Blog of Kim Loon » Laughter http://www.kimloon.com Random Thoughts from Kim Loon - Self Improvement, Toastmaster, Photography, Web Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:48:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Situation with Careless Language Usage http://www.kimloon.com/2010/03/situation-with-careless-language-usage/ http://www.kimloon.com/2010/03/situation-with-careless-language-usage/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:20:16 +0000 Kim Loon http://www.kimloon.com/?p=209 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> In our everyday conversation, we have a tendency to be careless in our English Language. Sometimes, our carelessness could result in unintended message.

During a Toastmasters Meeting, I was guiding a first time evaluator to evaluate a Project 2 Speech on Organize Your Speech. The speaker was young beautiful lady.

I started by guiding by asking, “What do you think of her introduction?”

“What do you think of her conclusion?”

And lastly, I asked, “What do you think of her BODY?”

At this point, a senior Toastmaster cautioned me, “Hi, mind your wordings, it is her speech body, not her body!”

In this situation, it clearly demonstrated the importance of being careful in our wordings. A missing word could have a completely different meaning and lead to embarrassing situation.

Imagine, the evaluator, standing in front of everyone, commented, “You have an interesting body.”

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I had a good laugh. This song highlights the interesting part of office life.
Recently, for unknown reason, I decided to go to YouTube and check if there is a music video on this.

And there are many music video made for this SONG.

Anyway, I picked one to be put here.

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]]> http://www.kimloon.com/2009/11/my-cubicle-the-music-video/feed/ 0 A Morning at Chatuchak Weekend Market http://www.kimloon.com/2009/09/a-morning-at-chatuchak-weekend-market/ http://www.kimloon.com/2009/09/a-morning-at-chatuchak-weekend-market/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0000 Kim Loon http://www.kimloon.com/?p=138 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> It was a hot sunny morning at the Chatuchak Weekend Market in Bangkok, Thailand.

Chatuchak Weekend Market is the largest weekend market in Bangkok and contains over 5,000 stalls over 35 acres. Anyone can be easily lost in this big market.

One tourist was looking at his map of the weekend market. He was confused, loss and was wondering his way.

Finally, he shouted, “Will anyone tell me where am I?”

From a distance, a reply came, “You are now in Thailand!”

The tourist quickly yelled back, “Thank you! And I know I am in Bangkok, too!”

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