Speech Choir and Ignite Competition

Today April 21, 2016. In this day, speech choir competition along with the Ignite speech was held at Asia Pacific College's Auditorium. All in all there were 10 contestants or participants. But of course life must go on after the competition I went home and lie down in my bed. It was a good lose Why? Because I know that everyone did their best in the competition besides it's just a competition and there are many more competition that we can join and win hopefully. It's not the end of the world if we lose in a competition right. It was a good experience for us because we became more solid. Our block became more close to each other. We needed to be cooperative so that our speech would be perfect and that's what we did. Although we did not win but for ourselves we won the championship.  You see everyone wants to win but of course it's a competition so there's no way that no one will lose. That's life sometimes we win sometimes we lose. It's not fair if we always win same if we always lose.
I know the feeling when a speaker should have his/ her speech for only 5 mins. and they should follow the slides and use transitions to perfectly introduce a new topic. I know that fortunately I'm done with my Ignite speech and I would say that it is not really scary when you're talking in front of the audience. You don't have to memorize words per words all you have to do is read and read and read until you familiarize your speech.

Here are some tips on how to deliver a speech:

1. Gratitude is always the best place to begin.
Any and every gig is an honour. Thank the host, and thank the audience for the possible mountains they moved to show up and listen to you.
2. Being prepared is an act of love. And intelligence.
Even if you can improv with the best of them, do a complete run through in advance, and a written key points list of your talk. I like to do a verbal run through in the tub the day before (the tub is my second office, really,) and I do a key points list the morning of the event.
3. Lead with your best stuff.
Make an entrance. Put forth your Big Point right away. Start with your best story, your funniest joke, your guiding theory. Don’t make them wait to see you shine. Grab ‘em from the get-go.
4. Know who you’re talking to.
A co-presenter and I gave a talk to a group of underprivileged single moms. My co-presenter talked about shopping at Tiffany’s and Saks. They turned on us. It was ugly. Along this same line…
5. Research your audience.
Guy Kawasaki is great at this. At a presentation in Vancouver last year, he sported a Vancouver Canucks jersey, made some good jokes about the event organizers, and told some personal stories that related to the organization’s mission.
6. Actively respect your audience.
A playwright friend of mine commented on an actor’s performance: “You could tell she didn’t like the character that she was playing. And you’ve always got to find something to love about who you’re playing to make it real.” Same goes for your audience. You won’t always be presenting or pitching to your tribe, to people you “like”—find the common ground and put your love there.
7. Never, ever admit to fatigue.
I heard a very popular author open his talk, to a packed theatre, with “I’m quite tired, I’ve been on the road for a few days.” Instant downer. It made us feel guilty for keeping him up past his bedtime, or ticked that we spent $50 to hear a jet-lagged psychologist. I’ve done gigs on two hours of sleep, in the middle of a professional tragedy, stoned on Sinutab. You get up there and you SMILE, no matter what. You can collapse when you get off stage.
8. Stay in the lead as long as you’re on stage.
A few weeks ago I was speaking to a ballroom of university business students at The Four Seasons Hotel. As I was leaving the stage, a woman at the back of the room raised her hand. I’d just handed back my mic, but I gestured to take her question. She proceeded to tell me that I was dressed like a slob and not setting a good example to the students about personal branding. Not kidding. (And I looked HOT, BTW.) You could have heard a pin drop. Heckled! First time for everything.
“And how have you come to be here tonight?” I asked her. I figured she sneaked in. She mumbled something about being a mentor, and then she made a dash for the door, carrying her various tattered shopping bags. “Well,” I said to the stunned audience. “Now you have an example of what elegant is and what elegant isn’t. And that’s branding.” I didn’t exhale until I got in my car.
9. Plan your finish.
Wrapping up can be the hardest part of a talk because you’ve either used up all of your good stuff, you’ve gone over time, or you have space to fill. Hold on to your closing gold nugget so you can leave on a high note either way.
10. Believe that people are rooting for you.
It’s vastly true that every single person watching and listening to you wants you to be amazing. They want a great experience. No one likes to see someone bomb. They really do want you to win.
11. Go easy on the apologies.
This is a tricky one, because elegance is the numero uno concerno. But things like, “Sorry to keep you waiting,” “My apologies for the technical snafu,” can create more snags in your fabric. Sometimes, most of the time, it’s better to just keep going. An ice skater doesn’t apologize for slipping. She keeps skating, distracting you with the next great move.
12. Dress up.
When you’re on stage being well dressed says, “I cared about you enough to polish it up.” Sunday best.
13. Affirm, pray, focus, ommm.
Whether it’s a staff meeting you’re leading or a concerto performance, a short pre-show ritual pulls your energy into your center. Before I take the stage I say this quickie prayer, “Help us shine.” That’s it. That covers me, the audience, and the world in one fell swoop.
14. Ask questions.
Frame your stories into questions and you’ve created a conversation.
15. Know how you want to feel when you’re done your presentation.
Ultimately, you can’t really control what the audience does and if try to, you’re likely to fumble. I’ve had what I thought were hilarious stories that didn’t get so much as a giggle. And I’ve had low-engagement audiences that swarmed me after I got off stage. You just don’t know.

