Different Aspects Of Culture

When we talk about 'culture', People's understanding may be varied. What are the real meanings of cultures?

Culture may be performed in many terms as festivals, dances, food, clothing as well as music.
Malaysia is rich of many types of cultures as the country has multicultural nations. Three main nations of Malaysians are Malays, Chinese, and Indians that contribute to different foreign cultures from the previous generations, absorbed into our country.

In term of festivals, the Malays celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri as well as Hari Raya Qurban. Meanwhile, the Chinese will have Chinese New Year and MoonCake Festival as the most hilarious one while the Indians celebrate their Deepavali, Thaipusam and many more. We can also describe culture as clothing. As we can see, Malay women wear a baju kurung, baju kebaya, and a baju kebarung. Oftentimes, if the woman is not dressed in a tudung, a long dress, she will decorate herself with an accessory such as a sanggul, also known as a headscarf. All the clothing modestly covers most of their skin to prevent men from looking at women in a sectual. While Chinese women wear the cheongsam, a one-piece dress with a high neck. It can be fitted or loose, with side slits at the hem.

And so we have many cultures in our homeland. Enclosed I would like to say Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all readers. Thank you.

I Have A Dream!

A very good morning to thousands and millions of you in front of me that I would to share about things, things that become very important regarding our 50th independent. Within 446 years later, our country, our nations as well as our motherland, Malay Land had been invaded by many intruders, different religion foreign invaders from different cultural nations, leaving our development 20 years back, faraway than nowadays developed invaders’ countries according to the rate of infrastructural development. 446 years later, our nations had many many times attracted the wild eyes all over the world, that our men had become great travelers over the world. Our nations had many many times paddled their canoes, explore rather than expose themselves to the world’s countries that our language had ever been ‘lingua franca’ many moons ago.

And so gaining independent is not as easy as ABC. Gaining independent is not like we play games. Gaining independent is not like paying for goods in the markets or outlets. But independent that we gained was full of severe agony that took a very long time to the final achievement that is our freedom. We are all independent…we are all freely working…we are now independently creating our country organizations and governmental systems and that is a proof we are all independent nations.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Malaysian dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and have a better life. I have a dream that my four brothers will one day live in the time that life becomes easier than at the present. And so am I. I have a dream today! I have a dream that is to be a better person and teacher in this life and no doubt about that.

Water Resources And Environmental Problems

“Mom, today’s really hot. My skin will get burn as I get too much exposure to the sun.” That’s what my little brother always moans. “And sometimes it is going very cold.” He continues. In fact, it is so wondering. What lead to the phenomenon?...

Blame ourselves is the must instead of blaming God and it is the true answer, always being that. Every year, vast areas of forests are cleared for the purpose of agriculture and development. All such green ‘creatures’ are thoughtlessly being harvested, ignoring the oncoming long term impacts. Tropical rainforests play important ecological roles. They house almost half of the world’s flora and fauna with many unique species which produce a large amount of oxygen and food we daily eat. Plants are also called the ‘carbon sink’ of the Earth because they absorb vast amounts of carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and at the same time release oxygen in the atmosphere.Then the lack of plants would lead to an increase in the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere.

As such deforestation disrupts normal weather patterns, creating hotter and drier weather and causing global climatic changes. Scientifically, carbon dioxide emitted by living things can absorb vast amounts of heat from the sunlight. When sunlight enters the earth’s atmosphere, some of its solar radiation is reflected back to space. However, the radiation is not totally out of space as most of the radiation remains trapped as well as absorbed by carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases. The greater the quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the greater the heat will be absorbed. Consequently, this may warm the surface of the land and sea, contributing to an overall rise in the average temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere. The increase in atmospheric temperature is high enough to cause changes in the global climate, namely global warming.

