Today OB presentation. Haha... Due to last minute changes and my headache yesterday I didn't manage to prepare my speech well enough. Haha... I am talking to my script again!!! But well... Not really. I feel that I am improving and picking up the tempo to present with confidence and not to rely heavily on the script though still nervous but I am now able to observe more of the AUDIENCE RESPONSE.

Haha... Val nodded her head in full agreement many times when I was presenting, Daryl listening in disagreement and confusion to my points, Liling shaking her head profusely in between certain points with puffy lips showing nuances of disagreement and disdian for my points, Xiao Yun nodding with a slight smile and the rest sitting and staring at the slides with blank expressions. Haha...

Perhaps this is what the marketing tutor is referring to as observing your audience response. So... With such observations, think we should devise a strategy to arouse the attention and persuade the audience to buy our points. And of course the strategy cannot be just confined to doing something funny as I feel that focusing on jokes or skids to arouse the attention of the audience is drifting away from professionalism. I suppose the only way is to speak with such confidence that you exude a kind of charisma to tell people that your content is right so that they will nod in agreement instead of shaking their heads profusely like as though some flies were pestering the person. Quoting Kimberly: "To arouse attetion in a witty way." Yes... In a witty way not by doing stupid things with minimal link that will make people laugh because of the stupidity and not the content, such attempts may prove that "we are trying too hard". Not that I am criticizing anyone or anything in particular, its just a general comment and also one of those reasons why I refused to do a skid and sing a song in between someone's speech to break the flow for the marketing project presentation.

Okie enough on presentations. Just my 2 cents worth. The OB tutor suddenly realised and discovered my existence in the class and asked me to ask the class a question. Damn funny.

OB tutor: "Zhenn... yu... (trying to pronounce my name) perhaps you can ask the class whether they think that a leader should be born twice or born once."

Me: (thinking that since she asked the complete question already...) "Erm... ya... please answer the question."

the class: Silence...

Hahaha... Skipped chem elective... wasted 2 hours in school before deciding to go JP because wenqing REALLY had a craving for apple pie. She did something funny and to save her some face I better not say it here. Haha... Damn funny...

Came back school after that for comm. mgt. lesson. Haha... My last sem tutorial mates were in the previous comm mgt class and they saw my new hairstyle. Haha... Many commented on it. Sobz... I know it looks ugly. I shall wear a cap to school for the next one month until my hair grows back to a longer length. Haha... No lahz... I shall try to find a way to style it nicely. I realised that the way the stylist cut makes it very difficult to style, she made it very lifeless... The layers are all of equal length and if I comb down the fringe I will look like a coconut head. Great, it didn't look like that when I was at the salon. After her styling it looks weird but it didn't seem so lifeless. Haha... My hands got no life to style my hand with life. Haha... Talking nonesense again.

Okie... this entry is super long and wordy. Just let me finish up. Maybe nobody read up to this point. Did my stats tutorial... Wah... So many questions. I gave up when i reached question 10. Perhaps I could continue doing a few more questions on the train tomorrow morning. I don't feel tired yet. Haha...