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Independence , as defined, is the state of being obtained freedom from political control by other countries. Independence Day is the Day we celebrate our country obtained freedom from the colonization government. But for me, independence has something more than this definition, and Independence Day is more than just watching parade and ceremony each year, or just enjoy another day off. Malaysia celebrates it 49 th Independence this year. For people, 49 th years old are the golden ages which represent the best performance year of life. A person at this age has polished up his skills, has ‘learnt things from the hard way’ and has great experiences, has good connections and relationship with others. Malaysia as a nation also has these criteria to make this time as our ‘golden age’. This is the time to make a difference, whether as a person or a nation. Malaysians should be ‘independent’ in the mind state, which is not relied on others when Malaysia is in trouble. Actually in...

» It begins... Imagine a world in which Alchemy is not only possible, but used frequently. Alchemy, though, is a science, and with all sciences there are laws that must be followed. Welcome to the anime, Full Metal Alchemist. The story begins about two brothers, Alphonse (left) and Edward (right) Elric. Ever since they were young they had practiced the science of alchemy. You follow their journey of being alchemists and their quest to regain that which they have lost. Their father was a well recognized alchemist, which is probably where their knack for it comes from. However, when they were young their father left, and they remained in the care of their mother. One day their mother died, and in their innocence and ignorance, they attempted what was forbidden, human alchemy. What happened next, they were obviously not prepared for, and in the aftermath the brothers lost more than just their mother. In the freak accident Alphonse loses his body, and in a moment of panic Edward ties his b...

For me, the biggest achivement would be peace. After the incident May 13, we never have any riot or war in our country. Whether it is all hidden, waiting for another explotion, or actually Malaysians are really living in harmory only God knows. But at least we display such a image: Peace! (They kept saying that even US can't do this.) Another achivement would be the education and economic policy that bring Malaysians progress in a big step. Now, at least a kid can obtain 11years of free education, (or at least cheap). The per capita income of Malaysians is average according to UN's standard. Almost every Malaysians can earn a living, (except those 'great' undergraduates). Almost no starving cases occured. I think this meant a lot to me, because there are still many starving people around the world. But there is still something bad Malaysia has achived. The bad influence from the West, violence, increasing in crime rate, even accident rate is the highest among the world....

A superb movie! I'm actually a fan of musical movie, and this movie is my favourite of all. Imagine there are a group of children singing in front of you, and their voices are angels' voices! Actually I should talk about bully and discipline, but I always think that using violence to control violence is nonsence. The principle in the movie used 'action-reaction' to control the children. In my opinion, this would only encourage the children to use violence to settle problems, to handle frustration and to express their feelings. I would not justify this kind of act, although it is always 'for your own good'. Another thing that made this movie enjoyable is the music. Music can heel the hurt. This is best represented in this movie. The students earned respect through their love in music. I also think that this movie is based on the theme of 'action-reaction'. In the case of Mordan, the villain. He came back to burn down the school because he hate his princi...

Actually I’m quite satisfied with Malaysian’s English proficiency. We have many elderly that could speak well English because of colonial education system. We may say that nowadays the youth could not speak English well, but we are evaluating them using native speakers’ scale. We are not native speaker of English, but why can’t the Malaysian tolerate with our less-perfect English? It may because half of Malaysian using English as their education medium. So, they treat themselves and other half of Malaysian as English native speaker. So, they grade those who could not speak and write well as low proficient in English. Yeah, maybe indeed we don’t speak and write good English, (indeed good is not enough, because I once had a teacher saying that the language used in local press were dull) but we are progressing, in our small way. As we look at most of the Japanese, they do not speak well in English (maybe they write well, but who knows?), but they do not feel ashamed of themselve...

Every media is criticizing our undergraduates do not have ‘soft skills’. The media claims that the reason our graduates unemployed is that our graduates do not know how to communicate with other people, to cooperate with team members, to sell themselves as a product in the real world. ‘Soft skill’, as defined, is the ability to communicate effectively, build rapport, persuade people of your position or ideas without alienating them, get along with a wide variety of people, be an effectively contributor on teams, and lead teams to achieve exceptional results. ‘Soft skill’ for me, is actually the wisdom of life. We cannot learn it from book, maybe we know the theories of it, but it is another thing when we practice it. The reason our grads lacking this ‘soft skill’ is that our grads are overprotected by all parties, including their parents, schools and also government. Since when finding a job became an national issues? Our nation also suffered a few economic crisis throughout hist...