Day : Annual Independence Day for Malaysia.

      Hari Merdeka (Independence Day) is a national day of Malaysia commemorating the independence of the Federation of Malaya from British colonial rule in 1957, celebrated on 31 August each year. This should not be confused with Hari Malaysia (Malaysia Day) when Malaysia was formed on 16 September 1963 together by Federation of Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore.

      Starting from 2015, as been stated by the Minister of Communication and Multimedia Ahmad Shabery Cheek, the Independence Day celebration is likely to be held without mentioning the number of years to prevent the people in Sabah and Sarawak from being isolated if the number of independence anniversaries was stated. However, the Minister of Land Development of Sarawak Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr James Masing reminded that since 16 September had been declared as Malaysia Day, it should be the rallying point for the nation's unity. He added "Everyone now knows that 31 August is Malaya's and Sabah's Independence Day… it's not our (Sarawak) independence day. They can celebrate it both in Malaya and in Sabah as they have the same Independence Day date, and we can join them there if they invite us. We must right the wrong". Masing was commenting on Shabery Cheek’s recent proposal that Malaysia should continue to commemorate 31 August as its Independence Day, without mentioning the anniversary year.

      Malaysia is a very unique and special country. It is located in South East Asia. The citizens are from different races and religions. So, Malaysia is called a multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious country. There are three main races in this developed country such as the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians. Most of them live in Peninsular Malaysia and are government servants. Although they practice different religions, they work together and live peacefully.

      The Independence Day is an annual celebration by the whole world but Malaysian names it as a Merdeka Day. All countries honour their respective independence day, celebrating it as a national holiday. Thus, on the 31 August every year, it is marked as the Malaysian Independence Day. However, there are lot differences of celebrating the Independence Day on 31 August and today in terms of spirit and technology.

      On 31st of August every year, we as Malaysians celebrate the National Day. A lot of people enjoy celebrating the National Day. We enjoy singing the National Songs, decorating our classroom, watching the countdown concert, counting down the time to midnight and watching the parade on National Day. But when we do all those things, do we feel anything or we just celebrate National Day without understanding or feeling anything?? Don’t you at least feel proud being a Malaysian?? At least, we should APPRECIATE living here in Malaysia. There are a lot of reasons why we should.

      These few years, Malaysians having a demonstration called Bersih which held at Kuala Lumpur. Bersih 2.0 criticised the Inspector-General of Police and other authorities today for throwing up roadblocks on their month-end rally in the national city after green lighting road closures in the city for three days recently to allow the Kuala Lumpur Grand Prix to take place. Labelled “selfish” by the IGP for its planned August 29 overnight camp-out here, the electoral watchdog also questioned why the authorities would expend so much “national resources” on a three-day street race but frown on a one-day rally. “Bersih 2.0 frowns at IGP Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar’s recent statement calling the ‘Bersih 4’ rally selfish and suggested we gather at the Bukit Jalil stadium instead. “This is funny considering most main roads were closed for three days for the KL City Grand Prix… we did not hear any rejection from the IGP and others,” the group said in a statement. Khalid had previously taken Bersih to task, claiming the overnight rally would disrupt public activity, including the businesses of street traders. The group refuted the IGP’s claim, reminding the latter that their past rallies in the city had benefited businesses and boosted the use of public transport into the city and only caused “minimal impact” to street traders. The Bersih 4 rally is scheduled to take place at five points in the city, with participants camping at the iconic Dataran Merdeka — the site of the annual Independence Day parade on August 31 — for 36 hours.

      We have to remember that everything we have is given to us by God. We should appreciate even the smallest thing that God gave us. Having good health, a happy family, and a peaceful environment. All this things we have to appreciate because God can take it back from us anytime. We should never take for granted of anything that God has given to us. When we learn to appreciate things, we will live happier because we realize that the world is not a bad place after all.

      Going back to our topic, “Appreciating Malaysia”, we will realize that how lucky we are to live here in Malaysia. Soon, we will realize that Malaysia is not a bad country after all. We are living with peace and harmony without worrying about any serious problems. We can easily get education, food, water and shelter. And not to forget the technologies that we are using which are the same or even better than other countries around the world. Hand phones…

      There are varieties of food in Malaysia. The Malay traditional food are very sweet. For example, the layer cake is made of sugar, flour and other ingredients. The Chinese like to eat herbal soup, mixed vegetables, steamed fish with extra ginger and soy sauce. The Indians like spicy food such as tandoori chicken and the vegetable dalca, which blends well with briyani rice and lentil soup.I love my country so much. I am proud to be a Malaysian.

