Diya Aisha – Sunway Echo Media

Yay or Nay: Fiction has diluted what a relationship looks like

Source: You wish this was you, don’t you?

It’s that time of the month again! This month’s edition of Yay or Nay will be covering an arousing topic on relationships. Have you ever swooned over an OTP (one true pairing), wishing that you had their lives? Remember the scenes when any main male or female lead looked at their partner’s eyes, filled with love and grew old together? These fairytale-like scenes have etched their way into our minds and have inspired Echo’s very own bachelorettes to debate on whether fairytales have diluted modern-day relationships.

echo October 1, 2021

Creative Hall Lifestyle Short Stories

Remembering Living

“The thing about Alzheimer’s is that it’s sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way before they physically die.” -Lucinda Williams

echo September 10, 2021

Educational Lifestyle Style & Trends

Social Media Activism: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

In the past few decades, we have seen how the world has changed with the exponential growth of technology and the ways in which we use it. Social media is one contribution of this growth that has become crucial to the typical “21st century life”. Even if you do not have it, chances are, you are not immune to its impact on the world. One of the most important effects social media has had on the world is its contribution to activism. From MySpace to TikTok and everything in between, the use of social media has unequivocally evolved. From a site meant to stay better connected to friends, social media has since turned into a platform of endless possibilities. Take Instagram for example: what started out as a photo-sharing app has today become a platform for so much more; such as business and social change. However, some would argue that it has created a flurry of problems for users, mainly relating to mental health, but its contribution to forming a well-informed and well connected society remains indisputable.

echo August 11, 2021

Educational Lifestyle Self-help

Finding Your Identity

“Your identity is your most valuable possession. Protect it.”

Elastigirl, The Incredibles.

echo July 28, 2021

Educational Health Lifestyle

Speak Our Language—Language, Culture, Social Media and Mental Health

*From the comment section of the music video for Hollowness by Minami, a Japanese song, which explains the wordplay in her lyrics*

The role of language is fascinating, yet overlooked and understated. Language can be a barrier, or a bridge. Even grudgingly, it is used as a measure of intelligence or sophistication. English speakers are seen as being more sophisticated and intelligent as knowing this language is like the opening of doors across the world; yet, not knowing other languages potentially closes us off from exploring the literature or shows produced in those languages. Would we be able to fully understand and enjoy anime without subtitles, for example? Surely we can understand universal non-verbal communication or guess the story based on context, but subtitles allow us to immerse ourselves in the river of experience. Even so, translations are quite limited—we’re missing the intricacies of the original version; we can only bathe in a river, but not the sea.

echo July 2, 2021