2006/7/16 Wade's C9 Speach

Who steal my sleep?

Yawn. Oooo. Wade, what did you do last night? Oh, I am sorry; last night I overwork until ten thirty, and I drift myself home, take a bath, rush to do a report for tomorrow, and rehearsal my c9 speech...and

Yawn is one of kind signs out of my body to notice me, not notice my friends, that Hi man, I am tired. I need to take a rest. Don't burn me out.

Every day before I go to work, I need to drive my daughter to 萬丹 for my parents in law to take care of her. It is only 30 minutes driving time; however, sometimes it is extremely dangerous time. My eyelids are getting heavy to close my eye; music in the radio is whispering to me. Strong coffee is like water. I am getting out of mind. I am driving, out of lane. And I awake to return my lane for seconds. Then I am driving, out of my lane; and I awake to return. Every day I stand in the cliff with my daughter. Feeling sleepy is dangerous sign out of my body to notice me, Hi man, I am tired. I need take more rest.

A teenager stayed at internet caf'e shop more than 54 hours, and he pass away.

A very hardworking student stay up all day night preparing for examination; He finished this big examination. And at the same day he finished his life after playing baseball with friends. There is no dangerous sign out of their body to notice. Because.

You know in Taiwan, there is more than three hundred thousand teenagers surfing the internet and the cyber game in the cyber cofe day and night.

Who steal my sleep? Who snatch our sleeping time? After busy working day until at ten in the evening we know we are supposed to have sweet dream, take a long break with our body, why we not yet go to bed? We prefer drinking big glass of strong flavor tea, coffee, or something to try to hold on our lasting awake instead of lying on the comfortable bed.

Watching 24-hours TV, surfing internet, overscheduled work not yet finished, preparing for report or test, talking with friends.. There is quite a few answers.

We don't value the sleeping time. We know sleeping is important. But we don't know that sleeping is the most important of our life. We are not as young as we thought; we are not as strong as we expected without enough sleeping.

Dear members, if you figure out that you feel sleepy or very tired the following day. Or still keep doing the same thing and not yet finished. Not able to write down your name fluently. Constantly nodding when your boss or teacher are staring at you. Your field of view is as thin as a line. Stop stealing and squeezing any second of your sleeping time.

2007/7/4 Darlene's C6 Speech

Watch Out! the Sexual Harrasser is by Your Side

(OPEN)

It is not easy to be a woman. When we face the robbery, we are worried about they will rob our wallet, and at the same time, we still have to worry that they will rob our beauty. Just like me, a woman with beauty and wisdom in one, these fears bother me a lot. Don’t laugh, because from now on, I will tell you two events that truly happen to me.

(Body)

As I remembered, the first sexual harassment happened when I was a third grade elementary school student. One day, one of my classmates and I were playing ‘Chai-Chai-Choe’, then a water electrician came toward us and said “Cute girls, there were two water taps broken and I have to fix it, could you helped me?”. At that time, we just thought of what teacher taught-Help is the joyful foundation, so we said yes and follow the water electrician to the washbasin. When we arrived there, two water taps were spraying all over the place, so he told us to hold the tap tightly and don’ t let the water come out. We did not hold the tap tightly, and then he started stand behind my classmate and used his big hands to hold my classmate hands and said “ You are not holding tight enough, if the water keep spraying out, then I can’t fix it”. I felt strange so when he came to me, I hold it very tight and not let him had the chance to hold my hands. He just kept holding our hands and did nothing about fix the taps, then the bell rang, I grabbed my classmate’s hand quickly and ran away from him. Because I notice that something down there was growing big, so I think he is not a real water electrician.

Second time happened when I was studied in St. Dowming Senior high school. In that period of time, girl’s boobs grew, especially some girls they were well developed. This would attract the high school boys. I remembered one day when I was riding my bike home, there was a high school boy rode his bike quickly passed by my side. But do you know when he passed by me, his hand was touching my boobs and grab them? It happened so fast that I couldn’t react immediately. I even didn’t shout out at that time, so I just let him disappeared in front of my eyes. Now, you know how difficult to be a woman. Female has many parts, such as boobs, butt, and even our ponytail can attract sexual harasser. Therefore, you have to watch out, they might come to you.

(Conclusion)

According to my experiences, I will point out three main points you have to pay attention. First, when you face the sexual harasser, you have to shout out with long and loud voice like “Fire alarm” to replace “Save my life” because fire alarm could attract more people. Second, use your high heel shoes or anti-spray to attack him. Third, leave that place as soon as possible. If you can cool down and not scare to fight with the sexual harasser, and you can let other people know you are having sexual harassment at the first time, I believe even you can’t stop it happens, but you can protect yourself. So be brave then you can face it without fears.

