard-earned money on medical fees should you fall prey to serious illness or become disabled, do you?

Palace Court KL

Loan approved by Hsbc. Actual loan size is 533k, monthly installment up to 2500, workout per sft is 430. Consider steep as per entry point at 2012. Considering strategic location at the mid of Kl, Pj and the up and coming Cyberjaya. Should be a good play except leasehold status. Looking at 500 psf upon completion 2014. Highest benchmark within close proxi up to 1200 psf

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Hill Exploring

A healthy Saturday say hello to me, the sense of satisfaction permeating around me.. My aim is to keep this kind of feeling at least once a week.. Although it will very tired before the sun hide himselve in the mountain..

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Innuendo

Woke up 4 in the morning,

My mind never been in this clear state before,

After years of compromising,

It's either take it or

Leave it for good

A life with eye sore can brings nowhere except failure

Although have mentioned over and over again

Deep down in heart, it's tiring, it's not me at the first place.

Once try to change, but given a chance to try

Things had changed and I'm glad

But only last for a while

I would chosen to be silence to avoid hard feeling

But years down the road

I couldn't suppress anymore but try to hint

In return of tantrum

I told myself this is the last time or never again.

Down the Road

This header buzz my mind and kick start my blunt tendency thinking, been inact over pass few years, I find myself overly indulged in the category of property investment, especially during the whole house hunting my the first landed, with raking dough of 150 grand of the "so call" investment, I find my self showering with ego boosting, and the point here is, this is a dangerous short term satisfaction, and this kind of satisfaction had all over my mind, resulting me have almost forgotten on my career path down the road, I used to keep an habit to read a lot of different productive material, keep an healthy life and have a clear direction, and constantly looking for advancement.

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

Come back to the header, I really have ask myself and contemplate on it.

Career : Frankly, after 2 and half years with cz, i doubt my current ophthalmic lens sales executive career could able to leverage me to comfortable position from I have seen from the senior which working for over 6 years, of course there are always an exception, with good enough of initiative, and driven for result mind oriented, it's still a possibility to stand on a better ground. However, at my age of 28 in 2012, I have strong inclination to work for construction field, it sounds kind of late to venture into this career, but I have faith in to this field. Follow up by technology career, but due to I have no clue, so I will put it on hold.

Gonna create my own VIA 2015. Lets think about it.. Next blog, Vision Into Action 2015. Or perhaps maybe a NWTP, namely Nett Worth Transform Program.

House Hunting

Ever since the last house hunting two years back, now the HH mode is back!

But this time objective is more for investment purposes.

Premise situation clarification,

1. Look for those house with low down payment, preferably developer s&p borne program.

Blog remisnise

Re read the blog that i wrote over the years, once again i have reiterate that blogging is really a good stuff. It is pretty interesting to overview back the seed of thought which is un-certain, ambiguity, and vague, then see how its goes over the years. Like for instant, stuff like career path choice, old time desire and dream. Is good to have some footprint for where i came from.

I have got a new house which i moved in on 14 Sep last year,

Also i have changed my problematic local piece of shit to Japanese vihicle.

Done some survey on proposal diamond ring yesterday while waiting for her.

Alright, let see what next that i wanted to achieve in my life.

Let start with wealth, from conversation with my new yet old colleague S, i realise i am kind of in my comfort zone, have to find a way to strenghten my connection. Perhaps maybe a part time job for additional stream of income. Can take photography an example as im going rage 800 bucks for pbotoshoot FP new outlet.

Regarding on health and family. Talk later. Tired dy.

Good night people.

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Dad birthday

Celebrate my dad birthday,  nice seafood meal,  affordable, my parent indeed getting older from day to day, I'm hoping we as a brother and sister can be at their side from time to time.

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Hiking

Woke up early morning at 6 something, perhaps is a good thing that i have been struggling ever since September 14th, when i moved in to this house, i make a point i wanted to keep a healthier lifestyle, no matter jogging or mountain hiking, i want to wake up earlier at the day, thanks to the audio tape which i listen inside my ride, most of the top achieve3r tend to have more discipline than mediocre, to make this point more convincing, most of the high management team in a organization, they are actually wake up earlier, more exercise, more reading.

I am really blessed that i can kick start a my long struggling exercise thingy, so, it's kiss good bye to 2011, and welcome the 2012.

Since i mentioned 2011 kiss goodbye. Let do a quick wrap up on it..

I cant say 2011 is a abundant year for me, but definitely a GREAT year i would say, move in to my new house, riding my long crave imported car, attend a series of workshop and training in singapore, achieve more in my career.

So what next 2012!!?

A degree maybe..

or a marriage..

what about some investment??

Let sort out the priorities, Daniel.. GOGOGO!!

《依然爱你 》

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