Childhood Life

My childhood life was an awesome experience. I still remember my cute face with innocent attitude. Even though I don't have a lot of friends at that time, but I still have a lot of sweet memories as a children. Perhaps,  when we talked about our childhood life, people will tell about their scariest moment, life at primary school, their favorite candy, but for me, I really love my childhood life is because I have a lot of experienced with children toys and games. It gave me an awesome memories that I can't easily forget. When I was a child, I played various of game. Let me introduce to all of you a list of traditional games that makes me addicted with it ;

1. Batu seremban

2. Guli

3. Firing with wooden gun

4. Ceper

5. Teng-ten

But all of these are my favorite traditional games. Usually I played that type of games at my house area with my neighbors. There are some modern games that also makes me enjoy with it:

1. UNO card -  is an american card game which is played with a specially printed deck. Usually, I played this game at school with my classmates. Especially after we finish our final exam.

2. Saidina - Like Monopoly, Saidina is a property trading game and is a Household name in Malaysia. Positions on the board are based on Towns and Famous are solely for streets. Instead of train stations, oil palm, coconut, rubber and pineapple plantations are substituted. Instead of chance or community chest cards, there is only a "keputusan" or Decision cards to draw from in this game. This game takes a long duration of time, but it still an interesting game to play with friends and also families.

3. Sahiba - It is the first Malaysian version of Scrabble in Bahasa Melayu. It also can be played in BM or English individually or both languages at the same time. But the best part about this game is sometimes we likes to create a funny sentences.

4. Tamagotchi - is a tiny pet from cyberspace who needs your love to survive and grow. If you take good care of your Tamagotchi pet, it will slowly grow bigger, healthier, and more beautiful every day. Bit if you neglect your little cyber creature, your Tamagotchi may grow up to be mean or ugly. How old will your Tamagotchi be when it returns to its home planet? What kind of virtual caretaker will you be? During my age, this game became a phenomenon among the children. It comes with different design and various in color. 

5. Tamiya - Radio controlled cars that used battery. As a boy, we like to compete with each other. We try to bought the most stylish design of car. But the main point of this game is a race. So, the fastest car will be the highest ranking among us.

6. Yoyo - Many yo-yo tricks are done while the yo-yo is said to be sleeping. One of my favorite tricks on the yo-yo is "walk the dog". This is done by throwing a strong sleeper and allowing the yo-yo to roll across the floor, before tugging it back to the hand. 

Sometimes, I felt like I want to find Doraemon and ask him to bring me back to my past time. Haha it looks insane but I really meant it. Because my childhood memories are really valuable. 

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Cultural Taboos

   Taboos practiced by the Malay community earlier is intended to educate the public to practice good values ​​in their lives. It is practiced as taboo as inheritance of their ancestors and those responsible for them to practice and bring down the tradition to their children or their grandchildren. In such a taboo has its own meaning which will be beneficial in their lives.

Examples of Malay Taboos:
1. The girls are prohibited from sleeping in the house or front door pillar.
It said this would cause severe illness struck.
2. Forbidden to eat fish heads, especially for a child.
As a result, they will be difficult to remember the lessons

   For the Indians, there are some taboos that should be practiced by a pregnant mother.
Forbidden to leave the house alone at night
Forbidden to sleep during the day or sleeping excessively.
Prohibited from doing bad deeds like backbiting, making defamation, fighting, slaughter animals and so on.
Within 2 months after delivery, the mothers should abstain from doing heavy work.

   Indian community to adopt a 60-day period of confinement. On the first day, relatives and neighbors are not encouraged to visit the newly born baby home for fear that interferes with newborns and cause surprise.

   There are some taboos in Chinese society wedding too, Prospective brides are not encouraged to attend the funeral ceremony for 3 months before and after the marriage.
   Decorations in the marriage is not encouraged to use the white clothes, dark blue, black and green. In the new brides bedroom, bed, desk and closet should be placed in the normal position and not the corner of the room.

   Even numbers are often used in the marriage ceremony. According to Chinese belief, the marriage that did not follow the prescribed protocol is an invalid marriage.

