Fashion

   Dress codes exist in every profession . Starting with the uniformed personnel down to the fashion conscious,the populace dress accordingly . Famous fashion designers have often made fashion statement and dictate the fashion trends. Some have managed to maintain a clientele that have remained loyal to the fashion icon but others has moved on to other  newcomers .

   The legal fraternity has their black and white attire . The policeman are in their blue uniform while the army is in their typical jungle khaki wear . Each profession is recognisable by the colour . What about the schoolchildren ? The drab dull dark blue with a white top has a saving grace in that the dark blue can be dirtied and pass muster . But the secondary blue with white for a girl and the male is in dirty green are not that eye catching. Fortunately preschoolers have quite colourful attire if they need to be uniformed .

  I am all for decent dressing . Of course , I am in favour  of fashion but there is a time and place for everything . Some young adults do not know how to dress for the place . They do not know the meaning of respect other people . If young adults break the dress rule , what can we expect of the teenagers who are still did't know everything .

   Teenagers should know when not to come in shorts or funny T-shirts . Female teenagers should not be attired in flimsy clothes or short skirts for formal place or event . Their shoe attire should be appropriate . Flip-flops , unbuckled sandals or dirty sport shoes are known as old fashions .

   Sometimes, I do not blame these teenagers for their parents are seemingly attired and sometimes we find that mothers are older version in their daughters attire . With such role models, is it of any wonder that young ladies fail to see the logic of being approriately dressed?

   I feel that older adults should set a good example to the younger genaration . I believe that it is fine to adhere to changing fashion but there is always a limit to being overdressed or underdressed for some occasions . You do not want an observer or fashion editor to say that you look like a Chrismas tree .On the other hand ,someone might comment that you  did not have a cash to buy enough material to sew that outfit .

   Nevertheless , there are some mothers and fathers and grannies who are fashionable yet decently clothed . These are the ones to be emulated . Blind pursuit of fashion is not the way to keep you in spotlight . Learning to have a sense of fashion , knowing which style,colour or cut suits you would go a long way to turning you into a lady or smart gentleman .

Nur Farahin Binti Abdul Aziz

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Keep Environment Healthy

Nowadays, environment issue has become a hot topic in the society. Lots of people are worried about the Mother Earth and man’s destructive impact on it. The topic has been resolved by many side of the world. Most people are increasingly aware of the need to protect  our  environment.

First step is choose to walk short distances instead of taking your car every time. Go walking to the gym, to work, go walking to run errands,or use a bicycle. Both cycling and walking are good exercises. And each time you avoid using your car, you are contributing to reducing air pollution. You are saving fuel, saving money and getting a good workout too.

Second step choose an open area or ground near your residence or workplace. Unless there's any law restricting you from growing trees in that area, go ahead, grow trees. Plant a tree every month, encourage your friends and colleagues to join you. Have more and more trees planted and there will come a day when you have a green stretch of land thanks to your effort.

 

Next is recylce n reuse whatever and whenever you can. This is the best measure to save the environment. A simple way to do this is to reduce the use of rubber and plastic. Instead, use paper bags and cardboard containers. Even the practice of buying in bulk can help save a lot of packaging material, thus contributing to saving the environment. Buy products that you can reuse. You can reuse daily-use items like old wood, scrap paper to make wood and paper articles and old clothes. All the things you can donate them to the needy or make other cloth items from them.

Last but not least use water wisely, Water is a very important natural resource. It's we who waste it, pollute it. The simplest ways to save water - turn off water taps after use. Use of flushes and showers can lead to wastage of water. Use only as much water as necessary. Do not dump garbage down a storm drain. When you visit a beach, see that you don't spill food or dump waste around. Do not pollute rivers by dumping garbage, sewage or other waste material in them. This pollutes water bodies. There are laws prohibiting you from doing this. But then it has to come from within - the awareness and the awakening. Water is so precious, we can't waste or pollute it.

In conclusion, environment pollutions are affecting not only individual but also entire countries all over the world. Overall, I suggested people to use the best ways that i has given it will help somewhat with all the methods. 

Syarifah Nur Atiqah Bt Sayed Mohamed Noor

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Book vs Movie

A lot of parents want their kids to read the book then watch the movie. But why? If you read the book, you have an image in your head of what the character looks like, what their voices sound like, and what the scene looks like, and usually it is pretty good. But when you watch the movie, all those images get shattered.

Writing a book is easier than making a movie. With a book you can describe places that come out of your imagination, which could never become “reality” no matter how hard Hollywood tries. Movies can also be better than a book. With a movie, you don’t have to read anything, you can watch a movie while doing homework if you wanted to. But with a book, the only thing you can do is read, you can’t read a book and do homework at the same time, that’s impossible. I’m not saying that I love read a book just because I had to actually read it, but when you’re reading a book, all you can do is read the book.

But, with a book, you can bring it anywhere you want, and stop whenever you like and later, just start reading exactly where you stopped. But with a movie, you kind of have to watch it at home, and you have to remember when you stopped in order to start again. 

One thing that I don’t like about movies is that people only make movies around 3-4 hours long because they are afraid that people won’t watch it if it’s too long, which means they have to cut a lot of parts out and then put some more parts in to let it make sense. But with a book, it can be as long as the author wants it to be, as long as it all makes sense. I have seen people who read books that are over 600 pages long and not mind a bit, but when a 3 hour movies comes, they just can’t concentrate that long.

