Toastmaster Project # 5 : Your body Speaks

Why Am I always busy?

IT revolution world over and specifically in India, bought so many things with it apart from 5million jobs.

Like Junk food, work pressure and lot of stress.

One more thing it bought is what I call the " Me busy feeling !!! "

How many of us think that we are busy most of the times ?

We wish we had some more time in our life ?

How many of us get this feeling of being busy almost 24X7X365?

Please raise your hands.

I could see almost unanimous agreement.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen and a very good afternoon to all of you.

This is a common feeling that we all share, "Me busy feeling".

But what if I say, no one is busy , at least as busy as they think ?

What if I try to convince you that we all can very well manage our time and not feel busy and still do all the things that you always wanted to do.

This is what I'd like to talk to you about, today.

I'll share something I've personally discovered for myself and learned in due course of time about this " Me busy feeling ".

I've learned that we are not busy but we think so.

Does that sound contradictory?

You all might be thinking, that this guy is crazy and has no idea of how much work do I have.

Well what do you think Synopsys pays me for attending Toastmaster sessions ?

I also work and work on almost similar scenarios as yours. We might work on different technologies , different domains but we need to acknowledge the fact that all those who work , with very few exception work almost same number of hours and have almost equal amount of work load.

If you think because you are manager you have more work, or because you are an engineer you do more work, you are fundamentally assuming something that is not true.

So first thing I'd like you to acknowledge is that we all work and we all feel busy.

So you agree that we are all busy ? Yes ?

Once you agree to the fact we are all equally busy, I'd like to tell you that the truth is "we are not busy"!!!! But we think so.

There is a big difference between your thinking you are busy and being really busy.

And if you think you are busy, you become busy.

Confused ? So am I !!!!!

Ok so let me put it another way,

A psychological research proved that if you think you are sick you might actually become sick.

The research says that if you start believing in something, it can take the shape of a true event and can easily affect your mental and even physical state.

For e.g. Imagine you wake up in day and your wife says, hey what happened you look so weak , seems you are not well.

But you know that you are feeling good so you say to your wife, No nothing like that, I am doing fine.

Then you have breakfast and your child says, Papa what happened you look like very tired. Now you start thinking may be I am really not doing well.

But somehow you reach work and at work you meet a colleague and he says hey "Ajit" what happened, you look so tired, are you sick?

By this time you will start believing that you are not well and quite possibly you might start feeling tired and sick and take the day off, come home and relax and may be take some medicine.

What you think or believe is very important.

And if we all think that we are busy and this makes us feel busy, far more busy than you actually might be.

Let me explain what actually keeps you busy.

Suppose you've a meeting from 10-12 , then a training from 2-4 and need to reply to few mails before 5 O clock.

When you come to work at 9, you are already partially into meeting, you keep thinking about it. Then you finally attend the meeting from 10-12 go to luch but still some points from the meeting keeping coming into your mind and you keep discussing same with others.

By 1 O clock, you start thinking about training that is scheduled 2-4.and you also keep thinking that you need to reply to some imp emails.

By 4 you start worrying about the mails to reply.

By the time you reach home at 6, if somebody asks you how was your day , you'll say " damn busy, meetings and training whole day.

But the actual time for meetings and training was just 4 hours while you get a sensation that it was whole day and hence you call yourself busy when you actually may not be.

Few months back I was also under the same impression, I used to think that I am the most busy person on the planet. I did not only think, but believed it to the core.

And if I see someone sitting leisurely reading a new paper or sipping a cup of tea, I'll say god knows how these people get so much of time. I am sure these people do not work as hard as I do.

And I had reason to think so. We all have reasons to be busy.

I was involved in so many things. I actively participate in Toastmasters, I am a part of community relation at Synopsys, I was learning Japanese since april 2 hours daily, I had my guitar classes twice a week, I had to undergo few technical trainings, I organize and participate in cultural events , I have a girl friend who talks at least 2 hours a day and so on.

And all this apart from my demanding job which hardly allows me some time.

Upon some investigation I realized that I was not as busy I used to think.

The problem was I'd continuously think about all that I do in my day and that kept me busy rather than the actual stuff.

Earlier, when I am at work I'll keep thinking about other stuffs like TM, guitar exams, Japenese home work etc and that's why at the end of the I felt that I am completely occupied. I don't have even a single minute to spare.