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Baby Dumping

Baby dumping usually involve teenagers who act rashly when to take action. Increasingly serious crisis like this cannot be hidden when the mainstream newspapers often display these incidents in their press very broadly. This is not only inconvenient but also the various parties will be tarnished image of our country. So, before finding a solution, we need to identify the reasons before water under the bridge.

This crisis happened because of lack of religious education among our youth. This deficiency, probably due to lack of parental care and the impact of modernity that struck the country. Teenagers who don’t have a great faith, more easily influenced by the demands of their sexual desires. Without a strong religious upbringing, they cannot distinguish an act they were right or wrong and cannot distinguish between the admirable despicable. It can easily be seen when the girls involved in the mire while adultery is adultery forbidden in religion. Result, many children are born out of wedlock and eventually an innocent baby was thrown for saving face teenage deeds. So, less strong religious upbringing that causes this problem is endemic.

Additionally, this issue was rampant because the family institution itself has collapsed. This resulted in the responsibility of educating children cannot be fulfilled with good value. According to the Social Welfare Department survey, 50% of teen social problems arising from a destabilized family. Single parent who often busy looking alimony to support his family. Thus, they have neglected their responsibility to educate and monitor their child's daily behaviour. This neglect eventually invites consequences when their child is involved in an indecent act.

Before it's too late, this adolescent crisis must be addressed immediately. We should diversify a proactive approach to address this problem. One of the measures to be implemented are all walks of life to be given parenting education through various programs. Education aims to give their thoughts on marriage are legitimate to the people. In this way, people will be more careful not to commit incest. This point should be emphasized to all Malaysians, especially the youth. For example, parenting education program should be to educate teenagers about the things that need to be practiced in family life.

Further, religious and moral education should be emphasized by parents to sensitize children about sin and the consideration to be received. Parents should emphasize religious and moral education to their children and this process should be continued even if one were to increase the age of majority. Religious and moral education is important and should be inculcated in the minds of the people. Albert Einstein once said that religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame. This shows the importance of religious and moral education in our lives so that life would not be wobbling like a ship without a captain. For example, children should be taught religion since childhood because idle hands are the devil's tools to tell the kids not to ignore the prayer because prayer can prevent from doing evil. This is an effective way to create a society free of baby dumping cases.

In conclusion, baby dumping problem this caused by many factors have a distinctive approach to overcome if studied in a transparent manner. It’s time to get down to brass tacks; various parties have to work together to solve and reduce babied dumping cases that occur in our country. The problem will spread and become a thorn in the flesh if not addressed immediately. Cooperation from all parties is crucial to curb the problem. Through these efforts, the government's desire to create a healthy society and a distinction in terms of physical and spiritual realization.

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World Poverty

Much about poverty is obvious enough, particularly the relationship between World Poverty and necessity. Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings must have such as food and water, shelter, education, medical care, security, and so on. A multi-dimensional issue, poverty exceeds all social, economic, and political boundaries. As such, efforts to alleviate poverty must be informed of a variety of different factors.

In a new era of world, 4.4 billion people live in developing countries.

·         3/5 Lack basic sanitation and almost

·         1/3 Have no access to clean water.

·         1/4 Does not have adequate housing.

·         1/5  Has no access to modern health services.

In 1997 the richest 5th of the world’s population had 74 times the income of the poorest 5th. While, the top 3rd billionaires have assets greater than the combined GNP (Gross National Product) of all least developed countries and their 600 million people.

Food supplies are vital necessity and free health care is necessary for development. Malnutrition causes severe health problems, and can also affect education. Without education, it is difficult to escape from poverty. In poor countries, the percentage of children who die under the age of five is much higher than in rich countries. This becomes a vicious circle for people who live in poverty and cannot afford to send their children to school. When war or conflict in the country upheavals (including civil war) causing disrupted basic services such as education. People leave their homes will become refugees. Various crops also destroyed.

Most poverty countries lose economic resources through unfair trade agreements, lack of technology and investment, and rapidly changing prices for their goods. This means they cannot afford to spend enough on basic services like health and education, nor on things like transport or communications that might attract investment. Many people of the world poverty that have land, had taken over by large companies to grow crops for export.

