Oceans in trouble

DID YOU KNOW:

- According to research, if we go on with the current rate of Industrial fishing, the only fish left in 20-30 years time would be farm bred fish?

- That more than 80% of all ocean pollution comes from land?

As the global levels greenhouse gas is steadily increasing, the oceans are warming up as a result. This causes bleaching of corals, slowing its growth and makes it susceptible to diseases and ultimately leading to large scale reef die offs.

Industrial fishing has wiped out as many as 90% of large predatory fish! Since 1950, more than 50 million tons of tuna and other top predators have been taken from the pacific ocean. The Atlantic Ocean was the hardest hit – with over 45% of its stocks are overfished.

Our fellow team member Meng Zhi shares more about the issues pertaining to the pollution of our oceans in his blog here.

Its time we realized these problems and start doing something about it! Together, we can all play our parts to save mother nature!

The Incredible OTTO Camp

TOC's FIRST OTTO Camp this year was held last Saturday, on the 15th of January 2011.

The day started out great with visitors coming in from all over Malaysia - Pahang, PD and more!
As with every other OTTO Camps, the visitors were brought around the campus for a tour of the cutting-edge facilities, where our highly skilled and qualified trainers would guide them through the various diagnostic tools and equipment.
Visitors were also able to experience these equipments first hand, with TOC trainers bringing them through the procedures of using these equipments. The purpose of this activity is to give these visitors a preview of these equipments so that, should they choose to be in the automotive industry, they would be well prepared to handle these tools and equipments in their everyday lives.
Overall, the event went smoothly with almost 300 visitors to our very first OTTO Camp this year. Thank you very much to all staff and students who helped out last Saturday!

If you missed the TOC OTTO Camp last week, fret not! We will be having another OTTO Camp end of this month again on the 29th of January! For more information on TOC's OTTO Camp or if you would like to view more photos, head over to our Facebook page (here) to have a look!

We would like to thank you all once again for all your help and cooperation and for taking time to visit us last Saturday!=) Happy Monday to everyone and have a great week ahead!!

Happy New Year 2011!

A very Happy New Year to all our staff, students and friends. How was everyone's countdown? Have we all made our New Year's Resolution?
May this year bring upon you guys good health, much happiness, prosperity and many dreams fulfilled.

Be sure to also check out TOC's article on zerotohundred.com, featuring two of our very own students - Sharul Fahmi and Muhammad Alif Azri. Both racers for Petronas, they share stories of their racing career, from how they started it to where they are today. Read more about it here!

Once again, TOC wishes everyone a very Happy New Year!=) Lets all work towards to a better and more fulfilling year of 2011!

Merry Christmas from all at TOC!

On the 17th of December, TOC held a Christmas party for all its staff members. The night was filled with lots of fun, songs and very good food!
As a treat to the staff for all the hard work they have put in, TOC's Board of Directors sponsored 2 whole (very yummy) roast lambs.
Games were also played that night, with prizes to be won!Some of the games include: Charades, "Stop-Dance" and also poison box, which featured the many hidden talents some of our staff have - some wicked dance moves and Malaysian Idol worthy voice.=)
The training department also put up an excellent performance!Entertaining us with a medley of Christmas songs in different languages.
The highlight of the night was this year's gift giving session =) Instead of the usual gift exchange between staff, this year, we have gone to the roots of the true Christmas spirit!The spirit of giving..

This year, what TOC staff did was to donate Christmas presents to charity, to an orphanage in Klang called "Good Samaritan Home".
Representatives of the different departments from TOC went to the home, bringing along with them the gifts and donations collected over the previous week. Some staff even dressed up to the occasion by wearing Santa hats! One of our trainers also brought a guitar, to rock up a little performance for the children =)
The children enjoyed themselves, dancing and singing along to the Christmas carols.
It was a nice day out, seeing the children laugh and run around, having fun. Thank you to all staff for making this event possible, from donating gifts and necessities to these children in need. Thank you all for taking time off your busy schedules to visit these children, hopefully making this Christmas an especially memorable one.
Thank you all once again!We hope you all had a good Christmas celebration!!

Good Samaritan Home is an orphanage located in Klang, founded in January 1999, taking in children who come from families where parents have abandoned them, or where a parent is unable to cope with divorce, or where the child has lost one or both parents. (source)

For more information about Good Samaritan Home, please visit this website.

KLIMS 2010

The Kuala Lumpur International Motor Show 2010 was held at Putra World Trade Centre earlier this month from the 3rd till the 12th of December.
TOC organised an outing to this year's KLIMS, giving out free tickets to students. We all gathered at PWTC before separating into several groups to enter the show.
Overall the event was a success, everyone was introduced to a variety of different cars from many different car brands (and not to mention motorshow girls!).

and of course the main attraction of the show......
The one and only Bumblebee!!=D

We would like to thank all the staff and students for making the event possible! =) We hope that everyone enjoyed their day at KLIMS and looking forward to the next event already..
For more pictures of the event, please visit our Facebook page: here
and for a more comprehensive coverage of the KLIMS event, please visit our fellow TOC OTTO Team member, MengZhi's blog: here

TOC Movie Night!

Several weeks ago TOC held a competition on Facebook for staff and students, giving out to each winner, a pair of FREE TRON: LEGACY movie tickets!

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A total of 13 students and team partners together with 4 staff won FREE tickets to the screening of the movie.
Last Thursday, the 16th of December, also the opening night of the movie, all winners of the Facebook competition gathered outside Golden Screen Cinemas at Tropicana City Mall for the ticket collection.

It was overall a successful event and it is all thanks to the cooperation of our fellow students, staff and also those of you at GSC Tropicana City Mall! We at TOC hope all of you enjoyed the movie!=) More events as such to come eh?=)

Till then!

To view more pictures taken from that night please visit our Facebook page!

Seatbelts Save Lives!

by Meng Zhi, OTTO Team member

DID YOU KNOW:

• The major cause of car occupant fatalities in car accidents is head injuries, which account for more than half (56.4%).
• Statistics indicate that 65% of accidents happen close to the home. Recent research findings by MIROS (Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research) show that 350 lifes can be saved a year if wearing rear seatbelts is made compulsory and enforced.
• Safety seat belts which restrains the body in the original position to a seat have proved to reduce the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passengers by 45%.

Read more about it from Meng Zhi's blog here!