Internet Journalism: July 2013

7/21/2013

The Intention of the Controversial Posting is Doubtful

by Hee Jiun Kang

The public doubted the intention of the controversial posting by the sex bloggers; Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee. The duo deemed that the local cuisine should be across ethnic and religious, in order to promote 1Malaysia ideology. Muslim activist has different perception. Jiun Kang has the latest.

Minions fever

by Teoh Chooi Pheng

Minion toys have sparked a furore response amongst the youth lately and many pictures of people queuing up merely to purchase the toys have all gone viral with McDonald’s all over the country experiencing a stock shortage. However so, there are many opportunists out there who are just interested into buying the toys only to sell at a much higher price due to the high demand and limited supply. Many are seen queuing up as early as 9PM even when the toys starts to sell at 12AM and by 2AM, all the toys at 24-hour outlets are all sold out. Chooi Pheng has the latest.

"作业枪手袭“来袭

by Soh Li Nah

学生因功课难又多、贪玩乐，再加上懒惰动脑筋等因素，造成了“作业枪手”看准了商机，边用脑力代学生做功课，边等着口袋里进钱。记者苏丽娜带你了解作业枪手的兴起。

00后的童年

by Phing Chee Yuong

电子产品的崛起导致“00后”成为了电子生活化的一代，网络游戏、手机游戏等成为了他们在成长过程中不可缺少的娱乐。换言之，电子产品“绑架”了“00后”的童年时光。彭志荣JC News采访报导。

Musical instrument class, or learn it online?

by Lee Hui Ying

The internet has changed the way people do everything. Musical instrument tutorials are constantly cropping up online. Consequently, it brings up the issue of whether we still need to go for music lessons. Lee Hui Ying has the latest.

童话，美丽有罪？

by Chen Ai Wei

王子与公主永远幸福在一起的故事是小孩在成长时期最喜欢的童话。即便是长大后，人们对童话依然向往。然而，童话故事所惯用的完美结局及疑似以貌取人的桥段一直备受争议。陈艾薇为您带来更多报导。

7/07/2013

Tattoo Photo Gallery

Up: UV tattoo which is invisible under brightness.

Down: UV tattoo under UV light can see clearly.

Japanese type of tattoo.

"Ubah" logo is very hot during the election time in this year.

Radyj, 36, a tattoo artist from Zoo Body Art showing his favorite Thailand's tattoo.

Tattoo can be related to infectious disease?

by Soh Li Nah

Tattoo's hygiene is also one of the concerns from society besides the bad impression of morality towards tattoo. People worry that might some unscrupulous artist reuses the needle, and causes the spread of bacteria.

According to Wong Wai Kit, a tattoo artist from Zoo Body Art, do the research to compare the different art shop is very important before tattoo. He advised that we should not simply trust to friend’s recommendation unless you go and see the license of the shop.

There is a case about an Australian tourist infected by AIDS when he goes for tattoo in Bali, Indonesia by December, 2011. This international tattoo hygiene topic was lead to society beware of the sanitary condition of a tattoo shop.

Besides that, he also mentioned some “Do and Don’t of tattoo”:

Before tattoo
1. Do legally – must be over 18 year-old, and not Muslims;
2. Do think carefully- Getting a tattoo is painful and it will stay forever on your body;
3. Do your research – To compare the price, the style of tattoo, the creditability of the art shop, to avoid regret;

After tattoo
1. Don’t touch the water at the tattoo within 24 hours;
2. Don’t eat seafood within 14 days;
3. Don’t swim, nor prolonged exposure to sunlight within 14 days;
4. Don’t carry out any sport within 7 days if you just had a big totem tattooed.

See also:
A body art work that has been misunderstood
A forever decoration
Tattoo photo gallery

Video:
Voice of the tattooed people
Get know more about tattoo

A forever decoration

by Soh Li Nah

Do you ever notice that in our impression, when we talk about “tattoo”, there will always appear a masculine man with tattoo?

Wong Wai Kit, 29, a tattoo artist from Zoo Body Art in Sungai Wang, said that most of the people thought the numbers of male that goes for for tattoo is higher than female.

“This is wrong, female nowadays are become braver, In our shop, 7 out of 10 customers are female,” he claimed that it doesn’t mean male become more timid, it’s just because female are more keen to follow pace fashion, for females, tattoo is a body decoration.

