My 1st Toastmaster Project

The highlight of my memorable history

My name is Cham Kok Chun.I was born in 1985 in Bukit Mertajam. Dear Toastmaster Members, I will divide my most memorable history into 4 parts.

The 1st part, When I was standard 1, I was a naughty boy; When I went to my daddy’s office I took the entire staffs name chop and chop the entire newly painted wall. As a result, I was banned to office for 1 whole year. Subsequently, I was awarded a brand new name “Dinosaur”. Every staff started to call me little dinosaur.

The 2nd part occurred during my standard 3; my dad bought me a brand new computer in 1994 because he wants to divert my mindset for stealing his money. I stole RM 1 ringgit everyday in order to qualify myself to play console game at TV game shop. The other reason, he foresees the advantages of using computer. (Maybe he know one day he will use computer, so he decide to let me learn 1st, then I will teach him later). The interesting part is when I started to learn computer, my computer teacher taught me the basic of my personal computer, treat computer as your friend, This is monitor, just like a TV, it display all the stuff in the screen, then this is CPU (Brain of computer). When he pointed to the mouse (I feel scare, and I immediately took the scissor and cut down the wire). My computer teacher was shocked and almost fainted. The next day he replace the new one, and he told me, never ever did that again. He also branded me a new nick name ‘The Problem Kid’.





The 3rd part is when I was in form 1; I don’t know how to write a good essay. The funniest thing was my English teacher asked me to write a descriptive essay regarding “Raining”. You know how I wrote it? “Sky comes down water”. All my friends laughed on me, because I just direct translate the Mandarin to English. My English Teacher never looks down on me, and as a result, I still able to score A in my English in PMR (Form 3). Conversely, I did badly in my STPM, and the consequence was, I was rejected by local university. I feel bad and ashamed for myself and my family. But, my positive & optimistic dad told his friends, Ah Chun read too much of the story of Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, he claimed that I want to follow his footstep to become tycoon so purposely drop out from school.

The 4th part (last) is the story regarding I was enrolled in local private university (UTAR). I was questioned by my lecturer why I choose this course (Bachelor of Economics Hons Financial Economics) in fact I’m a science stream student. Dear toastmaster members, I will tell you how I choose this course. I went to state library in Seberang Jaya. So coincidently, I met one of my senior, I started to ask him, hello how do you do. Then, he told me he was busy with his final year project. I’m curious, and then he briefly explained to me. He showed me the graph, Demand and Supply, How this graph will determine the price. I feel so excited and because of that I choose this course. My lecturer was shocked and told me, Cham Kok Chun, you are very brave. This is university level not the secondary school level. As a result I failed in Economics in my 1st semester, But I don’t give up, I always seek help from my lecturers and good friends when I faced a lot of problems. As a result, I still able to graduate and now I work as a Financial Consultant under Public Bank Group.