Many years ago, there is a man wants to dating with me. When he knew I can play golf, he tried to create a connection between him and me. He told me that he always went to driving ranch to practice. I was so happy and curiosity that we have same interest we can talk about. I ask him which golf club is his favorite golf club, he was speechless. He doesn’t know there are many golf clubs in one set. Actually, he doesn’t know anything about golf. Therefore, I never went out with him again.
Ladies and Gentlemen
When I first learn how to play golf, I started learning from how to hold my golf club and tied and feel comfortable. Then I start to learn how to swing my body from top to bottom, let it looks like a semicircle shape. Then try to aim and hit the little white ball. In the first month, I did the same practice over and over again. Due to the practice, the opportunity of hitting ball becomes grater from 10% to 80%. Are the entire ball well hitting by me? Of course not. Most of the ball I hit was ground ball. Next step I learn is to practice different # of golf club. I try to adjust my stand position little by little to suit the different golf clubs, because each clubs has different height and different angle. After I learn the skill of hitting ball, I started to add power when I swing my body and hit the ball. How long have I spent on this process? 1 month? 3 months? 6 months? I spent a year to learn the basic skills. But I am still not qualified to go on golf course. I admire Tiger Woods. He started to learn golf since he was 5 years old. He is ranking #1 professional golf player in the World when he was 22 years old. He is still continuing to practice, to attend golf tournament.
Thomas Alva Edison said “Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration”. Being successful, there is no short cut way, you must do it, review it, and improve little by little. Apply to the Toastmasters; first, you must step out your comfort zone. Stand on the stage, tried to conquer y our nervousness, tried to speak out to 20 people. It’s just like how to hold your golf club tie and feel comfortable. Second, you have to follow the manual to learn how to sell out yourself to audience. Third, you need a good opening to attract audience’s attention. Then, you have to pay attention on the eye contact, facial expression, body language, gestures, voice volume, voice pitch and emotion while you are speaking. It’s just like practice different # of golf clubs, try to adjust your position to suit the gold club. Think back my C1 speech in 2005, I actually fail it because over time. A year later, I did my C2 speech, I finished it on time, but I saw my script most of time. When I heard my evaluator giving comments, it’s hurt but will help me getting better. However, we still need to do C3, C4 and go on. But you need to beware the eye contact, body language, voice volume to present a well speech. It’s just like add power when I hit little white ball. I want to let the little white ball fly far and fall into right position. It really takes times to practice to achieve this goal.
In the beginning, you may shake your hands and legs; you may have shake voice; you may have unstable eye contact; you may have unorganized speech. It’s alright. It’s just like you can hit the little white ball 50 yard at first time, 80 yards at second time, over 100 yards after third time. See yourself getting better and better each time. You take one step forward, it shorten the distance to your goal. There is no short cut way to success. Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
2007/11/6 Shuni Hamamatsu's C1 speech
Ladies and Gentlemen: Have you ever wish you can stick a note on your back, describing who you are and what you do, so everyone can read it and get to know you? Well, we all want people to know who we are, don’t we. But, we don’t really want to stick a note on our back, so we invented uniforms to let people know who we are. You see, doctors automatically look so smart in their uniforms, and Wang Jian Ming looks so handsome and tall in Yankee’s uniform. They are lucky bastards, everybody know them.
I wish I can wear a doctor uniform and I wish I am as tall and popular as Wang Jian Ming, but I am not. So I really need this opportunity to express my amazing inner beauty to you. So, let’s get rolling.
Do you know the liberal and conservative spectrum? Well I will put myself right over here, on way left to the liberal side. So, what is a liberal person? I think if I were born 100 years ago, I would be a communist. Liberal person like me, we accept and respect diversities in society. For example in Taiwan, we have ethnic diversity in Taiwanese, Chinese, Hakka, Aboriginals and some new south Asian wives. Then of course we have the gender and sexual difference in man, woman, straight and homosexuals. I don’t even want to get into the differences in our religions. Well, my point is, despite all the differences, I believe we can all live in peace. And I believe we can learn to respect and be considerate to our differences. Do you know why I become this way? Well, I have been a minority for my entire life. Don’t worried, I am not going to come out of the closet and tell you I am a gay. You see, I lived in Japan as a little Taiwanese boy, because my father is a Taiwanese. Then I went to the America and studied as an Asian student. Now I am back in Taiwan and I am Lisa’s Japanese husband. Right, I have always been a minority. Luckily, wherever I went, everybody treated me nicely. Anyway, discrimination is not my issue here; the importance of diversity is my issue. In college I enjoyed a great deal of diversity. I had a great womanizing roommate from Honduras, a really lazy roommate with a big heart from Japan and a hard working, gentleman from Ethiopia. I have dated girls from America, China, Russia, Japan, Taiwan and Burma. I was like a kid in a candy store. There are so many new and exciting things to learn from these people everyday. I’ve never had a boring day in my life.
