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A proud moment for the padel community in Perak!

Padel Perak, located at Hugh's Racquet Club, recently had the honour of welcoming the Tengku Mahkota Pahang for a game of padel.

Our friend Tim, founder of Padel Perak, together with his wife Bing, had the privilege of hosting and playing with His Royal Highness during the visit.

It is wonderful to see padel continuing to grow in popularity and bringing people together through sport. This visit is a testament to the increasing recognition of padel in Malaysia and the tremendous effort Tim and Bing have put into developing the sport in Perak.

Congratulations to Tim and Bing on this memorable occasion. We look forward to seeing Padel Perak continue to flourish and inspire more people to take up the game.

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Something stopped people in their tracks at KLCC today.

Three hyper-realistic sculpted faces, suspended behind a curved glass enclosure right in the middle of the mall. Eyes closed. Pale. Perfectly still. White tubes coiling beneath them like the wiring of something that almost has a heartbeat.

People stopped. Stared. Some moved on quickly. Others lingered.

There is a concept in science called the 'Uncanny Valley', first introduced by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori back in 1970. His research discovered something fascinating and deeply unsettling. The closer an artificial face gets to looking truly human, the more uncomfortable we feel around it. Not less. More. Our brain picks up that something is 'almost' right, and that tiny gap between almost and real is what triggers a deep, instinctive unease.

These faces were living proof of that theory.

And standing in one of KL's busiest malls, surrounded by shoppers and noise and the ordinary rhythm of a Friday afternoon, this installation was asking something much bigger than what it appeared to be.

We spent years imagining what the rise of AI would look like. Movies gave us chrome robots and red glowing eyes and dramatic moments of reckoning. We thought we would 'know' when it arrived.

But it did not arrive like that at all.

It arrived in our children's classrooms. In the phones we hand to our kids without a second thought. In the essays being written and submitted without a single original idea. In the decisions being made quietly, on our behalf, by systems we built but no longer fully understand.

The machines did not rise. They simply appeared. Calm. Composed. Eyes gently closed, as if in meditation.

And now here we are, standing at the glass, staring at faces that look almost like ours, wondering which side of the future we are actually on.

This is the conversation every parent, every educator, and every Malaysian needs to be having right now. Because the children sitting in classrooms today are going to inherit a world shaped by artificial intelligence. The most important thing we can give them is not just knowledge of how to use these tools, but the wisdom to know 'why', and the critical thinking to stay human while doing it.

The question was never will the machines rise.

The question is this: 'when AI looks back at us, what will it have learned from watching us?'

Will it have learned empathy? Integrity? The courage to ask hard questions? The discipline to do the deep work even when shortcuts exist?

Or will it have learned that we were too busy scrolling to notice the moment we were living in?

The faces do not answer.

That part has always been up to us.

Drop a comment below. Does AI excite you, unsettle you, or both? This is a conversation worth having.

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🤖 AI Just Beat a Room Full of Doctors. Here's Why Every Parent Needs to Read This.
Something extraordinary happened in Shanghai recently, and almost nobody in Malaysia was talking about it.
At the city's first Medical AI Skills Competition, teams of senior physicians went head-to-head with advanced AI systems to solve a complex gastrointestinal case.
The AI diagnosed it in 2 seconds.
The expert doctors took 13 to 15 minutes to reach the same conclusion.
And it wasn't a one-off. In a separate real-world deployment, an AI system tested on over 40,000 patients was 34% more accurate than trained radiologists at detecting pancreatic cancer early, catching cases that human eyes had completely missed.

🏥 But here's what the headlines missed, and what every parent should actually understand:
China isn't replacing doctors with AI. They're making doctors superhuman with it.
With one of the largest patient populations on earth, Chinese hospitals face crushing workloads. So AI is being deployed to do what it does best: process enormous volumes of data at speed, so that human doctors can focus on what only humans can do: complex judgment, bedside care, and genuine human empathy.
In fact, China has now launched the world's first AI-run "Agent Hospital", staffed by self-evolving virtual physicians capable of diagnosing and treating over 300 diseases. These systems handle patient simulations and assist with hospital admissions, triaging, and infusions at tier-one hospitals.
And yet, medical directors and officials are consistent on one point: the goal is not replacement. It is empowerment.
Because even the most advanced AI still struggles with nuanced, sensitive cases that demand a human touch. Skepticism remains in the medical community around liability, ethics, and situations where deep empathy isn't optional; it's everything.

The doctors who learned to work with AI became more powerful. The ones who didn't fall behind.

🎯 Now ask yourself this as a parent:
What are we actually preparing our children for?
I think about this a lot. Not just as an educator, but as a parent myself.
My kids are growing up in a world that looks nothing like the one I studied for. The old formula, study hard, memorise everything, pass the exam, get the job, that formula is quietly breaking down.
Because the machine that just outdiagnosed a room full of specialists? It didn't memorise a textbook. It learns by recognising patterns, applying knowledge, and improving with every single case.
Sound familiar? That's what real learning looks like.

