A Positive Thing that I'm Going to do during the Mid-Semester Break (Part 2)

Assalamualaikum..Hello peeps!..it's been a while..sorry blog..


So,yeah,though we haven't finish our first semester yet,but it will be nice planning on what-to-do during our semester break.Even though the weather might not be the best indication,Mid-Semester Break is right around the corner. And while some of you will be off for family vacation, I know a lot of you, like myself, will also be home for Mid-Semester Break.But just because you won’t be able to enjoy the delicious food of other states,relaxing your mind by enjoying the sceneries,that doesn’t mean you won’t still be able to have a fabulous Mid-Semester  Break!


Catch up on sleep! Get yourself organized! Enjoy having nothing to do for an entire week! Mid-Semester  Break is like a nice little, mid-semester time out. So use it to your advantage, and make the most of your week without plans.Here are six ways to make the most of your at-home Mid-Semester  Break.


1. Cross some things off your to-do list.

We all have that list of stuff to get done that’s always at the back of our minds, but that we never actually manage to get to. These to-do items always seem to get pushed aside because you have so much else going on. Well, now you don’t. So start tackling those tasks, whatever they may be! It’ll feel really good to get them done, and you’ll be getting ahead for the long-term!


2. Read a book.

Whether it be a current best seller,a childhood favorite or something you started for class and never finished,just pick up a book and start reading.Lose yourself in another world for a little while and revel in the accomplishment 
you'll feel after you have completed it.Bonus point if you don't use a kindle/e-reader


3. Try a new recipe.


For those of you that are skilled in the kitchen, turn on the Food Network and start cooking! Watching shows like The Best Thing I Ever Ate and 5 Rencah 5 Rasa are inspiration enough. You can also check out food blogs like Dapur Tanpa Sempadan and KongsiResipi.com for more ideas and recipes to try! I can barely use a spatula but even I’m excited to try something new over break.


4. Spend some time with your family.

If you’re home for the break, make sure to schedule in some quality family time, whether it’s taking your little sister out for ice cream, having dinner with your grandparents, or participating in a good old fashioned family game night. You may not necessarily be happy to be home for Mid-Semester Break, but I bet your family will be happy to have you, so enjoy their company while you have the chance.


5. Pamper yourself a little.


Mid-Semester Break is an excellent time to indulge in all those beauty rituals you never have time for during the semester. Get your hair trimmed. Treat yourself to a manicure and pedicure. Or splurge on a massage. Whatever you do, make sure its something that relaxes you. Then get some sleep and make sure to recharge so you’re stress-free and full of energy once you’re back at campus.


6. Have a Cinematic Experience, Alone
It’s mid-afternoon and you’re bored on your couch again.  What do you do now? You go for a movie nooner special, of course!  Play old lady and pay up for a matinee.  Use the extra dollars you saved for a small popcorn and waltz into that chick flick like you own the place.  Because you do. You’re the only one there.

A Positive Thing that I'm Going to do during the Mid-Semester Break is......

Hello lovely readers. How's your fasting days? We hope you doing very fine with your daily activities during Ramadhan. Well, it seems only a few more days Ramadhan Kareem will end and everyone busy preparing stuff for Eid Mubarak. Same thing happened to us too. Our members had bought a pair of baju kurung for Eid Mubarak. How about you guys? How many pairs do you guys plan to have for this year? Oh, how bout cookies and cakes?

For us, Eid Mubarak holiday is our mid-semester break. Sounds good huh? *hahah* Well right after our semester break end, we will be having an Industrial Safety first test on the next day and then Introduction to Food Technology test too. That's mean, we can't over enjoy our Hari Raya days. *sigh* but what we can do is study and study..  Well i think its okay, guess that is a kickstart for a positive thing that I'm going to do during this mid-semester break right? So, we have something to post about this task *hahha*

Okay besides, our members will going back to our respective hometown and then heading to our respective grandparent's house. Yes, grandparent's house! It is the nicest place to be during Eid Mubarak as we will having our favourite cookies and must-to-have-meals especially during Hari Raya - ketupat, rendang, lemang *yummy!* okay back to positive things that I'm going to do of course to help our grandma and grandpa and the other family members too. The main chores are of course cleaning up the house, hang a brand new curtains, bake cookies and cakes and other women chores. After that we can help grandpa and father to set up a place to cook rendang, burn lemang and bolied ketupat.