This is why I like to come to the Toastmasters. Although most of you are Taiwanese, but you still form a great diverse group. I love to continue to come here and hear your crazy ideas and opinions. And I hope we can be open to talk about politics, religion and sex too. I don’t think I will feel offended in any topic.
Now, woman in this room must be getting jealous of Lisa, why only she gets to have such a wonderful husband. Well I tell you, I am not that perfect. In fact I am quite a male chauvinist. How can I be a liberal guy and a chauvinist? It’s very contradicting. Well, logically I am a liberal minded man, but biologically I am a male chauvinist. Logically, I know women are just as capable as man or even better and woman reserve equal right. But, I cannot stand losing to a woman. I also don’t like to listen to women. When I was living with my American host family, my American mother once slapped me across the face so hard because she was very frustrated that I only listen to my American father. At home, I have never helped Lisa with housework and I think educating the kids is her job. All I do at home is drinking beer, watch sports channel on TV and download porn movie with my computer. Well Lisa let me get away with all these because she admit that she didn’t see this side of me when we got married. Well the truth is, Lisa knows I have a good heart, and I really love her and admire her.
Finally, everybody, I might not be very discreet when I talk. Sometime you maybe offended by me. But remember, I never have bad intentions. So, let’s laugh and joke together for years to come.
I wish I can wear a doctor uniform and I wish I am as tall and popular as Wang Jian Ming, but I am not. So I really need this opportunity to express my amazing inner beauty to you. So, let’s get rolling.
Do you know the liberal and conservative spectrum? Well I will put myself right over here, on way left to the liberal side. So, what is a liberal person? I think if I were born 100 years ago, I would be a communist. Liberal person like me, we accept and respect diversities in society. For example in Taiwan, we have ethnic diversity in Taiwanese, Chinese, Hakka, Aboriginals and some new south Asian wives. Then of course we have the gender and sexual difference in man, woman, straight and homosexuals. I don’t even want to get into the differences in our religions. Well, my point is, despite all the differences, I believe we can all live in peace. And I believe we can learn to respect and be considerate to our differences. Do you know why I become this way? Well, I have been a minority for my entire life. Don’t worried, I am not going to come out of the closet and tell you I am a gay. You see, I lived in Japan as a little Taiwanese boy, because my father is a Taiwanese. Then I went to the America and studied as an Asian student. Now I am back in Taiwan and I am Lisa’s Japanese husband. Right, I have always been a minority. Luckily, wherever I went, everybody treated me nicely. Anyway, discrimination is not my issue here; the importance of diversity is my issue. In college I enjoyed a great deal of diversity. I had a great womanizing roommate from Honduras, a really lazy roommate with a big heart from Japan and a hard working, gentleman from Ethiopia. I have dated girls from America, China, Russia, Japan, Taiwan and Burma. I was like a kid in a candy store. There are so many new and exciting things to learn from these people everyday. I’ve never had a boring day in my life.
This is why I like to come to the Toastmasters. Although most of you are Taiwanese, but you still form a great diverse group. I love to continue to come here and hear your crazy ideas and opinions. And I hope we can be open to talk about politics, religion and sex too. I don’t think I will feel offended in any topic.
Now, woman in this room must be getting jealous of Lisa, why only she gets to have such a wonderful husband. Well I tell you, I am not that perfect. In fact I am quite a male chauvinist. How can I be a liberal guy and a chauvinist? It’s very contradicting. Well, logically I am a liberal minded man, but biologically I am a male chauvinist. Logically, I know women are just as capable as man or even better and woman reserve equal right. But, I cannot stand losing to a woman. I also don’t like to listen to women. When I was living with my American host family, my American mother once slapped me across the face so hard because she was very frustrated that I only listen to my American father. At home, I have never helped Lisa with housework and I think educating the kids is her job. All I do at home is drinking beer, watch sports channel on TV and download porn movie with my computer. Well Lisa let me get away with all these because she admit that she didn’t see this side of me when we got married. Well the truth is, Lisa knows I have a good heart, and I really love her and admire her.
