tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7191834940883528562024-03-14T18:19:01.614+08:00MIKEYIP.COMe pluribus unumUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-80331803871154083992023-12-21T10:40:00.001+08:002023-12-21T10:40:31.756+08:00How's driving an EV's play a part in combatting climate change? <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JRyO8_o7CYehHeCWm3b6Pp05h9r0evRDFQB37p2dTmtlRMKT-1lqvzIh6Rf2lDoST_biHe95-yqoDphKEhkiM0Tg3n2kawwq5lAI8E2eEv59cP-rxF__8_btIUnZ_oZT3Jzs86rjFk5WauqN1mTCqvjU2nU99dq1vN6wVQFgNv7a-y77jB4qBC8lWLQ/s800/image_2023-12-21_103731820.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="800" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JRyO8_o7CYehHeCWm3b6Pp05h9r0evRDFQB37p2dTmtlRMKT-1lqvzIh6Rf2lDoST_biHe95-yqoDphKEhkiM0Tg3n2kawwq5lAI8E2eEv59cP-rxF__8_btIUnZ_oZT3Jzs86rjFk5WauqN1mTCqvjU2nU99dq1vN6wVQFgNv7a-y77jB4qBC8lWLQ/w640-h296/image_2023-12-21_103731820.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /> As my family adopted a Dolphin, one question I asked myself is: What's EV's role in combatting climate change? <p></p><p>Electric vehicles (EVs) play a significant role in combatting climate change. While they're not a complete solution on their own, they do play a crucial part of a broader strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p>Here's how EVs contribute to combating climate change:</p><p><b>Reduced Emissions</b>: EVs produce zero tailpipe emissions. Even when factoring in emissions from electricity generation, they typically emit fewer greenhouse gases than internal combustion engine vehicles, especially in regions where electricity comes from cleaner sources like renewables.</p><p><b>Energy Efficiency</b>: EVs are more energy-efficient than traditional vehicles. They convert a higher percentage of stored energy from the grid to power at the wheels compared to internal combustion engines, which waste a lot of energy as heat.</p><p><b>Promotion of Renewable Energy</b>: As EV adoption increases, it encourages the development and use of renewable energy sources like wind, solar, and hydroelectric power. This shift away from fossil fuels for transportation can significantly reduce overall carbon emissions. This would lead me to another side question: How is your country's power generators charging you and "assisting" you in adopting renewable energy?</p><p><b>Technological Innovation</b>: The development and adoption of EVs have spurred advancements in battery technology, which can have broader applications beyond just vehicles. Improved battery technology is essential for storing renewable energy and making power grids more efficient.</p><p>However, challenges remain:</p><p><b>Energy Source</b>: The environmental impact of EVs depends on the energy sources used for electricity generation. In regions where coal or other fossil fuels dominate the energy mix, the overall benefit of EVs are definitely reduced.</p><p><b>Battery Production</b>: Manufacturing batteries for EVs involves mining and processing materials like lithium and cobalt, which can have environmental and social consequences if not managed responsibly.</p><p><b>Infrastructure</b>: Developing a widespread charging infrastructure is essential for the mass adoption of EVs. Without sufficient charging stations, range anxiety may deter people from switching to electric vehicles.</p><p>While EVs are a positive step, they're part of a larger picture. To effectively combat climate change, a holistic approach involving renewable energy promotion, efficient public transportation, improved urban planning, and lifestyle changes is necessary.</p><p>For my family, the lifestyle changes has been happening for awhile now. At the end of the day, we need to do our part to make this planet liveable for the future generation. Right?</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-20510008522588924612023-11-07T10:22:00.004+08:002023-11-07T10:22:37.954+08:00Where to find the BYD Dolphin's simcard tray<p>Was told by Sales Agents that the BYD Dolphin uses e-sim for the data line connection which got me thinking, if there's a sim tray in the Atto 3, surely they'd do it for the Dolphin as well, right? </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGlBVtKw9OdeVNLw53DUsQeubcvp9SNaCNSNtCLI0yCNTkpAToEKNyW4OHeiV7OfGklJB8VfN5zkMo9Lmzexlcjncz_hGy8NDBFb1Py_yk1FENrN2EIZN4gEvUNoSrTvMbl4UnwXTVIrgGa7ddr8TQPzVN0LPNscdnPmA-YAi2C9iPMhhNR49kJtUMfs/s1280/image_2023-11-07_101154290.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="1280" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglGlBVtKw9OdeVNLw53DUsQeubcvp9SNaCNSNtCLI0yCNTkpAToEKNyW4OHeiV7OfGklJB8VfN5zkMo9Lmzexlcjncz_hGy8NDBFb1Py_yk1FENrN2EIZN4gEvUNoSrTvMbl4UnwXTVIrgGa7ddr8TQPzVN0LPNscdnPmA-YAi2C9iPMhhNR49kJtUMfs/w640-h296/image_2023-11-07_101154290.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Scouring the net didn't come up with any results so decide to spent a bit of time going through the car with a magnifying glass and without the need to pry open any panels, I found it! </p><p>Here's a video showing you where the sim card is located. For me, the car comes with 2 years of free subscription so there's no need for any replacement of sims but this will aways come in handy when the time comes that I don't want to subscribe to the packages BYD will announce and go on my own, at least I know where the sim tray is located at. </p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_cOTUqracEM?si=KByZhanLGEWyNLJ6" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p style="text-align: left;">Previously, I've shared as well on how to sideload the Android Apps into the BYD Dolphin (<a href="https://www.mikeyip.com/2023/11/installing-app-in-byd.html" rel="nofollow">See the video here</a>) but was informed that the latest updates that Australian users have gotten seems to have wiped that out and set everything back to default. Guess won't be updating my OS any time soon.</p><p style="text-align: left;">What else have you not able to find in the BYD that you're trying to find? Maybe I can help.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-61268908368589704762023-11-02T11:44:00.005+08:002023-11-02T11:44:38.787+08:00Installing Android APK into BYD Dolphin<p> Sharing a guide on how to install android apps into the BYD despite the lack of any Android Playstore.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GgtOsd8dlpU?si=9ewS52xl0Krkm3MD" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe></p><p>1. Get a USB Drive and format it to the FAT32 format in Windows/Mac desktop.</p><p>2. Download your apk file from any Android depository. I uses the APKPure site to download the files for my Huawei so it's pretty reliable.</p><p>3. Create a folder in the USB Drive titled: third party apps.</p><p>4. Copy the APK file into the folder, eject and bring the USB to your car.</p><p>5. Start your BYD, insert the usb drive into the usb slot. </p><p>6. Pop-Up will appear to key in password. Case Sensitive ya. </p><p></p><blockquote><p>V1.6.1: GHY0613byd</p><p>V1.5/V1.6: BYD6125F</p><p>Pre-V1.5: 20211231</p></blockquote><p></p><p>7. Go to Settings, in Apps. click on Permission and activate the app.</p><p>8. See your screen, the app will be on the last page. Drag it to where you want.</p><p>Note: For Google owned products like Youtube, you will need to install GBox into the car in order for those to be usable. </p><p>Enjoy your ride with your apps.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZ4_xoX3v9LxJ8gMIr5reiAM7qshtznSykk-OPLlVasMWARWa-Am9Kyj93DLHO7MhjXbs1ju0zQ13h9NJ0yW5feQEzuoiuvF1YoSF0F3ygJuS-phZgz7HktAuN0HclELddMZ_S7RWTQ1jpc6ZLR5O9LpIXmZsXeBwNufzYVVnH_soR6tRTvhziZzN4A8/s1191/the-screen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1191" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpZ4_xoX3v9LxJ8gMIr5reiAM7qshtznSykk-OPLlVasMWARWa-Am9Kyj93DLHO7MhjXbs1ju0zQ13h9NJ0yW5feQEzuoiuvF1YoSF0F3ygJuS-phZgz7HktAuN0HclELddMZ_S7RWTQ1jpc6ZLR5O9LpIXmZsXeBwNufzYVVnH_soR6tRTvhziZzN4A8/w400-h223/the-screen.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-49216352732842765672023-09-01T13:23:00.002+08:002023-09-08T14:22:43.691+08:00Places to Dance in Malaysia - September 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5kcpTNaCG8QkeeCwYSaUwXhoW6DQVIOQSvKc-OeTrNgcVF4YCn01wKiIw5gkoV2ux1rWKyz7Ym_uZXGT1QkibQQSGJcz06reMxy-pJkBy6shUZUSxv3emZ0ZkD1cN86o-QMnBHh8e8-gLY03VKsVExzucGiBHEtT1GIuvoW7hFBpasf9-PVigju3/s2048/11731689_576917915780906_1386463637002869482_o.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1363" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5kcpTNaCG8QkeeCwYSaUwXhoW6DQVIOQSvKc-OeTrNgcVF4YCn01wKiIw5gkoV2ux1rWKyz7Ym_uZXGT1QkibQQSGJcz06reMxy-pJkBy6shUZUSxv3emZ0ZkD1cN86o-QMnBHh8e8-gLY03VKsVExzucGiBHEtT1GIuvoW7hFBpasf9-PVigju3/w640-h426/11731689_576917915780906_1386463637002869482_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Here's the list of locations for you to check out if you want to dance Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba, Tango & Zouk.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/w640-h46/images.png" width="640" /></a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">TUESDAY</h3><div><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Afro Latin Exchange</b><br />CuBar @ Telawi 2, Bangsar<br />Host: DJ Selva<br />Time: 10.00pm - 01.45am<br />Genre: Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba</p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div><b>Noche Latina @ La Boca MOKL</b></div><div>Mandrin Oriental KL</div><div>Host: Lala/ Jinggo</div><div>Time: 9.30pm - 2am</div><div>Genre: Salsa Bachata</div><div><i>Reservation Required.</i></div></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/w640-h46/images.png" width="640" /></a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">WEDNESDAY</h3><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Sensual Wed</b><br />CuBar @ Telawi 2, Bangsar<br />Host: DJ Harry Ang<br />Time: 10pm - 2am<br />Genre: Bachata, Kizomba and some Salsa</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/w640-h46/images.png" width="640" /></a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">THURSDAY</h3><p><b>Salsa Thursday</b><br />CuBar @ Telawi 2 Bangsar<br />Host: DJ Vishnu [Alex]<br />Time: 9.30pm - 2.00am<br />Genre: Salsa & Bachata</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Salsa Ladies Night <br /></b>Sky Lounge @ Sky Park NU Sentral<br />Host: DJ Jinggo & Lala<br />Time: 9.00pm till late<br />Genre: Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Salsa & Bachata Social<br /></b>Escobar TTDI<br />Host: Ivy<br />Time: 10.30pm - 12.30am<br />Genre: Salsa & Bachata<br />Cover Charge: 1st Drink </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/w640-h46/images.png" width="640" /></a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">FRIDAY</h3><p><b>Latin Fever @ CuBar<br /></b>CuBar @ Telawi 2 Bangsar<br />Host: DJ Gary<br />Time: 10:00pm - 2:45am<br />Genre: Salsa & Bachata</p><p><b>Kiz Connect </b>@ El Bohemio (1st Floor CuBar)<br />Host: DJ Selva<br />Time: 10:00pm - 2.45am<br />Genre: Kizomba<br /></p><p>Cover Charge: RM 20 @ Entrance</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Kizomba Fridays<br /></b>Directors Cut @ Menara Ken TTDI<br />Time: 9.00pm till late<br />Genre: UrbanKiz/Kizomba</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Swing By Friday Socials</b><br />Dance Blaze Academy <br />7C, Jalan Bangsar, Bangsar<br />Host: Dance Blaze Academy<br />Time: 9.30pm - 1.00am<br />Genre: Salsa, Bachata & Kizomba<br /><i>Contact Host for more details</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Bachata Fever Friday<br /></b>Z Botanica @ 1Utama <br />Host: DJ Harry<br />Time: 10.00pm onwards<br />Genre: Bachata (90%) & Salsa (10%)<br />Cover Charge: RM 25<br /><i>Every 2nd & 4th Friday of the Month</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Zouk Night Social<br /></b>40B Persiaran Zaaba, Tmn Tun Dr Ismail, KL<br />Host: Frisk and Swing Studio<br />Time: 9.00pm - 12.00am<br />Genre: Zouk<br />Cover Charge: RM 25</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/w640-h46/images.png" width="640" /></a></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">SATURDAY</h3><p><b>Salsa Saturday</b><br />CuBar @ Telawi 2 Bangsar<br />Time: 10.00pm - 02.45am<br />Genre: Salsa & Bachata<br />Live Band: Ritmo Caliente Live Band feat DJ Selva at 12.30am<br /><i>1st Saturday of the Month</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Salchata Party<br /></b>40B Persiaran Zaaba, Tmn Tun Dr Ismail, KL<b><br /></b>Host: Frisk and Swing Studio<br />Time : 9pm - 12am<br />Genre: Salsa & Bachata<br />Cover Charge: RM25</p><p><i>Every 3rd Saturday of the Month</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Salsa & Bachata Social<br /></b>56A, Jalan Datuk Sulaiman, TTDI KL<br />Host: Havana Estudio<br />Time: 8.15pm - 12.15am<br />Genre: Salsa & Bachata<br />Cover Charge: RM25</p><p><i>Last Saturday of the Month</i></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Strictly Latin</b><br />Jama @ Solaris KL<br />Host: DJ Jinggo & Lala<br />Time: 9.00pm onwards</p><p><i>Once a month</i></p><div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNg9rl9uIHp3GgPidor6XRAWfgVgwxQ__OWt9r3IpNMckeePDP58BLygAKcg-QzQlTd2DYNZiIdgfV75AIGiO6T56QzBVxC0Ft5F68whTErlOBu9KRiL5S-WxmqyNswkV8JYqefTmXhtLWXH3c7JonYx45gB5voc9nrnjLNWKK3AZJnBKuaduO_16/w640-h46/images.png" width="640" /></a></p><p>For Milongas & Practilonga, you can refer to the <a href="https://tangomalaysia.wordpress.com" target="_blank">Tango Malaysia website (click here)</a>.</p><p>If your event is not listed and you want to add into the list, do drop me a message here or via Facebook.</p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-5415743012254126512023-01-31T09:09:00.117+08:002023-04-07T11:09:02.734+08:00Lao Mao Cafe @ Megah Rise Mall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLkjZSvKiDENqmKA9d5OKx40i5FuooKVJYRmeu8FO77jUZx-sCwrOcEH68aP5a4ETAGUIBgvGKD7W8IqHcX_erQzkU2pvJQ-yGtHvvZ8LOcFXjzTOM9HsPJ6YYG70FpgbA4YJWyZHmZE_6qw9ebVn_o7Tx2PB8VdrDPBqAHbtiEEC3pbj1qGFArzU/s2048/324661653_3333831496878048_3302435257145626780_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWLkjZSvKiDENqmKA9d5OKx40i5FuooKVJYRmeu8FO77jUZx-sCwrOcEH68aP5a4ETAGUIBgvGKD7W8IqHcX_erQzkU2pvJQ-yGtHvvZ8LOcFXjzTOM9HsPJ6YYG70FpgbA4YJWyZHmZE_6qw9ebVn_o7Tx2PB8VdrDPBqAHbtiEEC3pbj1qGFArzU/w640-h480/324661653_3333831496878048_3302435257145626780_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some places have such great vibe and positive energy that just gets us returning often. Lao Mao is one of them. Since the day they open, we have been visiting Maryanne and her sister. Sometimes, for food, sometimes, just to chill by the balcony with our nuggets. Bonus for us is, it's bloody close to home so sometimes, it's just an excuse for me to walk my dog just to come hang out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's a pet friendly café located on the 1st floor of Megah Rise Mall just beside Mr. DIY. Only problem is, there's no direct access to the cafe so it's the only time you'll see dogs going into the mall as we have to walk through the mall to the café.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Not a paid review, in fact, don't think they knew I do reviews, but my verdicts on the food is very bias as this is one of our favourite place. You've been informed!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/s559/food.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/w640-h46/food.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilYgFLaNY9ZcfpRm1FqOMDrIACNMh6XPT3TBcfAONI0axR33lzkind4uddcpT5h5kGHxo09v8HqQANjnsjLYOKnHw70me9iySLMZOgc4Mbit1a76ctHwYUCer-KM8gAArvIuf0tkX-GCgI3H4KZF_GNa_wiHV2lDq2U3tTArXllGsi1aSREjSOZyVM/s1280/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-04-07%20at%2008.36.02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1280" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilYgFLaNY9ZcfpRm1FqOMDrIACNMh6XPT3TBcfAONI0axR33lzkind4uddcpT5h5kGHxo09v8HqQANjnsjLYOKnHw70me9iySLMZOgc4Mbit1a76ctHwYUCer-KM8gAArvIuf0tkX-GCgI3H4KZF_GNa_wiHV2lDq2U3tTArXllGsi1aSREjSOZyVM/w640-h498/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-04-07%20at%2008.36.02.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Portion looks deceiving as we get pampered by the sisters, usual amount is slightly smaller. </i>😝</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">One of our usual order is the Assam Laksa. It's just as nice as the Sarawak Laksa but Assam Laksa is our Jam. Especially after a long tough day of work. Just a nice bowl of boost to make everything feel all right again.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'd dare to say that after we discovered the Assam Laksa here, we hardly go back to O&S Seapark for the Assam Laksa fix. So that's who we are comparing with when it comes to this dish. It's 5 out of 5 for me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Verdict: </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiawJqa4-9KgnRkk9jlNBtg6_gSms6L7hAQ7V7yTQ9yPUAcgrKDKrOOmIrxfWQDramuL1dI23I65RrdahrXsLG6I3BSqd8jFxoN0_CyPxbVV31Eu7a45RHLG4mr9PcxLUY7JW0kNSHKzbJN6Ce1zmRieQKupm8ni4u5R-6nlRRsYZq83EW2h0tuVQ_/s215/head%205%20star.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="215" height="47" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiawJqa4-9KgnRkk9jlNBtg6_gSms6L7hAQ7V7yTQ9yPUAcgrKDKrOOmIrxfWQDramuL1dI23I65RrdahrXsLG6I3BSqd8jFxoN0_CyPxbVV31Eu7a45RHLG4mr9PcxLUY7JW0kNSHKzbJN6Ce1zmRieQKupm8ni4u5R-6nlRRsYZq83EW2h0tuVQ_/w200-h47/head%205%20star.png" width="200" /></a><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/s559/food.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/w640-h46/food.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq4euMeb4m42w7r8POeJggm1KdJOQjsUnVdlzsaWom0kb6Ub7MWQw5TPiC1WwKYnWDkukBFTTbB3KNNRv4-y-ptJnXx-2cHj0IgQxvbDM8YxjdlQ4oiU1QpK7h16AHLXltxqr_YGut-8DOhs_BRJt756wnvpmsxmiHvBHHjFk1SadUTLnccnsW31kX/s1080/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-04-07%20at%2008.34.02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq4euMeb4m42w7r8POeJggm1KdJOQjsUnVdlzsaWom0kb6Ub7MWQw5TPiC1WwKYnWDkukBFTTbB3KNNRv4-y-ptJnXx-2cHj0IgQxvbDM8YxjdlQ4oiU1QpK7h16AHLXltxqr_YGut-8DOhs_BRJt756wnvpmsxmiHvBHHjFk1SadUTLnccnsW31kX/w640-h480/WhatsApp%20Image%202023-04-07%20at%2008.34.02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Nasi Lemak fans, if you're looking for authentic nasi lemak, this would not be it. But for me, personally, I love it. The fragrant rice is cooked in a healthier way so you won't get the strong whiff of the usual nasi lemak smell but the rice is cooked to the right consistency. They have 2 choices of add-ons, the curry chicken (that comes with big chunky potatoes) and the fried chicken. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For me, I prefer to have both hence you see 2 type of chicken served in the picture. The sambal is nyonya style so it gives you a different kick compared to the usual sambal we get with the usual nasi lemak.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's 4 out of 5 for me just because occasionally, I do miss the smell of the usual nasi lemak smell. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Verdict: </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5PReXpsbJkyW-378iLS-ZwkOxELlpDslxdBsxgm634_4pvtkLyGjDB-N_g9VqctXGHY6gbQ7Pr9aB_l0jv2y1G2850lhds-ypimT1DyB0lO17daG4vI9aS9CaUFuK2RZ18_H3T6nsRmsa17QNtm9nip_Oom9zm1shArlgJwUNdeMLHptR17IZIht/s215/head%204%20star.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="215" height="47" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5PReXpsbJkyW-378iLS-ZwkOxELlpDslxdBsxgm634_4pvtkLyGjDB-N_g9VqctXGHY6gbQ7Pr9aB_l0jv2y1G2850lhds-ypimT1DyB0lO17daG4vI9aS9CaUFuK2RZ18_H3T6nsRmsa17QNtm9nip_Oom9zm1shArlgJwUNdeMLHptR17IZIht/w200-h47/head%204%20star.png" width="200" /></a><b><br /><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/s559/food.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/w640-h46/food.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fans of sour dough, this is for you! Freshly made sourdough with a variety of serving, you can get it whole, or get some of the usual fares, my favourites are the Truffle Butter Sourdough and the Smoked Salmon Sourdough. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">You can also switch to croissants if you're not a fan of the sourdough. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">They also have a variety of pastries aside from sourdough to choose from too. There's a few that are my favourite but don't intend to share it here because it's mine!! All mine!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">It's 4 out of 5 for me just because .... I can't eat some of their cheese cakes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>Verdict: </b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5PReXpsbJkyW-378iLS-ZwkOxELlpDslxdBsxgm634_4pvtkLyGjDB-N_g9VqctXGHY6gbQ7Pr9aB_l0jv2y1G2850lhds-ypimT1DyB0lO17daG4vI9aS9CaUFuK2RZ18_H3T6nsRmsa17QNtm9nip_Oom9zm1shArlgJwUNdeMLHptR17IZIht/s215/head%204%20star.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="215" height="47" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5PReXpsbJkyW-378iLS-ZwkOxELlpDslxdBsxgm634_4pvtkLyGjDB-N_g9VqctXGHY6gbQ7Pr9aB_l0jv2y1G2850lhds-ypimT1DyB0lO17daG4vI9aS9CaUFuK2RZ18_H3T6nsRmsa17QNtm9nip_Oom9zm1shArlgJwUNdeMLHptR17IZIht/w200-h47/head%204%20star.png" width="200" /></a><b><br /><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/s559/food.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" height="46" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYQdFWY0YSHJ1PnsLMJV6FcmqduT8rwTcMpTA4Iu2IdC7TWHVGaPvvKDqfCmOeBSIOFFs0dtgFChNiy4we2nZlu-Vi4GlVPG8oH8-Isy332fWLov4Wcj3gwzWkkehxXBy2olXjuJozSTzpnUayXHTLfHsMxKoIQbUK94RL9Qe4JSCerRGo2-cWPiaU/w640-h46/food.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Fresh Sourdough being made daily, mesmerizing cause get to watch the whole process live! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> </div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="375" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fphoto.php%3Ffbid%3D2539808222825189%26set%3Dp.2539808222825189%26type%3D3&show_text=false&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">All in all, it's a small quaint cafe that gives you a very homely atmosphere. And we see more and more regular customers enjoying the place as much as we do. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;">Best time to visit? Early in the morning when they open at 11am or after the lunch rush. Place gets packed during lunch and dinner. On occasion, they even ran out of food before dinner but unlike many commercial brands and cafes, Lao Mao is still operated by Maryanne and the sister. And for 2 lovely ladies, there's only that much they can do. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Sometimes, feel bad also seeing that they have to handle so many things, from cooking to serving and to cleaning. Whenever we can, we also land a helping hand so if you see a big size dude clumsily cleans after the tables, just come and say hi! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div></div>