Other than preparation for hari raya, I'm going to do a community work such as help to clean up the compound of the orphanage and decorate them with Hari Raya stuff decorations such as hang fake ketupat, greeting cards and flashing light around the orphanage and set up traditional oil lamps that usual typical Malay will be having around their house during Hari Raya.

Okay readers, until here I can type as I have to study. I've got a test tomorrow. Hey wish me luck, okay! (^_^) 'Til we meet again in the next post. =)

Oh, I would like to wish everybody Selamat Hari Raya and Happy eid Mubarak especially to all Muslims in advance. Enjoy your days!

From Hunger to Hope

Assalamualaikum and Salam Ramadhan Al-Mubarak! How are you guys feeling about today?  Great huh.Okay, today we will continue with our previous entry.

 

World hunger is one of the serious issues through all over the world. There are many ways actually that can help ease world hunger. Recently, Justin Bieber, had done a huge contribution to the nation by visiting the victim of natural disaster.Apart from that,he had launched a song entitled "Pray" as a part of his contribution.

Let us look a little bit of the song byte :

I lose my appetite knowing kids starve tonight

Am I a sinner, 'cause my dinner is still on my plate?

Ooh I got a vision to make a difference

And it's starting today

If this little boy had the awareness of this serious problems, why don't we do the same thing too? Let's play our role now by taking part as the nation. Much of the new welcomed efforts to help small farmers in Africa and elsewhere can derail and wind up in the ditch of development disaster by convincing small farmers to buy expensive seeds, petroleum based fertilizer, herbicides and pesticides that will increase their crop yield.  The original Green Revolution did increase crop yields, but at a great cost to farmers and their communities. Many farmers could not afford to invest in these expensive high tech products and lost their land to the smaller number who had more money.  They left the land and most became poor, unemployed or very low income workers in urban slums.  The Gates Foundation knows, of course, that this is likely to happen again and says that the New Green Revolution "will require some degree of land mobility and a lower percentage of total employment involved in direct agricultural production."

 "Land mobility," is a fancy term for millions of landless people moving from the country to the slums of the nearest cities, most living in abject poverty.  The multi-national companies that make these products will do quite well in this New Green Revolution but a large portion of the farmers will not.   Displacement is only one of the bad consequences.  The environment is harmed by large doses of chemicals as are the farmers and the soil becomes depleted by over-farming.

There are certainly good intentions in the efforts of a whole new generation of development specialists. They have learned from some past mistakes and all of us in that world need to listen and learn from them.  They and their major funders should also pay attention to the many excellent studies that show that appropriate technology which is environmentally friendly and engages and respects small farmers rather than telling them what to do should be tried on a massive scale.  It has never been financed on the scale of the problem.  Where it has been tried it has succeeded.  Before spending untold billions on high tech methods that may not succeed, may be dangerous and certainly will displace millions of people, let's "invest in success" and fund methods that will not have so many unintended consequences.  That is something that our world has never tried.

What we can do to help ease world hunger

Assalamualaikum and hello guys!Salam Ramadhan Al-Mubarak!We hope that you are in the pink of health. Instead of that, we are really tired.

The first thing is so simple that you would think that everyone would accept it as the starting point for discussion and policy.  There is a basic enforceable human right to food.  That should be at the heart of the international food system.  Food is not primarily a commodity to be bought and sold like sneakers, dresses or bicycles.  It is a fundamental human necessity and must be treated as such in the economics of every country and the world community.  Nutritious food for each person on earth goes right along with clean air and water as the sources of life that cannot be denied to any person.

Strangely, our government does not yet accept this obvious truth and despite our generous spirit and long track record of humanitarian aid this omission holds us back from the kind of effectiveness that is necessary to solve the problem.  The right to food must guide all programs and policies that our government or any government and all relief and development agencies promote.

Oh we are running out of time. We will continue later..

Ways To Reduce Stress

Hello lovely readers! 

Here are some tips for u loves to help you in reduce your stress that you experience. We know, being a full time student or employee could not get rid from experience stress. So, keep scrolling your mouse until the end of this post okay!

Drinking tea

drinking tea is the best way to relax yourself and reduce stress. Study in England prove that those who drink tea may lowering cortisol which is a stress hormone that causes the stress. Cortisol is part of the adrenaline glands which also act on the feelings of fear and anxiety. It is also able to influence the health problems that cause the immune weaken and causing stomach problems.

