ದೀಪವು ನಿನ್ನದೆ ಗಾಳಿಯು ನಿನ್ನದೆ ಆರದಿರಲಿ ಬೆಳಕು
ಕಡಲು ನಿನ್ನದೆ ಹಡಗು ನಿನ್ನದೆ, ಮುಳುಗದಿರಲಿ ಬದುಕು

ಬೆಟ್ಟವು ನಿನ್ನದೆ, ಬಯಲು ನಿನ್ನದೆ, ಹಬ್ಬಿ ನಗಲಿ ಪ್ರೀತಿ
ನೆಳಲೋ ಬಿಸಿಲೋ ಎಲ್ಲವೂ ನಿನ್ನದೆ ಇರಲಿ ಏಕರೀತಿ

ಆಗೂಂದು ಸಿಡಿಲು, ಈಗೊಂದು ಮುಗಿಲು ನಿನಗೆ ಅಲಂಕಾರ
ಅಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಹಕ್ಕಿ, ಇಲ್ಲೊಂದು ಮುಗುಳು, ನಿನಗೆ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ

ಅಲ್ಲಿ ರಣದುಂದುಭಿ, ಇಲ್ಲೊಂದು ವೀಣೆ, ನಿನ್ನ ಪ್ರತಿಧ್ವನಿ
ಆ ಮಹಾಕಾವ್ಯ, ಈ ಭಾವಗೀತೆ ನಿನ್ನ ಪದಧ್ವನಿ

"Mom, can I remove my glass?"


When my little hero called his mom asking whether he can remove the glass in the morning hours my heart totally broke out. He is just six years now, and as per the suggestion of the doctor we have got him specs.

Till yesterday he was running here and there without having any problem or we have not noticed his blurrness in vision. He can shout me - "Pappa see there ia airoplane in the sky" but howcome we missed to notice the problem?


My heart started singing the tune of "ದೀಪವು ನಿನ್ನದೆ ಗಾಳಿಯು ನಿನ್ನದೆ ಆರದಿರಲಿ ಬೆಳಕು"


I have seen lot of kids wearing specs and it is very difficult to express the feeling of parents when their little ones are forced to wear specs. Though it is always easy to say the it is another tools for improving the sight, i can not console myself.

Feed Back - TM P 02 - New Year Resolutions

08 January 2003

Speech Evaluator -
1. Speech Value: Quite Relevant & Meaningful
2. Preparation: Well research, nice
3. Organization: Smooth & flawless
4. Opening: Impressive
5. Body: Well planned; very optimum supported material
6. Conclusion: Conclusion could have been bettter, rated satisfactory
7. Transitions: Transitions could have been used at more places

Interesting opening with question!
Natural conversation style,
Well supported body; with a touch of humour
Own Example

TM Nirlep Bhat

Others:
1. TM Govind Raj - "Welldone Uday. Excellent improvement in your speech. Keep going, very enthusiastic & Interesting speech"

2. TM Jithu - "Superb one Uday. It was like seeing you hit a six in Ideal School. Excellent speech. Keep Going ;)

3. TM Amrita - "A very well written, nice & inspiring speech"

4. TM Suresh - "Good speech. Lots of improvement from the previous one keep it up"

5. TM Venkat - "Very good P2. I liked the way your thought flowed all along. Good opening, body & conclusion. Welldone"

6. TM Sandip Choudhary - "1. Well Organised     2. Well Presented  3. Humouros"

7. TM Girish Jain (Mentor) - "Excellent Speech, Very confident, thanks for incorporating my suggestion. Very welldone, keep it up, good going"

8.TM George Issac - "Great speech, well delivered! Good start to the speech - asking questions. Good body and content, and a good close. Some hesitation in places, but overall a very good speech"

9. TM Ravi - "Excellent! Well prepared speech. Without note you have done! Wish you all the best for future projects"

10. TM SinghaRaju - "Shetty Fantastic!!! Wonderful speech & entertaining really enjoyed it."
      "Suggession - There was still slight nervousness which can be overcome through more practice"


 

Feedback - Ice breaking Speech

Date: 27 November 2012

Ice Breaking Speech

TM Sudhir: (Evaluator)

1.       Confident

2.       Good speaking skills

3.       No nervousness

4.       Speech Objectives attained

5.       Sense of Awareness

6.       Improve pace & voice modulation (Mirror practice)

Regards

Others

TM Nirlep Bhat:

·         Very nice end!

·         Good usage of humor

·         Nice confidence & Natural Style

TM Singa Raju:

Shetty, Wonderful speech & I really enjoyed it. I liked ur enthusiasm.

Suggesstion: May like to slowdown a bit

TM Ravi:

Excellent! Well done Udhay, wish you all the best for the future projects

TM Suresh:

Good attempt. Keep it up. Good humor as well

A Friend:

Very nice, presentable & very good communication skill. All the best.

TM Project: P 02 - New Year Resolutions

Introduction:

Happy New year

How many of you make New Year resolutions? How many of you stick to your new year resolutions?

It’s not surprising to see lesser number of hands. As per Research 90% of people give up their resolutions before end of January. And guess what, majority of remaining 10% people give it up before end of the year. Initial Enthusiasm seen in January vanishes soon just like a piece of butter placed in a hot pan!!! Guess why???

Toast Master of the Day, Fellow Toast Masters today I will share some tips with you to reach at new year resolutions successfully.

Try “to GET” instead of “to GET RID OF

Majority of new year resolutions fail because people desperately look to run away from some of their bad behavior or bad habit. Instead of focusing on running away from something focus on running towards something. Running away from something works only when you are chased by a hungry dog.

