Should boys learn to cook?

Last time i went back to Kuching for celebrating Chinese New Year, and guess what they all asked me?

"Are you going out to eat everyday or you cook yourself?"

"erm........going out to eat."

"Harh? you yourself dunno how to cook meh?"

"Urm.. I know how to cook maggie mee. Trust me it is nice. >.<"

So should i ask, should boys learn to cook? It is universally acknowledged that every nation nay, every individual must be self sufficient and that amounts to saying self supporting. In Japan, one of the most advanced country in the world, cookery is a compulsary subject in the Japanese school curriculum. Can we say they are foolish to introduce this women's job in the curriculum among science and arts?

Actually, the object of learning how to cook is to make an individual self supporting. Needless to say a knowledge of cooking helps an individual tremendously. What will happen after we graduated from Taylor and decide to go overseas to study but yet we still do not know how to cook? In this scientific age a stove can be had for a few dollars and we can devote a few minutes in cooking our food. Hence, the benefits of knowing how to cook is not only saves ur from starvation but it is more economical, hygenic and fascinating. For the sake of cleanliness and variety also, people always prefer to cook thier own food.

Of cause i admit my "mood" is totally being destroyed when i heard the "harh" from the mouth of the relatives. So.. do i need to start learning how to cook from today? Anyone wants to join me...? => to cook Maggie. =D

Green lamps, u want?

I was doing a research on "how to make a taylor's classroom more eco-friendly" and i found this. I decided to install this in my future house. MUST! >.<
I seriously love the idea of this green lamp that blends natural textures with recycled materials to bring a bit of nature indoors.

This green lamp is conceived by three Venetian architects for a charity competition, the Grass-On Lamp by ITlab is made entirely of recycled materials, including the synthetic grass, and completely recyclable. The cube structure of the lamp gives it added versatility, letting it rest on the floor, on a table, or suspended from the air.

This idea is actually the combination of architect, design and interiors by using surprising materials and forms. I personally like this imteractive nature-if you prefer this green lamp to be lighter, you can just trim back the green to let more shine through.

By installing this lovely lamp inside the house, one can sense the closeness of the nature although you are actually inside your concrete house.

A little big idea can make the earth better. Go green with me today. =)

What is law?

There is no comprehensive definition of law.However,law may be defined as a body of rules which are given by the state(government).It is a command by the state to the individuals or groups or corporations and is enforceable by sanctions.

Some people define law as a set of rules, developed over a long period of time to regulate people’s interaction with each other, and which sets standards of conducts between individuals and other individuals, and individuals and the government.

Are rules always law?

Even if law is a set of rules, it does not necessarily follow that all rules are law.There are rules that govern human behaviour but are not law.Examples of such rules are family rules,sports rules and school rules.

Why do we need law?

There is a need for law so that:-

→Peace and order in the society can be mainted.

→Anarchy can be avoided.

→People can settle their dispute in ammicable manner.

→Social justice is promoted.

FROM : AZIEYATI ABD MALIK

What Is National Integrity Plan?

National Integrity Plan (NIP) is a concept that has been introduced by the ex-prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is to fulfill the challenge at the Vision 2020 in order to establish a fully moral and ethical society whose citizens are strong in religious and spiritual values and imbued with the highest ethical standards.

The components or institutions that involved in the concept of National Integrity Plan are family, community, civil society(NGOs), socio culture(education, sports and recreation, health, media, arts, literature and heritage),religion, economy, politics and administration. Other than that, the National Integrity Plan also has its own objectives. There are five main objectives; Firstly the aim is to reduce corruption and abuses of power. Secondly, is focusing on increasing the efficiency of the public delivery system. Thirdly, it wanted to enhance the corporate governance and business ethics. Apart from that, it is also want to strengthen the family institution. Last but not least, it wanted to improve the quality of people’s life.

FROM : AZIEYATI ABD MALIK

WHAT IS CRITICAL THINKING?

Often when we use the word 'critical' we mean "negative and fault-finding". This is the sense we have in mind, for example, when we complain about a parent or a friend who we think is unfairly critical of what we do or say. But critical also means 'involving or excercising skilled judgement or observation'.

In this sense critical thinking means thinking clearly and intelligently. More precisely, critical thinking is the general term. We need to effectively identify, analyze and evaluate arguments and truth claims to discover and overcome personal prejudices and biases to present the convincing reasons in order to support the conclusion and to make a reasonable, intelligent decisions about what to believe and what to do.

There are few elements that involves in critical thinking which are clarity, precision , accuracy, relevance, consistency, logical correctness, completeness and fairness.

FROM : AZIEYATI ABDUL MALIK

TYPES OF FREEDOM

a)’freedom to’ or ‘freedom of’ such as→freedom to move, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

b)’freedom from’ such as→freedom from oppression, freedom from want, etc.

NEGATIVE & POSITIVE FREEDOM:

a)Negative freedom→is the absence of constrains, and refers to the sphere of action within which an individual is left alone to do or be whatever he or she may want to do.

b)Positive freedom→is the presence of control, and refers to the question “who determines that an agent does one thing rather than another?”.It is about self-government, rather than about being left alone.The word “positive freedom” is being used to describe the control exercised by a “collective self” over its intractable members.

FROM : AZIEYATI ABDUL MALIK

TYPES OF FREEDOM

a)’freedom to’ or ‘freedom of’ such as→freedom to move, freedom of speech, freedom of religion.

b)’freedom from’ such as→freedom from opression, freedom from want, etc.

NEGATIVE & POSITIVE FREEDOM:

a)Negative freedom→is the absence of constrains, and refers to the sphere of action within which an individual is left alone to do or be whatever he or she may want to do.

b)Positive freedom→is the presence of control, and refers to the question “who determines that an agent does one thing rather than another?”.It is about self-government, rather than about being left alone.The word “positive freedom” is being used to describe the control exercised by a “collective self” over its intractable members.

FROM : AZIEYATI ABDUL MALIK

MORPHO TOWER

The Morpho Towers are created by Sachiko kodama and Yasushi Mijayima. Sachiko is a Japanese artist who is a physic graduate in the Faculty of Science at Hokkaido University in 1993. She is matriculated in the Fine Arts Department at the Universiy of Tsukuba in Plastic art and Mixed media. She then completed her Master’s and Doctoral Programme in Art and Design. She used to have an interactive art project named “PROTRUDE FLOW”.

The idea of Morpho Towes comes from life and nature. It related to the matter of flora and fauna, the way of movement of animals. Another her main objective is to relate these elements in computer display design as well. The motif of the Morpho towers are sea, tornadoes and lightning.

In my opinion,its really a good invention as it is unique, fascinate, beautiful and technology advanced. It introduced people about the ferrofluid, which is the thing that i have never know before. Now I know about the usage of ferrofluid.Other than that, it makes people think of how can someone create something like this? Nobody expect that human can create something like this which are a different and unique invention. The creation of these Morpho Towers really make us think of how the natural shapes occur as well.

FROM : AZIEYATI ABD MALIK