Tag - communication skills
If you haven’t already heard the magic that is “SUSSEQUENLEE”, go and listen to it now:
Here’s the link in case you can’t see the embedded sound file.
And the transcribed lyrics:
Sussequenlee
by Melissa Theresa and The Frenzy
When I first met you
I thought: she’s pretty
And I got to know you
Subsequently
I said, “Hi I’m Charles.”
You said, “Chelsea here.”
Now we’ve been together
for almost a year
Subsequently (sic)
When will you revert (sic) back to me
Then we can liaise regarding about (sic) the matter
Subsequently (sic)
HDB flat apply already liao (sic)
Please double confirm (sic) or else we lost (sic) the house
Furthermore therefore (sic)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (Subsequently)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (Subsequently)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (However; How about it?) (sic)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (However; How about it?)
Furthermore therefore
Furthermore therefore (However; How about it?)
Furthermore therefore
Please double confirm so we can solve (sic) it out…
etc.
(Hat-tip to PLS REVERT, TKS.)
My latest article on POSKOD.SG.
Ten Steps to Effective Online Commentary.
A guide to online criticism and debate. (Mostly criticism.)
So, you’ve got an Internet connection, an opinion and some spare time on your hands.
Congratulations! Like everyone else and their blogs, you are now a media hub.
Before you commence e-hurling your iNtellectualism @ the rest of the world, here are ten steps to effective online commentary, the cyber-Singaporean way.
- Increase your Internet presence.Set up a website on socio-political issues in Singapore and give it a cerebral, subtle and unique moniker, something like Socially Political SG: Thinking About Socially Political in Singapore.What you have to say is, after all, very ‘niche’, and no one thinks about critical issues affecting our nation in as classy or as astute a manner as you do.
- Read widely.Turn to Google and Wikipedia for all your edificatory needs.Besides being the only scholarly sources that can be found on the face of the earth, they are also the most reliable, according to teenage students who take a great deal of pride in referencing “en.wikipedia.org” and “ehow.com” in their homework submissions.
- Participate in community discussions on a consistent basis.Trawl other websites and forums every hour and leave comments on other posts, regardless of whether or not your advice is sound and/or logical.Bear in mind that we are a democracy, and democracy, as translated from the Greek, means ‘many people shouting loudly at each other in a self-important fashion’.
Moreover, your counsel serves to affirm and validate the existence of ‘netizens’.
Never underestimate the value of this, even if netizens do not seem to mention their appreciation of your beneficence, or worse, if they seem to respond negatively to what you say.
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My latest article on POSKOD.SG, the latest big thing to hit our shores.
Ten Steps to Communicating Effectively.
A guide to winning over friends and contacts in Singapore. (Mostly contacts.)
Besides playing good football and making babies, there is nothing else that we on the Little Red Dot are better at than communicating effectively.
And for good reason too: what in the world could be more Merlion-esque than saying something that one means?
In any case, here are ten steps to effective communication, the Singaporean way.
- When conversing, the first thing you want to do is to include people in the conversation. Hence, name-drop or insert as many obscure allusions as you can into your speech:
“Yes, Delia said the same thing about the Blue Paper. In fact, she said it was similar to the Green Grass Policy implemented back in ’08.”
- If people don’t get it, show amusement. The is best displayed through subtle upward spasms of the muscles between the upper lip and the cheek:
“You… don’t know Delia?” *twitch* “Oh, right – you weren’t on the Remaking WLB committee with us.”
- Use acronyms. They are the PIE to life in the fast lane during AM rush-hour traffic, just before SUVs go past the ERP gantry:
“WLB, WLB! What part of WLB do you not understand?”
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