"am i more confident?"

finally finished a 1.5 days course on presentation skill workshop yeaterday. it is good course i must say. saw my own recording of the presentation that i did before and i was laughing at myself throughout. it is really bad! can see all my stage jitters and they are like shouting in the face "i am NERVOUS!".
i just thought yesterday i did better compared to the first one. but there are still things that i need to work on like my pacing, voice projection etc and i tend to swallow my words too. oh, at least my powerpoint was complimented to be very nice.. hahahahaa! i am going to test out my presentation skills this afternoon and let's hope it gets better each time.
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i was just "complaining" to a friend last night that i feel that i am losing my friends in the company. with most of them leaving for greener pastures and new faces are coming in too fast for me to even recognise and remember them, i find myself left with that small group who i go lunch with or drinks. even so, they are so busy with in their work in own areas that i hardly see them too and it obviously doesnt work when they are not on the same level as me...
not being a loner means that i need friends around me and that doesnt help much when i cant find dinner kakis these few days. oh well... i am just saying my thought out loud... maybe i am just a whiner.. =P