Evening Edition

Tonight we had a man who’s on a mission of documenting every little nook & cranny of what makes Malaysia and it’s people special: the culture. His name is Mahen Bala, an award winning documentary photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur who has a strong liking for kopitiams.

Mahen places a priority towards showcasing the lesser seen parts of the Malaysian identity, heritage, history and culture. His lengthy list of films covers the untold cornerstones of our people, ranging from the stories from the fishermen of the east coast, the migrants who seek Malaysia as a new paradise of life and traditions which are detrimental to some here.

Mahen popped on the Malaysian film radar with his eight-minute short film Plan B, a story of how Mahen’s shoot at the sea failed due to his crew falling ill. He was shortlisted as a finalist for the 2010 BMW Shorties. He met a John W. J. Cho at the awards and soon formed a filming friendship. By 2012, Mahen and John released the short film The Apprentice. A story about an old man running a 60 year-old photo shop in the middle of KL. The film went on to be the official selection for a few international film festivals.

Soon after, Mahen was hired by Astro to create a 14 short film series titled My Hometown. Each episode takes place in one of the 14 states, highlighting tourist spots, cultural heritage sites and local delicacies. Mahen went on to create a short film documentary about KL’s dying breed of old-school kopitiams titled kopitiam. The film went on to be a winner at WAN-IFRA Asian Awards 2014 for Best Online Video.

Recently he worked with TimeOut KL for the app relaunch and for a short film where he documented one of Malaysia’s dying breed of film projectionists. Lastly, Mahen is the director of photography for John Cho’s upcoming short film Salvaj which guest stars our previous guest Dawn Cheong.

For the record, Mahen scored 18!

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Over the next few weeks of this special series on migrant labour, we will be exploring the topic from the perspective of policy and economics; taking you through the forgotten history of a landmark court case, and delving into the specific challenges faced by domestic workers. This week we talk to Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, Dr. Evelyn S. Devadason, who lends an economics-based perspective on the arguments for or against cheap migrant labour.

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Monopoly - it ruins families, it tears friendships apart. It is played by everyone from Jerry Hall and Mick ­Jagger to Carmela and Tony Soprano. In 1959 Fidel Castro ordered the destruction of every Monopoly set in Cuba. And everything you know about the game is wrong. Umapagan Ampikaipakan speaks to author and journalist Mary Pilon about the strange and - at times tragic - story of the evolution of the world’s favourite board game.

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Ross Yusof & guests Craig Morraies, Kam Raslan & Gogulan Dorairajoo relive the weekend's big BPL games including Tottenham 4 Man City 1 which consisted of 3 offside goals, Arsenal's demolition of title pretenders, Leicester City, an Anthony Martial inspired Man United hitting top spot via a 3-0 win over Sunderland, Liverpool welcoming back Daniel Sturridge. Also, West Brom v Everton, Winners & Losers, UEFA Champions League previews.

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Tonight we had a man whose distaste for tauge and comical rants in the mamak has lead him to a colourful life of writing, poetry slams, theater work and of course, stand-up comedy. He’s name is Aiman Azri and has a thing or two when it comes to witty remarks about life’s conundrums.

Aiman Azri is a 28 year old writer by day and a comedian by night (or bi-nightly, depending on the situation). He is the head editor for GenYes.my. An initiative kickstarted by YES4G to create an online hub for university students everywhere to catch up on the latest trends, campus news, events and student insights.

For Aiman, comedy has something he’s been subconsciously been doing since forever. He used to spend countless nights at the mamak, putting hilarious complaints and snarky comments about life and current affairs (usually it’s his relationship life). One day, his friends got him into an open mic slot. Aiman took the chance and realised that he could do a good job at it.

Aiman is a person who prefers to write his materials down and not spewing it out on the spot. He notes that his jokes though, are based on some form of tragedy and failure, Aiman keeps his head high as he wants to laugh at it along with his audience. Being an open mic regular for the comedy circuit in KL, Aiman will be performing for PJLA’s One Mic Stand later tomorrow night (29th September, 9pm) and at TimeOut KL’s Comedy Thursday (1st October, 8:30pm).

