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7 JANUARY
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Young and passionate: (From left) Activist Michelle Gunaselan, fashion designer Michelle Hee, actress Farah Rani, dodgeball player
Sean Sing and entrepreneur Nicholas Yeap. SAM THAM / The Star
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Sean Sing, 17
Dodgeball player
HAVING no knowledge of the game did not stop Sean Sing from throwing himself headlong into the sport. In fact, all he knew about dodgeball
was from the movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story starring Ben Stiller
and Vince Vaughn.
So, when the Mad About Dodgeball (MAD) Association introduced the
game to Taylors University College in Petaling Jaya, Sean embraced it
wholeheartedly.
I had never heard about it before except from the movie. But when
MAD came to my college, I wanted to get involved since it was a new
sport and they were so enthusiastic about promoting it, Sean, 17,
explains.
This enthusiasm rubbed off on Sean so much so that he even formed
a team called the Taylors Hyenas in college. He currently captains the
team, which won the first ever inter-college dodgeball tournament held
recently.
Sean is quick to credit MAD with raising the profile of the sport, but it
is individuals like him (and other players of the game in Malaysia) who
have taken the sport beyond just a game played by a group of friends.
In fact, so in love is Sean with dodgeball that he is already planning
for bigger things this year.
We are hoping to have more than just one team, something like a
first team and second team, so we can be more competitive, Sean
explains.
We want to hold our own competition in college to find better players and organise friendly tournaments with other colleges.
Michelle Hee, 21
Fashion designer
MICHELLE Hees success story is evidence of what a little support and perseverance can do for
you.
In Michelles case, she ended the year with two Malaysia International Fashion Award (MIFA)
awards MIFA Most Promising Designer and MIFA Best Avant Garde Designer.
Not bad for someone who only completed her fashion design course at Centre for Advanced
Design (Cenfad) in May 2008.
Michelles journey to being an award-winner was not without obstacles. It had always been
her dream to participate in MIFA but she was unable to juggle the commitment with her studies.
In 2008, even though she was done with her studies, Michelle had to scramble to submit her
entries as she only found out about the competition too close to the deadline.
(My application) was very last minute. My lecturer told me about it and I had to go find the
forms and fill them up, says the 21-year-old Johor Baru native.
I only had two weeks to create 10
designs!
Still, the rush job got her in among the
eight designers who were short-listed for
the competition, and she had three months
to translate her sketches into fashion pieces.
There were more troubles ahead; financial difficulties, and failure to obtain the
materials she had intended for the dresses
drove her to tears. She was close to giving
up.
Then she remembered the words of
encouragement someone once gave her:
Now that youre no longer a student, dont
make a fool of yourself.
With that thought in mind, she pushed on,
created her winning masterpieces titled
Tyranny of Beauty and is now ready to take
2009 by storm.
Up first is a solo fashion show tomorrow in
Kuala Lumpur. She also has dreams of opening
a boutique, where she plans to retail her
ready-to-wear collection of clothes under her
Chella brand.
Clothes: TopShop
Hair: Jessy Lee
Make-up: Mei Ling
(XpressionMaster Make-Up
Academy)
Farah Rani, 21
Actress
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Nicholas Yeap, 28
Entrepreneur
As a life coach, Nicholas Yeaps dream is to reach out to at least 100,000 undergraduates to help them decide what they want to do with their life.
I have always wanted to help people, like undergraduates, who are lost and
dont know what they want to do in life, he says.
He chose to reach out to college and universities students through Zeros to
Heros, a board game on entrepreneurship which he brought in from Singapore.
I am the Malaysian rights holder for this game. I decided to bring it in because
it is in line with what I want to do as a life coach, says Nicholas, who became a
certified life coach in 2008.
Using the game, Nicholas has visited several tertiary institutions to talk to the
students about entrepreneurship. Now, he says, he has earned the monicker The
Zeros to Heros Guy.
Nicholas intention is to help young people discover their potential, and show
them that they are able to be successful. Instead of opting for part-time work, he
urges youths to be more
creative and develop entrepreneurship ideas to get
income. Along the way, he
hopes that this will help
them discover what they
want to do in the future.
In 2009, I want to focus
on covering more universities so that more people can
benefit from my workshops
and coaching, he shares.
Michelle Gunaselan, 24
Activist
THE last general elections was the first in which Michelle Gunaselan was eligible to vote.
It was my first election so I was feeling rather passionate about it but we (together
with her friend Sarah Chan) realised that we didnt know much about how the voting
process works beyond going to check if our name was on the ballot.
Michelle started asking herself: What does a ballot look like? and What is a saluran
(voting stream)?
Her inability to answer these questions led her and Sarah to create the Facebook group
VotED, which aims to deliver information regarding your different political choices and
parties in an un-biased, un-boring fashion.
In the few weeks leading up to the elections, the group garnered about 1,000
members. VotED also allowed Michelle to make connections with young Malaysians
living abroad, and helped them get information on how they could participate in the
voting process.
We received a lot of complaints about absentee ballots. The Electoral Commission
said you can vote from abroad, but the embassies were not informed, Michelle, who is
currently the editor of online journal Project Malaysia, shares.
So, our biggest achievement was when one of our members in Melbourne, Australia,
got 50 young Malaysians to send in absentee votes.
Michelles nonpartisan initiative came at a time when young Malaysians found themselves having to defend against allegations of apathy.
The impact young people, and new
technologies like Facebook, for example, had on the general elections last
year is well-documented.
Encouraged by the response VotED
received, Michelle is already looking
into strategies and funding to prepare
for the 13th General Elections, and
hopes to create a platform similar to
the United States Rock the Vote, an
initiative which engages youths in
the voting process using entertainment and youth culture.
Prop: Laptop
Im a writer, photographer and
editor so Im always on my laptop.
It doesnt leave me, Im always
with it. Also, it is because all my
work is online like Project
Malaysia or through Facebook
with VotED. Michelle
Gunaselan