Toastmasters Speech CC3- What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

The Delivery

The Script

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

!  True Love is all about Inspiration!

[Start with props: mirror, goggle and perfume and blazer for role playing. Start with stern amazement in voice!]

What!?! What are you all looking at? Cant’ you see that I am going for a Date?

You can clap for me and my date if you like …! J J J

[Stop for a second, remove goggles, turn mirror aside and come back to normal]

Even though, she is my 21^st date, I still have faith that this time I will get my true love who would inspire me.

Ladies and gentlemen do you remember the time of our childhood when our mom used to put beautiful covers on our textbooks?

In one such incident, I still treasure the day when I was leaving for a boarding school, first time in my life. My mom put covers on my books and put them in my trunk. During my stay in hostel, I was unknowingly taking care of those books as if those were my favourite toys. One year passed and covers were as my mom put them on. Next year in new class, the books got changed but I treasured one portion of a cover where my mom had written my name in her beautiful handwriting. I kept that piece of paper in my literature book for a year between the pages and in the same state. I continued keeping the piece of paper the same way till I got matriculated from a different school. For me, my mom was always there in my literature book. Today, I feel that I am still holding my mother’s love together with me, as it is evident from my immense love for literature. The purest form of love is inspiration. My mother’s love had inspired me to love books and literature.

Mr. Toastmaster, fellow Toastmasters and dear guests, good evening!

One of my friend still wears the same watch that was gifted by his beloved. Even though, the watch is not working now, he feels the same ticking sound in his heart and he believes it helps him stay ahead of time. He is holding that love and care for ‘time’ from his love. His love inspires him to always be on time.

In my case I still keep the same purse for the past few years as it makes me believe that my purse will go thicker as imbibed by the gift presenter. Here my love inspired me to go for savings.

People collect and treasure gifts and artefacts to hold and immortalize the love and teachings of their creators. We have museums and memorials that hold back love of our past generations. The past artefacts in the museum inspire us to make our present and future lovable.

Today, in this lovely crowd we have many people among us who still hold the same love as they did when they joined this institution and keep going with the flow. It is the sheer love that has made DTM Raj and TM ISK keep going on in Infosys Toastmasters club Bangalore. It is our love for self-growth that inspires us to come here again and again, week after week.

One of my friends left his well-paying Investment Banking job in Wall Street to come back to Kolkata and held his love together for his ageing parents by spending time with them in their last days. His parental love inspired him to take that bold decision in his life.

One of my old friends recently asked me the secret of my fitness, I replied, “These days, I run. You should also run.” You won’t believe, I saw her with a medal of completion of a 5k run within a month. She used to comment on my runkeeper’s update with lines like – “I have just completed 12 hours of sleep LoL :D ”. It’s the love that made her run so diligently even after long time of separation. It’s the love that inspires her to do the unthinkable.

We often fall short in pursuit of our ambitions and goals as we stop holding together the love and inspiration that had brought us at first place. Move in – move out, let in – let it go but don’t let go of the love that has inspired you to feel and be special. Love is not physical attraction, it is all about inspiring people and getting inspired by our loved ones.

So my lovely friends are you holding back the love that inspired you?
If yes, then let go of your inhibitions and spread the message of love.

If not, let me inspire you to believe in love again!
“It is better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.”
Hold on to the love that you get daily from everyone and get inspired, else you will regret when they are gone. Believe in love and its inspiration, to make your life more lovely and beautiful!

Over to you, our lovely Toastmaster!

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Toastmasters Humorous Speech Prelim: I am Nothing in front of her

Not prize but participation certificate :)

The Delivery 

The Script

I am nothing in front of her

Fellow Toastmasters and dear guests, good evening!

Meet my friend, a most eligible bachelor from a reputed Indian IT firm, Venkat Kumar Anterdeshi. Today, we will witness his saga of finding true love.

Venkat has switched many company in his quest for love, joined all possible clubs and special activity groups. The result- he is still searching. Even he joined Toastmasters, but Toastmasters’ CC and CL journeys are not proving an iota of help in his journey of love. 

The tiring journey of love has made him a poet. Let’s have a look into some stanzas of his love sonnets, according to Mr. Anterdeshi:      

She talks endlessly,
I just say Yes No, Yes No
She never stammers,
I am full of CRPFs.

She eats sparingly
I eat excessively,
She do ‘make-ups’ for hours daily
I just keep a comb in my pocket.

