오래된 미래의 상하이이야기

상해오고 나서 벌써 6곳이 넘는 Toastmasters를 탐방하고 있는 중이다.
북경의 Zhongguancun Toastmasters 클럽이 그렇게 좋은 곳이라고는 전혀 생각도 하지 못하다가
상해에 오고 나서야 얼마나 그곳이 좋은 곳인지를 깨달았는데,
우선 중관촌은 우다코를 끼고 있는 곳이라 학생, 직장인 그리고 심지어는 외국에서 온 다양한 국적의 유학생들
상당히 다양한 인간 군상을 포함하고 있다.

심지어 아시아 최고의 국제도시로 발돋움하고 있는 상해의 클럽을 능가할 정도로 다양성과 구성원들의
수준이 높은 편이다.

상해의 클럽 등은 구성된지가 얼마안되서 수준이 눈에 못미치게 낮거나,
심지어는 대학생들의 동아리 모임을 떠올리게 하는 모임도 있었다.
(이런 클럽에는 Toastmasters의 본래 의미보다는 영어 공부를 위한 클럽으로 여기는 구성원들이 많다)

혹은 상해는 서비스산업이 발달한 곳이라 보니 학원같은 인재양성기관이 많은데, 그곳에 근무하는 강사들이
Toastmasters를 본업의 연장선상으로 삼아서 필드 테스트를 하는 분위기의 클럽이 많다.
이런 곳에 참가한 느낌은 바로 하루종일 열심히 일하고 나서 퇴근후에 다시 학교가서 야간수업 듣는 느낌이다.

심지어는 영어와 중국어로 번갈아 가면서 모임을 하는 Bilingual 클럽도 참석했다가
오늘 상해에서는 꽤 유명한 편인 인민광장 People's Square Toastmasters에 참가를 했는데,
(여기는 저번에 참석했다가 너무 분위기가 자유롭게, 내가 나이든게 느겨져서 생각을 접었던 곳이기도 하다)
그래도 역시 여기가 가장 활기차고 다양한 구성원들이 있고 또 새로운 사람들이 많이 오는 곳 같아서
이 클럽에 참가하기로 대략 마음을 굳혔다.


Table Topic를 하는 참가자의 모습.
Big Joe라고 불리는 이 친구, 아주 걸물이다


이 친구는 호주에서 왔는데, 앞에 나오자 마자 판사가 아니라고 일부러 강조를 하더군.
사실, 정말 판사 비슷하게 분장을 하고 나온 줄 알았다.
Grammarian 역할을 했는데, 영미권 국가의 모임에서는 Grammarian이 없다는 사실을 이 친구를 통해서 알았다.
사실, 있을 필요가 없지 않은가, 모국어인데... ㅎㅎ~

Darren LaCroix- the Toastmasters International 2001 World Champion of Public Speaking.
5월말 상해에서 열린 토스트마스터즈 China Conference에서 가장 유익했었던 강연은
역시 2001년 대중연설 월드 챔피언을 먹은 Darren의 강연이었다.

1. Never turn down Stage Time- 성장은 관중앞에 서있는 시간과 비례, 실패를 많이 할수록 성장
2. Record- 대런은 자기의 강연을 녹화한 수백개의 비디오테입사진을 보여주었다
3. Be competent enough to be humble
4. Crave feedback- 피드백을 갈망하다
5. Thought process in listener's mind
6. Pose- Speech는 monologue(독백)이 아니라 dialogue(대화)이다. 연설중간에 말을 잠깐 멈춤으로서 관중에게 생각을 시간을 주고 관중과 무언의 대화를 할 수 있다.
7. Can't wait to give it- 자기가 정말 관심있어 하고 그 얘기를 하고 싶어서 못견디는 얘기를 하라.

#기타
-Get to your points
-Story of mine-> how to connect audience: 관중은 자신에게 가장 큰 관심이 있다. 내 이야기를 관중에게 이어줘야 한다. WIIFM(What's in in for me?)
-Change of characters: 이야기안에서 인물의 성격이 변화하면 이야기의 생동감이 생긴다.