6/20 Jason's C10 Speech

C10 It Takes A Village To Raise a Child Jason Wu

"It Takes a village to raise a child." Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever heard of this idiom before? This idiom comes from Africa. I strongly agree with it. Educating children is important but whose responsibility is it? Teachers or parents? How about you and me? What can we do? People are social. In our life, we will meet many people and learn some things from them because we learn from each other.
When we read newspaper and watch TV news, what do you see? Normally you will see nothing but negative news, such like murder, kidnapping, scam, or celebritys' gossip. There is simply too much violence and sex. The crime rate has been more than double comparing with ten or twenty years ago. Funny thing is that as our people gain more education, they lose their moral. School girls date old men for money. Prostitutes demand work right in a public place. Since when have this kind of behaviors become acceptable? Prostitutes and gigolos are becoming popular? Is that a good thing?

There's a news story which goes that a man who likes watching strip shows so much that he spent a lot of time on it. One day, he was watching a strip show in a pub when he saw his daughter dancing as one of the stripers. Can you picture the scene? The daughter stood on stage, danced and took off her clothes. The father sat in front of stage. How pathetic! But whose fault is that?

Another news story. The police arrested a gang of motorbike racers (illegal ones) and they notified their parents to police station to bail their children out. Some parents would not believe that their kids are under arrest. They believe their children are good kids. Some of the parents didn even know where their children were. They thought their children were still sleeping. They had absoultely no idea what their children had been up to. What comes to your mind when motorbike racer whiz through your neighboorhood at night when you are sleeping? Oh! You might curse these scumballs. But again, who made them become motorbike racers?

In my C9 speech I mentioned that the strongest influence you can get is from environment. What is environment? In fact, it is people. A person will learn from different people at differnt stages of his life. When he is young, his role model maybe is his parent. After he enters school, his role model might be changed to his teacher. In his teens, his friend have more influence on him. We all play many roles in this society . We could be a friend, we could be a parent and we can be a teacaher. If we compare our society to a machine, each one of us is a little screw. We affect many people unconsciously. So we are the basic but essential element of this environment.

Back to topic, "It Takes A Village to Raise A Child", it means to provide a good environment for our children is our duty not educators'. If teachers strive to teach your children but you are not a good example, will your children turn out to be a good person? Can you expect others to do some things you don like to do? Will they obey your order? So everything starts from ourselves. We should improve ourselves and then influence our family. Many good families will consist a better society and then a strong country.

I have asked you one question in my last speech-- s TM a good environment??nbsp; Yes, I do think that TM is a good environment. I have seen many members got benefits from here. They improve themselves considerably. In this place, we learn from each other, we help each other, we grow day by day. Why don you share the benefit with your family and your friends or anyone you know? If you influence them and then they will influence other people. So this positive group of ours will become a great environment. Therefore I am sure that TM is a positive power to push our society to become better. Would you like to make a positive difference in our society? Let start from ourselves, let begin from here. Dear TM.

2006/06/06 Backy's C4 Speech

(Opening)
February 14, 2001 (in college)
I had an interview at a western restaurant this afternoon. It’s a nice restaurant. The interviewer told me that she was looking for someone who had related work experiences .I worked at a Chinese restaurant for two and half years. Yet I’m not sure if I am the one she wanted. I was also too nervous in that interview to ask when she was going to get back to me. If I take this job, I'll be able to learn more about western restaurants. Hope there weren't too many people who were interested in this job. Good luck, baby!

(Body)
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
When I was in my fourth grade, one day, I went shopping in a bookstore. I saw this diary on the shelf, and I couldn’t resist it as it's so gorgeous and came with a lock. Thus I would be able to write down anything and nobody would know my secretes. Since then I started to keep a diary.

Luckily, two days after that interview, I got the job I told you about. The work in the restaurant was like a piece of cake, because I had had experiences of servicing. Half year later, the boss was going to open a branch coffee shop which is nearer my school. I had a new assignment. I would be one of bartenders in that coffee shop. It made me so excited. I was going to learn more skills and things about beverages. And I found this diary which is called “About Coffee”. I filled my colorful life in it.

Jay is a new coworker. He and I both are main bartenders in this coffee shop. Sometimes we discussed how to make good coffee together. And we’re single, too. Other coworkers always guess that we’re couple. Even I just wanted to work hard on my lessons and beverages. Jay sent some messages when I felt sad or asked me when I was going to be his girlfriend. I knew that he was only joking. I also thought something. If we became couple, people at the coffee shop would gossip about it. So it's not a good idea to have office romance. I chose opacity, because I didn’t have the courage to handle this situation. It was gone on several mouths. One day, after work, all the coffee shop staffers went singing at KTV. And I saw Jay held Betty’s hand and they drank with the same cup. It’s enough. I would never confuse that how to deal with Jay and me. Even Jay and Betty broke up one month later.

