My Icebreaker Speech

Hi,
This is my First blog and I am going to share my Icebreaker speech which tells something about me in this blog
What is a Peace?What does Peace mean?It is a state where we are free of anxieties,worries and outside problems.What does it give us?It gives us happiness.Where do we feel peace?In Temple,or may be with friends in beach,park,or may be in home with our family.But there is a city which is so peaceful will give us much needed happiness.can you guess which city is that?
It is peaceful Pondicherry.

Yes Fellow Toastmaster and distinguished guests, I was born in the peaceful city Pondicherry on March 6 1985. I am the second and last son to my parents. My father is a hardworking Flower Merchant and my mother, a dedicated worker for women and child welfare department.

I had done my schooling in one of the expensive schools in my city, even though my family was a middle class one. But I realized this fact only at my final sage of schooling. All through my school days, I had been a notorious student. When I was in 4th std, my teacher was trying to beat me for the mistake I did. I caught my teacher’s hand and replied, don’t ever try this again. I was so ignorant didnt know it was big mistake.which even claimed to dismiss me from my school but my mother requested to take me back to the school.

I was always playful kid during my school days, with a little seriousness to studies. The seriousness always came exactly before the exams. I had cleared all my exams on the spur of the moment, with an enormous urge from my parents. But I somehow love mathematics, even if I fail in all other subject I manage to score centum in math.I love to play cricket, even 24X7 hours.Apart from Cricket, I love listening music and I am a great fan of AR Rahman. The Hindustani music often mesmerizes me. I was obsessed to Hindustani music after listening music albums of Prem Joshua.

I am fond of indulging in adventurous activities. We had a coconut tree in between my house and neighboring one. I used the coconut tree branches to swing from my house terrace to the neighboring one like a monkey. One day the branch gave away from the tree when I was swinging. I fell in between the two houses into a bathroom breaking away its terracotta roof. My head was bleeding heavily, but I didn’t cry. Do you know why? Because the pain seemed less to me compared to my mother’s reaction. My mother’s frightening look and sounds from her biting teeth, no one would dare to face her when she is angry.

I have mind refreshing connection with cycling. Whenever I was disturbed, confused, demotivated, and sad I used to go for a ride in my bicycle. Didn’t know where I am heading just pedaling through the roads. After a ride, I always felt refreshed, motivated, enlightened. Even Now I use my bicycle to commute office.

I was so playful, careless until I heard about my father’s Life. How he struggled to improve his family condition single handedly after his father’s death when he was 10 year old. His Life inspired me a lot; I was also wanted to do something to improve my family condition. And I wanted to give my father rest in his profession and started helping in flower garland business. But my father didn’t want me to suffer like him; he wanted me to become a doctor. I tried hard to bag admission in government medical colleges but I got only in private colleges which will still add the debits to the existing one. I didn’t want to join it. Then I took engineering, which I felt will get me a job soon after my course completion. I was an average student in my engineering. But I am very sure that I will get a software job. I got my first offer from HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD even before the course completion.

In my college days, I was part of a group called MISSION SUDARSH-aspirant to innovate new technical product. Only after joining the group, I had the awareness about vision, goal. We all wanted to start a technical product company, a global one. But we failed to achieve our goals due to lack of skills, Family financial condition. So every one joined a software company which we thought will relieve everyone from financial crisis and will give us the lacking skills a technical one as well as professional. But we are sure will join soon to achieve our goal.

After working in this team, I love to take up management role. A good buiding needs a good foundation and I thought the MBA course will be a good foundation for management building. I wanted to be an accomplished manager. A good communicator need not be manager, but a good manager needs to be a good communicator. My Communication is one of the factors which demotivates me in many situations. I wanted to improve it desperately, came to know about Toastmasters’ movement through my friend Deepak. I attended my first meeting in Chennai as a guest; at the end of the meeting I can feel a drastic increase in my confidence level. I am here to improve communication skills and leadership skills, and I am sure Bangalore toastmasters will help me in achieving my goals.

Finally Iwould like to quote some part of Steve Jobs speech in stanford University
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."