Post by Finlip on Dec 18, 2005 4:11:15 GMT 6
Usually, I'd type the smart club report and have it posted by noon. Today, I'm typing it at half past seven in the evening and I won't post it at least until eleven o' clock in the evening because that's when I connect this computer to the internet. My friends hadn't come to open the cyber cafe when I was on my way home. I came straight home and came early and didn't go back to that place. That's the reason why I didn't post earlier.
Today, we started about half an hour late. My role in the first session wasn't decided yet, but on my way to Smart Club in the morning I'd thought about becoming the time-keeper so that I could keep the watch I borrow for the second session where I was due to be Moderator today. However, since we were late, we didn't have the second session despite the fact that Apeckshya came on time and copied the content of Mr. Dev Kumar's floppy into her pen drive. Since the other paper presenter was unprepared, we were getting late, and I wasn't feeling like having the seminar, we didn't have that second session.
The chairperson for today was Binny Bhandari. The co-ordinator, Mr. Dev Kumar Sunuwar, didn't invite her to the chair and she later revealed that it was kinda trajic for her. I liked both how she gave the final closing comments and what she said during it.
The co-ordinator seemed to be very well prepared. I personally feel that there's a lot he needs to work on. The grammarrian Manogya Sharma, said Mr. Dev Kumar had no grammatical errors. I wonder if it was because he decided not to note them since it would have made his job much difficult. I see grammatical errors in every sentence Mr. Dev Kumar speaks. But then, maybe what I know is an error as well. The grammarian's opening sentence was that there weren't 'much' grammatical errors. Since we can count these errors, he may well have used the word 'many.'
All-in-all the co-ordinator deserves a big hand. He never looks like he hasn't worked very well. He's always willing to learn more and more. He may well prove me wrong and go a long way in life. Today, he tried to crack a couple of jokes even though 'the jokes' did not make me laugh at all.
The speeches today were probably better than usual. The commentators also did a very good job. So, it feels like we had a very good session.
The pre-decided speaker Sagar, came and spoke confidentally as always. He was unable to manage what he had to say in the allotted time which may have required a few more skills which he will surely learn in the future. If Sagar had continued for even a full minute after his allotted time was over, we may have well learned a few more things. His speech wasn't boring at all. I was concentrating more on what time the clock said than what he was saying. But still, his was a very good speech. He seemed to have prepared well. In the question answer round, he tackled the questions well. There's nothing wrong with having that session but I know we decided not to have the questions since we wanted to make time for the second session. Didn't I say what Sagar spoke on? Well, his topic was: 'Lets talk about AIDS.'
The second speaker Mr. Manish Joshi started with this sentence. 'Do you want to be a first-class citizen of a poor country or a third-class citizen of a rich country.' Doing something good for your country isn't anything bad. But dividing people into classes on the basis of different things like work is something I would never approve. Sagar stole a question from my throat in the question answer round. However, Manish had a stance that we should not fill DV lotteries and that we should all do something in our own country. His question answer session was also pretty good. Manish's self decided topic was related to DV lotteries. I forgot his exact topic.
The impromptu speaker had at least ten minutes before he had to come to speak. When he came to speak, it sounded like he had been preparing for over a week. He had a lot of statistics with him as well. He said it was in a copy he was carrying which means the speech is less of an impromptu speech. Mr. Suman however didn't really mention the Role of Youth in the development and talked mostly about development only. Ironically, the longest of the three speeches today was made by the impromptu speaker, Mr. Suman. I wasn't surprised at all. Only after coming back to his seat and seating down, did Mr. Suman realize he would like to answer any questions. I don't know if the co-ordinator's decision not to allow him that time was a good decision. But I won't complain.
The gramarrian managed to do a very good job. I am pretty impressed with his knowledge of the English grammar. There's always going to be room for improvement.
I went up and said how much time everyone took. I think I had the opportunity to speak out better than I did. I didn't do a very bad job today but there was no one to tell me how it went. I could have said, how I lost count of time during Mr. Suman's speech because I pressed something and wasn't able to record his time properly. However, I recovered in time and learnt what I needed to press before the next speaker came and spoke.
Even though I was there before her, Ah! counter Miss Rita Thapa, wasn't generous enough to count my Ah!s and pauses which would have been less today than they usually are.
The observers were Bed Nath and Sanjeev. Bed was speaking well but when I looked at him and smiled, he stopped speaking and returned. I can only wonder what he was thinking at that time. Sanjeev should have been given one of the roles. Well, we did fill in all roles anyway. But, even as an observer, he gave good remarks. I have been impressed by this guy even though today was the first time I saw him at the Smart Club. However, I think he has been here even before I first came.
