HyppTV Celebrates The Joy of Deepavali with Children from Agathians Shelter

In conjunction with the Festival of Lights, HyppTV, TM’s award winning TV & Video Streaming service available on multiple platforms in Malaysia has treated 20 underprivileged children from Agathians Shelter to a special movie screening of 'Cars 3', accompanied by their caretakers at GSC The Gardens Mall last Thursday.

Mr Jeremy Kung, Executive Vice President of New Media, TM, Miss Inthira, Council Member and representative of Agathians Shelter together with 20 children from Agathians Shelter

In fact, HyppTV’s has held a series of Deepavali community-oriented activities including this special movie screening and a donation drive campaign to raise funds and collection of household items for the shelter.

(L - R) – Mr Jeremy Kung, Executive Vice President of New Media, TM handing over mocked cheque worth RM7,000 to Miss Inthira, Council Member and representative of Agathians Shelter

We were honoured to witness this memorable moment with the underprivileged children at the event. Before the movie screening, Jeremy Kung, Executive Vice President, New Media handed over cash contributions and shopping vouchers worth RM7,000 to Miss Lotus, a volunteer education planner and representative of Agathians Shelter. Part of the contributions were gathered through a donation drive held recently at the lobby of Menara TM for Warga Keluarga TM as well as members of the public.

Jeremy said, “Deepavali is one of the most significant festivals for the Indian community, and it is a perfect opportunity to spend quality time and bond with family and loved ones as we celebrate new beginnings. So at HyppTV, we intend to bring light and joy to the children from Agathians Shelter this Deepavali with the donation as well as the movie screening as a special treat.”

“In addition to this, we wish to extend the spirit of giving to more Malaysians and our customers through our on-going ‘Tambah Lagi’ campaign. In the spirit of Deepavali, we will be giving a 15 days free viewing period of all the channels in Varnam Pack to showcase our wide content offerings, bringing only the best Indian content line-ups for continuous enjoyment during the festivities. Furthermore, you can enjoy these channels not only at the convenience of your living room, but also anywhere while on the move with HyppTV Everywhere mobile app,” he added.

We knew that the kids from Agathians Shelter have truly enjoyed the special screening of “Cars 3” movie with popcorns and juices from their joyous faces. Good job to HyppTV.

Cost of Living – is it a Needs or Wants?

Have you ever calculated your cost of living? In this modern World, there are so many things we can buy from the shopping malls and even from home online. Do you always buy what you want and is all of them what you need?

For me, I would always ensure I buy something essential that I need, and I control myself when I see something nice to have but I don't really need. Simple because, wants may change over time, I might be regret the next day for spending something that I don't need.

Let me share with you some examples;

I need a pair of nice pants for working purposes.

I don't really need a nice dress for the latest fashion. I might probably wear it once or not even wearing it.

See, that's how I differentiates wants and needs. Sadly, I have many friends that shop because they see something nice. Over time, they have many debts from their credit cards, loans and it has eventually affected their financial status.

Thanks to KPDNKK, we can now check the latest price for essential items from their website and their app to become a smart consumer. For instance, KPDNKK has just announced the 16 controlled items for the coming Deepavali festival. From there, we consumer would know the price of the essential items for the festive.

With the habit of asking ourselves if something is a need or a want, we would eventually learn to set the spending priorities and save the money for things we really need.

[Concert] Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Jiritsu / 而立

The last time I been to concert at Plenary Hall, KLCCCC was a few years back. I am so excited that I am going to be there again tomorrow for the 'Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Jiritsu' concert.

Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Jiritsu / 而立 

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 17

Time: 3 to 6pm

Venue: Plenary Hall, Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre

As a big fans of Faye Wong, I know about Final Fantasy back to my teenage time. I love her sang “Eyes on Me” which was truly a hit back in 2006.

And now, I am going to listen the music live with my elder daughter. I feel really excited and can't wait! Sharing with you more details about Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY JIRITSU / 而立 below.

Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY presents a new series of orchestral concerts: FINAL FANTASY 30th Anniversary - JIRITSU. Including a spectacular musical tribute to 30 years of FINAL FANTASY, music from FINAL FANTASY XV and a visual experience to accompany the show, SQUARE ENIX, AWR Music and Impact Live/Creon Asia bring this once in a lifetime live show to Kuala Lumpur's Planerary Hall on 18th October. Featuring Japanese video game composer Nobuo Uematsu in attendance and a full symphony orchestra conducted by Grammy award-winner Arnie Roth, this multimedia experience combines stirring HD screen images to match the soaring emotions of SQUARE ENIX's world-renowned FINAL FANTASY video game series.

