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  • Fluff Bakery Tebar Sayap Ke Kuala Lumpur

    Fluff Bakery Tebar Sayap Ke Kuala Lumpur

    Fluff Bakery, kedai kek cawan atau ‘cupcake’ popular Singapura, sudahpun mula menebarkan sayapnya ke Kuala Lumpur. Ini apabila ia melancarkan kedai sementaranya yang pertama di ibu kota Malaysia itu.

    Kesemuanya, Fluff Bakery akan membuka empat kedai sementara itu di sana.

    Bagi kedai sementara yang pertama itu, ia dilancarkan lebih seminggu lalu (14 Jan) dalam satu acara privet. Ia dihadiri para penaja, rakan-rakan dan keluarga. Acara itu berjalan dengan lancar dengan hampir kesemua 450 kek cawan yang dibawa dari Singapura, disapu bersih!

    “Kami sebenarnya tidak percaya dapat respons yang begitu baik. Tetapi Alhamdullilah semuanya baik hingga kami risau jika bekalan kami bawa ke Kuala Lumpur tidak mencukupi,” ujar pemilik bersama Fluff Bakery Mohammad Ashraf Mohammad Alami, 35 tahun.

    RANCANG 4 KEDAI SEMENTARA DI KL

    Kedai sementara yang berlangsung hanya sehari itu adalah yang pertama daripada empat siri yang akan diadakan Fluff Bakery di merata Kuala Lumpur.

    Meskipun kedai sementara yang pertama itu diadakan secara privet, Fluff Bakery menyatakan tiga lagi kedai seumpamanya akan didedahkan kepada orang ramai pada masa yang terdekat.

    “Insyaallah, menjelang bulan Mei nanti kami akan menubuhkan kedai yang tetap di Kuala Lumpur,” kongsi Nursyazanna Syaira Md Suhimi, 29 tahun, pemilik bersama dan ketua pembuat kek Fluff Bakery.

    Pasangan suami isteri itu turut berkongsi kepada BERITAMediacorp bahawa impian untuk menembusi pasaran Kuala Lumpur atau Indonesia sudah lama terpendam sejak mereka bermula menapak di dunia perniagaan pada bulan November 2013.

    “Memang sudah lama kami impikan menembusi pasaran lain dan pada masa yang sama, menyasarkan menjadi antara yang utama di Asia Tenggara,” tambah Encik Ashraf kepada BERITAMediacorp.

    ISTERI JOVIAN MANDAGIE TAWAR BANTUAN

    Fluff Bakery menyatakan terdapat ramai pelanggan mereka di Singapura, juga datang dari negara jiran. Pelanggan-pelanggan itu juga memberi maklum balas yang positif terhadap kek cawan mereka.

    Namun penantian hendak menebarkan sayap ke Malaysia hanya berlaku apabila seorang lagi pasangan suami isteri yang juga pemilik kafe, Double A dari Malaysia, mempelawa Fluff Bakery untuk meneroka peluang di Malaysia.

    Kalau sudah rezeki, takkan ke mana. Mungkin itulah pepatah yang sesuai diberikan Fluff Bakery. Ini kerana sejurus selepas idea Double A itu, seorang lagi usahawan Cik Nina Ismail Sabri yang juga isteri kepada pereka fesyen terkenal Jovian Mandagie melahirkan hasrat yang sama kepada kedua-dua Encik Ashraf dan Cik Syaira.

    Menurut kedua-dua pemilik bersama itu, kedai sementara di Malaysia itu dibuat secara privet kerana mahu mendapatkan maklum balas terhadap produk-produk Fluff Bakery.

    Antara mereka yang hadir semasa pelancaran itu adalah pelakon Alvin Chong, usahawan fesyen, Vivy Yusof, dan penulis-penulis blog di Malaysia.

    KEDAI DI KL AKAN BERBEZA DARIPADA DI S’PURA

    Walaupun bimbang andainya langkah itu terhenti separuh jalan, Fluff Bakery berkongsi kepada BERITAMediacorp bahawa masanya sudah tepat bagi mereka berdepan dengan cabaran baru supaya ‘tidak rasa selesa’.

