RELAY for LIFE 2012 Media Launch took flight on Tuesday, Sept 4th, 2012. This will mark the 4th RELAY for LIFE that I'll be participating in along with the celebrities organised by our hero Dato' Yasmin Yusuff. It was special today as I was with my sister Stella who is a cancer survivor. We were in matching purples. Relay for Life is an overnight, community-based event to celebrate cancer survivorship and raise funds forNCSM’s cancer awareness projects. RFL starts with the Survivors’ Lap, a testimony to the fact that so many people today are surviving cancer. Cancer survivors from the community walk the first lap around the track to celebrate their victories while everyone cheers them on. The main aim of this event is that the track should not be devoid of people throughout the 16 hours. The most inspirational time of Relay is the Luminaria Ceremony which happens at dusk when cancer survivors are honoured and those who have lost their battle with the disease a...
K Das & The Tunku Tapes - Candid conversations with the late Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia's first prime minister, delve deep into the character and ideas of one of Asia's most colourful politicians TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN In His Own Words ON BECOMING PRIME MINISTER So many things have happened in my lifetime that I cannot ignore. In the first place, there was that Indian fellow who threw dice, the astrologer. When I was District Officer in Kulim in 1939, he predicted that I would be the first prime minister of this country. Everybody laughed, I laughed . . . how could a poor district officer of Kulim be the first prime minister? But he said, "You can laugh but that is what your stars foretell." That was in 1939. In 1957, I became prime minister of Malaya . . . ON TUNKU THE MAN I believe in living and being happy, otherwise what the hell do you want to live for? How long do you expect to live for? Only yesterday I was running and jumping about as a kid, then as a you...
http://malaysianidol.bluehyppo.com/view_news.asp?AID=178 TALKING TO MICHAEL XAVIER VOON, MI PERFORMANCE COACH You’ve seen the Idols in action on stage. Now get an insight of the man who coached their mesmerizing performances, Michael Xavier Voon. BH: What does a performance coach do? MXV: Anything that relates to techniques in performing a song on stage and how they are applied. Specifics are such as: 'analysis of a song', 'analysis of musical setting', 'singers' talk', 'movement' and 'checklists'. BH: How do you train to be a performance coach? What is your background? MXV: I have always been interested in movement since childhood. At 12 I won a dance competition, at 14 i choreographed my first dance pantomime, by 15 I performed my first Karate exhibition, by 16 I requested Voice of America (Shortwave Radio) about School for the Performing Arts after watching Fame the movie and when I was awarded a dance scholarship to USA, the res...
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