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<p>You might have seen this in gas station or pyramid. And if you see it at night you might frightened by it. It look too real and if you hit him you might thought you have hit a real person. These dummy has been quite popular around here and somehow I think, it might better if he is some kind of animal, a tiger, penguin cute character, cos human is way too scary.</p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-16215170.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Say no to shark fun soup please!</title><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:19:46 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/5/8/say-no-to-shark-fun-soup-please.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:16172812</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><img class="iphone-image" src="http://dennisyap.com/resource/iphone-20120508191946-1.jpg?fileId=18085981"/></p><p>I went in to a Chinese restaurant in KKCC last week and saw this page here and my heart just dropped. Imagine the number of sharks that will be sacrifice here. Sigh.</p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-16172812.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>An SMS from Teh and Jisan</title><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:15:19 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/5/8/an-sms-from-teh-and-jisan.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:16172789</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><img class="iphone-image" src="http://dennisyap.com/resource/iphone-20120508191519-1.jpg?fileId=18085965"/></p><p>Thank you Teh and Jisan for your touching words. Even though I do not have time to cover all your wedding events, but deep in my heart I wish both of you have a great journey ahead. You have a friend now which is me. </p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-16172789.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Why do we need to Fear?</title><category>Life</category><category>Love</category><category>Photography</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 06:03:12 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/5/8/why-do-we-need-to-fear.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:16170889</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://dennisyap.com/storage/0511-1008-1201-0052_Bearded_Man_His_Eyes_Big_with_Fear_clipart_image.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1336460056511" alt="" /></span></span></p>
<p>In life and in school, there is one thing that constantly educate us but we never aware, which is leaning to FEAR. How do we learn fear in school? Very simple, many teachers practice domination and power so that students can obey to their rules, and school uses punishment so that student can learn to fear them. When we graduated, the strong friendship that we left behind were mostly because we all had gone through fears together.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span>In corporate world, we fear of our boss because we worried of no pay raise, we learn to praise him and accommodate the <span>CEO's</span> instruction all because of fear. We avoid doing more because we fear for more possible failures. We do more also because we fear that the boss does not see our contribution.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>The corporate CEO also have fears, he fear for people complain about his company in <span>facebook</span>, we fear that people does not happy for his service. Some CEO will make big effort just to cure 3 complaints among millions of customer because he fear that the impression will immerge to a bigger issue. We research for satisfaction because we fear that the impression is immense inside the client's mind.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Unhealthy politics also educate fear, its all the battle between fear, the leader fear of loosing their power and the citizens fear to voice up their comments.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fear is a factor that stop humanity from growing. It is very common in social networks where you visit a new site and have no knowledge about it, and you fear that you post something that people might treat it as a stupid question. You fear that everyone will see your comments and aware about it, but in fact there is nothing wrong with it. You fear that you will be banned from that site, you fear that people will have a different impression about you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For people that manages the social media, he also fear that things that comments he post will invite negative thoughts, he fear that his business will be affected if he address a true comment about something he felt. He fear that the picture or views does not have enough "likes", he fear that people might see him being inconsistant when he change his views in life, he fear that replying a friendly email can be unprofessional and professional email can be not friendly. Fear has a great play in expressing a true idea or true image of that person. The world turns unreal if fear dominates us. All we see is just a surface of good things that people want us to see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fear is a major element that may turn a photography session a bad one. It is not about the photographer, it is in fact the fear that the individual learn to express when the photographer had ask them to be real. It is hard to find a genuine person but it is harder to find a fearless person. Those negative element, which is fear itself, is a basis from a long time exposure to fear education. Fear education is something we do not want to see. And it is so hard to make people forget about thier fears.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are indeed a cure to fear, which is trust. Trust is the one and only cure to fear. When we trust someone, we can be real to him. But in life it is hard to find someone we can trust 100%. Therefore, in order to cure the impurities, I learn to trust a person 100% before he able to. And I learn to be brave, to be a positive person, to be optimistic. I do not care what kind of impression I get for what I post in facebook or any negative impression I get for my business, as long as I am truthful to myself and I am who I am. I do this because I know that everyone wanted to be treat this way, which is someone he hope to meet in his life. I will be that person, because I do not want to be part of the FEAR group.</p>
<p>For those people working in corporate world, I hope you understand that the corporate world is indeed something the true society doesn'y want to have, corporate world is a society that made us turn into a different person, a person that we do not intent to be. In real life I am sure that you want to be a true person but corporate world had made you practice politics and reserved person, all because of you fear of loosing your job. Please take note that there are ways to cure them and your job is not the only thing in your life because if you are sick and suffer in major sickness, your company will not give you any symphathy and only your family will. If you continue to practice fear in corporate world you are not being very contributive to the society because you failed to address the major vision of mankind, which is the things that you feel like making the world a better place or things that serve a higher interest instead of your own interest. When you reply a corporate email please do think that nothing is permanent and the world doesn't need to function this way, it all can be done in a personal manner and you can still be a true person in office. It all comes back on how courage are you and how you want your every minute spent in the office.&nbsp;</p>