We had one quiet observer as well. Dev had brought her along to observe our session, but I don't think I hear Kanchhi Maya's voice. I think I'm about five years older than her but I couldn't really mind when she said "Thank you Bhai" after I helped her pour tea into her cup.
I'll write something about Sagar's speech. He started the speech and then asked us all what we thought AIDS was. To me it sounded less of a speech at that time. He was wasting his own time, I felt by asking us the question which if we'd started answering, would've taken a lot of his limited time. In these speeches, I feel we're supposed to spend all the five minutes speaking. We do all the speaking. However, everybody seemed to applaud Sagar's speech. I would say that everything else was right about him. Questions which ask for a vote among public might be a good idea but I don't recommend questions like Sagar's to myself in any of my other speeches if I ever become a speaker again.
Less than fifteen of us were there today as well. The attendance at the smart club has been slowly decreasing. I hope more people start coming or there is another five day seminar soon. I have a feeling that we should decide the order in which the Grammarian, the timekeeper, and the Ah! counter speak.
Let me end with one more thing about the time rules. The speakers are allowed five minutes each for their speeches. The timekeeper shows the flash card at 3, 4, and 5 minutes. So, how should we proceed? If the speaker finishes his speech before three minutes, it wouldn't really be a good speech whatever he said. The speaker should try and take at least four minutes and then not go beyond five. The speaker should take note of the time and always try and finish it before the five minutes are over. The sentence he says after the five minute card is raised must be the last sentence the speaker should be allowed to speak. We may either have a stiff rule as this. Or, we can trust our speakers and then allow them a few more concluding speeches after that. I wouldn't recommend asking the chairperson for one extra minute. The chairperson would never deny it and it wouldn't really be necessary according to me.
Latecomers aren't being fined. I have been on time for each one of the smart club sessions after the first one that I attended as an observer. I haven't even missed any. I'm looking forward to next week.
Ajay Kumar Upreti will be the co-ordinator next week. Only the three speakers and the Chariperson have been decided. Mr. Vinit Agrawal will be the impromptu speaker next week and I'm really looking forward to his speech. I didn't want to become one of the other speakers because even though I have nothing else to do, I'm too lazy to prepare. I would, however, have loved to know my role before going to the smart club next week. Every week nowadays, they say we'll decide the roles on the day itself. I think this may not have been the best course of action.
The session I'll have to moderate will be there next week for sure. It was due to be held last week actually. We had no smart club meeting last week because of another program we had to attend instead. So, I'm really looking forward to the next weeks in Smartclub. For this week, this is all from me.
Today, we started about half an hour late. My role in the first session wasn't decided yet, but on my way to Smart Club in the morning I'd thought about becoming the time-keeper so that I could keep the watch I borrow for the second session where I was due to be Moderator today. However, since we were late, we didn't have the second session despite the fact that Apeckshya came on time and copied the content of Mr. Dev Kumar's floppy into her pen drive. Since the other paper presenter was unprepared, we were getting late, and I wasn't feeling like having the seminar, we didn't have that second session.
The chairperson for today was Binny Bhandari. The co-ordinator, Mr. Dev Kumar Sunuwar, didn't invite her to the chair and she later revealed that it was kinda trajic for her. I liked both how she gave the final closing comments and what she said during it.
The co-ordinator seemed to be very well prepared. I personally feel that there's a lot he needs to work on. The grammarrian Manogya Sharma, said Mr. Dev Kumar had no grammatical errors. I wonder if it was because he decided not to note them since it would have made his job much difficult. I see grammatical errors in every sentence Mr. Dev Kumar speaks. But then, maybe what I know is an error as well. The grammarian's opening sentence was that there weren't 'much' grammatical errors. Since we can count these errors, he may well have used the word 'many.'
All-in-all the co-ordinator deserves a big hand. He never looks like he hasn't worked very well. He's always willing to learn more and more. He may well prove me wrong and go a long way in life. Today, he tried to crack a couple of jokes even though 'the jokes' did not make me laugh at all.
The speeches today were probably better than usual. The commentators also did a very good job. So, it feels like we had a very good session.
The pre-decided speaker Sagar, came and spoke confidentally as always. He was unable to manage what he had to say in the allotted time which may have required a few more skills which he will surely learn in the future. If Sagar had continued for even a full minute after his allotted time was over, we may have well learned a few more things. His speech wasn't boring at all. I was concentrating more on what time the clock said than what he was saying. But still, his was a very good speech. He seemed to have prepared well. In the question answer round, he tackled the questions well. There's nothing wrong with having that session but I know we decided not to have the questions since we wanted to make time for the second session. Didn't I say what Sagar spoke on? Well, his topic was: 'Lets talk about AIDS.'
