Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Suicide

Japan and China have been the countries that note the highest rate of people who commit suicide. Now, that trend is not only popular at Japan and China. It has spread to another country and Malaysia is one of them.People who commit suicide seems very determine to die witout fear. They do not think about their parents.

An Indian girl in Nibong Tebal, Penang was determined to suicide after she received her UPSR result. Can we imaging, a 13 years old girl could hang herself. It is not a good trend and this phonomenon must be stop right now.

Sometimes, films or movies at television can give them the ideas. In addition, it will give them a bad impact to the children. They will try at home. When they grow up, they might practice this whenever they facing the critical problem. So, parents should take extra loving and care toward their children. Do not put over pressure to their children. Let's motivate your children and give them the full support, instead of giving them a pressure and warning.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Genetic Difference

Do you ever think why your face or your appearance looks like your parents' have? The answer is because we have our parents' gene, one from the mother and one from the father. The dominant will win and the recessive one will lose. For example, if your father has the gene that control the white skin but your mother has the gene that control the dark skin. If your father's gene is dominant, you will have the white skin, rather than the dark skin.

God is the Most Great. He create every people with diference fingerprinting. No one in this world have the same fingerprinting, otherwise many problem will be create. The fingerprinting is very useful to indicate the criminal and to detect the identity of a person.

How about the cancer? Many people said that if your parents have serious disease like heart attack or diabetis, you will have high probality to have those too. May be, it is because of the genetic. The same goes to the case of having twin children. If you have ancestor or grandparents or parents or relatives that have twin before this, may be you will have twin too.

Nowadays, biogenetic becomes very famous. It is one of the field that we must discover and of course we will learn many things that we do not know before this.

Sports Dilemma

Nowadays, there still a lot of world records that can not be break by people. Do you ever think why in the past, sporting champions could make many worlds record, but we as the new generation of young sporting athlete, who have a lot of facilities and knowledge can not go beyond them? The main reason is because of our attitude. Today, sporting champions are more likely to be motivated by prize money and the opportunity to be famous rather than to win a match or to break the world records.

It is no doubt that money is very important. Everything that we have done, we want back the payment or reward. Now, the problem is, our athlete tend to be selfish. They need to think not only for themselves, but for the sake of other people and country as well. They aim only for the money. As the result, if they do not get high money or allowance, they will play badly. We can take our football players as the example. They forget that the main objective is to win for the country and make Malaysia proud. People will know Malaysia and this is the best time to prove to other people that Malaysian can do what other people did.

Besides that, some world champions prefer to take drugs in order to maintain their reputation. They do not think about the bad effects that might harm themselves. There is no point to win if they just cheat. Although they can break hundreds of world records, they cheat their fans, referee and the most important, they cheat themselves. May be, it is pressure to make sure that we must get gold medal, otherwise people will laugh at us, but taking drugs is not the best solution. Marion Jones, the world best sprinter, is one of the victims for this case. She had to give back her medals that she won in the last Olympic because people found that she was cheating by taking drug. She had disappointed many people, friend and her country as well. They might be shamed and their winning was not approved.

Teenagers tend to take sports stars, like David Beckham as their idol. They want to be famous and rich like these persons. Seems like sports is one of the short way to gain a lot of money and have a big opportunity to become famous. Even though we do not have skills, at least we have a charming and handsome face. The impact is, there is no quality, but high popularity. Sometimes, they also play badly or not very well, but, because they are well-known and asset for the media to sell their newspaper, the reporter will find another hot story to cover themselves. Consequently, people will easily forget about their failure. Usually, this kind of person will create a lot of problems. If they have mood to play, they will play and win the game. On the other hand, if they are not in their mood, they do not afraid to lose the game because they know that they have thousand of fans who still support for them.

To sum up, the first thing for the athletes need is to change their attitude or behavior. Play for themselves and for the country. Do not think too much about the money and name because the works that we done with sincerity will be repaid with the high respect from people. Popularity will follow the quality.

Art vs Money

When we mention art, what are the things that cross in your mind? Yes, there are a lot of examples that is referring to the art such that painting, sculpture, literature, theatre and others. Creative artists in the pass were very good in creating the best drawing until all their works could be label as the ‘Work of Art’. They had displayed certain qualities that were unique. It is sad that their achievement was not smoothly followed by young artists today and it is true when people said that there has been a decline in the quality of prize-winning artwork.

The first thing to note is, how the quite ordinary pieces of art can be label ‘masterpieces’ whilst true works of art pass unnoticed? I think that it is reasonable to say that people in the past century are more creative and they tend to draw, write or imaging something clearly. They expressed their full feeling on their painting or poem and dedicated to the person who was very meaningful in their life. They did not care about the money or the payment, but they felt satisfied when people around them appreciated their hard works. William Shakespears is the famous poetry, who had made a lot of poem and story based on what he had experienced before. He was honest in delivering his art works.

Besides that, artists in the past century liked to travel around the world. They still want to learn and gain knowledge. When they stay in some beautiful country or they loved someone, they preferred to immortalize what they had seen on their painting. Nowadays, artists like to do draw something that we as the normal person can not even catch what they want to express. May be, their way of thinking is different from us, but it showed that they are not successfully doing their job because we can not understand what they want to say. If we look to the portrait of Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci, it seem to be a simple art work, but that simple one is the cheapest portrait in the world.