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<b>LAO MAO CAFE</b></h3>
L1-16, Level One, Megah Rise Mall,
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Jalan SS24/8, Taman Megah, Petaling Jaya.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jln SS 24/8, Taman Megah, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia3.1143577 101.6117016-25.195876136178846 66.4554516 31.424591536178845 136.7679516tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-14647088597580816532022-08-05T12:21:00.005+08:002022-08-05T12:21:49.685+08:00Jack of All Trades is a good thing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuF7PCEzwht8QU_hndmY5RTCMmTwEecpQ7ksKaOEVfbSuTiUXZMnlHTR1SXDoqjA9qqaRMStBW7x6ZfjbfR6IXtaRmZD8eWeGCF4rqknnrR9QRv9Ajl_bH2kuoBaUP1ZM2zoJdllDSqgVNpQD_qa2lZ530JG1sRI-M4VNOSqrJkBv2SnE5NVwncOP/s1080/109a0a18bba4c3786dfcbc7957fedbf4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1080" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTuF7PCEzwht8QU_hndmY5RTCMmTwEecpQ7ksKaOEVfbSuTiUXZMnlHTR1SXDoqjA9qqaRMStBW7x6ZfjbfR6IXtaRmZD8eWeGCF4rqknnrR9QRv9Ajl_bH2kuoBaUP1ZM2zoJdllDSqgVNpQD_qa2lZ530JG1sRI-M4VNOSqrJkBv2SnE5NVwncOP/w640-h384/109a0a18bba4c3786dfcbc7957fedbf4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Formerly intended as a compliment, the phrase means that a person is a generalist rather than a specialist, versatile and adept at many things.<div><br /><i>Jack of all trades </i>has become somewhat of an insult, but it didn’t begin as one. The phrase was originally used to describe a playwright who was always hanging around the theatres. He would help with the stage, the set and the costumes. He would remember lines and try directing. This so-called jack of all trades was in fact William Shakespeare. The full phrase is “<i>a jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.</i>” <b>It was a compliment</b>. <br /><br />Far from letting it deter their path, some entrepreneurs swear that being a jack of all trades brings benefits.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Self-discovery</h3>Picking an area and learning it inside-out is one way to begin a specialist career but trying lot of things can lead to self-discovery. To working out who you are and where your skills lie. Therapist and business owner Sunayana Clark says that when she started out, she was a jack of all trades. The benefits were, “you understand your strengths and weaknesses very quickly. You learn about time management and boundaries.”<br /><br />Paul Clarke from Connect Performance has explored working in sales, human performance and sports performance throughout his entrepreneurial journey. Although he says they are “seemingly unconnected”, the combined skillset has “allowed me to develop a scientific solution for improving the wellbeing and performance of salespeople.” Knowledge across many areas can combine to create well-rounded experts.<br /><br />International speaker and mentor Kitty Yeung Downer studied business studies at university, “as I didn’t have an idea what I wanted.” She found that exploring and experiencing different paths gave her the confidence to leave “[her] six-figure income to make a leap of faith moving to a new city with no visa, job or home awaiting.”<br /><br />Keeping your eyes and ears open to opportunities, coupled with learning and growing in multiple areas, means self-awareness and confidence in your path.<br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Allowing flexibility</h3>Holding a solid grasp of many concepts or decent proficiency in multiple skills can allow for flexibility, in a life and career. When a breakdown forced self-employed dressmaker Holly Winter out of a PR career of nearly two decades, her “sewing hobby accidentally turned into a bridal dressmaking business.” Winter had sewed since the age of five “but it never occurred to me to sew for a living. Friends asked me to make a few things, then friends of friends and it snowballed. Having PR experience definitely helped [my business].”<br /><br />Marketing and events specialist Ben Allen thinks “monotony is torture!” He prefers to think of his work as a “portfolio career” and enjoys “being able to dance between marketing/pr and event production work, especially in the summer.” Allen says, “with ADHD it helps to work on different projects and keep stimulated with different tasks.”<br /><br />The flexibility can benefit your clients as much as yourself. According to marketing consultant Andie Coupland, who likes the term "generalist” and “spent a ten-year in-house career climbing the ranks before setting up on my own last year”, “being able to pick and choose different projects or clients works really well for me.” Coupland says it gives her “exposure to lots of different areas of marketing. My natural curiosity led me to find out how other departments functioned, how marketing could help them and how they could help me.” This means she is “now able to adapt my approach to all sorts of client needs.” Less pigeon holing, more being able to adapt to any requirements, can be a winning strategy.<div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Great in business</h3>Companies want to hire useful people who can find analogies and draw trends, with a curiosity for solutions outside a narrow sphere.<br /><br />Cliff Gibson, founder at New Key Homes, admits he has “No education”, but has “worked in garages, finance, purchasing, warehouse management, IT development, data architecture, GDPR, built [his] own house, and now run[s] a growing property development company.” Gibson’s “self-taught jack of all trades approach to life has put me in a good position to be able to understand every role required in my businesses.” PR consultant Catherine Bolado agrees. “You have to have an eye on what is happening in other areas to provide the best advice for clients. As a former journo, charity comms and now PR… I can advise on anything from fundraising to digital strategy.”<br /><br />Alex Yates is a web development consultant who has noticed tech is going through a movement “away from highly specialised technical roles and teams toward more general individuals and teams who are better at collaboration.” Specialising too narrowly causes systematic problems and means departments don’t understand each other and it’s now considered old-fashioned by the best tech organisations.” Yates said that, “the market is shifting toward a higher percentage of broader generalists, who can thrive in smaller ‘startup’ style teams.”<br /><br />Broader knowledge leads to greater understanding and being better able to advise clients across multiple areas. It’s not adequate to specialise and turn a blind eye to other influences. As covered in David Epstein’s book, Range, progression and breakthroughs happen at the interfaces between specialisms.<br />Required for roles<br /><br />In some fields, being too narrow can be costly. This is especially true in digital marketing, which changes all the time. Digital marketer Heather Topf doesn’t think you can be accomplished in this area if you're not a jack of all trades. “Constant professional development is so important to keep up! One minute you're deep delving in data, the next learning how to use After Effects.” Topf loves the mix.<br /><br />Katherine of Kattack PR finds that working in comms she “tend[s] to do social media, marketing, video, audio, image editing, copywriting, web design, analytics, events” and more, but specialises in PR. “No day is the same! As I’m [just three years in to] my career I’m slowly specialising in related industries as there are far more generalists out there competing for work than specialists.” Her strategy is simple; learn everything first and specialise after.<br /><br />Blogger Taty said that being a jack of all trades developed her transferable skill set, including writing, web design, SEO and languages, and helped her “stand out in full-time and part-time positions and made it easier to secure jobs because I already had the exact skills they wanted. It made employing me easier because they didn’t have to spend much time training me.”<br />Curiosity as a strength<br /><br />Bringing curiosity to any work makes you better at doing it. According to proud non-nicher and all-round useful person Francesca Baker, “I set up my own business because I love variety. I’m one of those people always out exploring more, learning new things, discovering how the world works. That innate curiosity is something I bring to my work.” Her work includes writing, copywriting, journalism and PR.<br /><br />Hortense Julienne, whose list of titles includes food writer, photographer, snack brand owner, advocate for rare diseases, speaker on visible and invisible disabilities, NGO trustee, community volunteer manager, and ex-events manager, says “I make myself dizzy, but all this knowledge comes in handy. You're never bored, there is something bubbling up. You can contribute to many people and sectors. You are an eternal learner. I get joy from meeting people who know more than me as I soak in their knowledge. She describes it as being an “unboxable chameleon.” Too interesting to categorise, too cool to care.<br /><br />Being a master of one thing might mean you are an artist or an academic. Being a master of more means your work has a chance to reach people. You don’t wait to be discovered; the power is in your hands. Holding good working knowledge of a lot of areas is desirable and those who hire you might feel like they have hit the jackpot.</div><div><br /></div><div>So the next time someone say you're a jack of all trades but master of none, remember to thank them because it definitely is better than a master of one.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-41453382770828067142022-03-20T18:01:00.004+08:002022-03-20T18:03:22.941+08:00Now Selling: 家乡酱蒸料理 | Spicy Bean Paste aka Our Home Made Multipurpose Steam Sauce @ RM14 per 330ml bottle<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfImeZeAjkG3ioOqaeODWfoxPovUUruWNnanabNxb3AuhGcGlybh8Y0yRilxW7FQzxSAznGDlxu3LfMmKpRHg-fROrXEJ5S3OrpYnaXR8jfD4vLl3l-Yrkb-X6iN_bSVq3r8tDF53HNpOKCD8EDOSyBr326lLTctMXcZ6n80tOmqvifSqV7oaS5v0K=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfImeZeAjkG3ioOqaeODWfoxPovUUruWNnanabNxb3AuhGcGlybh8Y0yRilxW7FQzxSAznGDlxu3LfMmKpRHg-fROrXEJ5S3OrpYnaXR8jfD4vLl3l-Yrkb-X6iN_bSVq3r8tDF53HNpOKCD8EDOSyBr326lLTctMXcZ6n80tOmqvifSqV7oaS5v0K=w640-h480" width="640" /></a><br /><br /></p><p>With encouragements from friends that has tasted our home made sauce, decide to promote about it more. Currently available in <a href="http://bit.ly/SteamSauce" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my lil shopee corner</a> @ <a href="http://bit.ly/SteamSauce">http://bit.ly/SteamSauce</a> , our first run will be with the 330ml bottle. We do have other sizes but for now, those are only circulated among family members as they have been very supportive since the start of 2020 when Covid-19 happened.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://bit.ly/SteamSauce" imageanchor="1" rel="nofollow" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="1801" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2lpc_FDDRjrbPxHH94EDetVjud7BYQt5X1waJK_Vu33T0Tj7AMEejMc2Bx6DRfYmMox_oOtYT1dAQ9CK9v_sFk2QREhAV-ZUoqrUM_HcMWH720L3CV6S3SjsQMPDCG9BTkrqIxiGSIxLVg1mrEhNzCXzXxPe0U_uZmS_biTvqEwL27KQDMtP0-IYv=w640-h252" width="640" /></a></div><p>Besides Shopee, those that's involved in the Malaysian GroupBuy scene on Facebook would also be able to get from me. At present, a few relatives are helping to sell the sauce but there's only one small kitchen that is producing this.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/25qnfSF/276143098-2283952021744145-9084708575350388519-n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="480" src="https://i.ibb.co/25qnfSF/276143098-2283952021744145-9084708575350388519-n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p>If we get lucky and demand hits the level of Sambal Nyet by KhairulAming, then we might look at setting up a proper production but until then, we are still cooking this from the home's kitchen.</p><p>A little review from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/julian_ong/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Julian</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/N6gM34b/julian.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="594" height="457" src="https://i.ibb.co/N6gM34b/julian.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Some did ask, what can we make using this sauce? We have used the sauce on fish, meat, vegetables, even on pasta and ramen when we got lazy to cook. Here's some of the dishes. As it's pork free, we do have some vegetarians buying it and using it as part of their dishes. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/bWbqhr1/steamed-pork-rib-w-spicy-bean-paste.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://i.ibb.co/bWbqhr1/steamed-pork-rib-w-spicy-bean-paste.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam Pork Ribs</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/nDmzCS1/steamed-siakap-with-spicy-bean-paste.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://i.ibb.co/nDmzCS1/steamed-siakap-with-spicy-bean-paste.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam Siakap</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/59TQY7r/white-snapper.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://i.ibb.co/59TQY7r/white-snapper.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam White Snapper</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/mbL6TYB/Whats-App-Image-2022-03-20-at-14-42-22.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="718" height="640" src="https://i.ibb.co/mbL6TYB/Whats-App-Image-2022-03-20-at-14-42-22.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam Tofu</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.ibb.co/fMQcSJk/Whats-App-Image-2022-03-20-at-14-42-22-1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="718" height="640" src="https://i.ibb.co/fMQcSJk/Whats-App-Image-2022-03-20-at-14-42-22-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stir Fried Petai</td></tr></tbody></table><p>The number of dishes you can make with this sauce is only limited to your imagination. So if you want to give it a try, just head over to <a href="http://bit.ly/SteamSauce">bit.ly/SteamSauce</a> and get a bottle or two today!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-70648678641402847412021-11-29T16:17:00.002+08:002021-11-29T16:17:33.771+08:00What I learn from Dancing about Leadership<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGaNKZmQszxmNqyIWfoRgc4ggRjmXCzo96qaWQlEbkeK0Jf0FjiWDO92UVjmuXA9aJk5m8E0fTV3ebN69gXUtAej3YIlziG2lfweZky8scTOXOCxFihJS44j4yebp659FAIzK4pD9be0/s2048/10549044_430326767106689_958983258533666695_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGaNKZmQszxmNqyIWfoRgc4ggRjmXCzo96qaWQlEbkeK0Jf0FjiWDO92UVjmuXA9aJk5m8E0fTV3ebN69gXUtAej3YIlziG2lfweZky8scTOXOCxFihJS44j4yebp659FAIzK4pD9be0/w640-h426/10549044_430326767106689_958983258533666695_o.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Not many people know I dance because I don't look like it. But I do, mainly couple dances like Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba. But I'm not here to write about my dance life (which is basically non-existance since 2020 due to Covid-19.<br /><br />I'd like to touch on what I learn about being a leader and a follower because of dance.<br /><br />In couple dance, the first thing taught in classes is about the Leader and the Follower. To most people watching a couple dance, you will think that it's just 2 person dancing in unison with no verbal communications between them. So how will the follower know what the leader wants to do? <br /><br />You wouldn't believe it if I say that yes, there's communications involved, you just don't see or hear it. For each move and actions, the lead is always inviting the follower to perform and it is up to the follower to accept it and execute the move(s) or not.<br /><br />Here are five key elements that I believe dancing with partner(s) can relate to leadership at work, and in other aspects of life.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">1. The Invitation</h3><br />Each dance starts off from a certain position and from there, a leader through hand positions and movements, will invite a follower to do a particular movement/steps. It's the choice of the follower to allow herself to be guided into those movements/steps. <br /><br />To successfully lead people, it's important to establish rapport. Especially in work situations, it's often the case that people will simply be assigned to follow someone, regardless of whether they feel any natural affinity with that person. If you're assigned to lead a group of people, it's important to try to get close to them at a human level, in a friendly, relaxed way. Don't just barge in and start bossing people around; Instead, meet people on their own terms, sit down to talk with them, try to get a feel for who they are.<br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">2. Moving together </h3><div><br /></div><div>When we establish the beat of the music, as partners, we will move together across the dance floor. The leader moving to the direction he/she wants to go and the follower through the subtle touches and gestures, follows. <br /><br /></div><div>Few work activities match the physical closeness of dancing, but in many work situations, followers benefit from having a leader who is actually doing some of the work with them, and a leader benefits from being "on the floor" with their followers, working alongside them at least some of the time. The best leaders have enough understanding of their followers' tasks to help them do their best work, and this understanding often comes, in part, from doing some of the work themselves.