Day : Things that Gamer Benefits and not normal human.

 Playing video games, including violent shooter games, may boost children's learning, health and social skills.

  

Important research has already been conducted for decades on the negative effects of gaming, including addiction, depression and aggression, and these are certainly not to be ignored. However, to understand the impact of video games on children's and adolescents' development, a more balanced perspective is needed.

While one widely held view maintains that playing video games is intellectually lazy, such play actually may strengthen a range of cognitive skills such as spatial navigation, reasoning, memory and perception, according to several studies reviewed in the article. This is particularly true for shooter video games, which are often violent. A 2013 meta-analysis found that playing shooter video games improved a player's capacity to think about objects in three dimensions just as well as academic courses designed to enhance these same skills.

This has critical implications for education and career development, as previous research has established the power of spatial skills for achievement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

This enhanced thinking was not found when playing other types of video games, such as puzzles or role-playing games.

Playing video games may also help children develop problem-solving skills. The more adolescents reported playing strategic video games, such as role-playing games, the more they improved in problem solving and school grades the following year. Children's creativity was also enhanced by playing any kind of video game, including violent games, but not when the children used other forms of technology, such as a computer or cell phone.

Simple games that are easy to access and can be played quickly, such as "Angry Birds," can improve players' moods, promote relaxation and ward off anxiety. If playing video games simply makes people happier, this seems to be a fundamental emotional benefit to consider. The authors also highlighted the possibility that video games are effective tools for learning resilience in the face of failure. By learning to cope with ongoing failures in games, the authors suggest that children build emotional resilience they can rely upon in their everyday lives.

Another stereotype the research challenges is the socially isolated gamer. More than 70 percent of gamers play with a friend, and millions of people worldwide participate in massive virtual worlds through video games such as "Farmville" and "World of Warcraft," the article noted. Multiplayer games become virtual social communities, where decisions need to be made quickly about whom to trust or reject and how to lead a group, the authors said. People who play video games, even if they are violent, that encourage cooperation are more likely to be helpful to others while gaming than those who play the same games competitively.

( P.S. Just another weird and random post )

Day : Another Movie Review !

Pitch Perfect 2

     Pitch Perfect 2, a movie I would rate 8/10. Just from the trailers has grabbed many young teens as well as some adult's attention about this movie. From the famous group called Pentatonix to the prequel of this movie Pitch Perfect, it has already grabbed many viewers to want to watch this movie.

    The story started with a group of girls namely Barden University Bellas, it has been three years since they won their first Acapella national title. And what a three years it's been. They're the royalty of the U.S. Acapella establishment, winning awards year after year while traveling to events all around the country. It's been such a blissful stretch that one of the group's leaders, Chloe, is not happily embarking on her seventh year of college, relentlessly shifting majors and class loads just so she can keep lilting with her golden-throated BFFs.

      This is the year, however, that calamity strikes. During a special performance, in front of the president of the United States and his family, no less. Fat Amy has a major wardrobe malfunction. Make that a wardrobe nuclear holocaust. While hanging suspended from the auditorium ceiling by a band of silk, she slips, splits her tights open and reveals to the crowd, well, let's just say it this way that she isn't wearing any underwear.

      This embarrassing mishap not only makes it to the national headlines but also gets the Bellas totally banned from any further domestic Acapella competitions. The devastated singers have only one chance at redemption. They must do what no other American team has ever done and win the World Acapella Championships in Copenhagen.

      That's how the story goes, I'm not going to further spoil you if you haven't watch but let's look at the positive elements. As these girls work hard to rebuild their what seemed to be fallen group, they realize how important it is to enjoy the time they have together, to value one another's skills and friendship. And some of them, Chloe and Beca at the fore, come to realize that taking the next step in life can be a rewarding, even if difficult experience.

      The next thing to mention about would definitely be the sexual contents in this movie. From the movie we can see Fat Amy and a guy named Bumper kiss and roll on top of each other. I mean seriously? This show is suppose to be about singing and dancing but this has implied that they regularly sneak away for sexual trysts. Besides that, seeing far less than her presidential audience sees, we still caught a glimpse of Amy's bare backside when her costume rips.

