Sunday, October 11, 2009

How to become a good orator

Do you nervous when you do the presentation in front of many peoples?
Have you ever heard about this great people such as Cicero,King,Clinton or Barack Obama?These names evoke the power of the spoken word.There is an art to oratory and it can be learned.An orator is a person in a love affair with the crowd.Just as two people in love are comfortable with each other,an orator is always comfortable with his crowd.Great orators use techniques such as the call and response or the exalted tone.You can become an orator if you want to with practice.

How to become a good orator?

Firstly,you must be prepared what are you want talking about.The true orator knows about what they are saying.They have fun doing what they love.When an orator has poise,purpose and presence,there is no crowd they cannot reach.What is poise,purpose and presence actually?Poise is how you carry yourself,purpose is the reason you are standing in front of the crowd and presence is the aura that you evoke.

Secondly,you must have connected to your audience.You have to connect with your audience on many levels.Great orators make you cry and smile in the same speech.The energy they project is so familiar that you think they are a part of your own family.

Thirdly,you must emphasize your important word.By doing so, you are adding a level of importance to the themes of your speech.Every orator is good with eye contact,enunciation, pronunciation,pitch and tone.Since it is conversation you are having with your crowd,you can neither be compulsive or condescending.

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Next,you must use the memorable phrases.You still remember the German phrase that John F. Kennedy said that the Berlin Wall.Every orator,past and present,has phrases they are remembered for.Make your own original phrases and use them to shine through your speech.

Last but not least,end your speech with a conclusion.Always remember that you have to leave something special with your audience.Orators use their last lines to call their audiences to a lofty ideal.Do not leave your audience hanging.You must always give them such a performance that their next immediate action is to rise up to their feet.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

The advantages and disadvantages of living in megacities


Hello everyone!Today I would like to share with you about megacities.Do you know what kind of city that we called megacity?



The megacities are usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population excess of 10 million people.There are so many megacities nowadays such as Tokyo, New York,Mexico,Mumbai,Seoul,Los Angeles,Angkor Watt and others.Although the emergence of megacities increase the economic growth and social lifestyles but there are still have the advantages and disadvantages for living in megacities.




The advantages for the people who lives in megacities is that they offer far more options in terms of job offered, entertainment and facilities than the smaller cities.Beside that,the modern technology makes the lifestyle of the people more comfortable and safer. Moreover,many people moving to a megacity because megacities giving them an opportunity to achieve their dream.For example, many people moving to Los Angeles (Hollywood) as it is the place for the people to find the fame like the American Idol,the Apprentice for the business and popularity.Because of this thing,many people start to move to megacities for supporting their life.


While,the disadvantages of living in the megacities is that quality of life can be lower than smaller cities in terms of living spaces,higher cost of living,lower quality of public services and infrastructures cause by the high population in megacities.Furthermore,not all megacities offer the good safety surroundings.It is quite dangerous because there are many crimes such as robbing,kidnapped the rich people,killing and social problems keep increasing nowadays. In addition,there are so many people also can cause the citizens to suffer of infectious diseases such as H1N1 which is very easy to spread.


In a conclusion,the words of “megacities” sounds fascinating that make people want to experience to live in it.However there advantages and disadvantages for living in megacities.So,we have to think before make the decision to living in megacities,cities or the countryside.



Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Art...

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions.There are many types of art.One of all is music.
Here,I want to talk about music instrument.Music instrument can be divided to traditional and modern types.
I want to compare between sape and guitar.As we know,sape is a taditional music instrument while guitar is a modern music instrument.
Pronounced "sa-peh",is a traditional lute of the Orang Ulu community or upriver people of Central Borneo.It is traditionally used by the Kenyahs,Kayans and Kelabit tribes.
A hollow is made on the sape body and about a metre.The sape is a masterpiece of woodcarving.The body of the sape is curved and coloured with colourful jungle motifs because this change in purpose.
Sape had only two rattan strings and three frets.Sape is played during the ceremonies such as marriages,births and harvest times in rumah panjang.
The guitar is modern instrument typically has six strings but four,five,six also exits.Two main types of guitars are electric and guitar and acoustic guitar.Guitar is suitable played in jazz,pop,rock music and also for slow music.
The guitar usually means as to a set of closely related stringed while the electric guitar can have solid,semi hollow,or hollow bodies and produce little sound without amplication.
Acoustic guitars, string vibration is transmitted through the bridge and saddle to the body via sound board.The sound board is typically made of tone.Timbers are chosen for both strength and ability to transfer mechanical energy from the strings to the air within the guitar body. Sound is affected by the characteristics of the guitar body's resonant cavity.
In conclusion, both the modern and traditional music instruments have own specilities.So, we as the new generation must retain the art.

indigenous people in Malaysia

Indigenous people can be describe as the native of an area that have been live there for the long period of time.Usually,they have their own characteristic dialect but they share the same cultural and background.The indigenous people live in nomadic lifestyle.

In Peninsular Malaysia,The Orang Asli consist of 19 ethnic such as Negrito, Senoi and Aboriginal Malay. Their population is 0.7% of the national population.