Then I changed my attitude, I said to myself, I am not going to think about my GF or my job when I am in TM.

I am not going to think about Japanese work when I am practicing guitar.

And believe me ladies and gentlemen it worked. It gave me so much extra time that I wasted in unproductive thinking.

So the key message here is " Do not think too much, or avoid unproductive thinking ".

Let that event come, do not just keep thinking about it and once done with it, forget it and do not unnecessarily contemplate on it.

Because if we give some rest to our mind to relax, we won't get stressed and will not feel unnecessarily busy or occupied.

And why is so much fuzz about "Me busy feeling" ? Because if you think you are busy, you give up on time management and in turn miss out various important things in life.

You become stressful, you don't attend your best friends wedding, you don't spent time with your family, you don't take up new challenging assignments, more or less we start forgetting to live.

Now the billion dollar question is , is it possible for us to come out of this " Me busy feeling ? " . The answer is an absolute YES.

All you've to do is look into your personal and professional life and see if you are really busy or just think too much.

If you understand that you are thinking too much, you'll automatically come out of it.

Because this is a problem whose solution lies in recognizing what is the problem.

There are two key messages here " One what we think can easily affect the actuality " and second we can avoid being busy by not thinking too much.

If you can try this, you'll have more time for yourself, your family, your job.

More time means, more money, more happiness and of course more opportunities to be busy.

Mr. Toastmasters.

Toastmaster CC Manual Project 4 : How to say it

General Purpose : To explain my point of view about celebrating festivals

Specific Purpose : To make audience think about the concept and introduce a happy attitude.

Why we should not celebrate only Diwali ?

I asked a monkey while he was jumping from one tree to another.

Mr. Monkey tell me here and tell me now.

Do you celebrate diwali, if yes, tell me how?

Monkey said , scratching his body.

No I don't and slapped my face and jumped high to sit on a tree.

Then I asked a bird on her way back to nest after dusk.

Madam Dirdie tell me here and tell me now,

Do you celebrate diwali, if yes tell me how ?

Bird flying in her own way randomly varying the speed, and spreading wings in open blue sky and singing a song joyously "I fly ", I fly in the blue sky…

I fly I fly in the lovely sky…..

I don't celebrate diwali, just don't ask me why and disappeared from my sight and the sound of her song faded.

Then I asked a small rose that blossomed in a deserted dense forest.

Hey beautiful rose, tell me here and tell me now,

Do you celebrate diwali, if yes tell me how ?

The rose, did not say anything, it kept a smile on its face and every time I asked it do you celebrate, it just kept showering me with the enchanting aroma of its petals.

Then, I met a man from planet earth.

But before I could say anything,

He wished me " Happy diwali Shashi and went away"

Respected evaluators, General evaluators, fellow toastmaster and most welcome guest.

As this is the pre-diwali session, First of all A very happy diwali to all of you !!!!!

When I asked the question to monkey, plants, birds…

The answer was clear, they don't celebrate diwali and they don't care about it either.

And this made me wonder why do only men celebrate diwali ?

To be more general, why only humans have festivals?

I brooded over this and I understood some really interstering points and the conclusion was that we should not celebrate diwali.

Why, is what my todays speech is all about.

In my todays speech, I'd like to discuss why only we human have festivals.

I request all of you to contemplate on this for a while , WHY festivals ?

Why only we have festivals ?

Is it because these (pitiable) little creature are not sane enough and do not have sufficient brain to think about festivals?

Is it because we are the most intelligent people and know how to live life and enjoy.

But I do not celebrate diwali !!!!! and it is not because I am a monkey too.

Its neither because I am pessimistic who doesn't know how to take juice out of life.

But it has a different reason, and that's what I want to talk to you today about.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I've no idea how will you accept this statement but I subscribe to the that we have festivals because we do not know how to live life !!!!!!

We are a sad creature, most miserable, the one with most number of problems and thousand of worries.

The beggar on the street is worried, and that's obvious but the irony is that the CEO of Microsoft - richest man is equally worried worried. Who knows even more?

And to make sure we don't die out of these worries , man, intelligent man devised a very good method - festivals.

"Festivals are the excuse of a man who does not know how to make each day a festival and whole life a celebration."

We need festivals because we do not know how to make each day as good as festival and our complete life a celebration.

Just imagine, a child who is not yet taught how to be worried. His only work is to play around and enjoy.

