Feb 11
The contest speaker is Andrew Dlugan. His speech title is “Face the Wind”
Jan 19
This speech is Humorously Speaking Advanced Project 1 “Warm Up Your Audience”. The title of the speech is “Don’t Listen” and the objectives are:
- Prepare a speech that opens with a humorous story
- Personalize the story
- Deliver the story smoothly and effectively
I got the idea of the speech when I received an email distribution from colleagues forwarding a tiny frog story. However, the crafting of the speech took about two weeks. I added in the part on Taufik Batisah when I watched the 2008 Countdown performance. The comments by Taufik struck a chord with me. In order to dictate what Taufik said that night, I checked out the video from Youtube. After that I scripted out the rest with some input from the internet.
This speech was presented at the TB TMC and the evaluator was Wekie Tay. Wekie had a few good feedbacks for me. First, he felt that the speech was not personal enough. Second, for a humorous speech, the laughter punches were too few, and they were mostly prompting the audience to simile rather than laughing out loud. Lastly, he felt that in terms of pause-punchline-pause technique, there was still room to improve. I do agree very much with him and it was a good evaluation.
I also used the same speech for the CCK TMC speech content held on the 19 Jan 2007, Sat. However, I did not win. I guess again the story was not personal and original enough to win the hearts of the judges.
This is my first humorously Speaking speech. I hope to make people laugh more on the next attempt. 
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