The Horror of Public Speaking

When you have a bad day, all you want to do is make awesome dessert with awesome company.

Public Speaking did not go well. I had to give an impromptu speech and I've come to the conclusion that I'm really not good at doing stuff like that. No one, I repeat, no one else froze up in the middle of the speech.

I was given 2mins to prepare for an unknown random topic. Because Fate enjoys toying with me, I got "An Ideal Leader". I would have given almost anything to trade with the guy who got "If You Had Super Powers, What Would They Be?". He turned an awesome topic into something you'd hear at some financial press conference. FYI, I would have said Ben10.

So at that moment, I started to panic, its really hard to get brain juice flowing in the right direction when all you can think of is - "What kind of topic is that? Holy crap. I'm screwed." The only points I could come up with were really lame and I didn't manage to fill my time quota. Plus I ended up being quite repetitive. Back then it seemed like a really hard topic, but now when I think about it, there were actually a lot of things to cover. I could have used my Band as a focal point. I could have said that the Ideal Leader isn't always the one who's at the top. Like Kelly was only Assistant BM but she did a hell lot of a better job than Khairul. But NOOooo, I only came up with those brilliant points after I screwed up.

The totally embarrassing part was when the teacher told the class it wasn't my fault and that the topic was in fact quite difficult. At that point, I just wanted the Earth to open up and swallow me whole. When class ended, the two guys who told me which card to pick came and apologised to me!!! So that added to my embarrassment. I really can't believe they think it's their fault. They actually stood there for about 10mins saying how sorry they were. One of them was the Extreme Sports Guy while the other was Mr Dragon Boat. I can't remember the Extreme Sports Guy's name but I think Mr Dragon Boat is Luke or maybe Quint, well something like that. I really need to find out. They're both kind of cute, sadly I think they're younger than me.

Fate's not completely cruel. I can always count on Qian and Jes to cheer me up. Although most of the jokes seem to revolve around me, at least they make me laugh.

They came over that very same day. Obviously I whined a lot about Public Speaking, you might think I'm a baby, but I needed some form of relief. We made really messy Tiramisu, minus the alcohol. According to Jes, I was too cheapo to buy any. It's not completely my fault! I thought we could use wine, she did say anything sweet, how was I to know wine isn't one of the chemicals allowed for our little experiment?

I guess Jes deserves much of the credit, seeing as she borrowed the recipe from Samuel. It actually turned out really good for our 1st time, considering the fact that I'm as close as you'll get to a natural disaster in the kitchen. Honestly, a few months ago, Jes was not far from me. If I was a Tsunami, she would have been the Earthquake. But ever since she ended up with Samuel, her cooking skills have improved tremendously.

Jes left early, but Qian stayed for dinner. We were both way too lazy to get our butts out of the house. So we ordered chemically engineered chickens from KFC and swooned over Korean stars on Youtube. Singapore guys have about 0 potential when compared to Korean ones. I still think Super Junior beats 2pm. Qian really needs to come over from the dark side.