For the record, Aiman scored 14!

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Emmy award winning structured reality show 'Shark Tank' is an emotional roller coaster for candidates hoping to convince 5 sharks (read: tough, self-made multi millionaires) to invest in them. We caught up with Kevin O'Leary, one of the toughest sharks on the show.

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Ross Yusof & guests Bob Holmes, Ray Jennings, Ashley Westwood & Matty Holland lookback at the midweek Capital One Cup third round which saw Steve McClaren's Newcastle get knocked out by Sheffield Wednesday, Liverpool needing a penalty shootout to get past Carlisle Unitrd whilst Arsenal claimed the bragging rights as they won the North London derby thanks to Matthieu Flamini's brace. Of course, there's a full weekend preview for the BPL as well at Treament Table & 4 Big Shouts!

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Tonight we had the six-man band, Son Of A Policeman with us! Unfortunately we could only cram in two of them in the live studio. What could had been a hectic Smartypants trailblazer turned into a mini-listening party complete with milo and crackers in our pantry.

On to serious business, Son Of A Policeman or SOAP for short, is a local Subang-based band with and arrangement headache of six members! SOAP’s members all came from different backgrounds of music, that just comes together as the stage lights are on and the crowd beckons for them. A mixture of RnB, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk and tons more accumulate into a genre which they themselves call, ‘indie rojak’.

Main man of SOAP is Joshua Ganesan. He started it all in 2012 after leaving the folk & jazz outfit, Black Ties & Misais in 2011. By 2013, bandmates Axl Grey, Sean Michael and Zijunn Tan joined in. With Sean and Zijunn being multi-instrumentalists; this gave the band a whole new dynamic during sets, Sean and Zijunn would change slots, giving a different style of performance every time. The two final pieces were filled by Jonathan Chin and Jee Yann Choong, drummer and keyboardist of the band.

In 2014, the band entered Tune Studios’ Battle & Win contest. SOAP emerged up top to win an album deal with the studio and is currently finishing up their debut EP, Sleepless In Subang.

For the record, Joshua, Jee and Zijunn from SOAP scored 19!

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Why reinvent the wheel when it comes to dating? The animal kingdom is chock full of tricks on how to attract a mate, and we figured in the competitive world of dating - maybe there’s a thing or two we could learn from it. In this episode we talk to evolutionary psychologist Dr Ian Stephen from Macquarie University in Sydney Australia, and Dr Cedric Tan who has studied the sexual dynamics of various animals at Oxford University. They will be helping us find out how some of these strategies - as weird as they are - might help us understand a little more about what motivates us when choosing from the human dating pool, and in the process, we also hope to pick up some tips on how to game the system.

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Tonight we had a man who’s single vision of creating a youth-centric portal has led him to creating a creative agency, a popular online TV show and even SE Asia’s biggest crowdfunded event; he’s none other than the leader of the IkanPaos Kolektif, it’s Ahmad Faris!

Ahmad Faris’ story all started with a Diploma in Broadcasting before he ventured off into Astro Awani and ending up as a newsreader for the channel. After realising television programmes cater to all age groups with the exception of youths, Faris stopped his news reading job as he wants to write it for himself.

The IkanPaos Kolektif was actually setup in Faris’ bedroom as an idea of a one-stop avenue for a self-funded, highly collaborative one with working on projects with other companies and businesses. With the ball rolling, Faris and his business partner Ahmad Hafizzuden, created TAPAU.tv as they wanted to fill the void where television did not serve nor represent the youth culture of Malaysia.

Faris, wanting to increase TAPAU.tv’s traffic flow devised a bold new plan in 2014. He and the IkanPaos Kolektif coupled with the power of crowdfunding, managed to launch TAPAUfest. It was South East Asia’s first and biggest crowdfunded festival ever. The goal was set for RM85,000 in 30 days. The team managed to pass the goal at a cool RM87,705 at the end of the month.

TAPAU.fest was a success with a combination of local talents from Chinese opera, clothing, food, films, furniture, music, talks and games. Even the multi-award winning film Terbaik Dari Langit was premiered at the fest before it’s official screening!

For the record, Faris scored 16!

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