Work, Attitudes and Beliefs, and Social Changes

Scientifically, work is defined as the distance traveled multiplied by the force exerted on an object which is in Joule(J) or Newton meter(Nm) unit. We can make the hypotesis that the greater the force given or exerted on the object, the greater the work is. So as in our daily life. The highest any work exerted to us, the highest the pressure is. I myself have experienced such condition that a lot of work I have to finish up in short time. It does not mean that we should blame our lecturers or teachers. Otherwise, we may blame ourselves. We all know that lecturers just carry on their priorities towards their lessons in classes, thus do not put all blames on them. All we have to do is to properly manage our time as well as creating timetables so that, there is no more blame towards each other.

Everybody has either good or bad attitude. When there is too many works to be finished up at the same time, one’s attitude would immediately change to worse situation. In fact, our attitude is the key that opens our mind and heart to better job performance, an enriching career and life. Of course we want success and good result in all walks of life, in our daily work as well as our relations. The most crucial single factor that guarantees possible results is the positive mental attitude.

Money And Natural Resources

Our earth supplies a large amount of natural resources that is uncountable to be counted. Natural resources can be classified into two main groups which are renewable and non-renewable resources.

Non-renewable resources are considered as resources that cannot be particularly renewed after consuming them. Natural resources like coal, petroleum, natural gas are the examples. Currently, there is a lot of issues associated with these natural resources. The more we talk about the resources the worse certain issues are. Scene like war in the country of Iraq especially is due to the petroleum yield with large amount attracting powerful countries to take charge of it. However, non-renewable resources can gradually be renewed. All we have to do is just to wait for million of years to get the pure yield. Hence, the resources cannot be replaced as fast as we consumed. At the present, world population becomes more and more year by year, day by day that what we are worried about.

In fact, our surroundings are rich of resources that can be renewed, namely renewable energy. Oxygen, fresh water, timber and biomass are the examples of renewable resources. So as wind energy. Wind contributes no pollution which is clean and safe to get used of it.

Wind power is actually the conversion of wind energy into more useful forms, commonly electricity using wind turbines. In certain countries, wind power had been generated in large scale wind forms to generate and supply electricity to rural residences or grid-isolated locations as practiced in California.

My Opinion On The Movie ‘The King And I’.

The movie ‘The King And I’ I watched in the past two weeks had touched me a lot. I like the movie very much as it is an old-fashioned style as well as a classic movie. I actually like the classic movie, the one I had seen, especially when it involves the British authors. The way the characters pronounce each word in British English Language style entirely attracted me to stay tune till the end of the movie although there is a technical problem during half of the movie. I do not know whether it is wrong or not to be a ‘British’ heart. The things that play in my mind till now is that can I be a very fluent person in speaking like the native speakers considering that I’m a very weak person among the rest whether in writing, speaking, listening as well as reading. Only for this text I have tried very hard to make it done.To be continued…

The Way People Live Together And Share Of The World’s Resources

In my hometown, the state of Terengganu, a lot of programmes have been run by the government under the latest chief minister, Dato’ Seri Idris Bin Jusoh for the purpose of increasing the collaboration among nations with different community background. Well, the most common one is ‘gotong-royong’ which is well-organised to the national, state, district even to the village level. In my village, Kampung Atas Tol, in the district of Kuala Terengganu, the celebration is quite warm that the youngers and the oldest generations are actively involved in such tough activity. To my village, there would be a ‘gotong-royong’in a month time which is usually being held on Friday morning in a fortnight. All people, making their steps from their house will have their works together, cleaning the graveyard, roadside area and mosque compound. Meanwhile, the women prepare plenty of food to be served to working men. Food like ‘kuih lapis’, ‘karipap’, and ‘akak’ are the most famous food in my state, served whenever it is going to be a grand ceremony.
When it comes to Friday noon, all male muslims will have their prayers at the mosque as it is a priority as a muslim towards his God. They will gather and listen to a sermon just before they pray. What I would like to share with you is that besides running their priority to God, they have made a lot of donations in the form of cash that seems to have a hectic effect for the purpose of our village and community development somewhere. With the large amount of the money, we may definitely reduce poverty problems faced by lots of people especially people in deep regions as well as it has become one of the contents in Ninth Malaysia Plan.