A Competent Communicator and the Vice President of Public Relations

A man once angrily insulted a wise teacher.
After he finished berating the teacher,
the teacher calmly asked the man,

"when you have guests in the house, do you serve them delicacies?"
"sometimes i do," the man answered.
"If they don't accept them, are the delicacies still yours?"
"yes," the man replied.

"Then i don't accept any of the insults you've just given me. they are all yours to keep."

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that's one of the greatest things i've read this week.
it's not just a witty (and infuriating) reply to the angry person,
it's realising that i have the power NOT to accept anything negative from another person if i don't want to.

i don't accept it. it's yours to keep!

super cool.

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Poot wants to play golf this sat.
and maybe bowl and snooker.
all the very lem bei sports.
where you can be fat and still excel.

"the only thing you left out is chess." i told her.
"you better not lem bei and start to nuah at home"

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we received an email from a new techonolgy group at work today.
there was a survey and if we filled it out, we'd be included in a lucky draw with attractive prizes.

"wah the questions quite cheem lei" my colleague said.
"anyhow fill la. it's a survey, no right and wrong"
"sekali i tick that i'm aware of this program, but actually the program doesn't exist then how?"

"can you all not to be so xia suay," another colleague walked by. "pple will think that our company pple very free lor."

"not only free, we are not even familiar with the new technology and we're shamelessly filling up the survey"

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I am now the Vice President of Public Relations for the Toastmasters Club!
it is a really good club, and i'm not saying this because i'm VPPR.
According to the booklet, i'm supposed to publicise the club in the media.

i asked the outgoing VPPR what the he does as VPPR.

"actually i'm not sure also. They put you in a list with all the VPPRs in singapore, and you know what's going on everywhere, and then you delete them as spam."

"are you going to be in the next Exco?"
"ya i think they're putting me in as president. i'm not sure!"


After the outgoing Exco presented their reports, i went to rib him again.

"eh all the Exco pple gave a report on their achievements, you gave a list of all the things that need to be done in the next term!"
"ya later i pass the list to you" he laughed.

I think it'll be fun.
The new Exco just had a supper of pratas and teh bings.
A treat from the new president otherwise we won't work for her.

it'll be cool.
raring to go see what kind of publicity i can experiment with as VPPR.

Just as the president proudly declared during the meeting,
"we must go out and expose ourselves!"

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i'm falling in love with juggling again too.
what with the new falco training thing going on.

i went on stage today after a long break from Toastmasters.
i thought i'd get a little nervous since it's been a few months since i took the stage,
but it felt so natural.

maybe it's the fact that i'm now a competent communicator (CC),
that title may not mean much but it somewhat boosts your confidence a little.
Like you've graduated to the next level.
Or perhaps it's the break that made me fresher.
Somehow i just felt like i'm a little more mature on stage than i was before.

nice. :)