Here is the script than I had written and presented on the 22 November 2007 - it's call Sleep Disorder.

My Project Evaluator is Ms. Goh Guan Siew, ACB, CL ( She give me a very empowering evaluation and it gave me lots of motivation to improve for my future speeches)

Sleep Disorder

Ice Breaker Objectives:
• To introduce you to speaking before an audience
• To help you assess your speaking strengths and weaknesses
• To tell the club something about yourself

This Article was written to help new members get off to a good start with their first speech.

By Erich Viedge, CTM

Tips on making your first speech memorable for all the right reasons. Even experienced speakers who join a Toastmasters club find their Ice Breaker assignment nerve-racking. Whether you perform well or achieve less than you hoped for, one thing is for certain: You will remember your Ice Breaker for many years to come. Here are five steps to make your experience memorable - for all the right reasons!

1. Don't schedule your Ice Breaker too soon. If you are the impatient type, you probably joined up on your first or second visit, and eagerly await your first speech. But it's a good idea to let your first speaking assignment be a toast or a word of the day, just to get you used to taking on a meeting role.

2. Try a different approach. Toastmasters seem to have selective memories when it comes to their Ice Breaker. "It's the easiest assignment," they often say. "The manual even tells you what to speak about." But you may wonder how to talk about yourself without boring everyone to tears or revealing too much. One way around your difficulty is to talk about yourself indirectly. When you introduce yourself to a stranger, you don't go through your resume in chronological order from birth to the present. So why do it in your Ice Breaker? You can talk about a seemingly unrelated topic, and still fulfill the assignment objectives. One of the most thought-provoking Ice Breaker speeches I ever heard was about the sun. The speaker told us how, when he was a child, he saw the sun as a God-given fact; later, as physics major, he saw it as burning ball of gas in space. By telling us his views on the sun, he was indirectly revealing his life's events and how they shaped his personality.

3. Lean on your fellow club members for support. Every Toastmaster has been through the Ice Breaker experience; many will let you have a copy of their first speech or share how they approached their first assignment. Ask more experienced Toastmasters what they would change about it, or ask them to tell you about a particularly memorable Ice Breaker they might have heard.

4. Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare. Speaking in public can be a terrifying experience; even old hands get nervous before an important speech. Through the ages, people have tried many ways of controlling their panic, but only one way seems to work -- excellent preparation. This doesn't mean learning every word of the speech verbatim in fact, learning a speech word-for-word is counter-productive because it will come across wooden and over-rehearsed. The right way to prepare is to be thoroughly familiar with your speech's outline and its major points. Then, when it's time to deliver, you can still be spontaneous within your speech's outline.

5. Don't set your sights too high. No matter how well you have prepared, you will probably never feel completely ready to deliver your first manual speech. You will always feel that, with just a little more preparation.

6. You can deliver a truly excellent speech. Remember, this is only your first assignment. You are doing it precisely because you are inexperienced and want to learn. Nobody is expecting you to be the next JFK or Martin Luther King, Jr. Just concentrate on eliminating "ahs" and "urns" and getting through it. The rest will follow, step by step. Now only one thing remains: Get out there and do it! Inexperienced speakers tend to make the same basic mistakes.

Here are some pointers to help make your Ice Breaker more effective:

• Don't repeat the title of your speech. When it's your turn to speak, the Toastmaster will call your name and give he title of your speech. This is done to enlist the interest of the audience before you've said a word. Don't blow it by repeating the title after the Toastmaster has just announced it.

• Acknowledge the Toastmaster. Courtesy dictates that the Toastmaster remain standing until you acknowledge him or her by saying "Mr. (or Madam) Toastmaster." Only after you have said those magic words does he or she feel comfortable sitting down.

• Speak up! Your audience really is looking forward to learning a bit more about you. Make sure that even the people in the back of the room can hear you clearly.

• Avoid fidgeting. Most novice speakers display nervous mannerisms the first few times they face an audience. Common ones include rocking on heels, clasping hands in front of the body, nervous pacing or repeating a word like "OK" or "actually." Be aware of your favorite habit and start eradicating it early. You can even ask your evaluator to watch for a particular habit so that after the speech, you'll know how successful you were in keeping it under control.

• Slow down. Most Toastmasters are shocked when they discover how long a four- to six-minutes speech actually is, so they try to cram their family history for the last three generations into that time. To cover the material, the poor speaker has to talk so fast, nobody can understand the message. The cure is simple. Pick three points you would like to share with the audience, tie them together with an introduction and a conclusion, and slow down so that everybody can understand you. A mentor once told me I should be able to hear the first and last sound of every word I speak. This simple tip helped me improve the pacing of my speeches. Don't thank the audience. We often see stars on TV saying thank you, thank you," to hordes of applauding people. That's all right for them, but the proper way of concluding your speech is to simply return control of the meeting back to the Toastmaster by looking in that person's direction and saying: "Mr. or Madam Toastmaster." Your audience indicates their thanks by applauding at the end of your speech. You don't need to thank them for being there - they want to be there. All these points may seem a lot to concentrate on - and they are. We haven't even covered eye contact, body language or simple speech structure. But that's OK. Remember, don't try to get it all perfect - you have another nine assignments to go before you achieve your CTM, and that will give you all the practice you need to craft excellent speeches.