Volunteerism with Youth Council....

Had a great lunch with Darrell Chan whom he approached me in the Cali gym and he said that he was thoroughly impressed with my initiative to speak up at the PM Lee Dialogue 2006 last Sat. He shared that he used to be a lawyer studying Law in London in UK and he practised law for 3 years before giving up his cushy job to be a brand executive with Raoul. I also shared about my background and my intention to outreach to more youths in Singapore especially the disabled youths. I believe that we need to create an example as a role model for the youths who tend to be impressionable at their point of their teenagers year and we need to steer them in the right direction, inculcating in them a sense of responsibility for their own decision-making. Many a time, many youths tend to be rebellious or go with the majority, jumping on the bandwagon and they do not know what they want to do with their lives. So, Darrell shared that he is a President of ProjectWorks which involves mentorship of the youths from 12 to 20 years and other challenging youth projects. I asked him whether there are any youth projects for me to raise public awareness through public speaking and in this way, my public speaking skill could be honed. Actually, i wanted to be an international speaker like legendary Helen Keller and am able to converse in more than 5 languages. I had given my public speech in Japanese before. Click here. How nice if I were to see myself in my far vision standing on the stage with thousands of nationalities attending my talk and I am able to handle their queries or give speech in more than 5 languages.

And then we shared about travelling experiences. Darrell had travelled extensively with his wife and he was planning to visit Bali next year. I am also planning to visit Bali with Collin in Nov so he gave me some tips on where to visit in Bali. He has visited Bali couples of time. And next year he plans to visit South Africa. An interesting personality and it is an increasing sign that many young Singaporeans dare to venture out of Singapore to take off-beaten tracks in other countries....

So afrer I came back to the office, I immediately emailed to Darrell to thank him for sharing information and asked him to share the contacts with me so that I can follow up with person-in-charge. It is impt to have a mission and vision in your life as a guiding light to navigate through your life. At least I have a big purpose in achieving many impt tasks....