Public speaking competition

 Today April 20, 2016. A Public speaking competition was held at Asia Pacific College's Auditorium. Now there were 30 participants during the competition but only 9 will be left for the finals. Each has their designated room to go to for the elimination round. Of course we can't leave the venue coz' we're going to be marked as absent if we do that. So while waiting for the final participant the APC speaks prepared some games related to the event. I know that everyone  was scared to be called as a representative for their block. That's why I even prayed and hoped that I will no be called. According to research that one of the most fears a person could have is the fear of Public Speaking.

Fear of public speaking is the most common of all phobias. It's a form of performance anxiety in which a person becomes very concerned that he or she will look visibly anxious, maybe even have a panic attack while speaking. Over time, people try to protect themselves by either avoiding public speaking or by struggling against speech anxiety. Now after the games. We got back into the event. Fortunately there 9 blessed, lucky speakers who surpass the elimination round. They spoke different examples regarding on the topic given to them. Some exemplified their life with their parents. Some spoke about fairy tale, past relationship etc... After all the speakers are all good since they deliver it with all their might.  

Creative Storytelling and Confessions of a Bookaholic Competition

This event was held last March 30, 2016. During the Soma week. Anyway, the program was really good although some groups were a bit boring. It is boring because of some reason like almost all of them are not that prepared so well like they are just reading and some blocks, they’re actions is not that clear or more just like they got nervous because they are so many people in the auditorium. At least they give an effort. Yet still the event come out great. Some of them were really great and caught my attention.

For the creative storytelling it gives me chills and bring back memories way back when I was a child. They were telling stories about legends and acting out so that they can get the audience attention by doing anything that will catch our attention of course since it is criteria in rating their performance. All the teams were giving their best shot and showing on who they really are to entertain the audience as much as they could. They acted out the Legends about the garlic and numerous legend etc.. They wore costumes and used props for their performance to deliver it magically to us. Confessions of a bookaholic? For every contestant that spoke on the stage, I can see their feelings towards the book because of their reaction towards to us. As they confess they are encouraging us at the same time to read book so that we will gain some knowledge in it. They talked about how they got so caught up in a book that they can’t seem to find a way out. They love everything about their book as I can see from them. You can see it in their eyes how they love books and how they appreciate it. Well I myself will say I need to read a book!

Who wants to be a millionaire

 In this event it was held last March 8, 2016 and well everybody was excited about this event since it will be a fun filled event as our professor had said to us Ms Eliz Reyes ad miss Nina Javier. And also, I have classmates from ECE 151 that joined the Who wants to be a millionaire. They got 7 out of 10 in the Easy questions. Which is not bad? Atleast they are the chosen ones in our block ECE151.

For me, it is a good and brainy game. Because even though you are an audience you too can learn something new. As well as the participants if they didn’t got the correct answer.

In this event it has the same mechanics as the real game. Though they added a twist and matched it with our English term since it is all about English? Right? Being one of the students who are currently enrolled in the English term, instead of asking question from the Mathematics, History, Science, Music and Art categories they asked questions all coming from English. They ran through series of questions from the English category like authors, books and etc..

The questions went easy, moderate and difficult. Some of them even tried to guess and hope for the best that it would be right so that they could win. Who wouldn’t want to win anyway? Whoever wins the first place would go home with a trophy and a cash prize of 3000 pesos and the second place I don’t know already.

The crowd was cheering for their respective representatives, hoping that their representative will win in this event. The game had ended and we went home with our brains fed with new knowledge in this event. Thank You! And congratulations to the winner of Who wants to be a millionaire.

Paddington

Paddington is a 2014 British-French live action/computer animated family comedy film directed by Paul King, written by King and Hamish McColl, and produced by David Heyman. Based on Paddington Bear by Michael Bond, the film stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character, along with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Nicole Kidman in live-action roles. It received a Empire Award nomination for Best British Film.