 

This is Beijing.

 

Did you want to come to Beijing?

I guess the answer is yes, since you are in Beijing.

When I lived in Qingdao, I was dreaming about Beijing.

Qingdao is a good place to live, but there was nothing new after living there for a year.

 

After arriving in Beijing, I was so eager to travel the city like looking for the treasure.

Then, I happened to know there was television program “This is Beijing” and it shows many historical sites. Moreover, they already published a book.

I bought the book immediately and made a plan to visit at least one place a week.

Later, I managed to visit only one place every two month.

 

The first place I went is DA Zhong Si, a big bell temple.

Because every time I heard DA Zhong Si Station on the subway, I was thinking

1.    DA Zhong Si is nearby

2.    There might be a Big Bell, since it is called DA Zhong Si.

Then, I was wondering how big the bell is.

 

So, I went there and found out that

There was the biggest bell in the world, which weighs more than 46 tons, which means it is heavier than me by 715 times.

It is already 600 years old and has 230,000 characters of Buddhist scriptures on the bell.

Yong Le emperor, the third emperor of Ming Dynasty, ordered to make the big bell after killing a lot of people to be an emperor. I guess that’s why the bell has Buddhist scripture on it.

 

 

What do you think this place is?

The second place I want to talk is Kong Miao(Confucius temple)

I have walked around Guozijian Street before, but never entered the Kong Miao, because I thought 20 RMB for the entrance ticket was too expensive.

After reading an article about Kong Miao, however, I decided to check it out.

It turned out to be a really wonderful. No wonder the entrance ticket is 20RMB.

 

There are hundreds of gravestones which have names of people who passed the imperial examination over the several hundred years.

I also found a sundial and checked the time with my watch. It was faster than my watch only by 5 minutes.

It is somewhat disappointing that there were only few Chinese people compared with foreigners visiting Kong Miao.

When I went to Westminster Abbey in London or Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, there were a lot of local people as well as travelers visiting there and enjoy them.

Especially, British people respect their tradition and history which has been transferred from their ancestors over the past.

 

It is the time that we should pay more attention to our own tradition and history.

Don’t forget that this is Beijing which is filled with tradition and history.

Zhongguancun Toastmasters Club had a election on June.10. and chose new executive committee as below. New executive committee will start their work from July.1

President:Kinky
VPE:Lily Yunfei(A)
VPM:Cindy Lichuan(A)
VPPR: Lisha Sammi(A)
Treasurer: Allen Amy(A)
Secretary: Marilyn Chillin(A)
SAA: Shell Ruth(A) Michael(A)

Our President Cliff always looked resolute, especially with his hand gestures :-)



I guess Kinky, our new president, will bring new, fresh atmosphere into our club.



Kinky were already quite happy with the gavel she will use soon.



Emlyn(Yunfei) made a speech of running for not CMO(Chief Martial Arts Officer), but Assistant to V.P.Education. If anybody will not be at the meeting as scheduled, he/she should expect blow from flying cloud from now on.



Lily was persuading people to vote for her to be V.P.Education. Did you watch all of Darren's material? I guess you watched at least some of them.



The only PK we had that day. Allen(also can be called Ten Thousand Tigers!) and Amy runned for the treasurer and Allen managed to win. Amy will help Allen as an assistant to treasurer.



Marilyn delivered the wonderful speech that day and also was giving us her lovely speech for being a secretary.



Keith,our district governor, came to our club to compliment our club's achivement in such a short period. I was looking for the chance to say hello to him, since I already saw him in Shanghai's conference. But, I failed to catch the chance, because he seemed so busy :-)

I hope all new executive members enjoy their role and bring new energy to our club!

Door to the conference. So Toastmaster Club is 演讲会 in Chinese, huh..




Before Darren's stage time on May.30, you can see Darren & his girlfriend near the wall.

The second best thing of the conference was this little snack we could enjoy all the time.

