Are we Human or are we dancers
pay my respects to grace and virtue
send my condolences to good
give my regards to soul and romance
they always did the best they could
and so long to devotion,
you taught me everything I know
wave good bye, wish me well
you gotta let me go
are we human or are we dancer
my sign is vital, my hands are cold
and Im on my knees looking for the answer
are we human or are we dancer
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Project 9 Power Persuasion
Preparing for it absolutely killed me.
it was definitely the toughest project so far.
the thing abt writing speeches is,
when you're inspired, it just flows out of you.
when you have writer's block, die.
so i waited around for inspiration,
and this was a really tough one to do.
you can't just write abt anything,
to persuade an audience to do something, it's gotta be something that really matters to you.
and i've already done one to persuade pple to pick up juggling so i didn't want to repeat the theme.
Among the ideas i struck out:
-persuade pple to buy mp3
-persuade pple to accept philosophical ideas like there's no real world out there
-persuade pple that God exists (not a wise one to do since i'll be stepping into OB territory)
it was tough.
i spent sunday night getting inspired and mon night polishing the speech.
actually stayed up till 5.30am, drifting in and out of sleep.
in the end had to take half day off on Tues and even then i only slept 3 hours so i could finish the speech up.
It wasn't actually important to do well,
it's just a personal target kind of thing.
you can't pull out last min (performer's honour), you can't go on stage and give rubbish,
and it's sort of like a challenge - CAN YOU PERSUADE?
oh well,
i was too tired in the end to enjoy the moment.
i thought it went ok,
but some others said it was good.
and i did get a "Best Speech" award but it isn't really a big deal.
the other toastmasters agree that P9 is the toughest,
the rest should get easier.
i'm taking their word for it.
one more and then i'll be in Advance. :)
--------------------------------------
Today No Go Home
my mom was watching telly the other day,
and the advert for "yi nan wang" CD appeared.
and she told me that's the present she wants.
Of all things,
she had to make me go out and search for a chinese oldie CD.
very uncool to shop for obiang CDs sia.
After i finally hunted it down and got it,
my dad decided 今天不回家 will make a funny ringtone,
because it starts off so loudly and abruptly.
So i installed it for him,
and liked it so much i installed the same song as my ringtone,
and my brother heard it,
and he liked it so much HE put it as HIS ringtone.
and all these happened at 11pm.
so now my entire family has 今天不回家 as our ringtones.
----------------------------------
mom was so excited abt the CD she started playing on the hi-fi in her room.
and then Dad somehow managed to get the CD tray stuck,
so the hi-fi could only play whatever CDs that were inside.
the next day they carried the entire hi-fi system to mom's office so the engineers there could help her fix it.
"so how?", i asked her that evening, "did they manage to fix it?"
"yesterday the tray is stuck but still can play. so they opened it up an closed it back. now can't even play"
--------------------------------------
the previous entry on swimming with Poot wouldn't be complete without the SHOWER experience.
"Hey i bought new shower gel from Watson. wanna try?" Poot asked from her cubicle.
"ok, pass it over," i replied as i reached below the partition. "My hand is belo......" *PIAK!* i suddenly see the bottle fly over.
"you threw it???? you...."
and the gel turned out to be some power MINT shower gel.
"it's cold!" she kept complaining. "try the gel, after you wash it off...it's cold! i'm catching a cold taking a shower! it's cold!"
"you had to buy MINT shower get right. and shit how do you off the shower tap."
"you have to keep pressing it to turn it on"
"i only pressed it once and it's been on since then"
"oh. how did you do that?"
"shit i think it's stuck"
i managed to turn it off in the end (jen..breathe...i didn't flood the toilet).
------------------------------------------
i'm finally done shopping for new toys.
there's nothing else i need besides flag poi and plates.
Jiahui has some brand new plates she would sell off to me.
i didn't want to ship 2 pieces of cloth (flag poi) across the ocean so i emailed for lobangs.
and now HF offered to carry it back for me (she's in NZ and flying back soon).
so cool.
-----------------------------------------
thinking of taking up some in line skating courses.
Speechcraft is coming up.
these are workshops for beginner speech makers.
i'll be helping out in it.
and the next round of Speech contests are coming up.
busy days ahead then.
was gonna take a magic course,
but the dates won't fit.
i guess i was never meant to take up magic.
