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The Elements of Communication: Federal Territory Day

Like how the few previous post mention about the communication process, there are 8 different types of element resides in it.

1. Sender
2. Encoding
3. Channel of the Message
4. Noise
5. Decode
6.Receiver
7. Respond
8. Feedback

On another note, always feel free to browse back the previous posts to understand more about the elements.

In this case of Federal Territorial (FT) Day Celebration, it was more on mass audience. Definitely the key point for the whole event is getting the message across effectively to the mass audience.

Which is why, "Channel of the message" plays the most important role in this situation.


It's all about synchronization.

By applying the communication process theory, we can determine the elements according to the situation. Let's take the mass audience situation.

If the event organizer would like to announce there is an event going at a specific time and place, the following will happen.

1. Sender : Organizer/ Master of Ceremony.
2. Encoding: The Message
3. Channel of The message: Broadcast Equipment i.e. The Microphone, the amplifier.
4. Noise: Audience, microphone interruption.
5. Receiver: Audience.
6. Decode: Audience.
7. Respond: Audience movement, marching band coming in.
8. Feedback: Audience's applause.


Federal Territorial Day Communication Theory: Mass Audience Situation


Reason: Element Determination.

Sender is the organizer because he is the first to initiate the message to the receiver.
Whereby, the channel is the microphone and the amplifier because that is the medium used to get beyond the audience.

The noises are the audience themselves and the high interruption frequency of the microphone and amplifier. Everything that will affect the original meaning of the message can be consider as noise.

The receiver is the audience because they receive and decode the sender's message.

Feedback is the applause of the audience after the show to signify response for the sender.

Hope you guys understand the communication theory even more.

Thank you.

How to entertain guest during Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is the time where everyone gather together and have a reunion dinner or a simple gathering with family friends. Before Chinese New Year, everyone family will go to shop for snacks, drinks and ordered new years cookies to keep at home and to entertain guest when someone came to visit. You will see lots of people buying cartons of drinks and boxes of mandarin oranges too.

Mandarin Oranges

snacks to serve guests

Normally the first day and second day of Chinese New Year is celebrated together with family members. On the third day, most of them will start to visit their relatives and friends house. Married couples that are in the house will give red packet or known also as ang pow will be given to those who are not married. The host of the house will first serve the guest with drinks, snacks and cookies.

ang pow and mandarin oranges

Example of new years cookies that will entertain the guests are kuih kapit (also known as love letter), pineapple tarts and many more. Not only that, guest will get to taste on the mandarin oranges that are mostly only available during the Lunar Year.

pineapple tarts

kuih kapit or known as love letters

During Chinese New Year, guest are invited to gamble together. The host normally will set up a mahjong table or a box of poker cards to entertain guests. Although gambling is not a good activity but it is only during Chinese New Year gambling will be played in all houses.

mahjong and poker cards

While during the night time, children will be allowed to play fire crackers under the supervision of an adult to entertain them. Playing fire crackers are a symbol of good luck when is played in front of the house. That is why children are allowed to play during Chinese New Year but nowadays fire cracker are very dangerous and not save to play. So there are some that are not dangerous to be played with.

Fire crackers

Children Fire crackers

Central Market and Petaling Street

If you are wondering where to buy souvenirs that is truly made in Malaysia,then Central Market should be the right place.It was built in 1888. Now it has been classified as a Heritage Site by the Malaysian Heritage Society and landmark for Malaysian culture and heritage. Central Market is located along Jalan Hang Kasturi, just a few minutes walk from "Pasar Seni"Putra Lrt station. It is very convenient for tourist or locals to go there.

Main Entrance of Central Market

It is also the hailed as one of the main tourist attractions in metropolitan KL and for good reason. This is because all the souvenirs or Malaysia products sold there are at a reasonable price. We all know that Malaysia is a multi race country, at Central Market we can find so many different varieties of products or souvenirs from different cultural.

Goods sold at Central Market

Central Market has different zones to categorise the different areas. Such as,Lorong Melayu, Lorong Cina, Lorong India, Jonker Street and also Blue Mansion.Lorong Melayu is to denote all things Malay sold along this lane, and so forth.Jonker Street, which is named after the famous street in Malacca, describes the Baba-Nyonya inspired architecture constructed.While Blue Mansion is named after the heritage building in Penang denotes the antique trove of treasures.

Examples of good that are sold there are handicrafts, art, kebaya, songket, batik and best Malaysian made batik items ranging from clothes,shoes, bags to home finishing.

View of Lorong Melayu

View of Lorong Cina

View of Lorong India

Batik and Handicrafts at Central Market

To improve the and upgrade facilities in Central Market, the management has include many varieties of food and beverage outlet for tourists and local shoppers to dine.

