Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life..??

About two and one-half billion years ago, life on Earth was still in its infancy. Complex organisms such as plants and animals had not yet appeared, but the planet was teeming with microscopic bacteria which thrived in the temperate and nutrient-rich environment. Greenhouse methane lingered in the atmosphere and trapped the sun’s warmth, creating a climate very accommodating to the stew of microbes life that made their home on primitive Earth.

But a billion years of bacterial evolutionary progress was soon stunted by a catastrophic global event. Geologists find no signs of a great meteor impact nor a volcanic eruption, but they have uncovered the unmistakable geologic scars of rapid worldwide climate change. Average temperatures, which were previously comparable to our present climate, plummeted to minus 50 degrees Celsius and brought the planet into its first major ice age. This environmental shift triggered a massive die-off which threatened to extinguish all life on Earth, and paleoclimatologists have good reason to believe that this world-changing event was unwittingly caused by some of the planet’s own humble residents bacteria.

CHEAT....

A lie or cheat is a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement, especially with the intention to deceive others. To lie or cheat is to state something with disregard to the truth with the intention that people will accept the statement as truth.
All person cheats. Right? Who dare say that during his life, he never cheats at all? I'm sure everyone had cheat. I'm sure there are no lovers that don’t cheat their couples and I'm sure even parents sometimes cheat their children even if they love their kids so much. No person in the world is pure from deception, all had their mistakes.

Cheating is a part of the life now. Maybe we think we are the most honest person in the world (or at least we try to be that person) but at the same time, in certain situations we have, or not wait to deceive. We cheat for many reasons, maybe we cheat in exams, see the next person in exams, tricks parents; saying that class finished late when actually hanging out at cyber cafe. In the business world, every year the big companies cheat by altering their audit accounts. Numbers are just numbers. Fraud is to give a good impression and to fill the pockets of certain people.
What I'm trying to say here is:
 It is impossible for us to put our full trust to someone but maybe for special ones (love, family member).
 The world will be a better place if all the people inside it stop cheating.
 It is not easy to find a person who can be truthful to us, so, as soon as we found one, maintain our relationship with that person.
 Not even a single person free of cheating, even if it is just a small ones. People cheat for their own benefits.

At one hand, we all want to look into a mirror and feel good of ourselves so, we don’t want to cheat. At the other hand we could cheat a little bit and still feel good about ourselves. So maybe what is happening is, there is a level of cheating that we can’t go over but we can still benefit from cheating at the low degree as long as it doesn’t change our impression about ourselves.

Outer Space Exposure...

In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwittingly introduced to the vacuum of space without proper protection. There is often an alarming cacophony of screams and gasps as the increasingly bloated humans writhe and spasm. Their exposed veins and eyeballs soon bulge in what is clearly a disagreeable manner. The ill-fated adventurers rapidly swell like over-inflated balloons, ultimately bursting in a gruesome spray of blood.
As is true with many subjects, this representation in popular culture does not reflect the reality of exposure to outer space. Ever since humanity first began to probe outside of our protective atmosphere, a number of live organisms have been exposed to vacuum, both deliberately and otherwise. By combining these experiences with our knowledge of outer space, scientists have a pretty clear idea of what would happen if an unprotected human slipped into the cold, airless void.

My Top 5 Awesome Things....

Metal Website

I listened to every band in every category for this, and I have discovered so much! Omniavatar, Mar De Grises, Pokku, Metalcore, Bran Barr, Synthetic Breed, Orphaned Land, Sabaton , Masterplan, W.A.I.L. to name but a few. I never listened to any of them before this, so THANK YOU, Metal Storm! All people raise your horns for METAL! XD http://www.metalstorm.net/home/index.php


Having Exotic Animals as pet.

Unlike others, I prefer exotic animals such as snakes, scorpions and iguana. Scorpions are one of the awesome exotic animals. I, myself had a male scorpion as my “pet”.

Black- my “pet” scorpion.

Exotic animals are actually not dangerous. In fact, if we don’t do anything harmful towards them, they will act in dangerous manner. My scorpion’s sting does not cause any harmful injuries because its venom only causes death to insects and small animals such as crickets and worms.

Pit Viper
 
Owning a Ford Mustang.