Just watch him a day before diwali, and then watch him on diwali and you will find no difference.

He enjoy a normal day as much as he enjoys diwali.

Ofcouse he may get few more sweets , some new toys in for of crackers , a pair of new cloths, but these all just add to his celebration.

He was happy without diwali and he is happy diwali.

But as this child grows and starts worrying, sooner the happiness in life is no more a day to day affair.

Now he can't jump around in house, he can’t put a cracker in somebodies trouser or he can't smile for no reason.

For a moment , imagine and believe in the fact that we are happy in truest sense of this word. No worries, every day is just as perfect as we want it to be.

Then will you really care about a festival. Ofcourse if it comes good we'll have one more reason to enjoy.

Happiness is not event dependent, if it is , we are bound to become unhappy.

Happiness is attitude related, if you have a happy attitude you are already festive.

But now a days attitude is just the reverse.

Tell me if there is a person sitting at the corner of this room and laughing for no reason.

Imagine you see someone sitting alone in a corner and he or she starts laughing out of sudden and we will start thinking "is he crazy ?" and if he is weeping in the corner , we think he is quite normal and a poor chap…..may god bless him.

Can you see how ridiculous our attitude has become?

We consider a laugh abnormal….unless we have a reason for it…..but crying is normal.

Long faces are most common face now a days. Everyone has become a prerecorded tape of complaints and miserys…

You just need to press play by asking he how are things man ?

The tape starts with " Yes, everything is fine, just loaded up with lot of work, company is as usual boring, no time for myself, wife as usual fiting and boss as usual dominating, food as usual not tasty, cloths as usual dirty, politics is bad, India lost against Australia again, My telephone bill raise up again, the petrol price is hiking, my son is becoming a mess in the nose….., but everything is fine. "

Now with this kind of attitude, we need festivals and we need them desperately.

No wonder a sad creature like this, to survive will need festivals. Hence a diwali, a holi , an eid or a chrismas helps us to be happy for few days.

We've forgotten what our sages believed in "Anandswabhav"…Anandswabhav is a hindi word derived from Sanskrit and it means " Happy by nature" or naturally happy.

Man was believed to have anandswabhav , it was already there.

He did not needed any festivals to become happy.

But gradually anandswabhav has become vishad-swabhav or a nature full of worries and tentions.

But on festivals we all try to regain our original nature anandswabhav.

Once a sanyassi went to a home to beg some food and cloths and the king said, please take this bowl of rice and come tomorrow, tomorrow is diwali and its an auspicious day , so I'll give you lot of other things tomorrow, not today.

The sanyassi replied " What change will be in sun tomorrow ? What chage will be in the color of rose ? Will the moon be without a patch tomorrow ? "

If nature doesn't distinguish between two days, who are you to undermine a day.

For me each day is diwali and who knows I might not be alive to return to you tomorrow.

How deep statement is that…"If nature doesn't distinguish, who are we to do that"

But we need to coz we've lost the touch with nature and forgotten the language of joy.

That's why all around the world people are so crazy about the festivals.

The point I am trying to make here is not that festivals are something wrong but why we need festivals ?

Imagine if I can make my each day as good as a festival, what will be the consequence, I will not be very excited about diwali…because its just another day of celebration for me.

Now, some of us will argue that festivals have historical and mythological importance.

We celebrate diwali and become happy on this day because Sri Rama attained to glorious victory over evil.

Is it ? Think it over again. How may people who celebrate diwali will actually celebrate it for shri rama ?

I am afraid the number will be quite less. Especially in big cities, festival has lost its slightest touch to its origin.

Now a days a festival is high selling time for a shopkeeper, bonus reciving time for employees.

But still festivals are necessary as festivals are a very good opportunity to celebrate our life, meet our relatives and enjoy our day.

But why wait for diwali, can't we do that right now ?

Yes we can, but it requires lot of courage and power. The courage to say " I will be happy" I will not complain , I will not worry whatsoever and I will enjoy my day …and celebrate my life….

Not everyone can says or does that.

But everyone can. I don't see anything holding you back from celebrating this moment.

Considering each day a diwali, I wish all of you a very happy diwali today and everyday.

I pray to lord Rama that he gives all of us intelligence and enough courage to make each day a diwali, so that we can proudly say " WE DON’T CELEBRATE JUST DIWALI "

Toasmaster CC Manual Project 3 : Get to the point

General Purpose :

To inform audience about the approach to better speech preparation.