I was wondering what this bald guy was doing with the beauty at the conference. Later I got to understand why this beauty was with this man, Darren.




The stage time was just about to start. I cannot describe how wonderful he delivered his speech. It's just 只能意会，不能言传。

Before the conference on May.31

We are ready to enjoy, Toastmasters!




I was on the stage and quite excited even if I didn't say anything.




Chris was delivering his 11th speech and ...




received the best speech award from Cliff (in their wildest dream!)

Actually, we were taking photos on the stage in the break time.

Gamp, Jaehyun and Cliff who is dangerous, especially for SHEEP!




Oh, I couldn't forget to say. Cliff was quite famous at the conference with this note. Cliff Li- president of Zhongguancun TM looking for a hot, rich man(!)

Stage time again with our members. Chris, Joy, Cliff, Matt, Lily, Gamp and Jaehyun.




Speakers- Zhuchiren, Dinah, Leah, Joe, Erik, Peter Wan, Polo. Leah, Peter, Joe got 1, 2, 3 respectively.




Volunteers who made our conference wonderful. Yes, we love TMC!

Spring Outing@Cherry Valley
Area N12 Level Speech and Evaluation Contest on April.8 

With a line-up of the area’s best speakers and evaluators from Zhongguancun, China Capital, Microsoft Beijing, and Speak Easy @ SunBeijing Club, it was an event that we will not forget. Lily and Catherine took part in the contest as a speaker and an evaluator respectively. By a really close vote, Lily won the second best speaker award and Catherine got the second best evaluator award.

全家福 as of April.8

April.8’s meeting was also the last meeting Tina attended before heading to Seatle and we took a photo together. There were Tina, Helen, Liu yi, Marilyn, Kat, Sophia, Gamp, Melody, Kinky, Cindy, Shell, Catherine, Chris, Lily, Sammi, David, Jaehyun and Cliff.

When we see this photo ten years later, we will miss the day we participated together and maybe regret a bit and think we could have been more enthusiastic.

 

Chris Married and went to Suzhou 

Our very distinguished CEO and speaker Chris married and left us. On his last speech, Chris gave us an overview of his Competitive Communicator journey by showing us seasoned speeches of Reagan, Martin Luther King (Yes, I have a dream!) and so on. We learned that our final objective of Competitive Communicator Program were “Persuade” and “Inspire” by being “Persuaded” and “Inspired” by Chris’s final speech.

PS Our CEO post is available. Any applicant?

Today's speech was successful, even though I couldn't get the best prepared speech award.
I knew what the most important objective of the speech is.

It is to inspire people with what you know and what you believe.
In order to do that, the most important part of the speech is the contents.
How well I deliver the speech is not as important as I thought.

Persuade and Inspire the audience with your IDEAS!

To be a millionaire
 

What is your goal in your life?

To work as long as you can and save enough money for the life after the retirement. It seems that the only way we can secure the life in our sixties or seventies is to work until retirement.

But, there is another way if you see things differently.

You can choose to be a millionaire! Maybe you can be a millionaire in your forties. If you invest $1 million wisely, you can get a ROI(return on investment) of $100,000 every year.

Then you don’t have to work 9 to 6 (or 9 in the evening) from Monday to Saturday in the small office like the cage.

Instead, you can do

10 days’ trip to Hawaii for two people $ 11,000

52 times’ eating out for $ 100        $ 5,200

Buying a Mercedes                  $ 7,220

Golf club membership               $ 5,000

Weekly Spa                         $ 5,200

Sounds amazing, huh?

 

Then, what do you have to do to be a millionaire?

Here are the most important three factors to become a millionaire.

-      How long you invest?

-      How much money you invest?

-      How much is your return on investment?

 

Start with saving money if you want to be a millionaire.

The author recommends to save 15 % of your salary after the tax.

But, I plan to save 50% of my salary when I start to make a money again.

If you have enough money, you can be a millionaire only with 10% or 15 % of ROI.

