THE WORLD HUNGER

THE WORLD HUNGER 

What you can see through the picture above?

Perhaps among you will say that the picture above it looks like 'toyol' and may also have among you who feel disgust, sympathy and others. The picture above, is a picture of a boy who suffered from extreme hunger. Try you imagine, if the child is you. Are you willing to endure and have a high resilience to survive. Therefore, we should be thankful that we are born in a country that is peaceful and does not suffer from hunger.   
   Here, I've included a bit of info about the poor countries that suffer from extreme hunger:



Malnuration

·         In 2008, nearly 9 million children died before they reached their fifth birthday. One third of these deaths are due directly or indirectly to hunger and malnutrition. Malnutrition is not having enough nourishing food, with adequate amounts of protein, vitamins, minerals and calories to support physical and mental growth and development. Children who survive early childhood malnutrition suffer irreversible harm—including poor physical growth, compromised immune function, and impaired cognitive ability.

·         Around the world, 178 million children under 5 are stunted, low height for age. Of all stunted children, 90 percent live in just 36 countries, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Central Asia.

·         In countries with high levels of childhood malnutrition, the economic loss can be as high as 2-3 percent of GDP.

HUNGER AND POVERTY

- Despite years of progress against hunger, in 2010, it is estimated that 925 million people suffer from hunger. This is due to a sudden spike in global food prices and the onset of a world-wide economic crisis. 

- In 2005, the latest year for which data is available, 1.4 billion people in developing countries lived in extreme poverty, or on less than $1.25 a day, down from 1.9 billion in 1981.

                   Haiti is one of the countries suffering from extreme hunger.

  Poverty, malnutrition, high food prices, hurricanes and now an earthquake. Here are ten facts that give the measure of the hunger crisis facing Haiti, an nation which was already struggling to feed itself even before the earthquake. 

1.     Assessments show that 3 million peoplemay need humanitarian relief, including food assistance, in the wake of the earthquake.

2.     Even before the quake, 1.9 million people were ‘food insecure’, meaning they needed assistance to stave off hunger.

3.     Only 50 percent of Haiti population has access to safe drinking water.

4.     Some 55 percent of Haiti’s 9 million people live below the poverty line of US$1 a day.

5.     Rural households spend almost 60 percent of their income on food; the poorest groups spend more than 70 percent.

6.     Chronic malnutrition affects 24 percent of children under five, rising as high as 40 percent in the poorest zones.

7.     Poor diet means many women and children suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Anaemia affects 59 percent of children between the ages of six months and 5 years.

8.     During 2008, high food and fuel prices triggered violent demonstrations and political upheaval.

9.     In the same year, three hurricanes and one tropical storm struck Haiti, killing 800 people, destroying 27,000 homes and raising the general level of hunger.

10.   Food prices have declined since September 2008, but remain higher than the four-year average.

          What is our social responsibility to help ease the world     hunger?????

                 There are several ways that we can do and take action of our daily lives to help some of the countries that experience extreme hunger. Among them is to reduce excessive food intake. As we can see today, developed countries and developing countries, there are many people suffering from obesity. By reducing the amount of food intake, we can store excess stock of food to be donated to poor countries. In addition, we must play a role in helping them to donate money, at least a little money each. This can help them to buy nutritious food. In addition, the transmission volunteer doctor there also helps the people who suffer from a shortage of doctors to seek treatment. This is because in addition to food, they also can not afford to buy medical supplies. With the help of volunteer doctors, it can reduce the number of deaths.

How do we celebrate Independence Day?

1.       By joining Jabatan Pertahanan Awam (JPAM).

·         During our time at JPAM training centre, we being given a lot of information about our own country, Malaysia. So that, make us feel so grateful as our country had being released from all imperialists, and now we are ‘Merdeka’.

2.       By visiting our National Monument.

·         This were helping us a lot to recall back all the memories during the time before we get independence. This also make our love towards Malaysia grew much more.