Specific Purpose :-

After listening audience should be able to use at least one of 3 key methods to prepare a speech.

The ingredient of a good speech.

Have you ever tried to contemplate on what makes difference between a good and a not so good speech ?

What makes a good speech?

At SHT, HTM and various visits to other TM clubs ,and apart from TMs , we all have listened to variety of speeches.

Once we've listened to the speech, we quickly declare out verdict irrespective of anything about the speech as either GOOD or NOT SO GOOD.

What are the ingredients of a good speech ? What differentiates a good speech from a not so good speech? And How a not so good speech can be transformed into a good speech?

Dear toastmaster, respected evaluators and most welcome guests.

I got an opportunity to read, research, implement and test various methods of preparing a speech and today I'd like to share with you what I've learnt.

Now first of all did you notice that I am using two terms here Good speech and Not so good speech, it is not because I want to increase my word counts and time of my speech to get to that green flag.

It is because I don't think there could be any thing as a BAD speech.

Because everyone of us possess some strength, some extra knowledge and skill.

Be it your sense of humor, or the way you give emotional touch to your speech, or the way you make your audience go to sleep, there is always something special about every one's speech and it will be unfair to call a speech BAD.

So I am not here to preach about how write speeches or any other literal topic like that, all I would like to discuss only what I've learned used and found useful in improving a NOT SO GOOD speech to a good speech.

Let me now get to the point, and discuss what are the ingredients

Easy to remember 3 questions

1.) What will I think if I was sitting in the audience?

2.) Am I making best use of time of my audience?

3.) does my has speech adequate amount of interest holders?

Before I explain each of these question in detail, let me tell you one simple very recent incident.

When I was preparing this speech I asked my room mate, that how would he approach these questions if he was giving a similar speech in his company, and he gave some really interesting answers.

1) What will you think if you were sitting in the audience ?

He answered, I'll think What a speaker, he must compete for the best speaker @ international level.

2) Are you making best use of time of your audience ?

My audience are my collegues who are occupied with useless stuffs all the time so at least I am making good use of their time.

3) Does your speech has adequate interest/ attention holders?

It depends on the audience's interest.

Well this is not the right way to approach these questions, we need to dig deeper and be honest to ourselves.

Let us consider each question one by one :-

Q1.) What will I think if I was sitting in the audience?

This is all about being audience focused. And why should we be audience focus….There is a very complex answer….

Because you are speaking for the audience and to the audience.

This way I get a second person opinion.

In case you find it difficult to analyze, it can always be substituted by making a friend of yours listen to your speech and ask the feedback.

And be open to criticism, and appreciate the feedback.

When I was preparing this speech I was trying to figure out how would I see it as an audience and answer I got was " Extremely boring ".

Jokes apart, who said that it is not a joke but truth.

Once you are aware of what will be audience's overall feel about your speech, we need to move to second part.

That is, are we utilizing audience's time ?

No matter if you are addressing an audience who are totally free and have ample time for all kind of stupid stuff.

We need to stick to the ethics and realize that the time of others is precious and we should make sure we don't waste audience's time, although there could be an exception like I am wasting your time right now.

And audience will consider their time utilized if :-

1) They learnt something from your speech

2) They got some information that was new to them

3) They were entertained.

4) They get to know something interesting about you or someone or something else.

So test your speech for these criteria and then make the speech better.

Because this is what will help you gain credibility and confidence from audience.

When you know your audience 's time will be utilized and also what will they think about your speech. You are all set for a good speech.

But things always don't go right, so we need to be on safer side and make sure about the third question :-

Does my speech has adequate interest holders?

Interest holders or attention holders are short pieces that make your speech interesting and keep audience involved.

You must have noticed that when you listen to a speech, you often get lost somewhere and then again come back to speech.

Right now, I am not sure how many people are really involved here, some might be still celebrating dussera, or thinking about Abhishek and aishwarya.

To keep the attention we may use :-

1.) A joke or humorous example.

Just imagine you are all feeling bored and then I say " I remember I was lost in a jungle with Bipasa basu "

You quickly come back to the speaker.

2.) You may use vocal variations or body language,

Interest holders (shout) are very essential (whisper).

Or do this ( A body gesture).

These body gesture and vocal variations will avoid your speech from being monotonous.

