Who says Team Building got to be in Singapore?

On 4 May 2007, 9 YEC members together with David, the Assistant Constituency Manager went for a 3 days 2 nights trip onboard Omar III Cruise.

It was the first teambuilding trip for YEC outside of Singapore! Not only that, we did it on the sea in International waters!

It was a wonderful experience. We had lots of food and drinks. We were mesmerised by the beautiful sun rises and sun sets. Most importantly, we indulged in great discussion on board the ship.

If you like to organise a similar team building trip like this, ask us and we will be happy to tell you more.

Effective Emceeing Skills

You can see why I like going to NACLI's course as I'm back to the Learning Institute today.

Today is another sunny Sunday morning, many of us should be sleeping at home. But about 25 grassroots leaders from all over Singapore turned for the "Effective Emceeing Skills" course conducted by Kim Suah.

What I learnt at the course:

1) EmCee is derived from "Master of Ceremony".

2) Importance of protocol. How to address VIPs and visitors. You can check with your Senior Constituency Manager or the Group Constituency Manager for guidance on the protocol. Most people are not aware who is Group Constituency Manager (GCM). GCM manages a group of constituencies.

3) The 5 key roles of an EmCee are:
a) Composer
b) Coordinator
c) Controller
d) Communicator
e) Controller

What's the most beneficial is the role play. We were video recorded and we reviewed our "performance" together. It was fun to see ourselves "fumble" and we learnt many things along the way.

Most importantly, we met many new friends. I have the opportunity to exchange contacts with some of them. If you are my course mates, do remember to drop a message here.

Nothing beats personal experience, please register yourself at the next "Effective EmCee" course to learn more about it.

To Kim Suah and my course mates Aunty Asna, Noor, Karen, Anthony Richard, Mdm Lee Khadijah, Robin, Peter, Raymond, Albert and many others. Thanks for the great time today. Keep in touch.

Jokes!

Plan For Future:
Teacher asks children, what do u wish 2 do in future?
Ram: I want 2 b a pilot.
Vinod: I want 2 b a doctor.
Deepa: I want 2 b a good mother.
Ravi: I want 2 help Deepa.

Exams:
Exams are like GIRL FRIENDS;
1,Too Many Questions.
2,Difficult to Understand.
3,More Explanation is Needed.
4,Result is always FAIL!

Liar:
A man is dying of Cancer. His son asked him, "Dad, why do u keep telling people u're dying of AIDS?" Answer: "So when I'm dead no one will dare touch ur mom"

Delivered:
Sardar sent a SMS to his pregnant wife. Two seconds later a report came to his phone and he started dancing. The report said, "DELIVERED".

Three Feelings:
What's the difference between stress, tension and panic?
Stress is when wife is pregnant,
Tension is when girlfriend is pregnant, and
Panic is when both are pregnant.

孙子兵法与人际关系

On a sunny sunday morning (10 Mar 2007), I'm back to NACLI (National Community Leadership Institute.

This is the first time I'm attending a course conducted in mandarin at NACLI. Strangely, I was a bit excited and lokking forward to it. Primarily, I'm eager to learnt more about Sun Tzu. Visit Wikipedia for more information about Sun Tzu.

My teacher (王志光)is an experienced veteran who has worked in the Civil Service for many many years. He is around 60 years old. Definitely a wise old man to learn from.

During the 1 day course, I learnt many useful tips on interpersonal relationships. It's importance on the success of our lives in career, family, friendships etc can be summarised as follow:

87.5% - Interpersonal relationships
12.5% - Knowledge

According to research, your success in life is 87.5% dependant on Interpersonal relationships. Start focusing on improving your Interpersonal relationships if you want greater Success in life.

There are many other tips I learnt which you ought to find out yourself by attending the course at NACLI. I highly recommend anyone to attend this course.



先胜而后求战
不要出战而后求胜

Chingay 2007 Video Clip

This is a video clip captured at the Chingay 2007.

Chingay 2007

It was a night of excitement and colours at Orchard Road on 24 Feb 07 (sat).

Orchard Road was closed to traffic to facilitate Chingay 2007. At 6.30pm, Orchard was already packed with people on both sides of the road. People are seated on the road. Some brought their own mats, others like myself brought along food and drinks.

The first episode of Chingay was an argument between a Chingay Staff and an audience. Apparently, the audience paid for a Chingay ticket that was meant to be a complimentary ticket. Luckily, the heated argument was “extinguished” shortly after the audience cool down.



It was a long wait before the actual parade starts at 8.00pm. It was fun to see the different nationalities and culture performing down the lane. The performers put up a great show and many of us were certainly entertained. Though we were tired from sitting on the road for a few hours …

Lieutenant Governor Marketing Sweat Out At Kampong Glam

It was our honour to have Goh Wei Khoon DTM, Lieutenant Governor Marketing of Toastmasters District 80 to visit Kampong Glam Toastmasters club on 22 Feb 07 (thur).