3.       By watching patriotic movies, such as Embun, Leftenan Adnan, Paloh and many more.

4.       By singing full of emotion when singing a patriotic song, such as, Tanggal 31 Ogos, Jalur Gemilang, Keranamu Malaysia and many more.

How do we show your patriotism to our beloved country. Malaysia?

1.       By attending National Service course

·         The young citizens will have a better and deeper knowledge and eventually they will respect others people customs. Thus by respecting the uniqueness of every culture, this helps us promote racial solidarity and enhance national unity.

2.       By singing Negaraku song during assembly.

·         Although it was a simple action, however it would be a great way to show our devotion to Malaysia.

3.        By raising our Malaysia flag.

·         This will shows that we are proud to be Malaysian.

4.       Although a student further their study overseas, they need to come back to Malaysia, to serve for our country.

·         We are Malaysian; it is our responsible to make Malaysia to be one of the top countries someday. 

It is probably a reasonable assumption that each of you reading this has seen the newest South Korean pop hit“Gangnam Style” by PSY. If you have not, immediately put your tray away, leave the dining hall, head back to your dorm and look it up on YouTube. For those still reading without proper context, the song was released in America in late July. Since then, it has racked up an astounding 75 million hits on YouTube. With a catchy beat and fantastic accompanying dance moves, the song is being hailed as the first South Korean hit to make it in America.

For those unfamiliar with the song (and accompanying video), it follows PSY around Seoul as he searches for a girlfriend who has class but isn’t afraid to let her hair down when the time is right. The style he is looking for reflects the lifestyle of people in the Gangnam Province of Seoul, the ritzy, upscale section of the capital, hence the title . For reference, seven percent of all the wealth in South Korea is located in this 15-square-mile area. Throughout the video,PSY dances around a number of locations in Seoul, becoming involved in several dance battles before finding the kind of girl he is looking for. But within the video, masked by high energy dancing and comic relief, lies a deeper commentary no one would expect out of such a silly song and dance number.

The Atlantic was the first publication to note the socio-economic commentary played out in the music video in its article“Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea’s Music Video Sensation.” Throughout the video, PSY constantly sings about the actions of the men and women from the Gangnam province: how they drink expensive coffee, live lavish lifestyles and go to only the classiest of places. However, in his video, he is in the sauna not with businessmen, but with gangsters. His party bus is actually full of old tourists and disco balls. He even meets the girl of his dreams, not in a dance club or ballroom, but on the subway. When he is shown on the beach with girls, it turns out that he is simply at a children’s playground in a beach chair.

This mockery of the Gangnam lifestyle serves to show that it is overrated; while many South Koreans dream of living a life of excess, PSY points out wealth isn’t all that will make you happy. After all, he does get the girl in the end. This is contrasted with American music videos, where the singer is often at parties and in expensive clothes, surrounded by beautiful women as cash falls down from the ceiling.

The culture surrounding music itself was also parodied. The Atlantic noted PSY also makes subtle jokes about the music industry. One scene involves him parading down a hallway with two models as trash blows in their faces, clearly a parody of the classic red carpet and confetti scene of the rich and famous. These events always occur whilePSY is dressed to the nines, wearing a fashionable outfit, a suit or even a tuxedo.

While K-Pop (Korean Pop Music) is apparently not big on social commentary, PSY likely drew from his exposure to American culture during his schooling in the United States. For years, music has been used to express what the artist cannot put into words and has long provided social, political and economic commentary. In recent times, however, artists that produce songs wrought with commentary never take themselves too seriously. PSY certainly doesn’t. Look at Macklemore, for example. Macklemore writes songs with powerful messages like the growing effect of consumerism (“Wings”), drug use, (“Otherside”), crime (“Soldiers”) and even politics (“The Bush Song”), and then comes out with songs like “And We Danced” and “Thrift Shop.” These songs are wildly entertaining and also expose a different audience to his deeper songs. These artists continue to create moving messages and call attention to many issues not seen in the mainstream news by the general public.