These are all the main differences that I can think of, and most of them are in favor of the book. So I conclude that books are better than the movie. 

by : Ainal Maisarah Bt Ahmad Mustaffa Goh

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Is Jogging or Cycling more effective?

  Jogging and bicycling are both popular recreational and fitness activities. Both can help with weight loss and control and cardiovascular fitness. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. Many people do both and joggers and bicyclists often share the same trails in parks and exercise paths. Both can be either individual or group activities and neither requires any extreme skill. You ought to get a physical examination before doing either if you're not already exercising.

  Jogging is more of a full body workout, because you swing your arms as you jog with your feet and legs and that motion will exercise shoulders and abdomen. It also is a continuous activity and a higher impact exercise, with the feet striking the ground with some force. That helps build bone density. Its only equipment is a good pair of running shoes and comfortable clothing.

Bicycling is a low impact exercise, easier on the feet, knees, hips and lower back because the feet rest on the pedals. Its intensity varies because a rider does not have to pedal constantly and can coast at times. It requires more skill because a rider has to maintain balance on the two wheels, but a bicycle rider may be more likely to fall than a jogger. Cycling also requires more equipment a bicycle and a helmet at a minimum.

  Both jogging and bicycling burn calories to help eliminate excess body fat, but the intensity of the activity affects this for both exercises. Jogging at a pace of 12 minutes per mile and cycling at 12 to 14 miles an hour will burn calories at about the same rate but fitness riding a bicycle 20 miles is equivalent to running 5.6 miles.

by: Ainal Maisarah Bt Ahmad Mustaffa Goh

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Mahsuri's Tomb In Langkawi Padang Matsirat Attractions

Mahsuri’s Tomb is the crypt of the legendary Princess Mahsuri. Located in the village of Mawat, 12km from Kuah, it is also known as Makam Mahsuri. Most of the island’s natural attractions have fables attached in true Malay style and Mahsuri’s Tomb is probably its most famous legend. The story begins with the beautiful Mahsuri, a maiden (or princess by some accounts) born over 200 years ago, who married the love of her life during a time of conflict with the Siamese. Her husband went off to fight in the war and her mother-in-law, jealous of her beauty, vengefully accused Mahsuri of adultery.

Mahsuri protested her innocence but the village elders tried the young girl, found her guilty and sentenced her to death by stabbing. She was tied to a stake but when she was pierced with the ceremonial dagger she bled white blood, a sign of her innocence. With her dying breath, Mahsuri cursed the island with seven generations of bad luck. Later the Siamese conquered Kedah and invaded the island – the inhabitants of Langkawi set fire to their staple crop and poisoned their wells in order to halt the advance of the invaders. Legend has it to this day traces of burnt rice can be seen in nearby Padang Matsirat (The Field of Burnt Rice) especially after torrential downpours.

by : Nur Suhada Syafika Bt Mohd Yazid
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Working Mother :)

Every mom is a working mom but some work outside of the house. They say when work outside they will get great rewards comes great responsibilities, and to bring up their children in an ideal environment, mothers work to support their family. 

A mother is the most important person in the house. The whole house needs her for getting help with food, clothes, studies, finding lost stuff, managing closets and wardrobes, getting ready for work and all. She is there to make sure everyone gets his or her desired things on time. Along with all this, if a mother goes to work, then this can become very challenging. Some women do not give up work after kids because they are workaholic and cannot live without it. If they do not work, they feel that they are useless and lazy. However, this can get very hard if they have kids who are on mother feed or are too young to live on their own. It gets very busy to look after kids and work, and even husband and house. They do not find time for themselves and are always caught up with either office work or home management. It is good to have a off day and let other people look after the house on the weekends so that they can relax.

Most of the working moms are active for their families. They feel proud and confident that they are making their exist useful. It might be very hard for a working mother to have healthy relationships with their children because they are out for most of the day. Despite of all the hardships they may face, working mothers ever give up their hopes and efforts. They are determined to work for a better future and their biggest motivation is their children.

We should all realize the fact that whatever our mothers do, they do it for us and should cooperate with our mothers to help them with house work and make them happy with our attitude or studies. 

Syarifah Nur Atiqah Bt Sayed  Mohamed Noor

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Disadvantages of Social Network in "English Language Learning"

Disadvantages of Social Network in English Language Learning:

     Beside advantages of social network in education, there are also some disadvantages of social networking in language learning. Many researchers has conducted research on this matter and many of them conclude that social networking can be subjected to crime especially to the youth or students. Because social networking offers the users to communicate each other without any boundries that will be used by the bad people to to do crime to the others.

     Networking websites can make people or especially students become very addictive. People spend more and more time at computer with makes them isolated from real life. In the term of language proficiency, many young people write uncomplete or slank english words which are not found in English dictionary. Some of the use abbreviation which sometime confusing to the others. Such as they use ‘text language’ in their normal day to day vocab, saying things like ‘lol’ (laugh out loud), ‘btw’ (by the way) and ‘atm’ (at the moment).

     So the conclusion, there are some advantages and disadvantages of using social networking in education including in English language learning. It can encourage students to engage with each other and to express and share their creativity and can create a better English communicative environment for students. The other hand, social networking is lack of humanitarian aspects and create confusing language because using slank words or abbreviation which are not found in English dictionary.

(AINAL MAISARAH BT AHMAD MUSTAFFA GOH

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