💭 Here's the uncomfortable truth most parents aren't ready to hear:
A child who spends 12 years memorising facts is training to compete against something that can recall 40 million facts in 0.3 seconds.
But a child who learns how to think, how to question, how to connect ideas, and how to keep learning, that child becomes irreplaceable.
The future doesn't belong to the student who scored highest on a test that no longer matters.
It belongs to the one who knows what to do when there's no test at all.

🏠 What can we do as parents, starting tonight?
Three simple shifts. No cost. Big impact.
1. Stop asking "What did you study today?", ask "What did you figure out today?"
It trains your child to think, not just absorb.
2. Let them be wrong and work through it.
Resilience and problem-solving are built in the struggle, not in the answer key.
3. Learn alongside them.
When your child sees you still curious, still growing, still asking questions, they understand that learning never stops. That's the most powerful lesson you'll ever teach them. And it costs nothing.

🌏 The doctors in Shanghai who embraced AI didn't lose their jobs.
They became better doctors.
That's the world our children are entering. Not a world where humans lose to machines, but one where humans who know how to think, adapt, and collaborate with intelligent tools will lead.
Our job as parents isn't to shield our children from this future.
It's to make sure they're ready for it.
Not the world from 30 years ago. The one that's already here.

💬 What's one thing you wish someone had taught you before you entered the working world?

Drop it in the comments, let's get a real conversation going. Our kids might just be reading this, too. 👇

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THE AI ARTICLE YOUR KIDS NEED YOU TO READ
(Based on Mo Gawdat's conversation with Steven Bartlett)

Mo Gawdat spent years inside Google building artificial intelligence. He is not a sci-fi writer or a doomsday prophet. He is an engineer and a father. And what he is saying right now should make every parent in this community stop and think.

Here is the short version. Then we will go deeper.

AGI is Already Here

Artificial General Intelligence means a machine that can do most tasks better than a human. Mo says it has already arrived. An AI writes better than him, researches faster than him, and beats him in mathematics. The official marker that most experts are watching is somewhere between now and 2027.

This is not a future problem. It is a today problem.

Jobs Are Going. Not All of Them. But Enough.

Mo predicts that up to 30 percent of jobs in certain sectors will disappear by 2027 to 2028. Not the carpenter. Not the nurse. But call centre agents, travel agents, graphic designers, paralegals, financial analysts, and yes, entry level white collar work at every level.

Steven Bartlett himself admitted that Anthropic, one of the biggest AI companies in the world, said roughly 15 percent of entry level jobs can already be done by AI. Companies are not laying people off dramatically yet. But they have quietly stopped hiring juniors. The bottom rung of the corporate ladder is being removed before the next generation even gets to climb it.

Your child who is studying law or business or graphic design right now is walking toward a job market that is being redesigned without them in mind.

So What Survives?

Here is the good news, and it is real good news. Human connection survives. The nurse who sits with you and explains a diagnosis. The counsellor who listens without judgment. The teacher who knows your child's name and notices when something is wrong. The person who can look you in the eye and say, I understand because I have been there. These jobs do not just survive. They become more valuable.

Mo puts it simply. When Ed Sheeran performs live, the AI could compose something more technically perfect. But people will still pay to watch Ed Sheeran because there is something in witnessing a human being do something remarkable that no machine can replicate.

The Honest Warning

Mo does not sugarcoat it. He expects genuine economic pain. He compares what is coming to the years between the discovery of nuclear power and the signing of the nuclear treaty. The first implementations of any transformative technology almost always benefit the powerful few at the expense of everyone else.

He is not worried about AI turning against us. He is worried about humans telling AI to turn against us.

And he believes that if we tolerate what is happening right now, our children will be the ones who pay the price.

What You Can Do

This is the part of the conversation that most people skip to and then feel overwhelmed by. Mo does not ask for a revolution. He asks for one small action.

Learn AI yourself. Not to be trendy. To understand what your child is entering.

Talk to your children about human skills. Empathy. Communication. The ability to sit with another person and make them feel seen. These are not soft skills. In the world that is coming, they are the hardest and most valuable skills there are.

Vote with your usage. If a company is using AI to surveil, target, or exploit people, stop using their products. Simple. Small. But it sends a signal.

And refuse to stay uninformed. Because the biggest risk is not AI getting smarter. It is parents and communities not knowing what is happening until it is already done.

A Final Thought

Mo lost his son Ali. He speaks about the future not from ambition but from love for his daughter Aya. He does not want her to inherit a world that the current generation was too distracted or too comfortable to fix.

He ends the conversation with this. He is optimistic about the long term. Super intelligence, when it truly arrives, will not see value in war, waste, or oppression. It will optimise toward abundance and human flourishing.

But the decade between now and then will be rough. And what determines whether your family is on the right side of that decade is whether you start paying attention today.

One small action. That is all he is asking for.

Share this with a parent who needs to hear it.

At EdQuest International School by Rochford's Education, we have been asking these exact questions for years. That is why we built a school that does not just prepare students for exams. We prepare them for a world that is changing faster than any syllabus can keep up with.

Our IGCSE programme is self paced, mastery based, and built around the belief that knowing how to think, how to connect, and how to keep learning is the real qualification for the decade ahead.

If you want to know more about how we are preparing your child for this future, reach out to us today. We would love to have that conversation.

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