Finally, everybody, I might not be very discreet when I talk. Sometime you maybe offended by me. But remember, I never have bad intentions. So, let’s laugh and joke together for years to come.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Photo Album of 2007 Toastmasters International D67. Fall convention
Photo Album of 2007 Toastmasters International D67.
Fall convention
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
2007/10/16 Lillian Chen's C10 speech
Title: Give Someone a Hand
Don’t know when in the society people become selfish. People are not helping each other; also your kindness might get you into the trouble. And People can’t trust each other anymore. Anyway, in our life time we just want to have a piece quiet and safe life. That’s the reason you can’t see people give their hand to help other people and that’s why this society people becomes cooler and cooler.
Last month, I when to the hospital, I was in the pharmacy waiting for my medicines. I saw something happen. An old man carried a lot of medicines; he walked to the first row of sit and tried to sit on the chair. After he sat on the chair, his money was dump. On the second row there was a young man sitting behind him. The young man didn’t bend down to help the old man. Instead of he saw the old man stood up and bends down to pick the money by himself. All he done was standing up and step away just watched the old man to pick up his money. I couldn’t get it. The old man couldn’t move will, as you know old man move very slow so that the old man had to spend a lot of the time to pick up the money. But, the young man could move quickly and won’t spend a lot of time. Beside that, the old man made me feel like bend down was very painful thing for him. Why didn’t the young man just give the old man a hand? I wondered. Until last week, I found my answer.
Last week, my mother and I went to a school to meet the costumers. On the way back to the car, there is a kid lie on the floor and he looked pint for. I walked to him and said “Are you alright?” He didn’t answer me and I didn’t know was he heard me or not, so I was going to ask him again. This time my mother tried to step me and pulled me away from there. I looked at her and waited for her to tell me why she would do this. She said that because there no one around there. If we went to help the kid, other people just walk by and they might thought we was the one to make the kid fall down, because the kid couldn’t say a word. If there was someone over there, we can go help. Because every on could watch it and no one would blame it to us.
Now I realize why the young man I saw on the hospital didn’t want to help the old man. I believed that he had some thought was my mother had. He afraid that the old man would think he was going to still his money. The “misunderstanding” really made those people who like to help felt depress. Think about it, we saw someone who needs a hand. We give them the hand, but it rune out like we are the one to hurting them. It really broke our heart. That is why now people are stop to give someone a hand, and become to protect themselves and way from the event.
Well, I know in this society still has some one with their good heart willing to give the hand to someone else. Like in 1999 the 921 big earthquake, people willing to donate the money, goods, and foods to those people who need the help and also help them to build up their home. In 2004 the big tsunami, the entire world donated the money to help them build up their home too. Even on the news on the television tell some sad story and asked for donation, and next day a lot the money going to the bank. Yes, you see still in the society people have good heart like to help. But did you realize those are good events. Everyone knows it really need the help and won’t be afraid it was a track. The people around you are you really given them a hand? The answer is not really, because of misunderstanding and lying.
I believed all the members sitting over here are like to give your friends or someone you know a head. How about the stranger around you? I believed you will thing about it, include myself. I will do the something think first. It is not we don’t believed strangers, because we heard a lot of thing what the strangers would had done to other people who given them a hand.
I believed you have heard this kind of story and it did happen to my brother’s friend. There is a man walk to my brother’s friend and ask to borrow his cellular phone. That man said “Sir, can I borrow your cellular phone. I need to make an emergence call, but I couldn’t find the public telephone.” Therefore, my brother’s friend borrowed his cellular phone to that man. After the man had the phone, he pretended that the connection was not good. So, he walked a step away from my brother’s friend and smile to him. One minute after that man run way. My brother’s friend went chase that man, but he couldn’t catch him.
Broadcast always told us we need to be aware on the stranger when someone asks for help don’t help because it might be a track. The safe way to protect ourselves is not to care about other. Just like once I lost my cellular phone. I hope someone had found my cellular phone. I want to make a phone call to my cellular phone. I look around there was not public phone. So, I tried to ask the stranger to borrow the phone to help me found my cellular phone. But no one was welling to borrow their cellular phone to me. That was the first time I felt the society are so cold. No one likes to help a helpless girl.
