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Public speaking competition
“If I had Aladdin’s lamp…” was the topic of the first Public Speaking Competition 2006 organised recently. The competition was a follow-up to the workshop on Public Speaking which was recently conducted by Mr Basim Waheed and attended by well over twenty participants of different ages. With the same topic for both age groups i.e. 13-17 years and 18-above, the participants came up with a variety of speeches as an answer to the million dollar question that if they had Aladdin’s lamp what would be their three wishes.
While some talked about how they’d make the world a better place and spread peace and harmony in the world, get all the fame and fortune, others like Alizeh gave a surprising answer by saying “I would simply throw the lamp away for I don’t need any magical lamp to do what I want to”. The competition ended with a tie for third place in 13-17 years category and Faiza Rahman and Saad Nasrullah were both given the third prize. The second prize in the same age group went to Sara Salman, while Alizeh Kohari bagged the first prize with her absolutely impressive speech. In the Above 18+years category, the second prize went to S.M. Fakharuddin, while Jameela Saeed-ul-Khair won the first prize.
The judges at the event were Mr Anees Hussain, Mr Irshaad Abdul Qadir and Mr Basim Waheed, who encouraged the participants on their good efforts put in, promising for more of such and advanced level workshops coming up in future as well.
| Interesting one-liners |
| • One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor. • If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes? • I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. • Could it be that all those trick-or-treaters wearing sheets aren't going as ghosts but as mattresses? • Is there another word for synonym? • What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? • Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines? • How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign? • One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people. • To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it. • The older you get, the better you realise you were. • Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. • Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink all day. Fehmeen A. Khan |
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