Self reflection on entire semester

Another semester down could only mean one thing, whether there are improvements or there aren't.

I would say i have improved little in presentation personally, from the start being very animated has always been my trademark in presentation which can also be a double edged sword because it is good for say spontaneous or impromtu speeches and entertainment speeches but does not really work for more serious presentation.

As such i should try to improve more on relying less on my trademark animated self during presentation, however i guess that really depends on the the mood i want to achieve in my presentation.

Vocals wise i should learn to also tone down as stated by Ms Cheryl, as my voice sometimes can be a bit too loud which can startle people.

Ivan's personal branding

You are probably thinking to yourself right now, okay fine your spontaneous…so? What’s the big deal?

Well yes, anyone actually can be spontaneous so what makes my spontaneous better than their spontaneous. Well I will tell why, one I have a huge array of sound effects and accents, can never leave home without them, can you imagine life without sound effects and accents? It pretty quiet and boring no? A person who can’t do this sees this as a really weird thing or even thinks I’m insane. But to me, it is a talent I find handy when entertaining an audience. On a plus side, due to my British accents, people actually think I was born and raised in England all my life! Works well especially when I am trying to impress my future employer or client, they may even think I actually graduated from Oxford.

Two I am very animated and comical, I am so animated and comical that sometimes people think I’m actually a fictional character, which is a compliment to me. But being animated or comical is a way to bring out what I truly want to express myself really. And again, people just can’t seem to get over why I am so animated and comical, they think I’m insane. But all my best presentations and performances has always been being spontaneous, I don’t like being chain down to a script that you have to follow line by line, no thank you. It’s like in the industry, if you are going to be like any other employee you are never going to stand out, you are never going to make it to the top. Unless you are willing to stand out from everyone else, clearly I stand out from most of my friends because I am spontaneous and often outspoken, but like I said anyone can be spontaneous, but what makes my spontaneous really better than theirs?

I will let you in on a little secret, is top secret by the way. This is what makes my spontaneous better than anyone else’s, and that is being a surreal creative thinker. What is surreal? Surreal means completely bizarre, weirdness and yes this actually true, in my mind a lot of bizarre things goes around. But that’s where I get all my creative ideas. Just like in the industry, they embrace creativity and innovation, so surreal creative thinking will come in handy as logic is absent, you see many people always limit their creative juice with logic, but really creativeness should never be limited by logic. I let my run free, free from logic and free from restraint, that’s where new fresh ideas come from.

And I incorporate all these uniqueness into my blog as they show my true uniqueness, and sometimes on Facebook with monologue chats with myself.

So this is what makes me different from everyone else.

Persuasive speech- Jeremy

Part 2: Analysis

a.      Defense of arguments

n  In my speech based on my topic, it was said that weed is not bad and it’s not a drug! But many people thinks that weed is a very dangerous and health risking thing. But from my point of view, I think it’s not a bad thing at all, depending on what kind of activity it is used for. For instance, if people smokes weed a lot or it is called overdose, it is of course bad. And that’s the reason why weed is portrayed as a bad thing to take. Also, many people keep on thinking that weed is a drug, but actually weed is a herb. Most of the traditional medications around the world uses weed as medicines. The definition of drug is, it is a chemical substance that affects the processes of the mind or body. As for herb, it is a plant or plant derivative or extract prescribed for health or healing or even any types of plant that is used for culinary or medicinal purposes. The difference between drug and herb is that drug is a man-made; from combining chemicals that has effects on your body. As for herb, it is a natural grown plant which has effects on your body. What I’m trying to say is that weed is definitely not a drug yet it is a herb which helps cure several sickness or health problems, depending on the dosage of course. Also, it helps people to fantasize a lot, giving them many ideas in any way and also it makes them happy. All the facts taken were based on medical studies from All facts are based on medical studies from The Scripps Research Institute (California), Harvard University (Massachusetts), California Pacific Medical Center, Columbia University, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, University of Madrid (Brazil), Laboratory for Physiopathology of Diseases of the Central Nervous System (France)University of California in Los Angeles

b.      Research

The research that was done by me for my speech was taken from the internet. There were quite a lot of information about my topic, which is ‘weed is not bad and it’s not a drug!’, but I only took the necessary, persuasive and relevant information from the internet. Also, the irrelevant and less suitable information from the internet was not taken for my speech.

