Basic Speech 8: When I Was A Kid

(This is initially a speech delivered for the Competent Communicator Manual of Toastmaster International. My Basic Speech 8)

Main objective of Speech 8 is to Get Comfortable With Visual Aids — It examines the use of slides, transparencies, flip charts, whiteboards, or props. The speech should be 5 to 7 minutes.

For this project I use my drawings as my visual aids.

When I Was A Kid

Self-knowledge is represented in the individual’s memory, meaning – if you want to know yourself then think about what you remember from your past. It was John Locke who suggested that a person’s identity extends to whatever of his / her past that ONLY he / she can remember.

Locke’s memory theory of personal identity conclude that memory is both a necessary and sufficient condition of self, and, therein, personal identity. Of course, the theory has been through a number of scrutiny, debate and rejection. Nevertheless, supposing that it is true I materialized my childhood memories through drawings, hoping that in the process I might discover myself.

Seventeen years ago, when I was five years old, I remember looking out from a window. From that window, I could see my friends

playing. 

There was this yearning to play with them but I cannot because I was inside my room behind a desk with my tutor seating beside me. My tutor was a young lady, quite beautiful but beneath that sweet demeanor was a strict teacher.

“Finish your letters first,” my tutor said as I practice my scriptwriting.

“Once you are done, then you can go out and play,” she said.

Basic Speech 10: My Father's Promise

(This is initially a speech delivered for the Competent Communicator Manual of Toastmaster International. My Basic Speech 10)

Main objective of Speech 10 is to Inspire Your Audience — This is the last of ten speeches, which challenges the speaker to draw all their skills together to deliver a powerful inspirational message. The speech should be 8 to 10 minutes.

I chose my Father’s story for this speech.

MY FATHER’S PROMISE

I was not delivered unto this World in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins.  I will hear not those who whine and complain, for their disease is contagious.  The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Ladies and Gentlemen that was an excerpt from one of the greatest and most encouraging oratorical piece that I ever read; that was written by Mr. Og Mandino.

Fellow Toastmaster, friends and guests good afternoon; Persist, Strive, Tough it Out, Persevere, Hang On, Hold On and Keep Going, a wise individual might tell you. But, darn it! It is so easy to quit, to say “I can’t do it” or to even think that it is impossible. It is easy to limit yourself according to what society thinks of you.

I am just a student; I am inexperienced and my knowledge is not enough.

I am nothing but a woman; and I have physical limitations and emotional challenges.

I am human; I make mistakes.

Basic Speech 1: Who I am - A Case Study

(This is initially a speech delivered for the Competent Communicator Manual of Toastmaster International. My Basic Speech 1) Main objective of Speech 1 is to Break the Ice — It challenges the speaker to face the fear of public speaking and deliver a speech that is very familiar with the speaker - about his/her self. The speech should be 4 to 6 minutes. Who I am - A Case Study Once upon a time, on the night of September 15, when the world is at war, Gulf War to be precise, my mother is having a war of her own, my birth to be exact. A thousand kilometers from the hospital, it was bombarded with missiles. Boom, boom, boom but my mother was whispering to her womb, asking  "please baby come out, do not make your mama suffer, it's time to see the world."  And then I was born. A healthy baby girl with a red dragon mark at the back of her neck and a map on her head (like Gorbachev's). I came because of the promise to see the world. And when I came my father has huge expectations because he said  "Great people are marked" http://lifemoresimply.blogspot.com But most often than not, society dictates how a person should be. Sometimes, even before a person is born, fate has already been pronounced by the guardians. It's a boy, he'll be an engineer just like his father and then a good housewife if it is a girl. So, what would make me any different from other individuals? Who am I? Is the question.

Toastmasters: A Love Story

(This is initially a speech delivered as my Inaugural Speech during Queen City Toastmasters Installation of Officers)

Toastmasters: A Love Story

I used to believe that to “live by emotion is to live in anillusion.” And that is to stress to myself the importance of good judgment in making decisions – meaning, every decision should be logical and practical. I should not let myself get involve on things that I ONLY FEEL like doing nor shall I decide on things that I ONLY FEEL is right.

That was my personal philosophy until I met Queen CityToastmasters - my Love at First Sight.

Who ever thought that one could find love online? Well, I learned about the club through its multiply site. At that time, the critical faculties of my mind tell me

do not be stupid enough to join