{"id":49,"date":"2005-04-04T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T08:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-04-14T20:43:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:43:36","slug":"toastmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/04\/toastmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"toastmaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the first meeting of the toastmaster club in PMC.  I have heard of it several years ago, apparently it once was quite popular in HK.  Toastmaster basically is just a group of people come together to practice public speaking.  Experience members provide guidance and feedback to junior members, aided with reading material from the mother organization on basic technics.  A friend of mine, Chris, had joint it for two years and today he is one of the hosts. I can see his speeches improved alot.  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