And yes, I've learnt from the past( which was basically just yesterday) about preparing much earlier!
My first speech about 'How to Prepare for a Pet' went pretty smoothly I guess,with excitement and all! Know how I found it? I was initially planning to talk about the same topic for both speeches the night before,as allowed by Mr.Ratnam which was going to be used for the second speech,( I'll get back on it later). My love for pets kicked in,and at night,my boost of energy and motivation to write two different speeches just boosted in and it was a pretty easy topic to talk about. Later,we were given some time to prepare for our second...the most frightening speech in front of mummies and daddies!
For this round,Ian did a good job about his love for origami! He asked the audience to guess one of his hobby,threw a paper plane to us and PRESTO!The answer was written in that paper plane, which was 'Origami'! I really liked his brilliant idea. Aarvin won in the end and I also guess he deserved it as his speech was very excellent! He has such a strong voice,very commanding indeed. Anyway,he wasnt feeling too well on that day,poor Aarvin, but it was still amazing that he managed to deliver a really beautiful speech!:)
During breakfast,I overheard the announcement announcing my sister as the winner of the best speech! I took a peek inside and saw her holding the blue ribbon,and I mocked her by mentioning 'penguin' to her later that day as her topic was about penguins...polars...and something to do with enviromental pollution!
I wanted to mingle a bit during break time,but that time was our last precious minutes to prepare for the speech ON A STAGE...IN FRONT OF OUR PARENTS...OUR SHOW! And when I'm really nervous or just focus, I just cant do any group studies nor talk to anyone,so was Emily and Alicia. I really wanted to practice with them but I was too caught up in my own worriedness that the three of us practiced alone talking to ourselves. Alicia actually rewrote her entire script and was memorising it!She told me that her parents had pretty high expectations from her so I guess I can understand. I admire her superb dedication for her speech. I only had a brief chat with Emily during lunch and then we were back to talking to noone else but ourselves when practicing. Its not that i'm arrogant or anything,its just the way I do things.
1 am sharp. Parents flood in the hall. All of us were sitting nervously in the front row with that big ugly stage glaring right in our faces!
The introduction speech was simple and brief,when you're tensed,every other speeches besides yours is brief(just making time catch up with your turn). When my turn came, I started talking my speech on 'Ways to Quit Smoking' and started my opening with a question 'Now ladies and gentlemen,are there anyone among you who smoke?' Everyone laughed and started looking around at each other and turns out noone did! You know how I would definitely like to spice up some humour into my speech,so there I was,adding a joke '...and one of the reasons why you shouldn't smoke is so that you can wake up to your partner and he would not have bad breath anymore..." and so I tought it was humorous...not really what the audience thought...and so to avoid awkwardness I quickly moved on to my next point, and in the end,I felt pretty upset that my speech was pretty dry and without much humour. I really dont know what went wrong,I was having good eye contact with the audience,there was good hand gestures, good walking to and fro...but it was just dry! Haizzz.......
Anyway enough of me,the other speeches were great! The winning from my team was by Alicia and I felt super happy for her! Her dedication made her deserve it so much she was talking about 'High Expectations' and I guess her mum and dad must'be been like 'That's my baby!!!' or something like that. I forgot who did about 'Fried Rice' although it was such a simple topic,the way he explained it was just super funny and people were laughing like crazy even at that such simple topic! There was another super entertaining speech by a Malay girl ,Tania. At first she confessed how nervous she felt when coming in as she noticed that she and her cousin were the only Malays(although there was another Malay boy) amongst the other Chinese and Indians,and how she muttered a lot during her speeches,and how she gained so much more confidence after the speech,and suddenly halfway during her speech...she got stuck,and started muttering again..'Oh gosh,I think Im muttering now,....Yea,Im probably doing it again...Im muttering"...something like that I cant really remember her exact words. But although she was muttering,in combination with what she was talking,it was SUPER HILLARIOUS! and the crowd couldnt help laughing and giving her a huge applause(she won most improved participant!!!) :D
I was also surprised by Emily's performance! Earlier when she was briefly practicing her speech to me at the toilet,it was pretty normal,but during the speech,SHE ACTUALLY STARTED SINGING! I was like 'WOW!SUPER SUPER BRAVE MOVE'She was singing The Pussycat Dolls song and she had such a cute sweet voice! A huge thumb...two huge thumbs up!
We were all also deeply moved by Yohendran's topic. He confidently spoke " My dream is to be doctor'..and he went on until he reached the point '...because it was my aunty's last wish...' and he just suddenly teared up and informed about how his aunty passed away due to breast cancer...(Oh god,oh god,oh god,even blogging about this is sending chills up me and Im feeling so sorry for him)...He sniffed and sobbed quietly about a minute and said between tears later about how that inspired him to become an oncologist(someone who deals with the branch of studying cancer) and he ended his speech asking everyone to support awareness of prevention of cancer! It was truly deeply moving!
At the end of the day,I managed to receive 'The Most Supportive Participant' and I was glad that I managed to bring home something in the three days? Was I supportive? I have to admit I guess so:D
The only regret for the day was when I didnt get my stupid butt of my chair to give the last speech! I should've done it so badly,so so SOOOOOOOO BAADDDLYYY!!! Those kids,waaayyy younger than me should have been known seriously how much they inspired me! They may be wayy younger than me,but they seriously just enriched me! I dont care what crap comes out my mouth but Im seriously truly moved,touched,wow-ed,amazed....inspired by so many of these youngsters! And what not better time to tell when you can feel it so deeply genuine on your heart? Of course my stupidity made me sit down there! If you are any of the participants on that day, you guys did a wondeful job! Everything I just wrote is like my own personal song dedicated to all of you <3 <3 <3 If theres any words i would like to express to you guys for teaching me so much,it would be...
At the end of the day, I managed to get a few pictures with some of them! Although I dint get to say goodbye to some of my briefly made new friends like Emily,James,Devran and Rachel. I mean,its not like Im super close,I mean just like little bit close,at least a goodbye would've been good!
I have learnt so much,about better organization,good preparation,and got inspired by joining this amazing programme! I really do hope I would be able to join anymore of these future programmes to brush up my public speaking skills again! I came home satisfied(not because of my finished ice cream in 20 seconds) and to wrap it all up...did my maths homework at night preparing for sem 2..sigh -.-
Note:My dad brought me home insects for my Bio project..They are ugly
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