This is the last entry for the IMMAP Open Mic Night Coverage. If you haven’t read the first two entries, click here for PART 1 and click here for PART 2. To close let me just share with everyone my presentation during that evening. Before we get to the video though allow me to walk you through the preparation process. This was singlehandedly the hardest talk I’ve ever given. I never imagined that I would have such a hard time building 20 slides for a 6-minute presentation!
Preparing for Pecha Kucha: What should I talk about?
I initially was going to do a talk about Digital Marketing. I was playing around with the idea of Social Media as a prism and not as a mirror and how we should be creating campaigns that target specific facets of our consumer. I’ll probably just write about it here next week. Anyway, I decided to settle on that as my topic and prepared all the slides as well as the 20 points. I also rehearsed a bit just to get the rhythm and the flow correct.
Last Minute Change of Topic
The IMMAP Open Mic Night was at 7:00PM. I was coming from another speaking engagement in Clark when something hit me hard while riding the van back (this was around 5:30PM). I got it all wrong. Pecha Kucha is supposed to be about story telling and I prepared a lecture! I immediately sat up and started thinking of another topic. I opened my MacBook and checked out the notes of my original talk and then I saw this message that my wife typed on the Word Document with my notes while I was taking a shower in the morning. Her message is italicized. The words that follow are my notes from my previous talk and the captions to the screenshot 
I am the luckiest man on earth to have such a loving, prayerful, and supportive wife!
In an instant after reading the note I had my topic. Lessons that I learned from my close friend and Pastor, Dennis Sy, started creeping in my brain. I would share one of the the greatest and most meaningful stories that I know of. It was a story that had some lessons in it and at the same time I knew I could tie it to digital at the end. And somehow for some weird reason I knew that this was what I was supposed to share — the love story of me and my wife.
In 15 minutes I was able to put together the deck. I wrote the entire talk in 10 minutes, sent it over to my office in Fort for printing (LENG THANK YOU) and I had it pasted on index cards because I knew I didn’t have enough time anymore to commit to memory everything. I arrived at IMMAP Open Mic Night a bit early and I was still able to enjoy all the talks of the first and second set. I went up the stage as the last speaker for the second set.
A Love Story and a Digital Legacy
Janette Toral was kind enough to offer to record the video of my presentation during IMMAP Open Mic Night. Here’s the full 6-minute presentation. Enjoy!
I always enjoy listening to your love story Carlo. Pang-movie!
Kuyaaaaa!!! I remember you fretting about what topic to deliver for the IMMAP event, but this is perfect!
Super touching 
I’m so happy to know such a loving couple like you and ate mich. Makes me believe that the magic doesn’t have to disappear after 10 years of being together, lol. You guys are still so sweet to each other, and am sure your future children will have good role models to look up to, not only in love, but in life 
<3 you kuya!
Great Talk, Carlo!
Very well said, especially the last part on what you wanted to be remembered as beyond your profession and contribution to the country’s social media. 
Great story, ingit lang ako!!!