Evening Edition

Amateur quantum physicist Fabien Bouhier has made it his mission to take the fear and anxiety out of science education. Through his website and blog, www.fabienbouhier.com, he endeavours to explain the nature of the universe in a way that anyone can understand. (Advance degrees in astrophysics aren’t required!) Umapagan Ampikaipakan speaks to Fabien Bouhier about his brand new book, Down the Quantum Hole, about how we make science accessible, about how we take some of the most complex - and philosophical - theories in physics and make them relatable. 

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Tonight we’ve had the ever so lovely in our studios, Carmen Soo! A resume so long, so vast, where do we even start? Modeling left-right-centre of Asia, performances in both the little and big screen, also a bit of singing thrown in, Carmen is woman whose talents run as far as it needs and then some!

Carmen’s story started at the age of 17, where a win in a local modeling competition opened doors and bridges for her to enter the Malaysian modeling circuit. With three years of modeling under her belt, new avenues arrives as Carmen heads for Hong Kong to kick her career into a higher gear.

After a few years, Carmen is now gracing magazine covers all over of Hong Kong and turned into Longines’ ambassador for the things she’d done. She was bit by the acting bug thanks to a small role she landed for Jackie Chan’s 1999 film, Gorgeous. She took a two month long acting workshop and honed her skills. It payed off when in 2006, starring with Nicholas Teo and Amber Chia in the film The 3rd Generation. She won The Most Promising Actress Awards from Malaysian Film Festival 2006.

2008 saw her rise in the Philippines entertainment scene with her lead role of Margaret in the hit television series, Kahit Isang Saglit. The show rallied to be nominated for Telenovelas at The 37th International Emmy Awards. Currently, Carmen is still travelling all over for magazines covers, fashion shoots, ambassador work. She is casted as a teacher for the popular local television series, Oh My English!

For the record, Carmen scored 12!

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Here’s a little fact you may have missed. In 1978, our planet was under threat from an alien race called the Scrubb. Their demands were simple. That Earth's greatest champion battle their world's own greatest fighter. If Earth refuses, the Scrubb and their huge armada of spaceships will destroy the planet. But who is Earth’s greatest champion? Who will step up? Who will face the Scrubb and save our planet? What took place on that that steamy August night was a battle of celestial proportions. What went down was truly the fight of the century. 

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We speak to AIESEC, an international non-governmental not-for-profit organization that provides young people with leadership development, about their latest survey how Malaysians feel about higher education in their own country. They also give us the low-down on their recent Youth Speak forum, held at Nottingham University Malaysia Campus.

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Fighting off the heavy case of Monday Blues, TTON had yet again another comedian up in the studios with us. The funnyman’s name is Phoon Chi Ho, a comedian, full-time husband and an apt chef wannabe judging from his Instagram photos!

As most passions of life, it started in school. Whilst studying at Sultan Abdul Samad as a teen, he was inspired by the arts and joined in the drama club under the care of Instant Cafe Theatre’s Sukania Venugopal. As an actor, Phoon has been featured in a few films, shorts and series. Phoon played as Ryan in the local film The Joshua Tapes in 2010 and won KLPAC’s Short + Sweet 2010 for Best Actor in Post-modern-isms.

As he still proclaims his love will always be for acting, Phoon comedic prowess and wit is as sharp as his acting, lost his comedy virginity with a comedy slapstick troupe which he created in 2004 called The ComeBackKings. As he continued back to being a scriptwriter for gua.com.my, friends ushered him to write material for himself. With a few successful first shows on his belt, comedy standup is now his new art.

2015 saw Phoon reprising the role of Soon for Shear Madness 3 for the third time in two years. We seen him on the musical stage again with him starred in Baik Punya Cilok the musical and with wit on his side, he has penned three episodes for the local favourite series, Oh My English!

For the record, Phoon scored 17!

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The issue of the stateless Rohingya in Myanmar has been on-going for decades now with very little understanding or a solution in sight. We speak to Documentary filmmaker, Mahi Ramakrishnan who decided a couple of years ago to travel to Arakan in Myanmar where the Rohingya community are placed in Internally Displaced Persons camp, to find out more about their struggles.

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Tonight, we have a local band who brings listeners for audible journeys via the magic of post-rock, The Metaphor! A band consisting of six members, Tomas (band leader, guitar), Ling (keyboards), Kelvin (bass), Sze Yee (guitar) and Izzy on the drums.

In the studio today we only have Tomas, as he is representing the band on the show tonight! Metaphor was formed in 2010 with Tomas having talks with Ling about creating an instrumental rock band. Kelvin and Sze Yee came in via contacts while Izzy only came along only later when the original drummer left after finishing their first EP Preface in 2011.

With influences from Sigur Ros and Explosions In The Sky, Metaphor tries itself on an emphasis of story based tunes. Tomas would (usually, not always) create a basic structure for the song while his band members would arrange their musical pieces to complete the song.

The band has released a self-titled album in 2014 with eight tracks that provoke thought and curiosity. In early of 2014 in preparation for the album, the band had toured China in March 2014, an adventure where Izzy mispronounces Chinese phrases, Sze Yee hitting Kelvin on the head and Tomas being teased for using the mic.

For the record, Tomas on behalf of The Metaphor scored 6.5!

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It was reported that there has been a sharp increase in Malaysians getting bankrupt, and most of them are under 35. What are the reasons behind this troubling issue and what solutions are out there to stop it from happening?

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Tonight in our studio, a voice who would usually be on another radio station than ours and a face that’ll be frequently on YouTube’s feature page, Jin Lim or also known as, JinnyBoy!

One of the only YouTube channels in Asia who managed to break through the half a million subscribers mark (at an exact 538,090 as of today) and a whopping 68 million total views. Jin is one half of the JinnyBoyTV duo with Reuben Kang holding up on the visual direction side of things.

The channel has a focus on short films and funny skits, with videos like My Generasi being a favourite with the fans. Not forgetting, the Unfold series which ended with a shoot in Melbourne, is another favourite too. While the funny skits like KL Style, a parody of Oppa Gangnam Style managed to catch 13 million views on YouTube!

When online presence is not a talking point, Jin’s work in the field of radio has been a long, notable one with eight years working with Hitz.fm. Citing reasons of having a better work to life balance and to focus more time towards his YouTube channel, Jin is moving to places right now.

For the record, Jin scored 8!

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Satire is often what the public turns to when dealing with tragedy and other national issues and there have definitely been many of late. However, even satire as an outlet may be put to an end, with a recent announcement by the MCMC warning the public not to spread any form of speculation or mockery regarding the 1MDB fiasco through social media. Today we asked you- do you think political humour aggravates tensions or is it an outlet for release?

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