If you want to be a millionaire with not a big money, you have to get 30% to 40% of ROI. In this case, you start your own business to get more than 40 % ROI, or if you are really a genius at investment, you can make a 40% ROI in the stock market.

 

One thing I should add is that the longer you invest, the more you can make.

So, it’s better start to save and early as early as possible.

 

Thinking alone couldn’t give you any return.

Start to act to be a millionaire now and you will be a millionaire.

Joy of Speaking on Mar.4

We had a joint meeting with Speakeasy and 6 prepared speeches, Lily, Kat, Cliff from ZTC and Melanie, Colin, Jian from Speakeasy. Now we knew how exciting it is to see 6 brilliant speeches at one time, rather than in two weeks.

Lily, Melanie got the best speech awards, and Chris and Aaron got the best evaluator awards. At that day, Lily delivered “Prison Break” first.

Taboo Guessing Game and PaiX2

On Mar.11, Claudia made us do Taboo guessing game, which was quite fresh and also difficult(!). Do any of you who had to explain the word remember it?

I do. Aqua jogging!

Gamp, our distinguished V.P.E, delivered his CC9 speech about PaiX2, also had another name of Pangzi.

 

Excellent Speeches on Mar 18

Do you still remember this day? Claudia delivered her first speech named “Culture Shock”. After hearing her speech, some of us thought she would get the best award. And she would, if it was a normal day. Then, Marilyn made a really heartbreaking speech “My Father”. It is about being back in hometown after 8 years. That’s not an end. Chris delivered his CC9 speech “How to Start a War”. All speeches were really brilliant and the best speech award went to Marilyn.

 

"Club Level International Speech Contest & Evaluation Contest"

Lily, Kat, Liu yi, David and Jaehyun took part in the speech contest and Catherine, Marilyn, Chillin and Tina participated in the evaluation contest.

Lily and Catherine won the best speech award and the best evaluation award respectively.

모임 시작하기전에 크리스가 간단하게 영어강의를 하고 있다.
저때 크리스가 느끼는 심정을 나도 대충 알지.
아마, 모국어를 가르치는 수월함과 다른 사람의 시선을 받는데서 느끼는 약간의 즐거움이 아닐까?




나의 롤모델, 릴리. TV, 영화전공인데도 영어스피치를 기막히게 잘 한다.
혹시 외국에서 산 경험이 있나? 다음에 만날 때 물어봐야 겠다.




데이빗. 사실 이전 2번의 스피치는 좀 알아듣기 힘들었는데, 엊그제는 훨씬 이해하기가 쉬웠다.
장족의 발전.
양복의 깃이 바깥으로 접혀진 것 보고 나가서 고쳐주고 싶은 충동을 꽤나 받았다는...




집에서 거울로 볼 때마다 조금 인물이 나아 보이는 구만, 하하...
엊그제의 스피치는 사실 당황스러울 정도로 엉망진창이 되었지만,
별로 티내지 않고 마지막까지 끝낸 점에 점수를 주고 싶다는...




참가기념증서를 받았다.
저거 받을 때는 그래도 기분이 좋았는데, 나중에 5명중에 3명이 상이 받는 것을 볼때는 약간 착잡...




휴식시간의 모습. 제일 앞에 보이는 소피아는 위구르 족 아가씨인데, 무척 착하다.
내가 연설할때 시간이 얼마 남았다는 카드를 보여줬는데, What do you mean by that? 이라고 해버려서
미안했다. 전혀 필요치 않고 무례한 얘기를 할 정도로 사실 그때 경황이 없었나 보다.


 

필리핀에서 온 화교 Kat주위로 한 무리의 필리친 친구들이 모여있다.
다들 어언학원에서 중국어 어학연수를 하고 있는데, 우리 모임에 오는 걸 좋아한다.
하긴, 나도 필리핀에서 영어연수하면서 영어때문에 스트레스받고 있는데,
현지인들이 한국어로 발표하는 모임같은 걸 하고 있으면 당연히 재밌게 여겨질 테지.

