Talk talk talk
The FEU campus in Manila
The Lamp, the official publication of the FEU Institute of Nursing, invited us to give a talk on writing to its editorial staff. We’ve given many talks, some of them quite eventful (People bursting into tears), some underscoring the fact of our irrelevance (“What do you have against tweeting that we went to a Mini Stop and had a Coke?”), some laugh riots (Teachers are an easy audience, esp if the speaker is the child of a teacher). The worst talks are the ones where you feel like you’re blabbering in a vacuum and everyone is having an out-of-body-experience from sheer boredom. We never want to be part of those again.
So before accepting the invitation we requested that we be made to talk for 5-10 minutes, and then answer questions from the audience. That way we’d be certain that at least one person at a time was interested in the topic under discussion. This turned out to be an excellent format.
Thank you to the alumni and staff of The Lamp for the invitation. We enjoyed the talk so much we’ve decided to give more talks to students—provided we follow the 10-minute speech followed by 1 or 2 hours of questions format. Here are some of the things we talked about.
If you’d like to invite us to give a talk at your school, please contact Michael Jimenez, mychael@hotmail.com.
The floor of the College of Nursing
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
September 21st, 2011 at 23:25
Your podcast subsite is (no, I am) begging to have more, um, podcasts posted in there.
September 22nd, 2011 at 03:35
The tiles looked like cascaded logo of a gadget brand (was it a console?) that I can’t figure out what.
Anyway, remember the comment where I mentioned about the cats here in the factory? I was able to take a few photos and posted on my blog — http://www.kotsengkuba.com/desert-cats/
September 22nd, 2011 at 16:02
This post reminds me of the time I attended one of your talks held in the College of Business Ad at UP. Far from boring the crowd, basing from their whispers and put-on reactions, the people who attended that time were in awe of you and kept peppering you with questions, genuinely wanting to hear more from you. I admired and continue to admire you immensely because you were/are earning a living doing what you love the most, something the majority of us want but can’t have either for lack of opportunity or guts.
September 22nd, 2011 at 21:34
is that the goyard print?