Seeing other people dream cars reminds me how awesome it would be if I can have my own Ford Mustang GT. The feeling of driving the car while others admiring my car would totally be sensational.

Ford Mustang GT with Eleanor Kits.

Ford Mustang GT 500.

Just imagine the feeling behind the wheel. I would totally be lucky if one day I can have this car like the right hand of GOD is on my shoulder.
 
Playing Snooker with friends.

Snooker is a game of concentration, technique and brain. This game requires us to pocket all the balls into six pockets holes around the table according to the rules. It may look easy but actually snooker is a hard game to master. Power, placement and skills are necessarily needed in snooker game. I usually play snooker with my friends. It took me for over a year to be good at this game. The rules are simple. Pocket the balls needed and avoid making fouls.

One of the skills for cueing.

Full snooker set. (Table and rest).

Bungee Jumping

I have a friend bungee jumping from KLCC and he told me that awesome experience of his bungee jumping is unforgettable. Bungee jumping (also spelled "Bungy" jumping) is an activity that involves jumping from a tall structure while connected to a large elastic cord. The tall structure is usually a fixed object, such as a building, bridge or crane; but it is also possible to jump from a movable object, such as a hot air-balloon or helicopter, that has the ability to hover above the ground. The thrill comes as much from the free-falling as from the rebounds. When the person jumps, the cords stretches and the jumper flies upwards again as the cord snaps back, and continues to oscillate up and down until all the energy is dissipated. I would love to try bungee jumping once in my life.

A man bungee jumping from a bridge overseas.

Life Without The Moon.....!!!

Life is a tenuous thing. Earth is just within Sol’s habitable zone, and constantly pelted with solar radiation and cosmic rays. Rocky scraps of cosmic afterbirth constantly cross Earth’s orbit, threatening to eradicate all terrestrial life. In point of fact, it is almost certain that countless Extinction-Level Events would have sterilized the surface of our plucky planet had it not been for our constant companion and benefactor; a body which unwittingly wards away many of the ills that could befall us: the moon.Luna is unique among the observed celestial bodies; there is no other satellite closer in size and composition to its mother-planet (if one discounts the dwarf-planet Pluto), and the Earth/moon system is the only tidally locked pair. Furthermore, it also happens to be the only moon in the solar system which is circling an intelligent civilization– a factor which may not be a mere coincidence.

Students must vote during the 'Students' Election' because..

I do not think this should be the issue because students are no longer believes in the effectiveness of MPP responsibilities. we see what we can from the former MPP.

MPP should fully weigh who is their priority

Who should be the priority? Who is the SRC is formed? Does the student demands are met? Do what the MPP is a request to do before the students nor it is assumed that the SRC is the student demand.

Is the SRC provided enough channels to convey the problems of students? Effectiveness of these channels? Is the table open a complaint is sufficient to obtain the cooperation of students? How an organization interacts with its shareholders, would influence the performance of the organization.

We do not mind will fight elections or trivial among students in research institutes. We just want to learn and excel grad. May also collect memories. To do so, we just need good food, cheap and good quality. Bus services that are consistent, comfortable residential colleges, etc. ..

So we will not vote! .. Who cares!

Beware The Dangerous Of Oxygen

There’s a caustic substance common to our environment whose very presence turns iron into brittle rust, dramatically increases the risk of fire and explosion, and sometimes destroys the cells of the very organisms that depend on it for survival. This substance that makes up 21% of our atmosphere is Diatomic oxygen (O2), more widely know as just oxygen.Of course, oxygen has its good points. Besides being necessary for respiration and the reliable combustion engine, it can be liquefied and used as rocket fuel. Oxygen is also widely used in the world of medicine as a means to imbue the body with a greater amount of the needed gas. But recent studies indicate that administering oxygen might be doing less good than hoped–and in fact be causing harm. No one is immune to the dangers of oxygen, but the people who might most suffer the ill effects are infants newly introduced to breathing, and those who are clinically dead.

...Great Leaders are not born, they are made...