---------------------------------
pay my respects to grace and virtue
send my condolences to good
give my regards to soul and romance
they always did the best they could
and so long to devotion,
you taught me everything I know
wave good bye, wish me well
you gotta let me go
are we human or are we dancer
my sign is vital, my hands are cold
and Im on my knees looking for the answer
are we human or are we dancer
------------------------------------
Project 9 Power Persuasion
Preparing for it absolutely killed me.
it was definitely the toughest project so far.
the thing abt writing speeches is,
when you're inspired, it just flows out of you.
when you have writer's block, die.
so i waited around for inspiration,
and this was a really tough one to do.
you can't just write abt anything,
to persuade an audience to do something, it's gotta be something that really matters to you.
and i've already done one to persuade pple to pick up juggling so i didn't want to repeat the theme.
Among the ideas i struck out:
-persuade pple to buy mp3
-persuade pple to accept philosophical ideas like there's no real world out there
-persuade pple that God exists (not a wise one to do since i'll be stepping into OB territory)
it was tough.
i spent sunday night getting inspired and mon night polishing the speech.
actually stayed up till 5.30am, drifting in and out of sleep.
in the end had to take half day off on Tues and even then i only slept 3 hours so i could finish the speech up.
It wasn't actually important to do well,
it's just a personal target kind of thing.
you can't pull out last min (performer's honour), you can't go on stage and give rubbish,
and it's sort of like a challenge - CAN YOU PERSUADE?
oh well,
i was too tired in the end to enjoy the moment.
i thought it went ok,
but some others said it was good.
and i did get a "Best Speech" award but it isn't really a big deal.
the other toastmasters agree that P9 is the toughest,
the rest should get easier.
i'm taking their word for it.
one more and then i'll be in Advance. :)
--------------------------------------
Today No Go Home
my mom was watching telly the other day,
and the advert for "yi nan wang" CD appeared.
and she told me that's the present she wants.
Of all things,
she had to make me go out and search for a chinese oldie CD.
very uncool to shop for obiang CDs sia.
After i finally hunted it down and got it,
my dad decided 今天不回家 will make a funny ringtone,
because it starts off so loudly and abruptly.
So i installed it for him,
and liked it so much i installed the same song as my ringtone,
and my brother heard it,
and he liked it so much HE put it as HIS ringtone.
and all these happened at 11pm.
so now my entire family has 今天不回家 as our ringtones.
----------------------------------
mom was so excited abt the CD she started playing on the hi-fi in her room.
and then Dad somehow managed to get the CD tray stuck,
so the hi-fi could only play whatever CDs that were inside.
the next day they carried the entire hi-fi system to mom's office so the engineers there could help her fix it.
"so how?", i asked her that evening, "did they manage to fix it?"
"yesterday the tray is stuck but still can play. so they opened it up an closed it back. now can't even play"
--------------------------------------
the previous entry on swimming with Poot wouldn't be complete without the SHOWER experience.
"Hey i bought new shower gel from Watson. wanna try?" Poot asked from her cubicle.
"ok, pass it over," i replied as i reached below the partition. "My hand is belo......" *PIAK!* i suddenly see the bottle fly over.
"you threw it???? you...."
and the gel turned out to be some power MINT shower gel.
"it's cold!" she kept complaining. "try the gel, after you wash it off...it's cold! i'm catching a cold taking a shower! it's cold!"
"you had to buy MINT shower get right. and shit how do you off the shower tap."
"you have to keep pressing it to turn it on"
"i only pressed it once and it's been on since then"
"oh. how did you do that?"
"shit i think it's stuck"
i managed to turn it off in the end (jen..breathe...i didn't flood the toilet).
------------------------------------------
i'm finally done shopping for new toys.
there's nothing else i need besides flag poi and plates.
Jiahui has some brand new plates she would sell off to me.
i didn't want to ship 2 pieces of cloth (flag poi) across the ocean so i emailed for lobangs.
and now HF offered to carry it back for me (she's in NZ and flying back soon).
so cool.
-----------------------------------------
thinking of taking up some in line skating courses.
Speechcraft is coming up.
these are workshops for beginner speech makers.
i'll be helping out in it.
and the next round of Speech contests are coming up.
busy days ahead then.
was gonna take a magic course,
but the dates won't fit.
i guess i was never meant to take up magic.
---------------------------------
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