c.       Evidence

Based on the evidence that I have found from the internet, it is the annual causes of death in the United States. With this evidence, it is proven that the leading causes of death in the year 2000 were the cause of tobacco, with 435,000 people died, which is 18.1% of the total of US deaths. Second was the cause of poor diet and physical inactivity, with 400,000 deaths which is 16.6%. Next was the cause of alcohol consumption, with 85,000 deaths rated 3.5%. As for the other causes were microbial agents with 75,000 deaths followed by toxic agents with 55,000 deaths, motor vehicle crashes with 43,000 deaths, incidents involving firearms such as gunshots with 29,000 deaths, sexual behaviors with 20,000 deaths and illicit use of drugs with 17,000 deaths. As we can see that there were no deaths caused by taking weed at all. Meaning, there is no harm at all consuming weed but of course with the suitable dosage.

d.      Survey results

There were 10 survey questions about ‘weed is not bad and it’s not a drug’ was distributed to 10 students from Inti College Subang Jaya and Taylor’s University College, Lakeside Campus. The gender distributed was 5 females and 5 males, in order to see the perceptions of each gender towards my topic equally. The survey that was distributed consists of 6 questions, 1 short answer and the other 5 questions given were short or long answers. Over all the 10 surveys distributed, all 10 were answered properly but only 1 survey question that was answered was too short.

Based on question 1, 6 of them actually said weed is a drug and the other 4 said no. As for question 2, 3 of participants actually admitted that they have smoked weed before and the other 7 said no. For question 3, some actually answered that in movies they portray weed as a cool thing to do, some said it is a bad influence especially to the younger people, overrated the weed it is just stronger than normal cigarettes, 1 said it is okay for movies to portray weed just make sure it is about the negative side of it and some said depending on the movies, as some portray it as bad some portray it as good.

Question 4, 6 of the participants answered that weed is bad, 2 answered it is good and the other 2 answered no good or bad about weed. As for question number 5, different answers were given such as media should portray weed as bad and shouldn’t take them, don’t know, it’s bad because it makes people high, media should portray them as good as an education for students, should portray weed like other drug advertisements so that they wouldn’t take it, the effects and negativity of smoking weed, in a negative light, weed is as strong as cigarette, no comment and not so good, not so bad.

As for the last question, the question was whether should weed be legalized or not, 7 participants answered no and 3 participants answered yes. All the information above did fulfill my information needed for my speech as my topic is, ‘weed is not bad and it’s not a drug!’

Part 3: Speech Plan

a.      Main points

·         Weed is not a drug, it is a herb where it helps prevent certain sicknesses such as it prevents breast cancer, it kills brain cancer cells, promotes neuron growths, it prevents from lung cancer and many more.

·         I take a stand to say that weed is definitely not a drug and it is not bad to consume it at all. It is because it does not kill people, yet it helps you in many ways.

b.      Goals

·         To persuade audiences that weed is not a drug, yet it is a herb and weed is not bad.

·         To let the audiences aware that weed does not harm peoples’ health, yet it helps to prevent or cure sicknesses.

c.       Major Challenges

·         There was too much of irrelevant information about my topic.

·         It was difficult for me to distribute the survey questions to more people due to time management.

Part 4: Documentation

a.      Viewpoint of position

It is proven that the leading causes of death in the year 2000 were the cause of tobacco, with 435,000 people died, which is 18.1% of the total of US deaths. Second was the cause of poor diet and physical inactivity, with 400,000 deaths which is 16.6%. Next was the cause of alcohol consumption, with 85,000 deaths rated 3.5%. As for the other causes were microbial agents with 75,000 deaths followed by toxic agents with 55,000 deaths, motor vehicle crashes with 43,000 deaths, incidents involving firearms such as gunshots with 29,000 deaths, sexual behaviors with 20,000 deaths and illicit use of drugs with 17,000 deaths. As we can see that there were no deaths caused by taking weed at all. Meaning, there is no harm at all consuming weed but of course with the suitable dosage.