<p>To the photographers that operate their own business you might already know that the major fear in malaysia photography is all about sharing your ideas and do take note that if you continue to fear about what picture you share, the world will never grow in this way and it will indeed stop you for taking more facinating pictures because you will keep snapping the same art work for numerous number of times. If you having the fear of people stealing your pictures in turn you will never learn to create better art work that surpasses your previous art works. Do also take note that if you fear of being dictated or regress to let people know about your real life and ideas, your life will turn to a very secretive one and you will suffer from loosing your own self because you will not have a facebook account that you feel comfortable with. There is nothing wrong with sharing, or showing your true self, there is nothing wrong to go for your own vacation or drinking a glass of beer without having your pictures delivered. Your client will understand. In fact they will like to see the true part of you.&nbsp;</p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-16170889.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>My view of recent 428 Bersih 3.0 Rally</title><category>Life</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 11:39:02 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/5/2/my-view-of-recent-428-bersih-30-rally.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:16092867</guid><description><![CDATA[<div>
<p>In life and in school, there is one thing that constantly educate us but we never aware, which is leaning to FEAR. How do we learn fear in school? Very simple, many teachers practice domination and power so that students can obey to their rules, and school uses punishment so that student can learn to fear them. When we graduated, the strong friendship that we left behind were mostly because we all had done through fears together.&nbsp;</p>
<p><span>In corporate world, we fear of our boss because we worried of no pay raise, we learn to praise him and accommodate the&nbsp;<span>CEO's</span>&nbsp;instruction all because of fear. We avoid doing more because we fear for more possible failures. We do more also because we fear that the boss does not see our contribution.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span>The corporate CEO also have fears, he fear for people complain about his company in&nbsp;<span>facebook</span>, we fear that people does not happy for his service. Some CEO will make big effort just to cure 3 complaints among millions of customer because he fear that the impression will immerge to a bigger issue. We research for satisfaction because we fear that the impression is immense inside the client's mind.&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>Unhealthy politics also educate fear, its all the battle between fear, the leader fear of loosing their power and the citizens fear to voice up their comments.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fear is a factor that stop humanity from growing. It is very common in social networks where you visit a new site and have no knowledge about it, and you fear that you post something that people might treat it as a stupid question. You fear that everyone will see your comments and aware about it, but in fact there is nothing wrong with it. You fear that you will be banned from that site, you fear that people will have a different impression about you.&nbsp;</p>
<p>For people that manages the social media, he also fear that things that comments he post will invite negative thoughts, he fear that his business will be affected if he address a true comment about something he felt. He fear that the picture or views does not have enough "likes", he fear that people might see him being inconsistant when he change is views in life, he fear that replying a friendly email can be unprofessional and professional email can be not friendly. Fear has a great play in expressing a true idea or true image of that person. The world turns unreal if fear dominates us. All we see is just a surface of good things that people want us to see.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Fear is a major element that may turn a photography session a bad one. It is not about the photographer, it is in fact the fear that the individual learn to express when the photographer had ask them to be real. It is hard to find a genuine person but it is harder to find a fearless person. Those negative element, which is fear itself, is a basis from a long time exposure to fear education. Fear education is something we do not want to see. And it is so hard to make people forget about thier fears.&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are indeed a cure to fear, which is trust. Trust is the one and only cure to fear. When we trust someone, we can be real to him. But in life it is hard to find someone we can trust 100%. Therefore, in order to cure the impurities, I learn to trust a person 100% before he able to. And I learn to be brave, to be a positive person, to be optimistic. I do not care what kind of impression I get for what I post in facebook or any negative impression I get for my business, as long as I am truthful to myself and I am who I am. I do this because I know that everyone wanted to be treat this way, which is someone he hope to meet in his life. I will be that person, because I do not want to be part of the FEAR group.</p>
</div>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-16092867.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Prep for shoot @Dusun Garden Fairies</title><category>Photography</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 02:55:54 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/5/2/prep-for-shoot-dusun-garden-fairies.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:16089211</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><img class="iphone-image" src="http://dennisyap.com/resource/iphone-20120502105554-1.jpg?fileId=17977374"/></p><p><img class="iphone-image" src="http://dennisyap.com/resource/iphone-20120502105554-2.jpg?fileId=17977377"/></p><p>Today travelled all the way to Dusun Garden Fairies for a prewedding shoot. Feeling a little hungry but yet excited of what can be captured on this greeny place hehe... </p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-16089211.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>All rounded photographer... @.@...</title><category>Crazy</category><category>Life</category><category>Love</category><category>Photography</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:26:19 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/4/18/all-rounded-photographer.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:15895943</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Well at first I thought with the books I have read in the past like philosophy and psychology, and with the helps from corporate experience I can handle my task every well as a photographer but well, I still need to learn, and kept on learning hahah.... a week ago met up with my insurance lady and plan for my financials, then discuss about some investment plans, then this week I have been poured by lots of IT offers which I had to spent my sweet time studying them in order to improve my efficiency. Someone told me that I'm truly amazing lol...</p>