      What's next? One of the Bellas is an openly gay girl who eyes several of her cohorts and seductively and later admits to secretly touching one of the other girl's "goodies" while they're camping out and all sleeping together. A new Bella recruit named Emily talks about the five-octave range her mother and father managed tot sing out while having reproduction process.

      In rehearsals the Bellas wore yoga pants, and the camera takes time to ogle their backsides. A group called Das Sound Machine often wears mesh shirts that showcase a little bit of both guy and girl's side. There are a number of jokes and puns about straight, gay and transgendered sex, as well as some lowbrow talk about body parts, etc.

      There are still many things to talk about like a part of violent content where the girls experience a few pratfall thumps during campsite team building exercises. And a little bit on the alcohol content as these co-eds which some of them are still teens drink beer and hard liquor at a couple of different parties and a singing competition.

       In conclusion this movie is near perfect for teens and adults but is definitely not recommended for kids to watch or at least watch without parental guidance. This movie review may sound like an offend but I'll really recommend you to watch it because their music are awesome ignoring the negative points in the movie which nobody ever give two shits about it because a movie is a movie.

Day : Escape, The Parody of Step by Wicked Step

Escape is a sad and haunting story of an abused child who dreams of getting away.

      My name is Steve, my father passed away when i was still in elementary school. All I had left is my mother and I thought we were both what we need to survive. But I guess I'm the only one thinking it that way. Life was going smoothly until this guy came along, his name is Ernest and he is my new stepfather. My stepfather always hated me. When my mother married him and he moved into our house, my life has became a living hell. He found fault with every little things I did and was constantly shouting at me. In his eyes, I could never do anything right.

      Pretty soon, all of the chaos at home began affecting my schoolwork. I found it impossible to study and my grades starting slipping. At the dinner table, I was so nervous that I hardly ate a thing. I gradually withdrew into myself and stopped hanging out with my friends. Things began to grow worse as time passes by. I became my stepfather's punching bag. He started beating me at the slightest excuse. He was a strong man and I was too weak to fight him off. Each punch and kick he delivered to me hurt me emotionally as well as physically. It wasn't long before I was diagnosed with depression and the doctors put me on medication.

      Through all this, my mother stood by and refused to intervene. She chose her new husband over me. That hurt me more than anything else. I gave up, hoping and praying for the day when I could escape. One day, I couldn't stand it anymore and ran away from home. I made it as far as the city but the police found me and brought me home. When they took me back to my house, there my stepfather was standing at the door waiting for me. His face was in full anger and rage. As soon as the police left, he turned to me and say "Did you think you could escape?"

      That very night, he beat me twice as bad as before. I cried myself to sleep. After that, violence escalated. Every evening when he came home from work, I tried to avoid him, but it was no use. He began inventing silly excuses to beat me up. I never understood how any living souls could be so mean and cruel. It seemed like it was all fun and games to him. Each time he hit me, I could see the joy on his eye. My body was covered in bruises and it hurts just to breathe.

      Eventually, he went too far. One evening, he beat me so badly that I couldn't move. I just lay on the floor of my bedroom, staring at the ceiling. I didn't know it at the time, but I was bleeding internally. My mother begged him to bring me to hospital, but as expected he ignored her. He said I was faking it for attention. During the night, I lay on the floor of my bedroom, moaning in pain and slowly slipping into unconsciousness. The next morning, my mother came in to check on me, but by then, I was already dead.

      Time passed...

      I don't really know how much time passed...

      Suddenly, I saw a bright light.

      I heard a voice announce, "It's a healthy baby boy!"

      I started crying loudly.

      Slowly, every so slowly, I opened my eyes.

      A man and a woman were staring at me.

      They were smiling from ear to ear.

      The man leaned down and touched my cheek.

      In a gentle voice, he said, "Did you think you could escape?"

Day : One Minute Story?

To tie or not to tie 

      Once upon a day, there was a man named Rick, today was his first big job interview and guess what? He woke up late, scumbag alarm clock decided to play a fool on his first day of work. Frantically he threw on a suit. "OH NO!", he thought. "MY TIE! Dad is out of town and isn't there to help me, and for my entire life I did not know or learn how to tie a tie!" He grabbed a tie and ran out the door. "Excuse me sir," he said to a random crossing guard, "I have an important job interview, can you help me make this tie pretty please?" "Sure" said the random crossing guard, "just lie down on this bench and I'll get it done immediately." He thought to himself, well if someone was going to help me I wasn't going to ask any questions. After the crossing guard finished tying it, the tie looked fantastic but he couldn't resist and had to ask why he had to lie down. The random guard said " Well, in my previous job I learned how to tie tie's on other people when they were lying down." Rick asked incredulously "What was your previous job?". "I ran a morgue." Was the reply.