It cannot be denied that is one kind of people who just want to follow the trend and looking for tattoo and never take it seriously. For this, Wong said that tattoo artist should be conscientiously to tell them and also understand the reason they go for tattoo.

“You have to carry your tattoo forever unless you go for laser removal, but it is 10 times more painful and expensive than doing a new tattoo.” He said.

Most of the people refuse to do laser removal. They prefer to just cover up the tattoo with a new tattoo. However, keep tattoo at the same part of skin also brings a lot of side effect.

“So, it’s better to think carefully when you decide to tattoo,” Wong claimed again.

A laser treatment after 10 times, but still cannot remove completely the tattoo.

A body art work that has been misunderstood

by Soh Li Nah

Michelle is a 21-year-old skinny girl. She is dainty and cute in many people’s view. However, under her clothing there is actually an “owl” tattooed to her back, that symbolizes her hidden desire looking for freedom.

Society has bad perspective of people with tattoo on one’s body. Even in drama, gangster and mafia are not only masculine; there will be tattoo all over their body. In the past, a person had to go for tattoo before they join the mafia group to prove there are fearless. Tattoo can even be used as a logo to identify the gangster group.

Today, although people become open minded, there are still some of them cannot accept it, especially the elder generation. This problem is also happened on Michelle with her parent.

“They are unhappy of my tattoo, they blamed me. My mum even cried when she helped me applied the lotion after tattoo since the that is on my backside,” Michelle’s parents are traditional Chinese parents which believes that the body are granted by parents and therefore they should appreciate the body.

Michelle emphasized that as a child of parent, we should understand their feeling because they really love and care for us since they gave birth to us. So, she never wants to conceal the truth that she went for tattoo from her parents.

“Honest and communication is very important. Now, they already accept me.” She said.

This is the first tattoo on Michelle's body. It represents freedom and independent as her birthday gift for herself.

Inform is not a right way
From counseling perspective, Lim Dao Yong, counselor from UTAR mentioned that the communication is a two-way traffic. He claimed that parent nowadays should change the feudal way of education, and try to be more understanding of youngsters’ thinking.

“We cannot have the impression that our children are ignorant keep thinking that children don’t know what they are doing, don’t forget it’s an era of information, they know the things more than what we know, maybe we are the one that are outdated and over conservative,” he said.

However, he advised teenagers should be honestly expressing their feeling to their parent before they go for tattoo.

He said there are many teenagers use the wrong way to communicate with their parents.

“They like to straight away go for tattoo, and then show to their parent after they get a tattoo, it’s just informed, but not communicate.” He said.

See also:

Tattoo can be related to infectious disease?
A forever decoration
Tattoo Photo Gallery

Video:
Voice of the tattooed people
Get know more about tattoo

Video: Cheer Miku Cosplay - Before and After

by Lee Hui Ying

Cosplayer: Evangeline Tong, 22, Student.

Cosplayers must have the right attitude

Cosplayers must have the right attitude

by Lee Hui Ying

Cosplay has recently become popular among youngster in Malaysia. However, some of them, especially newbies, they don’t have the right attitude towards cosplaying. Experienced cosplayers explain that, a professional cosplayer should be able to fully represent the characteristics of a character.

Shawn Ngu, 25, has been cosplaying since year 2009. He found that the newbies just want to look good like their favorite character but they don’t really study the character’s mannerisms.

“They must present the characteristics of the particular character by watching series and pay attention on how the character carries himself or herself.”

For Leon Seow, 20, Malaysian cosplayers can be classified into 4 types, according to the purpose of joining cosplay.

“First, they serve cosplaying as a springboard for the sake of to be famous, to gain more exposure. Second, they take cosplaying as a platform to know more friends who shares same interest. Third, cosplay is just a hobby and entertainment for them. Lastly, they join cosplay for fun, which is the new badge of cosplayer.”

Newbies requires self-enhancement

Generally, the new cosplayers didn’t understand what cosplay is. In their cognition, cosplay is just wearing costume, accessories and photo shooting.

Leon explained, “A cosplayer must show their respect to the character. Cosplay is not just wearing the costume, wig and accessories, but the character’s behavior too. This is what the newbies have to learn. ”.

Yap Hui Wei, 18, has been cosplaying for 4 years. She added, new cosplayers usually have low self-enhancement as in costume, wig styling skills, make up skills, performance and making of accessories and props.