좀 더 이 친구들에게 관심을 가지고 친절히 대해줄 수 있었는데, 아직 별로 관심을 기울여주질 못했다.
사실 중국에서 중국인보다 필리핀사람들에게 관심 가질 이유도 없고 그리고 필리핀을 그렇게 대단하게 보지도
않기 때문이지만,
아직도 이런 자기중심적인 가치관을 가지고 다른 사람을 형량하고 그들에게 관심을 기울이지 않다니,
쩝... 나도 인격수양이 덜됐다.








Kat의 필리핀 친구가 노래를 부르고 있다. 우다코우에 있는 Lush에도 일요일인가 출연을 한다고 한다.

 


스피치 경연대회외의 스피치평가대회에 참가한 평가단들이 2,1,3등상을 든채 사진을 찍고 있다.




이 날의 스피치 경연대회의 입상자들.
Kat 2등, 릴리 1등, 3등 데이빗은 이미 가버려서 클리프가 대신 상장을 들고 있다.
아, 저 동메달도 얼마나 탐스러워 보이던지...




Kat이 받은 은메달이다. 어디서 만든 건지 모르겠지만, 제법 괜찮아보였다는...

   Today is the 12,707th day I lived on the planet earth.
   I don’t know why but recently, I recalled some past experiences and people I know like my ex-girlfriend. But my reminiscing only started after 2003, the year I came to China.
   When I get tired from thinking about my ex-girlfriend and my days at Qingdao I suddenly wondered how I was Like 10 years ago.

   Let me see, hmm.
   In 1998 the whole country was going through a financial crisis, I was a junior in a university then. While many people in Korea Struggled to make both ends meet, I was enjoying the most affluent time of my life.
   I was teaching English and Mathematics to a couple of middle school students several times a week. Meanwhile, I didn’t have much time to study.
   Yes, it was the richest time in my life also because I still got money from my parents.
   Now I 'm thinking , I shouldn't have asked money from them.

And I was much younger than now.
   Even if somebody here is still younger than the age I was in 1998, I can be definitely satisfied with my age at that time.
  I didn’t worry about the age, when I first got to China 5 years ago.
   But, nowadays I feel the pressure of my age. Because I think I could have done better and might have had more.

   As for a girl friend, I didn’t have one in 1998. Neither do I, now.
   No difference. But, my younger brother always had a girl friend those days.
   Now, he is already married. So, the same thing happens all the time.

   Then, I started to wonder which incident triggered the dramatic change in my life.
    It was when I resigned from the company I first worked for in 2001.
   When I quitted the company, I dreamt of a different kind of life.
   Actually, I didn’t know it clearly, but I wanted to have something different.
   After the resignation, my life has not been very stable.

I tried to be a news reporter and a pilot, which is my third biggest mistake and started to work in China and finally study in Beijing. When my ex-girl friend told me that I was too unstable for her to think her future life with me,
   I didn’t understand what she meant. But, now I understand what she said.

   Take a comparison with my friend who still works for the first company I worked.
   He has worked for that company for 8 years and will be a manager soon.
   He got married and already bought an apartment in Seoul, which I am not sure when I can buy mine.

Okay, let’s try to see the bright side.

   First, after quitting the company, I happened to have much time to study English as well as Chinese so that I can read books in Chinese and English,  even if it takes much more time than the time I spend with Korean books.
   It is really wonderful to read in Chinese and English, because both culture are very rich and lots of interesting thing to know. Also, when we read the translated books, tendency is we might miss the real essence of its meaning.

Second, I am not married yet, which also means I can be much happier with a companion who I don’t know yet. Because I am already happy with myself. But, I am not quite sure I can find. Let’s wait more.
   Third, I am much more generous than before, because I happened to meet many people and also went through some difficult time.

I have learned to be thankful and be satisfied with the things I have and what I am now.
   Most importantly, my mom said that she thought I am far better son than 10 years ago. So, it’s quite certain that I am more considerate person than before.