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CLIENT: PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD Date: 4 March 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. The most interesting trainer I’ve ever met.
2. Very good.
3. Clear and easy to understand and interesting. Excellent.
4. He’s a very good trainer.
5. Very knowledgeable in the subject.
6. Good, friendly.
7. Very good presentation skills. Talk from his heart, lively.
8. Best!
9. Great speaker and honestly coming from the heart.
10. Always update the training with latest case and experience.
11. Fantastic – injecting humor to drive home the points.
12. Very good and so sporting.
13. He’s excellent.
14. Superb.
15. Datanglah lagi ke Petronas untuk conference.
16. Two thumbs up.
17. Interesting. Able to relate with current situation and how to overcome the problem.
18. Very good trainer with good facts and figures.
What do you like most about the program?
1. The whole program.
2. Real life experience shared.
3. All of topic in the program.
4. All topics have own benefits.
5. All, from start to end.
6. The demonstration.
7. True life stories to illustrate the points.
8. Contents and trainers, door gift.
9. Very practical, very helpful.
10. Presenter is efficient in handling his audience. Beneficial. Should be done on yearly basis.
11. Awareness and knowledge on reality of crimes.
12. Explanation, demonstrations and contents.
13. This program can make me alert every time wherever I go and where I am.
14. The trainer, the skills given and the tools promote.
15. Safety tools and all the ideas to overcome problem.
16. Trainer is very experienced, therefore able to relate well to many situations with real examples.
17. Personal safety and precautions techniques.
18. Can convey messages to my daughter.
19. The trainer – he’s very entertaining and funny.
20. Made me aware of potential crimes.
21. The trainer’s explanation, expression and his information.
22. Can learn how to protect ourselves and etc.
23. I’m not sleepy during the program.
24. Safety awareness. A lot of tips given can be practiced.
25. The facts and how to survive in any situation.
26. Please have the practical session.
27. The jokes – way in presenting bad news / situation in humor.
28. Awareness in crimes and self defence.
29. How to protect ourselves from attacker especially for petite ladies without the need to be very strong.
Any other comments?
1. Broadcast this good program to all people esp at rural areas.
2. All ladies should attend this course.
3. Do this program in next time for other staff.
4. Very very very fun and interesting.
5. This program is very good, for ladies in the world.
6. Provide safety gadgets lists include best brand and where to get them.
7. Very meaningful.
8. Excellent course, excellent trainers. Keep up the good work.
9. Looking forward to attend this similar course in future.
10. Thank you.
11. More courses please.
12. Its better if can have repetition course from time to time to refresh the techniques and latest updates.
13. This is my second time attending this training. The last one attended 4 years ago.
14. Very useful and eye-opener program for ladies.
15. It should be organized regularly.
16. Practical practice is highly encourages. Bala is very very interesting.
17. I like you Mr Bala.
18. Great session.
19. Road Survival.
20. I will suggest other company to have the same course.
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CLIENT: Taylor's School of Hotel Management Date: 27 February 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. We need more sessions like this to be carried out everywhere to alert people about such cases happening here and how to protect ourselves, as well as to think smart.
2. Very blunt and hit right on even if they are awkward subject to most people, thank you very much.
3. Very interesting way of training, highly beneficial.
4. Good speaker and able to get attention of audience.
5. Love it. Should have the full course (more details).
6. He is very knowledgeable, has a sense of humor.
7. A very informative and useful talk given to the ladies.
8. Job well done!
9. Very animated and interactive.
10. Knowledgeable and good presentation. Keep it up.
11. Experts on the field.
12. He made the presentation very interesting.
13. Arrange the seating a circular position for easy viewing.
14. Good, if have some of the instrument selling on the spot, then we manage to but it immediately.
What do you like most about the program?
