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| Tune Hotel Waterfront Kuching Goes Bald for 5th Anniversary Posted: 23 Mar 2014 09:52 PM PDT Fourteen volunteers went bald at the "Going Bald for Kids with Cancer" at the hotel here on Saturday, as part of the efforts to raise funds for the Sarawak Children's Cancer Society (SCCS). The event was part of SCCS's annual 'Go Bald' event which is now running into its sixth year. The 'Go Bald 6.0' will officially kick off on 4 May 2014 at the CityONE Megamall in Kuching. Tune Hotel Waterfront Kuching led the way with a donation of RM6, 300 to SCCS. As a show of support towards children with cancer and their families, 14 staff members of the hotel had their heads shaved, led by Tune Hotels Country Head for Malaysia, Kishore Suppiah and Teo Beng Hock, Group Financial Controller of Limar Group. To bump it up, Tune Hotel Waterfront Kuching is also pledging RM5 for each online booking made from 22 March up to 28 March 2014 for immediate stays up until 30 April 2014, in addition to a 20% discount. Guests can log on to www.tunehotels.com to book and participate. This is on top of an offline donation drive organised by the hotel staff as well as a donation box placed at the hotel reception. The sums will be tallied and all proceeds will go towards SCCS for the benefit of children with cancer. Kishore Suppiah said, "This is a very meaningful way to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of Tune Hotel Waterfront Kuching. We are very proud to be working with the SCCS and be part of this year's Go Bald 6.0 to help support the unfortunate children as well as their families and loved ones. We want to tell them to always be strong, keep on fighting and stay positive… that their hair loss is only temporary and part of the recovery process. After all, being bald is cool!" SCCS Manager Jodie Sim said, "We are very pleased to have Tune Hotels coming on board for Go Bald 6.0 this year. We hope our Go Bald tour covering Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu and Miri this year will be the biggest ever. We look forward to more volunteers and donors who will come forward and participate for this noble cause." After Kuching on 4 May, the Go Bald 6.0 tour will stop at Delta Mall in Sibu on 11 May, followed by Parkcity Mall in Bintulu on 18 May and Miri's Bintang Megamall on 25 May. Go Bald is an awareness cum fundraising event initiated by SCCS in 2009. The funds raised have gone towards providing financial assistance to families who have children with cancer, to help with accommodation and food for outstation patients, medical consumables, bone marrow transplants and in-ward tuition for the child patients. SCCS also provides, counselling and emotional support to child patients and families, aside from organising fun outing and camps for them as a temporary get away from their treatment. For more information, visit SCCS website www.sccs.my or Go Bald Facebook page www.facebook.com/GoBald. - March 24, 2014. |
| A quiet Malaysian who celebrates differences Posted: 23 Mar 2014 05:39 PM PDT Eric Lai is an artist and art teacher, who runs an art school in Bercham, Ipoh called ArtGene Studio. Over the past 2 years he has taken the initiative to paint murals on the back streets of Ipoh City. We first heard about Eric's work from a local publication and we spent some time looking for Eric's street art which was located in a not so easy to find back street of Ipoh. We both instantly liked and appreciated his art work and began to bring friends to enjoy the art. We subsequently met him at our home with another friend as the National Early Childhood Intervention Council wanted to commission Eric to do some art work for a child disability conference. Eric the person turned out to be a simple and humble man, without airs. His straightforward honesty is refreshing. During the course of the discussion, we asked him how he got started on this particular strip of street art. He said that a friend had commissioned him to paint one mural. After completing the funded mural, he found that once he got his "engine started" (his words), he could not stop painting. It was this inner drive and passion to paint that enabled him to paint other walls on the same street for free. Eric the artist says that people describe him as having a "stern and serious looking face", totally focused on his piece of art while working. To us, it is the description of a person who wholeheartedly pours himself into his art work. Perhaps this is one reason his art work is so filled with life. Many of us Ipoh 'locals' as well as tourists to Ipoh have been delighted by his work. Whenever we pass by the site we will see Malaysians or overseas tourists stopping to take pictures. Many of the art pieces evoke a memory within us of our childhood. I (Swee-Im) remember walking and carrying my stool as a child with my family to go sit and watch the open stage Classical Chinese Opera. I (Amar) remember many happy hours spent besides waterfalls, often diving in using a hanging rattan branch. What is exciting about these paintings is not just that they brighten Ipoh's back lanes but that Eric often works with children and young persons to do the work. It is so refreshing to see the commitment and excitement in these children. He also takes pains not to paint over the walls but to build the art into the stains, vegetation and colour of the existing buildings. To cap it all, Eric has just done a small mural for MH370 as well. He says it is a view of the outside from the passengers' perspective and speaks of the hope of them coming home. – March 24, 2014. |
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