public speaking

When I started public speaking in the a class by Mrs. Cangco in the mid-1990s, AMA COMPUTER COLLEGE

class of 1993, I was deathly afraid. 

It's taken me 20 years to get comfortable. I hope many of you are called upon to give speeches it's 

the closest thing to being a professional athlete that many of us will achieve. Here are  tips for 

giving great speeches: 

Have something interesting to say.  If you have nothing to say, you shouldn't speak. end of discussion. 

Cut the sales pitch. The purpose of most keynotes is to entertain and inform. It's seldom to provide 

you with an opportunity to pitch. For example, if you're invited to speak about the future of digital 

music, don't talk about the latest cellphones, gadget you are selling.

Focus on entertaining.   Many speech coaches will disagree, but the goal of a speech is to entertain 

the audience. If people are entertained, you can slip in a few nuggets of information. But if your 

speech is dull, no amount of information will make it great. If I had to pick between entertaining 

and informing an audience, I would pick entertaining.

Understand the audience. If you can prove to your audience in the first five minutes that you 

understand who they are, you've got them for the rest of the speech. 

All you need to understand are the trends, competition and key issues facing the audience members. 

Overdress.  Never dress beneath the level of the audience. To underdress is to communicate, 

"I'm smarter/richer/more powerful than you. I can't take you seriously, and there's nothing you

can do about it." This is hardly the way to get an audience to like you.

Tell stories. The best way to relax when giving a speech is to tell stories--any stories: stories about 

your youth,  about your customers, etc. When you tell a story, you lose yourself in the storytelling.

You're not "making a speech" anymore. You're simply having a conversation. Good speakers are 

good storytellers; great speakers tell stories that support their message.

Talk to them (the audience ) before the speech--especially the ones in the first rows. Then, when 

you're at the podium, you'll see these friendly faces. Your confidence will soar, you'll relax and 

you'll be great.

Speak at the start of an event. The audience is fresher. They're more apt to listen to you, laugh at 

your jokes and follow your stories. 

Practice, and speak all the time. 

wake me up when September ends

the first day of September, and that means every September 5, we celebrate  my mother's birthday, also every September 5, we Celebrate the month that my first Computer Shop was established Sept. 5, 2005
and now on its 9th yr  of operation and of service to Bgy. 81 Caloocan Monumento Community.

ber months is the start of more christmas related events because christmas is just a few more sundays ahead
so get ready for more events.


its BER months which means Christmas is almost here! We celebrate the longest Christmas in the world starting form September to March of the following year. christmas commercialism.


 DEN-R internet will have its 9th christmas this yr.
and guess what, radio stations started playing Xmas tunes two or three weeks ago. well, Christmas carols could be heard airing on mainstream as early as September! I always look forward to the first Christmas song I will hear for each year.

If you are so rich ... with family and friends, be warned that a very long list can cause a serious holiday bankruptcy,  So you may want to limit your list to those whom you really care about.

every year. I spend around 30-35k in holiday gifts, in Brgy 81 alone, there would be around 19 pedicab friends, 32 families from all corners of my barangay, and around 300+ customers, kids, teens, and adults, come for their chistmas presents from December 2nd wk til the day itself] usually in the form of cash. not counting my 30 Godchildren "inaanaks "

Every Christmas for 30 yrs, I havent received any gifts from people I know, but what am I complaining about? Christmas is not for gift giving alone. 

hey why am I talking about Christmas now and its not yet even  haloween?

this your loverboy DENNIS signing off. til my next blog.

DEN-R through the years.

In 2 wks time from now, Sept 5 will be DEN-R internet's 9th yr in the business of giving quality service to neighbors of Bgry 81 Caloocan City.

Much have chaged through the years, a Total of 7 shops has challenged DEN-R, namely LOOKUP, VIRTUAL EXCHANGE, FREEZING POINT, SEARCH AND FIND, SINGULARITY INTERNET, THENET.COM & CASALS.

competitor Virtual Exchange Closed down March 2012

DEN-R has acquired Look-up internet in Nov 2009 and Virtual Exchange Internet in Mar 2012, the only competition now is THENET.COM the rest has been closed down.


LOOKUP has been acquired for 120k and has been renamed RUDENDER INTERNET 1
then 3 yrs after I acquired Virtual Exchange March 2012 and renamed it to RUDENDER 2 internet
then profit has been pretty good with 3 shops in my control.

In 2013  the local cafeteria style restaurant, - BJ Hipolito Eatery has opened up and challenged DEN-R with a 14 seats pisonet internet cafe, and this has proved my theory that if I dont go with what IN, then my sales will decline, and it has! for the past 8 yrs, DENR has never shut down, and for the first time, it did shut down its doors for a month and I have no choice, but to convert and innovate.
DENR has been converted to DENR 1peso-internet cafe.

Its  been quite a while [cant believe its been 7 yrs] since I last posted something, life in the internet  cafe industry has changed a lot over the span of 2 decades since the counter strike boom. IN games like Ragnarok, MU, RAN has already come and go[ for PH servers], the trend now is Dota style MMORG games like [dota 2, Heroes of Newerth , Leaque of Legends, and heroes of the storm] gone are the days where levelup [now bought by Asiasoft] is King, now, AsiaSoft Rules.[they bought companies like e-games and level-up] and if GameClub doesnt watch their back, and take care of Crossfire Philippines, then they will be "merged" by the  bigger company.


What I'm trying to point out here is, if we don't go with the trend, and the Whats IN, then we will be swallowed and "merged" by a company much innovative than we are.