How to appear at distant events with a time difference

How to appear at distant events with a time difference.

 The simple solution is to do a recording. If you prefer, have a photo of yourself on screen.

 I wrote this on Friday Jun 10th, on receiving the reminder from organizing chair Rahul Mehndiratta, about the Toastmasters International, District 80/ Div S, Achievers Day 2021, 10 am to 12 noon.

I checked time on timebie.com. The event is 3 am to 5 am UK time.

S For SUCCESS

S stands for Singapore, S stands for Success

And Division S, yes, yes, yes

In Toastmasters, we like to send

Great surprise starts and echoing ends 

Kipling said East and West could never meet

Poor Kipling had not heard of Zoom

We're busier than a crowded street

With screens in every country's room

I can't be with you, I'm fast asleep

But organizers don't frown and weep

Don't shake your head and tut and curse

I've sent my photo and written verse

I shall start with dear 'Chair' Rahul

A man who sees a glass half full

And organizes opportunity

For wakeful you and sleepy me 

(12.46 pm Friday)

How quickly can I be a poet

And help my fellow friends to do it?

How do you start, and end, and win it?

The secret, as always, is - just begin it

Just make sure that you can be heard

You can use a dictionary of rhyming words

Listen how the syllables are said

I link rhyme chains inside my head

I have blogspots on comic verse

I have a poetry workbook

I have blogspots on what I wear

Each day new colours, take a look

12.51 pm

And now I've told you what to do

I'd like to give some praise to you

We started with TMD Thomas Chen

He wins ribbons again and again

We also heard from winner Shuzen

Another notable DTM

Poh Kim Siong our honoured guest

Gave 3 Es and 3Cs in his (guest) address

We grew clubs with prize-giving Swarna Kalyan

Today, awards given by careful Koh Lee Siang

To make sure you don't go too far

You're timed by Ravindar Kumar

And zoom master Zeph Teo

A duo with Datta says, gosh - we must go.

Next Director will be our old friend Saddiq

Who always gets things done real quick

When I call up to ask Saddiq

He says, 'Yes, that was done last week'

Division S thinks we're the best

Yet there's much potential in the rest

By holding (out) hands we help do more

In District 80, Singapore.

(By Angela Lansbury PM5, EH5

VP PR of BHA and TCA

Former Area Director of S3)

Author of: Improve Your English 

Add Alliteration, assonance and rhyme (on Amazon)

Useful Websites

http://www.timebie.com/timezone/singaporelondon.php

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Improve-Your-English-alliteration-assonance-ebook/dp/

ebook and paperback plus postage (unless you are a paid up member of Amazon Prime which gives free postage included)

UK price ebook 15 pounds 21 pence, paperback 20 pounds sterling.  If you buy the paperback, when Angela is in the same country she can sign it for you and write a rhyming couplet on your name. If you buy the ebook, she can email or whatsapp a rhyming couplet on your name.

For BHA meetings I added an extra verse

Yenny is BHA's president

We and she agree her year was well spent 

She soothed our ills and taught new skills

A walking ad wherever she went.

Zoom, co-host and how to record, why record, or why not record?

We think only the host can record, not the co-host. This is something two of you can practise.

I am using both zoom and learncool. It's good to know more than one system. You can explain more easily to others.

Why Record?
If you have speeches and workshops you might record them so others who missed the meeting can catch up. the recording could be publicty, PR, for your group andornizers. Status for the performers. Everyone from Mum to future employers can see you.

A chance to review your performance and improve.
Value for those who paid your year's membership or the event fee but could not attend - or gorgot.

A chance to capture still photos from the video.

Keep up with the Joneses - the internet is flooded  with videos from your rivals and friends. If you are not recording you are left behind, too modest, not proactive, not visible.

A video can be used to sell your next event.

What about people who don't want to be recorded. Why not?

It could be privacy concerns. They don't want to reveal where they are or where they are not.

