Reflection on the personal branding speech

I think that the last speech of this speech was the finest of all speeches that i have even did. At least i'm confident enough to talk, though my old trouble which is my gesture still havnt improve much. I took a step to interact with my audience by asking two of my classmates to have an interview section about who i am as a person. I think i'm a little too stiff while interviewing my two classmates, i think i would be much better if there's more interaction and communication between us. Overall i think the speech i did was fine and it truely represent my personality which is the social butterfly, a person which has many friends.

Comment on Zico's impromptu speech

I think it is a brilliant idea of him playing the guitar and sing to the audience. It certainly gain a lot of attention. I think it will be better if he went around and interact with the audience, that will be even better. But overall the speech was excellent. Give you my best Zico.

Comments on Thina's interpretive speech

First of all, i would like to say that Thina is really a born speaker. The way he conducted his speech and his way of engaging his audience was remarkable. The flow of the speech was well-oulined also. Nothing can really pick on in his speech. If you ask me to pick one, then i will have a hard time thinking on one. Here's one that i took a long time to think out. Thina like to walk/roams whenever he is giving his speech. I personally found it quite annoying as my eyes have to keep following him whenever he goes. And if he walks back and forth, my eyes will also have to follow exactly the same. Too much moving will cause an audience to easily lose his/her attention to you as it irritates the audience as their eyes have to move according to where the speaker went. So, cut down the walking, walk at the right time and stand at the right time. That's all i wanted to say. Well done

What happen after death?

A sudden burst of cool wind blows, trembling the top of my body down to my feet. And there is me, walking alone on a street that filled with darkness and emptiness showing no sign of people around. Only rats, cockroaches and stray dogs can be seen as they search for their dinner in the piles of garbage. The cool wind blows again, and death is in the air.



What is death? In term of scientific explanation, death is the termination of biological functions that sustain a living people. What about in real life? In real life, we think that death is the end of a person’s journey; an ending to everything in a person’s life. It is an ending to all the suffering in this world, an ending to all the joyfulness in this world, and an ending to all the things that are connected to us. So where do people go when their time is up in this so called “real world”? As we all know, there is a place which is called “heaven” and “hell” in this world. Although its existence is not proofed, but people do believe that people who died goes to either heaven or hell based on religions. Those who are the bad guys, their souls will go to hell when they died, whereas the good guys go the heaven. But what if heaven and hell does not exist at all? Where will all the dead be when they died?



To many of us, we say life is a just like running a marathon. We have been running from the pass towards the future. But we are not running alone. We have friends, family and our love ones to walk with us along the journey. We helped each others when we faced obstacles in along the journey, we lift one and another up when one could not stand and run anymore, we share our joy together and we share our sadness. It seems to have last forever. But one day death will come, and when it did, they could not run anymore. A full stop has been set on their journey. However, they are not disappear or gone to the heaven or hell. Instead, they are there standing right where they have stopped, looking at us who are still running forward from behind. They have not disappear, not in heaven or hell, because they are there standing forever, waving their hands at us, giving us support from where they stand. Thus, giving us the courage to continue running forward. Yes, everyone is there standing at where they stopped, and I believe that my dad is also there, standing, looking at me, waving his hand. And people do always look back at those who have stopped running, not being able to release themselves from the lost, just like me. I looked back at him sometimes when I got tired of running, but in my heart, I know he will tell me: son, you’ll fall if you keep looking back. Remember to keep looking forward and live your life to the fullest. And that is what motivates me to keep running until today.