My clothes are very simple
Her attire catches every attention,
Her secrets are Victoria's and Myntra’s Kart,
My secrets are Pantaloon and DMart.

Her eyes are intoxicating
My eyes have spectacles,
I am dumb Doberman
She is a God’s Miracle.

Her hands are as soft as flower
My hands are as hard as hammer,
She is somewhat proud, friends
I have to crouch before every head.

Her face is as bright as full Moon
My face is as dull as distant star,
She has won every battle
I have to struggle for survival.

People laugh at my smile
Boys die at her smile,
For me, everything is costly,
For her, even heart is free.

What should I say more friends –

She is flower of Eden Garden
I am God’s mistake,
She is polished and natural
I am rough and artificial.

She is capricious and attractive
I am stone and distractive,
She is deer-eyed, always in mind
I am dark-circle-eyed, never in mind.

She is picturesque and precious
I am cartoon and worthless,
She is fair and modern
I am dull and old.

She is Deepika and Katrina
My life has no antenna,
She is Sania and Shiny
My world is very tiny

She say Saturday - Saturday
I cry Monday - Monday,
She enjoys on-duty holidays
I mourn on-call Sundays.

She is facebook and instagram
I am postcard and telegram,
She makes news and trends
I prepare minutes and bullets.

She is android and iPhones
Updated and evergreen,
I’m nokia and window phones
Outdated and no more.

She is BBC and CNN
Pleasant and break headlines,
I am Zee News and Times Now
Nasty and create nuisance.

She is boss's pet
I am his eye-sore,
I write codes
She finds bugs.


After exploring all possible options, one fine day Mr. Venkat Anterdeshi was sitting under old Banyan tree besides a sewage canal in his campus and typing furiously on his i-phone, purchased on EMI, as a gift for his would be Helen, suddenly a pigeon overhead performed his natural activity on his hand and his i-phone fell into the muddy canal. Socked, surprised Anterdeshi closed his eyes for mental solace. There he had his Buddha moment. His Eightfold evolved paths are as under:

1.        Samyaka – Drishti: Have complete vision on all greenery around not one in particular
2.        Samyaka – Sankalpa: pursue equal aspiration for all beauties not one in particular
3.        Samyaka –Vaka: Don’t be able communicator only, but be a funny speaker, because girls like funny guys
4.        Samyaka – Karma: Focus your karma for appraisal and not for girls
5.        Samyaka – Ajivika: As you go for specialization for career stability. Here depending on particular a girl is riskier. Keep changing your preferences
6.        Samyaka – Vyama: Don’t do workouts for abs only. Slimmer has better chances
7.        Samyaka – Sammati: Don’t leave worldly desire and sadness but master the art of having casual desire and sadness. Because girls prefer mimicry artist 
8.        Samyaka – Samadhi: Don’t do always Baba Ramadev’s Kapal-Bhati and Anulom-Vilom but also go hot and power Yoga

With this Gyan, let’s have a happy ending and close the story of Venkat Kumar Anterdeshi on a laughter note, let's laugh:

ha ha ha ! ha ha ha! ha ha ha!

Over to you Mr. Toastmaster!

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Infosys Toastmaster 572th Meeting, theme:Monsoon

Suppose today's your project delivery date and you're fixing last bugs and your boss is over you, suddenly your crush from next bay appears from nowhere and took your umbrella and boss to your favourite Chai-Sutta spot!
What will you do,  sit back and fix the bugs and crib about your boss and poor choice? Or move in open and get wet in the Monsoon rain and wash every headache away!

So, dear Toastmasters, throw your umbrellas of inhibitions and get wet under showering of some moving speeches.

The first meeting of new office bearer team was started on a thunderous note by SAA TM Ved who elicited the three ground rules of the meeting and invited club's new president TM Ifthikhar who lit the new flame of joy among entire audience.

The MOC of the day, TM Nitin Agarhari was in his natural best who broke many myths of emcee today.

The monsoon showered two seasonal CC2 speeches, one from TM Sai Kiran who depicted an unique love of a gamer and his beloved game with full suspense and anecdotes. The second one was from TM Sijil who showed his way of conquering fear through high altitude sky diving with bits of his actor self.

Next we witnessed a moving area director's speech from our new area director, a mentor of mentors, TM Rithun who beautifully put the message of 'Giving it forward'.

The second season of this rainy meeting brought to us by TM Tara who took his last role for the club as TTM and judiciously used his allotted 10 min that saw 5 participants which touches the petichor of Toastmasters' gist.