(PhD, James S. Marks)

b.      Survey

- 10 survey questions distributed

Survey questions

Survey on ‘Weed is not bad and it’s not a drug!’

Jeremy Ong Sooi Liong

Presentation Skills (COM2115). The purpose of this survey is for my assignment and my topic is ‘Weed is not bad and it’s not a drug!’

Survey Questions:

Age:

Gender:

1.      Do you all know what’s weed? Do you think its drug?

2.      Have you ever tried smoking weed before?

3.      How do you find movies portray weed?

4.      Do you think weed is good or bad? Why?

5.      In your opinion, how do you think media should portray weed?

6.      Do you think weed should be legalized? Why?

Jeremy Ong Sooi Liong

Presentation Skills (COM2115). The purpose of this survey is for my assignment and my topic is ‘Weed is not bad and it’s not a drug!’

Sample of answered survey

Age: 20

Gender: Male

1.      Do you all know what’s weed? Do you think its drug?

Yes, and it’s not a drug.

2.      Have you ever tried smoking weed before?

Yes.

3.      How do you find movies portray weed?

Depending on movies, some portray it as good some bad.

4.      Do you think weed is good or bad? Why?

It’s good, because some people use weed as medications.

5.      In your opinion, how do you think media should portray weed?

Not so bad, not so good.

6.      Do you think weed should be legalized? Why?

Yes, because certain medicine weed is used with the right dosage.

Personal branding- Jeremy

I am, JemJem the Gummy Bear

Appearance

Ø  I am different from other ordinary gummy bears. I am a cheerleader gummy bear.

Ø  Different colour represents the way I dress. Meaning I dress in many ways and different colours.

Personality

Ø  Everybody eats gummy bear, it makes them feel happy. It’s like me, everybody likes talking to me, it makes them happy as well.

Ø  I may be annoying at times, but I know that I’m a good listener, especially when my friends are having troubles or any kind of problems at all.

Competencies

Ø  My advantage is of course is my cheerleading, I represent Malaysia for cheerleading, Charm All Stars, Team Malayia.

Ø  I’m loud of course. I can talk as loud as reaching a few houses away from me if I want to of course. It helps me in presenting or giving a speech with many people and noisy environment.

Differentiation

Ø  I am not as emotional as others especially in being sad and depressed. I’m a very happy go lucky guy and always smiling. That’s what gummy bears do.

Ø  I have my own motto which is burping. I burp louder than normal people, I guess that’s why I say I am different from others.

Online presence

Ø  I am almost the same as real life, just a little more daring to say out things through online, not so shy compare to real life.

Ø  Maybe in typing sense, I tend to type more short forms such as lol, hahas, hehe and etc.

SpSpeech Draft

A very good morning to the judges, Miss Cheryl and my fellow friends. Everyone has a self brand to brand themselves. As for my brand, my brand is 'JemJem the Gummy Bear'.

I am a unique gummy bear that everyone need in life. Why? It is because I jump higher than any other gummy bears, I can bounce higher than any gummy bears, that is why I have a special ability that helps me to represent Malaysia in Cheerleading. People are amazed by my moves and assumed that I have spring on my legs. I can cheer you up, support you and always there for you in any bad circumstances because this package comes with JemJem the Gummy Bear in your life.

What about my personalities?  I am always happy. Everyone is happy whenever they see or eat gummy bears. Whenever people feel sad, they eat gummy bears to cheer themselves up. Same goes to me, whenever you guys are around me, I can guarantee you all will laugh especially when I tell lame jokes. I may be annoying at times by irritating you, but I am seriously a good listener. Whenever my friends got problems, they will come to me and share it with me or even seek for advices. Similar to gummy bears, even though they always look so not serious, but they can be serious especially when it comes to listening. I am also always cheerful and happy all the time. That is why I say I am different from ordinary gummy bears.