When you try to unlearn any of your bad behavior or bad habit, you think more about bad than good. For example while delivering a speech if you think about nervousness more nervous you will. Instead focus on how would you feel if you deliver the speech successfully.

Quit Smoking Resolution

Quit Smoking is one of the prominent new year resolution for those who want to fly away their stress through smoke. Zig Ziglar a powerful motivational speaker was three pack a day smoker, cigar was just like sixth finger in his hand. He took a new year resolution to quit smoking. I think he was so passionate about the resolution he took same resolution for more than 20 years. He tried many ways from applying patches to destroying the matches but he could not break the grip.

Finally he changed his approach. Instead of focusing on quitting smoking he developed a dream to become non-smoker. He loved the idea of breathing clean air instead of smoky. He wanted his body and clothes to smell nice instead of smoky. He started act like a non-smoker and think like a non-smoker. Once the thinking took hold of him he simply quit smoking.

Avoid Procrastination:

Another popular New Year resolution is to avoid procrastination. People procrastinate for cover up their short comings. There is always a tendency to delay the things. If we see the task to be completed is very lengthy or tall to complete in a give time make it into shorter. Try to do it in time instead of delaying. Yesterday is history tomorrow is mystery, today is gift. Do the things now itself and avoid procrastination.

Same way urge to eat even though you don’t need to eat. Urge to eat is a mind game than of physical need. People should eat to live instead of live to eat.   Eat healthy live healthy.

My Experience:

Once you develop a new habit or took a new resolution how to stick to it? Take the help of friends and spouse. They will sincerely help you.

I will tell you my own experience. Last year I took a new year resolution to get up early in the morning and do jogging. I told my wife about my resolution, she started waking me up at 5 in the morning and she is going back to sleep. I was very happy that my wife is so much supportive about my resolution. Do you know the real reason? I do snore a lot while sleeping, if wakes me up at 5 in the morning she can have few hours of peaceful sleep in the morning.

So your friends and spouse will help you in reaching your goal if not for selfless reasons at least for their selfish reasons. And also they will get a share of credit if you succeed in your resolution.

Conclusion:

New Year resolutions are easy to make but difficult to sustain. As per a survey it takes 3 weeks to develop a new habit and it takes 6 months to make it part of your life. And it takes just a week to give it up completely. Giving up is so easy. Focus on what you want to become instead of what you don’t want to become. Take the help of friends and spouse, just like I did. I am sure you will reach all your resolutions successfully in the year 2013.

Over to you the Toast Master of the Day.

Ice Breaking Specch

Good evening fellow Toast Masters and distinguished guests.

Today I am standing in front of you to take you all thru my journey of life till date.

I hope you have all tasted “Idli”, “Vada” and Masala Dosa’s on one or the other occasion. If not I urge you to go out and find a “Udupi” restaurant which is available in every corner of the world and taste idli, vada or Masala Dosa. My name is Uday Shetty and I am coming from “Udupi” city of Karnataka State in India.

Just like my hometown I am proud about my surname “Shetty”. Famous film personalities – Aishwarya Rai, Shilpa Shetty and Suneil Shetty belong to same community.

I am born to a Shetty family from Udupi. We are four brothers and I am the youngest. My first two elder brothers are into business. My third elder brother has done M Tech from IIT Powai, he is now working with TCS. All my elder brothers are happily married and blessed with kids.

I have done my basic education from Udupi. I have done my CA articleship training under M/s Kamath Shetty & Co, Chartered Accountants Udupi.

My father was a farmer and mother is a home maker. My father was a very simple man with high ethics in the life. He has inculcated great values in us.

My mother mentored us in each and every aspect of life. She has infused the self-confidence especially in me to become Chartered Accountant.

As Stephen Covey puts it - “There are only two lasting bequests we can give to our children - one is roots, the other wings”.

We are blessed to get both these gifts in the form of good education and moral values. We have reached a reasonable level due to the values our parents have developed in us.

Year 2000 was remarkable year in my life. It was both happy and sad year for me. It was a happy year since I was qualified as Chartered Accountant in that year however unfortunately my father expired just 10 days prior to my CA final exams.

Since we are from agricultural background we used to work at our fields during holidays and weekends. Apart from this I have assisted a lawyer during my article ship period.  I have done CA course without any coaching.

I have received scholarship from Chauthmull Kandoi Charitable Trust Cuttack and Bunts Alias Nadavara Sangha during my CA article ship period.

I was active in NCC and NSS during my graduation days. I have attended several camps of NCC and NSS during that period.

I was selected by The ACC Ltd in the Bangalore campus of ICAI held for the fresh CA’s qualified in the exam held at November 2000.

I have worked in different sectors varying from Cement, Telecom, Technology, MEP Contracting and Construction sector over the period. Moved on to Saudi, UAE and now in Qatar.

I got married in the year 2006. My wife - Smitha has done B.E. in Electronics and Communication. She has worked as lecturer at an Engineering college at Udupi. Now she has taken the role of home maker. Smitha is very much supportive in all my activities. 

We are blessed with a kid. His name is Abhiman. He is now studying in KG II. Abhiman is attending Karate classes now. I am sure he will get black belt in couple of years’ time. Already he has started showing his martial arts at home. My wife told me to better scold my son now as much as possible because i am not going to get this opportunity after he gets black belt. He is a Jumba dancer as well. He is very much interested in clicking the photos and he is our photographer for family programs.

I like to go on long drive, reading newspapers, writing short stories and playing cricket.  I like to travel to new places along with family.

I am thankful to Ex-com of CA Toast Masters club for inviting me to join the TM Club for improvement of my communication skills. Long journey starts with a small step.

Over to you the toast master of the day.