Sabah has more than 30 different indigenous groups, including Kadazan, Dusun, Rungus, Murut, Sungai and Lundayeh. They speak more than 50 languages and 80 dialects.Their populationis about 60% of the national population and the majority live in the rural areas.
The indigenous peoples in Sarawak is around 50% of the national population.There are 28 indigenous groups listed. However, there are at least 37 known groups and sub-groups, including Iban, Penan, Kenyah, Kayan, Kelabit, Ukit, Sekapan, Lahanan and Punan Bah.

The indigenous people have low level of life.They have low education,and they do not know so much about entertainment just like sports,games and so on.
But,nowadays,we can see the indigenous people especially the new generation of the indigenous people have been successful in their life.They are successful to upgrade their level of life from lower level up to standard and even to a very high level of life.Today,there are many well-known people are the indigenous people.
As we see today,many of these indigenous people have been trough the assimilation.They have assimilate to other ethnic.This is because many of them married with partner from other ethnic and their next generation will become assimilate and become "half indigenous" only.
Indigenous Peoples are a significant and important portion of humanity. Their heritage, their ways of life, their stewardship of this planet, and their cosmological insights are an invaluable treasure house for us all.The World Bank is honored to be working worldwide with Indigenous Peoples in global dialog and in development projects. The World Bank aims to promote Indigenous Peoples' development in a manner which ensures that the development process fosters full respect for the dignity, human rights, and uniqueness of Indigenous Peoples.
In conclusion,the indigenous people should not being neglected by the other ethnic.we should caring and sharing with them.:):):)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

media choices

Assalammualaikum and hello to all of you!Thank you for your willing to read our blog again.This time,we will share with you the info about media.What means by media?This word is very general and familiar for us.Media means channels of communication that serve many diverse functions,such as offering a variety of entertainment,communicating news and information.There are many types of media such as mass media,for electronic media,it usually referred to as broadcast media,or radio and television,including cable.

Through the history,humans lived in a state of extreme information poverty.News traveled slowly,from field to field,village to village.All of this happened because there are a few people know how to read in that time.Today,by contrast,we live in a world where the technology are taking over the world.We can get whatever we want,wherever and whenever we want.This is because of the exist of internet.A lot of entertainment that we can get from watching television,radio,reading newspapers or magazines and so on are available in the internet.Because of the variety of media,so I make decision to talk about people’s choices of media.

My first question is,which forms of media are the most popular nowadays?I had conduct a survey about people’s choices of media.Most of the respondent choose internet as their sources to get many informations.So,why are the internet be the most favourite media chose by my respondent?One of the reasons are most of my respondents are students of UPM Kampus Bintulu.They have their own laptop to do their assignment.In the same time,they use the internet to get many informations also.Besides,people also can watch the television channel and hear the deejay of the radio talking in the internet.So,internet are the most popular media nowadays because we can get anything in it just with a click!

My second question is,some people say that DVDs and internet downloads of movies will mean the death of the cinema.Do you agree with that statement?I don't know what are your opinion about this statement,but I agree with this statement.DVDs and internet download of movies will mean the death of the cinema because people will watching movies maybe at their home together with their family by playing the DVDs or alone in their room by surfing in the internet.The manager cinema will bankrupt and close their business because of the decreasing number of people go to the cinema to watch movies.There is no reason to stay built the cinema because people nowadays will not see all of that.They will think twice whether to go to the cinema or downloads from DVDs or internet.

Last but not least,people also say that the internet will take over from television.Do you agree with that statement?What are your reasons?I think internet will take over from television because it is easy to get a lot of entertainment in the internet just with a click!Besides,when people surf the web,there are numerous things that can be found such as musics,hobbies,news and more.



Sunday, August 30, 2009

discrimination

What do you understand about discrimination?
Discrimination can be defined as unfair treatment of one person or group, usually because of prejudice about race, ethnicity, age, religion, or gender.
The common discrimination that we heard and we see is discrimination against women.
For example,most peoples said women does not need to have higher education than men.This is because,women only responsible to family's priority such as after they had married,they only have to take care on their husband and children.
But what we can see in this modern life,this statement is not true.
what we can see nowadays,women is more successful than men.As we know,there are more girl students than boy student in universities.
But in the same time,the successful women does not ignore about their family.Their relationship with family still closer.
Other than that,in the previous era,girl is said to bring bad luck and give shame to thier family.So,the new born baby girl will be kill or buried alive.
Moreover,there is a discrimination against women who wear scarf.For example,there are overseas universities that prevent the muslim girl student to wear scarf if they want to further their study there.
But there are law that protect the women's right.For example,National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO),All Women's Action Society (AWAM) and so on.
All the law state that women should be give the same level with men.Women has a right to do what men do.
In conclusion,we must against discrimination.

communication

Communication can be defined as a connection allowing access between persons or places.It can happen when there are two or more people that want to connect.It is a medium that communicate us with other peoples although we are in different place at the same time.
Communication is very important in one's everyday life.It helps us to transfer information,interchange information and sharing ideas,transmit thought or feeling,to join or connect something,and so on.
Beside that,communication is a 'two way' process.For example,when two people are communicate,one person will give an idea,while the second person will pay attention and then react and response to the first person's idea.
We communicate from the moment we wake up in the morning until we sleep at night.With just say 'hello' or 'hi' to someone,we had communicated.All the work we do need communication.For example,a doctor have to communicate with their patients,teachers with their students,employer to their employees,and so much more.
A good communication between peoples will make a good relationship and vise versa.So,we have to communicate with other peoples in a correct way so that others like and respect us.

