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Welcome to my homepage! If you share a keen interest in photography, travel, adventure and living life, I hope through this website and blog, I can share my life journeys with you. Being a keen outdoor adventurer, I love photography, the great outdoor, classic cars, mountain biking, camping, trekking and offroad expeditions. JOHN KONG
What is Car Culture?
Car culture celebrates cars. Car culture is about the unique ways in which the car has transformed our daily lives and the environment through the usage of cars around the world we live in. It is the feeling you get when you wake up early in the morning eager to get out of the house to drive. It is a lifestyle built around using cars.It can be in the form of art, collection, social status, iconic, sport, performance and more. This can be seen in the growth of car culture meets and car shows around the world.
Modern Classics Car Culture
Although emission control has come into play for a more sustainable future, modern cars are designed by computers which are more efficient, lower emission and electrically powered. More safety features and more computer assisted functions were added requiring less human input, fake exhaust sound and eventually autonomous driving. Modern cars however have become very similar in shape and design.
Does this mean that old cars will eventually be scrapped and forever be forgotten as efficiency and sustainability takes over? Exactly the opposite is happening. Now it’s just so much cooler and has so much more depth, value, meaning to have an ’80s or a ’90s car. People get nostalgic, and you’re ten times cooler because it isn’t brand-new. These were the last generation of cars designed using primarily pencil and clay, handcrafted out of rectangles and wedges. These are automotive works of art. A new generation of auto freaks has revived these vintage beauties. Modern classic cars are increasingly desira ble and prices are skyrocketing.
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“A staggering 36.9% of students start on the e-cigarettes between the ages of 14 and 15”
In vaping, a battery powered device called an e-cigarette (ECV) heats a liquid into vapour that can be inhaled. The vapour may contain addictive substance such as nicotine, flavourings, plus other chemicals. What originated as a smoking cessation aid has quickly became a popular and addictive product in its own right.
A GROWING TREND
According to the Tobacco and E-cigarette Survey among Malaysian Adolescents 2016 (Tecma), a staggering 36.9% (compared to 3% 4 years ago) of students start on the e-cigarettes between the ages of 14 and 15, and now, we’re seeing a spike in teenage use.
Easily passed-off as a thumb drive or pen, the eye-catching devices look like the latest fashion accessories. Although vaping companies emphatically deny that they are marketing to young people, critics note such features in their advertising as youthful images and colours, animation, social media influencers, and suggestions that vaping improves your social status.
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A work of Industrial Art, ibis Styles Kota Kinabalu is located in the bustling commercial township of Inanam, features 184 rooms with free high speed WIFI, restaurant, bar, gym, event halls and a Sky deck on the top floor overlooking the lush green landscape.
Located approximately 20 minutes’ drive from Kota Kinabalu city centre and 30 minutes from Kota Kinabalu International Airport, its location and design with impeccable décor makes guests’ experience truly unique.
The concept of ibis Styles Kota Kinabalu Inanam is set amongst unique and industrial chic structures, where it is stylishly designed with the little extras that don’t cost extra. The hotel lobby and guest rooms’ classy casual atmosphere are created through the different shades of full height windows to create liveliness, which is carried throughout the external façade with exposed brick wall, steel mesh at selected locations and lightings where transparency is allowed. The interior design also features reinforced steel bars, exposed bricks and concrete slabs, it brings out the industrial and rustic ambience of Inanam as a commercial and industrial hub.
The dramatic conclusion of Malaysia’s 14th General Elections (GE14) is still fresh on every Malaysian’s mind as the country greeted the much prophesied victory over the then-ruling Barisan National party with euphoric jubilation. Sabah, long held as a sure win ticket for the Barisan National, has finally broken away from its ‘master, and is in the position to chart its own course into the future. Jannie Lasimbang has been a long-time advocate for human rights in Sabah and this change signals a new opportunity for the people of Sabah, especially the indigenous communities and women, to stand up and be heard. Winning her seat in GE14 has given Jannie the opportunity to realize her vision to bring human rights, and fair and equitable treatment to all Sabahans. She talks about the changes she wants to see, and make, in the new government and her aspirations for the younger generation to realize their own future in this new era of change.
In our travel section, we will take a quick trip down memory lane to revisit the early days of the Sabah Tourism Building it celebrates its 100th anniversary before making a beeline for one of the most overlooked destinations in Sabah that has recently started coming into its own as a full-fledged tourist hot spot. Semporna, once a transit point to the popular dive islands on the east coast, now has its streets lined with accommodation and restaurants to cater to the thousands of tourists flocking to this bustling town for its nature and heritage attractions. Also, on the horizon is Long Pasia, an isolated pocket of rainforest in south-west Sabah that is being revived as the next adventure-cultural tourism hot spot in Sabah.
Health is wealth they say so don’t forget to bookmark our health feature on breast cancer to update yourself on this very important issue affecting so many of us today.
It has been a whirlwind of events and activities in the first half of 2018, many of them giving us hope and the resolve to make the rest of the year an even better half. Let us not wait for changes to happen but to actively BE the change we want to see. Enjoy this issue!
First and foremost, we wish to extend our congratulations to Yang Berhormat Jannie Lasimbang and Parti DAP Sabah for her victory in the recently concluded 14th General Elections. Borneo 360 ALIVE had the pleasure to meet YB Jannie Lasimbang, the newly appointed Sabah Assistant Minister for Law and Native Affairs to share her views.
YB Jannie Lasimbang, a well-known grassroots activist, is no stranger to politics and how it is often exploited to control dissent, stifle arguments and sweep dirt under the rug. As a founding member of the Pacos Trust, a group supporting Sabah’s indigenous people, and former Human Rights Commissioner of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner between 2010 and 2013, Jannie has championed the rights and causes of the state’s marginalised indigenous people for more than two decades.
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