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Dear Friends

I wish you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year"

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Jonathan

2006/12/05 John's A5 Speech

Speech project: The Touching Story (A5)

Speech title: The Most Important Thing in Life

Time limit: 6 to 8 minutes

What is the most important thing in your life? Is it money? Work? Family? Friendship? Relationship? Ladies and gentlemen, tonight I am going to tell you a story about a young man learns what the most important thing is in life from an old man next door. You will find the most important thing in your life is always with you.


Jack was a young man who worked in Wall Street, New York. He was as ambitious as the other people in finance business, trying to make a big fortune from the richest place in the world. Like most of office workers in Wall Street, he devoted himself to his job. He worked twelve hours a day. So Jack had very little time to think about the past and often no time to spend with his wife and son. He was working on his future, and nothing could stop him.
Tom Hagen was an old man who lived next door to Jack when he was a child. Tom had no child and his wife passed away. He had taken care of Jack since Jack’s father died when Jack was 7. Tom stepped in to make sure Jack had a man’s influence in his childhood because the rest of Jack’s family members were all female, his mother and two sisters. Jack had spent a lot of time in Tom’s house in his childhood. They played together and Tom taught Jack lessons in life.
It’d been years since Jack had seen Tom. One day, Jack received a phone call from his mother. Over the phone, his mother told him, "Mr. Tom Hagen died last night. The funeral is on Wednesday." Suddenly, all the memories flashed through his mind like an old silent movie as he sat quietly remembering his childhood days.

And his mother kept saying” Mr. Hagen didn't forget you. Every time I saw him he would ask how you were doing. He liked to talk about the time you spent in his house when you were a child.”
"I wouldn't be in this business if he’s not there. He spent a lot of time teaching me things he thought were important...Mom, I'll be there for the funeral," Jack said.

Jack caught the next flight to his hometown. Tom's funeral was small and peace. Only a few people were there.

The night before he had to return home, Jack decided to see Tom’s house one more time with his mother.

Standing in the house, Jack paused for a moment. It was like crossing over into another dimension, a leap through space and time. The house was exactly as he remembered. Every little thing held Jack’s memories……Suddenly, Jack stopped.

"What's wrong, Jack?" his Mom asked.

"The box is gone," he said.

"What box?” his Mom asked.

"There was a small box on the top of Tom’s desk. I must have asked him a thousand times what was inside. And he always told me it was the thing most important to him.” Jack said.

It was gone. Everything was there in the same place except the box!

"Now I'll never know what was so valuable and important to him," Jack said. He went home disappointedly and caught an early flight to New York the next day.

Jack took a taxi to his office right after his airplane arrived at New York. Jack thought he had spent a lot of time in his hometown; there must be a lot of things to do in the office. When he got in the office, he saw a small package on his desk. The package was packed like it had been wrapped up for a hundred years. Jack opened the package; it was the box and a note. Tom Hagen mailed the box to Jack two days before he died! He knew he was dying! Jack took the note with his trembling hand and it read” Jack, this is the thing I value most and most important in my life”. It took his breathe away after reading the note. Then he opened the box and found a valuable watch and another note. The note read” Jack, thanks for your time—Tom Hagen”. At the moment, Jack realized the whole thing. “The most important thing in his life…..was….my time!”

Jack held the watch for a few minutes, then walked out his office and cleared his meetings for the next two days. "Why?" Jessie, his secretary asked. "I need some time to spend with my wife and son," Jack said. "Oh, by the way, Jessie...thanks for your time!"

Ladies and gentlemen, "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away,"

Time has a way of getting away from all of us...TAKE THE TIME...NOW.

2006/11/21 Jason's A4 Speech

A4 The Winning Proposal Title: Staff traveling proposal

Speaker: Jason Wu Date: 2006 11 21

Objectives: Prepare a proposal advocating an idea or course of action.

Organize the proposal using the six-step method provided

Time: Five to seven minutes

What is vivid life? Ladies and gentleman, we wake up in the morning eating working and then sleep at night we repeat such life date by date, gradually our life become uninteresting we lose our energy feel so tired every day. Our staffs are same with us if they do work without energy no desire to take challenge, will our company be better? Could our business reach to another peak? The answer should be no, so as a good company we shouldn’t only think about how to push them, we should think about how to offer them a good work environment how to give them a good quality life. New Year is coming, at New Year beginning we have 3 days vacation I suggest to hold a staff traveling, let our staff take a rest, improve their friendship with each other or improve relationship with family members, I believe a happy New Year beginning can bring a shining year. Here is my staff traveling project below.

Firstly I would like to introduce tour spot, our tour spot is “大雪山森林遊樂區” let’s look media.

(Media play) “High and steep mountains, and twinkling clusters of stars besprinkled” that is the perfect portrayal of the Dasyueshan National Forest Recreation Area, which lies in Heping Township, Taichung county. This area lies to the south of Snow mountain, and its crest line is 12 kilometers long. It extends from little snow mountain to Anma mountain, and the elevation is anywhere from 2,000 to 2,996 meters as the earth surface undulates greatly. This area is “Cloud and mist zone” according to meteorology, so “Sea of clouds” is famous landscape.

Besides “sea of clouds” Snow mountain has rich plant ecology, is an essence of Taiwan’s natural forest featuring each zone with an ecological view respectively. Behind Anma mountain house is a primitive forest of junipers which is quite rare in Taiwan. There lies a footpath of 2,682 meters long. Snow Mountain is a most perfect environment for the wild animals. The Formosan macaque jumps butterfly flies there, there are about 70 kinds of rare birds; this recreation area is an international resort for watching birds.

Would you like to look up into starry sky? Have you ever see moon rise from the sea of clouds? The night in Dasyueshan brings a fascinating dome of twinkling stars accessible to you, “Sky lake” is best spot for observing stars scenery is beautiful.

