Thursday, January 14, 2010

Workshop - Your Charisma, Uncover it.

Money Mastery Toastmasters Club is organising a workshop on 23 January 2010.

Here are the details of the workshop:

Presenter: Mr John Sih, DTM
Topic: Your Charisma, Uncover it.
Date: 23 Jan 2010 (Sat)
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Venue: Queenstown C.C.
Price: $15/ ticket (Tea- break is provided)

Kindly contact Raymond Ho from Money Mastery Toastmasters Club for the tickets.
Mobile: 90091122 or 91811000
Email: ray_ho1122@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Word of the Day - January 2010

Anyone who has resided in Singapore for a period of time would notice that conversations of local Singaporeans are often littered with phrases and exclamations derived from different languages and ethnicity; over time, such loose habits has turned our use of the English language into a cultural phenomenon known as Singlish.

One may agree that the use of Singlish has added much flavor and variety to the way we communicate but yet we should not ignore the synonyms which sums the beauty of the English vocabulary: synonyms which exists to replace exclamations like 'Wah Liau' / 'Wah Lau' as shared by our Langauge Evaluator, Loo Mei Mei, Competent Toastmaster (CTM).

Synonym [sin-uh-nim]
- noun
  1. A word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or other words in a language.

  2. A word or an expression that serves as a figurative or symbolic substitute for another.

Perhaps whenever you're tempted to exclaim 'Wah Liau' / 'Wah Lau', which could be grossly taken as an expletive. Why not try words like fabulous, fascinating or fantastic in the spirit of speaking good English in the year 2010.