All in all, life is actually very short when we looked back, although it seems that we have been running for quite a long time. Everything in our life happened so quickly without us realizing it. Though we think that we have run far from where our friends, family, or love ones had stopped, we are actually only few meters far from them when we looked back at our journey. Before I end the speech, I hereby encourage you all to treasure what you are having now, especially your friends, family and your love ones. Spend more time together with them while they are still here running with you, there will be no turning back and no space for regrets once they have stopped running with you, leaving you alone continuing the journey. And even for those who had stopped running, I believe they will always be there, reminding us to look forward, and gives us courage to continue running our path, just like my dad. Here’s a quote to end my speech:



“You can shed tears that she is gone,

or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind,

be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want:

smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”

~David Harkins

Comment after doing my speech

First of all, i would like to apologise for posting the post so late as i had just finished doing the mid-autumn carnival clean-up work after the event. As like what Miss had told me, i personally really think that, i had improve quite a lot from the first day of the class uptill today. I've learn to overcome my fear towards the anonymous and also learn to be confident while doing my speech. But one thing i personally think that i'm not doing well in is my tone of delivering the speech. I really impress to how Thina did his speech, he had good sense of humour, he had great confident, and he did really well in term of varying his tone of delivering his speech. I think there are still plenty of space for me to improve in the next presentation like stop playing with my hands while giving my speech. And next time, if i really want to use drawings to convey my message to the audience, i'll make sure the drawings are big enough for everybody to see, not just only for the person who are sitting close to me or in front. All in all, i think that i have given all my best in delivering the speech, and i will still do even better in my next speech.

Please answer the following questions carefully. Thank you


1. What does communication means to you?

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2. Do you think communication is a headache because it is able to cause conflicts?

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3. If you do, how is it causing conflicts? If you don’t, then why?

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4. Do you think differences in languages, overly hostile stereotype, and misinterpretations of communication are the few main reasons of making communication a headache? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________



5. If conflicts were made during communication, whose fault do you think it is? The speaker? Or the listener? Why?

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communciation, a headache

Communication is a very useful tool that often used by people to have more understanding of others, to build relationship and to share information and knowledge. But things have never made perfect, even the diamond is not flawless. There is a quote that said by Leonard Cohen:




Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering.

There is a crack in everything,

That's how the light gets in.

~Leonard Cohen



Indeed, there is a crack in everything, let alone communication. Communication is actually a headache in our life because it has caused so much conflict in between human being. Why do people have arguments? It is because of communication! Why do people have misunderstanding? It is because of communication! And why do people have hatred? It is because of communication! And today, I will tell you how communication is being a headache to us.



The first point I would like to emphasize on is: communication is being a headache when there is language differences. Why so? First of all, have you all not realized that when you all are sitting with a group of strangers that speak with different tongue, you will not talk at all? Its being a headache to us as we do not know how to approach them and how to start a conversation. It’s even worst that if we speak the wrong thing and they take it in the wrong way. Some of you might have a little knowledge on other spoken languages, like some of us know a little about Japanese language or Korean language. But that does not mean that problem is solved. How would you know that the way you interpret their language is the same way as yours? Accurate translation with unfamiliar absent is another problem too. When meaning is misinterpreted, that is where you start scratching your head, and conflicts (dandruff) falling down.

The second point of today’s topic is: communication is being a headache when overly hostile stereotypes are being used in conversation. For your information, stereotypes are generalizations about a group of people whereby we attribute a defined set of characteristics to this group. For example: people who wear spectacle are nerd or people who are fat will be very good in bouncing. Now, doesn’t matter we realized or we have not, we use stereotype very often in our life and in our conversation and we are really good in stereotyping. Even sometimes by looking at a person, we are stereotyping. Stereotyping is actually a weapon which is able to lower down one people’s pride and hurt a people from the inside whether it is used to you or to me. And when overly hostile stereotyping is used, it triggers the “red button” (the danger button) in our emotion. We will feel hurtful and angry at the same time, causing us to be hostile toward the person who used the weapon against us. And now, stereotyping has become the kicker of a fight and conflicts start bubbling up like the hot lava.