    “Di Singapura, kami sudah stabil. Dan kami berterima kasih kepada masyarakat kita yang sering menyokong perjalanan kami sejauh ini. Tetapi masanya sudah tiba untuk kami berdua ingin melihat berapa jauh ‘bayi kesayangan’ kami boleh pergi,” menurut Syaira dan Ashraf.

    Dengan bantuan daripada rakan-rakan niaga di Malaysia, Fluff Bakery berharap rancangannya dapat berjalan dengan lancar. Apatah lagi, pesaing-pesaing dalam industri makanan di Malaysia memang hebat.

    “Kami seronok dengan perjalanan kami sejauh ini dan tidak sabar untuk fasa seterusnya. Memang banyak cabaran yang akan kami hadapi. Yang utama sekali, kami tidak ada kelebihan dari segi pengikut kedai kami berbanding di Singapura,” ujar Encik Ashraf.

    Kedai tetap yang bakal diadakan nanti di Kuala Lumpur juga berbeza daripada kedainya di Singapura. Di Kuala Lumpur, Fluff Bakery akan mengetengahkan kedai di mana para pelanggan dapat membeli dan menjamu selera di kedai itu sendiri.

    “Isteri saya dan kakitangan kami akan menjalankan latihan untuk bakal pekerja kami di sana dan kami membuat kajian dan mendapatkan nasihat daripada rakan-rakan di sana mengenai selok-belok menjalankan perniagaan di Malaysia,” tambah Encik Ashraf kepada BERITAMediacorp.

    APA RAHSIA SEBENAR FLUFF BAKERY?

    Daripada sekadar mengambil tempahan, kepada ‘bersinggah di kedai orang’. Kemudian memiliki kedai sendiri dan akhirnya impian hampir menjadi kenyataan untuk membuka sebuah kedai tetap di Kuala Lumpur. Apakah sebenarnya rahsia Fluff Bakery?

    Encik Ashraf tersenyum dan mendedahkan bahawa resepi atau senjata rahsia Fluff Bakery adalah… isterinya, Cik Syaira.

    (Gambar-gambar: Instagram/Fluff Bakery/Nursyazanna Syaira)

    “Beliau bukan saja berbakat tetapi juga mempunyai minat yang mendalam apabila timbul perihal membuat kek ini. Beliau tidak penat menukar dan mencari resepi dan kepelbagaian bagi produk-produk kami demi para pelanggan,” kata Encik Ashraf.

    Cik Syaira pula berkongsi kepada BERITAMediacorp bahawa menjaga dan mempertahankan jenama Fluff Bakery itu juga antara perkara yang membuat Fluff Bakery berjaya.

    “Sudah tentu suami saya banyak tolong dalam isu pentadbiran. Kalau harapkan saya, dah pengsan jadinya!” seloroh Cik Syaira.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Leon Perera: One-Party System Cannot Last Forever

    Leon Perera: One-Party System Cannot Last Forever

    In the coming century, I hope that my children and grand-children grow old and raise my great-grandchildren in Singapore long after I’m gone. But I fear that the government in our one party dominant system may fail one day. I fear that there will be no able, responsible and electable Opposition to take its place if that happens.

    A one party system makes it very hard for such an alternative party to exist. A one party system makes it likely that the ruling party – facing no viable competitors – will eventually lose its way. A one party system makes it likely that the ruling party will get away with changing the Constitution and changing Singapore to something other than a democracy, to keep itself in power forever. So that the system becomes practically uncontestable. What would stop them?

    Minister Ong’s recent comments are consistent with DPM Teo’s confirmation in Parliament on 9 November 2016 that the ruling party hopes to win 100% of all fully elected seats at the next GE.

    But can one party solve all of Singapore’s problems today and tomorrow? Can one party generate all the good ideas Singapore needs to keep going? Has any one party state on earth thrived for 100 years or more as a developed country?

    If a one party system cannot last forever, will there be another good party around when Singapore’s time for change comes, as it inevitably will? Or will a new, extremist party fill the political vacuum when a crisis hits and steer Singapore into the abyss?

    We can ignore these inconvenient truths and keep kicking the can down the road. Because it’s always easier to go with the flow.

