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  • Legendary Malaysian Football Commentator Datuk Hasbullah Passed Away

    Legendary Malaysian Football Commentator Datuk Hasbullah Passed Away

    Veteran sports commentator Dato’ Haji Hasbullah Awang passed away yesterday at the age of 63.

    According to Astro Awani, he died at the National Heart Institute today at 1:30pm, believed to be due to heart complications.

    Hasbullah first carved his name as a sports presenter in the 1990s and went on to work with RTM for many years before joining Astro Arena in January 2014.

    Tributes have been pouring in for the icon, including from Minister of Youth and Sports Khairy Jamaluddin, who tweeted: “Generations will remember Datuk Hasbullah Awang’s voice. Memories of Malaysia’s sporting triumphs & failures intertwined with his commentary.”

    All of us at FourFourTwo extend our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.

     

    Source: www.fourfourtwo.com

  • Kiasu Is Oxford English Dictionary’s Word Of The Day

    Kiasu Is Oxford English Dictionary’s Word Of The Day

    Singlish is often frowned upon as the poorer local cousin to the Queen’s English but do you know that some Singlish words have found their way into the hallowed Oxford English Dictionary (OED)?

    Along with promoting the latest December 2014 quarterly update – which contains new words such as BYOD (bring your own device), un-PC (not politically correct) and g’day – to its online database of 60 million words, OED also selected an interesting choice for its Word of the Day on Feb 11.

    “Kiasu” was featured. It is not the only Singlish word to be accepted by the OED. Does this mean we can play the word in Words With Friends now?

    In the meantime, here is a quick primer on Singlish in the OED.

    “Lah” and “sinseh” included in OED’s online debut

    OED’s maiden online version, which was launched in March 2000, contained the Singlish words “lah” and “sinseh”. Ironically, this inclusion was announced just a month before then-Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong launched the Speak Good English Movement, aimed at stamping out Singlish.

    “Lah” is described as a particle used with various kinds of pitch to convey the mood and attitude of the speaker, with examples such as “Don’t act tough lah” gleaned from author and former New Paper journalist Sylvia Toh.

    According to OED, “sinseh” refers to a traditional Chinese physician or herbalist in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

    Singaporeans’ favourite catchphrase was admitted in 2007

    “Kiasu” (noun and adjective) officially made it to the big time in March 2007, together with now-ubiquitous words such as wiki (which means quick and is also short for Wikipedia) and technopreneur.

    The term is used to refer to a person “governed by self-interest, typically manifesting as a selfish, grasping attitude arising from a fear of missing out on something.”

    Here is one of the examples cited: “I know I always think mean things of Alisa about her being kiasu and pretending not to study, but..I realise that she probably also feels insecure about her own intelligence.”

    How are new words chosen for the OED?

    Once a word gets into the dictionary, it is there to stay forever. OED reportedly adopts a conservative approach to language, keeping out newfangled words until they become widely used.

    An editorial team in charge of new words actively monitors the Oxford Reading Programme (an electronic collection of short extracts drawn from a huge variety of writing) and the Oxford English Corpus (entire documents sourced mostly from the Internet). If there is evidence that a new term is being used in a variety of different sources, it qualifies as a candidate.

    These are then selected for entry based on what the team judges to be the most significant or important, as well as being likely to stand the test of time.

    Former Straits Times journalist Janadas Devan also noted in a 2007 interview that the Internet has played a large role in legitimising some words approved by the OED.

    Why is OED’s Word of the Day special?

    OED claims each word is “carefully selected for a particular reason”, be it for the word’s interesting etymology, a long and fascinating history, or simply because it’s novel and amusing. It can also be connected with a particular event or important date.

    Why do you think “kiasu” was selected?

    Trivia: It will take approximately 753 years for every word in the dictionary to be featured in Word of the Day. And that is if nothing else is added.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Fifty Shades Of Grey Obtains R21 Classification In Singapore

    Fifty Shades Of Grey Obtains R21 Classification In Singapore

    Fans who have been eagerly awaiting the status of “Fifty Shades of Grey” in Singapore can now breathe a sigh of relief as the movie has finally been given a rating of R21.

    The Media Development Authority (MDA), the country’s media regulating body, had stated the film contains “Mature Theme and Sexual Scenes” and only those aged 21 and above are permitted to watch the film.

    Explaining their justification of the film’s rating on their site, MDA reported that, “Given the film’s focus on a complex relationship, which is underpinned by an exploration of sexual practices, the film is more appropriate under a R21 rating where the Classification Guidelines permit “stronger and more explicit portrayal and exploration of mature themes.”

    In the same report, more details about the film’s content are revealed with expected nudity.

    “In one of the stronger scenes, the male protagonist undresses the woman and whips her with a belt as a form of punishment. The whipping is not enacted on screen with the impact conveyed through the woman’s pained expression. In another fairly prolonged scene, the male protagonist handcuffs the woman to a metal structure and hits her with a leather crop before tying her hands to a bed post and thrusting against her from behind. Female upper body nudity and sexual thrusting can also be seen in the sexual scenes.”

    It also seems that film is not as visually graphic as depicted in the books, as most of the sadomasochistic acts in the film are depicted in a sensuous manner through film’s focus on facial expressions rather than the act itself.