<p style="--artdeco-reset-typography_getfontsize: 1.6rem; --artdeco-reset-typography_getlineheight: 1.5; background-color: white; border: var(--artdeco-reset-base-border-zero); box-sizing: inherit; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); counter-reset: list-1 0 list-2 0 list-3 0 list-4 0 list-5 0 list-6 0 list-7 0 list-8 0 list-9 0; cursor: text; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", "Fira Sans", Ubuntu, Oxygen, "Oxygen Sans", Cantarell, "Droid Sans", "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Lucida Grande", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: var(--artdeco-reset-typography_getLineHeight); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: var(--artdeco-reset-base-vertical-align-baseline); white-space: pre-wrap;"></p></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">3. Be Receptive</h3><div><br /></div><div>One thing about couple based social dances, we changes partners between songs. And when you dance with different partners, you'd get to see the differences in each person's flavours and actions. How some lead or followers could easily move along with you and vice versa. Especially the experienced ladies I've danced with, even at my soft leads, they are able to move along and perform. While me being a male, tend to be more stubborn as a follower when another lead tries to lead me. Goes to show how different each person is, whether in dance or in work/life. </div><div><br /></div><div>In any leadership context, it's crucial that the leader pays attention to what their followers are doing and saying. It may be tempting, as a leader, to think that you're in charge and should be able to call the shots, but a smart leader knows the value of relying on their smart followers to help see the right way to take each step. </div><div><br /></div><div>For followers, it's all about your receptiveness towards a leader. Sometimes, we just have to move to the leader's tune even if we feel it's wrong. But as followers, we also have a duty to occasionally correct a leader. It's all about the subtle touches.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">4. Create a path for your followers</h3><div><br /></div><div>In dance, it's the leader's job to make sure that you and your follower does not collide into other dancers, to learn how to make space for the dance to be enjoyable while making sure that you are not a hindrance to others. This is especially true when you are on a packed dance floor. It's important to know how much movement you can do and know when to hold back. I've seen from time to time, leaders trying to show off to a new follower that he knows his things by doing flairs and big spins, flinging arms and hair across the dance floor and smashing into other dancers. Not only will the dance not be enjoyable to the partner, other people will start to move away from you. </div><div><br /></div><div>In a corporate context, a leader often has a broader perspective than their followers do, because they may be aware of externalities before their followers are. A careful leader uses this knowledge to make sure that they can create a clear, safe path for their followers to move along, giving them the freedom to work to the best of their abilities within the given path.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">5. Keep going</h3><div><br /></div><div>As new dancers, we will occasionally fall out of beat. We will occasionally step on other dancers as we find our footings. It's nothing to be ashamed of, apologise, reset and keep going. It is always OK to stop, get back into the beat and continue. Even though I've been dancing for quite a number of years, I still make mistakes especially after taking long breaks from dance. There's no need to make a fuss, look at the situation and keep going.</div><div><br /></div><div>Flexible leaders understand that unexpected things happen all the time. They don't make a big fuss about problems that that can be easily corrected, and they have enough insight to understand that they, themselves, may be the origin of many problems! They help their followers adapt to the new situation and get right back to work.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">The Take Away</h3><div><br /></div><div>Leadership is not about being bossy or ordering people around. It's about doing a task together with the people we lead. A leader's role is to provide a path and be the guide so that everyone can move forward together. </div><div><br /></div><div>As leaders, it is our role to make decision, suggest the best moves forward and freeing the followers to to just focus on their task with as few obstacles as possible. </div><div><br /></div><div>With proper leadership, a group can accomplish more than a single person. </div><div><br /></div><div>In Summary:</div><div><br /></div><div><b>1. Invite </b>the follower(s) to follow you and allow you to lead.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>2. Move together</b> with the follower, whether they are new or experienced.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>3. Be receptive</b> to changes and pay attention to what the followers need.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>4. Create a path for your follower</b> so they can safely navigate towards the goal.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>5. Keep going,</b> don't have to be ashamed if you encounter stumbling blocks. </div><div><br /></div><div>This list might not be a perfect one but that's how I see leadership in both dance and work/life. Hopefully, these insight from my dance life give you an idea about leadership and is useful as well. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-6584197344545987212021-11-18T11:16:00.004+08:002021-11-18T11:16:49.944+08:00Pet Friendly Cafe and Restaurants in Klang Valley<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwEszFZkQg92K6p00O5nv07TKGDC9DA2Ls_vnVrmLHDgn4o6U6xgrxTiuv_1kI1MZ72-En0SN8y78MSNAb3MnXKzdVTyW2PF16d-g0o_pesz3h583CXLb5lOkffuWG5D0sAHOopeCz2g/s2048/254965940_2178966865575995_414626885004071568_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1552" data-original-width="2048" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwEszFZkQg92K6p00O5nv07TKGDC9DA2Ls_vnVrmLHDgn4o6U6xgrxTiuv_1kI1MZ72-En0SN8y78MSNAb3MnXKzdVTyW2PF16d-g0o_pesz3h583CXLb5lOkffuWG5D0sAHOopeCz2g/w640-h486/254965940_2178966865575995_414626885004071568_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p>Just sharing some of the places I've visited with my furkids, this would not be as extensive as those list from magazine sites and such. Just those that I've personally patronised and experienced. Mind you, in terms of food, it's your own personal preference when it comes to the taste. This list is in random order and not a ranking list. </p>
<p>I'll update the list as I visit more, if you have come across any that is not in my list that you'd recommend me to go, do let me know in the comments or drop me a message on my social media account(s). You can click on the name of the cafe and restaurants for the waze location. </p>
<p>1. <a href="https://ul.waze.com/ul?place=ChIJJwe-w-9IzDERdsaQ8ClbCu8&ll=3.16372750%2C101.64900760&navigate=yes&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Cubs & Cups</b></a> @ Sri Hartamas, KL </p>
<p>Nice cozy cafe that we visited regularly. They have a new menu so am discovering the changes on the food after the update. Plenty of space for the furkids to run around but if your lil one is hard to handle or is aggressive to others, do keep him/her on a leash. For those that is not toilet trained, let him/her wear a diaper too even though they have pails and mops around for the pawrents to clean after their furkids. For those that wants to feed the furkids, they also have a dedicated pet menu for you to choose from. </p>
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<p>2. <a href="https://ul.waze.com/ul?ll=3.15796698%2C101.69970989&navigate=yes&zoom=17&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Kwong Cheung Loong Kopitiam Bar 广昌龙茶室吧</b></a> @ Heritage Row, KL</p>
<p>Another nice kopitiam in the heart of KL, our usual stopover when we are done with work in KL early and need a place to hang out and wait out the rush hour. Food wise, pretty nice, their nasi lemak selections and toasts/steamed breads are popular choices. They also serve both localised and western style coffee and tea. They don't advertise it but if you want food for your furkid, do ask them for recommendation (and price, in case it might be above what you are willing to pay).</p><p>They do have simple house rules to follow for those that's there with pets, keeping the diapers on (if you forgot to bring from home, they do sell diapers there but don't complain if the quality is not up to your standard). Keeping the furkid(s) on leash (occasionally I'll remove the leash from William when there's no customers other than the regular few, of course, after seeking permission from the kopitiam management as a courtesy). They will charge you for cleaning fees if you let your pets loose and they pee and poo around the premise so you have been informed. </p>
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<p>3. <b>Tom, Dick and Harry's @ Oasis Damansara</b>, Petaling Jaya</p><p>Among all the TDH outlets, the Oasis outlet would be the one to go if you want to have a drink and bring your furkid along, they didn't advertise it but just ask first before you go as a courtesy so they will reserve you a spot outside where you can enjoy your meal while your furkid bask in the environment next to the fountain. It's not a pet cafe or restaurant though so your furkid has to be on leash at all time and if they are not toilet trained, keep the diapers on.</p>
<p>Food and drink wise, their menu is the same as across all their outlets. Can't really say much as we only go there a few times and always ordered the same food and drinks. Foodies that eat there more often would be able to recommend to you.</p>
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<p>4. <a href="https://ul.waze.com/ul?ll=3.11812627%2C101.63544416&navigate=yes&zoom=17&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The 3 Stooges</b></a> @ Jaya One, Petaling Jaya</p>
<p>Another regular hangout spot for us is the Three Stooges at Jaya One, but as work picks up, we visited less as it's not part of our route home from KL. I miss the pork knuckle they used to sell when they started, these days, it's just a tower of Soju Tiger and finger food when we chill by the sofa area.</p>
<p>The staffs there are friendly, especially to the furkids. The ground floor where most of the restaurants are at is considered the pet zone so they do welcome customers with pets. They'll even provide the furkids with water to keep them hydrate too. </p>
<p>The signages around the sofa area do indicate that it's the pawrents' responsibility to clean up after the dogs/cats if they do their no. 1 or no. 2 in JayaOne. </p>
<p>5. <a href="https://ul.waze.com/ul?ll=3.11812627%2C101.63544416&navigate=yes&zoom=17&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Park-In</b></a> @ Jaya One, Petaling Jaya</p>
<p>Just across from Starbucks, Park-In serves Chinese style food with some interesting drink selection, especially their cocktails which seems to be a favorite for the ladies. Do remember to check-in to the premise using their QR as there's free drinks/discounts to claim.</p>
<p>They do allow pets in their premise so if you don't want to sit on the high tables while you're there with your furkids, you can sit inside as well. Personally, I'd normally order and pay then request them to bring the food to the sofa area where I can just sit back and relax. Rules and all is the same as above as both Stooges and Park-In is within the same Jaya-One compound.</p>
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<p>5. <a href="https://ul.waze.com/ul?ll=3.06070329%2C101.66900396&navigate=yes&zoom=17&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Scoby Cafe</b></a> @ Bukit Jalil</p>
<p>Visited the place once, it's quite a distance for us as we don't stay near the Bukit Jalil/Puchong area. Food wise, they do try to present some unique take to the customers but isn't really to our taste. If you'd like some healthy food, you can check the cafe out.</p>
<p>As for pets, the furkids need to be on leash at all time and in diapers if not toilet trained. There's no pee pads in the cafe. The staffs there are friendly to the pets, even offering free cubpucino to William when we were browsing through the food menu.</p>
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<p>6. <a href="https://ul.waze.com/ul?ll=3.06896339%2C101.69423819&navigate=yes&zoom=17&utm_campaign=default&utm_source=waze_website&utm_medium=lm_share_location" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Super Porkki Porkki & Poof Cafe</b></a> @ Sri Petaling
<p>Another nice place to visit, Super Porkki Porkki on the ground floor do allow us to bring our pets but they'd advise us to keep the lil one on a leash as there's no barricade to stop the pets from dashing out onto the road. But for those that want to let the lil furballs run loose, head up to Poof Cafe, you can still order food from Porkki Porkki so it's all good. With the combination of the restaurant and cafe, you get a good choice of local favorites as well as western cafe food.</p>
<p>Do have the furkid(s) on diaper if you intend to let them run around the place, or at least clean up after the lil ones if they do their no. 1 or no. 2. The staffs here are too nice that they try not to bug the customers but as a customer and pet owner, don't think I'll be able to take it if I see an uncontrollable furkid running havoc in the cafe while the owner just sits there like it's a good thing. For those that forgot to bring diapers for the furkid, they do sell them at the cafe. Did tell the cafe to start charging the customers that doesn't bother to take care of their furkid(s) mess as it's something the pawrents should be doing and not the responsibility of the cafe.</p>
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<p><b>Bonus: Restaurants and Cafes @ Desa Park City</b></p>
<p>In case some wonders why I didn't cover any of the cafes and restaurants in Desa Park City, well, the place is already quite well known among pet owners to be a pet friendly place. All the cafe and restaurants there welcome furkids except for Starbucks and Coffee Beans.</p>
<p> Waterfront: Post Covid-19, a lot of the premise now requires you QR Sign in and have temperature checked so the terrace area @ the Waterfront has been blocked off. For those that wants to dine in that area, you're only left with the porch area facing the carpark if you want to dine in with your furkid. Tough luck if it rained cause all the restaurants there don't allow you to use the Terrace area facing the lake. Was at one of the restaurant for my Birthday, basically a wet dinner for me as it was raining heavily and we are not allowed to go to the Terrace area so stuck by the entrance table with zero shelter against the rain. Maybe DesaPark's management might want to relook at the design of the place to create covered area so that we can get nearer to our car without getting drenched when it starts to rain?</p>
<p>Plaza Arkadia: The layout is much better as there's more space for the outdoor dining experience with the furkids, pawrents need to keep their lil one on leash or in carriers as it's a wide open space.</p>
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<p>This list will continue to grow as we visit more places with our furkid.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-67146496203154194142021-10-03T08:47:00.001+08:002021-10-03T08:47:19.821+08:00World Mental Health Day 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBw2_s9uNIzgJ6cg1cfK0lZ5SoO9HU1Sb2O8n-qh0ceTosxradS_qYVS_RzGMIc0GPM8pDESPApVUGdxdFkdYGl4OAAIBav_2Og52tflqHhtQZ13ySSbT2BKB_E-hpGTDcxYMO6gpCDrE/s1528/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1528" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBw2_s9uNIzgJ6cg1cfK0lZ5SoO9HU1Sb2O8n-qh0ceTosxradS_qYVS_RzGMIc0GPM8pDESPApVUGdxdFkdYGl4OAAIBav_2Og52tflqHhtQZ13ySSbT2BKB_E-hpGTDcxYMO6gpCDrE/w640-h336/unnamed.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>This October is a special one for me as I decided to take on the challenge of talking about mental health in conjunction with the World Mental Health Day that falls on the 10th of October.</p><p>This little issue is of course overshadowed by the Pink October as the entire month is about breast cancer.</p><p>Immense gratitude goes to the team at the Selangor division of Parti Aspirasi Sains Malaysia for indulging in my little project and the awesome celebrities that I call friends willing to take time out in making videos as I requested. Not forgetting the few companies that heard about my plans and stepped forward to sponsor some prizes for the quiz on the 10th of October as well! </p><p>For the infographics and essays, do check out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sainsselangor" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/sainsselangor</a> , <a href="http://twitter.com/sainsselangor" target="_blank">twitter.com/sainsselangor</a> , <a href="http://instagram.com/sainsselangor" target="_blank">instagram.com/sainsselangor</a> and <a href="http://instagram.com/mikeyipdotcom" target="_blank">instagram.com/mikeyipdotcom</a>.</p><p>Here I'll share the videos that we have made for the 10 days project. </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-47457390432841032152021-07-28T10:35:00.005+08:002021-07-28T10:48:13.007+08:00My new Sling Bag from PTT Outdoor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5hizLiqZCe2W3rWHt5T95s_jOUXkcQKeZpTlMegUmltw0zYavLTSA9XvLNt2wix3va5-1hp0VoinwFhyphenhyphen6VJS4QvZPN7aXGMKVKgJlTnXLPGXtaqV5Nt6qAFBAa766dd0r_Sp58RMGCo/s597/Screenshot+2021-07-28+at+9.51.06+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="597" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR5hizLiqZCe2W3rWHt5T95s_jOUXkcQKeZpTlMegUmltw0zYavLTSA9XvLNt2wix3va5-1hp0VoinwFhyphenhyphen6VJS4QvZPN7aXGMKVKgJlTnXLPGXtaqV5Nt6qAFBAa766dd0r_Sp58RMGCo/w640-h480/Screenshot+2021-07-28+at+9.51.06+AM.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">Wanted to post about this gem earlier but decide that I'll put it through my stress test for a few weeks before I properly write one. I got this </span><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">new Sling Bag from </span><a class="notranslate" href="https://www.pttoutdoor.com/shop/tahan-conquer-multipurpose-sling-bag/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">PTT Outdoor</a><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;"> on the 7th July, so it's a good 20 days of using it whenever I get a chance to go out for work, donation drives or for my grocery runs</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">I'm one of those guys that doesn't like to have things in my pockets and prefer a bag to carry them in. Not very picky, just need one with a</span><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">djustable sling and large storage capacity. I had 4 previously, the 1st was a pretty well used bag that I got from an army base. It finally fall apart after almost 15+ years of use. This followed by a similar bag from an outdoor brand which I used for a good while too until someone stole it when it was on my drying rack.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">The 3rd one was a gift which didn't survive past 2 years and the last one was from before lockdown happened in early 2020 but start to crumple under the amount of things I stuffed into it. And now, I have this. I like the fact that I can easily adjust the sling to the length I want and it stays there until I adjust it again. So adjustable sling </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;">✔</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLH693QaIywnnqcaUzZG5a0NdZsEr93xi8XxZeU0FxWiQpUAL5J8Inl-mc7m_BtPjthcblpQ9h8-AqAu2WhWAq8ewtOV_NqUZCbAz77si1xF3AFp6G9OJFOxGm_HfIN2sAQ-FDlo0Qco/s1024/WhatsApp+Image+2021-07-28+at+9.45.12+AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtLH693QaIywnnqcaUzZG5a0NdZsEr93xi8XxZeU0FxWiQpUAL5J8Inl-mc7m_BtPjthcblpQ9h8-AqAu2WhWAq8ewtOV_NqUZCbAz77si1xF3AFp6G9OJFOxGm_HfIN2sAQ-FDlo0Qco/w480-h640/WhatsApp+Image+2021-07-28+at+9.45.12+AM.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>What I put in the Tahan bag</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;">This gives you an idea what the amount of things I actually fit into the bag, my 2 GoPros, Swiss Army Knife and pencil case isn't in the photo as I was using it. So yes, this bag, despite the unassuming size, actually can hold a lot of stuff! I was pretty surprised as the 1st week of use, I didn't really put too much stuff in as I normally carry my work tablet and daily tablet by hand. Large storage capacity <span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;">✔</span><br /></span><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The surprise happened when I went for my <a href="https://www.mikeyip.com/2021/07/cucukmyaz-2nddose.html">2nd vaccination</a> and I needed some ways to hold the tablets. Without thinking much, figuring that since I only had my writing book in the bag, I could just slide the iPad in and hold the other tablet instead. Was pretty surprised that I managed to put both in, on top of the other things that is already in the bag.<br /></span></span><div><span face="-apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #262626; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">20 days of use later, I decide to empty the bag, check the seams for tear and took the above photo. So far, it has hold up to the challenge, no tears or holes in the bag cause I know previous 2 bags died at the hand of the test pen screwdriver within days. It also held out under our Malaysian weather, the contents I had in the bag was pretty dry the couple of times I was caught under the rain, of course, there are 2 exposed pockets but I normally keep my keys and waterproof stuff in those 2 compartments. So, water resistance </span></span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 14px;">✔</span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">Would I recommend this bag if you're looking for a sling bag to use? YES! Am I happy with the one I'm using? YES! It might not be those fashionable type that a lot of metro guys goes for but heck, I'm not a fashionable man. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;">As for the dimension of the bag and all that tech info, you can check them out at their <a href="https://www.pttoutdoor.com/shop/tahan-conquer-multipurpose-sling-bag/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">official store here</a>. The best part, value for money cause it's affordable. That's the 1st reason why I decide to buy it. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwBIwH7TkghB-FQNihM4PA8dn1ofSwHv3h8F0OwEnb-_8JWFqyco0m09sqIOj9jnbrNIRXx56Ac4ntRlPIh4ZnXjUJ3JMn2VgzzcHFZVMjqFD4nK798hyphenhyphen-YGv40S-laAF1OgVEFo23IsI/s559/images.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="40" data-original-width="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwBIwH7TkghB-FQNihM4PA8dn1ofSwHv3h8F0OwEnb-_8JWFqyco0m09sqIOj9jnbrNIRXx56Ac4ntRlPIh4ZnXjUJ3JMn2VgzzcHFZVMjqFD4nK798hyphenhyphen-YGv40S-laAF1OgVEFo23IsI/s16000/images.png" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #262626;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div>
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<td>Meeting my expectations</td>
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<td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKIw_5xHba-EgZDPPMCIT_60d9VImfiTVc6nzU0RGA_R6n8WnkMxqK0qgRLQoEzA213wLNdA5-03KJ3CTsoPRWKPIF4iHgwjPcl1NgRk7vAztUuE4utJZUeOrPMOFJbVHcOJ3a7oviFg/s410/5.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="410" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKIw_5xHba-EgZDPPMCIT_60d9VImfiTVc6nzU0RGA_R6n8WnkMxqK0qgRLQoEzA213wLNdA5-03KJ3CTsoPRWKPIF4iHgwjPcl1NgRk7vAztUuE4utJZUeOrPMOFJbVHcOJ3a7oviFg/w200-h49/5.png" width="200" /></a></td>
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<td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKIw_5xHba-EgZDPPMCIT_60d9VImfiTVc6nzU0RGA_R6n8WnkMxqK0qgRLQoEzA213wLNdA5-03KJ3CTsoPRWKPIF4iHgwjPcl1NgRk7vAztUuE4utJZUeOrPMOFJbVHcOJ3a7oviFg/s410/5.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="410" height="49" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKIw_5xHba-EgZDPPMCIT_60d9VImfiTVc6nzU0RGA_R6n8WnkMxqK0qgRLQoEzA213wLNdA5-03KJ3CTsoPRWKPIF4iHgwjPcl1NgRk7vAztUuE4utJZUeOrPMOFJbVHcOJ3a7oviFg/w200-h49/5.png" width="200" /></a></td>
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Just embarking on this within our own family and friends, with so many efforts happening now across Malaysia with the Bendera Putih initiatives in full swing, we were trying not to drown the community with too many initiatives happening at the same time. </p><p>But as we head into our 2nd phase of our own activities, I thought that it's time for us to now let the public know and see what we can muster out of this. Who are we helping? Keep scrolling after the poster.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCeOZur2i6URMsYVSrXOSEfIuqn_9wFbavkcWEeFEIPS94y7Qvoryd4KJBkvZ0N71khn-iFpZnEfnzo_iaONvo01Z0FFWpt6bFRH2Jo-mmQlWRy9vEdqEVhhN7aG-wvMnsiozNyHIbhg/s1280/E5vLa9YVkAASzG-.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="905" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnCeOZur2i6URMsYVSrXOSEfIuqn_9wFbavkcWEeFEIPS94y7Qvoryd4KJBkvZ0N71khn-iFpZnEfnzo_iaONvo01Z0FFWpt6bFRH2Jo-mmQlWRy9vEdqEVhhN7aG-wvMnsiozNyHIbhg/w452-h640/E5vLa9YVkAASzG-.jpeg" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Homes we are helping: </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">1) Anak Yatim Kajang Perdana <br />Caretaker: Mdm Foo</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Pax = 13 + 2 staffs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> No need cloths</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Need food: Bread, vegetarian foods, chicken, rice</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Others : Laundry detergent, Cash</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2) Rumah Anak Yatim Sg Kantan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Caretaker: Pn Siti </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pax: 75 + 10 staffs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Need Food: Biscut, Roti, rice</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Need children clothing </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Need Cash to settle utility bills</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">3) Rainbow home Cheras (Orphanage)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Caretaker: Sheila</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">28 Pax + 4 staffs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Food such as biscuits, rice etc</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Need cash No need cloths for now</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">4) Pusat Jagaan Al Fikrah Kajang (Old folks home)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Caretaker: Kak Long</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">80pax + 4 staffs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Need cash contribution</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Need foodstuffs- bread, biscuits etc</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"> Clothings yes</div></div><p>If you feel you could help, do let me know, you can also contact us at selangorsains @ gmail.com <br /><br />For non-Malaysian friends, you can also donate via >> <a href="https://paypal.me/mikeyipdotcom?locale.x=en_US" target="_blank">paypal</a> <<</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-81695213429147824022021-07-04T16:30:00.008+08:002021-07-14T15:18:30.603+08:00My Experience with AstraZeneca Vaccine Dose #2<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3IkXOOTfUnVWM8jQU0RXPFAPmpKvTRslzngnVlDyiVlfMrI02XiPqYC0QKV4L1aEFZX0p7RCticvWYydNLdpfH1a9ZFdtSXUUNEKhhrG_J9tLHGuAKMJmcGZjkx3ZOwC2Whj3-95JNBs/s2048/astra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1405" data-original-width="2048" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3IkXOOTfUnVWM8jQU0RXPFAPmpKvTRslzngnVlDyiVlfMrI02XiPqYC0QKV4L1aEFZX0p7RCticvWYydNLdpfH1a9ZFdtSXUUNEKhhrG_J9tLHGuAKMJmcGZjkx3ZOwC2Whj3-95JNBs/w640-h440/astra.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Finally, the time for the 2nd dose is near. Following my previous post on the 1st dose. Decide to do a follow-up on the 2nd dose and what I experience from start to end.<p></p><p><br /></p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Waking up to an alert for my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> 2nd Stab.<br><br>For those involved in the 1st round of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AstraZeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AstraZeneca</a> ... time to check your <a href="https://twitter.com/my_sejahtera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@my_sejahtera</a> to see if you got your slot. <a href="https://t.co/QlCsSUsYOD">pic.twitter.com/QlCsSUsYOD</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1410720836961509379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Got to UM early... maybe cause I just wanted to get the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMyAZ2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMyAZ2</a> done...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AstraZeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AstraZeneca</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2ndDose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2ndDose</a> <a href="https://t.co/NK6wgOTijz">pic.twitter.com/NK6wgOTijz</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1413318599721189378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Simple check of the <a href="https://twitter.com/my_sejahtera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@my_sejahtera</a> and temperature scan. Now we wait for my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMyAZ2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMyAZ2</a> ...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AstraZeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AstraZeneca</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2ndDose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2ndDose</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2ndstab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2ndstab</a> <a href="https://t.co/zKQfBllx9x">pic.twitter.com/zKQfBllx9x</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1413320133259399170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
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<br>Just thought I'd add more on this since there's a lot of people who uploaded videos of the doctors not actually administering the vaccine, please ask the doctor to show you the bottle and syringe. Watch them closely when they stab you so you know that they really administered the vaccine properly. I've also attached a video of the example below.<b />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="in" dir="ltr">Yup. Cucuk vaccine pun tipu <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KerajaanTumbang?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KerajaanTumbang</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KerajaanBangsat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KerajaanBangsat</a> <a href="https://t.co/pg814RPxXw">pic.twitter.com/pg814RPxXw</a></p>— Moose (@travisskkottt) <a href="https://twitter.com/travisskkottt/status/1413407847145111556?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br>Sorry for the distraction but now, back to the regular programming<br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Completed my <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ2</a> ... pretty fast... 1st dose product of South Korea and 2nd from Thailand... 이제 한국말 할 수 있어요? และมีความปรารถนาที่จะมีทอมยัม!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmyaz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmyaz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2nddose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2nddose</a> <a href="https://t.co/Zuvs9X6KId">pic.twitter.com/Zuvs9X6KId</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1413335540619907072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><h2>Post-Vaccination Experience</h2><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Left UM at 11am after <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmyaz2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmyaz2</a> ...<br><br>It’s 3.30pm and so far, didn’t feel any effects from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> , No numbness from the injection site too. Let’s see what’ll happen as we head towards the 24hours mark.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmyaz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmyaz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipaz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipaz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2nddose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2nddose</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccinated?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vaccinated</a> <a href="https://t.co/Y3Gd5jcO5Z">pic.twitter.com/Y3Gd5jcO5Z</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1413401017769549829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">22 hours after <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmyaz2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmyaz2</a>... so far so good. No apparent side effects from the shot. Just hope it's not like the previous shot, at the 24 hour mark, BAM! Fever! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipaz?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipaz</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AstraZeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AstraZeneca</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2ndDose?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2ndDose</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/fullyvacinnated?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#fullyvacinnated</a> <a href="https://t.co/hAkb8xDWgH">pic.twitter.com/hAkb8xDWgH</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1413667149613174785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Annyeong! It’s 52hours post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMyAZ2?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMyAZ2</a> vaccination. No major side effects except me looking like a fluffier BTS lad with some cravings for tomyam. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FullyVaccinated?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FullyVaccinated</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMyAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMyAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AstraZeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AstraZeneca</a> <a href="https://t.co/WMxS4iBf89">pic.twitter.com/WMxS4iBf89</a></p>— Michael Yip 🪐 (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1414128741953851397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br>PS: My friends and I are raising funds and collection essentials for some old folks homes along with the <strong>#BenderaPutih</strong> initiative that is sweeping Malaysia. If you'd love to contribute, let me know. Poster of the activity is as below...<br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We are new to the block (we are officially less than a week old) but we would love to do our part! If you would like to contribute as well, please do let us know. <a href="https://t.co/Swd12SHUB1">pic.twitter.com/Swd12SHUB1</a></p>— SAINS Selangor (@SainsSelangor) <a href="https://twitter.com/SainsSelangor/status/1412946592890376192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Jln Profesor Diraja Ungku Aziz, 59100 Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia3.1137086 101.6528322-25.196525236178847 66.4965822 31.423942436178844 136.8090822tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-6432149865139307212021-05-03T18:01:00.015+08:002021-07-14T15:17:51.118+08:00My Experience with AstraZeneca Vaccine Dose #1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6LwhTvVsRhC2qn_GA53ZPILhMesUte0-8kEyNdhsj8v_d7OfXzpZqVbghWoLEucv_SyYDKIwNFmjCF5NUazAk8Yu4q5LOGvi5y8ch03OnsINcs7vt36RB9Q4s4pJJH33KeX3M3H4oeFQ/s800/dt_210401_astrazeneca_covid_vaccine_800x450.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6LwhTvVsRhC2qn_GA53ZPILhMesUte0-8kEyNdhsj8v_d7OfXzpZqVbghWoLEucv_SyYDKIwNFmjCF5NUazAk8Yu4q5LOGvi5y8ch03OnsINcs7vt36RB9Q4s4pJJH33KeX3M3H4oeFQ/w640-h360/dt_210401_astrazeneca_covid_vaccine_800x450.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>Just documenting my experience with the AstraZeneca vaccine that the Malaysian government opened for opt-in on the 2nd of May. To gauge the response, I think they only opened the opt-in program to the Klang Valley folks.</p><p><b>May 2nd, 1300hrs</b></p><p>I actually tried to register at 12pm but somehow, a lot of people had the same idea and jammed up the system. Finally managed to register at 1pm.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFSiUp9uAKq31G-WAOhyXTTVdgvb5OfiZhjamS1Jj8dL86DK874jpaNjIyTvPe5LpnsCKiZvTw2Se37bNUgTSwa89SMhcNkadlfjHqaq3tk5PRhm5T5DFJ9CjKITvhK9fu5JvC7qEHVk/s1080/confirmation.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="607" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFSiUp9uAKq31G-WAOhyXTTVdgvb5OfiZhjamS1Jj8dL86DK874jpaNjIyTvPe5LpnsCKiZvTw2Se37bNUgTSwa89SMhcNkadlfjHqaq3tk5PRhm5T5DFJ9CjKITvhK9fu5JvC7qEHVk/w360-h640/confirmation.jpeg" width="360" /></a></div><br /><p><b>May 2nd, 1500hrs</b></p><p>Within 3 hours since registration was opened, all the available spots was snapped up. So this only show that people wants to be vaccinated and I do hope the government would speed up the process, especially for the older age groups to get vaccinated.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIy3Ii6fSq5WNqeVEa-IIpyS2YRtfQQR_OF0bI1ttoSdTnZVtOxg5a1ozz8EbHOWonqoQP6MVNe5CEP-nWGQ55Pk_n_PJ_f-RViiQqx52im8pIK2oV4BPqgN5Ul0J73rkZsbsn_00eCgA/s1024/availabilit.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1024" height="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIy3Ii6fSq5WNqeVEa-IIpyS2YRtfQQR_OF0bI1ttoSdTnZVtOxg5a1ozz8EbHOWonqoQP6MVNe5CEP-nWGQ55Pk_n_PJ_f-RViiQqx52im8pIK2oV4BPqgN5Ul0J73rkZsbsn_00eCgA/w640-h474/availabilit.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><b>May 3rd, 1010hrs</b></p><p>By 10am, I got confirmation for my vaccination slot, now next update, will be the experience at the vaccination center this Friday.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYmj7_DewrHHZSOltRh49wzofYttqEbWPHAMwDdWeZRb73A7hHZHC5c0p-qaOjl4wr5suorIGxFVC235OY9Y1B2yX4mQuRApc7oCAHnsTmlS8dxGghQ0Ne_1ZbrwN54bMobnhZTu5tOQU/s691/vaccine+confirmation.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="576" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYmj7_DewrHHZSOltRh49wzofYttqEbWPHAMwDdWeZRb73A7hHZHC5c0p-qaOjl4wr5suorIGxFVC235OY9Y1B2yX4mQuRApc7oCAHnsTmlS8dxGghQ0Ne_1ZbrwN54bMobnhZTu5tOQU/w534-h640/vaccine+confirmation.jpeg" width="534" /></a></div><br /> <br /><p></p><div><b>May 7th</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>The day of the vaccination, will be updating live on <a href="http://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom">twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom</a> and share the progress screenshots here at the end of the day.</div>
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">All set for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> ...<br><br>Waiting in line for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> ... <br><br>yes. Am early... can I get a free pass to go in? Let’s see if they will let me through... <a href="https://t.co/lJ6LdIRyoD">pic.twitter.com/lJ6LdIRyoD</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390499752647684097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Once it’s your turn to go in, get your temperature scanned and you’ll be given a number.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> <a href="https://t.co/OvfQ2iYkHq">pic.twitter.com/OvfQ2iYkHq</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390546884473757697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br /><br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Since the 5th, the flow of the whole process has been streamlined. Don’t see much hiccups. Bring a book or a game along and time will fly by fast. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> <a href="https://t.co/WA9WHGOpfi">pic.twitter.com/WA9WHGOpfi</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390547860874092545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
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Once that’s done, you’re off to get poked. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> <a href="https://t.co/g5CP3cKULU">pic.twitter.com/g5CP3cKULU</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390565958788423680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br /><br><center><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/COkCqhzpS6q/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; 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transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg)"></div></div><div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style=" width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style=" width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div></div></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div> <div style=" background-color: #F4F4F4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div></div></a><p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/COkCqhzpS6q/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script></center><br /><br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Station 5, self observation time... there are medical officers hovering about in case you feel something is not right in that 30min/15min waiting game. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> <a href="https://t.co/JYUPmyTzI2">pic.twitter.com/JYUPmyTzI2</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390568812450357250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br /><br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Final stop is to verify all the data again, verify on mysejahtera and get the vaccine card. You also need to keep the copy of the form you filled. And there’s the photo booth area at the exit for the customary “I DID IT!!” Photo. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/astrazeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#astrazeneca</a> <a href="https://t.co/4h675HXnOd">pic.twitter.com/4h675HXnOd</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390573712898891776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br /><div>Now that I'm home, can only self monitor and see what side effects the Astra vaccine do to my body as I've read friends' postings saying how they are now having fever or body aches after their vaccinations from the previous day.</div>
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<div><b>Post Vaccination</b></div>
<div>Just a simple update on what's happening to my body post vaccination.</div>
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">3am: Body starts to have a reaction to the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a> ... the area surrounding the injection area start to feel numb and I’m feeling chilly even though I am only using the fan in the room. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyAstraZenecaJourney?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MyAstraZenecaJourney</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390742042771263488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">6.45am : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a> ... throbbing headache, breaking out in cold sweat but temperature is 36.3 ... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MyAstraZenecaJourney?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MyAstraZenecaJourney</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390800088989978627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">10.55am : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> update...<br><br>Massive hangover kind of sensation, not sure if it’s because I had a restless night or it’s from the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AstraZeneca?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AstraZeneca</a> ...<br><br>Friends reported to have fever within the 24hrs but I’m not feeling it. Temperature is 36.5. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccinated?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vaccinated</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390865796012728320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">12.00pm : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukMYAZ</a> ... fever hits me with an uppercut. No warning. No slow torture like my ex torture me. Just a kapoooowb and an abuchiaaaaak! You strike fever lottery!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccinated?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vaccinated</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/postvaccine?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#postvaccine</a> <a href="https://t.co/L1XCDED7it">pic.twitter.com/L1XCDED7it</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390882340868530177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">12.12pm : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukmyAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukmyAZ</a> ... logged the symptoms into the <a href="https://twitter.com/my_sejahtera?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@my_sejahtera</a> app. But it doesn’t say how long I have to monitor myself before I need to sell medical help. Anyone from <a href="https://twitter.com/JKJAVMY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JKJAVMY</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/Khairykj?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Khairykj</a> can advice?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/vaccinated?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#vaccinated</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mysejahtera?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mysejahtera</a> <a href="https://t.co/PcB0x0vuEV">pic.twitter.com/PcB0x0vuEV</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390884380747333634?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">2.40pm : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> ... paracetamol taking their own sweet time to kick in. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/5XlkXW3Iyy">pic.twitter.com/5XlkXW3Iyy</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390919916501430275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">4.50pm : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> ... fever decide to clock out for the day, it doesn’t want to work OT on a weekend. <br><br>Still having migraine and cough (with a lot of phlegm). <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/xyrcw7uIH5">pic.twitter.com/xyrcw7uIH5</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1390952679849951232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<br><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">6am : Post <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CucukMYAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CucukMYAZ</a> Day 2 ... slept a lot, fever hasn’t shown itself, body still feeling sluggish. But overall, everything feels like it’s back to normal. <br><br>12 weeks later, we will be repeating this cycle again eh?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cucukmikeyipAZ?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#cucukmikeyipAZ</a></p>— Michael Yip (@mikeyipdotcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikeyipdotcom/status/1391152153578729474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center><br />
<div>The next dose will be in 12 weeks time, based on the vaccination card they gave. That'll be for another day. How did your vaccination go, do share your adventure with me.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-23439999256150417892021-04-17T13:35:00.008+08:002021-07-14T15:31:36.388+08:00Simple Roast Pork in 40minutes with Air Fryer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6EhFXwpTY7kaY7_hQ2-TIsuThiPZHwfGs5NQNrlnK8EpdAHlKbkt1xNBKU6r7h3gdSeOKLh2-eFlZHbxcymw0fnsfw6R0PliSCESEOujRqZVzJHDzcfI7vVlUyLkqpgwmrxInNLydhO8/s1080/WhatsApp+Image+2021-04-17+at+11.54.31+AM.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1080" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6EhFXwpTY7kaY7_hQ2-TIsuThiPZHwfGs5NQNrlnK8EpdAHlKbkt1xNBKU6r7h3gdSeOKLh2-eFlZHbxcymw0fnsfw6R0PliSCESEOujRqZVzJHDzcfI7vVlUyLkqpgwmrxInNLydhO8/w640-h426/WhatsApp+Image+2021-04-17+at+11.54.31+AM.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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First off, we need to know the difference between a <b>Key Opinion Leader (KOL)</b> and an <b>Influencer </b>as I recently had a chat with a person that claims to be a KOL and made me correct her by labelling her correctly. Why? Because to me, is just a social media user with a handful of following.<br />
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In my opinion, the definition of a <b>Key Opinion Leader</b> is an expert whose opinion is valued in a specific industry or area of knowledge, and is listened to by a broader audience. KOLs are individuals who are trusted and respected specifically for this knowledge. The term Key Opinion Leader in marketing is not new. .<br />
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An example of a KOL? <b>BTS </b>(방탄소년단) or Bangtan Boys that recently recently donated to <b>Black Lives Matters</b> movement and as a reaction, got fellow celebrities, BTS Army and brands across the globe to match their donation to the BLM movement as well. Now, that's a KOL.<br />
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An influencer on the other hand, applies to people who are bloggers, online content creators, vloggers and live streamers and has a small following. They can help brands to promote their services/products to their audience through the relationship that he/she has build with his or her audience. A following in a distinct niche, with whom he or she actively engages.<br />
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Is an influencer a KOL? Although the two terms are often used interchangeably, they are not exactly the same. Understanding the differences can help you decide whether working with an influencer or a KOL is right for your brand or campaign.<br />
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The difference?</h3>
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Influencers can have a strong influence on an audience present on social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. While KOLs may have a presence on social media, these platforms don’t have to serve as their main communication channel. An influencer’s credibility comes from their online persona, their content and their perceived authenticity.<br />
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On the other hand, A KOL’s credibility comes from direct experience in an industry, professional qualifications or time spent engaged on a subject. In contrast, the trust of an influencer’s audience is based on identification and personal preference.</div>
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KOL or Influencer? Finding the Right Fit.
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Influencers and KOLs appeal to different audiences, so if you’re deciding which one to work with, you’ll need to consider who your target demographic is.<br />
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Influencers appeal to the average consumer.<br />
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Compared to KOLs, influencers often have an unspecified audience. What connects all of the followers is a shared interest in the influencer’s attitude, personality or lifestyle. People follow influencers because their content matches the follower’s interest, taste or opinion. Because of these similarities, the follower is more likely to identify with the influencer, but does not necessarily match the demographic of the influencer.<br />
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Key opinion leaders, on the other hand, speak to a particular demographic. Their audience values the KOL’s opinion due to their expertise and experience in a certain industry. Followers turn to them for knowledge and advice and usually have a deeper understanding and knowledge of an industry themselves. Unlike influencers, followers aren’t necessarily fans of the KOL as a person but they respect the KOL’s expertise.<br />
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If you want to target audience members in a specific demographic or with interests in a specific topic, then finding Key Opinion Leaders who speak to that demographic can be an effective way to reach a new audience, or extend your reach. However, don’t pay more for a KOL who has a large reach but is working outside your area of interest. Their pricing might be based on the reach they have within a certain topic area, and their influence will not be effective outside that area of expertise.<br />
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Wanghong</h3>
In recent years, there's a growth of online celebrity that market themselves as KOL. Especially in China, its own terminology to refer to an influencer marketing practitioner: key opinion leader (KOL) or “wanghong,” which is the romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation for “online celebrity.”<br />
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An industry of “wanghong incubators” or “KOL academies” is thriving to meet the flood of KOL aspirants. Some incubators span the entire supply chain, handling people’s careers much like a talent agency would. Incubators start with talent discovery and development, and then move that talent into content creation and beyond, including production of products and logistics. Top-notch KOLs may get a full production team devoted to them.<br />
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It’s difficult to get an exact count of how many of these academies are operating, but it is definitely a growing market being led by China, such academies are sprouting up in almost every country across the globe.<br />
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Some marketers deploying influencer campaigns use KOL and wanghong interchangeably. It’s not always clear-cut which they mean, but there are some important distinctions. KOLs have developed expertise on a topic and have created relationships with their audience over an extended period. Wanghongs became famous because of an internet presence, but their opinions may not necessarily be trusted as expert in relation to the products being hawked. That leads some KOLs to take offense when they are referred to as wanghongs.
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The Takeaway
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An influencer loves something but a KOL lives it. Engaging with a KOL might be right at one stage of a campaign or product launch while engaging with influencers might be more appropriate for other times – neither is inherently better than the other.<br />
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Identify the demographics of the audience you want to target and start from there. Do you want to target the average consumer? Is your product or service primarily designed for a specific group that requires expertise to be convinced of a product? The answers to these questions will help you determine whether a KOL or an influencer is right for you.<br />
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Now, why would you want to engage KOLs and Influencers?<br />
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<li> Reach more people in a target market </li>
<li>Gain credibility through word-of-mouth marketing</li>
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<b>Millennials are 115% more influenced by word of mouth than traditional advertising.</b></blockquote>
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KOLs influence the influencers.<br />
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Influencers look to key opinion leaders to as subject matter experts.<br />
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Brands work with influencers to gain access to their followers.<br />
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Key opinion leaders are thought leaders because they have the credibility to back up their opinions — not because of their follower counts.<br />
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What can you do if you want to engage with KOLs and Influencers to help you boost your brands?<br />
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<li>Do a bit of research on the KOLs and Influencers that is most suitable to your branding needs</li>
<li>Reach out to the KOLs and Influencers</li>
<li>Work with the KOLs and Influencers to work out a marketing plan to maximise the ROI for your brand</li>
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If you are not sure of where to start, just ask around, I always believe in the idea of 6 degrees of separation, asking around among your friends/contacts would eventually lead you to the right path.</div>
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If you stumble upon this site while trying to find an answer, then you can also <b>reach out to me</b>. It is that simple.</div>
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Hope you will find what you are looking for in planning out the next direction for your brand. Til then, do let me know if this post helps or if you have any tips to share with other readers, do share with us.</div>
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The Missus wanted<a href="http://www.mikeyip.com/2016/04/air-fried-roast-pork-in-10-steps.html"> roast pork </a>(<strong>燒肉</strong><a href="http://www.mikeyip.com/2016/04/air-fried-roast-pork-in-10-steps.html">)</a> that I usually make using <a href="http://www.mikeyip.com/2016/04/air-fried-roast-pork-in-10-steps.html">Air-Fry</a>er that I normally make at our home, but during the current Movement Control Order by the Malaysian government to control Covid-19, we are basically stuck at the MiL place. And the only tool available is the Halogen Oven (turbo cooker), the halogen cooking pot cooks food in a very similar manner to the air-fryer. So we attempted to make a halogen oven roast pork for lunch.<br />
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Just like the air-fryer version, I prepped the pork a day before. The marinate/rub needs to get in deep and make the pork as delicious as it can be. All in all, it's all very easy, 10 simple steps to succulent <strike>porn</strike> pork goodness.<br />
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What I used:</h3>
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<li>500g Pork Belly</li>
<li>Bowl large enough to fit the pork</li>
<li>Halogen Lamp Oven</li>
<li>Knife and fork</li>
<li>Kitchen paper towels</li>
<li>Tray with rack (make sure fridge have space for it)</li>
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The Marinate/Dry Rub:</h3>
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<li>3 teaspoon of Salt</li>
<li>2 teaspoon of sugar</li>
<li>1 teaspoon of 5 spice powder</li>
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For the skin:</h3>
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<li>Ample amount of salt or sea salt.</li>
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The Steps</h3>
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1. For the seasoning and prep, combine salt with sugar and five-spice powder and set aside.