Performance concerns. They were tired sick, having a bad hair day, not at their best.

If you have a group of 50, 100 or 300 people you cannot afford to have your promotional video sabotaged by one person who makes a fuss about being photographed because they wore the bue jacket instead of the black one.

One way around this problem is to ask everyone to switc off their pictrue so that only their name appears on a black screen. This enables them to hug their children, stroke the cat, take a phone call, apply their lipstick and comb heir hair, eat their lunch, frown, cough, whatever, all though the meeting without having to worry about naked spouses and kids running out of the bathroom behind them, nor to sit bolt upright with a faint smile for three hours.

Author
Author, Author! About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.)
Author of twenty books including: Quick Quotations; Who Said What When.
See books and profiles on Lulu.com and Amazon, such as Wedding Speeches & Toasts. Also watch videos on YouTube.
See other posts on singers and statues and languages and destinations.

Online Toastmasters International Meetings
If you want to learn to speak the Queen's English, or Received Pronunciation. join me at my online toastmasters club,
Braddell Heights Advanced. Wednesdays, 7-9 Singapore time which is seven hours ahead of London, England.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=braddell%20heights%20advanced%20toastmasters
I am also a member of
Singapore Online.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, London.
Tiarel.
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Recording Yourself Speaking, Reciting Poetry Or Singing

Problems
I often photograph other people at a meeting and forget to record myself.

You give a speech or workshop, or ask a question from the audience, and neither you nor anybody else thought to make a recording.

Answers
1 Have your mobile phone set up on a desk near the front (for good sight and sound) ready to activate when you give a thumbs up to the person sitting beside it.

2 At Swanwick Writers School I recited two poems but had no recording. So another person, Steve, took the trouble to record me and others.

We thought of recording again at the end but people were tired and needed to go to bed ready for the next day, and the room was being shut for the night.

So we did the recordings next day.

The recording of two of my poems is on Youtube and I was alerted to it when it was mentioned on Facebook.

Thank you so much Steve. Useful lesson here. If you forget to record yourself at an open mic evening, or recordings are banned, you can do a recording later or next day in the same venue with the same clothes and props. If you make a mistake on the night, you can record the corrected version next day, without the pressure of an audience, until you have a version without hesitations.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

What to do when stuck in a queue? Write Poems.

Problem
What do you do when stuck in a queue? (Americans say a line or line up.)

Answer
Write comic poetry. About the place you are in, and/or the people you have met.

If you haven't met anybody new, write about your family.

The simplest form is to find a rhyme and end the second and fourth lines of every four line verse with your rhyme.

To make your poem easier to remember, have eight syllables on each line. Count them on your fingers.

Write up on any handy piece of paper. Or speak into SIRI on your smart phone and get your verse recorded.

Later, type up your recording.

When you have time, add an illustration. The easiest is a recent holiday photo of your family or yourself as the subject or author.

Here's one I revised today.
http://comicpoemsbynutter.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/my-funny-family-version-7-poem-by.html

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, author,  poet, speaker, author.
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Amateur Dramatics - Plant Your Video Friend In The Audience

If you are giving any kind of performance, such as a speech or amateur dramatics, a musical, pantomime, college play, get a picture or video. I performed in Swanwick at Writers' Summer School in Page to Stage. I had not thought to ask a friend to take photo with my camera or hers.

She took one a couple of photos but was not sitting near the front. Here is the result. I am on the left of the picture with my hair in pig tails, acting as the young mistress of a man dying in hospital because of a nut allergy.

The reason I am slightly blurred is that I was moving and the light was dim.

You could also video a dress rehearsal.

Alternatively, if it is a short scene, 5 minutes or less, re-enact it afterwards whilst you are still wearing your stage clothes and wigs and stage make-up. That way those friends who are too ill or tired to attend, or those in your family at home, can enjoy seeing it.

Here are our group's post production photos.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.