A very good morning to wake up to and discover my uneaten,newly bought delicious looking cereals(with the beautiful packaging of purple box) was disrupted by weavers! Curse those ugly creatures! Breakfast started with a small bar of Kinder chocolate and some milk( I know,very healthy),and off me and my sis started to go to the car in a new journey!
Day 2
I'm really having a hard time remembering what happened on this day because of my lack of sleep, I think! My first speech about 'Valentines Day in Japan' was a pretty neutral one because I was too sleepy, I think...
Anyway, tips,always try your best to memorise what you want to present by head because eventhough you already understand your topic,you will this itching tendency to peek at your notes in your hand from time to time. And you should never have a podium or a table in front of you if you were the type of person who prefers gestures and movement. My speeches may be not good but I can say that my gestures are actually pretty good,so when the podium was presented in front of me with the notes in my hand,gone case,I was lightly gripping the table while constantly looking at the notes even when I knew the points by heart. A topic which was supposed to be enjoyable,flowery,mushy,fun turned out to some boring speech. I felt like a trembling mouse in someone's tight grip,you know,the feeling of being rigid yet trembling,and that just extra gave away my nervousness.
And Brendan did not prepare his speech the night before and just prepared it in the morning itself about teenage pregnancy! James was worse as he did'nt even prepare his speech at the moment! I gave him some suggestions about his favourite movie or books,and it suddenly hit him to talk about Disney and Star Wars. I was imagining a Mickey Mouse Jedi during his speech. xD
For that speech,Emily won! No surprise actually. Her speech was simply amazing! I mean, personally for me,I felt that if you were in that room,you could feel that passion radiating from her speech! She was talking about her passion for arts like the first day and it was truly just beautiful! The way she combined her tone of voice and everything in her speech was well...like she asked me later what her weakness was...I genuinely could not think of anything...so I was like...'nothing'! It was...idk if I was being too drunk on sleepiness or not...just flawless!
Later, a confident woman,named Marge gave us a speech about 'gestures' and 'connection with the audience or something like that! I couldnt help admiring her sense of style,not that I like it,it just stood out as unique to me! You know,her dark red brown hair along with her bedge blouse and skirt,kinda reminded me once of that hot look I once really wanted when my ambition was to be a hot photographer with sling camera in hand around my neck in the great deserts and ending up in documentaries which featured wildlife! Hot,sexy, and educational! And dream on,anyway,Im pretty much a Plain Jane whose short and not to mention...FAT! xD Anyway thats not the point, I was taken aback when she started singing...like I was in an American Idol audition room or something. Her voice was spiced up with the little fierce and fiesty tone along with the little rock-ish drama in in. I wouldn't really say I fancied it ,but hey,she was one brave woman with all 60(thats 30 pairs) of eyes all gleaming at her with 60 ears all absorbing every bit of goodness..and flaw she could produce from her voicebox!
Our second speech was on the spot preparations,with the given time about an hour and it could be completely random! I was really really sleepy, and got lazy and all,crap! I think James was a bit lazy too and we ended up playing some tic tac toe and had the most weirdest useless debate about...in fact it was super lame I cant even remember what it was about,but it had something to do with chickens,lady Gaga,and philosophy about life...or something like that! I wanted to get serious and write a song...but again thank you sleepiness...nevermind,you get the picture.
I cant believe in the speech I randomly,quickly thought about my lame topic to talk about and that was 'Dress Code for Schools',debating whether schools should allow students choice of clothes. I talked practically empty air,ok la,was'nt that bad,but when I say crappy,I mean standards that I'm not satisfied with. The evaluator soon said I was'nt too good with a lot of pauses and it was in such a slow rate! I guess shes right, haiz. Im not even in school anymore,oh wait,you do have to wear uniforms in Form 6!
Aarvin did his speech with loads of actions like impersonating his mum,whipping out his phone and doing the Gangam dance! It was the most entertaining speech of the day! Brendan's speech was very fun too as he mentioned about this person he knows(not mentioning in this blog) who repeats every action of his twice(I think its probably a mild case of OCD) like locking his car and his gate twice! There were three guys who talked about basketball,and another guy,I think its Ian if I'm not mistaken who mentioned about his trip to Australia and how he saw penguins on the roadside but didn't manage to steal one! I was also impressed with Denack's speech about one of his Deepavali day! Why? Because on the first day, he completely got stuck in the impromptu speech when he was asked about his favourite movie, and he was like 'Narnia'...then completely got stuck! On this particular day,he could just speak his mind easily, I believe that by experience it would be so much easier to pour your heart out,so that made me really really impressed to see his improvement!:D
The whole evaluation was very helpful and full of tips. However,James mentioned how boring it was and put on his hoodie and lay on the table and I was insisting it was good. As I couldn't talk to a sleeping person,I went and talked to Aarvin a little and found out about how he wants to be a marketer in engineering in the future! I really feel he could do very well in the future as he can express,focus,all the good qualities of a true leader!
The third speech put us all in different teams, and we were given the topic about 'Teenage Pregnancy',dammit,why could'nt Brendan be in our team!There was Hui Huang,Tristan, Nusrah and Sarah all in my team! Hui Huang,Tristan and me were the seniors and I guess we were just bursting with ideas. I wasn't very sure if Nusrah and Sarah really knew what to really add for the contents as they were just 12,and Hui Huang was a little too caught up with their ideas and absorbed in discussing it with Tristan,so I did'nt feel like leaving the Nusrah and Sarah out(who were only 12 btw) so I felt like..a mother chicken with her chicks or something! xD I brainstormed some ideas with them and I actually felt quite good about it, I always feel quite nervous with the idea of helping much younger,like what they will think of me but they were really great girls,so helpful and willing to listen! So we started brainstorming some ideas and writing them in pieces of paper with my instructions. I even got their twitter and number!Yay!
For the speech,I wrote one of the ways to prevent teenage pregnancy as 'Dress decently' and guess how Tristan(who was the one representing it in the speech made it?' He said it...adding '...so that you don't attract any boys' Like really??? That's such a nice twist to my point! I think it was Hui Huang's idea initially...Those sneaky rats! Anyway for the voting time, first James did it for his team,and since I knew him already ,I did'nt want to make him feel bad or anything,so I raised my hand for who I taught gave the best speech. However,Alicia was for her next team,so I did the same thing. Then my team came,so obviously I raised my hand too.Then my sister's team came,and since she was there with her evil snake eyes,so what else,I raised it too. Then the fifth team came,and since I raised for every other team,I had no choice but to raise my hand as well. Then finally,enough is enough! I did'nt raise for the sixth team...SORRY SIXTH TEAM! U WERE GOOD THOUGH!
Our team won! Yay! It was definitely because of the humour in it when Tristan took a jacket and stuff it in his jacket and he looked like a pregnant man!
Before going back, my group and I had a light chat with Mr. Ratnam and we were discussing about what we should talk about the following day...in preparation...in front of...EVERYONE'S PARENTS!!!
I was like 'oh shit,my mum's gonna see everything ...' and out of the blue,I have no idea how the conversation steered into business investments ...seriously,we just jumped topics like a rabbit!
Nothing else I can really remember much...haiz! On the way home, I promised myself to quickly do my research by night ,as we had two to prepare, and sleep earlier.
Moral: Always prepare early and sleep early before any speeches you make. Oh,and get you facts and figures right!
Anyway thank you again Nadine for helping me once again with my topic,she was really helping me all again,and asking me to see John Barrowman wih the adorable teddy bear!<3
And so out story wraps up like a tortilla wrap! Prepare for Day 3...
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