<p>Ok here is the facts of life, psychology for photography engagement, philosophy for theme creation, sociology for marketing, history for developing personalize theme, IT for my online efficiency, finance for retirement plan, corporate finance for my investment ROI so that my couples get cheaper deals, have to work out regularly in order to function well, fashion for giving my couples a true and honest idea about what they wear, sales so that my customer can buy my idea, service minded so that to cure their fears, leadership so that people will follow your idea, marketing so that people will see benefits, PR so that to keep our session enjoying, and furthermore I have to accumulate life in order to grow. And for all these to be done, is just in order for me to function as a photographer, to take picture for them, and does not count the time I will be using to edit the pictures. hehehe.... thats an exciting life. :D</p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-15895943.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Love Blogging Again~</title><category>Life</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:07:45 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2012/4/18/love-blogging-again.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:15895874</guid><description><![CDATA[<p>Its been 3 years I have not blogged about myself and here it is~ A blog that I have always on disabled status because I was hesitated :p. I found that I need to blog again because we have only 1 life to live lol. When I decided to become a full time photographer 3 years ago, I thought I will have more time for myself but in turn I have been receiving jobs like crazy and never had time, I felt like I am always working lol. Well this is the life that I choose to live and it has been wonderful. I will share more here when I am free. :)</p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-15895874.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>2009 Youth Engagement Summit - Here I come!</title><category>AirAsia</category><category>events</category><category>work</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:37:51 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2009/11/11/2009-youth-engagement-summit-here-i-come.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:5762375</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span class="full-image-block ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://dennisyap.com/storage/image003.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1257935896895" alt="" /></span></span>Since AirAsia is sponsoring, sure why not! Here I come. Feeling excited about this Youth Engagement Summit, something different than normal work and photography but I think this is something inspiring as well. To keep my motivated and to keep up with the most recent trend. Getting old is fine, but not with an old brain. :) Looking forward to this, hopefully not something very surface. This event reminds me of one of the most influencing summit that I have ever watched, which is the United States Competitiveness Summit happened just before the Obama's Administration.</p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-5762375.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>The need for Technology - Fully Automated System</title><category>AirAsia</category><category>Airbus</category><dc:creator>Dennis Yap</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:21:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/2009/7/28/the-need-for-technology-fully-automated-system.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">453850:5112434:5683362</guid><description><![CDATA[<p><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">One day when I was retrieving my email, I saw this message from our CEO which made me happy and sad.</span></span></div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br/></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">In these challenging economic times, the way we do business has to evolve and follow the changing times. With the advent of technology and inseparability of the influence of technology over businesses, we need to equip ourselves with first the infrastructure and next, the mindset. Times have changed from those days where technology is a tool for the business. Now, to ensure that the company is ahead of its competitors, we need to be very innovative and to use technology to achieve this. It is no longer a tool and the department has to be very commercial and business driven to ensure company leverages on technology effectively. In line with these rapid demands on us and what we need to become, Information Technology has to evolve from just a supporting role to a more comprehensive outlook with a more defined role in the business environment we are in. With that, I am pleased to now announce that Information Technology will now be known as Innovation, Commercial and Technology (ICT). This department has to evolve in order to sustain the needs of the business. No longer can AirAsia be confined by the conventional operational functions of Information Technology. This is a challenge not only to the newly named, Innovation, Commercial and Technology department but also to the entire group of the challenges that are awaiting us ahead. This is more than just a name change, this is a challenge to all to support this new endeavour and initiative in order for us to move ahead as one.</span></span></div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br/>We need to incorporate more technological advancement and innovation in what we do in our day to day basis and make this among the core competencies for each department to embrace and utilize in getting us to where we want to be."</span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br/></span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I remember 2 years ago when I was an engineer, I have highlighted the urgency for technology to implement fully automated IT system to the organization, we have tried very hard that time and the campaign failed due to lack of support and lack of integration within departments.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The dream was to create a strategy for mass growing fleet which can potentially caused communication breakdown due to manpower constraints because it will be a totally different ball game once we reached fleet of more than 60 aircraft and there are 225 aircraft in order. A good example for fully automated system is Cathay Pacific where they integrate Ultramain and other IT systems to create fully functional data communications to remove the "middleman" for transferring data from one system to another. And I know that Singapore Airlines have been trying very hard to learn the infrastructure from Cathay Pacific.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Imagine how many head counts can be reduced if we work towards the possibility to transfer passenger information from flight booking down to check in, and down to the pilot that calculate weight information during pre-flight, and combining passenger and flight information, data can be transferred automatically to the Engineering IT infrastructure and Flight Operations and costing automatically transferred to Finance for cost measurement and passenger load data transferred automatically to the revenue department. This will be the future ahead for AirAsia and I think we need to continue pursuing our dream. Thanks for the encouraging note, I hope we are not too late.</span></span></div></p>]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://dennisyap.com/imported-20091103082319/rss-comments-entry-5683362.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>