Are leaders born or made? The age old nature debate takes center stage and regardless of location or culture, the list still same; Respectful, Deals Well With Stress, Perceptive, Optimistic, Professional, Inspirational, Embraces Change, Team Player, Team Builder, Sensitive, Not Afraid To Show And Share Emotions, Goal-Setter, Equitable.
Fortunately, leaders are made, not born. People learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before them. They become
• Proficient in job or skill
• Proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.
As a leader, you combine your personal competencies with the competencies of a variety of others into a smoothly functioning team that can out-play and out-perform all its competitors. When you become a team leader, even if your team only consists of one other person, you must immediately develop a whole new set of leadership skills.The Road To Great Leadership That Is Common To Successful Leader

• Challenge the process - first, find a process that you believe needs to be improved the most.
• Inspire a shared vision - next, share your vision in words that can be understood by your followers.
• Enable others to act - give them the tools and methods to solve the problem.
• Model the way - when the process gets tough, get your hands dirty. A boss tells others what to do, a leader shows that it can be done.
• Encourage the heart - share the glory with your followers' hearts, while keeping the pains within your own.

WILL TELECOMMUTING CHANGE THE WORLD..??

Telecommuting will have major effects in the worlds of work and family life. However, its biggest effect will be in the area of individual freedom, responsibility, and time management. Work and workplaces will alter dramatically. Offices may become smaller, as fewer desks are needed. There will be greater need for high-bandwidth connections to link the office and the home, and even homes to other homes, as other employees and supervisors also begin working at home. Hours spent commuting, traffic jams, and fights for parking should diminish, as workers make fewer journeys or work staggered hours.Family life will also change. Workers, both husbands and wives, can arrange their work around family commitments such as taking children to school, cooking, leisure activities, etc. However, households will also have to set aside areas for work - particularly if both spouses are telecommuting. In conclusion, the effects are difficult to predict because they depend on the extent to which telecommuting becomes popular. However, telecommuting could be the start of a major societal shift, possibly as big as the Industrial Revolution which created our present ideas of work.

BIRTH ORDER TRAIT

The Birth Order Theory states that the order in which you were born tends to determine many things, such as how you perceive the world, your sense of responsibility, your expectations, and other personality characteristics. Also, according to the Birth Order Theory, these characteristics then influence the career you choose, the types of relationships you have, and how well you will do in your adult life. I believe that according to the Birth Order Theory, there are characteristics that can be generalized about the second born child in a family, and children who are in the middle as well. Birth order personality affects every area of litations that the second child is expected to meet. In this sense, the second child always has someone ahead, which can either be a good or bad thing, depending on the way the person sees his or her situation. There are also many general characteristics that second born children tend to have.

ENVIROMENT.............

ENVIRONMENT

There are many environmental issues facing our world today. If I were given a year to improve the earths environment I would focus on one issue the world faces today, it is our dependence on oil. This dependence we have is so strong we have started wars, killed and deceived people for oil. I think it is time we do something about it and try and find an alternative form of energy. Because soon this problem will be too much for us to handle and by then it will be too late.Oil has become a pressing issue for both the USA and the world in the past century partly due to the fact that we are either too lazy or some people are too greedy to find an environmentally sound solution to our increasing dependence on it. There are many environmental problems linked to oil both directly and indirectly. These are just a few solutions to this problem but we need to act on them now or else it will be to late because by then we will be involved in a tragic war over it or our earths atmosphere will have become so polluted the changes are irreversible. If it were up to me these things would be put into affect now we would live in a much cleaner and much safer environment.

KP (3rd week entry)

                According to www.wikipedia.com, incentive is defined as any factor whether financial or non-financial  that enables or motivates particular course of action. It is  an expectation that encourages people actions or behaviour. Money incentive is a financial incentives to encourages certain people whether students or employees to encourage them to do something better in a particular way. According to http://cikgupa.wordpress.com/tag/ipta/, many students whether public or private college failed or acquired GPA below 2.00. This is known as probation (PB) or KP.  KP2 students are those who acquire GPA below 2.00 after two consecutive semesters. We are convinced that giving these KP2 students monetary incentives are actually a financial lost course. This kind of action will not do them good as it will only lead them to fail yet another semester because they will lose concentration in their study. By not giving them the monetary incentives is also a sort of incentive that will encourage them to get their loan back. They will have to study hard as they have lost their scholarship or loan for their current semester.