3.) There could be several other interest holders , like pauses, stories, quotes, poems,

Facts and figures , etc…

You can make your own interest holder.

Fellow toastmasters ,there exists one simple rules or theory for preparing a good speech

There are as many rules as number of speakers.

But we can always learn something from each other and hence I thought that sharing my views might help you in at least tiny puny way

If we can work on these 3 questions interest holder, time utilization of audience and understanding a third persons opinion, it'll enable to have more confidence and might help convert a not so good speech to a good speech.

And as I said earlier, there are no bad speeches only good and not so good speeches and its completely in your hand what speech you would like to deliver, good, not so good or a great speech.

Mr. Toastmaster.

Toastmaster CC Manual Project 2 : Organize your speech " How to fail succesfully ? "

How to fail successfully?

Opening in Blue, Body in black and Conclusion in Red

Don't give up!!!!! Try try try try try …and try unless you succeed.

Be focused. Have that killer instinct to get there !!!!!

Be passionate and just do it !!!!

These words can be found in every single book on management, leadership or any kind of self improvement , inspirational or motivational books, which are millions in number.

So that's what I did, I never gave up, I tried continuously for 3 years to become a rock star. I wrote 100s of songs, that no one ever listened to , I composed thousands of melodies, most of which even I don like today.

But…..I never gave up, I kept trying and trying , I was focused and passionate about it.

Then one fine day, after around 4 years of hard work , patience and pain.

I realized that I've failed completely and I said to myself "What a time waste !!!!!".

Ladies and gentlemen, respected GE and dear guests , I'd like to share with you today, what I call the deepest secret known to every body !!!! "The formula on how to fail successfully?"

We will discuss what why and how…!!!

First the What ?

Let me explain you about what I am talking about, how can one fail successfully?

We all have had many successes and failures in our life. Let us go back and think what made you more matured and strong. ?

My personal believe is that all the failures that I've been through have made me a successful person.

If we can use failure to our benefit , it will be called faling successfully.

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And success is nothing but its Synopsys office at 4th floor and failures are like the stairs and the elevator used to reach here.

It is said that Edison failed 1000 times before he invented television.

Just checking if you are with me, ok Edison invented electric bulb.

Just imagine if he would not have failed 1000 times, we will all be sitting here with candles in the hands of SAA and the toastmaster of the day.

He failed and he failed successfully.

So its simple, if you can make failure a stepping stone to success and our growth. You;ve failed successfully.

Lets move to Why ?

Why should you fail successfully ? Simply to make your self look successful.

When I tried to get into Indian Airforce , I failed in the first stage itself.

When somebody asks me "Hey I heard you failed in National Defense exam ? "

I'll retaliate, who said that, I gave it up. I am peace loving and can't kill any one.

Jesus said, love thy enemy. So I just dropped the idea of joining defense services.

When I failed to become a rock star, people will make fun of me and ask hey what happened to your band " Sober Monsters" ? I said, I'll say I've not failed I am still trying.

So the answer to why is , that if do not make a habit of failing successfully. We will make our life hell.

Undoubtedly we fail more often than we succeed. Success comes once in a blue moon, but we fail daily. We fail daily in our relationships, at our work and every day we face failure in some form or the other.

If we don't make use of it , we are just wasting our energy and letting go an opportunity to grow.

And Now lets move on to the most important part " how do we fail successfully. ? "

1) Accept your failure.

When you fail, accept it. Watch it closely. How it breaks you and how miserable it makes you feel. Just live it.

We try to hide our failures , we don't face it.

I remember once I prepared a very unique dance concept and went on to stage to perform it in a competition. I saw all the dances but I was so sure that I am gonna come first,

And when the prizes were announced, first not me, I said to myself, oh shit man this year I have to be satisfied with second prize, second wasn't me , I really got upset and thought I will not accept the third prize whatsoever, and to my surprise I was not even in consolation prizes and I realize I've failed completely. But I did not accept it.

I went around and asked who the hell these judges were, I am sure there is some cheating involved here and then I did not even participated in it next year. I did not accept that I failed. But it did me no good. Infact it made me more miserable.

Then slowly slowly I realized that I've failed, and started facing it and then the miracle happened , the confidence started building up and then third year I again participated in the same dance competition and this time….again I did not win. But I 've learnt accept the failure and that day I appreciated the judgment and congratulated the winners and then went to a corner as said to myself " you've failed again Shashi" But this time you've failed succefully.