Hope you enjoyed the story. Until next time :D

Day : Imagination or Reality?

      Human life forms are such a mystery, there's so much stuff that I think that the scientists have yet figure out about humans. Like their abilities so on and so forth.

      From Biology we have learned that our rib cage has several level or layers whatever you called it. And from there, there is this one pair of bones that drives me in full curiosity mode which is called Floating Ribs. Think about it, these ribs are actually floating in the rib cage, there is nothing to support it. What if, just what if, they are the basic stage of us having wings? I'm not spitting jokes but think about it, what if those Floating Ribs are bones for the wings, just that we have to unlock it in order for them to activate. Like we need to do something to unlock the ability of flight, just like how we need to learn in order to do something like whistling or snapping your fingers , abilities like that.

      Think about it, in mere future when people actually unlock their wings. We wouldn't even need transport anymore, we would just fly anywhere we want. Okay then, wings are maybe too extreme for starters, how about tails? In Biology we learned that we have a bone called tail bone, which was actually a real tail when we were still in our mother's womb. the tail just shrunk and became a tail bone when we were given birth. Think about it, if genetic mutation caused the tail to be unable to shrunk, would that means that baby has a tail? Would the doctors cut the tail off just to make the kid look "normal" ?

      Tails are one thing, and wings are another but what if I said that we have magic and powers that we have yet been able to unlock it. Like we all had magic running in our blood or powers born within us but we have no one being able to unlock it to actually teach us how. You don't go YouTube finding "How to unlock your super powers", you'll probably find some weird guys showing u how to be a ninja but let's be realistic, abilities can be unlocked so why can't magic and powers be unlocked? Imagine if all of us had unlocked our powers or magics and we had to change the entire council or establish a world magic safety association in order to keep people from misusing their gifts.

      Don't you find these things are mysterious and are dying to be discovered ? Me too hahahaha.

( P.S. Just another weird and random post of what I'm thinking again )

Day : What IF Astronomy?

       Many people would think that we human beings are way too early to explore space, but we're also too late to explore the sea. But doesn't that mean we're just at the right time to explore space if we're too late to explore sea? Have you ever thought about what could lie in the bare universe that is beyond earth? Think about it this way, all your entire life you've been in this small planet earth but what lies ahead of us is way more than we can imagine. Think about it, if the universe is so big, is there ever end to it? What if we "swam" all the way to the bottom of the universe or all the way up to the top. Would we be stopped by an invisible floor or would it be an never ending loop or maybe even be a portal that transfer you all the way to the top if you went to the end of the bottom or vice versa.

      The universe is such a unique thing, what if there was a parallel universe where thing were exactly like here but happened differently with us making alternate decisions. What if this whole thing was controlled by one master mind that seek for pleasure in building his own "Country Story". If I were able to be an astronaut when I grow up I will definitely find out what's going on in this whole thing. What if aliens existed , but this has been quite common. What if other human beings existed in other planets that they built a spaceship when they were still in the stone age and escape to another planet to live just like how maybe Adam and Eve was the first so called aliens that explored another planet.

      The stars and planets are also unique, like how are they so big and what is their purpose of being existed in the first place? I've learned when i was still Form 3 that stars are actually planets in making. We could just google an image of universe and you could see that there are way way way more than millions of planets and stars that we have already known. So there's got to be other life forms existing besides in earth right? Why aren't we funding more on this site of exploration, isn't it weird that we are so close yet so far from the universe?

      What if we could adapt in other planets that scientists say that we can't survive on them. Like how animals or insects adapt to environmental changes. What if we put a cockroach on Mars and once they adapt, would they be like unstoppable or insanely strong and immune to vacuum or doesn't even require oxygen to breathe? If earth was at destruction one day would we be able to live on space? Like the ones in the shows where they literally lived in a space craft and carry out activities like daily lives.

      There's so much undiscovered stuff that needs to be discovered and which is why I want to be an Astronaut hahahahaha.

( P.S. Just another random post of what I'm thinking )