17 - Speech Choir and Ignite Competion

Last December 22, 2015 second day of English culminating activity for the School of Management students held in the Asia Pacific College Auditorium. This day the competitions are the Ignite speech and speech choir competition.

Speech choirs are performance groups that recite speeches in unison, often with elements of choreography and costuming to help bring the speech to life. It is also called choral speaking. The piece for this year’s speech choir competition is “At Christmas” by Edgar Albert Guest. The winner really did a good job. Congratulations to the winner.

Ignite speech is a series of events where speakers have five minutes to talk on a subject accompanied by 20 slides, for 15 seconds each, automatically advanced. The participants in this competition is really good. Their speeches are interesting and surely you will get some lessons. I really admire those contestants because they have enough confidence to talk in front of oh-so-many audience.

We enjoy this day because there is no classes but we have to perform because our block is one of the participants on the said competition. We did everything but we didn’t win the said completion but it’s okay maybe next time we will win. English term had just ended for SOM freshmen students, we will surely miss this term.

REFERENCE

http://www.slideshare.net/AnabelleSantillan/speech-choir

15 - Edge of Tomorrow

It’s been a long time since we started watching movie foe our EEP class. And the last movie that we watched is Edge of Tomorrow. And that is my favorite movie that we’ve watched in our class.

Edge of Tomorrow (also marketed with the tagline Live. Die. Repeat.) is a 2014 American science fiction film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt. Doug Liman directed the film based on a screenplay adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. The film takes place in a future where Earth is invaded by an alien race. Major William Cage (Cruise), a public relations officer with no combat experience, is forced by his superiors to join a landing operation against the aliens. Though Cage is killed in combat, he finds himself in a time loop that sends him back to the day preceding the battle every time he dies. Cage teams up with Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt) to improve his fighting skills through the repeated days, seeking a way to defeat the extra-terrestrial invaders.

The movie is really good. It may not happen in real life but it’s so entertaining, that you can learned many things. I really admire Major William Cage because he didn’t lose hope immediately. It is so hard for him but he did everything just to kill the invaders, of course with the help of Rita Vrataski. Edge of tomorrow is really a good movie no wonder it got so many awards.