I've always had people coming up to me and asking how to improve their language. I, in all honesty, don't know. I guess it's because I had it so easily that I take it for granted. Or maybe I'm just a firm believer in "if you're born with it, you're good at it" and vice versa. It's not that I don't think that efforts don't pay, but efforts are hard work. Hard work is not as easy as it sounds. And sometimes we tend to fall out in the middle of the way.
I'm not here to brag about my speaking/writing skills. But yesterday me and a friend of mine hosted a simple gameshow for the Malaysian Week in my uni. I stood up in front of the massive lecture hall after Biostats, grabbed a mic and cracked some stupid jokes on the Arabs, explained the rules of the game. People were laughing at our tiny jokes, it felt wonderful. Nonetheless I can't help to keep on repeating some stuffs I said (or didn't say) in my mind, afterwards. I know I've always been given opportunities to talk in front of crowds, I debated and I was a public speaker. Yes I did all that in school. But still I can't seem to help feeling tongue-tied in lost of words every time I'm on the stage. Those were some few awkward moments, all right.
So thing is, it's not that I don't have the vocabs or whatever. I do. I know what I wanted to say but I just get lost in constructing my sentences. And probably I haven't gotten over my stage fright.
I recalled one of those times in an impromptu round, i was given approx 5 minutes to give a speech on "Knowledge is Power". Man the topic was so easy, i knew what i wanted to say and even jot it down on a piece of paper. But when I go on stage everything just go poof. So newsflash : I lost to some Mersing girl thanks to me stumbling over words.
You know when people expect you to be good, you really wanna do it good. And I really want to be good in this because this is one of the things that i love. I just need to learn how to arrange my words in my head before i blurt them out otherwise it's just gonna turn out as a total blabber.
Ok enough ranting. Have a good day.
I'm not here to brag about my speaking/writing skills. But yesterday me and a friend of mine hosted a simple gameshow for the Malaysian Week in my uni. I stood up in front of the massive lecture hall after Biostats, grabbed a mic and cracked some stupid jokes on the Arabs, explained the rules of the game. People were laughing at our tiny jokes, it felt wonderful. Nonetheless I can't help to keep on repeating some stuffs I said (or didn't say) in my mind, afterwards. I know I've always been given opportunities to talk in front of crowds, I debated and I was a public speaker. Yes I did all that in school. But still I can't seem to help feeling tongue-tied in lost of words every time I'm on the stage. Those were some few awkward moments, all right.
So thing is, it's not that I don't have the vocabs or whatever. I do. I know what I wanted to say but I just get lost in constructing my sentences. And probably I haven't gotten over my stage fright.
I recalled one of those times in an impromptu round, i was given approx 5 minutes to give a speech on "Knowledge is Power". Man the topic was so easy, i knew what i wanted to say and even jot it down on a piece of paper. But when I go on stage everything just go poof. So newsflash : I lost to some Mersing girl thanks to me stumbling over words.
You know when people expect you to be good, you really wanna do it good. And I really want to be good in this because this is one of the things that i love. I just need to learn how to arrange my words in my head before i blurt them out otherwise it's just gonna turn out as a total blabber.
Ok enough ranting. Have a good day.
