In the evening of February-17-2011 approximately 3pm, our lecturer, Mr. Alan, invited a special guess who is going to give a talk about effective communication, Ms Jasmine Leong. First and for most, she is the group executive manager of IEC and also a toastmaster from KK Toastmasters Club. The club will specially train people to speak well as well as improve one’s language. The members whom train always speak and comment at the same time. This is because everyone gets the chance to speak and when other speaker speaks, you can analyze their mistake for further improvement. Furthermore, I have learnt that there are three major importances when it involves public speaking, there are tone, language and body language. Most of these three actions cover up the overall percentage of a person’s performance.
She is here to introduce us the important of communication which is public speaking. I have never known that public speaking is the top two of fear which all human beings fear until she told us. It looks like nowadays we youngster have not yet realize how important it is yet, but still death is placed at top one of fear. I underestimated the use of public speaking once, as I thought that it is something we can learn it very fast. But I was wrong, with the lessons, as an assignment, given to each student as each has to talk for at least two minutes, topics are given on stage. Seriously, outside of that particular room, you can blab that two minutes will pass indeed fast but inside of that room where you are standing right in front of everybody, it feels like the time has frozen forever. Every student is to talk to achieve their given marks. Of course, the topics given to us are quite simple and understandable since we are still beginners.
Finally the assignment commence, all of the students start to freeze up or crunch their fist as they were all getting nervous. In my