Area director, TM Rithun address

Best speaker award

Sijil speech

GE, DTM Raj

Best role taker, TM Tara

Tara as TTM

Tara's Farewell Speech

New member, TM Parimal

Best TT speaker

The monsoon also brought us Lord Indra, the Rain God of InfyTM, DTM Rajkumar Bansal as general evaluator who gave a vintage edit to the first meeting of the season with his precise and experienced feedback. The GE was assisted by his TAG team, timer TM Vertika who brought importance of early monsoon in timely speech, the grammarian TM Parimal gave us analogy of monsoon rain rules of grammar for our speeches, the Ah counter TM Sahithya had very precise moments in finding CRPFs. The  speech evaluators TM Ganabady and TM Anikesh held the ground high with their balanced feedback.

In the end the rain stops with thunderous round of applause from audience with awards for today's winners TM Sijil as best prepared speaker, TM Shivalingish as best table topic speaker and TM Tara as best role taker with a promise to cross our roads again from TM Tara in his parting speech.

So, it's finally stopped raining both inside and outside with precipitate of full dam of zeal to bring bigger laughter and applause in next week humorous contest.

Keep in shades,
Good Night!
Mithilesh

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Toastmasters Speech CC2- History of Rama Krishna Venkatsubbaih

The Poster

PowerPoster

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The Delivery

The Script

How many of you love Peace?

Wow!

And, how many of you love War?

Fair enough, let me describe a war scene that changed the course of Indian History.

Dated May 326 BC, on the banks of River Jhelam, on North-eastern boarder of India, in the wee hours there was a mass attack against King Porus's left flank by the Great Alexander's army. The heavy armor-piercing bows of Indian unarmored soldiers were proving inaccurate on slippery ground. The 200 elephants were busy in guarding the frontal attack.  Alexander's horse archers were showering the Indian right cavalry wing. And his armored Companion cavalry was overwhelming the Indian left cavalry with Alexander leading the charge.

While the rest of the Indian soldiers were struggling in the battle, one man was guarding his king with his full vigor- The mahout of the king. He saved his king’s life before getting slain.

The bravery, war skills and princely attitude of King Porus’s mahout led the genesis of my Today’s central character- Rama Krishna Venkatsubbaiah.

Fellow toastmasters and dear guests, good evening!

We as science practitioners often slumber in comprehending history, as our glorious past misses links to our present and it mostly eulogizes the ruling class. The following speech tries to organize History of India from Ancient to Modern era from a common man perspective. It’s an honest attempt to put the facts in its canonical form and it is a sincere request from the audience not to take any historical lesson from this re-organized history.

Meet a Karorpati clerk in Bruhat Bangalore Municipal Corporation, Rama Krishna Venkatasubbaiah. Rama, a fan of actor Shiva Rajkumar (smile), is a jovial, down to earth, highly ethical, multi-lingual man who sometimes misses his Brahmanical worships but never misses under the table offerings (smile).

1.  Rama’s impeccable command of Hindi came from his mother Laxmi who eloped with his father (smile), a bloodline of great Rajendra Chola, during posting in Tata Steel, Jamshedpur, leaving behind her land lord family that had lost their fortune
2. Rama’s 2^nd level ancestor, i.e, grandfather was an active contributor to Congress during freedom struggle
3. His 3^rd level ancestor was a great grand princess of Maharaja Amar Singh of Mewar who fought bravely with the joint Mughal army
4.  His 11^th level ancestor was cousin of Jahangir’s 20^th wife Nurjahan’s first daughter
5.  Rama’s 15^th level ancestors had served in royal kitchen of Qutubuddin Aibak who used to be chefs in Prithviraj Chauhan’s palace
6. His 30^th level ancestors were mathematicians in Royal kingdom of Gupta king Vikramaditya
7.   His 50^th level ancestor was the royal bodyguard of Chandragupta Maurya’s mentor and the great economist Chanakya whose father was a mahout in King Porus’s army, who halted Alexander’s march towards east
8.   His 80^th level ancestors were farmers in Rig Vedic era
9. His 90^th level ancestors were manual scavengers in Mohenjo-Daro who survived Aryan invasion in 2000 BC
10. Rama’s 100^th level ancestors were true relatives of Mowgli (smile), roaming in their natural states to get leftover meats in the deep jungles of Vindhyanchals (Vindhya Mountains)

Rama’s 5000 years old, 100 levels family tree tells us that his ancestors had been everywhere, done everything and seen everything. In logical sense, he is a true descendant of an Indian gene. In true sense, we all are different but one. On the contrary, we civilized animals have divided ourselves amongst nonsensical castes, regions and religions, and each division vouches for its superiority over others.