My competencies, what are my advantages? Well, again of course it is my cheerleading ability. Where not everyone can do all the stuffs in cheerleading such as tumble, cheer, dance, stunt, smile and hitting good motions. I am one of the few in the team that can do all that, where is the advantage in the team. I am loud as usual, I can be as louder than 4 people combining. Why is it my advantage, it can help me in various ways, especially with giving speech or presenting in any noisy area or crowded places.

Why am I different from others? I can say I am not as emotional as other people, especially when it comes to sadness and depression. Why? It is because I am a happy go lucky boy, or should I say I am an adult already now. I can also say that I have my so called own motto, where I like to burp loudly and trust me, it’s a very very long burp. Also, I don’t care what other people think about me nor whether burping loudly is disgusting or not, I will still do it no matter what.

Well, what about online presence? I am almost the same as in real life presence, maybe a little more daring and not so shy when I’m online. Also in typing sense, I tend to type short forms like ‘lol’, ‘hahas’, ‘hehe’ and etc.

I am who I am today, I will still be the same happy go lucky boy, just like the gummy bears. I will always be 'JemJem the Gummy Bear'. Thanks you.

Interpretive speech- Jeremy

Main point and Sub point

1. Human are losing their humanity.
2. Killing is not a big deal anymore.

Goals

1. To make sure that the message is delivered to the audiences.
2. To share my experiences and feelings with the audiences.
3. To make the audiences aware of what is cheerleading.

Major Challenge

1. To make the audiences pay attention to the speech presented.
2. To change the perception of certain audiences towards cheerleading
3. To persuade the audiences to agree with my points.

Solutions

1. Share my experiences with the audiences.
2. Share examples based on logic and facts.
3. Make the audiences laugh to attract their attention.
4. Share emotions and feelings with the audiences to convince them.

Speech Draft

Many people think that cheerleading is a very gay sport especially when guys join or some even think that it is an easy sport. Well, I used to be one of these people to think so but not anymore right after I joined the sports. It really changed my life a lot to be who I am today. So basically I want to share with you guys about myself, I am who I am today it is because of cheerleading. So, what if I’m not a cheerleader? What if I never joined cheerleading?

There are many things that could happen like one of the example is I won’t even be in DMC and meet you guys. I might be a nerd or a quiet person, which I know you guys won’t believe me but yes I used to be a very quiet boy in primary school. I will be taking business course instead or even engineering or something.

Another thing is, I may not be as open minded as I am today. Like for example when you guys talk about x-rated stuffs or how to hit a girl, I will go like oh my god why are we even talking about this topic? I might be shy with this kind of topics huh.

I will not get to experience what is the sports about is also one of the scenario if I wasn’t a cheerleader. I will not get to experience how interesting the sport is, I will not get to go overseas to compete and to explore what is it like in other countries. And yes, all expense paid.

Guys seriously just imagine that I am quiet which I know you all can’t *laughs*. See, that’s the thing here, if I really wasn’t a cheerleader, I might turn out to be the total opposite of who I am today. There won’t be the Jeremy Ong you guys are looking at here right now. I won’t be able to make you guys laugh, be stupid and crazy as well. Thank you.

Sarene's Personal Branding

People always said, “If you also don’t understand yourself, how you expect people to understand you better?”  When I am doing this project I realize, the most difficult things in life is to understand one self deeply. People also said, “People who around you are the person that understand you the most.” Yes, life is complicated, human is complicated and understand one self is more complicated.

      After the research, I would like to describe myself as a chameleon and cockroach. Chameleon is an animal good in hiding itself by changing its color to defend or escape itself from the enemy. I describe myself as chameleon in term of dressing up myself and grooming myself well to hide my weakness. Also, by dressing up different way to tell people how I feel instead of telling them by mouth.  I know as a mass communication student, I should always talk to people. However, to me, communication can be various types. I think by dressing up also one of the way to communication with others. For example, in hospital, a man wearing a white coat, his white coat immediately conveys the message of “I am a doctor.”  I am good in using color, style and knowledge of mix and match to present myself and communication with them.