1. No censoring of the gross parts. It exposed us to the dangers we brushed off as insignificant before.
2. The program has helped me a lot in helping me to understand how to protect myself, and the trainer is funny.
3. I know how to survive if I am being attacked.
4. Learning survival skills and made aware of unfortunate events happened – educational.
5. Safety and survival tips, real life case studies and demonstration by the instructor.
6. Self defense be it mentally or physically. Become more aware of surroundings.
7. The attitude of the trainers.
8. Ways in which one can escape from being strangled.
9. Everything.
10. Tell us the reality of LIFE.
11. I’ve learnt a lot of safety tips. Thank you.
12. The information given and the presenter(s).
13. Safety tips for women.
14. Everything – especially how to protect ourselves.
15. Educational and very applicable.
16. Examples and the equipment.
17. Technique and info that were given.
18. Interactive and alive.
19. The ability for attendees to participate.
Any other comments?
1. This was a very clear and educating program. It opened my eyes to so many things.
2. Is perfect info. If possible, it’s good to make it compulsory attendance for everyone.
3. Please come back again to train us more.
4. Should have the road safety tips as well.
5. If there are other trainings, please recommend them to the college.
6. Looking forward to more courses like this.
7. Should let people know about this program/workshop/training. And thank you kindly.
8. I would like to join further training please.
9. Take care, guys!
10. Very good.
11. Thank you! I pray for more people like you to be in this world.
12. May be able to have training with levels for further and other types of training.
13. Will be more effective and educational if trainer can provide escape route/method (if available) in the cases shown.
14. Please provide hand-out notes and website relating to survival skills for more info.
15. Well done!
Would you recommend your College to extend this training to all the other female employees and new intakes?
Yes = 32 No = 0
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CLIENT: PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD Date: 25 February 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Very serious about his presentation, but humorous at the same time.
2. Should extend the briefing to staff’s children also.
3. Very clear in explanation and get a good example of a real crime.
4. Very good at attracting participants.
5. Really enjoy it, very good session.
6. Excellent – very informative subject.
7. Able to attract the audiences.
8. Very good.
9. Well done!
10. Excellent work.
11. It’s good to have a female trainer to conduct practical training on survival.
12. Very experience.
What do you like most about the program?
1. The exposure of past cases that involving ladies as the victims. Therefore, the public are more aware and pay more attention on the seriousness of crime that involving women as the victims.
2. Educational and inspiring stories based on real experience.
3. Very good session, learn more about survival.
4. Everything.
5. Very straight forward, easy to understand.
6. The awareness on general safety.
7. The safety that we should have in the house etc. and the ladies self defense.
8. Give us danger signs to take care.
9. Interactive, short and simple.
10. The survival ways and also the gadgets shown for personal safety.
11. How to survive/escape from rapist.
12. Very relevant.
13. How to protect ourselves in public area.
14. Excellent tips for safety and protection and survival.
15. The presenter and the demos.
16. The program gave awareness to all of us.
17. Practical tips on how to protect oneself in times of crisis.
18. Knowledge sharing and survival info.
19. Don’t panic, save your life and do not fight.
20. Very good speaker, very useful information.
21. Learn to be more careful, prevent ourselves from being attacked.
Any other comments?
1. May be should consider continuous session in future as this session is very beneficial.
2. Should have the training more often.
3. Should do it at all organization.
4. Should be attended by all ladies.
5. To have second session or refresher.
6. Thank you very much for holding this briefing.
7. A very beneficial session to all ladies.
8. Should be conducted more often.
9. Can organize to female family members.
10. Please give more information on how to protect ourselves.
11. Excellent briefing.
12. Good trainer and speak very clear. I would like to know more regarding the CPR handling.
13. Some of the materials are a bit scary.
Would you like your Company to organize the Practical Session?
Yes = 39 No = 0
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CLIENT: SONY Supply Chain Solutions Sdn Bhd Date: 21 February 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms...
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. He is precise and able to tell the everyday crime we are facing and how we can overcome/prevent.