However, the art works today are not recognizing by their quality, but depend on who has drawn or create the works. Somebody who has money and ‘power’ can easily make a gallery and exhibition around the world. Even though their art works are quite ordinary, their pieces of art tend to achieve the label of ‘masterpieces’. Usually, a daughter or a son of the richest person likes to open the art gallery using the ‘big’ name of their father. So, we can not find the real artists. May be, they do not have money and opportunity to expose themselves. In addition, artists nowadays tend to work for the money and not truly express their feeling.

As the conclusion, it is better for us to look back in the past and try to imitate what the artists have done until they could make a great art works. Do not be shy to learn something and follow our heart. In order to make a good art works, be sincere in what you want to deliver and follow your heart.

Desire vs failure

Do you ever heard about ‘Mat Jenin’? His story was the famous one and it was the best example to prove that desire was not strong enough to make someone success in their life. Desire is the strong wish to have or to something. I totally agree with the statement that failure is proof that desire wasn’t strong enough, based on the fact that action is more important than desire. We are easily to target or aim something, but never think how to get it.

Referred to the stories of many successful persons, it has proved that their dreams were triggered by their desire to be success and change their life. The best thing to note is, they do not stop at that point, but make the rigorous action to make sure their dreams become true. Desire is in our heart and mind while action is the acting, together with efforts that we strive in order to get something. Let take Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhari, seventh richest person in Malaysia as our example. In his young aged, he wanted to be rich and drive a big car. He determined himself to work hard and started to sell cookies from house to house. He also learned from the beginning and not put the great effort to get what he has today.

After wishing something, we must to plan smartly. If you fail to plan, you actually plan to fail. Smart robbers can be categorized as the intelligent person because they think carefully before they start to rob the bank or ATM machine. They think about how to overcome the security guard and they train themselves to do something quickly and effectively. We as the student must plan our future from now on. For example, try to make the time table and train ourselves to be discipline. Besides that, make our own group study and refer to many references like internet, lecturers or international books to enlarge our knowledge.

Knowledge is the important part that ones must have if he or she wants to be success. Desire is not enough to bring us to the bright future, but we must find the knowledge. In addition, it is more valuable than wealth. Knowledge will guide us to the right path and it is useful to determine what is right or what is wrong. People who want to start the business must have at least the knowledge on how to get the capital, how to arrange the money or how to obtain the materials. Otherwise, they will bankrupt or easy to cheated by other people.

Overall, I think the most important thing for someone to success in their life is not just desire. We must think beyond this and prepare ourselves to face with the obstacles that might happen. Desire is not enough and do not let it to kill our dream. Let us get up and start working!

Saturday, October 20, 2007

My Rigorous Effort in Improving English

English is one of the crucial language that all of us must to empower. It does mean that we must to ignore Malay language and look down on it. It is for the sake of knowledge and to improve ourselves to be better than before. It is no doubt that we must to empower this language because all of the materials (reference books) are in English. If we are not good in English, we might find it difficult to read some books.

In order to improve my English (Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking), the first thing that I have done is reading English newspaper. When I was in secondary school, I prefer to read Malay newspaper than English newspaper. It is easier and faster. After been advised by my lecturers, I started to buy English newspaper and Reader's Digest. I need to change my perspection and my behaviour. At first, I need at least two days to finish reading the newspaper. Many works had to do such as finding some bombastic word from dictionary and there are a lot of waord that I could not understand. I determined myself to read it and now, I only need one day to finish reading it. Besides refered to the dictionary, I also asked my friends if I do not understand some sentences or words.

I am very week or not good in Listening part. I became very scared if my lecterur held Listenung Test. I practised my ears to hear English songs and tried to translated them into Malay. I also tried to open all the websites that my lecterer gave. My favourite website is http://www.esl-lab.com/. I almost finish done that task. When I have opportunity to going home, I will stay up to watch Nigthline and watch some English movies. Sometimes, I do not understand what does the caster said, but I still hear and let my myself become familiar with their slank.

In IKAL, my friends and I try to speak English everywhere. Although we speak broken English, I think all of us must continue to speak in English without shy to do mistakes. For writing part, I practising myself to read as many books as I can. Sometimes, the articles that I have read can be the good examples for me to learn and copy. I always look how to write a good introduction and improve my vocabulary. I also always update my blogger because this one of the best way to all out our ideas and make us thinking when writing.

All of these effort are very important, not only for me to score in IELTS, but it will help me in my future. I hope my lecturers and friends will help me in order to improve my poor English.

My Eid Experience

This year, my Eid became very adventure. I did not have opportunity to ‘sahur’ at home and I broke my last fasting at home for the first time. I arrived at Kangar around 4 p.m from Kuala Lumpur in the evening before Eid. My parents were very excited and my mother cook my favorites food that evening. My family and I would celebrate our Eid at our house, in Taman Beseri Jaya.

It was a bright morning. I woke up early and took bath. After iron my ‘baju kurung’, I helped my mother prepared ‘ketupat, rendang, and laksa’. Usually, we would eat some food before we went to the mosque. All of our family prayed Eid prayer. There were a lot of people and I felt very exultant to meet many people from all walks of life. We hugged and greeted each other. After that, we went to my grandparents’ house, which located at Arau and Pendang, Kedah. I also met my cousins there. It was a great moment since I did not met them for a long time. Therefore, many stories came out.

At second day of Eid, we just wait at home. Many people came to my house and most of them were my parent’s friends. Although I already 19 years old, I still get a lot of money because most of them thought I was in secondary school. May be, this is advantage to has a small body and cute face.

But, I felt quite worried because my final exam was just around the corner. It was hard since I still in Eid mood and many interesting programmed at television. I made decision to went back to UNITEN early in order to prepare for my final exam.