This is Frieda reporting from a night of splendid speaches and after-speech-gossip session. I am still too excited to sleep.

"In this world, there is women, men and women engineers" - Aaron reveals the secrets of engineering life which he left behind; "I am sorry if you are born with a pretty face", Julie says, "and for those of you who has an ordinary face, you are more likely to be adored."; I feel terribly sorry for Flora who had to go through anxiety attack for the last two weeks in preparation of the speech, and i feel terriblly jealous when her speech won the 2nd place in the Mandarin Humorous Speech! and, guess what, the Guy who always wear a neat shirt and tie, turned out to be the funniest guy on stage and his niece's iconic/photogenic gesture later became popular in the meeting - everyone, young or old, male or female all mimic her niece; and, and, our humorous star - Charly, or "Nini Ba", finally met "Nini Ma" in a dark and rainy night under embarrasing situation.

"Can I sign up for the English Humorous Speech?" people came to me and volunteered for the next contest after witnessing a whole night of briliant speeches. They can't wait to paricipate! Indeed, it's hard to stay an onlooker when you see how much fun people are having standing on the stage. The room was cooked with laughters - and I suspect that lots of the noise originated from the back of the room where Olivier was sitting... it's good to see his laughable face again.

 

Everyone who participated in tongiht's contest deserves a big applause - you have touched and inspired me by your very action of participating. Again, it doesn't matter win or lose! "Whether you belive it or not, I believe it".

 

"To  be in the contest " or " Not to be in the contest" is not a question! 

 

and "Not to be" is not the answer!

 

Whoever has signed up for next week's contest - I applaud you for taking up the challenge - you have succeeded 50% already at this point; I promise that you will not regret it when you stand up on the stage.

 

Ga, Ga, Ga, Frieda says, "Ga , Ga, Ga". thanks for everyone who inspired me tonight...