Lades and gentleman does this spot attract you? Here is time table for this project, we will start from 12/31 to 1/2, and because I need to book hotel, the deadline is 11/31, so please go back to ask staffs how many people will join and then answer me before 11/28, otherwise we need to spend more money for this project.

2006/11/07 John's A4 Speech

Speech title: An optimist

Speech Project: the moral of the story(A4)

Time limit: 4 to 6 minutes

A person who is optimistic is an optimist. On the contrary, a person who is pessimistic is a pessimist. Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist sees the donut. A pessimist sees nothing but the hole of the donut. An optimist sees the sweetness of the chocolate. A pessimist sees only the calories of the chocolate. Ladies and gentlemen, do you believe your attitude can change your life?

John is one of my best friends. He is also a member of toastmaster club somewhere in this island. John is an excellent speaker and optimist. Actually, he is an incredible nature-born optimist. John was born in a poor family. When he was still a little John, all the kids in the family could only get red eggs as birthday gifts. When John’s sister received a red egg on her birthday, she cried because other kids in the neighborhood got more and better gifts on their birthday. However, when John received his birthday gift, still a red egg, a weird thought came to his mind. “Where there is an egg, there must be a chicken! My mother must have prepared a fried chicken dinner for me”. Neither John nor his sister had the fried chicken dinner on birthday. But John was happily waiting his fried chicken, his sister was crying on birthday.

As I mentioned earlier, my friend John is now an excellent speaker. But he wasn’t a nature-born speaker. He really sucked before. He blew up his very first formal presentation when he studied at the graduate school in National Taiwan University. It was in a big conference room, all the people in the graduate school, the professors, all the PH.D candidates, his classmates and including a beautiful girl who John had admired for a very long time were all there. And John was going to present his research in two years to all of them. He had prepared a 30-paged material and the time limit was 15 minutes. When he got on the stage and looked at the audience, he saw nothing but hundreds of eyes staring at him. At the moment he knew he would be finished because he was totally frightened by the audience. The air was shattering and he was stuttering. Then he started mumbling. After ten minutes, he was still on page 2. When the time was up, John only finished 3 pages of his 30-paged material. John was defeated from head to toe in the presentation.

After the presentation, my friend John was very sad. He might loose the respect of his classmates, the trust of his professor, the beautiful girl’s heart and even worse, his master degree. It was all because of his bad performance in the presentation. But I told you he’s a nature-born optimist. Only after one day, another weird thought came to his mind. “Can it be worse? No, this is the worst result of a presentation. And if it can not be worse, I can only be better next time!” After he got straight of this, John was happy again. Because he’d been through the worst, it can only be better next time. He started working really hard for his next presentation. He believed that it could only be better next time because he got nothing to loose. At last, he succeeded in his next presentation, earned his master degree and won the beautiful girl’s heart as well.

Ladies and gentlemen, have you been through setbacks which may change your life? If you have one next time, please calm down first and then think what will happen. If it is not the worst, congratulate to you my friends, because it is not the worst. And if you’re in the worst shape, congratulate to you my friends, because it can not be worse. It can only be better next time. Work harder on it, and then you will win the victory eventually.

Toastmasters!

2006/10/17 Jenny's C6 Speech

LV’s Secrets

Can any one tell me which brand does this pattern belong to? That’s right. It belongs to LV, also called Louis Vuitton. Do you like LV bag, wallet, purse, or handbag? I see some of your eyes are shining. I believe that there are a lot people in this world want to buy and use LV’s products.

However, there are so many fake LV products in the market. Do you know how to tell a fake LV bag? I would like to share some clues to identify whether the product is a real LV or not. We can know the difference between real LV and fake LV from the material, stitching, smell, pattern, stamp, hardware, and serial number.

Clue No. 1: the material. The real LV monogram is specially made of a material that can prevent fire and scratches, so that the leather has a rough touch. For the fake LV bags, the material can not prevent fire, and the material is quite smooth too. It has a great reflection. Briefly, the canvas of the bag should not be too soft or stiff, or "oily" or shiny.

Clue No. 2: the stitching. All LV bags have even and neat finished stitching. The stitching on the handles should use yellow thread. The sides of the handles should be a shiny, glazed red. The fake LV bags have poor stitching, mismatched seams, and a cheap looking zipper.

Clue No. 3: the smell. There is a unique strong leather smell, especially with the new one, even though you used the bag over a span, there exists a leather smell. But the fake bag used the imitation leather, like synthetic leather, which is like the plastic smell.

Clue No. 4: the pattern. All LV bags come with their own unique pattern. The "LV" monogram should have irregular brown lines through the gold-colored letters, and a flower pattern. Fake monograms may be a solid color or look too green or orange.

Clue No. 5: the stamp. All LV bags have the manufacturer stamped on the bag and the stamp “made in France” sign should not be in the outside but the inside same with the serial number. You may see “made in France”, “made in Spain”, “made in Italy”, or “made in U.S.A.”, but not “made in China”.

Clue No. 6: the hardware. All LV bags have “LV” logo on its hardware such as zippers, rivets and padlock. The zipper pull should be brass hardware, heavy to the touch.

Clue No. 7: the serial number. All authentic LV bags have a serial number lightly embossed in a hidden spot in the bags stating the place and date where the bag was made. Since the early 1990's, this code has been represented by two letters followed by four numbers. For example, AA0954 means that the bag was made in France on May 1994.

Of course, besides above 7 clues the material, stitching, smell, pattern, stamp, hardware, and serial number, there are still many methods to differentiate the imitation and the real LV. I just addressed part of them and hope those would be helpful to you to identify the real LV once you have the opportunity to buy one.