2. Very good and really easy to understand.
3. Very professional.
4. It’s a very good talk, please keep it on.. it helps.
5. Thank you for your experience sharing.
6. Very funny and make the training easy to understand.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Very humorous and life experience sharing.
2. Explanation given by the trainer,
3. Knows the technique to protect ourselves.
4. Never a boring moment.
5. Survival skill.
6. How to protect ourselves.
7. The program is very important to learn.
8. Self defense demonstration.
9. Add more practical, give chance to try all the safety equipment.
10. Case study.
11. The gadgets and the trainer.
Any other comments?
1. Tambah tempoh masa training.
2. Time limited.
Would you recommend Sony Supply Chain Solutions (M) Sdn Bhd to extend this training to all the other female team members?
Yes = 39 No = 0
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CLIENT: TERATAI (Kuantan) Date: 2 February 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Very good, full of compassion, full of experience.
2. Very lively and interesting.
3. They are sincere in delivering the training.
4. Excellent presentation, engaging, practical.
5. Excellent. Hope can join again.
6. Funny, know how to communicate with audiences and got lots of information.
7. He’s very good… thanks dear…
8. He is very good and great.
What do you like most about the program?
1. The entire program. It is very beneficial to me. I enjoyed it.
2. All the slide show that had been shown and the motivator was really good (Bala & Michael).
3. The trainers and the information that the program had provided us.
4. The info. Tips.
5. Knowledge on protecting myself.
6. Interesting and informative.
7. Slide shows.
8. The information is very clear using the multimedia.
9. How the trainer present his topic.
10. How to defend ourselves when being attacked.
11. Real cases.
12. Creating awareness.
13. Hands-on demonstration for safety precautions, detecting CCTV, hidden camera.
14. Very very beneficial. A must for all girls / women.
15. Practical approach/tips/awareness on current situation.
16. Gave all information in an interesting way.
17. Types of alarms, precaution should be taken.
18. The way trainers communicated to participants.
Any other comments?
1. This survival training will be helpful and useful to students when they leave their family to further their studies in the city.
2. Hold such a seminar next time or again.
3. This program is important and must do again.
4. Please organize this talk more regularly (esp for those who cannot make it for some reasons).
5. Let us know when such program in Kuantan we would like to have more people attending.
6. Do this program more often, and don’t forget to invite me.
7. Keep on doing these kind of talks so that it benefits all of us, women particularly.
8. I hope I can get to know more about the gadgets that he presented to us.
9. I hope more program like this will make people treasure their life.
Would you recommend this training to your friends or Company?
Yes = 89 No = 0
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CLIENT: Prudential Services Asia Sdn Bhd Date: 26 January 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms...
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Learned a lot, knowing how to protect ourselves.
2. It is better to have hands-on practice.
3. Very well prepared and interesting presentation.
4. Very inspiring and interesting.
5. Fantastic.
6. Well done.
7. Excellent – very experienced.
8. He is a superhero. I respect him.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Presented clearly and it’s interesting. Enjoyed, fun and something knowledgeable.
2. The demonstrations on how to release ourselves from attacks.
3. Sharing of case study and the passion of the trainer truly appreciated.
4. Reality of life.
5. The knowledge sharing.
6. A lot of real life experiences.
7. Case study and defensive technique.
8. The contents of this training.
9. Awareness of the life cases and preventive action.
10. Very realistic and useful in daily life.
11. Car jacking and kidnapping.
12. Learning useful survival skills.
13. Those lively information and techniques.
Any other comments?
1. Thank you for the sharing and the good job done. It’s great!
2. Practical training on how we could help the victim.
3. Please extend this training to staff’s family members. I would like to bring my sisters here.
4. Wish to have another training from Capt Bala.
5. It’s excellent.
Would you recommend Prudential Services Asia sdn Bhd to extend this training to all the other female Team members?