Rama's historically unparalleled genealogy gifted him with the most special skills ever discovered by mankind. As in - He got Sanitation and Purity from Harappa, Valor from Magadha and Mewar, Ingenuity from the Delhi Sultanate, Patriotism from the Freedom movement.  

He is also carrying with him the early human deadly sins - Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy and Pride.

In spite of having 5000 years old illustrious past we are still lagging behind all the major economies of present time – America, Australia, Canada, Singapore who don’t have even 300 years old history.

In the past, our rulers often lost their ways by dividing us in the narrow confinement of caste and race, as a result we were defeated several times from the likes of Alexander to the British.  At present, we 1.3 billion human survivors, are still fighting with each other for regions, religions, castes and caste based reservations and being played by the ruling class.

It is us who will create our history not our past or the lineage. So, dear friends, let us stop judging people based on name, place and identity and start respecting ability, quality and diversity.

On this note, let me close the history of Rama Krishna Venkatasubbaiah.

Over to you Mr. Toastmaster!  

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Girl's Adjectives

A- Adorable, Amazing, Attractive, Alluring, Audacious, Adaptable, Adventurous, Affable, Affectionate, Ambitious, Amusing, Awesome

B- Beautiful, Bold, Brainy, Bright, Breathtaking, Blazing, Bubbly, Brazen, Brave, Broad-minded

C- Calm, Caring, Cool, Cheerful, Charming, Confident, Cute, Considerate, Creative, Compassionate, Courteous, Clever, Credible

D- Dear, Daring, Divine, Dauntless, Delightful, Dazzling, Dedicated,
Delectable, Deserving, Determined, Diligent, Dynamic

E- Enthusiastic, Energetic, Enchanting, Encouraging, Enthralling, Elegant, Excellent, Effective, Efficacious, Extraordinary, Elegant, Exceptional, Easygoing, Emotional, Exuberant

F- Fascinating, Forgiving, Fantastic, Funny, Flamboyant, Favorable, Friendly, Fearless, Frank

G- Gallant, Gorgeous, Gifted, Genius, Glorious, Glowing, Gracious, Great, Genuine, Generous, Gregarious

H- Happy, Honest, Helpful, Heavenly, Hilarious, Humorous, Hearty, Humanitarian

I-A- Adorable, Amazing, Attractive, Alluring, Audacious, Adaptable, Adventurous, Affable, Affectionate, Ambitious, Amusing, Awesome

B- Beautiful, Bold, Brainy, Bright, Breathtaking, Blazing, Bubbly, Brazen, Brave, Broad-minded

C- Calm, Caring, Cool, Cheerful, Charming, Confident, Cute, Considerate, Creative, Compassionate, Courteous, Clever, Credible

D- Dear, Daring, Divine, Dauntless, Delightful, Dazzling, Dedicated,
Delectable, Deserving, Determined, Diligent, Dynamic

E- Enthusiastic, Energetic, Enchanting, Encouraging, Enthralling, Elegant, Excellent, Effective, Efficacious, Extraordinary, Elegant, Exceptional, Easygoing, Emotional, Exuberant

F- Fascinating, Forgiving, Fantastic, Funny, Flamboyant, Favorable, Friendly, Fearless, Frank

G- Gallant, Gorgeous, Gifted, Genius, Glorious, Glowing, Gracious, Great, Genuine, Generous, Gregarious

H- Happy, Honest, Helpful, Heavenly, Hilarious, Humorous, Hearty, Humanitarian

I- Incredible, Inspirational, Inspiring, Impeccable, Ingenious, Impressive, Innovative, Insightful, Incandescent, Intense, Intrepid, Impartial, Imaginative, Independent, Intuitive, Inventive, Intellectual, Intelligent

J- Jolly, Joyful, Jubilant, Jovial, Joyous

K- Keen, Kind, Kindhearted, Knowledgeable

L- Lively, Lovable, Lovely, Luscious, Lady, Loyal

M- Mettlesome, Marvelous, Majestic, Motivating, Moral, Modest, Magnanimous

N- Nubile, Natural, Nice, Neoteric, Noble, Neat

O- Outstanding, Obliging, Optimistic, Open, Open-minded,

P- Positive, Passionate, Patient, Perfect, Progressive, Productive, Placid, Phenomenal, Potent, Plucky, Persuasive, Philosophical, Polite, Practical, Peppy