 

Perhaps this is exactly what the public needs, powerful messages delivered in such a way that they stick. While a poster or article will influence you for as long as you read it, a song you play a dozen times a week will be more likely to stay with you. And, as long as PSY keeps dancing his way to a better tomorrow, he’s going to have quite a few supporters along the way.

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone!!! 

We meet again in our blog. Today, we had post a  few new topics. We hope this topic will help you to be more interested and having a great passion with English. 

Ways To Improve Your English

1. Start your own English language blog just like us!. it is so easy to do. no need to write down in a piece of paper and keep worrying your paper will be messy or dirty with your messy handwriting and your liquid paper trace. it is so simple because it is just like writing your diaries and a place to be discussing many new things.
2. Listen to MP3s. Although buying music on the internet is becoming more popular in many countries, not so many people know that you can download speech radio such as audio books (an actor reading out a novel) and speech radio. This is a lot better practice for your English than listening to English music, from sources like Scientific American, BBC and Australia's ABC Radio it is also free.  
3. Listen to English music. Even listening to music while doing something else can help a little for things like getting used to the natural rhythm and tone of English speech, although the more time and attention you give to a song the more you will learn from listening to it again in the future. In fact, this is also helping you to relax your mind and make you feel calm.
4. Read the lyrics to a song. Although just listening to a song in English can be a good way of learning English you also need to take some time to read the lyrics of the song with a dictionary. If the lyrics are not given in the CD booklet, you may be able to find them on the internet. Once you have read and understood the lyrics,  if you then listen and read at the same time, this can be a good way of understanding how sounds change in fast, natural, informal speech. As a result, his will help you a lot to understand a rapper part in once song.
5. Sing karaoke in English. The next stage after understanding and memorising a song is obviously to sing it. Although some words have their pronunciation changed completely to fit in with a song, most of the words have the same sounds and stressed syllables as in normal speech. Remembering which words rhyme at the end of each line can also be a good way of starting to learn English pronunciation. 
6. Have English radio on in the background while you are doing your housework. Even if you are not listening carefully, it will help you get a feel for natural English rhythm and intonation.

How to Promote the Use of The English Language???

1. We know that exposure to language through visual or print and oral medium is essential.  This is what the textbook, other print and audio materials, and the teacher’s language attempt to do. This exposure is alone not sufficient. We need to give opportunities to children to work with language. Children should read, think about the ideas of the text, understand the meaning of the words, associate them with ideas and other words, notice the form of the structures, while being exposed to the language and working with language on their own. This engagement with language makes them internalize meaning of words and structures. 
2. In addition to textbook activities, project work could be used as an effective strategy to promote English where learners in groups work together to do an activity or a task for some period. When learners work together on a particular idea or topic, they collect information, ideas, observe language being used, use language in real life situations, exchange views and debate on ideas, write the ideas into a report, edit their writing and produce the report in a suitable form.

What are the activities that we love the most when its comes to

 English language???

1. Group work. It will enhance our skills in giving a speech or ways to talk in front of audience.
2. Learning grammar. It help us a lot in improving our grammar, and giving us a lot of understand about the type of sentences and its structure.
3. Listening and speaking English. It made us be more alert and makes us give a full attentions during this time. Its kind of  like taking MUET test. Its quite hard, but fun. :)
4. Ways to pronounce the A, B, C..., Z sound. This is so fun because we can see a lot of funny faces trying hard to pronounce the each letter. :P

Hello and Assalamualaikum ......

This week, we have been given a title from our beloved lecturer, Miss Intan about myth that we heard before. Thus, three of us agreed to share with all of you about the myth of  Si Tanggang. We are sure,all of you have heard about this myth. This myth is very popular among Asian especially for Malaysian and Indonesian.

In the old days, Si Talang and Si Deruma have a son named Si Tanggang. They were having a poor life. Si Tanggang always dreams to become a rich and famous person.

One day, Si Tanggang saw a large ship anchored at the mouth of the river near his home. Si Tanggang went to the ship that he had seen before and ask the captain to be his crew. Then, the captain agreed to make Si Tanggang as his crew because of the ability of Si Tanggang boating and working.