Traditional Remedies for Kidney Stone

I have a lot of friends and relatives suffering from kidney stone. It is so painful and sometimes even need to go for a surgery to take out the kidney stone. For mild case like me, I would suffer from mild pain and sometimes pain on urination. But, I am glad that there is a traditional remedies for kidney stone removal which I have tried recently. The GlamoHealth juice that is made from traditional village formula.

GlamoHealth juice contains a lot of ingredients to benefit us from kidney stone, including lemon, beetroot, leafflower, basil, honey, celery leaves, pomegranate, soursop leaves, and snake grass leaves. As you can see, these botanical ingredients are good to the body. In fact, it does not only helps in kidney stones, it also helps for heart disease.

GlamoHealth juice comes in a plastic bottle packed in paper box. The bottle cap is sealed securely before open. It comes with a small measurement plastic cup too which is useful and made consumption easier.

The juice is quite concentrated. Most importantly, it taste good, not too sweet but soury sweet which I really like. I normally drink 30 ml of it on every meal. I also make sure I drink enough of water (at least 8 glasses) every day to help ease the passage. After drinking GlamoHealth juice for 2 days, I noticed that my urination is smoother and not as painful as previously anymore. I do not have any pain nor discomfort after consuming it. In fact, the best result could be seen after consuming it for one to two weeks.

Donate. Support. Recycle @ Neubodi Bra Drive 2017

Neubodi Bra Drive is back for the 5th consecutive year. This year, Neubodi Bra Drive is running from now until 5th November 2017. As Malaysian lingerie specialist brand, Neubodi has once again support the International Breast Cancer Awareness Month with this month-long “Donate. Support. Recycle” Bra Drive campaign.

Public can drop-off any unwanted or used bras in Neubodi “Bra Banks” at any Neubodi stores nationwide. Neubodi will donate gently-used items to victims of sex trafficking, enabling their rehabilitation into society as they warn a livelihood selling second-hand bras. Beneficiaries of the “Donate” initiative are communities in Malaysia, Cambodia, Nepal, India and Africa including those in poverty for whom bras are sough-after essential item – providing comfort and self-esteem.

Keeping textile away from the landfills, bras not suited for donation will be collected by Neubodi's strategic partner, Life Line Clothing. Using proprietary technology, raw materials of bras such as spandex, nylon, metal wire and plastics will be converted into reusable solid fuel commonly used to power industrial boilers and generators. This “Recycle” initiative is Malaysia's first activity of its kind.

Neubodi has partner with Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malaysia (BCWA) to increase public awareness that breast cancer is 'gender blind', and promote the importance of self-examination and early detection while raising funds for BCWA's “Hospital Angels” programme. In this initiative, trained specialists will visit newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and help them learn to cope with the disease in an encouraging and positive environment. Funds are raised via Neubodi's “Pedal Forward” cycling convoy that concluded on 7th Oct 2017, and exclusive sales from its GO PINK collection during the launch at 1 Utama Shopping Centre last weekends, where RM 10 from every PINK BRA purchase will be donated to BCWA.

World Sight Day 2017 'Make Vision Count' by Focus Point

I have been supporting World Sight Day for many years. World Sight Day (WSD) is a global initiative to raise awareness on preventable blindness and vision impairment. There are approximately 285 million people in the World live with low vision and blindness. In fact, 80% of it was actually preventable, either by early detection of eye problem or by having it cured by a treatment or surgery, or it can be easily solved by just having a pair of prescription glasses.

There's always some CSR campaigns running in conjunction with World Sight Day each year. This year, I felt honored to participate the World Sight Day 2017 'Make Vision Count' CSR Campaign initiated by leading vision care group, Focus Point. With the aim of advocating eye and vision care amidst rising vision impairment and eye problem incidences in Malaysia.

World Sight Day 2017 - 'Make Vision Count' by Focus Point Event

Date: 9 Oct 2017 to 15 Oct 2017

Time: 10am to 10pm

Venue: LG2 Blue Concourse, Sunway Pyramid

According to media reports of year 2016, 54 out of every 1000 Malaysians suffer from low-vision impairment owing to health defects, as revealed by the Health Ministry's National Optometry Services Head Dr. Nur Zahirah Husain.

She added that an estimated 15000 people nationwide suffer from low-vision impairment based on statistics obtained from government hospitals. Among the factors causing this are diseases, for instance glaucoma, diabetes, age-related degeneration, cataracts, retinal disease and uncorrected refractive error.

During the launch of Focus Point's World Sight Day 2017 'Make Vision Count' event at Blue Concourse, Sunway Pyramid Shopping Centre, Dato' Liaw Choon Liang, President & CEO of Focus Point Holdings Berhad said: “This year marks our 6th year running the WSD event. We are excited and proud to be part of global effort in raising pubic awareness on the importance of vision care and eye health. It is also very much in line with the company's philosophy of giving back to the community”