When we accept our failure , understand our weak nesses and acknowledge others strengths, we've gained one of the most important quality of a successful person.

2) Take responsibility of it and don’t blame it on others.

Whatever has happened, take responsibility of your failure.

We all know what happened to Intel when F0 floating point bug was discovered in the Pentium processors, Intel kept from accepting their responsibilities and even tried to suppress the error. The result, Angry customers, disappointed scientist and furious media. Leading to loss of image, trust and stock prize.

To the contrary, we recently came across NOKIA battery flaws, and Nokia accepted the flaw as soon as it was discovered and immediately ordered the free replacement. Results more credibility.

If you fail and say I am responsible for whatever has happened, you are actually declaring your strength to stand humiliation, failure and kick on your face.

And this will what make you emerge much more stronger than you were. More credible and more successful. You are more capable of becoming successful now.

3) Learn from mistakes :-

“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” -Winston Churchil.

Learning is important and what is learning , a simple understanding that I'll not repeat the same mistake again.

But man is the only donkey who falls in same pit again and again.

All these combined will help us fail in such a beautiful way that the happiness and the benefits are no less than succeeding, infact sometimes failure is better than success.

And the last but not the least , infact most important part of failing successfully …

4) Enjoy failure. just the way we enjoy success.

And the best example was when I we went recently to offsite and we had teams of 5 and we were announcing the results and the cats won, the dogs lost, now every team had many senior players and were disappointed for their failure.

But this one guy, Vikas of out TST team, as soon as we announced that Cats have won, the cats started dancing and enjoying, This guy from donkey's team stood up joined them and started dancing with them …

And nobody even realized that he has not won, only I knew coz I was a part of organizing committee and I could see that.

But actually he won inspite of being failed. This is what failing successfully all about is.

If we enjoy failure, its not less than a success.

What will you do if you become successful ? Enjoy ?right ? why not enjoy when you fail too….and be failed successfully.

In the end I'll summarize, 4 things 1) Accept your failure, 2) be responsible and don't blame others 3) Learn from mistakes and 4) Enjoy.

Today I'll exceed my time limits deliberately so that I can fail and then I'll try to fail successfully.

My quick analysis

I think the speech was received very well as it was well organized and met the speech objective.

Humor was again the key.

The impact was immense when I deliberately exceeded my time limit by 10 seconds to be disqualified as I wanted to fail and not win this speech contest.

It made my speech look authentic.

The negative was that I missed many key points from the speech while speaking. Lack of practice for sure.

I also presented way too many ideas in a single speech, I should have stuck to 2-3 main ideas.

[ Do post you feedbacks ]

Toastmaster Speech Project #1 : The Icebreaker

Hi All,

Some how I do not have the exact draft of my ice breaker speech that I gave however I do remember couple of things that went right and wrong that might help other toastmasters :-

Positive :-
1.) I used lot of humor - Self humor. In a toastmaster meeting we should refrain from mocking at others, not only it is bad morally and ethically you might even be disqualified by the general evaluator.

Like I made fun of my name. "Shashi" is usually a girl's name in north india so I explained how embarrassed I feel at times.

Made fun on my school and college life.

2.) Practised a lot : Any toastmaster speech needs at least 3 practises. Luckily I realized this fact well in advance and practised it well.
As an icebreaker is the first time you will speek to your club members, it is better to practise as much as you can .

Negatives:-

1.) I spoke very normally, now I think that I could have done it better. ( BTW, I feel this after every toastmaster speech I give )

I could have included some creative ideas/methods.

Some other good icebreakers had following :-

1.) TM Badhri - started with the testimonials from the orkut.
2.) TM Harish - named his speech "Where are you from ?" and he started by asking others where are you from making it interactive and then went on to tell about himself.
3.) TM Bhaskar - Began with a noble quote - " if you do anything with full interest and energy -you'll succeed" and then explained how this has changed his own life.
4.) TM Manjunatha - He explained how the IT dept made his email ID as manju which is again a girl's name and how anyone whom he mails thinks that he might actually be a she.
5.)TM Parul - She explained how her mom used to pamper her in her childhood and how it lead to a big physique and how she managed to reduce.

All the best my fellow toastmaster for your journey.

Do leave your comments or feedbacks and tell us how your Ice breaker went.