Although Si Talang and Si Deruma are very sad to release Si Tanggang to sail on the big ship , they still need to let go of their beloved son. Si Tanggang promised to return to the village after he succeed as seafarers.

Si Tanggang does anything that was ordered by the skipper. The master is very proud of him because he is a very hard working person. Then, Si Tanggang was being adopted by the captain. When the captain became ill, Si Tanggang was being appointed to be the new captain. He was called as master Tanggang.
Si Tanggang was very good at business. Due to that, he becomes a famous person. Thus he was invited by the Sultan to the palace. Soon, Si Tanggang married with princess Sultan. Si Tanggang brings his wife sailed to many places all over the state.
One day, Si Tanggang ship anchored in the river estuary village origins. The villagers know that Si Tanggang captain. They even told the parents.

Si Talang and Si Deruma even go paddle boat heading to the ship master Tanggang. Si Deruma also bring  Si Tanggang  favorite food.
Upon arrival at the ship, one crew banned them up. Later, Si Tanggang appeared with his wife.
When Si Tanggang saw her parents, she felt very embarrassed because of his parents looked very frail and weak. He did not want his wife to know that poor couple in front of them are the parents. Si Tanggang denied and disobeyed his parents.
Si Talang and Si Deruma feel too sad and disappointed. It does not surprise their loved ones have changed. They would paddle to the edge.
When they arrived on the mainland, Si Deruma looked at the sky. While lifting both hands he cried, "Oh, God! Teach Si Tanggang that I am the mother. "
Suddenly a lightning strikes. The wind was blowing strong. Ship in the harbor is wobbling. At those times, Si Tanggang feel regret. He realized that God listens to his mother. He will receive the reward for having disobeyed.
"Oh, mother! Forgive Tanggang. Tanggang admit, Tanggang son mother! ' The clamor Tanggang.
However, Si Tanggang was too late. Strong waves breaking ship. When the storm subsided, the ship Si Tanggang turned into stone. All crew also turned to stone. Si Tanggang and his wife is also a stone.

In conclusion, the story is very interesting for us because this story has many lessons for us. Until today, the actual site of Si Tanggang together his crew were on oath to stone has to be asked. Some were said to be placed in our country and there is also said to be the place in the neighboring country of Indonesia.

About Us :)

Hi ! and Assalamualaikum.. (: welcome to our very own first blog... its kind of messy and undecorated, because we do not know how to do it. But hold your horses, we will slowly make up our blog, slowly.....

Now, back to the business, how can we come out with Srikandi Nazaqin name for our blog???

Actually NaZaQin is a combination name of our three group members that are Dina, Zaty and Syiqin so that how the NaZaQin name being created....

Next, lets get closer to our group member.

Name : Nurul Madina Bte Anuar
Date Of Birth : 5 May 1993
Place Of Birth : Gua Musang, Kelantan 
Course : BCE Process
Interest : Having a very high interest for working in oil & gas (O&G) sector and an insect lover especially butterfly.

"For me, people always respect and admire a woman that involve in O&G sector. They said it is cool to have a woman in such a man’s job. An iron woman it is. So, I’m hoping that I will be a woman that I mention before and being proud by my surrounding people and especially my family"

Name: Nurul Izzati Bt Hairudin
Date of Birth: 22 Dec 1993
Place of Birth: Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor
Course : BCE Process
Interest: Interested with research about palm oil and I want to explore more about it. The other one is, I do love cats ! (:

"Winner never quit,quitters never win". I always told to that quote, in every single thing that I do. I will work hard to achieve something that I have aimed. My past taught me that I have to wake up from keep falling. Striving towards excellence will always be my objective now and forever.

Name: Nur Asyiqin bt Ahmad
Date Of Birth: 13 June 1993
Place Of Birth: Alor Setar,Kedah
Course: BCE Process
Interest: Interested in areas involving chemical and palm oil process. Have the ambition to work with Schlumberger.

I love this quote and I always use it as my motivation.
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox