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Do Something EPIC — VOTE

Posted on March 1st, 2010 • Filed under Inspirations, KL • No Comments

Did you know that if you register for voting ONE month, TWO months or even THREE months before the General Elections, you’re still not eligible?

What are you waiting for? What’s all the procrastination about?

My dear fellow Malaysian,

4.39 million Malaysians over the age of 21 have yet to register as voters.

That’s roughly 28% of our population.

If you’re complaining about…

• the government,
• the roads,
• the slow service,
• corruption,
• petrol,
• the Perak fiasco,
• the current political drama going on in both sides of the fence…

…. what are you waiting for?

VOTE.

If you’ve already registered, good on you. But for those of you who haven’t, and don’t know how, I’ve got the perfect solution for you.

Have you heard of Project Epic?

They’re a bunch of young people, like you and me, dedicated to studying how they can apply leadership and value-based principles in their lives and the lives of our youth.

One of their principles is to be externally-focused — to always give back to society / the community.

They originally started Project Epic with a predominant focus on the plight of the Malaysian Orang Asli (natives) and how we, as young Malaysians, can help to raise their standard of living in the long term.

Their first step?

Building the Orang Asli toilets.

You may ridicule it, laugh, or scoff at it, but there are countless people out there who do not have access to basic facilities that you and I take for granted. Like toilets.

But Project EPIC doesn’t stop there. Toilet-building is only step ONE. In light of that crazy, scary statistic out there, they’ve recently taken their “giving back” one step further.

They’ve realized that, you know what, people that surround us daily need to start having faith and hope in this nation. Yes, while it’s been a challenging journey and developing positive feelings for a nation that displays blatant disregard for ethics is tough, there is still hope.

While Malaysia is disillusioned, and is caught in this sordid, sad wave of helplessness, Malaysians have stopped striving for its YOUTH.

• We want to believe that the power of ‘one’ is not simply overrated, just rarely challenged
• We want Positive Action not Negative ReactionsWe want to integrate not tolerate
• We want to stop complaining, and start acting
• We want our friends to stop migrating overseas and our parents to stop telling us to do so
• We want to be colour blind to our neighbours
• We want to stand up to be responsible for our collective future and believe that others want to as well

And with that, they launched….

EPIC for UNITY

Come this April 3rd & 4th, Project EPIC is launching a year-long campaign at all major, high-traffic shopping malls in the Klang Valley.

No, they’re not politically affiliated.
No, they do not gain an ounce of monetary benefit from this.

All they gain is knowing that, they have taken the FIRST STEP in helping you create a better place to live.

If you don’t know where to register, or how to register, or what to do even.

Just be there.

There aren’t that many high-traffic malls in the Klang Valley, so you know what to do.

Take the next step today.

EXERCISE YOUR BASIC RIGHT AS A CITIZEN IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.
VOTE YOUR CHOICE.

If you’d like to contribute, don’t hesitate.

WEBSITE: http://dosomethingepictoday.blogspot.com/
EMAIL: dosomethingepic@gmail.com
CALL: 016 3177788 (Jasmine)

 

Things Bee Sim Says That Crack Me Up

Posted on February 25th, 2010 • Filed under Inspirations, KL, Musings • 3 Comments

If you know Bee Sim like I do, she’s full of critical nonsense.

She just sent me the video of “We Are The World 25″ for Haiti

It’s a really good song, mind you, and I love that Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie placed all the strong vocalists in the beginning, where I feel more emotion and power is needed to convey the message of the song – Jennifer Hudson, Josh Groban, Pink, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion.. you know what I mean.

But Bee Sim has beef with the fact that Miley Cyrus has a few lines among the greats.

Here’s an excerpt of our conversation:

 

Day #1: Youth Engagement Summit 2009

Posted on November 25th, 2009 • Filed under Inspirations, KL • 5 Comments

If you guys don’t already know (or follow my Twitter-feed), I spent Nov 16 & 17 at the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 all the way at PICC which is situated in a God forsaken place Putrajaya.

And let me tell you… it was an awesome event.

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Breaking The Silence With Costumes

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 • Filed under KL, Personal Life • 2 Comments

Hey guys

It’s been eons since I’ve written anything (yes, I know). But when you blog and write for a living (and those blogs isn’t your own), seeing another Wordpress interface when you get home becomes one of your lowest priorities. Not to mention the fact that since I’ve started Tweeting, my blogging frequency has suffered a major blow.

Nonetheless, I’m breaking my silence (finally) now with…. Halloween pictures!

After much consideration, I decided to go as Medusa. After all, I only needed snakes on my head.. and that’s really about it! I didn’t even going to go the whole nine yards and get colored contacts (I suffer from both myopia and astigmatism. It wasn’t possible) or even powder my face white.

On the left is Nguyen, the visiting developer from Vietnam currently putting up at the YouthAsia office & Khailee’s place. This year’s Halloween was his first and we (or I) dressed him up as a Jedi! Yes, my friends. You can’t see his light saber here but he’s a full-blown Jedi. I think going as a Jedi is actually pretty easy. We just got 3meters of brown cloth from Kamdar and cut + sewed it into his robe.

The tough part was that weird orange guy next to me.

Yes. That one. Here’s a close-up of him with the Cowboy Sheriff (and photographer of the night) Yew Jin.

Are you wondering what he is?

His mum asked him, “Are you a parrot?” (which really cracked me up so much I almost chucked my dinner).

He’s actually… Simba. Yes. Simba the Lion. From The Lion King.

I know right? The secret to his “head dress”? 5 orange bathroom rugs from Jusco worth RM7.90, yellow socks worth RM5.00, a curtain tie-tassel thing worth RMgodknowswhat, an old disposable cap, a really shitty seamstress and her make up.

Guess who was the shitty seamstress?

Anyway, there were a bunch of weird characters that night. Take ghost / corpse bride for example:

I can’t tell if her costume is scarier or her freaking long eyelashes are. Oh. And if you’re wondering what Joel is… he’s a fallen-arch-angel… or something like that. I really couldn’t decide (and I suspect, neither could he). I don’t think he knows this scary female as well.. Hmm…

Of course, you have the few non-dress-uppers for any costume party. This time it came in the form of Jeff (after his mummy experience last year, I actually understand why ;P), Jean and Winnie (Jean’s highschool mate).

Over all, it was an OK night — nothing to shout about because of the fact that Zouk was just so congested that we could barely move. But as usual, who doesn’t love just taking LOTS of photos?

 

Pimp My Room – Part 1

Posted on September 24th, 2009 • Filed under KL, Triggerhappy • 2 Comments

If you don’t already know, I recently moved into a very pretty new condo in Kelana Jaya. Yes, after months of staying in my Dad’s place in the faraway Sunway, I’m back in action right in the heart of PJ. Many bouts of indecision have led me to so many color schemes for my room that I’ve lost count. I love red, but the stark whiteness and zenness of my condo doesn’t seem to SUIT red… so I thought of moving to white. But then, everything in white is just so boring.. and IKEA furniture is extremely generic! You get the drift.

So this long Raya weekend (Selamat Hari Raya to my Muslim friends =]!) I enlisted the artiest and most DIY person I know, Esther Lau, to pimp my room. I have to say, 3 days, loads of paint, turpentine and mosaic tiles later, my generic, boring IKEA furniture is MOST DEFINITELY — pimped.

I’ll let the photos speak for themselves — checkidout!

BEFORE

AFTER

Check out my chest-of-drawers-cum-dresser:

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AWESOME DAY

Posted on April 5th, 2009 • Filed under KL, Personal Life, Triggerhappy • 5 Comments

Just a quick update on WHY today was absolutely fantastic.

After one of the shittiest weeks of the year, today just kicked ass.

1. I awoke to an email from my uncle in Ohio saying that my Aunt Jen just went into labour and is being prepped to deliver my newest baby cousin.

Josephine Chung, you are probably one of the most loved babies in the world. Your birth has been much awaited and we here in Malaysia cannot wait to see you and get to know you.

2. We delivered a kick-ass presentation for this semester’s colloquium for our research on humour and relevance on brand and product recognition for our Cognitive Psychology module, despite being rather ill-prepared for the presentation and kena tembak-ing during mocks.

3. WE actually WON one of the two best presentation prizes yeehaw

4. OMFG… xinch the lousiest presenter of the group actually won best presenter!

It’s an amazing close to my degree. We’ve won best presentation twice, and xinch the lousiest speaker in the world actually got a best presenter prize today.

Fantastic close to the semester, amazing closure to the end of my Bachelor’s program.

3 weeks left and I’ll join legions of unemployed, jobless youths.

Don’t matter – today was fantastic!

hugs and kisses everyone! enjoy the pics =]

 

March Mayhem

Posted on March 25th, 2009 • Filed under KL • 1 Comment

March has been a very interesting month. I’ve played hard and worked even mega superbly harder this month and as it draws to a close, I cannot help but sit and gape in wonder at the speed that is time today. I can barely remember what it was like back in high school, waiting for time to pass and it seemed to crawl or slug on slower than a snail (ick) would. Since mid last year, the minutes, hours, days, weeks and months have flown by in an insane pace! I think I’m going to attribute that to the fact that – I AM HAPPY. I’ve always held the belief that when you’re having fun, time just flies. It’s because you’re not sitting there counting the minutes and seconds till each moment passes.

That aside, let me share with you some interesting things I did in March

1. Watched Jason Mraz in Stadium Negara with Edmund Kwok, Joanne and Khai Lee. Was late (as usual, considering who the person behind the wheel was ;P) but had amazing siew yoke meen afterwords. Too bad my batteries were confiscated at the entrance to the concert or you’d be attacked with pictures of Jason Mraz himself. He’s an amazing performer and very good at engaging the audience. I particularly liked the fact that instead of throwing sweaty (and disgusting clothes) to the audience as souvenirs, he pulled out a polaroid camera to camwhore on stage and immediately dished them out to the mosh pit!

2. Worked like a horse. In March, I discovered quite a number of nice places to work around the area I live! Funny that I’ve been here for 3 years already and until March, I’ve relegated myself to just McDs, the very expensive, occasional Starbucks, Old Town and Thyme in Aman Suria.

3. Had a scrumptious Japanese buffet supper with Khai Lee, Nads, Sam, Wari and Omar in Tenji@Solaris Mont Kiara. Starved ourselves till 9.30 and after letting loose at the buffet line, we discovered that manic eating wasn’t such a good idea after all. Despite that, food at Tenji rocked for only RM53/person (that’s inclusive of taxes and what not)

4.  The Edmund Loh Makeover Project. I won’t bore you with the long story that led up to this but come last Sunday in Sunway Pyramid, Khai Lee and I met up with Edmund and spent a good 5 hours in Sunway Pyramid with 80% of the five hours dedicated to the purpose of shopping. Gotta agree, it’s mega fun shopping for someone else with someone else’s money. Anyone wants a makeover too? =] For those of you who are not aware of who Edmund L. is, he’s the one who has been providing me with the occasional freelance transcription work for the past… what, 1.5 years? Anyway, read Edmund’s take on it here.

That’s bout it folks, so far, for the craziness that’s been March. This month has been a fantastic month… 1 more left till the end of my degree so I’m gonna have to amp it up!

 

December, Penang Pt. II

Posted on February 18th, 2009 • Filed under KL, Penang, Personal Life, Triggerhappy • 1 Comment

Long overdue photos of my December holidays in Penang.

WARNING: ANOTHER PHOTO-FILLED POST

I spent a large amount of time with Wei Zhi, Ghee, June, Jason and Chuan Wei during my December trip back so here are some pictures

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Posted on October 6th, 2008 • Filed under KL • 3 Comments

Things are just not going right for me right now.

This is one of the most important semesters I’ll ever have to get through and things are just not, NOT going right for me right now. No.

 

The Fool with a Conscience

Posted on September 30th, 2008 • Filed under KL, Personal Life • 4 Comments

I’ve spent the past hour and half digging through the piles of ancient history in my room and within that short timeframe, I’ve unearthed treasures, keepsakes, priceless moments…..

and lots, and lots of rubbish.

One of my favourite reads back in school was this magazine called Phases. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a Christian youth magazine that used to go for RM14 a year (nowadays, you pay RM5.60 a month for Cleo *rolls eyes*). I felt reminiscent and smiled while I flipped to the contents page of this 7-year-old wonder when I saw a really familiar face next to the title “The Fool with a Conscience”.

A very young

scrawny

black-haired

vest-less

29-year-old version of

Dr. Goh!

Yes, I mean Department of Psychology’s dean, Dr. Goh Chee Leong.

This article was written in 2001 when I was in form 3 and that was the first time I actually noticed him and I thought:
“Wow, head of the department at only 29.” and then, I thought…
“Who the hell calls their college or university, HELP?!”

That year was the same year that during our school’s annual career/education fest, HELP opened a booth and I sat there and spoke to someone trying to sell to me the idea of studying Psychology. Well, looks like that idea stuck and whoever did the selling (I cannot remember) definitely did his/her job.

Truth is, I’m a shallow person when it comes to reading articles. I usually flip through a magazine many times. First to look at the pictures, then again to look at the fun parts of the magazine (i.e. jokes, stupid quizzes, etc) and when I’m all flipped out, I take my time and read whichever article I feel like reading first, leaving the ones with most uninteresting titles for the last. But I distinctly remember flipping through Phases in school during a free period and saw something that piqued my interest:

“We should never seek vindication, never live our lives just so that one day we can show the world that we made the right decision.” (Goh, 2001).

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