 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of their self and family, including food, housing, education, medical care and necessary social services. First of all it's so important to promote and support education. Children need to have the tools available to them in order to learn to go to high school, college, and beyond to gain the finances to support not only themselves, but also their families. By having education available for children and having people that support and believe in the education of children can reduce poverty for many people and give these children the opportunity to live a wonderful and rewarding life.

Second we need to help these poor countries by promoting a need for charity, a need for involvement from those that are better off, and a need for organizations that can support these people in need. Partnerships are so important in change and there are a lot of people out there than can financially provide these partnerships. Hold food drives, since so many of these people are starving and can't afford food. With food drives, a few dollars from each person can make the world of a difference in providing food for these people to have at least two meals a day.

Thirdly we need to encourage those that are better off to reuse their products by donating them to charity. In millions of people's homes there are thousands of items that aren't being put to use that someone else would be able to make great use of.

 It's very hard for everyone to always accomplish goals on their own and we are much stronger when we have support from others. Poverty destroys many children’s dreams and it is time to say stop. It is time to integrate with each other for one cause because these people need us, it is time to show that we have golden hearts and we really understand how serious the problem with hunger is and it is time to be people and to show that we care not only for ourselves, but also for others in our planet.  With the help from the people that are able to provide and the willingness from those who need it great change can be made.

It's impossible for majority of the people living in poverty to change a way of life, if they haven't been taught anything different. By providing those people with the knowledge and tools we have been presented with, they too can live a life that we live and love every single day. So let’s help before it is too late and let’s show these people that they are not alone and somebody somewhere cares about them.

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Impoliteness

     Impoliteness or impolite in my understanding is something that is rude or very unrespectful behaviour but according to Oxford dictionary impolite is not having or showing good manners or rude. The word of impolite is originated from Latin word impolitus, from in-(not) + politus-(see polite) in early 17th century. This suggests that early civilizations have also been concerned about this problem or attitude.

     Nowadays, people with rude behaviour or impolite are no longer a problem to us even if we know or see something like this happen around us it is very common and normal. And if we look at the younger generation impoliteness is the new ways for them to communicate with each other. If this continues unabated and no party wants to be responsible and take action, it is not impossibe that our motherland will stay on the list of the third world country forever.

     So what is impolite behaviour? Impoliteness can happen in may ways and context and sometimes we dont even realize that we were doing something rude and impolite. This things can happen to you because sometimes there is a things that is normal in your country but it become offense in other country such as If you're in the East Asia or parts of South Pacific, you'll need to remember to remove your shoes before entering a house as a sign of respect (and cleanliness) and if you’re in Muslim countries Feet are considered taboo, and by showing the soles of your feet or tapping someone else with your shoe can be quite offensive. Rude body actions such as expelling flatulence or burping in the presence of others and using hate speech or ethnic slurs  is also a rude things and others  example of behaviour commonly regarded as impolite behaviour that many societies would consider rude or a breach of etiquette.

     Have you heard The English idiom "don't judge a book by its cover”? which means you shouldn't prejudge the worth, the quality, value of something or character of someone just by looking at them and I strongly agree with it. Why i said so? Do you know France or maybe Paris the fasion city, or the famous French citizens with their characters very romantic and very gentleman language, according to Forbes magazine and CNN Travel Skyscanner’s online poll, which received more than 1,200 responses from Europe, North America and Australia. France garnering nearly 20 percent of the total votes and was declared the champion of impoliteness for The World's Rudest Nations For Travelers. And that is a fact.

     So how are we going to handle this problem? Normally if we want to deal with a problem we have to find where is the root of the problem and where is it started. Can we put the blame on their school or teachers? Or maybe it is started even early than that, their parents? For me, first we should stop pointing finger at other people and start pointing at yourself, because i believe there is no parents or teachers in this world would teach or tell them to be rude or impolite with other people and i believe they have done their job very well. In my opinion, the only solution for this problem is yourself. Dont say “ i am what i am” and stop listening to what other people said that you are not worth enough to make this transformation or to be a good guy. This is our life and our body we have the full control of it. We have to start choose which side we want to be a part of? And there is a quote from one of my favourite movies, “ Firguring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has”. Think about it.

