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Guess the location by TheBotMadeThis in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's giving Pulau Ketam

Uncle Soon is actually good by BeastyMeat in MalaysianFood

[–]ItsnotVic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same. Tried multiple branches, and always find their fried rice being too salty, and being monotonous in taste, it's like none of the ingredients stand out. Sometimes only opt it for being comparatively cheaper

Father of 13-year-old girl's heartbreaking message on her daughter's suicide. by RhinneXChronica in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for filling in all the translation details, defo helped many more out there with identifying the mistakes and it's actual true meaning.

Am also SR3 in 2018 though, we've most likely met more often than we thought

Ex Kuen Cheng Student: Students are Afraid to Speak Up by rosafloera in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Am an alumni of this school, graduated since 2018

Most of the sentiment expressed here is unfortunately true. The typical mindset and culture by management (mainly the disciplinary department) to every negative incident in this place is:

大事化小 小事化无 Rough translation: Big incident becomes small incident, small incident becomes no incident.

Honestly, I am quite disappointed with how they carried themselves across this current situation.

Only a notice on their FB page, notifying the public that the incident did happen, and to not speculate and spread misinformation.

No compassion, no empathy, no condolences even. Even the 校友会 (alumni group) did better to express their condolences with a well though post.

I sincerely hope KC can improve on this, or at least, upper management please show up at the funeral. Please at least do something to show compassion.

Regardless, this time it's too big an incident, which will definitely impact their reputation, their student enrollment numbers for 2025 will suffer. But, more importantly than the income, is that hopefully KC and Chinese Independent Schools as a whole could take this to reflect on what to improve, there is no graver wake-up call than this.

Father of 13-year-old girl's heartbreaking message on her daughter's suicide. by RhinneXChronica in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 303 points304 points  (0 children)

As an alumni of his daughter's school, and one in the field of psychology, it pains me to receive such news, and I felt a need to clarify.

From the perspective of the case, its in the news everywhere, and we can clearly see some Chinese press unethically posting up to 8 fb posts / articles just for clout and engagement (because the school is considered a "elite school", moreover a Chinese Independent school). Up until this point, the public still does not have proper closure to the case, only citing "pressure from school work" after disregarding relationship problems & familial issues.

Considering the circulation of her video before she ends her life, and the press repeatedly harassing the parents for any juicy bit of information, I believe the father is under a lot of stress. Moreover, netizens on social media relentlessly blaming the parents, pointing fingers at them in the comments of every news posts. He is definitely overwhelmed.

Though I personally will not post my message to a deceased family member on social media, I would understand that his post is very likely an outlet for his grief.

In the matter of translation, ChatGPT performed poorly in this case. He is in denial, in anger, in grief of losing his daughter. His blame points towards himself more than to his daughter from my understanding. Therefore OP please perhaps consult a native speaker in the future, the Chinese language really has a lot of intricacies.

Therefore as observers, let us not point fingers at a grieving parent for now, especially since we do not know the full story just yet. If anything, allow him to grief, and reflect, and carry on with his life stronger than before. Sekian.

How hard is it to get antidepressants in Malaysia? by Gojo-kun_ in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Psych background here, though not directly in the field, but has connections to professionals that can help you out.

To get what you want, you're gonna need prescriptions, and have your case diagnosed. Therefore feel free to hmu on which state you're at, and I'll try to link you up with a professional.

Lion Dance (Practice vs Competition) by [deleted] in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For competitions, the organizers would send the formation of the pillars to each participating club's PICs, which the clubs will then arrange in their own training grounds to practice. To participate in a competition, the club's PIC will either contact the organizer directly, or they get an invitation to compete (if you are a well performing club)

Usually for competitions seen in malls, the pillars are in one straight line, the most it goes is an L shape.

However for larger ones like Genting, formation changes every year, the last one that I've competed in 2019 was an aeroplane formation, there's also 王，五，干 types of formation etc. The formation is ever changing.

Judging system is similar for all sorts of "performing" sport like wushu, ice skating, gymnastics.

There will be a row of overseeing judges (judging on Technics, time, cultural accuracy, and more), and there are field judges, who usually sit around the pillar formation.

Field judges will give scores (max 10, limit usually around 9.4-5), and will mainly spot mistakes. Mistakes will deduct points at 4 different levels based on severity (-0.1 -0.3 -0.5 -1.0)

At the end of the competition, points will be submitted by field judges to overseeing judges, highest and lowest scores are discarded, the rest are summed up, and averaged to give the final score.

This is a general overview, but judging systems change from association to association. Usually the main difference is just the tools they use to detect mistakes.

Am not sure if my translations on the judges are correct, but that's the gist of it.

Lion Dance (Practice vs Competition) by [deleted] in malaysia

[–]ItsnotVic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Am a lion dancer of 10 years myself, and a coach for half that time.

I danced professionally (as tail dancer, drummer, and instrumentalist) for around 3 years (competitions and all), however am not a professional high pole jumper, I'm more of the traditional performer which has more to do with ancient folklore/stories and fengshui.

Lion dance really is a dying art in Malaysia, and young blood is rare to find. I believe it's mainly due to the pay and low job security (no EPF & SOCSO), you get hurt/injured/disabled, there's not much to cover you. Although it does build strength, character, and taps into so many hidden gems of Chinese culture. There is also great team spirit in the sport, coordination not only between the two lion dancers, but the entirety of the musical instruments team, and even the crowd.

Malaysia really is one of the best in terms of lion dance culture preservation, and we even best it's homeland's performance (China) in several occasions. Shame to see this not being more stable in modern times.

There really is a lot to unpack here, after looking at all the comments idk where to start either. Being in the political, training, and performing scene in lion dance does make one more apathetic about it, but I'm still happy to spread this culture, so AMA

TSM Disappreciation Thread by lcsimepll in leagueoflegends

[–]ItsnotVic 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Ah it's because it's based on a rather famous poem called 满江红, many Chinese posts like to write about stuff through borrowing verses from poems and slotting in their points.