Dear friendsThis blog has been relatively inactive due to the first year or so spending time with my beautiful baby daughter grow up. She's now all of 15 months old and is the light of my life.I'm getting back into toastmastering bit by bit and will...

I continue to be on a sabbatical from toastmastering due to my daughter being born in March 2008. Her presence has enriched my life and made me realise that as much as I enjoy toastmastering, I need to take time off to see her grow up for the first...

One of the things that I've learnt as a toastmaster is that learning never stops. Once we stop learning, our brain atrophies and old connections between our brain cells either stop working or become less active.Besides joining a toastmasters club and...

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