I kept telling myself I need to complete this writing today. And I did it. It is for my tomorrow Toastmasters speech. It is not just for my CC manual 7 but also for Vista Penang international speech and table topics contest tomorrow. I only got one day to practice. I hope I will remember all the key points. Practice, practice and practice.
Yesterday, I was doing my competent communication manual project 6, Vocal Variety. Many presenter like to share story on this assignment. I am still on holiday mood. I can't think of any interesting story to share with my fellow toastmasters. Suddenly, I think of first working day. Why not I make up a story that unusually will happen on first working day that people will remember it. The story goes like this.
One of my relatives had their engagement dinner in Kuala Lumpur. They invited our family. Our family went down to Kuala Lumpur separately. My sister and I went down on Friday. My parents went down on Saturday, due to my parents can't take leave on that Friday. It was kinda of rush for them. Before the dinner, we went window shopping at Sungai Wang and Pavilion. The dinner venue, Frangipani Restaurant, was near at those shopping mall. We all had a great time, since it was a week before Christmas.
Today is Dongzhi Festival. This year, our family decided to cook tangyuan yourself. Of course, tangyuan can easily available on most of the market. This year, we used sweet potato as yellow, orange and purple coloring for the tangyuan. we also used pandan leaf for green color. Brown sugar base soup for the tangyuan. Others might put additional ginger. Our family does not like it. After refrigerate, tangyuan served with cold is another favour for my family too.
J.R. Robertson is a good friend of mine. I usually call him John. He often travels to Laos since 2002. Recently he autographed and gifted me his book, "The Journey of Two Lao Students". I managed catching up with him on few questions.
Today I was doing my competent communication manual project 5, Your Body Speaks. This evening, it rained cats and dogs. I was late due to I need to borrow the car from my sister. I caught a cold this morning. I don't want to get it worst by catching in the rain. Luckily I still managed to deliver my speech. The evaluator recommended to tell who is Mr. Kim at the end of the speech. Below was my speech draft.
I realized that NextGEN gallery removes Exif data after image rotation while I was having trouble on uploading huge images this morning. Automatically image rotation is a good feature for NextGen gallery WordPress plug in. Sadly, it will remove Exif data that was embedded inside the images. There is nothing I can do for those images that already rotated by NextGen since I don't have the original images with me anymore. Currently I am using version 1.4.3. Hoping the developer will fix it soon. The temporary solution will be manually rotate the image with other software, such as GIMP or XnView, that can remain the Exif data before uploading to the website.
The last time I visited Langkawi island was during my secondary school. I heard there has been lots of changes since my last visiting.
I knew about this during one of the Vista Penang Toastmaster outing. That was Huy's farewell dinner and his last speech on Competent Communicator manual.
I can't remember when is the last time I went to Province Wellesley.