Yes = 37 No = 0
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CLIENT: PETRONAS CARIGALI SDN BHD Date: 24 January 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms...
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Best presentation.
2. Excellent effort, really educating and very touching.
3. Good job, love it!
4. I really like how they present the talk.
5. He is a very knowledgeable, understanding and energetic person.
6. Very knowledgeable.
7. Very informative.
8. Very good and funny.
9. Keep up the good work.
10. He knows what he is talking about.
11. Thank you. Much information gained.
12. Very good in explaining all the information.
13. Very well trained.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Very realistic, current and direct!
2. Very informative, full of tips for survival and good presentation by the trainer.
3. The presenter does really a good job. I don’t feel sleepy at all.
4. Very beneficial contents, the way trainer presents.
5. A very good trainer to share what happen to this world nowadays.
6. The presenter and presentation.
7. Lost of humor.
8. It teaches me something that never thought of before.
9. I like the idea of having the alarm/loud hailer at home.
10. The approach how to avoid house breaking and how to escape from people grabbing.
11. Real life experience.
12. Self-defense, steps to avoid house break-ins.
13. All.
14. Case studies.
Any other comments?
1. Continue with this program and distribute more useful information to public, organization, and website.
2. Excellent approach. Conduct more often or make it mandatory to women’s employees.
3. Should be longer – so more info can be shared.
4. Encourage more people to attend the program.
5. Very good program.
6. Extend to all staff.
Would you recommend your to organize the Practical Session?
Yes = 46 No = 0
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CLIENT: Taylor's College Date: 18 January 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…..
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Thanks for the most important talk I’ve ever attended. Please continue the good work.
2. You guys are truly dedicated and funny at sending us this very important message. You guys rock. Thank you.
3. Bala made me realize how to be grateful to mothers.
4. Funny and cool.
5. He is the first trainer that makes me not feeling bored during his talk.
6. Very helpful and dedicated on making the course interesting.
7. He is humorous and fantastic.
8. Very good at keeping the audience’s attention while imparting information.
9. Humorous but effective in driving important points/make emphasis to students on how to be more socially conscious.
10. Very demonstrative. Lots of examples to convince reality in situation.
11. Truly inspiring and a great eye-opener.
12. Hope to find this guy to share more of his experience in future.
13. Have good explanation and acting.
14. Very nice job. Thanks for sharing with us!
15. Informative and knowledgeable, yet entertaining and funny to observe.
16. Confident, knows what he is doing – knowledgeable, passionate.
17. The provided all the information very clearly.
18. Very funny, energetic and entertaining.
19. Crime fighting procedures.
20. Inject humour and know how to engage the audience, trains more personnel to be like him that would reach out to more people and more effective prevention, especially schools and big corporation where staff work late.
What do you like most about the program?
1. The displaying of the safety equipment has helped me to understand how to prevent a crime from occurring.
2. Demo for self defense.
3. Tips on self defense skills and trivia.
4. It’s practical and useful.
5. Ways to help yourself when in trouble.
6. What to do in case of emergency.
7. The interesting survival skills and the speaker.
8. Information and jokes.
9. Teach us valuable lessons and tips.
10. Tips on how to take precautions for personal safety and prevent house breaking.
11. The information shared with us, his ability to connect and engage the audience.
12. The interesting delivering of the useful info.
13. Practical. Increase awareness to danger in our surrounding.
14. The awareness on the dangers around and techniques taught to survive.
15. The program is very useful and excellent, but at the same time, interesting and funny.
16. The trainer’s approach to deliver message.
17. Visual aid, tools requirement to survive.
18. I learn a lot thru this.
19. Precautions to be taken by ladies when they are in danger.
20. The fact that has enlightened me on “city survival skills” that might just save my life someday.
21. Informative. Show real pictures of cases; let us know about real cases.
22. The information and technique to stay safe.
23. Interesting and definitely helped ladies to be more alert.
24. It’s very real. Images and situations are real and straight forward.
25. Very enthusiastic. Very lively. Very encouraging.
26. The graphics and trainer himself.
27. Prevention techniques, home and personal safety.
28. Demonstrating the defense combat and strategies.
Any other comments?