Q- Quiet, Quirky

R- Ravishing, Radiant, Rightful, Resolute, Responsible, Reliable, Reserved,
Romantic

S- Sweet, Strong, Stunning, Spirited, Sincere, Special, Smart, Sensible, Sensitive, Shy, Straightforward, Sympathetic, Scintillating, Sensuous

T- Thrilling, Tenacious, Talented, Trustworthy, Thoughtful

U- Unselfish, Upbeat, Uplifting, Upstanding

V- Vivacious, Vigorous, Valiant, Understandable, Versatile

W- Witty, Wise, Wild, Worthy, Wonderful, Welcoming, Warmhearted,
Willing

X- Xenodochial, Xenial

Y- Youthful

Z- Zesty

Source: google

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Monsoon

Today it poured so heavily
That it gave a safe hideout,
For tears to flow un-noticed,
And it gave a chance to the
safety valve of my heart
to ease some pressure.

The rain is very rare these days
So my clots are very thick inside,
Infact it's clotting since that rainy day
when you left me  inundated.

Hope this Monsoon will again Submerge me deep in it's depth
So that I can wash the fading you And clean my slate to draw again.

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Infosys Toastmaster 571th Meeting, theme:Down the memory lane

Some choose to be the part of it, some let it go and some treasure it for forever. The 571st meeting of Infosys Toastmasters Bangalore, gave it all to the participants, parting office bearers and in-process becoming one of us- the lovely guests.

The meeting started on nostalgic note by SAA TM Gurmeen and moved on and on by our rock star, VP Ed, MOC, TM Arijit who traversed back in memory lane and acknowledged all the fellow leaders.

The nostalgic baton passed to our Mother India, VP TM Yeshwanthi who left all of us numb and gloomy.

The TAG Team- Timer, Vikram touched the upcoming Infy watch in Mysore campus glory in his moment-in-transit, Ah-Counter, parting AVP Ed TM Utthara, was momentous and Timer, the newbie, TM Vivek touched the new height in assessing the tough moments.

Today's prepared speeches touched new peak on nostalgic graphs. TM Sunder attempted his CC1 whose silver smith's journey less traveled was nostalgically put, extra ordinary life. While, TM Mithilesh in his CC2, tried to connect the audience with Indian 5000 years old illustrious past and its message for current generation with funny visual inclusion of outgoing office bearers' historical incarnation. TM Rituporna attempted his CC2 and took all of us in his devil's dorm, his mom's kitchen. His beautifully crafted script featured insignificant utensils in most significant ways of expressing emotions.

Today's table topic session was at its new level, taken by the master, Indiana Jones of the day, TM Raghvendra which saw maximum guest participation with one guest participant going overboard in advocating for Toastmasters.

The evaluation session was flawless, led by GE and new AVP TM Ruhi who was assisted by evaluators TM Priya, TM Santosh and TM Vignesh who were at their evaluating best.

The event witnessed a jaw dropping, emotional parting speech by our area director TM Divya.

The meeting also handed over their respective.

TM Sundar, TM Tapas and TM Vivek were awarded best prepared speaker, best table topic speaker and best role taker respectively.

Triple Crown awards to TM Karan, TM Rohit and TM Anikesh for completing their CC, ACB and CL journey.

The outgoing VP PR, TM Shiva came up with peculiar way to say thanks to his camaraderie during breaks with out of the box, custom made crowns that garnered nonstop clapping.

Some may say the story book is ending, some may say its new beginning but we toastmasters say it's ever-ever after.

Don't vent off your emotions, channelise it and pass it on to your new official team, the Infy Ignitors.

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Knowledge Transfer, Process Definition

I was in Gurgaon this month from 6-17th June for my company's(Infosys) new process transition work.  The official trip turned very unusual by sudden change in climate and working hours. When you know that you have to sync with your KT, the complete transition process transit to burden from responsibility. I wanted to know many things but you have very little to share. I have long curated template to fill and you have just started working off-late. Only thing to treasure is their smile filled nice professional attitudes. The other party must have acquired the similar notion about me in due process. In the end, it was job well done as per my team's expectations. However, my KT were nice human beings. I liked their company. :)

Apart from work, this trip was filled with four get together and two family unions. The learning is that if you want to meet somebody and you are in their town then the better strategy is go to their home, you will double your enjoyment.