     Remember this, we as a muslim we have a guidance from Allah which is Al-Quran and in it there is one surah that we call Surat Ar-Ra`d (The Thunder) verse(13:11) “Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves”. So remeber, the power is always in yourself. Lets make change, together let's tackle this problem by taking responsibility and doing our jobs as citizens of One Malaysia to help build a country that not only developed but also be respected by people all over the world with his friendly attitude and manners. Last word from me, try to listen to this lyric. Ponder with an open mind.

Heal The World

Make It A Better Place

For You And For Me

And The Entire Human Race

There Are People Dying

If You Care Enough

For The Living

Make A Better Place

For You And For Me

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SELF INTRODUCTION

1. Assalammualaikum. Hey Guys! I’m Shahrul Azwan Bin Jasni and I’m still 19 years old. Among this group members, I’m the youngest. I was born at Klang and grew up at Shah Alam, Selangor. I took my SPM Examination at SMK Alam Megah, Sek.27, Shah Alam. While waiting for my SPM result to come out, I learned an additional skills at GiatMara Kota Raja, Shah Alam. I took Graphics Design and Advertising for 6 months. Graphics Design is my biggest obsession. I really love art and design. But it’s just for my additional skills. My main focus is still in Science Course. Alhamdulillah, I was offered to continue my study at Matriculation College at Gopeng, Perak. I study at there for 1 year. I’ve learned all the pure science subject including Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics. Besides that, I have my own company , Last1 design.  I’m a part timer of  Graphics Designer. Now, I’m at UniKL MICET as the bachelor student and a future Food Engineer. I tried to be a good Muslim and I hope my life will become more exciting from day by day.

2. I introduce myself by name Mohd Zulfahmie, 21 years old and on 6 November was my Anniversary day. I was the fourth of six sibling. Began schooling at the Sekolah Kebangsaan Temalir Kuala Krai and complete early times schooling in primary 6 at Sekolah Kebangsaan Kamil 2 Pasir Puteh. Later, I enrolled into Maahad Yaakubiah Nipah Bachok Kelantan. Before embarking on an adventure in the land micet, I have fulfill my duties as student in AUCMS Penang, and graduation as alumni  AUCMS in Diploma Medical Science. As a student with a vision, I also want to be a successful one and bring benefits to mankind especially those that give new hope to those in need. About my family background, my father worked as an elementary school teacher and my mother was a full-time homemaker.

3.      Assalamualikum w.b.t and greeting. My name is Suhaiqal bin Shuib. I was born in Kuala Lumpur on 12 March 1990 and that make me 23 years old this year. Quite old to continue my study but that doesn’t bother me at all, because for me seeking for knowledge there is no age limit. Continue with my story, I have 5 siblings 2 elder brother both of them already married and 2 younger sister still studying. My father’s name is Shuib B Yahaya from Selangor and he is a businessman and my mother’s name is Hajjah Saberina Bt Haji Zaini from Brunei Darussalam. So I have two hometown that is  so far away from one another.

     Through my life, I’ve been called with a lot of nickname. Such as Suhaiqal, Haiqal, Que, Qal, Hong Kong and Genji. But there is another nickname that is quite special for me which is ‘Alang’ that have been used by my family to called me sometime for a good reason and sometime the opposite way. And another one is ‘Awang Damit’, which means             Awang =   a name that has been used for a male and Damit = small. 

     I got my early education from Tadika Rasmi Jaya from 5 until 6 years old.  Then I went to primary school for 5 years until I reach 12 years old. Next I went to secondary school from form 1 until form 3. Then I got offered to continue my study to Langkawi Technical school for 2 years in Agrotechnology. But my SPM result was not good enough to get me into any Universities. Then I take Pre Diploma Science for 2 times fisrt is in Kolej Unikop and second is Kolej Teknologi Timur. Alhamdulillah my effort been paid I got offer from UiTM to continue my study in Diploma Medical Laboratory Technology. And now at Unikl Micet I take Chemical Engineering in Food Technolgy.

     Last but not least, I hope a better future for my self and hope I got a chance to pay back all the sacrifice that my parent have give for me.

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