Jac’s the best: The ‘Gegar Vaganza’ winner is celebrating two decades in show business.
Compiled by RAGANANTHINI VETHASALAM and TAN SIN CHOW
SINGER Jaclyn Victor (pic), who will mark her 20th year in show business next year, has made clear that she wants to remain focused on her career without attracting controversies, Kosmo! Ahad reported.
“I don’t need controversy to stay relevant. I want people to know me as a singer and discuss my songs and my singing, not other things that don’t bring benefit,” she said in an interview.
Jaclyn, who won the ninth edition of the Gegar Vaganza singing competition, acknowledged that some artistes wanted to seek public attention by creating a controversy.
“I don’t want that approach. I can’t even face criticism and brickbats from netizens, I simply can’t take it,” she said.
Jaclyn, 45, also said she and her management are preparing to hold a mega concert next year to mark her 20-year music career.
She said the concert needs to be carefully planned, so she will not rush things.
> Many senior citizens have been left abandoned at old folks homes as a form of “revenge” by their own children, Mingguan Malaysia reported.
This was the main cause of such abandonment of 1,738 senior citizens in the past five years, the report said, quoting a Health Ministry statement.
Some of these old folks had apparently neglected to care for their children when they were younger.
“The children were affected by the behaviour of their parents,” it said.
Thus, both sides felt distant from each other.
Another factor was a lack of financial means to care for the older people.
Furthermore, those who were abandoned did not have relatives to care for them.
“There are also issues involving a lack of documentation which hampers the search for their relatives,” it said.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