       Next, I would like to descript myself as a cockroach. I know none of us like cockroach, included me. But, sometime, I respect them. Cockroach has a strong soul of never gives up on survive and reproduction. Human hate them, kill them every time they appear. But no matter how hard the human try and how bad the situation is, the cockroach will never die out. My personality is like the cockroaches never give out with what I had determined. Chameleon defends with its outlook and cockroach has a strong immune system and reproduction ability to fight for their life. I defend by dress up smart, my outlook and able to adapt very fast in a strange place.     

Like chameleon, I not so pretty, but I dress well and with the spirit of no try no gain. Like the soul of cockroach, “I don’t care how you going to treat me, I just need to survive”, my motto is “I just don’t want to miss a things, so I do whatever I want to achieve my goal”.

Here my speech is. Thank you.

Gentle Giant's speech draft.

Gentle Giant

Speech Draft


A brand is an identification of a specific item like for example Coca-cola is a brand for a carbonated drink and Adidas for various types of sports’ goods. As for me? I brand myself as Gentle Giant. YOU people must be wondering why of all I brand myself as Gentle Giant? One simple reason; just because it suits me well and it reflects me like how I look at myself in the mirror! I may be BIGGER in size, TALLER in height, LOUDER than anyone else and I may even look scary BUT bare in mind that I don’t bite! I smile! That is why I am Gentle Giant. 

Everyone wants to look good! Agree? Appearance matters even to a giant like me! I always appear in either a pair of jeans or shorts with a tee. I’m 189cm tall, big, I look smart and you have to agree with me that I’m attractive therefore I am always a centre of attraction due to my outstanding appearance. I always tell myself that if I look good, I’ll feel good because if I look good I’ll be very comfortable and I will do whatever I want including putting a smile in YOUR face! Now, who says giant can’t look good?

Happy go lucky is my way of living because I am a person that doesn’t like to be seen sad or frowning. I mixed with almost everyone and able to communicate well with anyone and I am also a person that is trustworthy and definitely a very good listener; almost everyone can talk but not everyone can listen. I am very talkative and sometimes crazy but don’t worry because it’s in a good way though. I care a lot for my friends and especially my family because without them there will be no gentle giant. I’m friendly and gay all the time! And all this explains why am I a Gentle Giant.

Have you ever ask yourself that what are your abilities? I did! Different individuals have different competencies. As for me, I realize that I am good in handling crowds no matter where am I and it is proven when I became the master of ceremony for an event in my college and it was one awesome experience. Besides that, being a good team player and leader as I can obey and lead at the same time is one of the abilities I have. I’m willing to learn and experience if I’m given a chance. I am also able to think and react quick therefore problems will be solved just with a snap of fingers. And and, I’m street-smart!

I am special because I am who I am! This is what I tell myself everyday when I look at myself in the mirror, in fact; everyone is one In a million. As for me, I have an advantage of being tall and that is why I standout and shine in groups; I’m noticeable! Besides that, what’s different in me is that I am a trained trial specialist therefore I have an ability to make sales and earn my own money. Punctuality is another very important issue for me and I am very particular about it! I plan things 2 hours ahead and I don’t believe in “Malaysian timing”. I just love being myself; my special self! Be like me! A happy go lucky Gentle Giant!

Everyone uses social networking websites now, almost everyone! I do too, but me in the cyber world is more likely in the real world. All you can see about me are mostly happy side of me and getting to know people building networking because I believe it is important to do so; who knows they might be able to help you in the future? Agree?

Last but not least, I have a special person I would like to thank for bringing me into this world which is my mum! She is the person that I respect and adore most. Who is Superman, Batman or whatever man? I don’t care because the only superhero I know is my mum. I gave her pain since the day I was borned and until now I’m still giving her pain but she never gives up in me and she inspires me a lot. Since my father passed away, she has been the strongest person I’ve known and at times it gives me a sour feeling seeing her being so sad just because I can’t do anything much to help. She is the person that makes me who I am right now, I choose to live happily and work hard so that I can lessen my mother’s burden and help her in any sense she needs. I love you mum. Now who says giant can’t be gentle? I am the best example ever and I most importantly I am very happy!