    But I hope we won’t.

    The onus is on all of us who share such ideals to convince our fellow Singaporeans of these truths and inspire them to act. So that your great-grandchildren and mine will still proudly pledge themselves “to build a democratic society based on justice and equality”…and remember us for having done our part.

     

    Source: Leon Perera

  • Artmani Italia Closed Down Without Warning, Customers Furious

    Artmani Italia Closed Down Without Warning, Customers Furious

    Ms Teo, an associate director of a recruitment agency, was hoping that a two-seater leather sofa she bought would be the centrepiece of her new home, after she moves in soon after Chinese New Year.

    But she is now missing a sofa, and is $3,000 poorer. She had paid furniture company Artmani Italia in two instalments – one last July and the other two weeks ago – and the firm promised to deliver the sofa to her flat in Boon Keng in early February.

    But Artmani Italia is believed to have shut down, leaving Ms Teo and about 50 others in the lurch. These customers, part of a WhatsApp group, are owed around $65,000 worth of furniture, and they have lodged police reports.

    When The Straits Times visited Artmani Italia’s premises in an industrial building off Hougang yesterday, the firm’s showroom doors were locked.

    At another two units listed under the firm’s name, letters from the landlord were pasted on the front doors, stating that no one was allowed access to the units with effect from Jan 18, unless authorised to do so.

    Others who work in the building saw movers loading furniture from the showroom onto a lorry.

     

    Attempts to reach the company were unsuccessful.

     

    One possible avenue for redress for the likes of Ms Teo is to file a claim with the Small Claims Tribunals. For now, she has bought another sofa from another company, with delivery expected in March.

    She still finds it hard to believe that she and her husband could have lost money like this.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • 3 Things SAF Can Do With The Returned Terrexes

    3 Things SAF Can Do With The Returned Terrexes

    Finally, the PRC government is returning our Terrexes to us. They had so much time with the Terrexes that they probably copied every inch of it and are already manufacturing battalion-sized Terrexes somewhere in China now.

    So what do we do with the Terrexes? Here are our suggestions:

    1. Deploy the Terrexes to ferry people in times of another inevitable MRT disruption. More specifically, they could ferry the very old and very young to their next destinations. Have you seen the crunch that people get themselves into when trying to get on the bridging bus services? With the Terrexes, no one will dare get in their way.Disruption 1Disruption 2
    2. Set them up to provide joy-rides at the Istana, at every public holiday open house. The Istana is sprawling. The children will love the adventure.Open House
    3. Display them in the Army Museum. The best way to learn and progress is to learn from mistakes made in history.Army Museum

     

    Any better ideas?

     

    Rilek1Corner

     

  • Former Certis Cisco Convicted For Playing Russian Roulette With Service Revolver

    Former Certis Cisco Convicted For Playing Russian Roulette With Service Revolver

    A former auxiliary police officer from Certis Cisco who fired his revolver in a game akin to Russian roulette was convicted on Tuesday (Jan 24) of committing a rash act endangering human life.

    Gregory Lai Kar Jun, 23, was on duty at Tuas Checkpoint on Aug 13, 2015, when he emptied the revolver of five bullets and placed them on a table. He loaded the weapon with one bullet, pointed the revolver towards the ground and squeezed the trigger.

    When nothing happened, he squeezed the trigger again. This time, the weapon fired. Lai had fired the weapon in a confined space – a small room measuring about 2.7m by 1.7m with his colleague standing about 1m away.

    Lai and his colleague Muhammad Dzul Adhar, then corporals with security firm Certis Cisco, found the spent round and hid it inside a traffic wand. To cover up his tracks, Lai went to a restroom at the checkpoint and threw a second bullet into a toilet bowl.

    The next day, he reported the loss of two bullets to the Tuas Checkpoint operations room.

    In the meantime, Dzul agreed to help Lai dispose of the spent round. He transferred the bullet from the traffic wand to a cigarette box, before throwing the round into Bedok Reservoir in the early hours of Aug 14, 2015.

    Dzul was last year jailed for three weeks and fined S$2,000 for intentionally obstructing the course of justice and for failing to give information to the police about Lai’s crime.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

     

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