Use a knife to scrape away any impurities and hair on the pork and rinse thoroughly.<br />
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2. Blanch in boiling water for 15minutes to soften the skin and to get the meat to about 60% done.<br />
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3. Remove the pork from the water and let it rest on a rack. Pat dry with kitchen paper towels, using knife, score the base of the meat to allow the rub get into the meat. If you have meat stabbers, use those for the skin. In our case, I had to rely on some brute strength, knife and fork to score and stab at the skin.<br />
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4. Once that's done, apply the seasoning on the meat side. Once that's done, place it on a rack with a tray beneath and let it rest in the fridge til you want to cook it. I left it overnight.<br />
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5. Remove the pork from fridge an hour before cooking. Pre-heat the oven to 200C/395F.<br />
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6. Wipe the skin side again with paper towel to make sure it's completely dry, with fork/meat stabbers, give the skin another round of poking just to be on the safe side. Coat the skin side with ample amount of salt.<br />
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7. Place the pork in the oven's rack. Bake in preheated oven for about 30 minutes.<br />
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8. Remove the layer of salt on the skin. Set the oven to 220C/430F, bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the skin gets truly crispy. <i>(This one, have to use own observation to monitor as some friends mentioned to me that it only took them 10 - 15minutes to get crunchy skin based on my instructions)</i><br />
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9. Enjoy the beauty that is in the oven before removing from oven and let it rest for 5min.<br />
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10. Slice to the size you want and serve.<br />
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There you go, 10 easy steps to some porky goodness.<br />
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Do you have other ways to make it? Do share with me and other readers by commenting before this post.</div>
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LIST OF ONLINE GROCERY STORES</h3>
Keep yourself safe at home during this <b>covid-19</b> season! Here is a list of online grocery shopping stores you can use.<br />
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<b>KLANG VALLEY GROCERIES 🍉🍞🥦</b><br />
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1. Mygroser - https://www.mygroser.com <i>(same day delivery, 9 am to 9 pm daily including public holidays, have their own physical store, cold storage rooms and bakery to ensure cleanliness and freshness)</i><br />
2. Happyfresh - https://www.happyfresh.my <i>(same day delivery, choose from a range of supermarkets in your area, daily 10 am to 9 pm including public holidays)</i><br />
3. Tesco - http://eshop.tesco.com.my <i>(next day delivery, 10 am to 10 pm daily including public holidays,pickup at store possible)</i><br />
4. Mydin - https://www.mydin.com.my/online-store/onlinestore <i>(next day delivery, 10 am to 10 pm daily including public holidays, pickup at store possible)</i><br />
5. Jaya Grocer - https://www.jayagrocer.com <i>(next day delivery, 10 am to 9 pm including public holidays)</i><br />
6. Redtick - https://shop.redtick.com <i>(next day delivery, limited locations)</i><br />
7. Pantry Express - https://www.pantryexpress.my <i>(3 to 5 days delivery excluding public holidays, 8 am to 6 pm)</i><br />
8. Potboy - https://potboy.com.my <i>(delivery 3 to 5 working days, but NO delivery fees)</i><br />
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<i>** please note that same day delivery is subject to there being available slots for the day</i><br />
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<b>NATIONWIDE GROCERIES 🇲🇾</b><br />
1. Redtick Plus - https://plus.redtick.com/ <i>(deliver 1 to 5 working days)</i><br />
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<b>FRESH SEAFOOD 🐟🐳</b><br />
1. My Seafood Mart - http://myseafoodmart.com/ <i>(2pm to 8 pm daily except certain public holidays, Klang Valley only) </i><br />
2. Fish Club - https://fishclub.my/ <i>(delivery time 3 to 5 days, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday (JB) and Thurs (KL /Penang)</i><br />
3. Fish for It - https://www.fishforit.com.my <i>(flash frozen, delivery within 48 hours, deliver to Klang Valley, nationwide possible)</i><br />
4. Fresh Seafood Malaysia - https://www.freshseafoodmalaysia.com <i>(delivery on weekdays only, nationwide to Georgetown, Ipoh, Klang Valley, Negeri Sembilan and Johor Bahru)</i><br />
5. My Fishman - https://myfishman.com/ <i>(11 am to 7 pm, Wed to Sat, nationwide delivery)</i><br />
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<b>ORGANIC PRODUCTS🥦🥬🥝</b><br />
1. Signature Market - https://www.signaturemarket.co/my/marketplace/ <i>(delivery nationwide 7 to 10 working days)</i><br />
2. Everleaf - https://www.everleafstore.com/ <i>(local farm produce , delivery Klang Valley only 4 to 5 days)</i><br />
3. Organic Express - https://organicexpress.my/ <i>(delivery nationwide 3 to 5 working days)</i><br />
4. Organic4U - https://www.organic4u.com.my <i>(organic farm produce, delivery Klang Valley only, 10 am to 6 pm, Monday, Wednesday & Friday) </i><br />
5. TM Organic Farms - https://www.tmorganicfarms.com/#/ <i>(weekly organic box deliveries to Klang Valley)</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-44362496349863979942020-03-11T09:05:00.003+08:002020-03-11T09:05:52.022+08:007 Points You Need to Know About Climate Change<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Climate change is coming to dominate the debate; it’s on the tip of everyone’s tongue. People talk. Be it extreme weather events or activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion (who took to the streets in the act of “civil disobedience”), the once distant and far off vision — the one that was supposed to affect our grandkids — is coming for us.<br />
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Views are polarised, as with everything these days. One side predicts the apocalypse, seeming hysterical to much of the public, who accept climate change but are dubious of its severity. The other side denies anything is even wrong, or that it’s either natural or nothing to be worried about.<br />
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Too often do people throw their hands up in despair — “Oh, — I don’t know about all this, I’m not a climate scientist”. Even at the highest reaches of the debate, science is thin on the ground. No wonder the sceptics do good business. Climate scientists haven’t transferred their knowledge to the public in the same way that say doctors do. So, people are wary of climate disaster, but they’ll trust the doc who tells them, sadly, they have cancer.<br />
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Great speakers such as Stephen Schneider (who passed away in 2010) have left vacant positions. And so, we’ve concluded climate science is hard, too esoteric. That might be true at the fringes (the bleeding edge), but the basics are so simple they’re taught in every high school physics textbook. We’ve known the science of the greenhouse effect since the 1820s!<br />
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No more shying away from the debate, or giving vague feelgood answers. We’ve got to have our arguments bolted to our hip. We have to win this. We don’t have a choice.<br />
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So, here are seven key points everyone needs to understand about climate change.<br />
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1. CO2 Heats the Atmosphere</h3>
Carbon dioxide doesn’t quite have the scare factor of hydrochloric acid or uranium-232. CO2 sounds boring. But without CO2 life on earth could not exist. It would be freezing for a start. Ice sheets would stretch as far south as New York City, and global temperatures would be 15.5 degrees Celsius lower.<br />
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All because of CO2. Perhaps not so boring after all.<br />
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CO2 is one of many greenhouse gases. It lets in shortwave radiation (visible and ultraviolet light) from sunlight which passes through the atmosphere. The earth absorbs the energy and radiates it back towards space in the form of longwave radiation (infrared light, e.g. heat — when metal is heated it glows red because the infrared light is bleeding into the visible spectrum). Greenhouse gases absorb the energy. Thereby warming the earth, just like glass in a greenhouse, hence the name.<br />
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In 1861, John Tyndal identified CO2 as a greenhouse gas capable of absorbing heat rays, and our knowledge has only deepened. The physics is foundational, and for it to be wrong would mean an awful lot of basic science is wrong as well. Perhaps, but it seems unlikely.<br />
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2. Carbon Dioxide is the World’s Thermostat
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CO2 warms the earth. Therefore, if we increase CO2, the world will warm. The question is, how much? CO2 makes up only a fraction of the atmosphere at 0.04%. Oxygen and Nitrogen make up the bulk. But these gases do not absorb infrared light, only the greenhouses gases do. Therefore, if only a small fraction of the earth’s atmosphere is receptive to infrared light, even small changes in these gases can have outsized effects relative to their concentration.<br />
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We understand this in our everyday lives. A cup of coffee won’t kill you, but twenty cups might give you a heart attack, whereas a drop of arsenic is deadly. It’s just more potent.<br />
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<b>How potent is CO2?</b><br />
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Well, CO2 is responsible for between 9–26% of the earth’s greenhouse effect, depending on the cloud cover. Surprisingly, water vapour and clouds are responsible for between 36–72%. That’s because the best way to increase atmospheric water vapour is to turn the temperature up (as every visitor to a sauna knows), and CO2 is the method of warming. It increases the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, raising temperatures further. If we discount the effect of water vapour, CO2 accounts for 80% of the greenhouse effect.<br />
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<b>Carbon dioxide is the world’s thermostat.</b><br />
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3. Fossil fuels = CO2</h3>
They’re called fossil fuels for a reason. Over millions of years, plants extracted CO2 out of the atmosphere and emitted oxygen via the process of photosynthesis. Millions more years passed and by various geological processes this dead plant matter, whether from land or sea, compacted and condensed till we got the fossil fuels we know today.<br />
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Burn that ancient carbon, and a simple chemical reaction occurs.<br />
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C + O2 = CO2<br />
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It’s that simple. Sceptics will readily point out humans release only 3% of the world’s CO2. But they’ve missed the point. The rest of the CO2 that is released is natural (from processes such as decomposition, respiration, ocean degassing, and volcanic eruptions), and for tens-of-thousands of years has been balanced with the CO2 absorbed. But now, we are tipping the balance.<br />
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Picture a bathtub. Every minute, 10 litres of water goes in, and through the plughole 10 litres of water leaves. Whatever the level in the bath, it will remain constant. Now imagine we turn the tap, so 10.3 litres of water enters the tub. Slowly and surely the water will rise as more water enters than leaves. The bath will inevitably overflow, the question is when.<br />
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Measurements from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii show increases in CO2 from less than 320 ppm (parts per million) in 1960 to over 400 ppm today. A truly whopping amount. It’s not surprising; we are emitting in decades what nature took millions of years to extract. And we are accelerating. In the 1960s, we put 0.6 ppm per year into the atmosphere, whereas the past decade has been closer to 2.3 ppm per year.<br />
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<b>The water in the bath is rising, but what happens when it overflows?</b><br />
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4. This isn’t New</h3>
Some ask, what’s the worry? CO2 will be a boost to plant growth, and a warmer planet is better than a colder one. I wouldn’t mind living near a sunny beach. Well, is this accurate?<br />
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Current CO2 levels are the highest for 3 million years, back in the Pliocene era, when levels were around 356–410 ppm. The continents were in roughly the same place, as well as oceanic currents — a snapshot into our future. Scientists found temperatures were significantly warmer. The average global temperature was 3–4 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Sea levels were 25 m higher.<br />
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Temperatures at the poles rose more extremely than anywhere else, 11–16 degrees Celsius warmer. Amazingly, explorers discovered fossilised beech leaves from this period in the Transantarctic mountains.<br />
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We look likely to overshoot 410 ppm in the next few years, let alone stabilise at it. We must go back further.<br />
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During the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) 55.5 million years ago, the earth saw massive carbon injections from a range of hotly debate sources. North and South America hadn’t joined. India meandered from Madagascar to Asia, the Himalayas all but an inevitability. Average temperatures rose by 5–8 degrees Celsius. Vegetation roasted in Spain. CO2 dissolved into the oceans, turning them acidic (CO2 forms carbonic acid). Palm mangroves grew in England and Belgium. Conditions at the poles were almost subtropical, being 23 degrees Celsius higher than today.<br />
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CO2 reached over 1000 ppm. The rate at which CO2 entered the atmosphere was 0.3–1.7 gigatons of carbon per year (GtC/yr). Humans today add around 10 GtC/yr, much faster than during the PETM. The PETM took over 20,000 years, a blink in geological time, but glacial when compared with today. Many scientists have noted the parallels. John Higgins and Daniel Schrag, from Harvard University, stated in May 2006: “The PETM represents one of the best natural analogues in the geologic record to the current rise in atmospheric CO2 due to burning of fossil fuel.”<br />
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5. Heat Fuels the Weather</h3>
The planet is warming, that much seems clear. But you might have also seen talk of extreme weather, like droughts and hurricanes, becoming more common. What’s the link with CO2?<br />
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The mechanism is simple. Heat is a form of energy. When trapped by the atmosphere, it affects the climate. In particular, it excites water molecules leading to evaporation on a global scale. As moisture saturates the humid atmosphere, local environments collapse.<br />
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In damp climates rainfall increases, but when it comes it arrives in torrents, carving up the landscape in landslides and floods. Whereas in dry climates, the water evaporates into the atmosphere and carried away on the wind. Killing plants and turning soil to sand.<br />
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A hotter world means more energy for a storm to feed off. Tropical storms require sea surface temperatures of 26.5 degrees Celsius to form [16], usually occurring close to the equator. These storms then follow the warm currents. In the Caribbean or Mid-Atlantic, they barrel up the US East Coast, alternately in the Pacific push up the East Asian Pacific Rim (such as Japan). Limits are placed on the size and trajectory of storms by the energy available — cold waters or dry land sap the hurricane’s ferocity. Therefore, in a hotter world, more energy fuels bigger hurricanes or typhoons, creating behemoths knows as “hyper canes”.<br />
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During the end-Permian hothouse, hurricanes may have reached to the Arctic. Floods will be more extreme covering a greater area, as these large systems dump billions of gallons of seawater onto land.<br />
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Worryingly, hurricanes may affect areas previously untouched or unthinkable.<br />
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In 2004, Hurricane Catarina surprised meteorologists as it formed in the South Atlantic, striking the coast of Brazil. Not just due to warmer waters, but also due to atmospheric factors such as wind shear from the South Atlantic being weaker. But the point is stark. More heat means more storms in more places. Already, the number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has roughly doubled since the mid-1970s.<br />
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<b>Think of a pot of water, the more energy you put in, the more it boils over.</b><br />
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6. Life is Slow. The Climate is Slower.</h3>
Humans may be affecting the climate rapidly in geological time, but it still seems slow from our limited perspective. Humans don’t live very long. Sorry about that.<br />
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Currently, about half the CO2 we release into the atmosphere stays there; the other half is taken by the oceans or by plants. It takes 30 years to remove half the atmospheric CO2 — centuries for the next 30%. The final 20% will still be there in thousands of years. The process moves to the pace of the oceanic currents.<br />
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What will happen in the meantime has become the domain of the climate model.<br />
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Models have a bad rep. But our lives depend on them, from shipbuilding to product testing. Models revolutionised the way we do things, as we transitioned from merely thinking about a subject to testing it practically. First with scaled-down versions, and then eventually inside a computer. Models are science made flesh. They’re not perfect, but they’re the best tool we have.<br />
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Climate models work by dissecting the earth’s surface into grids. Then, using a vast amount of information (e.g. temperature, CO2 concentration, oceanic currents, reflectivity of the ice cap), they calculate how the climate will change in each grid square.<br />
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Climate models are calibrated or tested in a process called “hind-casting”. Here we input the information we have from a previous era of earth’s history, e.g. PETM, and we see if a similar course of events is shown in the climate model to what we know happened in real life. If it does, we know the model is accurate.<br />
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Contrary to reports that the predictions are off, they’re pretty good. Here are some notable examples:<br />
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Notice how we followed the worst-case scenario of the IPCC projections with sea level rising the highest predicted.<br />
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Hansen et al. 1981 predicted the future temperature rise with remarkable accuracy, and contrary to reports by critics of James Hansen, actually underestimated temperature rise (-20%).<br />
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The Third IPCC report slightly underestimate future warming by -14%.<br />
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The fifth IPCC report was again incredibly accurate in predicting both past and future climate. This model slightly overestimates (+16%) the effect of climate change, but this is explained by natural variability, small volcanic eruptions and lower-than-expected solar output not included in the post-2005 projections.<br />
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7. It’s Already Happening</h3>
Already global temperatures have risen about 1 degrees Celsius; we are feeling the effects.<br />
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In 2010, a heatwave in Moscow killed 55,000 people. Six years later, the city temperatures broke a 137-year record for July (a scorching 31.8 degrees Celsius). In 2016, Iraq, Iran and Kuwait endured a terrible heatwave, Baghdad suffered 43 degrees Celsius heat for two months. Zainab Guman told The Washington Post “It’s like everything on your body — your skin, your eyes, your nose — starts to burn”.<br />
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India this year saw 9 million people in Chennai (formerly Madras) endure a devastating water shortage as lakes and reservoirs were parched. People queued around the block to fill jerry cans with the precious resource. Booming populations combined with drier climates and failing groundwater reservoirs are set to devastate agriculture and force millions to move.
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The Syrian conflict sparked the most significant mass movement of people since WWII. Priorly, the area saw long-term drying likely due to climate change, with some suggesting it exacerbated the conflict.<br />
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Coral reefs and shellfish around the world are struggling to survive due to ocean acidification. The Great Barrier Reef declined 50.7% (of the original cover) between 1985 to 2012 due to bleaching and tropical cyclones. Coral reefs make-up just 0.1% of the ocean area, but contain 25% of marine life. Each one truly a thalassic Garden of Eden.<br />
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Wildfires are becoming increasingly common. The US has seen the number of large wildfires (greater than 1000 acres) double since the 1970s. In summer 2019, Greenpeace Russia estimated 3.3m hectares of Siberia were burning with temperatures inside the Arctic Circle ranging from 34.8 degrees Celsius in Markusvinsa, Sweden to 21 degrees Celsius in Alert, Canada (only 900 km from the North Pole). The animals and communities which live there felt the disastrous effects. Massive flames engulf Southern California and major parts of Australia in 2019. It won’t be the last time. <br />
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At the other extreme, in August 2016, Louisiana saw a diluvial deluge cause $8.7 billion of damage in floods, covering a vast area of land. It was classed as a 1 in 500-year event. But scientists found climate change had increased the chance by at least 40%.<br />
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What happens when we reach 2 or 3 or even 6 degrees by the end of the century, which some models suggest is possible in a business as usual scenario. Who knows? And who wants to find out?<br />
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You made it to the end. Congratulations! However, there is a catch. Hopefully, you learned something. If you did, you know something you can’t un-know. Don’t let the information slip away. Do something with it. <br />
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We aren’t in a fairy-tale. There is no hero. And if God exists, he’s letting us ride this one out. It’s up to you. There is one glimmer of hope, though. Something called the 3.5% rule. It states that no popular movement which has engaged 3.5% of the populace in active participation has failed. We can do that, surely. We can change the future.<br />
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<i>Find all the sources used throughout the article <a href="https://dochub.com/bigpnews/L17nzpK/tptpcc-works-cited-pdf?dt=93_zNCRU4v_TmAVKWKuN">here</a>.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-27433766239175545832020-02-23T09:57:00.000+08:002020-02-23T09:57:00.339+08:00The rise of 'rape shaming' & Steps to take to report a rape/sexual assault<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Decide to add-on to the 3 previous postings, so that students are well aware that they have their rights and to be alert in case of any future reoccurrence because I do not condone such behavior in the dance community. </blockquote>
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As instructors, our role is to provide a safe environment and be the reliable person students can turn to in their times of needs. By taking advantage of being in that role and attack the very students that trusts you is just wrong.</blockquote>
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Women who feel the system has failed them are taking to the internet to name their alleged rapists or attackers, as part of a growing trend of digital vigilantism.<br />
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It’s known as “rape shaming” and there are several recent examples in Australia of victims using social media to take justice into their own hands.<br />
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Police warn that the practice could derail ongoing investigations and hurt the chances of prosecution, not to mention the potential for defamation proceedings brought by those named.<br />
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But those who’ve rape shamed say they have no alternative, few regrets and nothing to lose.<br />
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Hagar Cohen has spent months investigating the issue for the ABC Radio National show “Background Briefing” and spoke to some 30 women impacted by rape or sexual assault.<br />
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Some had named their alleged attackers and others were planning to, spurred on by the belief that the justice system couldn’t — or wouldn’t — help them, she said.<br />
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“The women I spoke to felt a desire to protect other people from their abusers and many felt a sense of guilt that if they didn’t do something, they would let down other people,” Cohen said.<br />
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One victim who was raped when she was just 15 is preparing to name her attacker online and believes it will bring her some comfort, she said.<br />
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From her act of revenge, the man would forever be known as a rapist — an outcome that she felt “wonderful” about.<br />
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“She said to me that it would ‘probably be the biggest f–k you’ she could give,” Cohen recalled.<br />
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“He had taken so much power from her, she felt powerless, and she thought it would be beneficial to take some back. She said: ‘I just want the whole world to know what a horrible, disgusting person he is.’”<br />
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Lauren Ingram is a journalist who in June took to social media to name her alleged rapist, after several failed attempts to have the matter dealt with by authorities over two years.<br />
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The first detective told her the man was “just a kid who didn’t know how to have sex yet” and other investigators mishandled evidence, she claimed.<br />
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On the day Ingram posted a series of tweets, she hadn’t been planning to identify her alleged attacker until seconds before she did.<br />
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“It literally exploded from there,” Cohen said.<br />
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Ingram took part in Cohen’s story, who followed her as police interest in the complaint was reignited following the name and shame.<br />
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“They called her again and asked her to come in to give a statement,” Cohen said.<br />
