Evening Edition

1989 by Taylor Swift is this shining, pitch perfect modern pop masterpiece. So what would it sound like if it were remade by Ryan Adams? This week, on (Untitled), Ezra and Uma listen to just what happens when you strip away the poppy synths and the high-gloss studio sheen, and replace it with some sensitive acoustic-guitar-slinging white guy sensibilities.

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Science meets the big screen this week, with our host Umapagan Ampikaipagan bringing astrophysicist Kip Thorne onto the show to talk about about his life, his work, and the role he played in helping create the most accurate simulation ever of what a black hole would look in box office hit Interstellar. Thorne’s math guided the visual effects, which took 30 people and thousands of computers to get right. Catch that conversation on tonight’s episode of Eureka!

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Tonight, we had a man who’s drawing prowess brought him all over, whether it be animating, illustrating or graphically recording a man’s speech in Chiang Mai, he’s none other than the talented, Arif Rafhan!

Officially, Arif is an illustrator but his mediums and final products vary as much as the colours on his palette. One minute he’ll be designing an infographic, and the other he’ll be finalising his graphic novels. For a man who draws for a living, he started off in the binary world of technolgy when he studied for a Bachelor’s Degree in IT early in 2000.

He worked as the Creative Director in an e-Learning company for 11 years before finally setting off to be the true artist. Over the course of the transition, Arif dabbled in the world of animation where his clients range from Philips Singapore, Asus Singapore and Maybank to name a few. With a few years down the line Arif started trying out graphic recording.

Graphic Recording is when a speaker is presenting a talk, and a graphic designer at the back would instantly draw out a mind-map to take in the gist of the speech into a more digestible manner. This new medium has brought him all over including recording for PEAK Magazine’s anniversary, a TED Talk in Chiang Mai and also the Leadership Energy Summit Asia 2014 where he drew Steve Wozniak’s speech!

In the world of publishing, Arif has illustrated Zan Azlee’s Adventures of a KL-lite in Afghanistan. He also illustrated Imaginary Friends, a collection of short stories by Melanie Lee and published by MPH. At the end October/November, Arif will be publishing his upcoming semi-autobiographical graphic novel called Pelempang Realiti (Slap of Reality; in English) under Maple Comics. It chronicles Arif’s journey around South East Asian countries.

Arif’s work can be found under his Superdoofus Collective. The one-stop shop for all of his artistic creations.

For the record, Arif 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 about the rise of the labour agency, with special guest Mohammad Harun Al Rashid, regional coordinator for Caram Asia, discussing how agencies further complicate the already difficultly process of accessing justice for beleaguered migrant workers.

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Earlier this year Malaysia was removed from the list of the world's worst offending nations for Human Trafficking. The move has attracted vocal opposition by human rights groups as well as 178 US law-makers who say Malaysia has done little to improve its dismal record. In the studio today we have Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch to weigh in on the issue. 

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Ross Yusof & guests Matt Bellotti, Kam Raslan & Sam Postlethwaite discuss Diego Costa's performance in Chelsea's win over Arsenal. Hero or Villan? How good a job is Slaven Bilic doing at West Ham? They've just ended Man City's winning run! Anthony Martial has hit the ground running at Manchester United and David De Gea is returning to his best. Will Harry Kane score soon? Or is it up to Son again? BPL weekend review, Winners & Losers, Spain, Germany, Capital One Cup.

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Tonight, he’s a man who started off by studying engineering in Monash, started their first comedy show and now is a full fledged comedian with over 150 shows under his belt; he is Malaysia’s only Chindian stand-up comedian, it’s Gajen Nad!

Born in Penang and has been based in KL ever since he started college. In 2009 he started comedy and got traction for his antics at university whilst forming Monash’s first ever comedy show in 2012 front of a full house of 350 people from 10 different countries!

Things really started to go in Gajen’s favour when in 2013, NTV7 made a 30-minute documentary about Gajen and his life as a comedian. Later in the same year, he was called for to perform at TEDxKL alongside with our previous guest, Jinnyboy.

He has shared the stage with international comedians from US, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore such as Paul Ogata, Jonathan Atherton, Vivek Mahbubani and many more. One of his highlights was when he opened for Paul for Comedy Bah at Sabah.

Recently, Gajen hosted the two-day full house show Minority Retort, the stand up show which featured our last two comedy guests, Thenesh and Luwita. Also, he will also be hosting a few shows for Jason Leong’s upcoming college comedy tour Comedians Of The Colleges later in October!

For the record, Gajen scored 14!

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Life in the city gets stressful. Traffic jams, work stresses, family issues… whatever it is that’s getting on your nerves - you might want to stop, pause and be mindful.

A practice with origins in Buddhist meditation, the past few decades have seen a surge of interest in “mindfulness” as a psychological construct, and as a form of clinical intervention.
Dr Ahmed Dahir Mohamed is one of many scientists across the world studying how it can be used to enhance cognitive functions and improve wellbeing. He’s a post-doctoral fellow in Cognitive and affective Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus.

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Ross Yusof & guests Bob Holmes, Ray Jennings & Nicolas Anil lookback at the midweek Champions League which saw Chelsea as the oly English victors on matchday 1. Luke Shaw had his leg broken in Holland, Olivier Giroud got himself sent off in Croatia and City are yet to win an opening group match. Also, Liverpool held in France and Spurs ease past Qarabag. Weekend BPL previews, amazing Ronaldo, Fantasy Football, Treatment Table and 3 Big Shouts!

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Tonight, we have a local DJ producer who’s gonna be hitting it big opening for Skrillex later this month; he’s the one and only, H3!

When the DJ decks aren’t in his presence, his real name is Harith Hisham Hashim. H3 is known for his heavy almost schizophrenic-like DJ style where he jumps between 3-4 types of genre in one set. Changing up the tempo, pace and how hard the bass would hit for his audience’s euphoria.

H3’s story started off in 2007 where he came in for Mixing In Action’s monthly Saturday full-house parties at Bukit Bintang. He notes how frightening it was to do your first ever DJ set to a packed room but friends were there to give him all the support. Immediately he was hooked and in 2009, he honed into the genre of bass music. He craved an image and sound of dubstep, moombahton and trap for his listeners.

By 2012, H3 launched his first single, Feel It and it climbed to the #1 spot on Hitz.fm’s Malaysian English Top 10 chart. Soon, arguably his best remix track to date, Why Can’t You (Say So) was widely featured on internet publications and has spawned its own music video, aired on MTV.

He will be opening for Skrillex at KL Live on the 23rd September. H3 also did a pre-launch for his upcoming album STVRGATE (pronounced Stargate). The album will be officially launched this November. H3 gave us an exclusive listen to his second single titled Syren.

For the record, H3 scored 22!

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