Last but not least, the last point which I will stress on is: communication is being a headache when there is misinterpretation of communication. As learned in the model of communication, it is known that communication consist of two parts: the encoder/sender and the decoder/receiver. When the sender/encoder sends something to another person, the person who received the message which is the receiver/decoder has to decode or interpret the message based on his own understanding. And under the model of communication, there are two types of communication: verbal and non-verbal communication. If verbal communication is practice, the tone of voice will be the factor affecting how the message is being interpret. Given a situation, let’s say a person said: “You seem very busy now huh” to two different people and in different manners. Both of them will interpret the actual meaning of the sentence in different way. One might think the person is actually giving him concern about his work and offering him help when this sentence is said in a friendly way. Another one might think the person is actually being sarcastic as he is actually not working at that moment when the sentence is said in disapproving tone. If non-verbal communication is being practiced, then the gesture of a person and the facial expression of the person are the main factors affecting the way of the message being interpreted. Using the same example back then, if the gesture of a person seems open and friendly and the expression looks kind, he will then interpret it as an express on concern from the person. If the gesture of the person seems closed and cold and he can see the “dark cloud” on his face, he will then interpret it as him being sarcastic and angry at that moment. So you see, there are many factors you have to consider before you said anything, thus it is being a headache. If you happen to use the wrong way to convey your message, actual meaning of the message has being misinterpreted, misunderstanding will arise and there you will see conflicts running towards you.



All in all, can you all see how communication is being a headache to us? If you ask me whether I think communication is a headache or not, I would definitely say: Yes! Communication is definitely a headache to us. At the end of the speech, I would not ask you all to stop communicating as it is not possible, but whatever comes out from your mouth, that is what matters the most. Think before you communicate, that can cut you down some headache.

Peer Pressure, a Pest!!

Please answer the following question carefully. By: Jason


1. Do you think peer pressure affects people positively or negatively? Why?

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2. Based on the question above, to what extend that peer pressure is able to affect your behavior?

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3. In what situation will you more likely to conform in peer pressure? Why?

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4. How often do you think that you conform in peer pressure? Do you realize when you are conforming to you peers?

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5. Given a situation, if two peers are influencing you, one toward positively and one toward negatively, which do you think that you will more likely to be influenced? Why?

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6. Can you provide two examples which you conform in peer pressure that straight away comes in your mind?

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7. Do you think crimes, drug abuse, underage alcohol consumption, rape and etc are caused by peer pressure?

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7. Do you think peer pressure is able to mold a person’s behavior?

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Comment on Hao ning's Best moment

He was great giving such humor introduction to his audience. It was indeed a very good "ears" catcher. Not to mention his overall performance throughout the presentation. Thou he was a little nervous, but he was able to cover it up well. Let alone his confident of presenting himself infront. Basically he has what a speaker needs to have, just that if he is able to ameliorate his language to be more formally spoken, that will be even better. I personally think that he is born as a humorous and animated speakers, and will be better in the future. Kepp up the good work.

Congratulation upon winning the best photographer award Jasnitha. Anyway, i'm going to comment on Jasnitha speech. Basically she did better than few times before (at least she speaks longer in front). By getting used to the class will indeed give her more confirdent to speak out in front, try and loosen yourself more, be confident, and you will without any doubt perform well. Continue working on your confident.

i wanted to comment on Aileena's transitional presentation. Aileena, is a everyone know person which is extremely confident, daring speaker. I think basically what we all lack of is her confident towards her ownself. Whatever make a speech interesting other than the content is your confident. Being confident is somehow making the speech more convincing, thus we will tend to focus on the central route to persuation, meaning focus more on the content itself rather than focus on the speaker. Being confident is one matter, being over confident is another matter, it is important for one to measure his/her confident wisely.

By Jason

A comment on Raj's speech.

Let me recap a little about his speech. Basically he used his "tail" as his item of resemblance. He said, people who leave a "tail" behind the head would seen as gangster or hooligan by other people, but in fact, he is not involving in any gangsterism or any crimes. He said, he is actually a very nice person if you know him, he is friendly eventhough with a "tail"on his head, and he is easily approached. From my point of view to his speech, overall the speech was indeed hilarious, but one thing that is, not everyone thinks that people with "tail" are bad guys. Although some might think so, but for me, i think he is quite a nice person to be with, especially when you need laughter. Continue with the way of you giving speech, it will indeed brings a lot of fun and laughter to everyone who are listening to your speech.