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Dear friends

This blog has been relatively inactive due to the first year or so spending time with my beautiful baby daughter grow up. She's now all of 15 months old and is the light of my life.

I'm getting back into toastmastering bit by bit and will try to rejoin my club again every 3rd Thursday of the month. Once I'm back into toastmastering, I'll spend more time updating this blog and to also create some interesting ventures arising from my passion and interest in public speaking.

In the meantime, I've created my Squidoo Page related to impromptu speaking.

Take care and remember that speaking well is a passport to better living. :-)

Learning Never Stops

One of the things that I've learnt as a toastmaster is that learning never stops. Once we stop learning, our brain atrophies and old connections between our brain cells either stop working or become less active.

Besides joining a toastmasters club and learning from your fellow members' life experiences, you can also enrol in education institutions for formal courses. You can find some of these on the internet (i.e. online learning) or you can also find some of these in the real physical brick and mortars world where you get to interact with physical facilities and faculty members in person or you can do it the distance learning style where click and mouse replace having to be physically there in person to learn about a subject or topic.

One such school you can find is the Sheffield School. It is a private school situated in Manhattan, New York City, USA and has different types of courses for different types of learners. It focusses on distance learning courses. For those of you who are interested in learning more about interior design, you can visit its website to see for yourself what the course curriculum offers. There is also a course on interior decorating, as how you express your inner personality manifests itself in the way you decorate your home to reflect your own life values, beliefs and personality.

Related to interior design and interior decorating is the art of feng shui. For those who live in Asia, you would know that feng shui is the art of living in harmony with the qi in the environment. Increasingly, the good vibes and bad vibes that a place gives the occupants can sometimes be explained through feng shui principles. Read wikipedia's definition of feng shui for more explanations.

Sheffield School provides distance learning through delivering its courseware through multimedia comprising visuals, audio, one-to-one assistance and personal evaluations of your work.

Take a look at Sheffield School if your are considering distance learning for interior design, interior decorating or feng shui fields.