International English Express Road Show

I went to Wisma MCA for the International English Express Road Show organised by Erican last Sunday. The event started at 2pm. Since I'm so 'smart', I reached there around 1.30 to avoid the crowd and traffic. However when I reached there, there was already a big crowd waiting outside. It seems that Klang Valley people are all smart! I've to wait outside the hall for around half an hour. It's really crowded and packed. The distance between the person next to you can be calculated in millimeter(mm). At 2pm, the organiser still kept the door close(there's only one entrance). The people in charge kept walking in and out the hall, squeezing in between the crowd that waited outside. The atmosphere is tense and the air is hot. I started sweating. People started to become impatient.

Then, at around 2.15pm only they open the door for us. Just imagine the scene, the whole crowd heading towards a door! After that, the usual stuff began.....YB Dato XXX give speech, followed by XXX PJK AMP, Tan Sri XXX, XXX,.........There is also certificate presentation in between speeches. What makes me wonder is, they need all the VIP's on stage to present just a certificate! This made the recipient busying shaking hands with all the VIP's on stage and this had delayed the time.







By the time everything's done, it's already 3.30pm. Almost half the time is allocated for all those "mou liew" things.

"I came here to see how Eric Chong teach english one wor....not for all these stuff arrr......" I said silently deep inside my heart.

However, all my trouble for attending this Road Show was immediately compensated. The moment Eric Chong step on the stage, he's just having full attention from all the audience. He is motivating. He is inspiring. He is just a great public speaker! In his speech he insisted the importance of learning English. He then throwed a question to the audience.

"Do you hope to master English?"
OR
"Is it a must for you to master English?"

He continued, if anyone here hopes to master English, there is the way out(pointing at the door). If you must master English then congratulations to you! You have succeeded in your first step.

It's very true indeed. Very often in life, we tell ourselves that we hope to do this............ we hope to do that.....but in the end, nuts! nothing happened.....This is because we leave a "backdoor" for ourselves. We did not put in 100% of effort. We will only do what we can and leave the rest for the god to decide. However, when we tell ourselves we must do this......we must do that.....we leave ourselves with no choice. There is no chance for us to look back and we will go beyond our limits to try our very best!

Eric Chong continued with a conversation with a girl. A girl once asked him "How can I marry a rich guy?"
He then asked the girl "What do you do most of the time?"
The girl replied "I wait"
"Where do you wait?"
"I wait at home"

He said that, in real life your "prince" will not ride a white horse coming to you. You must go out there and look for him. If you really want to marry a rich man, ask yourself where is the places rich man usually visit. Places such as golf course, airport, Hotel....are a common spot for rich man. Find a job there and your chances to marry a rich man is higher than you waiting at home.

The same goes for mastering English. If you wish to master English and you read chinese papers, listen to chinese radio station, speak in chinese, there is no way for you to excel in this language! We must read english, watch english(programme), sing english(songs), use english and live english. If you want to master english but you live in an environment without communicating english you are just like the girl who is waiting at home for her prince!

He also said that there are two types of people in this world, a succeesful person and a failure. Both are very busy. Everyday, a successful person will find reasons to strive for life. A failure will find excuses for his failure. "Why i always fail?" "people succeed is because he is smart, i am stupid." "he succeed because he has a rich dad" "I cannot do this one larr~ i am born to be like this!" "i am not tall enough so i fail" "she is so pretty, sure all the guys like her"

After having ignite the burning flame in the audience heart to learn english, he taught us some pronounciation. He continues the talk with some grammer and lastly the difference between American English and British English.







It was indeed a very motivating talk. Eric Chong can talk in two very different kind of tone. When he speaks chinese, he just looks like anyone of us(chinese ed). When he speaks english, he immediately tranform to a "mat salleh" unlike us who speaks manglish!

Anyway, the part i like most of his talk is

"hope" and "must"

next time i'll tell myself I MUST do.........instead of hoping!


"I must study marketing after i get this posted!"

p/s : I have marketing exam this Friday!