6. Always remain eye contact with whoever you are talking to. This rule has been emphasized over and over again by our primary sch tchrs who taught us how to excel in our oral examinations. And even when we are in secondary schools, tertiary institutions and working, this eye contact thing is emphasized (for presentations, talking to bosses,…) AND yet, some people don’t do that. To me, it’s kinda irritating. It’s like u are sending signals telling the other party two things:
1. i’m not interested in ur convo = can u pls spare me ur crap
2. i’m actually more interested in the speck of dust on the railings, walls, floor, my shoes.
So to show people respect and basic courtesy, the least u can do is to maintain eye contact. Of course dont be stupid and stare at blank space when talking to someone. Maintain eye contact does not necessarily mean that u have to keep looking at the other person but just don’t keep looking away every 5 seconds.
7. This rule is somewhat similar to the rule no.6. When people talk to you, don’t walk away or start doing miscellaneous things like clicking at the screen on the computer, pretend to read some paper on the table or take out your hp and look at the time, wipe the screen e.t.c. I’m not being a weirdo here but honestly, if someone is talking to u, at least have the courtesy of saying sth like “excuse me” then proceed with doing ur thing. If you are nervous or in a very crowded place with strangers all around, it is only natural u do such actions because you just want to make yourself look busy – cos i do that sometimes too.
Imagine that Boss A had asked employee B to do up a proposal and B is all ready to present it to A. Minutes into the presentation, A started looking into the computer and started clicking. A moment later, he decided to flip through the magazine on the table. All this while, A only replied “yes and then?”, “and so what?”, “how u do that?”.
At the end of the whole thing, A then asked B, “is that all?” and B replied “yes”. Half an hour later, A asked B something pertaining to his proposal which he has already clarified in his presentation half an hour ago.
Moral of short story: Never work for Boss A. He sucks.
okay just joking. The moral of the story is:
If you wanna piss somebody off, just act totally disinterested in whatever he or she has to say. 
8. Words should always be accompanied with appropriate gestures and facial expressions.
9. If you know that expressing a certain type of emotion in your speech is bound to piss someone off, or to make someone else not want to talk to you anymore, please refrain from exploiting your freedom of expression/speech. If you go ahead and use it in ur speech, naturally the words that come out of your mouth would support your emotions(and in this case, it’s generally a bad thing that i’m referring to). I name this way of talking “purposely”. It simply means that one is purposely trying to invoke some kind of emotions in the other person, and it is usually a negative emotion that is being invoked.
Hence, it is wise to learn how to control your emotions and not let them control your speech.
However if your emotions were to control your speech, then i can only give u 2 words: good luck.
10. Follow the 9 rules above. (okay i shall be honest. I can’t think of a no.10 at the moment)
okay. ciao, got to sleep.