1. Taylor’s should definitely keep having this talk.
2. Definitely a good course to attend. Highly recommended.
3. Very informative and useful.
4. Thanks so much for having this course. I found it so helpful.
5. To continue to provide this type of workshops in future but emphasizing a specific areas like preventing thefts or how not to be a victim of snatch thieves.
6. Excellent.
7. My heartfelt appreciation to the speaker and those who prepared the seminar for us.
8. Please do continue having this program so that more people would benefit from the program.
9. I really learn many useful tips in this training.
10. Can be done as a compulsory program to all students.
11. I am very thankful that I attended this course.
12. Thanks for the information; this program has made me more aware of such dangers.
13. Very nice! We are now highly aware of the danger around us.
14. Keep up the good work. More work should be done to bring the public awareness to the issue of our high crime rates.
15. There’s nothing I don’t like about the program and I like everything about the program.
16. Taught me more than I needed to know.
17. I learned a lot and I’m so confident to face the world.
18. Let the ladies try out in crime fighting moves.
Would you recommend your College to extend this training to all the other female employees and new intakes?
Yes = 113 No = 0
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CLIENT: Taylor's College Date: 11 January 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…
Any other comments on the trainers?
1. Give more and more talk! I want to listen and learn more coz it’s awesome!
2. Uncle Bala and Michael were awesome!
3. He made the course really interesting and enlightens me about life matters that I normally pay less notice to.
4. Very charismatic, active.
5. Awesome! Glad to have someone who cares for us to share.
6. Very engaging and done in a very informative manner. Well done!
7. Really expressive and impressive.
8. He should come to TCPJ.
9. A little too fast on the course.
10. Funny, clear presentation.
11. Mr Bala has helped many out there in many different ways. He will be blessed.
12. Gave clear speech and was entertaining.
13. Very good and informative.
14. Has a very good understanding of women today and it is absolutely wonderful that he gives talks like these.
15. All of them are very knowledgeable and interactive.
16. Great.
17. Very interesting and stimulating way of presentation.
18. He’s the best. Keep it up!
19. Keep up the good work. Very enthusiastic.
20. Very informative, interesting.
21. He is really professional and excellent.
What do you like most about the program?
1. The way the trainer exposed us to all sorts of new ways that people nowadays can harm us ladies.
2. Awareness that everyone can be a victim at any time and the possible steps to prevent it.
3. Not really sure because all are very interesting.
4. Ways to prevent crime, tools used.
5. The trainer’s expression and acting.
6. How to escape when I am in danger.
7. How to defend ourselves.
8. Ways to avoid myself being harmed.
9. Very informative and equipped us with important knowledge on how to keep ourselves safe.
10. Really worth it. Survival skills.
11. To be more aware and not too naïve.
12. A lot of real case testimonial and the trainer have done a lot of preparation/survey/effort.
13. Learnt a lot of survival skills.
14. Part that the trainer showing the safety products.
15. Humor in the whole program that makes us interested and easy to understand.
16. Mr Bala’s talk, equipment.
17. Very applicable and clear instructions to keep safe.
18. Very informative and it shows the effective way to prevent myself being a victim.
19. It teaches me about “reality” and how to protect myself.
20. The trainer’s method of presentation.
21. Capt Bala’s impressions of girls when they buy bags.
22. IT is clear and very helpful.
23. The jokes and the fire show. At the same time, informative about safety measures as well.
24. Can learn many things. Good.
25. The program teaches me how to protect myself from any danger possible.
26. Practical demonstration of useful equipment.
27. They expose you to danger and tell you where to buy what’s needed for our own protection.
28. It has opened my eyes to hidden dangers that I never know were possible.
29. When they tell me how to prevent dangerous stuff and show me lots of pics and tell stories to open my eyes.
30. All the program of survival skill. This program really worth it and it does help lots of people. Thanks to organizer and all the related helpers.
