As many of my Chinese friends celebrate the Year of the OX with their traditional reunion dinners, red packets, tossing of the noodles, mandarin oranges, fire crackers and more so... it gives me a time to put things in perspective as we approach February.
The Govt has released its Budget for 2009. The emphasis is on stimulating businesses : Hence, the need to share the business risk, manpower costs and so on. PM Lee mentioned that it will be better to implement one huge action plan and see how it goes instead of implementing steps of smaller magnitude. Well, rite now, the aims of each package justify its expenditure. We can only see how much are employers going to heed all this advice.
Had an opportunity to be an MC recently for a forum conducted by the NTU SIFE. Strange how as the audience sets the tone and mood for the event. Even before I could finish introducing my final speaker, they had already started applauding. Well was just looking thru some websites on improving myself as an MC. Here goes.
1) Be aware of what your role is : U are not the star!! U are a facilitator for the true stars.
2) Know your introductions of the speakers WELL enough.
3) Keep your presence and speeches succinct
4) Smooth transitions are necessary
5) Its the MC's job to keep the program moving on time
6) Being an MC is hard at first but gets easy as you master the audience and occasion.
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