Get fresh air 

Make a contact with nature. This is one of the best therapies for release stress. Fresh air and soothing view could relax and revitalize the brain

Read leisure or motivation books

Reading these type of books can prevent you from thinking about a problem you have and also give you the strength to face the problems you encounter. A study in the UK, recommend you to read motivation books in the early morning rather than reading a newspaper. This is because if you start your morning by reading the newspapers, it has indirectly influence to your mind to think about current issues. This will increase your potential for experiencing the stress.

Laugh

Keep laughing for any jokes. It because it can reduce your stress.

Think positive

Stress is a negative charge. To neutralize a negative charge is by using a positive charge. The positive charge come when you are confident with yourself in any circumstances. Your onfidence level may reduce the stress that you are experiencing. There are many ways for you to create a positive charge and one of them is by reading motivation books.

Serial Acid Attack

Hey guys, how’s your day? Do you guys realize that we are already more than a half month of fasting for this Ramadhan? Life as student with all of those commitment including lab work, report and assignment sometimes make us did not realize as time goes by. Well, starting this week, all our friends already busy with their plan of going back to home town for this Hari Raya. Of coz we want to make a very special preparation for this coming aid since it’s only come once a year.

But, how about the unlucky people, especially the victim of an Serial Acid Splash that strikes Malaysia in early 2011. How are they goanna celebrate the Hari Raya after such a terrible experience? How do they feel? How do they accept the fact of these incidents? Losing the look of skin, face and mostly the eye sight is a most terrifying nightmare to us. But it is really happening for these victims.   

                                                 One of the serial acid striker victim

Let’s review the incident happened throughout March until May 2011. The early report was made on March 2 when a motorcyclist clad in black strikes a few students and teacher of SK Bukit Bandaraya in Jalan Bangkung, Bangsar with splashed of a liquid. The attacks continue but it is more violent by splashing acid to the victims. Surprisingly, the splasher only targeted a WOMAN and CHILDREN as his victim.  The only lead police have into the identity of the suspect is that he is of dark complexion, rides either a Honda EX5 or Yamaha motorcycle with a carrier compartment in front.

                                                           The picture of the suspect

At last the police make a large discovery when they announce the suspect identity. This finding was broadcast only after the acids splasher strike his 21’st victim. It been a months of terrifying moment for all women live around the targeted area (Lembah Kelang) not knowing the psyco attacker identity. It's not a prank when his acts had hurt his 23 victims physically and emotionally. Were doesn’t mean on being cruel but if the we able to catches this criminal, he should be beaten to death.!!!

A month full of blessing

Assalamualaikum and hello peeps!

What are you guys doing?Studying?Doing assignments? Gossiping?No matter what were you doing right now,we hope that you'll be blessed always.Like us,we just got back from Introduction to Food Technology class by Sir Ramli Man.He's one of the very relax and kind lecturer.Night class is quite fun actually.Maybe because of the cool environment i guess,compared to the hectic environment during the day.

So,yeah,back to the topic,how's your Ramadhan?We bet it must be interesting right.Same goes to us,nothing much actually to mumbling about this Ramadhan.We had to go through our journey as a student in this Ramadhan month as one of those "challenging adventurers".Wanna know why?Well,besides classes,we have lab sessions to attend to.Basically,all of our lab sessions last long for three hours.Three hours time spending in the lab can be pretty tired with lots of things to do.(Our mind became tired too)But what choice do we have?This is the path we had chosen.

Fasting with family and fasting with college mates brings lots of differences.At home,everything will be prepared by mom.But in the campus,we have to stand on our own foot.With pack schedules plus loads of assignments,sometimes we rushing to buy meals for breakfasting.Usually,we bought our foods at the cafeteria.Although lots of dishes are sell,the price was quite expensive,We thought of save our money by buying the meals at the cafe,(since we have not get our MARA loan yet),but unfortunately,the price is much expensive compared to the outside food. The quality and cleanliness of the food is also at lower level.Some of the students experienced diarrhea apart from that.Thanks God,that thing haven't occure to us yet(hopefully we'll be just fine)

So,that's all about our Ramadhan.Stay tuned for the next post. Salam.