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CLIENT: PUBLIC SESSION # 23 Date: 16 DECEMBER 2006
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CLIENT: OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad Date: 28 NOVEMBER 2006
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Bala & Michael’s survival session is wonderful and every lady should have this knowledge.
2. Bala is very experienced and share all his knowledge with us!
3. Very good.
4. Limited time.
5. Very good and had managed to encourage participation.
6. Excellent – thanks for sharing your knowledge.
7. He’s good. Good performance. Informative.
8. He has sense of humour.
9. Good communication.
10. Trainer was lively and experienced.
11. Great with a lot of passion on the subject.
12. Very engaging personality, giving real life scenarios, yet putting it in a less traumatic manner.
13. Highly equip with knowledge and materials.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Very informative. Should encourage all ladies to attend.
2. How to survive.
3. Practical examples and very informative.
4. Practical knowledge.
5. Good knowledge.
6. Very practical.
7. The knowledge shared.
8. The information.
9. Awareness and preventions.
10. Everything.
11. All aspects / areas / tips presented.
12. Create awareness and alert the risk factors.
13. Practical survival tips.
14. Very interesting and useful!
15. Easy to follow.
16. Practical hands-on survival skills.
17. Very practical situations / scenarios / examples.
18. Informative.
19. Examples with great practicality and relatedness.
20. The survival techniques – how to escape from being attacked?
21. More knowledge on safety.
22. Knowledge and experience.
23. All.
Any other comments?
1. Would like to attend any course on 1st aid / emergency e.g. CPR.
2. To continue with practical teaching of survival techniques.
3. Would highly recommend for all ladies in other organization.
4. Extend to family members too.
5. Excellent tips learnt.
6. Session too short.
7. Have a more complete one as today’s session seems a bit rush.
8. Keep up the good sharing session!
9. Need more time for practical training.
10. Highly recommended on a compulsory basis.
11. To continue with practical techniques.
Would you recommend OCBC Bank to extend this training to all other female staff?
Yes = 45 No = 0
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Soroptimist International Region of Malaysia (SIROM)
in conjunction with
United Nation's End to Violence Against Women Day
24 & 26 November 2006
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. He’s a very good trainer who is very humane and should be applauded.
2. Excellent and professional.
3. Remarkably good.
4. Gets the attention with the way he talks.
5. Trainer is very good.
6. Serious yet graphic and humorous.
7. Good.
8. Very good and valuable.
9. Very entertaining.
10. Can’t see the things being shown, too dark.
11. Very knowledgeable and an expert in this field.
12. Sometimes his talk is mixed with some Cantonese. I don’t know whether other races can understand or not.
13. Excellent delivery – very experience trainer.
14. Good with humour.
15. Very energetic.
16. Capt Bala is a very good speaker, highly entertaining and captivating.
17. Excellent.
18. Very funny, delightful to listen to.
19. Fantastic.
20. Superb.
21. The trainer learnt a lot on this line and he just applies whatever he learned just for the women’s safety. He’s simply great.
22. Awareness, fun.
23. He’s 100% perfect.
24. Wonderful.
25. Message got across very well, in a humorous way.
26. Excellent presentation! Learnt to save ourselves and other women. Applaudable effort!
27. Very educational, comical and fun. Gave us lots of awareness. Thank you!
28. Should pause at intervals and expect questions from the floor.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Presentation is very good with jokes.
2. It’s very useful and practical interesting and also came with humour.
3. The topic and presentation.
4. Feel contented.
5. The tips on survival shared by the facilitator.
6. Reality check! Sometimes we take things for granted and when some things happen, we get a shock, rude reminder.
7. Easy to understand and relate.
8. Bagaimana hendak jauh dari rogol.
9. How simple defending ourselves can be.
10. FOC, good training, defence skill, never known before.
11. Very informative.
12. Gaining knowledge on defending ourselves.
13. The jokes.
14. The trainer.
15. The facts.
16. Very easy to understand.
17. Alarm system.
18. Teach me how to protect myself.
19. Survival for week women like us.
20. Practical.
21. Stuff used as weapon.
22. Self-defence tips.
23. The ways of giving the information confidently.
24. Entertaining and useful, eye opener.
25. Gave me more awareness.
26. Informative and interesting.
27. Everything.
28. Speech from Capt. Bala.
29. The facilitator and the topic.
30. I got much information from this course.
31. Everything.
32. Educational.
33. Lots of tips and hints.
34. They showed the very simple way to avoid ourselves from being in danger that doesn’t come to people’s mind.
35. Case study and survival skills, methods of safety the trainer teach the women.
36. The speech by Capt Bala is so clear and I like the program very much.
37. The way the trainer explained stuff with lots of energy.
38. The advice and tips on the awareness of violence on women.
39. Bala!
40. The method.
41. A lot of information which was very useful.
42. The course went well without any boring moment and the trainer is a very good public speaker.
43. I learnt so much today on how to protect myself.
44. Trainer knew what he’s talking about. Has first hand information.
45. Tips given, most needed by weaker sex.
46. Talking about a serious topic in a light-hearted and engaging manner.
47. Very nicely presented.
48. Creating awareness of the dangers to women.
49. Tips on how to use all the cool gadgets.
50. The weapon (tools) for protection.
51. All are equally interesting.
52. The way the trainer gave us ideas to save ourselves.
Any other comments?