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“It was the third statement she’s had to give now. Lauren was very compliant and did what she asked but she doesn’t believe anything is going to come from it.”<br />
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As well as support, Ingram’s actions drew strong criticism from those who felt she was denying someone the right to the principle of “innocent until proven guilty.”<br />
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It’s a valid point, Cohen admitted.<br />
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“It’s an important concept that our society relies on. And it’s true that usually vigilantism often starts as something that seems like a good idea but gets crazy very quickly.”<br />
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But that “tricky, dangerous” road is one many desperate women feel compelled to travel.<br />
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Another woman was raped in 1997 and her complaint to police didn’t go anywhere until she was contacted six years later when three other victims came forward.<br />
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Despite her first experience, she took part in the case — and it unraveled again due to mismanagement, Cohen said.<br />
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“So many people have a profound distrust of police and the courts.”<br />
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“For many, going to the police in the first place isn’t even an option. They don’t think it’s worth it. When you get that kind of reaction, it seems something is wrong.”<br />
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Cohen also spoke to a woman who named her alleged attacker on Facebook and was threatened with a lawsuit as a result.<br />
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And she met a man who was shamed online, who insisted he had done nothing wrong.<br />
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“He had to flee basically. He changed his name and identity — it was massive for him.”<br />
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Detective Superintendent Linda Howlett, commander of New South Wales Police Sex Crimes Squad in southeast Australia, was also interviewed by Cohen and implored victims to let police deal with their matters.<br />
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“She pointed out that if public shaming occurs, it could damage the chances of success in court and also damage a police investigation.”<br />
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“She has obviously seen first-hand many cases that did achieve an excellent outcome for victims.”<br />
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Getting justice for rape and sexual assault
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According to the Malaysian Penal Code Section 376, those who committed rape will be punished with imprisonment for a term up to 20 years with whipping.<br />
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According to the Malaysian Penal Code:<br />
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<li>- Rape is defined as sexual intercourse with a woman against her will or without her consent. </li>
<li>- Sexual intercourse with a girl under 16 years of age, with or without her consent, is also rape.</li>
<li>- Sexual intercourse with a woman is also rape when: </li>
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<li>-- her consent is obtained by putting her in fear of death or hurt; </li>
<li>-- when she unable to understand the nature and consequences of what she is consenting to; </li>
<li>-- or when her consent is obtained by using a position of authority, a professional relationship, or other relationship of trust. </li>
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The Malaysian law doesn’t specifically define sexual assault, however, there are various laws that cover different forms of sexual assault. For the complete list, check out <a href="https://wao.org.my/laws-on-rape-and-sexual-assault/#1528270885163-4745fa46-1770" target="_blank">Women's Aid Organization's article here</a>.</div>
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Now, what can you do as the victim of a rape or sexual assault? These are the steps that you'll be going through.<br />
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<b>1. Make a police report.</b></h4>
You can make a police report in Bahasa Malaysia or English, either by typing it yourself at the police station or by orally dictating it to the police officer. You can also draft your report in advance. <br />
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In your police report, write down the details of the assault, such as what happened, when it happened (date and estimated time), where it happened, and who was involved. Remember to get a copy of the police report.<br />
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<b>2. Police investigate case.</b></h4>
The Investigation Officer (IO) will open an investigation based on the police report you have made. The IO may interview witnesses, suspects, and may also ask you to give a further statement at the police station.<br />
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Depending on the evidence, the IO may bring the case to the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP). The DPP will determine whether there is a case to charge against the perpetrator. </div>
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If there is insufficient evidence, the case will be closed and classified as ‘No Further Action’ (NFA). Then, there will be no charge.</div>
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<b>3. Deputy Public Prosecutor charges case.</b></h4>
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If the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) decides that there is sufficient evidence, the DPP will charge the suspect. The charge will be read in court and the suspect can either plead guilty or not guilty.<br />
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If the suspect pleads guilty, the case will proceed to sentencing. However, if the suspect pleads ‘not guilty’, a full trial begins.<br />
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<b>4. Court Trials</b></h4>
The trial process will begin with the prosecution stage, in which the Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) calls witnesses to give their testimony. Following that, the defence lawyer (who is the person defending the accused) will cross-examine the witness; this means, the defence lawyer will ask another set of questions directed at the witness. The DPP then re-examines the witness (by asking questions) in order to explain any doubtful or contradictory answer given by the witness during cross-examination.<br />
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If the judge decides that the evidence is strong enough to show that the accused has committed the crime (i.e. there is a prima facie case), the defence lawyer will begin the defence. At this stage, the defence lawyer will call witnesses to give evidence suggesting that the crime did not happen. The same three-step cross-examination process occurs, except this time, the defence lawyer begins the cross-examination, followed by the DPP, and then the defence lawyer again.<br />
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The judge will then decide whether the accused is guilty or not guilty. If guilty, the judge will sentence the accused.<br />
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* This is a simplified version of the court trial process. For the full process, refer to <a href="http://wccpenang.org/wccnew/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Surviving-Court-booklet_English.pdf">http://wccpenang.org/wccnew/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Surviving-Court-booklet_English.pdf</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-16746221871503662822020-02-22T09:47:00.000+08:002020-02-22T09:47:03.688+08:00Why some rape survivors don't fight back?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This article was the last of 3 articles posted on MalaysiaKini, reposting it here so that students are well aware that they have their rights and to be alert in case of any future reoccurrence because I do not condone such behavior in the dance community. </blockquote>
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As instructors, our role is to provide a safe environment and be the reliable person students can turn to in their times of needs. By taking advantage of being in that role and attack the very students that trusts you is just wrong.</blockquote>
For a year after she said she was <a href="http://www.mikeyip.com/2020/02/dance-instructor-rape-students.html" rel="nofollow">raped by her dance instructor in 2017</a>, Nina continued to be his dance partner.<br />
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She maintained a cordial relationship, replied to his text messages as per normal and travelled with him to a dance festival overseas, where they shared a hotel room.<br />
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Nina said she was worried about sharing a room with him, but complied because it was the only option provided by the festival organiser.<br />
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During the trip she remained vigilant, dodging him when he tried to kiss her, avoiding drinking alcohol and staying awake so he would not attack her while she slept.<br />
But her decision to remain his partner, her sustained friendship with him and decision to travel with him that weekend were among issues scrutinised by police when she reported him for raping her in 2017. Eventually, police concluded the sex was “voluntary”.<br />
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Nina is a pseudonym to protect her identity. Malaysiakini is also not identifying the dance instructor, to avoid identifying his other alleged victims. He did not respond to requests for comment.<br />
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No correct reaction</h3>
The behaviour of complainants in sexual assault cases are often scrutinised to verify a rape allegation, but clinical psychologist Vizla Kumaresan said investigators may be looking for the wrong thing.<br />
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There is a misconception that the “correct” reaction is to be hysterically afraid of the perpetrator, but there is no one way to express trauma, she said.<br />
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Vizla said it is “not abnormal” for survivors to maintain normal relations with their perpetrators as a form of self-preservation, especially if the perpetrator is someone known and close to them.<br />
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“It is difficult for them to reconcile that this bad thing has happened to them and it was committed by someone they believe is good and respected,” Vizla said.<br />
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“From a victim’s perspective, after a traumatic incident it is very common for people to be confused and not fully comprehend what is going on. So they think if I just be normal, then things will be okay,” she said.<br />
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Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) executive director Sumitra Visvanathan said oftentimes, a survivor’s reaction may seem counterintuitive to an external observer.<br />
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“This may be a coping or survival mechanism, in response to the shock and trauma of sexual assault.<br />
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“The survivor may also try to re-establish a sense of normalcy and thus may still be cordial with the perpetrator,” she said.<br />
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Self-blame as a form of self-preservation</h3>
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the “vast majority” of rape is perpetrated by those known to the survivor.<br />
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A United Nations study in Europe found that 67 percent of rapists were known to the survivors.<br />
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This data is unavailable for Malaysia, but WAO estimates about 80 percent of survivors who seek its assistance said they were assaulted by someone they know.<br />
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Drawing from her experience working with survivors in a trauma clinic and domestic abuse shelter, clinical psychologist Ng Siew Li said it is “not uncommon” for survivors to try to “explain away” the attack as a one-off incident or by blaming the circumstances.<br />
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They may also resort to self-blame to believe it was something they could have controlled.<br />
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“If you believe you have control, you will believe that you can stop it from happening again,” she said.<br />
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For years after it happened, Nina said, she did not want to acknowledge that she was raped because she was afraid of the consequences.<br />
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“If I did, I would have to do something about it,” she said.<br />
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The instructor also told her it was the first time anything like that had happened.<br />
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But two years later, she learnt that other dancers were allegedly assaulted in the same way. It prompted Nina to report what happened to her. The dancers who said they were raped by the instructor in an incident in July 2019 also filed police reports. The investigation for the 2019 incident is pending.<br />
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Research: Rape survivors experience ‘paralysis’
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The instructor was remanded for seven days, following the reports last year. It sent shockwaves in the close-knit dance scene, where the instructor is much revered.<br />
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Several dancers involved told Malaysiakini members of the scene questioned why they did not leave the party or do more to stop the attack.<br />
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Like behaviour after the attack, evidence of resistance during the attack is also often scrutinised to detect if consent was given.<br />
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However, a study on 298 sexual assault victims in Sweden found as high as 70 percent of survivors of sexual assault surveyed report feeling “paralysis” during the attack.<br />
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The researchers described it as "tonic immobility", a behaviour also observed in animals faced with dangerous situations.<br />
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Previous studies found that in humans, it can be a feeling disassociated from the body, catatonic and being unable to move when faced with extremely threatening circumstances.<br />
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In Brazil, a study of 3,231 survivors of traumatic events found that scores for tonic immobility were almost twice as high among survivors of sexual violence compared to other types of trauma.<br />
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Hormones impede decision-making</h3>
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Ng said there is extensive literature on this biological reaction during trauma, but the findings may not be widely known, including among investigators and prosecutors of sexual assault.</div>
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She said when faced with highly stressful situations, the mind gets flooded with hormones as a form of defence mechanism, but the same hormones impact parts of the brain that controls decision-making.</div>
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This “freeze” experienced by trauma survivors can manifest differently, she said.</div>
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It can happen during the attack, where survivors report being unable to move or act, or after the attack when the mind “goes blank and is unable to generate any form of options” or make rational decisions, Ng said.</div>
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“Some people would in the aftermath say ‘I could have done that, why didn’t I?’ At a certain point, our brain might not be capable of doing that during a stressful event,” she said.</div>
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The flood of hormones also affects ability to retain memory, she said.</div>
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“There are different processes to forming memory, just like how you are saving a file in a computer. When the mind is flooded with certain hormones, the process is disrupted so it is not uncommon for a memory (of a traumatic incident) to be incomplete,” she said.</div>
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This goes against belief by some investigators that inability to recall specifics of the incident denotes the person is not telling the truth, Ng said.</div>
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The clinical psychologists believe investigators and prosecutors need to be better trained to understand the effects of trauma on the mind, and how it might differ from case to case.</div>
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Vizla said in some cases, survivors may appear irrationally compliant because of power dynamics in the relationship with the perpetrator, where they may have been groomed to be reliant on the perpetrator’s affirmation.</div>
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This could stop them from resisting during the attack or even speaking out immediately after the incident, she said.</div>
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“What happened between the perpetrator and the victim after the incident is not a sign of whether the rape happened. Consent happens before the sexual activity, not what happens after,” she said.</div>
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This article was the 2nd of 3 posted on MalaysiaKini, reposting it here so that students are well aware that they have their rights and to be alert in case of any future reoccurrence because I do not condone such behavior in the dance community. </blockquote>
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As instructors, our role is to provide a safe environment and be the reliable person students can turn to in their times of needs. By taking advantage of being in that role and attack the very students that trusts you is just wrong.
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When Ming Pang learnt that an instructor of a dance studio in Kuala Lumpur was arrested after rape reports, she knew she had to do something.<br />
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The founder of the Klang Valley Swing dance scene, Pang knew that some of the dancers in her scene were also taking classes at that studio.<br />
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And she also knew that the studio - which specialises in a dance that is not part of the Swing scene - did not tell its students one of its instructors was <a href="http://www.mikeyip.com/2020/02/dance-instructor-rape-students.html">reported for raping and sexually assaulting</a> his students.<br />
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It was all very familiar. A few years ago, she said, the international Swing dance community was rocked by a scandal where <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nzxepd/how-swing-dancing-faced-its-sexual-assault-scandal" target="_blank">top instructors were exposed as sexual predators</a>.<br />
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“We had a look at ourselves to see how it was possible that these very high profile people were able to get away with this for so long.<br />
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“A lot of it was the culture of that the scene had created. This idol worship. These dance teachers are nobody outside but within the scene, they have a lot of power.<br />
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“If you’re the founder of the scene, you have a lot of power to choose who you favour. To what end, it is up to you. There is no regulation,” she said.<br />
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Now facing a similar scandal at home, Pang and her colleagues in the Swing dance community agreed that it was now up to them to ensure their dancers were safe.<br />
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And the best way to do that, she said, was to make sure they knew their rights.<br />
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Prolonged holds and inappropriate touches</h3>
Soon after the instructor was arrested last August, the Swing dance community held a safety talk, to inform the dancers of the arrest and to educate dancers on what was acceptable behaviour during a dance.<br />
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Pang said boundaries can seem very blurred to newcomers, and it is in this grey zone that the predators prey.<br />
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“There are confirmed black zones like rape but there are grey areas like sexist content in class and when dancing, there are holds that are too close or too long, or unwanted touches.<br />
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“A lot of times, people in positions of power can explain that away (as part of the dance) to newcomers who don’t know better,” she said.<br />
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Some dancers who took lessons from the affected studio where the alleged perpetrator taught told Malaysiakini there had been complaints about inappropriate behaviour and prolonged holds before, involving other senior dancers or instructors.<br />
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One senior male dancer was accused of holding female newcomers too close and would grind his body into the female dancers in ways which made them feel uncomfortable.<br />
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“When I complained, the teachers’ reactions were, ‘Well, what if he was (another good looking dancer)? Would you complain?’<br />
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“But I am an adult. It is not about whether he is good looking or not. I know what is an inappropriate touch and what isn’t,” one dancer shared on condition of anonymity.<br />
She said one of the instructors had a reputation of trying to kiss his students during social dance outside the classroom, but this was largely seen by members as annoying but harmless, she said.<br />
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When contacted, the instructor denied this and said he did not have to respond on matters involving his personal life.<br />
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The perception of these behaviours changed completely after the incident in July where at least three dancers were allegedly raped by the studio principal, according to the women’s police reports.<br />
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The studio principal was also accused of raping his students in a separate incident in 2017, but police have cleared him of this accusation, concluding the sex was consensual.<br />
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The 2019 rape accusations are still under investigations, and the studio principal is on police bail after he was remanded for seven days in August. He did not respond to Malaysiakini’s request for a response.<br />
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Training to say no</h3>
Pang said she knows that convictions for sexual assault cases are very low, and this is why she hopes she can help stop them from happening.<br />
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“The best way is to have an educated scene and to train teachers to teach in non-gendered ways, and to train teachers on what is not considered acceptable,” she said.<br />
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“Part of our training is about consent, that consent must be given enthusiastically and that someone cannot give consent if they are drunk or inhibited in any way.<br />
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“Class students are told they don’t need to dance with anyone (if they don’t want to). If you don’t want to, they can say no without an explanation. No is a complete sentence,” she said.<br />
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This was part of a cultural shift. Some years ago, she said, it was considered polite to accept offers to dance even when one does not feel comfortable with it. These days, she said Swing students practice saying no.<br />
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“We have an Asian culture of being compliant and nice and we have very poor sex education. People are not as assertive about their body and the fact that they have every right to control who touches them,” she said.<br />
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The Swing dance scene has also put in place a system where dancers who feel they have been violated or witness inappropriate behaviour could raise it with the appointed safety officer of their particular Swing dance.<br />
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“Women in dance have been battling this. Better that they are aware, educated and know where to find help when they need to rather than have violence perpetrated against them,” she said.<br />
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Peer pressure to fit in</h3>
Peer pressure in the dance scene to join in and go along with things they feel uncomfortable with was raised several times in separate interviews Malaysiakini conducted with four of the women who said they were molested or raped by their instructor.<br />
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One dancer said in the scene it was deemed rude to reject an offer to dance because it was expected for dancers to be welcoming to newcomers. But this culture pervades off the dance floor.<br />
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One of the witnesses of the 2019 assault told Malaysiakini she did not do anything to stop the assaults because she was not sure if she was the only one who felt uncomfortable.<br />
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“If the other girls (who said they were raped) had told me they were okay with it, I would just close one eye (to the assault) and not reported it.”<br />
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One of the women who said she was raped said she had felt “shocked” by what was happening even before the assaults took place, but did not leave because she “did not want to be the abnormal one”.<br />
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In the 2017 incident, one of the survivors said she pretended that everyone had consented to the sexual relations so as to not embarrass the other women.<br />
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She only learnt two years later that the other women were too inebriated to consent, but were told by the instructor they were willing partners.<br />
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One of them told police she believed she was raped, but the case was closed. Police concluded it was consensual because she continued to have cordial relations with the alleged perpetrator.<br />
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Shockwaves in a close-knit community</h3>
The news of the 2017 and 2019 incidents sent shockwaves in the studio’s close-knit community of dancers.<br />
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One dancer who had been in the scene for three years said he was shocked when he first heard. To many of them, he said, the alleged perpetrator was like a brother.<br />
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The alleged perpetrator often organised parties involving the dancers where he also invited his mother, wife and two children, and the group would organise sleepovers during holidays.<br />
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At all the parties, he said, the activities were “healthy”.<br />