31. Provide important information to all female citizens.
32. Informative albeit done in a fun and friendly manner. Very captivating.
33. Useful tips to be used in different situations.
34. The part about how to protect ourselves from assailants.
35. The informative is very useful especially concerning preventive measure e.g. self defense, action plan etc.
36. How to prevent yourself from burglars, rapist etc.
37. The way Mr Bala explains and demo. Is clear.
38. Learning about reality!
39. The program that the trainer acting, expression and teaching us some practical things.
40. The program showed practical prevention so that I can understand clearly.
41. Techniques and knowledge to survive and be ready when danger occurs.
42. Humorous trainers.
43. Everything except some pictures that girls not wearing clothes and killed.
Any other comments?
1. Before this, I was rather reluctant to come to the talk, I thought it would be rather boring because if was very long. Now, I do not regret time spent for this talk.
2. I was supposed to leave the campus at 4pm. However, I was willing to miss the bus to watch the presentation.
3. Hope that more women will attend this talk so that they will know how to protect themselves.
4. We want this training in TCPJ. Please Taylors, don’t be bias.
5. The semangat-ness of the trainer! Please send him to TCPJ.
6. Thank you so very much! You might have stopped me from exposing myself unwillingly. Thank you.
7. Very scary. Gives awareness but also brings fear.
8. Works can’t express my thankfulness.
9. Traumatic but interesting and helpful.
10. Try to share this course to every female.
11. The way they spy on you, how to detect and how to fight back.
12. Practical surviving skills.
13. Survival skills.
14. Please do this type of talk more often.
15. Thank you so much.
16. Great.
17. l’m glad.
18. I’ve checked out the website and I think it should be cleaned up and made more user-friendly. Thanks.
19. Life changing experience.
20. Very informative and useful.
21. Train more people to be like Mr Bala.
22. Is helpful, hope to organize again in future.
23. Informative… survival tips are very useful and handy.
Would you recommend your College to continue extending this training to all other new intake female students and employees?
Yes = 84 No = 0
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CLIENT: AmBank Group (JB session) Date: 5 January 2008
City Survival Training for Ladies
Comments extracted from Course Evaluation Forms…..
Any other comments on the trainers
1. He is a truly one and only exceptional.
2. Providing more tips and material on the topics.
3. Very open and informative.
4. Excellent.
5. He is very interesting and inspiring.
6. Thumbs up!
7. Very clear, interesting and knowledgeable.
8. Capt Bala was very engaging and informative. 4 hours seem not enough.
9. Best!
10. To conduct survival skill (practical session).
11. Very good.
12. Keep up the good work.
What do you like most about the program?
1. Preventive techniques, self defense and escape methods.
2. Very practical.
3. Multimedia slideshow presentation and words from trainers.
4. Easy understanding and interesting talk from the speakers and facilitator.
5. Incidents that I may face and how to avoid or overcome.
6. The topics are good and useful.
7. Educational.
8. Overall.
9. Humanity.
10. Make you aware of things that we have taken for granted.
11. Protection, viewing and knowledge.
12. The part on how to disengage an attacker.
13. Very informative and benefited for all.
14. Speaker was very clear and informative was straight to the point.
15. Self defense and equipment to defend ourselves.
Any other comments?
1. It’s excellent.
2. The time passed so fast. I hope this program will last/stand for ONE full day.
3. To do a longer training where participant can actually take part in the self-defense part.
4. Longer course period with more survival info and skills.
5. Training is excellent!
6. Language to be converted to 100% in English.
7. Have learned a lot, would like to attend again if organize.
8. Syok!
Would you recommend Ambank Group to extend this training to all the other female employees in Malaysia?
Yes = 50 No = 0