Speech 4 of Toastmasters Competent Communication manual: How you say it! Now this one was special. I delivered this in my club and was asked to repeat it as it was not very effective (going by the objectives of Speech 4). My evaluator didn’t feel that I had done any justice to the speech. Sigh.Continue reading “Toastmasters Speech # 4 ‘How to be a Superhero’”
Hardly Surprising: Thoughts on Bengaluru's Apparent Night of Horror
What else do you expect to happen to a girl (or say girls) surrounded by 1000s of men on road at Midnight? Do you expect grown up Indian men to behave well in Public? Haha. Seriously? If you are reading this, and you are a girl, may I ask your expectations from Bangalore? (Or anyContinue reading “Hardly Surprising: Thoughts on Bengaluru's Apparent Night of Horror”
Year 2016 End Blog Post
2016 is almost about to end, finish, over, poooof!! YAY! Now, for some reason, I don’t understand what the hoopla was about. Bad things happened this year, sure, but that happens every year and this is going to continue to happen next year as well. Probably, I don’t feel as impacted as supposed to, byContinue reading “Year 2016 End Blog Post”
2 Things A Soldier Needs
In a country like India, where even getting basic amenities is a struggle, there are only 2 things a Soldier, who defends us 24/7, needs. Just 2 things. Optimism and Motivation. They need to have that optimism, that whatever their job requires them to do, they should do that with best of their abilities. Their optimism helps themContinue reading “2 Things A Soldier Needs”
Toastmasters Speech # 3 : Impact of Hobbies / Hobbies do wonders
Imagine this scene. It is a usual Monday Morning and your mood is right up [gesture low hand pointing to the ground] here. You come or rather drag yourself to your workplace and a Colleague asks “Hey man… how was the weekend? Anything interesting?” Most of us just shrug and whimper with a dull reply,Continue reading “Toastmasters Speech # 3 : Impact of Hobbies / Hobbies do wonders”
Today was the day I should write about in a blogpost
What a day! Sine wave, would be apt to describe the day I had today. With only 1 cycle though. It was a day one should be blogging about because if we are looking for a reason to blog in this attention span absent world, this must be one of the reasons. It started offContinue reading “Today was the day I should write about in a blogpost”
First in life : An Eulogy
Just for a minute and a half though, but I had to give an eulogy for a colleague who passed away recently. I know, as we get older, the news of deaths keep on increasing. However, this was a shock as the colleague passed away due to strange case of Dengue which took the lifeContinue reading “First in life : An Eulogy”