“I don’t like their attitude. They think they are good enough when they have photo shooting with some famous photographers. In fact, they should put more effort in improving themselves in all aspects.”

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Photo Gallery : Cosplay

Video: Cheer Miku Cosplay - Before and After

Cosplay: No longer forbid by parents

Cosplay: No longer forbid by parents

by Lee Hui Ying

There are many stereotypes and misconceptions toward cosplay and cosplayers, especially parents. They tend to have the mindset that cosplay is such as waste of time and money, an unhealthy activity and immature. However, parents are getting more open-minded and it has become more acceptable for them, some of them even join their children to cosplay.

In Malaysia, cosplay has become a growing subculture recently. It is a hobby increasing in popularity over the years. This can be seen from the increasing of participants in yearly event such as Comic Fiesta, c2age, World Cosplay Summit, Anicom Cosplay Competition and others.

Jared Cheah, 27, event director of Comic Fiesta said, number of cosplayers participated in Comic Fiesta are increasing in these few years, which is almost double up the previous amount every year.

“One of reason is because of parents, as they are more open-minded nowadays. They allow and support their children to cosplay.” Said Jared.

Parents helps in preparation

Evangeline Tong, 22, has been cosplaying for 6 months. She joined cosplay without her parents’ consent initially. Her first time cosplaying was at the Comic Fiesta 2012, as Ririchiyo Shirakiin, a character with a Naginata (Japanese halberd). She had spent 3 days to get the halberd and costume completed with her mum’s help.

Evangeline said, “I think my parents already realized by that time but they didn’t ask me more about it.”

“I showed them the photos which had taken during the event. Surprisingly, my dad didn’t forbid me to cosplay but complimenting about the photos instead.”

Cosplay is just a hobby

Evangeline’s mum, Leem Lei Hoon, 48, supports her to cosplay as long as she can manage her time for studies and work. She also helps Evangeline in searching the materials for the accessories during her first time cosplaying.

“My first impression about cosplay is costume role-playing of characters from Japanese anime. Well, cosplay is just a hobby rather than taking drugs, gambling and smoking.”

Most of the parents fear that cosplay will bring negative influence to their children in all kind of aspect, like lacking of interests in academics and involve themselves with unhealthy activities.

Leem said, this is due to his or her own personality. I used to trust my daughter because she is sensible. She can always manage her studies well. Therefore, I can be sure that she wouldn’t involve herself with unhealthy activities.

Outdoor Exercise- Interview

Outdoor Exercise- Interview

by: Teoh Chooi Pheng

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Correct Gym Routine

Correct Gym Routine

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Home-Cooked Foodography

By Hee Jiun Kang

Wait, take picture first.

Do you see yourself in the video?

This is a common sight where the ordinary people in Malaysia probably do this all the time, with their smartphones or tablets that always stay connected to the social media.

Dennis Choo Chin Young, 22, is a food hunter. He treats photography as an art, that everyone is capable with the fundamental skills to perform such act. In his Facebook profile, there are 2 food albums that stored more than 300 photos of foodographs.

“Capturing dishes is exactly same as capturing sceneries, in order to stop the time and to share to the world.” He expressed it in a way of philosophy.

Another foodography lover, Gen Yong Yik Fong, 19, stated that, “ I like to share the food that I have eaten, I’ve been trying to stop myself taking foodographs but can’t, because I will like regret if not taken.” Gen could just simply make himself happy by capturing the foods.

With the companion of technology gadgets, Dennis and Gen tend to have more opportunities to capture the dishes whenever they eat. Sharing is the climate today, however, sometimes the outward might away from your preferences.

“I am just utilizing the functions in my phone to capture the delicious foods that I had and to share it on Facebook, to my friends and family.” Dennis explained.

Gen has hundred over pieces of foodographs taken by himself. He will download and save the foodographs if he thinks it is yummy and delicious. “I like Instagram recently, because the filters can make my photos look nicer, easy to share on social networks as well.”

Dennis and Gen are doing it similarly to the home-cooked foodography, yet they do not cook at own, style the dishes at own and design the layout at own. They always capture the dishes that completely served with its own culinary art, without redesigning it.

“Original is the best, we have paid for the design, therefore we are actually enjoying the service.” Dennis deemed.

How does the home-cooked foodography be extraordinary? Know more at below.

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