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This is my speech evaluation for Project 5 “Your Body Speaks” from Basic Manual.

This is my first time evaluating body language. At first, I was a bit apprehensive evaluating body language. But it turned out okay. I quoted some of the tips on body language taught by Raj Kumar and Shenton Sng.

This evaluation was given at the Tekok Blangah TMC Chapter Meeting. This meeting was a bit unique. There was only two prepared speeches. It was a combined meeting with the speechcraft. There were a number of speech craft educational talk by Wen Liang, Danny and Kwee Choo.

This speech is Project 4 “Presenting a Technical Paper” from Advanced Manual “Technical Presentation”. The objectives of this speech are

• Deliver an interesting speech based on a technical paper or article.
• Effectively use a fliipchart, overhead projector or slides to illustrate the message.

The timing for the presentation is 10-12 mins.

I attended my company’s internal tech forum few weeks ago. I was impressed by one of the presentations on the copper pillar bump technology. I find the new packaging technology is interesting and the flow of the presentation was quite logical. So, I decided to use this presentation material as the basis for my speech project. The first thing I needed to do is to filter out all the confidential information from the presentation. I also needed to reduce the level of technicality since the toastmaster audiences are largely non-technical or not in the semiconductor field. Fortunately, I am a tech guy and have been working in the semiconductor industry for more than 10 years, so I am quite familiar with the topic and only need to spend minimal effort on the preparation of this speech.

I presented the speech at the CCK TMC and NTU Alumni TMC Joint Meeting. I felt my speech went well although as usual I missed out some portion. But I was sure most of the audience did not understand what I was talking.