I’m not a writer. I don’t always observe the behavior of everyone carefully. And I don’t have good imagination, either. I don’t know how to write some logics from a cup of water. So I just keep a diary every other day. What happened in these days and what did I feel in this situation. When I felt down, I’ll try to keep every bad feeling or do some self-reflections in the diary. After that, I will feel better. Even there are some dirty words that a good girl shouldn’t have. Oops, it’s a secret. So it’s not safe to tell someone about your secrets. There is one more important benefit that you can get from keeping a diary--you will be a better writer. That’s why I always got better grades from my writing class and even got the third grade by writing a short story.

(Conclusion)
When I was preparing this speech, I read my diaries again. It brings back many pleasant memories, and makes me feel how stupid I was. I saw that girl worked so hard at the coffee shop. She also has grown up from breaking up with a poor guy. Now, I also write blog on the Internet. It’s a great way to connect with friends. But they never know what my secret is. Hey, there is one more thing…
May 20, 2006 (several days ago)
So Jolin did a good job. Never reveals the relationship. Oops, it’s time to make an appointment with her and discuss about next plan.

2006/5/16 John's A2 Speech

The saint of lovers---Valentine’s story

Good evening ladies and gentlemen,

Tonight I am going to tell you a story of a very famous lover in the history, St Valentine. We all know that Valentine’s Day is on February 14th. But before I go further into the story, there is still some information need to be known. So, ladies and gentlemen, shall we take a short quiz now?

Quizing….

Thank you ladies and gentlemen, you guys are just too good at history. I believe it will be easier for me to help you understand the whole story.

Long long time ago….. In the early days of Rome, at that time, Rome was ruled by an emperor named Claudius. Nobody liked the emperor very much because he was very cruel. Claudius wanted to have a big army. He expected men volunteer to join the army. But there were not many men joined in the army because they didn’t want to fight in the war and leave their lovers or wives as well. This made Claudius really mad. So the bad emperor had a crazy idea. He thought if men didn’t get married, they would not mind joining in the army. So the emperor decided not to allow any more marriages. Getting married became illegal at that time!

St Valentine, a priest, was the first one to against the stupid law. He encouraged young people to go for their love and most importantly, he still kept on performing marriage ceremonies for young couples—secretly in the basement. Gradually, he became famous to all the young couples who wanted to get married. As he was getting famous, his life was getting dangerous too. Eventually, he got caught after he had married hundreds of couples. He was thrown to jail and sentenced to death immediately.

Even he was in jail and would be executed anytime, St Valentine was still very optimistic. It might be the power of love because he’s the one who truly believed in love. That’s the reason he took life risk to marry hundreds of young couples. And many young people came to the jail to visit him. They brought flowers and notes to the jail to show their supports to St Valentine. One of these young people was the daughter of the prison guard, whose name was Emma. Because of her father, she was allowed to see St Valentine in his cell. Sometimes they talked for hours. St Valentine knew that Emma really liked him but he’s the one who couldn’t be love because he’s going to die. So on the day of February 14th, he left a farewell note to express his appreciation to Emma before he was executed. He signed the note, “Love from your Valentine”. Many people believed this is the origin that we send people Valentine’s cards and exchange love messages nowadays.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s a simple story, isn’t it? Love is simple yet memorable. That’s why Valentine’s Day has been celebrated for nearly 2000 years. Do you remember what was the gift you gave or you received from your lover on last Valentine’s Day? Chocolates, candlelight dinners, gold, diamonds and romantic nights in luxury hotels, Valentine’s Day is just over-commercialized nowadays. Let me tell you some Valentine traditions in the old days. In the Middle Ages France, if you like someone, you can draw someone’s name on your sleeves and wear the cloth for a week during Valentine’s Day. And if the special someone likes you, he/she will draw your name on their sleeves too. Then you can draw a heart on the sleeves and people will know that you’re in love with someone. Another tradition was in Wales England. Hearts, keys and keyholes were carved in wooden spoons as gifts given out to your loved ones. It means, “You unlock my heart”. It’s really romantic, isn’t it?

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been keeping telling the old traditions and the story of Valentine to my ex-girlfriends for years. And guess what, after they knew the real meaning of Valentine’s Day, they wouldn’t ask expensive gifts from me. That saved me a lot of money. Of course, you can only use the story to one girl for one time only. After all, Valentine’s Day is all about exchanging of love messages but not exchanging of expensive gifts. Toastmaster!