We are welling to help other because we believed they really need the help. How about other? The world is change. People’s minds are change too. But we should still need to believe in this society, in this world people still have good heart and like to give someone a hand. Also believe there not lie other really need our help. Next time when some strangers ask for help, try to give them your hand. Therefore people to people will be warm not be cold anymore.
Last month, I when to the hospital, I was in the pharmacy waiting for my medicines. I saw something happen. An old man carried a lot of medicines; he walked to the first row of sit and tried to sit on the chair. After he sat on the chair, his money was dump. On the second row there was a young man sitting behind him. The young man didn’t bend down to help the old man. Instead of he saw the old man stood up and bends down to pick the money by himself. All he done was standing up and step away just watched the old man to pick up his money. I couldn’t get it. The old man couldn’t move will, as you know old man move very slow so that the old man had to spend a lot of the time to pick up the money. But, the young man could move quickly and won’t spend a lot of time. Beside that, the old man made me feel like bend down was very painful thing for him. Why didn’t the young man just give the old man a hand? I wondered. Until last week, I found my answer.
Last week, my mother and I went to a school to meet the costumers. On the way back to the car, there is a kid lie on the floor and he looked pint for. I walked to him and said “Are you alright?” He didn’t answer me and I didn’t know was he heard me or not, so I was going to ask him again. This time my mother tried to step me and pulled me away from there. I looked at her and waited for her to tell me why she would do this. She said that because there no one around there. If we went to help the kid, other people just walk by and they might thought we was the one to make the kid fall down, because the kid couldn’t say a word. If there was someone over there, we can go help. Because every on could watch it and no one would blame it to us.
Now I realize why the young man I saw on the hospital didn’t want to help the old man. I believed that he had some thought was my mother had. He afraid that the old man would think he was going to still his money. The “misunderstanding” really made those people who like to help felt depress. Think about it, we saw someone who needs a hand. We give them the hand, but it rune out like we are the one to hurting them. It really broke our heart. That is why now people are stop to give someone a hand, and become to protect themselves and way from the event.
Well, I know in this society still has some one with their good heart willing to give the hand to someone else. Like in 1999 the 921 big earthquake, people willing to donate the money, goods, and foods to those people who need the help and also help them to build up their home. In 2004 the big tsunami, the entire world donated the money to help them build up their home too. Even on the news on the television tell some sad story and asked for donation, and next day a lot the money going to the bank. Yes, you see still in the society people have good heart like to help. But did you realize those are good events. Everyone knows it really need the help and won’t be afraid it was a track. The people around you are you really given them a hand? The answer is not really, because of misunderstanding and lying.
I believed all the members sitting over here are like to give your friends or someone you know a head. How about the stranger around you? I believed you will thing about it, include myself. I will do the something think first. It is not we don’t believed strangers, because we heard a lot of thing what the strangers would had done to other people who given them a hand.
I believed you have heard this kind of story and it did happen to my brother’s friend. There is a man walk to my brother’s friend and ask to borrow his cellular phone. That man said “Sir, can I borrow your cellular phone. I need to make an emergence call, but I couldn’t find the public telephone.” Therefore, my brother’s friend borrowed his cellular phone to that man. After the man had the phone, he pretended that the connection was not good. So, he walked a step away from my brother’s friend and smile to him. One minute after that man run way. My brother’s friend went chase that man, but he couldn’t catch him.
Broadcast always told us we need to be aware on the stranger when someone asks for help don’t help because it might be a track. The safe way to protect ourselves is not to care about other. Just like once I lost my cellular phone. I hope someone had found my cellular phone. I want to make a phone call to my cellular phone. I look around there was not public phone. So, I tried to ask the stranger to borrow the phone to help me found my cellular phone. But no one was welling to borrow their cellular phone to me. That was the first time I felt the society are so cold. No one likes to help a helpless girl.
We are welling to help other because we believed they really need the help. How about other? The world is change. People’s minds are change too. But we should still need to believe in this society, in this world people still have good heart and like to give someone a hand. Also believe there not lie other really need our help. Next time when some strangers ask for help, try to give them your hand. Therefore people to people will be warm not be cold anymore.
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