Author: Jasmine Low
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Throwback: An Interview with STYLE Malaysia January 2012 Issue
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I found this interview banter in an old email from 13 years ago with Nicole Foo. Throwbacks are great, but the key messages from the past keep you moving forward. STYLE Malaysia January 2012 Issue ***************** Nicole Foo: You wear so many hats! How do you juggle the many thousand…
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New Malaysia pivots with ‘waddling gait’
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I lift the ‘waddling gait’ from the best “Train to Busan” film review written IMHO by Maggie Lee, writer, film critic, film festival organiser and films made in Asia advocate. I find this phrase such a tickle, and Maggie Lee, an ingenue. Malaysia’s political scene has more dips and highs…
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Fiction writing: The sound of a thousand secrets
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Swirling around in three hundred and sixty degrees, I am laser focused, a ray of light pinpointed on a slight slant, I am circling, firm and steadfast, I am fast, Warm yet hush, don’t tell as I can be deadly and they will be in danger, I am never warm…
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What if Dementia and Type 2 Diabetes could be managed better? Or reversed?!
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Without exercise, bariatric surgery or medication, we delve into the use of natural interventions to reverse Type 2 Diabetes successfully reported by renowned researchers and doctors. Early this year, I visited relatives and friends in Malaysia. At dining tables all around my world there, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, Ponggal, Chinese…
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Mapping out your business
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This article was first published on 8 March 2017 and has since been updated. Good day. You’ve landed on this page because you are likely planning out a business plan, thinking of how you will embark on your brand journey and building a brand identity. Or, we may have been…
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Fiction Writing: Treasures
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Sharon Bakar’s Finding the Flow creative writing group meet-up on 10 June 2023 took place for an hour. During that hour, she’d propose an activity adapted from Abigail Thomas’s Thinking About Memoir. I hope you will enjoy this flash fiction story titled, Treasures (download PDF)
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Fiction Writing: What’s for dinner?
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Notes: A flash writing activity held on 3rd of June 2023 via Zoom by Sharon Bakar with Julian & Karina. We are writing from first sentence of popular books, and I selected this one: Dodie Smith: “I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That …” (goodreads.com). Here are more famous…
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Fiction Writing: Dancing to the gongs of the South China Sea
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Release date: 22 May 2023 Dancing to the gongs of the South China Sea (PDF) is an unfinished piece that’s a work-in-progress, a culmination of works explored in an 8-week creative writing class with Sharon Bakar’s Words on Fire to “Finding the Flow”. I’m immensely grateful and thankful for Sharon’s…
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Fiction Writing: Shorts Stories 2023 (resulting from ‘Words on Fire’ Workshop with Sharon Bakar)
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I attended Sharon Bakar’s Words on Fire creative writing class of March – May 2023 titled, “Finding the Flow”. It’s been the most exhilarating ride made smooth by words, an amazing comradery with fellow writers and the kindest and most beautiful teacher. I highly recommend this workshop for it has…
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Podcast: A Merdeka Story: from little things big things grow 🖤💛💙❤️
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Warning: To Aboriginal & Torres Straits Islander readers, the following article contains images and voices of people who have passed away. Also streaming via Spotify | Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | iHeartRadio | RSS On August 9th 2021, International Day of the World’s Indigenous^ Peoples themed ‘Leaving No One…