Today, I fulfilled one of my biggest dreams: to speak to an auditorium consisting of audience from around the world. It happened on September 10, Saturday at the WeShare Rally held at the HDB Hub Auditorium in Singapore.

The WeShare rally was organised to promote the idea of a cell-group system that Presidential Diamond Eddy Tan has been recommending for members all over South East Asia to adopt. People get together in a casual setting and have fun, while fulfilling a few meeting agendas like sharing product testimonials, business experiences, and seeking answers to questions in business.

When I said "Audience from around the World", I really meant Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and Brazil. Fellow associates and guests from around the world flew in to Singapore to attend this big scale event, and it was a huge honour for me to represent the Executive Managers, Directors, Senior Directors and Executive Directors as a keynote recognition speaker. Here's how I looked, from a poor shot taken from my PDA:

It was both a joy and a thrill to me to be on stage! Up till the point where I was walking up to the rostrum to speak, I wasn't even sure I remembered what I was going to say. (As in my last post "Take 1: My Personal Success Story ", I spent quite abit of effort preparing that speech!) So I started with.. "Good evening, my name is Kelly". I paused and looked at the translator who would translate for the Thai audience, but she motioned for me to continue since she will translate my entire speech right after I'm done. Apparently, I paused long enough for me to applaud me for introducing myself :)

"My friends in Singapore knows me as a confident, driven young man." I continued when the applause died down. "Yet did you know I started off as an introvert?"

The rest of the speech came out naturally, and before I knew it, I came to the closing part of my speech: "...I experienced this phenomenal change, all because I associated myself with a WeShare group, a team where I could practice my strokes till I was ready for the real world. WeShare works, and I'm an example of that."

And that was it. I looked up at the audience and felt satisfied for having to drive home my point about how I grew confident of myself under the tutelage of a team that cared. And when the audience applauded, I walked proudly away from the rostrum to exit from the stage.

Such a sweet feeling I'll never forget.

Here's something really sweet that happened in the Rally.

There was a sing-along session at the end of the rally, and to honor our Thai audience who made up a large contingent of our overseas guests, we wanted to sing a Thai song, just for them. However, it was an impromptu decision and we didn't have any Thai CDs with us. So our Thai guests nominated someone to sing on stage. This was a shy young girl who was utterly abashed at being asked to sing. Yet as she started to sing, the entire Thai contingent stood up and sang along with her.

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Incidentally, we were told that the song was about wanting to be a star!

With the support of her friends off stage, the girl sang, and she sang beautifully! I thought our Thai friends had such a magnificent display of camadarie and mutual support, and I had to take it down on video :)

And so, the rally ended, and most of us walked of with 2 new pins on our coats:

One says: WeShare - We Learn, We Achieve, We Share; and the other says: Keep It Up: Achievers Rally. The second pin was a special token from Eddy Tan to those who had a hand in organising the WeShare Rally.

p/s: Here's a little bit of Ego Booster:

At the end of the rally, Johnner Tan, a Presidential Sapphire of Unicity Singapore, came over and told me that he had 2 young japanese ladies as guests, and they thought that "Kelly was so cute" and wanted to know if I was already seeing someone. Johnner had no idea and said "I don't think he's seeing anyone yet" and according to him, they were squealing excitedly! :P I hate to disappoint them because I already have a girlfriend. Yet, what an ego booster!

Someone up there really wants me to feel good about myself today.