This is an common example of communication.One person is asking a question while another one response to the question and answer it.So,we can say that they are connected and communicated.
In conclusion,communication is very important and easy.

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

demographic



Demographics or demographic data refers to selected population characteristics as used in government, marketing or opinion research, or the demographic profiles used in such research. Demographics include race, age, income, disabilities, mobility,educational attainment, home ownership, employment status, and even location.Demographics are always used in economic and marketing research.
Demographic trends describes the changes in demographics in a population over time.For example,the lifespan of Malaysian according to their age.This entry provides the distribution of the population according to age. Information is included by age group (from age 7 until 80).


The age structure of a population affects a nation's key socioeconomic issues. Countries with young populations (high percentage under age 15) need to attend more in schools, while countries with older populations (high percentage ages 65 and over) need to attend more in the health sector. The age structure can also be used to help predict potential political issues. For example, the rapid growth of a young adult population unable to find employment can lead to unrest.
Other than that,people with older age lead the country while the younger will replace them soon.
The younger have to attend to universities so that they can lead the country soon.
In conclusion,all age rate have their own responsibilities to the country.

Emo

Assalammualaikum.Today I want to talk about emo.I'm sure that when the word emo is mentioned,many images comes to your mind,right?What is emo really about?As I know,emo is a subgenre of music.However,I don't want to talk about music today but I want to talk about what is emo really about.

How to get an emo looks?You might think there is so many things you can be an emo.People always think that emo style is something that is very sad or depressing.They don't know that all of that tend to mistakes because the fact is,emo styles must be more emotional than other styles.

An emo kids usually like to wear t-shirts and tight jeans.For guys,they like to choose dark jeans that tight fitting with their legs.Besides,they like to wear anything that black in colour because it is a good choice for an emo look.For girls,they like to wear For girls,they like to wear headbands and so on to accessorize their outfits.Tight with stripes,paired with mini skirts are also their popular style.On the other hand,their dressing is more gothic.They also always cover their eyes by let their hair in front of their face.

Emo kids usually do not have many friends and may seem quiet and shy but they are actually some of the most social people you will know whe you meet them.Emo kids are very passionate kind and they can be very romantic because they have hobbies such as writing poetry,reading,listening to music and so on.

Friday, July 17, 2009

malays culture

Assalamualaikum and salam sejahtera.Today we wanna share about Malay culture.

First of all,we wanna talk about Malay cuisine.The most famous food of Malay is nasi lemak that mixed with anchovies,cucumber,peanuts,boiled egg and the important one is sambal.Ice kacang or also known as ABC is a dessert served in Malaysia.Next,Dodol,a sticky,delicious and sweet food is also popular in Malaysia especially at village.The ingredients are santan and rice flour.It is usually served during Hari Raya.Other than that,ketupat is a well-known food served during Hari Raya and always serve with rendang.




Secondly,lets talk about Malay clothes.As we know,Malays men use baju melayu with their songkok and sampin.For Malay women,they are dressed up with baju kurung or baju kebaya and match it with batik and selendang.Besides,the Malay also use songket and sarong.


Next,Malay is popular with their dances such as zapin,famous in state of Johor.This dance is perform in pairs of male and female.Mak Yong,a dance-drama from state of Kelantan includes dancing,acting and improvised dialogues.It tells story that are present in a series of three hour performances over several nights.Beside that,we have ronggeng social dance in which couples exchange poetic verses as they dance to the music of a violin or a gong.




Other than that,the Malay have their own festivals.They celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri in Muslim month of Syawal.But before that,during month of Ramadan,a month before Syawal,it's mandatory for Muslims to fast from dawn to dusk.The common activity that usually done by the Muslims during Hari Raya is decorating,feasting,visiting family and friends and lighting oil lamps.Another festival is Hari Raya Aidiladha that falls on 10th of Muslim month of Dhul Hijja and will be celebrate until 13th in the same month.Actually,Hari Raya Aidiladha occurs the day after pilgrims conducting Hajj.Maulidur Rasul is also one of the Malay festivals.Maulidur Rasul refer to the birthday of prophet Muhammad on 12th Rabi' al-awwal of Muslim month.


Moreover,Malay people have many traditional games such as congkak,sepak takraw,batu seremban and so on.Congkak is a game to prevent boredom.The congkak board have fourteen holes and two stores.Both player have one store and seven holes.Another traditional game is sepak takraw or also known as sepak raga.A rattan ball will throw to a player and the player can either kick or use their head for several times before sending the rattan ball to another player.This game is more interesting when one of the player can stand for a longer time.Batu seremban or five stones is a game where it's usually played by girls.they will throw a stone and try to sweep another stone and catching the one they threw earlier.
That's all.Thank you.