    “Overall, the sexual scenes are treated in a sensuous manner. While mild bondage and whipping are depicted, the scenes focus on the characters’ sexual arousal through their facial expressions and do not depict the sadomasochistic aspect of these acts.”

    Recently, the movie received an 18 rating from the British Board of Film Classification, a considerably stricter rating compared to the R rating from Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last month.

    The movie was also recently banned in Malaysia after the local censorship board deemed its content unsuitable for Malaysian audiences.

    Some of the more recent R21 movies that were shown in Singapore include last year’s South Korean erotic thriller film “Obsessed” and David Fincher’s “Gone Girl”, and there are two R21 movies currently showing, South Korean noir action film “Gangnam Blues” and Jennifer Lopez-starrer “The Boy Next Door”.

    “Fifty Shades of Grey” will be released in Singapore this 12 February 2015.

     

    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

  • Mothers Stage Nurse-In In Walmart Store In The US

    Mothers Stage Nurse-In In Walmart Store In The US

    Given the many health benefits of breast-feeding —and that most shoppers don’t want to hear an hungry infant screaming in aisle nine—you’d think stores would be more supportive of a woman’s effort to feed her baby. But perhaps a manager at a Walmart in Oklahoma likes crying children, or didn’t know that the state has a law protecting a woman’s right to nurse in public. Either way, he’s probably regretting telling new mom Elizabeth Moreno to quit nursing her child and cover up.

    “I was kind of shocked, like, do what? I didn’t know what I was doing wrong,” Moreno told Fox 23 on Tuesday.

    Moreno left the store last week feeling humiliated by the manager’s request, but she didn’t hang her head for long. On Tuesday, she and about 20 other mothers and their infants descended on the store to hold a breast-feeding demonstration called a nurse-in.

    A nurse-in is like an old-school sit-in, but with more breast-feeding. To protest the manager’s behavior, Moreno and the other moms walked around the Walmart in Glenpool, about 15 minutes south of Tulsa, with their babies. As you can see in the video below, some of the women chose to openly nurse their infants while they walked.

    “We did get some looks and stuff. People were very curious,” one of the moms, Renee McBay, told the station.

    Moreno said that the when the manager approached her last week, he said another customer had complained about her breast-feeding.

    “I was like, ‘Oh no, I’m protected by Oklahoma law that it’s OK to breast-feed in public,’ ” she said.

    The station contacted a Walmart spokesperson, who said that the company is investigating the situation and that it supports a woman’s right to nurse her child inside its stores.

    It’s unclear whether the manager in Glenpool was aware of Walmart’s corporate policy on breast-feeding in public—or if he knew Moreno had the legal right to nurse her baby on the premises. But in order to ensure that folks in the community are aware, she and the other nurse-in participants passed out pamphlets educating Walmart shoppers and employees about their right to feed a hungry infant.

    Those pamphlets could come in handy elsewhere around the country too, because moms keep on being taken to task for breast-feeding in public.

    Last June, Karlesha Thurman was shamed online for sharing a photo on social media of her nursing her baby during her graduation from California State University, Long Beach. Then in August, an employee at an Anthropologie store in Beverly Hills, California, asked mom Ingrid Wiese Hesson to stop nursing on the premises. Nearly 100 moms held a nurse-in at the store to support Hesson’s legal right to feed her infant, and the backlash against the retailer went viral across Facebook and Twitter.

    In the workplace, women have long been illegally steered toward filthy bathrooms and closetsin order to use their breast pumps. This week, news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the petition of Angela Ames, who had sued her former employer, Nationwide Insurance, alleging that the company made it tough for her to use her breast pump in the office and coerced her into resigning from her job.

    Maybe more nurse-ins are needed to help people finally understand that feeding a baby is not optional. Or perhaps moms should just threaten shoppers with the alternative and let their hungry infants shriek in public for 10 minutes. Let’s see how folks feel about that.

     

    Source: www.takepart.com

  • Safuwan Baharudin Features In FIFA 15 Video Game

    Safuwan Baharudin Features In FIFA 15 Video Game

    Singapore defender Safuwan Baharudin now features in popular football video game Fifa 15, after his loan move to A-League side Melbourne City.

    Following an update earlier this week, the 23-year-old appears on the bench of the Australian side bearing the name “Baharudin”, which appears on the back of his jersey in the game as well. He is believed to be the only Singaporean player in Fifa 15.

    With a rating of 56, he is the fourth-best centre-back in the squad, and can also play at right-back and as a defensive midfielder. His best attributes in the game are sprint speed, stamina and balance.

    Safuwan made his highly anticipated A-League debut on Saturday, coming in to the Melbourne City starting line-up as a replacement for injured defensive midfielder Erik Paartalu. However, he was unable to prevent Melbourne City crashing to a 0-3 loss against city rivals Melbourne Victory, having been substituted after an hour.

    On Safuwan’s performance, his coach John van’t Schip said: “Looking at him today… he was not afraid to challenge, he was not afraid to coach (provide directions to teammates), he wanted to have the ball; he was strong in the air defensively but also when we go forward.

    “He’s a player we rate highly from what we have seen and we think he can still make big steps.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com