My Mind Map of PM Goh Chok Tong's SQA Speech on 15 July 1998 at Shangri la Hotel

As I was an SQA Assessor for 1997/98, I was invited to the SQA Awards Presentation and Dinner ceremony at Shangri la on 15 July 1998.

I was very excited when I learnt that the Guest-of-Honour was going to be the Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong himself. I have made up my mind to try to mind map his speech. Mentally, I prepared myself by thinking about what he would say during the SQA Awards Presentation. The occasion was just after the 1997 financial crisis. So I read as much information there is about it.

At the same time, I prepared the Central Theme for mind mapping his speech. What should be the image that would best associate this occasion with the PM? Since, it would be delivered by the PM himself, so I decided to draw a portrait of the PM next to the SQA Trophy.

The night of the award came. I was a bit nervous as I knew I have only one chance to mind map his speech. To my amazement, I managed to surprisingly summarise most of the key points of his speech on my mind map. I believe, it was due to my preparation for this important real-time mind mapping of the PM's speech. I subsequently went up to the PM and requested for his autograph on my mind map. PM was very obliging and I thanked him.

I was indeed very happy to be the owner of the only real-time mind-mapped speech of a Prime Minister.

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My Mind Map on the 26th SIM Annual Management Lecture by Dr John Naisbitt on 23rd Aug 2007

Mind Map on Dr John Naisbitt's talk drawn in real-time.

1. I was delighted to be invited to the 26th AML organised by the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) on Thursday, 23 Aug 2007 at Raffles City Convention Centre. The speaker was Dr John Naisbitt (International Best-selling author of Megatrends and Megatrends 2000) and he spoke on the topic of "Mindsets to See the Future - The Next Big Thing".
2. Excited, I started to make my own preparations like drawing his portrait as part of the central image for the A3-sized mind map that I was determined to do in real-time as I had done for many past prominent speakers and lectures.
3. Subsequently, I was lucky that the real-time mind map summary of the talk including the discussion that followed at the end of the lecture turned out to be quite presentable. The attached picture above shows the autographed mind map by Dr John Naisbitt.
4. After the lecture, I found that the lecture that he gave was actually a summary of his book on "MindSet". I was elated and did a short review of his book.

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