He was here not only to support us. In fact, more than just giving his usual speeches, he sweat it out by helping us put up a banner to promote Toastmasters Movement.

A picture tells a thousand words ...

Can You Talk?

Yes. Most of us can talk. But can you talk in public? Or rather can you do public speaking?

Most of us fear public speaking more than death.

There’s a saying “People rather lie in a coffin than to give a sermon at a funeral !”.

Is this a cancer? Can this fear be overcome? Yes. Join Toastmaster …

Toastmaster is a non-profit organization that promotes public speaking globally. It is effective and affordable. Millions of people have benefited from Toastmaster since it was founded. Today, there are more than 140 Toastmaster Clubs in Singapore. Many of them held their Toastmaster Meetings at Community Clubs.

As a Toastmaster member for more than 3 years, I’ve learnt and grown through the years. My public speaking skills and confidence have improved with practices and guidances by the experienced Toastmasters.

I’m happy to join Kampong Glam Toastmaster Club and I’ve volunteer to be the Vice President (Public Relations) for the club. It is now my duty to share with you the benefits of Toastmaster and to encourage you to join us.

We are meeting every last Thursday of the Month. The next chapter meeting will be held on 29 Mar 2007 (Thur).

Drop me a email at dex@achieversbank.com to reserve a seat. See you on 29 Mar !

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR !

Gong Xi Gong Xi!

By now, most of you would be enjoying your reunion dinner at home.

For Sharon and myself, we are actually waiting for the food in our stomaches to get digested... Because we had our reunion lunch at my home 3 hours ago ! And we are going to have our reunion dinner at her home in 1/2 hr time !

How many reunion lunch / dinner did you have this year ???

Sharon, myself and the rest of the YEC members from Kampong Glam YEC would like to wish every one of you

HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR !
ZHU DA JIA NIAN NIAN YOU YU !
OINK ! OINK !

Lunar New Year Coming ...

Time flies ... Lunar New Year is merely 6 days away.

Have you done your spring cleaning? Have you bought new clothes? Have you done everything?

It’s time to get started. And btw when is our next YEC gathering ? Oh its on the 25 Feb 2007 (sun) 2.30pm at Telok Ayer Hong Lim Green Community Club. This is the first time we are celebrating CNY there. It’s the first time YEC is organizing this event. And it’s the first time for me … to be the emcee for the event … hehehe … So don’t miss out this event. Visit us at Telok Ayer Hong Lim Green Community Club.

Blog The Spot Now

This is more than a blog.
It is an audio blog.
It is also a video blog.
It is a ......

Life Long Learning at NACLI

Hi friends,

I just attended a course on "DISCovering Yourself and Others - Behavourial Analysis Using DISC Profile" at National Community Leadership Institute (NACLI) on 7 Jan 07 (sun).

This is a fully subsidised training programme for community leaders.

Community leaders, if you have not sign up for any programme yet, please do not wait any more. These programmes are well planned and professionally delivered by the trainers at NACLI. You can check out the list of available programmes at http://www.grassrootsconnect.org.sg and you can register online too !

I would highly recommend the DISC programme . The DISC programme helps you to understand yourself and others much better. Like the famous quote "Know Yourself, Know Your Enemy, Hundreds Battles, Hundreds victories" We will emerged a much better person after the programme.

I would also like to compliment the trainer, Peter Phan, for delivering a great programme to all of us. He was indeed dynamic, knowledgeable and friendly. Well done Peter !

For more information about DISC, you can visit http://www.mts-asia.com

A new year , A new Blog

Fantastic! Now with this blog we can connect to each other more frequently and i'm sure this year will be a better year full with lots of activites and program. Cheers!

X'mas Party on 15 Dec

Its Party Time !

At 7pm, most of the YEC members had gathered at Mana - an authentic korean restaurant located along 101-109 Telok Ayer Street.

We ordered lots of good food and gave our stomach a warm treat. The ambience was good, so was the service. Though I had a little cramp on my knee by sitting on the floor for about 1 1/2 hour. The price (est $300) was definitely reasonable for 10 of us.

Think we are done after the dinner ? No way. We head to a nearby pub (can't remember the name of the pub ..hehehe ... maybe someone else can remind me leh) for Karaoke and X'mas Present exchange. We practically book half of the pub ! We had pool games, karaoke session, gossiping ... Oops did I say gossip ? Yeap YEC do gossip lah ... hahaha ...

Hello Everybody

This will be another platform for us to catch up with each other.

Please contribute regularly to make this blog a success!

Cheers!

Welcome On Board !

Hi friends,

Finally, the long anticipated Kampong Glam Youth Executive Committee (YEC) Club very own blog is here. In the fast evolving world, the only constant is change. This is exactly what this blog is about. The Youth @ Kampong Glam is constantly delivering new ideas, exciting activities and pleasant surprises to the community. Come back here regularly for more great news. We promise you will not be disappointed !