The second speaker Mr. Manish Joshi started with this sentence. 'Do you want to be a first-class citizen of a poor country or a third-class citizen of a rich country.' Doing something good for your country isn't anything bad. But dividing people into classes on the basis of different things like work is something I would never approve. Sagar stole a question from my throat in the question answer round. However, Manish had a stance that we should not fill DV lotteries and that we should all do something in our own country. His question answer session was also pretty good. Manish's self decided topic was related to DV lotteries. I forgot his exact topic.
The impromptu speaker had at least ten minutes before he had to come to speak. When he came to speak, it sounded like he had been preparing for over a week. He had a lot of statistics with him as well. He said it was in a copy he was carrying which means the speech is less of an impromptu speech. Mr. Suman however didn't really mention the Role of Youth in the development and talked mostly about development only. Ironically, the longest of the three speeches today was made by the impromptu speaker, Mr. Suman. I wasn't surprised at all. Only after coming back to his seat and seating down, did Mr. Suman realize he would like to answer any questions. I don't know if the co-ordinator's decision not to allow him that time was a good decision. But I won't complain.
The gramarrian managed to do a very good job. I am pretty impressed with his knowledge of the English grammar. There's always going to be room for improvement.
I went up and said how much time everyone took. I think I had the opportunity to speak out better than I did. I didn't do a very bad job today but there was no one to tell me how it went. I could have said, how I lost count of time during Mr. Suman's speech because I pressed something and wasn't able to record his time properly. However, I recovered in time and learnt what I needed to press before the next speaker came and spoke.
Even though I was there before her, Ah! counter Miss Rita Thapa, wasn't generous enough to count my Ah!s and pauses which would have been less today than they usually are.
The observers were Bed Nath and Sanjeev. Bed was speaking well but when I looked at him and smiled, he stopped speaking and returned. I can only wonder what he was thinking at that time. Sanjeev should have been given one of the roles. Well, we did fill in all roles anyway. But, even as an observer, he gave good remarks. I have been impressed by this guy even though today was the first time I saw him at the Smart Club. However, I think he has been here even before I first came.
We had one quiet observer as well. Dev had brought her along to observe our session, but I don't think I hear Kanchhi Maya's voice. I think I'm about five years older than her but I couldn't really mind when she said "Thank you Bhai" after I helped her pour tea into her cup.
I'll write something about Sagar's speech. He started the speech and then asked us all what we thought AIDS was. To me it sounded less of a speech at that time. He was wasting his own time, I felt by asking us the question which if we'd started answering, would've taken a lot of his limited time. In these speeches, I feel we're supposed to spend all the five minutes speaking. We do all the speaking. However, everybody seemed to applaud Sagar's speech. I would say that everything else was right about him. Questions which ask for a vote among public might be a good idea but I don't recommend questions like Sagar's to myself in any of my other speeches if I ever become a speaker again.
Less than fifteen of us were there today as well. The attendance at the smart club has been slowly decreasing. I hope more people start coming or there is another five day seminar soon. I have a feeling that we should decide the order in which the Grammarian, the timekeeper, and the Ah! counter speak.
Let me end with one more thing about the time rules. The speakers are allowed five minutes each for their speeches. The timekeeper shows the flash card at 3, 4, and 5 minutes. So, how should we proceed? If the speaker finishes his speech before three minutes, it wouldn't really be a good speech whatever he said. The speaker should try and take at least four minutes and then not go beyond five. The speaker should take note of the time and always try and finish it before the five minutes are over. The sentence he says after the five minute card is raised must be the last sentence the speaker should be allowed to speak. We may either have a stiff rule as this. Or, we can trust our speakers and then allow them a few more concluding speeches after that. I wouldn't recommend asking the chairperson for one extra minute. The chairperson would never deny it and it wouldn't really be necessary according to me.
Latecomers aren't being fined. I have been on time for each one of the smart club sessions after the first one that I attended as an observer. I haven't even missed any. I'm looking forward to next week.
Ajay Kumar Upreti will be the co-ordinator next week. Only the three speakers and the Chariperson have been decided. Mr. Vinit Agrawal will be the impromptu speaker next week and I'm really looking forward to his speech. I didn't want to become one of the other speakers because even though I have nothing else to do, I'm too lazy to prepare. I would, however, have loved to know my role before going to the smart club next week. Every week nowadays, they say we'll decide the roles on the day itself. I think this may not have been the best course of action.
The session I'll have to moderate will be there next week for sure. It was due to be held last week actually. We had no smart club meeting last week because of another program we had to attend instead. So, I'm really looking forward to the next weeks in Smartclub. For this week, this is all from me.