Paddington is a family movie that really is for everyone, meaning neither kids nor grown-ups will squirm with boredom. Based on a series of Michael Bond books begun in 1958 and illustrated by Peggy Fortnum, the movie likewise tells the tale of a Peruvian bear, in duffel coat and floppy red hat, adopted by a London family. How satisfying to report that the cinematic Paddington emerges as an irresistible charmbomb that has a nice habit of sneaking up on you instead of conking you on the head. Paddington, voiced with genuine feeling by Ben Whishaw (a substitute for the originally cast Colin Firth), is introduced living the good life in the rainforest. Then, boom-squish, an earthquake hits and Paddington takes a cargo ship to London, where he dreams of a new beginning. Without too much fuss, the bear arrives at Paddington Station and is quickly adopted — at least temporarily — by the Brown family: blustery dad Henry (Hugh Bonneville, on leave from Downton but still very lord of the Abbey), his sweet wife Mary (the pricelessly appealing Sally Hawkins) and their two scrappy, moody children, Judy (Madeleine Harris) and Jonathan (Samuel Joslin). After a few guttural roars, the bear starts talking and in very British tones. Paddington has no super powers, though he does fly over London, but he does work his way into our hearts and minds. It's all very droll and quietly, memorably dazzling. "Please Look After This Bear" are the words written on a tag around Paddington's neck. Smart audiences will do as instructed. 


source: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/paddington-20150114

Zombadings

Zombadings (or Patayin sa Shokot si Remington) is a spoof on comics culture. It is also a fairy tale romance set in the town of Lucban. Essentially it is a coming of age comedy about a little boy, Remington (he begins very young indeed) yelling out loud whenever he notices the queer behavior of local town shokis – the historical term in the 50s and 60s for queer kids. Remington, alert to spot abnormal looks and behavior, unable to understand quirky and queer mannerisms, is the town crier who bellows “Bakla!” (Gay) instead of “Tulong!” (help) at every boy, teenager, or passer-by that crosses his gaze. In the world of fairy tales, he is the little boy in “The Emperor’s New Clothes” who pinpoints and articulates reality. He is yesterday’s gay-dar.  

 Remington’s growing attraction to the city girl, Hannah. As his attraction and desire increases, the curse proportionately works on him via daydreams and images of confusion and distraction that pull his behavior into the world of bekemon, the most current patois of gay language, which used to be called sward-speak. At its current development of sophistication in vocabulary—what used to be recognizably a language of repressed neurotics inventing terms for emotional release, bekemon has become Esperanto—a new language that deserves punctilious translation into grammatically correct Cinemalaya English subtitles. It is probably meant as a joke by the producer-writers, but works against the comedy. Eugene Domingo has to explicate it when she utters, “I don’t understand it. But it is funny.” In the process, the humor is dissipated into awkwardness, and repartees are made lame, killing tempo and rhythm. Remington is drawn to speak and behave like a teenage boy gradually losing control over his maleness into queerness, climaxing in a funny fantasy love scene on a staircase with his best friend, Jigs (Kerbie Zamora). The two male lead characters, Martin Escudero and Kerbie Zamora are very good, because at this early stage in their careers, they’re fresh, unmannered, and still un-self-conscious! So they succeed in giving the impression that they’re not acting, just being themselves. Martin’s quick shifts from queer to manly is hilarious!  

source: http://kyotoreview.org/book-review/review-zombadings-1-patayin-sa-shokot-si-remington/ 

Sana Dati

Sana Dati is a 2013 Filipino romantic drama film written and directed by Jerrold Tarog. The story of Andrea Gonzaga (Lovi Poe) set to marry a man whom she doesn’t know if she loves or not (TJ Trinidad). Enter, a young 21 year old wedding videographer (Paulo Avelino) whose mysterious presence turns Andrea’s whole wedding in disarray. The film similarly starts with the past. Memories of the main characters intersperse continuously and constantly with the present, at times intrusively so. As Lovi Poe’s character prepares unenthusiastically for her wedding, she is also trying to grapple with her doubts and emotions that are as alive, if not more, than her current reality.

The entire movie shows her struggle between moving on from her feelings of what-could-have-been and her thoughts of what her life could be with a man whom she is uncertain if she really loves. "Sana Dati" is not a film about winners. It is not about the fictional poet, named after Spanish director Julio Medem, who wrote the most beautiful verses about the feeling of being in love prior to dying. It is not about Andrew, who, like fictional Medem, died with a heart overflowing with love. The heart of "Sana Dati" lies with the losers, the ones we tend to forget when the most intense statements about love have already been declared. It is about Andrea, whose life goes on despite the tragedy of her one true love perishing. It is about Robert, who is about to marry a girl who does not love him. It is about Andrew, who stirs trouble in somebody else’s romantic affairs.

Sana Dati is a visually stunning romance drama with hints of light humor. Its expertly photographed scenes evoke emotion and convey information at an unhurried pace. Past, present and the possibilities of the future collide with each other all throughout the movie—making scenes appear seemingly scattered and confusing.