Marketing Graduates' Gathering 2009!!( and etc..)

Today, we had our Marketing Graduates' Gathering at MLT 8, at around 5.30pm

The director , section head of Marketing department, as well as other very Important personel are present for the gathering.

As i had short-term memory, i'll do my best to remember what happens at this event:
firstly we had a talk on Communication Skills.


We had the honour of listening to Ms Elaine Heng for this talk.
Ms Elaine Heng is quite an educated person.This can be seen when her qualifications was being read to the audience. It took about 30 secs to finish listening to her qualifications.
And! She's Ms Singapore International World 2008...
After the talk , we had a short break following which the Director and Graduates arrived .
The director then gave a short speech
I did not know he actually has a little sense of humour..haz

Anyway then the leaturers took turns callingg out Grads to talk about their current situations, such as current occpation, as well as hat they think of SP.

After which we had another talk by Ms Elaine Heng on "Impress at first Sight"
oh ya here's her Image Consultancy Wabsite: http://www.elaineheng.com/main.htm

Then we had dinner! but not for me..haz..i only drank a hot tea, hot coffee and a fruitcake...:(
But its ok cos the talk more than made up for it :)

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FEB is on Monday..but i haven started yet.

After the talk, i had some inspiration
All along, i knew that taking the first step to communication is very hard, but after the first step, the subsequent steps would be lots easier..

Maybe its becos i've been thinking too much about others' feelings, thus i was quite reserved when communicating to person, especially face-to-face.
i also feel that i should express my real current feelings, thus the absence of SMILE in my face..
oh speaking of smile...i also learnt in the talk on communication skills that SMILE is very important in communication.
we should also prepare a 30s elevator speech before we introduce ourselves to people we had not met before.


Now i know that its actually not that hard to communicate with people and not let people think you are an emo loner or something..
Cos I'm not.But i do not mean ppl may feel this way.
It may just be a precautionary measure.

Yes, i shall change, but its for myself and for my own future, not for others.
All along, the problem's been with me, i'm causing all these misunderstandings from my classmates, and my friends..

I wanted to break free from being treated as ...i dunno...emo?loner?etc?

I had the sudden brainwave that i should implement the "open arms" approach when communicating with my classmates and friends.

If i can break through my fears and cowardly nature,and be less reserved, i'll be able to be just like the others, and expand my circle of friends.

All along, I've been thinking through my mind the various topics that i could initiate with my friends so as to avoid the embarrassing "silent" moment, and some inspiration have been taken from Hong Kong Drama series, BUT at the actual situation, i just could not open my mouth, and i shrinked back to my "normal" self.

People say, "Just be yourself".
The next question may be quite scary, but i sill have to ask, :
" what is the real me?"
If i do not even know the real me, how can i be myself?
am i thinking too much?
Communication is actualy quite a simple thing.
You just have to open your mouth!

But i duno why i tend to think a lot, buy no words came oout.

anyway, i learnt that we should always strive for dialogue, not monologue.

there are other things that i had thought of during the train ride home, but i forgot all about them.

But i knw that we only have one life=> we should make the most out of it!
Maximise the time given to us!Cherish everyone and every moment before they are gone!
I dun wanna die a bachelor, or even a man of few friends!

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Above are the jumbled, messy thoughts which originated from thoughts i had during the train ride home.
But due to the shortage of brain memory space i had, i could only piece together these thoughts and typed them out before i forgot about them
these thoughts are already disappearing at light speed from my brain the moment i began to blog..
sry for the messy orientation of this post.

Change is a a necessity.
The problem's with me.
I brought this upon myself.
but its a learning process.
The turning point may start now.
Though it might need some years before i can improve for the better.

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I've learnt to let go and forget ;
Hanging on won't get anywhere;
This may even be a release;
Or a releif;
What will be, will be;
I'll put that past behind me;
Forget the impossibe;
Focus on the feasible;
There's nothing to worry about;
Because there's nothing to start with.

Apologies for scaring anyone off.
its just a random post.

Signed off,
JL