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A Hastened Speech, a Slow Chain of Changes Preface: I wrote this bad-prepared speech 30 minutes before my speech-making time at Toastmasters Club. Yet to my relaxation, I heard ppl laughing and saw them nodding during my performance. These days my focus is on my life changes, so I dont have much inspiration and time for decent blogging. Just give you this shxit speech if you dont mind. My purpose is to arouse you to changes in 2007. Come, join me.... Do you know what zodiac year is 2007 in lunar calendar? Yes, almost everybody knows it? Any pigs here? And do you know what’s most important to do in this year a/c to the bestseller fortune-telling book by HK fengshui master Lee Koi Ming? Change! The master says, 2007 is a year of change. If you don’t make changes this year, you are almost doomed! This is not a threat, believe it or not. But this is my advice. I will be practicing the theory of change in 2007. My first step is to change my hairdo. (see? Comments are welcome in breaktime. Haha..) I’ve made it, although I received some unfavorable comments, a friend said I looked like a Gongbei hairwashing girl. Really? I said, it doesn’t matter, it matters that I made change. I have plans to make more change in 2007, following strictly Mr. Lee Koi Ming’s mantra. Let me leak some to you. For example, to change my habit of being lazy, to change my habit of talking too much but acting too little, to change my job, to change my living environment, and many others. “To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy. “ as said by Alexander Chase, a famous contemporary Journalist. Not Alexander Mcqueen, the famous fashion designer. But by the way, if Alexander Mcqueen doesn’t change his design but keep it unchanged for ages, would his brand sell well? Would he be a successful fashion designer? Definitely no. We all know, in fashion business, changes are very critical to boost sales. That’s why every year we have different fashion trend. Then how about changes in our own life? And changes that made by ourselves? Have you ever faced the dilemma of taking up changes or not? One of my close friends has talked abt changes for many years, for nearly ten years. Since I knew her, she has talked abt changing her lifestyle. She lives with her family and she always likes to live alone, which means freeing from all the family mess and enjoy life as she likes. Living w/ family is not bad but sometimes it refrains you fm doing something crazy. She keeps talking abt her will to change. Yet she never moves up for changes. Now these two/three years Macau’s housing price has jumped high. “I am doomed, I will never have my own home in Macau.” She murmured sadly, but she has raised a new question, “shall I arrange a home in China? I can just go running customs everyday, I really want to live independently.” She would still keep murmuring such things to my ear time by time, year by year, until one day she really dared to embrace the changes. If she repeats this to me again, I’d shout, “shut up! I'm fed up for your 10 years non-changed empty talk. Change your conversation and action, change! “ I am not better than my friend. I have had plan for an overhaul changes since I was 25. Now you know how old I am?! Little progress on my change plan has been made. Why ppl like her, like me, are afraid of changes? There are two main reasons: 1. Because changes will yield results. But not all results are good, some are bad. Come back to my hair, I really don’t want to change my hairdresser if I could. But I have lost his contact for several years. He was a creative and detail-attentive hairdresser that could design me all the time brilliant hairstyle that can bring out my personality & cover my shortcomings on the head-shape and face. Since I lost him, I’ve changed many hairdressers, but not one satisfactory, incl. this one. I am still looking for my hairdresser. 2. I think this is the most straight reason that prevent us fm making changes. That is, we have fear! By changing sth, we take the changes and the risks as well. Change gives us hope and also fear. And usually the fear is bigger than hope, human nature. A quote goes like this, ‘cease to hope and you’ll cease to fear.’ But I bet no way we should cease to hope. No one would love to live without hope. Do you like hope? Yes. So, don’t cease to hope and start to fear. Make changes! Chaning is challenging. You’ll never know the result if you never try to change. "Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour." If we remain the same lifelong, if we don’t change the bad for the good, we will be doomed, and so will our society. Remember, change means chance, means opportunity, means reform. Self reform and social reform. “It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.”, a/c to Isaac Asimov, a Contemporary American Biochemistry Scientist and Writer. Therefore, if you hesitate to change, take opportunity of this pig year, and be blessed by this golden year of change! Up, change! Change it or be changed by it, you don’t have a third option. Pic. Everybody opens arm for changes alongside the everchanging Skylake water. 
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DVC, Did you ommit the following "The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy"? We naturaly accept getting old but we should keep our spirit young, engergetic. To remain young is to maintain the drive of carrying on. Buddhism notes everything/every body is under constant change. It also emphasizes all is illusion. You are describing change abstractly and what I meant in the speech is for materaially specific changes - those that we can see, touch, feel... Fear is always on our way in every aspect of life. Simplelady, Changes are most of the time good, if not always. Without the drive of changes, we will be still probing in the dark with no light and living like the prehistory ppl. Fm my own experience, I view the fear on change as a human weakness. That's why I am advocating changes that can breed newnesses. Sure it's up to personal choice. But it is always daring persons embrace change and change for the betterment. I believe somehow in fengshui and 2007 is good up to change, no excuse on my side. gourmet, You are definitely an eloquent speechmaker. Yes I got timeout and I had to cut it short along development of the speech.
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Bird, I talked abt real changes such as changing job/residence/mind etc, specific ones. You & DVC are more on abstract change that's going within yourselves and flowing in life. Coz you guys have more life capital than me. And i guess you've gone thru lotsa changes up to this moment.
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NBird, I think about internal changes rather than external changes because I've been through so many external ones that I realize that the internal changes are more important. Maybe it's just something old fogies like Davinci and I see. If I change my job, I still have to work. If I change my clothing style or hair style, it is more important to me how this shows my inner self. Indeed profound and philosophic. Thank you for reminding me the importance of internal change, which i apparently ignored. I m an old fogie, why i just see the skindeep? Actually, I am currently working on this and moving towards a new stage, new but still have to work, yet able to work and enjoy working while working is a bliss. Shall we say change may affect our external and internal self? and it penetrates into us in both ways? By the way, who is Lee? Your beloved kid?
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