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

Respite

Full moon today. Not something you get to see everyday, eh?

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Right now, I can imagine most of us FNBE students would be stressed out from the avalanche of assignments, especially the CCM meeting coming up this Wednesday (40% ler...), and a lot more. While these assignments would be crucial for our final marks, and understandably most of us would want to do our best, try not to stress yourselves too much okay? After all its college, we're supposed to have fun =)

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And before I forget, Happy Chap Goh Meh. Enjoy it while it lasts. x)

Beach Beast part 1

There are some gigantic moving sculptures in some parts of the world !


Yeah, they are kinetic sculptures, invented by Theo Jansen. He calls them 'Strandbeest' , or some call them ' Beach Beast' .

Who is Theo Jansen?
Well, Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist, or i should say he is a scientist turned artist, he born March 14 ,1948 in The Hague , Netherlands. He has been occupied with the making of new nature since 1990. Over the years, successive generation of his new natures have evolved into increasingly complex animals .

What is his idea ?
Theo Jansen wants to make "life" and he figures out the best way to do it is to start from scratch



He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals and are able to walk using the wind on the beach, his bizzare beach animals have their roots in a computer program that he designed 17 years ago which virtual four-legged creatures raced against each othere to identify survivors fit enough to reproduce. Deetermined to translate the evolutionary process off-screen, Jansen went to a local shop and found his own alternative to the biological cell , the humbe plastic tube.

He insists that animals are machines as well, he was making animals with just the tubes because they are cheap but later on they turned out to be very helpful in making artificial life because they are very flexible and mulifunctional as well. " There's a lot of variety in what you can do with just one material and this is what i try to do as well."

to be continued ....