Central Market Food Court

Not to forget is the colorful Malaysian Traditional Cultural and Arts events that are held at the Central Market Outdoor Stage to celebrate the festive season together with all the citizens in Malaysia.

View of Central Market Outdoor Stage

After walking at Central Market, next stop would be Petaling Street or also known as Chinatown. One can reach within few minutes walking distance. Petaling Street is famous as a vibrant marketplace for Chinese-centric goods such as medicines and herbs to more contemporary items like fashion accessories and electronic products.Petaling Street is located at the centre of Kuala Lumpur.

Main Entrance of Petaling Street

Its is also very convenient because there are bus station and train station within walking distance.Basically if you are a shopaholic, Chinatown is the best place for you. Many tourists says that this place is a shoppers heaven. This is all because there are chock-full of shops selling goods. Most of them are selling imitation of branded goods such as clothes, bags, watches and many more. The quality may not be as good as the original, but when someone saw you with a branded bag, who knows it is fake or not. So remember to bargain with the sales person on the price because some imitation goods are not worth the selling price.There are many locals who wants to use branded goods, but just cannot afford it ,they will come here to buy imitation ones.

imitation goods

Besides that, Petaling Street also have lots of delicious food to try. For example are the famous Hokkien Noodle and another stall's famous drink named "Air Mata Kucing''. Many local and tourist are willing to wait just to have a taste of the drinks and foods.

The Famous Hokkien Noodle

The Famous Air Mata Kucing

Petaling Street is open from day to night and the atmoshere during day time and night time are totally different.

Petaling Street during night time

Golden Triangle Kuala Lumpur

Every country has at least one place where tourists are attracted the most. Likewise in capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur has a major tourist attraction named as Golden Triangle. This golden triangle roughly covers the area north of Jalan Pudu, south of Jalan Ampang and west of Jalan Imbi and Jalan Tun Razak which form a triangle borders the entire Golden Triangle area. Golden Triangle also embraces the forever busy shopping area of Bukit Bintang, the office towers of Jalan Raja Chulan, the five-star hotel strip of Jalan Sultan Ismail, the party street of Jalan P.Ramlee, and the whole Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC).

map of Golden Triangle

The Golden Triangle is known for the main shopping, entertainment and nightlife district of Kuala Lumpur. It is the most happening place which attracts people day and night in KL. Here the entire landscape is pierced with sky-high scrapers, gigantic shopping malls, cool nightclubs, and top notch hotels. Tourists enjoy this finding many interesting places in Golden Triangle.

view of Bintang Walk from monorail

Kuala Lumpur City Center, KLCC

Bukit Bintang is the main shopping area of Golden Triangle with many of Kl’s most well-known malls. The main shopping streets are Jalan Bukit Bintang, Jalan Sultan Ismail and Jalan Imbi. You will find a lot of well-known shopping complexes such as Berjaya Times Square, Low Yat Plaza, Sungai Wang Plaza, Lot 10, Fahrenheit 88 (previously known as KL Plaza) and Pavilion KL as you passed by the streets. This is the place for fashion merchandise and accessories, IT products, designer brands and electronic goods.

entrance of Pavilion KL

Lot 10 shopping mall

Fahrenheit 88 (formally known as KL Plaza)

Sephora Duplex Flagship Store at Starhill Gallery

Berjaya Times Square, the largest shopping mall in Malaysia

entrance of Sungei Wang Plaza

You can find all kind of food that you want in Golden Triangle. Name it and you can definitely find it here. Japanese, Northern Indian, Chinese,  Middle Eastern, Mexican, Italian and Malay cuisine can be easily found at the intersection of the upper-end of bustling Jalan Raja Chulan and Jalan Bukit Bintang. For budget street side food, there is Jalan Alor which is an entire street with quality hawker food and mainly is local Chinese cuisines. Changkat Bukit Bintangis mostly all expensive restaurant and also home to one of KL’s hippest and happening party venues.

Hakka Restaurant on Kia Peng

Chinese hawker stalls along Alor Street

Golden Triangle is the party heart of KL and also home to many fashionable nightclubs, karaoke joints, bars and lounges which include the Hard Rock café, Beach club (voted as the Best Bar in Asia), Lune Bar, Rum Jungle, Nuovo and so many others. The main party drag is Jalan P.Ramlee near the intersection with Jalan Sultan Ismail, whereas the area between Jalan Bukit Bintang and Jalan Imbi are known for its Chinese-style hostess nightclubs. For something quieter, Changkat Bukit Bintang has a few pubs. Most five-star hotels also have clubs and bars.