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“Perhaps because I am a man, I was not aware of the predatory behaviour against the women dancers. I was never invited to any of the private parties (where the assaults allegedly took place),” he told Malaysiakini in an interview, on condition of anonymity.<br />
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Soon after the instructor was arrested, two witnesses of the 2019 sexual assaults called for a meeting with senior members of the scene to tell them what happened.<br />
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“I remember people were totally shocked. Some people were sobbing,” he said, of the meeting that took place in August.<br />
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Some of them asked why the survivors didn’t resist the alleged perpetrator or push him away while one of the instructors said she knew about his tendencies.<br />
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'She also said she was always able to reject him and did not understand why the survivors could not do the same,' he added.<br />
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Even so, he felt there was collective acceptance that this had happened and that it needed to be addressed.<br />
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Two months later, however, it seemed that the incident was swept under the carpet and junior dancers were not informed. They were just told that the instructor was away for a while because he was ill.<br />
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“I also heard from the survivors there was pressure for them to retract their police reports,” he said. One of them did retract, feeling pity for the instructor’s mother who begged her to.<br />
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Angered by the treatment towards the survivors, the male dancer wrote about what happened on Facebook, urging the community to prioritise safety.<br />
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It sparked a storm within the community and some of the instructor's supporters attacked the male dancer for seemingly spreading unproven allegations, which could hurt the instructor’s children.<br />
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The exchange prompted him to take a break from dance. All he wanted was for the scene to put in place safety measures, like what the Swing dance community had done, he said.<br />
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Before this, he added, dancers could only report anything they felt uneasy about to the studio principal, and now that the principal is the alleged perpetrator, what happens next?<br />
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“I just hope the truth will come out and justice will be served. I also hope the scene will heal and safeguards will be in place.”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-43265541049010997382020-02-20T09:25:00.000+08:002020-02-20T09:25:11.426+08:00Dance Instructor Accused of Raping Students (Graphic Content)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/509580" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The article</a> was 1st posted on MalaysiaKini, reposting it here so that students are well aware that they have their rights and to be alert in case of any future reoccurrence because I do not condone such behavior in the dance community.</blockquote>
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As instructors, our role is to provide a safe environment and be the reliable person students can turn to in their times of needs. By taking advantage of being in that role and attack the very students that trusts you is just wrong.</blockquote>
A prominent dance instructor in Kuala Lumpur has been accused of raping and sexually assaulting his students during two separate incidents in 2017 and 2019.<br />
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The police, however, cleared him with regard to the first incident on the grounds that it was consensual but are still investigating the second incident.<br />
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The complainants told police during both incidents, the instructor had organised “special parties” for a selected group of female students.<br />
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The father of two would then allegedly serve copious amounts of alcohol and perform a choreographed dance in which he would strip naked.<br />
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The women - aged in their mid-twenties and early thirties - said they were too drunk to consent to sex.<br />
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The next day, the women said the instructor would convince them that what transpired was consensual and just something which “went out of hand.”<br />
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In both incidents, the instructor told the women before the parties that whatever happened that night must be kept a secret, adding that he would “only go as far as they would go.”<br />
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But according to the reports, the women found their instructor “penetrating” them without consent, and on some occasions even after they had refused or tried to stop him.<br />
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In the first incident, the women told Malaysiakini that they remained silent out of shame and guilt. They also felt they were partly to blame and that no one would believe them, given his prominence in the scene.<br />
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The instructor, they alleged, also assured them that it was the first time this had happened.<br />
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Anna (not her real name) said she left the scene after witnessing the assault, because she felt fearful. The next morning, according to text messages sighted by Malaysiakini, the instructor said they had a fun night but the two women cannot remember what happened.<br />
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“He told me not to tell them (what happened),” she said.<br />
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“I thought maybe (the women) were embarrassed so I didn’t ask them anything,” she said.<br />
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Two years later, Anna found herself in another party attended by the dance instructor, where more students were allegedly attacked. This time, she refused to keep quiet.<br />
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'Post-traumatic stress disorder'</h3>
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In three separate interviews, Malaysiakini spoke to four women who claimed they were either raped or molested by the same instructor.<br />
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In all the interviews, the women were either in tears or had to stop the interview to compose themselves. Some trembled as they recalled what happened. Some have stopped dancing - including those whose dance careers were hitting the international stage.<br />
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All the women who spoke to Malaysiakini sought therapy, underwent bouts of self-blame and believe they suffer from some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.<br />
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“Now, whenever a man comes towards me, I feel scared.<br />
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“I try to keep myself busy by filling up all my free time. I was in a (different) dance class and our instructor, a gay man, put his hand on my shoulder and immediately, I felt frightened and (the alleged perpetrator's) face flashed in front of me. That was when I decided I needed to see a counsellor,” said one of them.<br />
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Malaysiakini is not identifying the dance instructor, the studio he teaches at or the women he reportedly attacked, to protect the survivors' identities and for legal reasons.<br />
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When contacted, police confirmed that reports were lodged against the instructor, who was then arrested and remanded for seven days to facilitate investigations.<br />
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The investigations, according to the police, are ongoing for the allegations which surfaced in 2019 but it is learnt that no charges would be brought against him with regard to the first incident.<br />
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Police had concluded the sex was consensual partly because of WhatsApp chat transcripts. The police said the messages showed the women remained friendly with the alleged perpetrator after the incident.<br />
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The instructor, when contacted, said he would provide a response to Malaysiakini. However, despite repeated attempts, this was not forthcoming.<br />
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First incident</h3>
In the 2017 incident, four women were invited to attend a party for their friend, organised by the instructor at his studio in an upper-middle-class neighbourhood in Kuala Lumpur.<br />
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According to the police reports, by the end of the party, three of the women were allegedly raped or molested. One was unharmed because she left early.<br />
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The instructor was accused of trying to insert his finger and penis into one woman while she was lying on the floor in a drunken haze, and raping another woman from behind while she was ill and bent over the washroom sink.<br />
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Anna told Malaysiakini that the instructor had allegedly tried to remove her underwear, but managed to stop him.<br />
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She recalled getting up to use the washroom after that and abruptly sobering up once she urinated.<br />
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“I felt the room come back to me,” she told Malaysiakini.<br />
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In her police report, Anna said she opened the washroom door to find the dance instructor on top of another dancer. “He was already penetrating her,” she reported. Terrified for her safety, she fled the premises.<br />
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'Senseless and unconscious'</h3>
Nina (also not her real name) was the dancer Anna told police she saw under the instructor. Nina told police she was so inebriated at the time that she could barely open her eyes. She did not even realise the dance instructor was on her until she felt him penetrating her.<br />
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“I did not know when he came on top of me and I did not want this at all,” she said in her report.<br />
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When she realised what was happening, Nina said she sobered up abruptly. She said the instructor “suddenly stopped and moved away” from her. She got up “in a state of shock”. After that, she said she saw the instructor attack her friend.<br />
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Nina told police that her friend was “senseless and not conscious” and was bent over the sink “like she was vomiting.”<br />
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“Her long pants and panties were gone and I saw (the dance instructor) penetrating her from behind,” she added.<br />
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Shocked, she crouched in a corner of the studio and subsequently passed out.<br />
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The next morning, the instructor took the women to his house, which he shares with his wife, two children and mother.<br />
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He told his family they had too much to drink and needed to sleep it off. And while they did, he contacted Anna, who fled the studio after she saw him allegedly attack Nina.<br />
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“He told me both (the other dancers) do not remember anything. He told me if they had asked, just say you don't remember anything as well.<br />
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“I thought maybe my friends are embarrassed about what happened, and I did not know what happened after I left, so I agreed to pretend that I don't remember what happened.<br />
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“He said this is the first time this has happened, he didn't expect things to go this far. So I believed him and did not question further,” she told the police.<br />
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The 2019 incident</h3>
Two years later, Anna found herself in an eerily similar situation.<br />
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Her friend, who is also a dancer, had invited her to a bachelorette's party in a suite of a luxury hotel, on the sidelines of an international dance festival at the same venue. The dance festival was organised by the instructor.<br />
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Looking back, she said, the circumstances of the party were bizarre.<br />
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As it was a bachelorette's party, they were told a stripper would be there. But it was a belated party - the wedding was months before and the new “bride” was already in her final trimester of pregnancy.<br />
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Even so, the attendees - five female dancers from the same scene - obliged their friend since they were already at the hotel that day to attend the festival.<br />
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What they did not know was that the stripper would be their dance instructor - or that he would assault or rape them, according to one police report.<br />
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Speaking to Malaysiakini, the women said they would later find out that the instructor had personally curated the guest list and pressured the “bride” into having the party.<br />
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Malaysiakini was unable to interview the “bride”. Her friends said she was busy with her newborn. Before her baby was born, she had accompanied her friends to lodge a police report and called a meeting with other senior members of the scene to tell them what had happened.<br />
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The incident in July 2019 bore a remarkable resemblance to the 2017 incident, with the instructor allegedly telling them to keep whatever transpired under wraps and that he would “only go as far as they would go.”<br />
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Detailing the incident to the police, the dancer who had also attended the 2017 party, said she saw the instructor “penetrate” three women who were intoxicated.<br />
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“I did not see or hear him ask for consent,” she said, adding that she heard one of them asking, “Are you serious?” when penetrated.<br />
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She also witnessed one woman attempting to crawl away but was pinned down and penetrated from behind. This woman declined to speak to Malaysiakini, citing trauma.<br />
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“She tried to move away but he pulled her back,” one police report by a witness read.<br />
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Just like in 2017, Anna felt frightened by what she saw and left the party midway. But unlike two years before, in the following days, she contacted the other women to check on their wellbeing.<br />
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This was when the women learnt the instructor had sent them all the same apologetic text message the next morning, saying that things just “went out of hand.”<br />
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One survivor, who remained at the party until the end, claimed that before he left, the instructor told them “to take everything that happened to your grave.”<br />
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He also posted a thank you message on Facebook dedicated to those involved in the dance festival. In it was a vague apology for “things that happened which (he) was not proud of”.<br />
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He sent a copy of this posting, with the apology highlighted, to the women who attended the party.<br />
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But this time, it was not enough to persuade the women that it was something that “went out of hand”, as he had claimed. It also prompted them to reach out to another dancer who attended the 2017 party to find out what happened then.<br />
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“When I heard that, I realised this was suspiciously similar to what happened to me and (my friend) two years ago,” Nina, who told police the instructor raped her in 2017, said.<br />
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Mother, wife begged for reports to be retracted</h3>
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When the dance instructor was under police remand, the women met with his family, including his wife, who was their friend and fellow dancer.<br />
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They claimed that his wife cried and begged them to retract the reports and blamed herself for giving him “too much independence”.<br />
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Whereas, his mother purportedly kneeled before them and begged that the reports be retracted as well.<br />
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“The mother said that it was her fault, that she didn’t teach him properly. You cannot imagine what it is like to see an old woman kneel in front of you begging you like that,” one of them said. It prompted her to retract the report.<br />
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She told Malaysiakini the retraction was not because the incident did not take place but because she felt sorry for the instructor's mother.<br />
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The senior members of the scene also told the survivors they would also be in trouble for participating in such a party.<br />
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The retraction, she said, prompted those who supported the instructor to spread rumours that the accusations were fabricated and that the sex was consensual.<br />
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“We don't really know if he would go to jail. But that is not why we are doing this,” added another dancer, whose report is still under investigation.<br />
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The women just want him to stop preying on young, hopeful dancers.<br />
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Dance tainted</h3>
All the women have stopped attending lessons at the studio and have tried to warn other dancers about the situation.<br />
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The women also alleged that the management and other instructors want to keep the rest in the dark over the incidents.<br />
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In the scene’s WhatsApp group, those raising questions on safety were admonished. In one exchange sighted by Malaysiakini, a dance member said those raising the issue were harming the alleged perpetrator's children.<br />
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“The case is ending within a month or two and you know it […],” one member said.<br />
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At least two of the dancers have quit dancing entirely, including Nina.<br />
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Nina was a rising star. The dance instructor had sought her as his partner and promised he would train her to reach international status like how he did with his previous dance partners.<br />
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“People used to ask me why I do the dance, because the close proximity and movements seem sordid to them. But it did not feel that way to me. It was purely dance,” she said.<br />
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A year after the reported rape of 2017, she quit dancing because she could not stand being near him any longer.<br />
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“I really enjoyed dance. But all this has taken away the purity of dance for me,” she said.<br />
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Ostracised by the dance scene</h3>
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Since the arrest, the women said, the dance scene has largely turned against them.<br /><br />“If we could say no to him, then why couldn’t you?” one senior female member of the scene asked during an “emergency meeting” with some of the survivors after the instructor was detained.<br /><br />When contacted, the senior female dancer declined to comment.<br /><br />Another dancer, who has been active in the scene for many years, said she had never experienced anything inappropriate.<br /><br />Despite not knowing anything about the incidents, she only agreed to speak to Malaysiakini about the scene on condition of anonymity because she did not want others in the scene to know she had spoken to a reporter.<br /><br />Other members of the dance scene also blamed the women for what happened - they accused the women of drinking too much, placing themselves in unsafe situations, dressing or behaving provocatively and enjoying the sexual relations but are crying foul now out of shame.<br /><br />The survivors said the senior members told them they should not have gone to the police, but seek help from the senior members instead.<br /><br />Others also blamed the women for “tainting the dance scene” over an incident which “happened outside of dance”.<br /><br />“I’m not involved in this. I just wanna dance,” one person said in the scene's WhatsApp group, after admonishing those raising the issue of safety for dancers.<br /><h3>
Groomed by instructor</h3>
In retrospect, the women said, they felt they had been groomed by the instructor.<br /><br />He was always testing their boundaries, one of them said, sharing nude photos of himself, trying to kiss or hug them in ways which they were not comfortable with - and normalising such behaviour.<br /><br />They worry that they might have encouraged him by using friendly emojis or laughing at his sexualised behaviour in class.<br /><br />One of them, with trembling hands, showed a message where she made a joke when the instructor told her that several senior members were targeting a new member to get her drunk.<br /><br />“A friend from dance showed me a recent picture of (the instructor) with new students.<br /><br />“I looked at the young women in the group and saw myself in them. I wish I knew then what I know now,” she added.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-28645433670683353432020-01-06T15:39:00.000+08:002020-01-06T15:43:46.714+08:0010 Facebook Ads Lessons Learned in 2019!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1. Do NOT have all your eggs in one basket</h3>
Something is going to break.. I Guarantee it!<br />
If Facebook is the only traffic source you rely on, you are going to regret it.<br />
Always have other traffic sources you can depend on.<br />
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2. Dig your well LONG before you are thirsty</h3>
I am referring to new ads.<br />
Write them long before you need them.<br />
Get them approved long before you need them.<br />
Ad approvals have been a nightmare recently.<br />
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3. Make Use of the Algorithm</h3>
Facebook knows all sorts of stuff.<br />
This includes what your best buyers have in common.<br />
The Facebook algorithm will find and identify complex commonalities.<br />
Make sure you leverage the heck out of Lookalike Audiences.<br />
1% & 2% are Ideal.<br />
Knowing your Audience LTV is even better.<br />
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4. Diversify Where You Get Traffic From</h3>
Something in Facebook is bound to break.<br />
If you rely only on 1 traffic source you will tend to be disappointed.<br />
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5. Lifetime Budgets</h3>
Based on my personal experience, Lifetime Budgets reduced Cost Per Result compared to Daily Budgets.<br />
By ALOT; as high as 25% to 50%!<br />
I wish it wasn't so, but every test I have ever run proves this again and again.<br />
Lifetime budgets are cheaper<br />
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6. Messaging</h3>
Its okay to go super ninja with your targeting.<br />
But your biggest gains will come from your Ad Copy.<br />
You HAVE to talk directly to your avatar.<br />
Understand their deepest and darkest fears, the pain they go through in their daily life, their unrequited fantasies and dreams..<br />
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7. Comments Matter</h3>
Too many marketers do not manage the negative comments.<br />
Unattended negative comments can really have a detrimental effect.<br />
Just deleting them comments is not enough<br />
Easiest way to moderate comments > select all trolls and complainers, hit delete comments and ban.<br />
Problem solved!<br />
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8. Become Less Reliant on Facebook</h3>
Yes, I actually said it.<br />
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9. PPE</h3>
Social proof matters.<br />
When you write a new ad, first run a PPE (engagement) Campaign to it.<br />
Optimise for engagements.<br />
Run to a warm audience where people will like, comment and share.<br />
Once there is a lot of action on the ad, grab the post ID and pop it into a Conversion Campaign.<br />
Boom!<br />
High relevance score.<br />
Low CPA.<br />
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10. Boring = Death</h3>
Facebook is an Entertainment Channel.<br />
Be Interesting. Be Entertaining. Be Funny.<br />
But. Never. Be. Boring.<br />
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<i>BONUS:</i></h4>
<i>Practice Yoga or Meditation</i><br />
<i>Or do something that can relaxes you.</i><br />
<i>Whatever that will calm you down.</i><br />
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<b>Facebook will cause you to experience an emotional roller coaster if you let it.</b><br />
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<b>Take a Chill Pill.</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-719183494088352856.post-30994009148039648372019-12-25T07:56:00.003+08:002019-12-25T07:56:36.904+08:00Sir Martin Sorrell lays out 4 lessons for marketers to succeed in a new era of advertising<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sir Martin Sorrell needs no introduction. The founder of WPP plc, Sorrell notes that while he was with the advertising and PR firm, India was its “crown jewel.” After 30 years at WPP, Sorrell established a new digital advertising and marketing services company, S4 Capital, where he’s still captivated by the people, culture, and tremendous opportunity for growth in India.<br />
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1) Go where the growth is<br />
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2) Embrace first-party data while giving users choice and control<br />
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3) Focus on agility, quality, and efficiency<br />
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4) Get all teams within the organization to communicate<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4caf50; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-size: 48px;">“It’s clear to me that understanding the role of data and programmatic, and how that fashions highly personalized content at scale, is going to determine the future of marketing.” — Sorrell</span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-apac/trends-and-insights/year-first-party-data-sir-martin-sorrell-lays-out-4-lessons-marketers-succeed-new-era-advertising/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=d-content-alert&utm_team=twg-apac&utm_campaign=TwG-APAC-CA-2019-12-19&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRRMk56ZGlOMlZqWldZMSIsInQiOiJkQUVEQlNxZndjTXc1YkdpdVBDQ3F4cGVIcGJkM2NmT2hWTllYXC9oczFSSXBHUHpcL21HN291bEJCdGxIeEN1a3U5K1wvT09SMllzd1dwVkdLOEN4TTh6UUk1bnhCWVJUOGY3ekpKNG9BZU96YUdtUFAwUm9Zb29xdERLWFFvaWZueiJ9" target="_blank">Read in greater detail about his sharing here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0