ENGLISH..ENGLISH

How to improve my english? A question that I always ask myself and the answer not easy to be done. Why? Well,I admit I'm quiet lazy. However, this is some way to improve my english that I'm doing and will be doing.
Firstly my writing, I'm very weak in Grammar and sentence structure so in order to improve it, I read many articles and try to identify their sentence structure.For Grammar, I make an exercise in 'Vision of Grammar' but I'm still not finish yet. This is the basic to write. The other method is wide my vocabulary. I hope I can memorise at least 5 new words and make some sentences from them.
Next, reading. Besides from read a lot, I learn speed reading as in examination the time to answer is short. At first, it quiet difficult because it difference from normal reading but after try several times I found it is easy. The question in reading for IELTS for me is the hard one so when answer the question I apply critical thinking. Actually, I do not understand about critical thinking but I assume it is when we try to think hardly and think out of the box. I hope it is true.
Then, my listening. The problems that I noticed are the essence and some unfamiliar words. I can understand when the speaker is Malaysian but when it foreigner it vice versa. Listen to english song,and watch english movie are the method I use. Entertainment and the same time learning. I also watch BBC TV even I just understand some word. When I watch malay drama or movie, I read the subtitles as it can wide my vocabulary. IDEA website that miss Eliza suggest to my class is very helpful in understand some essence. Well, it really different in every country and places and I hope I can get well with it.
Lastly, speaking. I always speak to myself and I use english but when it comes to have conversation in English I cannot speak it out. Self-confident is what I lack right now. I try to speak confidently with other people. Another method is record my talk about the choosen topic. I had done it once and I will do it again after this.
All this method I had try and will try. I hope after this I can write well, understand English article and conversation also speak English fluently. Wish me goodluck

MY EID EXPERIENCE

Ramadhan past like a blink of eyes and Syawal come bring the happiness.
October 11, I return to my house in Pahang by car with my brother and brother-in-law. The highway not so busy. At time I arrived my sister busy with her 'biskut raya'.After breakfast, I heard loud sound from fire chracker and its like in a war but fortunately I was in Malaysia not Afghanistan. Before Isyak, we waited for an announcement and like many people guessed, eid on day after tomorrow.
The next day is the busiest day. I help my mother make 'rendang', 'serunding' and 'ketupat'. While waitin for ketupat, I baked chocolate cakes but my recip was missing so I just do it as I remembered. However my cakes not so delicious like before. That day I slept at 3 a.m because I bake 'baulu lapis'. Actually my mom asked my sister to bake it but my sister slept early and as there is no one else, I finished it by my own.
The big day had come. At my place after perform eid prayers, men will gathered(baraan) and visit from house to house. They read 'doa selamat' while visits the houses. After 'baraan', my mother and I visit neighbours' house. Eventhough, I didn't got 'duit raya' but I felt so happy because it foster my relationship with my neighbours beside they rare to see me at home as I live in hostel.
Second day of Syawal, I returned to my kampong at Selangor.The trip took about 6 hours. When we past Kuala Lumpur, for the first time I saw the roads not busy. My grandfather's house noisy with my relatives. In Selangor, there is also 'baraan' but the situation more excited than at my house. It happend for 2 days at Selangor but only one day at my place and the people join it also more than mine. First day of 'baraan' (second day of eid) for men while next day for women and the houses that they visit approximately 80 houses.
October 15, Besides of had lunch together, there is nothing to do. On evening, my sisters and I went for shopping at Sungai Besar town. The prices there cheaper than any other places. I get myself t-shirt, jeans and scarf. The town was busy. Next day, we prepared to get back to Pahang.Its really sad to leave kampong as I love the way they celebrate eid. Many people visit each other and even at 11 pm there is still relatives come to my grandpa house. The situation that no more in my place, Felda Chini Timur 01. I will miss this year eid celebration and I swear to myself every eid I will visit friends and relatives house and I will learn from my mothey how to make delicious 'rendang'.
Happy eid to all and for my family the memories of 2007 eid celebration will remain in my heart. Love you all!!

Space Development

When we talk about space, NASA will cross our mind. NASA ( National Aeronautics and space administration ) has great influence in space research and development. Before write this topic I browse to NASA page and I found that they have going so far and I am really suprised. It shows that I am not alert with world news. The latest news ( 21st Sept 2007 ) about NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array). NASA want to restart the research about black hole and NuSTAR is the best instrument as it 500 times better in detecting black hole. Why they want to know about that scary thing? I had read before that black hole can absorb everything into it, isn't scary? Maybe, this is for knowledge sake.
Another news that attract my eyes to read it, is 'orphan' star ( pity star ). It must be very sad to become orphan in such a wide space. The truth is, that stars have been forming in a long tail of gas outside it parents galaxy. The number of stars was so unpredictable by astronomer because in order to form the star, it needs large amount of gas and dust. This news, however still in research so this is just the early hypothesis.
The last thing I want to share with you is about Virgo. I am Virgo girl because my birthday in this month. You can check my profile to confirm it. The Virgo cluster is the closest cluster to our Milky Way Galaxy and contains more than 100 galaxy with varies type ( spiral, elliptcals and irregular ). It pull our galaxy towards it because Virgo Cluster is so massive. However, I am really in doubt this cluster and horoscope. Honestly, sometimes I do believe what the horoscope state but how they predict it. Well, I will find out about this and of course I will share with you in the next post. See ya

Hello!!