Luna Bar at night

Beach Club which was voted as the Best Bar in Asia

Hard Rock Cafe 

Along with fashionable malls and night clubs, most tourists tend to stay within the Golden Triangle areas it is easier to reach main tourist attraction. Golden Triangle is better known for its collection of various types of hotels. From five-star to those tiny little spots budget hotels can be found here easily. Several five-star hotels in these districts offer spa treatments and provide other luxurious facilities.

Grand Millennium KL

lobby of JW Marriot hotel

executive room in Shangri-La

Bukit Bintang is the legendary shopping centre that features a wide variety of shopping malls and outlets, including all the main tourist attraction places. Whether it’s shopping, dining alfresco, world class offices, or any other thing, the Golden Triangle is the place for you.

The Elements of Communication

Image 1.1 is the typical communication process.


There are 8 elements in the communication process.

1. Sender/Source
2. Encode
3. Channel of Message
4. Noise
5. Decode
6. Receiver
7. Response
8. Feedback

The Sender

The Sender is the source of the message. In other words, he/she is the first party to initiate the message to the receiver.

For example,




This is a situation where a girl greets her grandma, "Gong Xi Fa Cai."
The usual stuff you see in Chinese New Year.

The Communication Process kicks in, making the girl a sender in the communication process while of course the grandma is the receiver.

Encoding

Encoding is how the sender determine to structure the message and send it to the receiver.


This is an inverted Chinese Symbol, Happiness (Fook)

Why is it inverted? Because Inverted (dou) represents "arrived."

Conclusion, if it was inverted it means " Happiness Arrived, " which like the above. Encoding also include non-verbal signs such as high-five, waving and shaking hands.

Channel of the Message

The sender can choose to send his/her message via written, oral, through the radio, telephone and many more.

You can choose to send E-cards to your long distant, techno-savvy relatives that live in overseas.

Noise


Error: Failed to send. One of the most annoying noises.

Noise resides in the channel of the message. Interference occurs regularly in the communication process. It could be a corrupted email, the poor signal on the phone or the loud background sound.

Anything that disrupts the original content of the message is called noise. If the noise level is high, the message might not be receive at all.

Receiver

A receiver is the one who received the sender's message. In order to understand the sender's message, the receiver will need to decode, the message's content.

Decode

Decode is a process where the receiver decipher the content send by the receiver. If the message went through minimal noise, it will be easy to understand. However, if the message went through a lot of interference, it might also interfere the decoding process.

Response

Response is the reaction from the receiver after getting the message. For example, if the grandma understand the girl's message, she will provide a response by perhaps giving her an angpow or just greeting her back.

Feedback

Feedback is the final link in the chain of the communication process. After receiving a message, the receiver responds in some way and signals that response to the sender.

Feed back is important because it loops back to the sender's thought. If there are no feedback provided. The sender will do not know what is the best way to send the message for getting a proper response.

Celebrating Chinese New Year the Malaysian Way

          Ask me what I personally like best about the Lunar New Year (or what more commonly known as the Chinese New Year) and I shall tell you that I enjoy the Reunion Dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year the best. The reason? Well, it seems to be the only time of the year when members of the family are gathered over the dining table with a wide variety of delectable cuisines served. 

          Arrica and the family

          What mattered the most, somehow, was not the food (although food was indeed what brought everyone together), but instead the bonds between family members that only grew stronger over the dinner filled with conversations and lots of laughter. And that makes the Reunion Dinner especially remarkable in welcoming the arrival of a brand new year. 

          Aaron and the family

Sherilyn and the family

          
         Besides that, the Chinese New Year also seemed to be the only time of the year when members of the family actually get to reunite and enjoy more of each others' company, thus I believe that it should also be known as a celebration of togetherness, where gatherings and house-visits among relatives, friends or even colleagues would be ubiquitous. Collection of ang pows or red packets (filled with money... and blessings) is also an all-time favorite. ;) 

 Ang Pow Packets

Eden and friends

Aaron and... lots of girlfriends?

          Chinese New Year cookies (it's about food yet again) were also hunted weeks in advance before the arrival of the festivity as they are the essential goods that you simply cannot do without during house-visits, either to serve your guests with the cookies or to exchange them as gifts. Something worth noting is such that one could become protective over their own favorite cookies deemed as nothing but the best, while yours truly too has her personal favorite when it comes to something as important as pineapple tarts. :) 

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        Last but not least no festivity would be festivity when there are no fireworks. Despite being contraband items, fireworks still ignite brilliantly in the skies all around your neighborhood, smelling like charred barbecue meat. It is somehow undeniable that fireworks add sparks to the festivity and noises are just something that we would not want to do without. So, watching the fireworks would also be a must when it comes to the celebration of Chinese New Year. 

  
Happy Chinese New Year! 




Sincerely,


The Bragging Brats