1. This program should be introduced in schools and universities and work place for all females.
2. Try to launch more this kind of course. More propaganda.
3. Keep it up and continue to do case study to out smart, if we can, the perpetrators!
4. Have one in Klang, many ladies in Klang want to come but distance a problem.
5. Have more talks or training and inform the public about it.
6. More ladies should attend.
7. Congrats on work well done.
8. Should do in schools for the girls.
9. Hope this program can be organized specially for teenage girls (single parent).
10. Suitable for all girls in school.
11. Should be accessible to all women. More publicity.
12. Make this training more available to women.
13. This program is very interesting and having some more program like this in the future, important for women to survive.
14. The program is very short for us.
15. Very short course. Can’t learn more.
16. I think this is a good program for women. I want this program to continue..
17. This program is simply great.
18. Should be taught in Higher Educational schools for girls ASAP.
19. Keep up your good work. God bless!
20. I think many places must have training like this because many women and ladies don’t know how to protect themselves.
21. It should be alerted to other girls (school children) and women. It could be a National Programme.
22. None, well organized already!
23. Have more of this, with earlier notice and reach out to more people.
24. Well done! This course is very beneficial to women.
25. The entire program. Very good. Thank you very much. Many points are eye-opener and interesting.
26. I wish that soon Chinese speaking version classes can be conducted.
Would you recommend Soroptimist Interinational Region of Malaysia (SIROM) to extend this training to all other female?
Yes = 125 No = 0
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CLIENT: JOHNSON & JOHNSON PTE LTD (S'PORE) Date: 19 OCTOBER 2006
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. He makes the course very lively, and it is the only talk you’ll never never fall asleep. Very informative as well.
2. They are excellent and have thorough knowledge, which was very helpful.
3. He willingly shares his experience.
4. Lively with great impact in mind that we can remember and understand.
5. Has kind heart.
6. I don’t understand Malay. It would be good if there are direct translations of the Malay words used in this training.
7. Very entertaining.
8. They are very friendly.
9. Very engaging, funny but tips shared useful.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Very enriching and trainer very humorous.
2. Relevant and interesting.
3. Lively presenter.
4. Realistic contents.
5. Practical skills.
6. Practical examples cases.
7. Results of case study and tips on survival.
8. The sharing of experiences and self defensive moves.
9. Self defence techniques.
10. Awareness of possible crime has taken things for granted.
11. The information and the delivery by Capt Bala.
12. Defence techniques.
13. Interesting and lots of case study / real case to show.
14. Raised awareness of dangers, sensible ideas, highly relevant.
15. Very useful for women’s safety.
16. Everything.
17. Real life example sharing.
18. Very entertaining and beneficial.
19. Practical and useful tips.
20. Practical knowledge.
21. Candid but informative.
Any other comments?
1. Most fun course I have taken in ages!
2. Have the session held in office premises; there would be a greater turnout
3. Would like to have practical training in self defence session.
4. All female should attend.
5. To know more about Singapore situation so we can better prepare ourselves for what needs to be done. As what is being taught is more for Malaysia.
6. Thank you for such an interesting and invaluable education.
7. Make this a recurrent course.
8. Open to public attendance in Singapore.
9. Very good.
10. Useless Malay references. Not many people understand.
Would you recommend Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd (Singapore) to extend this training to all other female employees?
Yes = 32 No = 0
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CLIENT: BUKIT KIARA PROPERTIES SDN BHD Date: 4 NOVEMBER 2006
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…..
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Good!
2. Should do it more often – especially for teenagers/young ladies – school etc.
3. Should allow teenagers as well – young girls as they listen to professionals not mothers.
4. Very very beneficial course, congratulations.
5. An angel.
6. Very practical.
7. Honest and sincere.
8. Too fast for me.
9. A very caring and helpful person with very good sense of humour.
10. The way he presents make you absorb and remember well.
11. An excellent trainer.
12. Very dynamic, a lot of energy, make us laugh for de-dramatizing.
13. Informative yet entertaining.
14. Very experienced.
15. Very experience and energetic.
16. Absolutely great, have practical session.
17. Very motivated and Mr Bala is very helpful.
18. Just awesome. Keep it up.
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