Ehem...actually this is a new phase of my blog. Well, I try my best to write originally because before this, sincerely, I do copy-paste. It is not because I am lazy(maybe sometimes) but I am not so confident to write on my own. My English not so good and my grammar (uhh..sigh) very poor. First of all, I want to apologise if there is mistake in my writting and please don't be shy correct it by posting your comment. I am so eager for your comment. Thank you for read and do enjoying it. Wish me luck as I'm quiet busy with my study ( like in the picture ) and I hope I will get flying colour result.

Education is a process of teaching, training and learning to improve knowledge and develop skills. Society misunderstand that education is only in school or college but the truth is any level of age need education. For this theme I want to touch about education for employee.
Nowadays many consultant that held a motivation program for this group. " We are professional so we don't need any motivator to lecture us", this is one of the dialog that always come out from the professional's mouth. Of course this is wrong opinion because everyone need motivation to make sure get a better life. A company make this programme to improve the quality of work fom their worker. It also to remind the employee their aim in their profession. Motivation very important but not only that, the other education for worker is workshop.
Workshop is for sharpen the employee skills especially when we talk about engineering or many else.

WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful to humans. It is important because it is needed for life to exist. All knows how important the water is. Virtually all of these human uses require fresh water. Only 2.7% of water on the Earth is fresh water, and over two thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps, leaving only 0.007% available for human use. Fresh water is a renewable resource, yet the world's supply of clean, fresh water is steadily decreasing. Water demand already exceeds supply in many parts of the world, and as world population continues to rise at an unprecedented rate, many more areas are expected to experience this imbalance in the near future.
I dont want to touch about water pollution yet but now we concentrate at water resources :

• Surface water - water of a lake, river, or fresh water wetland. Naturally replenished by precipitation and naturally lost through discharge to the oceans, evaporation, and sub-surface seepage. Canada has the largest supply of fresh water in the world.
• Sub-surface water - fresh water located in the pore space of soil and rocks. It is also water that is flowing within aquifers below the water table.
• Desalination - Desalination is an artificial process by which saline water (generally ocean water) is converted to fresh water. The most common desalination processes are distillation and reverse osmosis. Desalination is currently very expensive compared to most alternative sources of water, and only a very small fraction of total human use is satisfied by desalination.
• Frozen water - Several schemes have been proposed to make use an iceberg as a water resource, however to date this has only been done for novelty purposes. Glacier runoff is considered to be surface water.

Even though water is renewable source but threats such as pollution, climate change, and depletion of aquifers will bring harm to all. One of the water pollutions are the oil spill. When the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened, many people were shocked and horrified. But the ship spilt 10.8 million gallons, almost nothing compared with as many as 428 million gallons for the Ixtoc I in Mexico and other less-known spills. Media coverage hardly proportionally to the totoal amount of damage done. The biggest oil spill when Ixtoc I ( 1979-1980 ) blow-out and 139 till 428 million gallons oill spill over the sea.

Different Aspect of Culture

The defination of culture are varies and in my opinion culture related to the way of life for the society. We can identify the society by looking at their lifestyle. As such it includes code of manners, dress, language, religion,ritual ,norm of behaviour such as law and molarity and systems of belief. A country can have many culture because of mix society. for instance, Malays in the same society but have many types of culture even the language or it is more accurate to say the essences are different.
Despite the great cultural diversity of Asian nations, there are, nevertheless, several transnational cultural influences. Though Korea, Japan, and Vietnam are not Chinese-speaking countries, their languages have been influenced by Chinese and Chinese writing. Many Asian religious and philosophical traditions originated in India and China and spread across Asia through cultural diffusion and the migration of peoples. Religions such as Hinduism and Islam have for hundreds of years exerted cultural influence on various peoples of South Asia.
Nowadays, every society struggle to make sure their ancestor culture still a part of their live which is difficult because some of them do not care about that.
Technology is the other factor that people think can destroy their culture. Positively, multimedia such as television, internet and radio can expose the culture to the member of the society that do not know also to others society. But, technology also bring trigger when the new generation get fanatic with tech-game and they start forget traditional game. The lifestyle also change.