Table topics
1. I have been doing some study and I always get bored and fell asleep. So how do you motivate yourself to study?
a. Speaker: Sam
2. I was just been reading a book by Donald Trump, it’s called the art of the deal. Inside it there is a favourite section called ‘a week of my life’. I am fascinated by the story that he picked up calls to close deals and now I want to hear the story of the ‘week of your life’.
a. Speaker: Jess
3. I never cook, I always eat outside and whenever I eat outside, I always love 1 person to accompany me. Usually I have 2 options: a close friend or a distant friend to keep in touch. If you were me, would you consider having a lot of lunch & dinner with somebody close to you or friends who are not very close, but you want to keep in touch?
a. Speaker: Helen
4. A few months ago when I applied for a job at a major consulting firm, they asked me 1 question in the application form which fascinates me. The question is: what’s your greatest achievement? I was thinking nothing really great has happened to me for the past 24 years of my life and so I decided to save up some money and do something majestic: climbing Mount Everest. Now, assuming that you are not satisfied with your current greatest achievement, what’s the 1 thing that you would do to be your greatest achievement?
a. Speaker: Amelia
5. Imagine that you are on a blind date, with somebody very.. very.. very … boring. You’ve got nothing in common, and it was an awkward ten minutes of silent as both of you are crunching your food down the throat. What would you do to make the conversation interesting?
a. Speaker: Alan
6. As you know that Pac brand have just retrenched 1800 employees last week. Imagine that you are a Pac brand employee, you are working on the 20th floor and your decision to be made redundant or not is going to be decided tomorrow. It’s 5 o’clock and you are just about to go home. You stand by the lifts and waiting there patiently. As the lift door opened, you see you CEO standing there about to go home as well. You’ve got exactly 1 minute to convince her that you still deserve the job. What would you do to get your job secured?
a. Robert
Prepared Speeches
Speaker 1: Robert Lu
Topic: How to get things done
Robert about how he get things done following 3 simple steps: Start now, don’t make too high expectations and constantly monitor the process.
Speaker 2: Sushma
Topic: The power of now
Sushma speak about her quarter life crisis. She continued to feel worried and has tried several things include meditation and yoga. She mentioned about the importance of the book that she’s been reading called: the power of now. It made her experienced the difference by feeling the present moment instead of looking forward and backward.
Speaker 3: Selina
Topic: Icebreaker speech on the luckiest girl in the world.
Selina claimed that she’s the luckiest girl in the world by illustrating 3 stories of her life. Firstly she mentioned that she’s the third child in the family even though the chinese government imposing hefty fine of the ‘one child policy’. Secondly, she mentioned that when she was small, a chicken poke on her face leaving a scar; but nevertheless she’s still beautiful. Thirdly, she told a story about a bull. She’s wearing a bright red skirt and walk on the road when the bull actually bump into her and push her to the wall. She bled, but the injury fortunately is not that great because her body is very thin and the bull’s horn only penetrate the upper skin of her body.
Speaker 4: Craig
Topic: Overcoming fear.
Craig spoke about fear. He did research about where fear comes from and about the chemical amidala which if produce by the brain to show whether to fight or flight. He mentioned about what he feared the most: height; and how he watched the story about ‘man on wire’ and that give him a chill. He also mentioned about a story about a girl who is monoholic, an eating disorder where someone just eat one kind of food. He outlined what should we do to overcome fear: breathe, change your self-talk, use positive affirmation, journaling, talking to friends.
Winner
Best table topic: Sam & Robert
Best speech winner: Selina
Best evaluator: Matt.
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