Apart from sharing exciting updates, this time I had a runners delights to share. I found an upper hand in KTing :)

I got new motivation to learn Jazz from one my best pals who is achieving new accolades in his part time dancing career.
Very soon you can see my new jazz avatar. :)

See you on the dance floor,
Bending Mithilesh.

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The plight of Indian Hockey Team

On my to Delhi in Air India Flight- AI 87 5th Jun'16, a poor looking boy was seating next to me in Indian Hockey team jersy.
I asked," Do you play hockey?"
He replied, "I play for India and we are going London to play in Champions Trophy".
I couldn't believe him as all the team members were traveling in economy and no other passengers were showing any intrests in them. They were having same Air India pathetic complimentary meal. While deboarding I asked his name and he said, "My name is Raghunath".
Today, I suddenly caught the same name in the paper. Now I am regretting that I could have a selfie with entire team India.
Even a sports enthu like me ignored the great team, what about cricket-addicted entire India!
No body cares.
What about other games?

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Infosys Toastmasters Bangalore Election (Jun'16) Testimony- My Campaign

Today, Infosys Toastmaster Bangalore conducted election to elect its office bearers. I contested and got elected for Associate Vice President Membership role, with overwhelming majority of 33-7.
Like every little success, here too involve big efforts.

My Testimony

Thank you all.

I heard, I did well in my remote presence. 😃

This campaigning could not have been possible without the seeding of Yesh and constant encouragement of my respected mentor Rohit. 

I know, I have issues with my basics, so I did a little extra. It was the 22nd recording that I sent and similarly I worked on ppt. I Whatsapp-ed everyone whom I know to vote for me. I reactivated my facebook after 7 months so that I can reach out to fellow Toastmaters.

I could have done little less but this is nothing what I have set for myself and my Toastmaters.

Miles to go before we really start.

Thank you guys for your faith in me.

Altius, Citius, Fortius!👍✌✊

My Recorded Pitch

My Power Point Slide

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Orlando shootings - A tribute in Harvey Milk Voice

"Orlando shootings" reminds me Harvey Milk of Milk(2008) portrayed by Sean Penn.

A Tribute 

Harvey Milk: [Voice Over, Last lines] I ask this... If there should be an assassination, I would hope that five, ten, one hundred, a thousand would rise. I would like to see every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out - - If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door... And that's all. I ask for the movement to continue. Because it's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power... it's about the "us's" out there. Not only gays, but the Blacks, the Asians, the disabled, the seniors, the us's. Without hope, the us's give up - I know you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. So you, and you, and you... You gotta give em' hope... you gotta give em' hope.💐💐💐

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Toastmasters Lesson from Modi's US Congress Address (8th June, 2016)

Today's Modi's US Congress address was one of the best in recent times. Here, are the lessons a toastmaster can take from his today's speech:

1. During speech if there is an applause, take a pause look into audience's eyes with same tempo and start again after the applause
2. Say it with conviction
3. Know your audience, script should relate to the audience
4. Edify yourself along with audience
5. End with humor that relates with audience and you
6. Doesn't matter one bit if English isn't your first language, you can still ace it (TM Suhash)
7. Crack a joke or two... even US Congress men like humor (TM Amogh)
8. If your audience appears tired, say Thank You and sit down. The audience will remember you throughout their lives (TM Ashutosh)

Best of Speech

With all the Modi's Speech Evaluators 

Toastmaster Mithilesh Kumar

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My top 10 Songs- Hollywood & Bollywood

Hollywood

My top 10 favorite songs of all time goes like:

10) Sing for the moment- Eminem/ Aerosmith
9) Loose yourself- Eminem
8) A day in the life- Beatels
7) High way to hell- AC/DC
6) I have a dream - ABBA
5) Let it go- Frozen
4) Hotel California- Eagles
3) Whole Lotta love- Led Zeppelin
2) Dream On - Aerosmith
1) Stairway to heaven- Led Zeppelin

Bollywood

10) Sapno se bhare Naina - Luck by chance
9) Behti hawa sa tha wo - 3 Idiots
8) Agar tum sath ho - Tamasha
7) Sanso ki mala - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
6) Khawaza mere Khawaza/ Maula mere maula - Jodha Akbar/Delhi 6
5) Tu kisi rail si gujarti hai - Masaan
4) Bawara man dekhne chala ek sapna - Hazaar Khawahishe aisi
3) Humari Gali - Raincoat
2) Sochta hu ki wo kitni masum hai- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
1) Mast nazro se allah bachaye- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

(Compiled for the theme promotion of  Toastmasters, theme- Music Mania, Infy Toastmasters)

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