                As we all know, students in most college are easily tend to have “culture shock” by its surrounding and peers persuasion. This is because of entertainment temptation and freedom, some students which far from family perception feel free to do anything. Giving them the monetary incentives will only encourage them to spend the money unwisely. Based on a research conduct by a group of lecturers, students with a lot of money tend to spend it to another reason than education. Such as buying new models of electronic devices, expensive clothing attire, going out for a cinema and other unrewarding item (comics, cigarettes, and etc). This will lead to their total lost of concentration towards study because they will neglect their assignment, thesis and even class.

            In addition, without the monetary incentive, the students will have to work hard to achieve GPA higher than 2.00 if they want their loan and scholarship back in current semester. This kind of coercive incentive works as a punishment so that they will improve their grade. The action of suspending their loan or scholarship is a proof itself and many students that were suspended from their loan improve their grade. Hence, giving them the monetary incentive will be a sort of disturbance for them to score higher grade.

            Furthermore, money incentive was suppose to be given to students with great results such as the Dean’s Lists students or students of Chancellor Award. Financial incentive to the KP2 students is irrelevant like the saying “like cast pearls before swine”. This will only lead to the unsatisfactory among students that acquire GPA higher than 2.00 maybe even the scholars and the college itself.

            As a conclusion, we totally disagree that KP2 students should be given monetary incentive as this action will bring many harm than it brings good to them. They were given the chance when they acquire KP1. Their perfunctory action that leads to KP2 can be taken as a sign that giving them the money incentive will only worsen their academic result. Thus, maybe leading to Fail and Out (FO) from their college.

(SECOND WEEK) ...P.RAMLEE...

P.Ramlee is known as Malaysia's most beloved and versatile entertainer. His early education was in Sekolah Melayu Kampung Jawa and then the Francis Light School. During the Japanese Occupation he worked in a tin factory and attended a school set up by the Japanese navy, where he learned Japanese songs. In 1945 he entered a singing contest organised by Penang Radio for North Malaya, where he emerged third. He was the runner-up in the following year and the winner in 1947. At a cultural festival in early 1948, where he sang his own composition "Azizah", he was spotted by director B.S. Rahjans who invited him to work as a back-up singer for Shaw Brothers studio films, based in Singapore. He accepted, and the next few weeks saw him working as a clapper-boy, assistant cameraman, and continuity person in addition to singing. His first acting role was in Cinta (1948) as a villain. In the next 18 years under the Malay Film Production unit of Shaw Brothers (popularly known as the Ampas Road studio) he acted in, composed music for and eventually wrote and directed dozens of Malay movies ranging from historical dramas to contemporary comedies. He won several acting and composing awards at the Asian Film Festival in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1964 he moved to Kuala Lumpur where he made another 18 films under the Merdeka Studio. He is believed to have composed about 250 songs. On the 27th of May 1973, P. Ramlee died at the age of 44 due to a heart attack and was buried in Jalan Ampang Muslim Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur His untimely death was a huge shock to the nation, and a sense of collective guilt began to spread nationwide, as prior to his death, he had been discredited and rejected by his own nation, citing that he was then a 'has been', and his songs and film were no longer marketable.

IF I COULD RULE THE WORLD , I WOULD...

If i were to rule the world , my focus would be on eliminating opinions of the people worldwide . Honestly , individual opinion is the reason for disagreement and the cause of war . Although opinion is one of the main aspect to individuality, more often than not it serves as the formula and usually results in a disagreement of some sort. If u think about it, opinion are only stressed when something isn’t universally clear. Therefore, if it’s not universally understood than it is not important. If society agrees on a certain issue, than it is no longer and opinion, but yet a universal concept.

(FIRST WEEK)...... 1 MALAYSIA CONCEPT...

1 Malaysia can be define as national unity. Upon ascending to Malaysia’s highest public office on April 2009, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak has made waves to all cornersof the nation with the introduction of 1Malaysia concept. The concept evolves around culture of excellence, perseverance, acceptance, education, integrity, meritocracy humility and loyalty. 1Malaysia concept caters the needs of all sector of the plural society and to ensure equal distribution of wealth between racial groups, between states and federal. 1Malaysia has been the ‘it’ buzzword of Malaysia ever since it was launched and mooted by the Prime Minister, YAB Dato’ Sri Najib Tun Razak. However, the policy has yet to be fully understood by the public. Principles in “1Malaysia” should instil to society, so that country development process and Vision 2020 can be achieved.

....MY EDUCATION ASPIRATION FOR 2011....

I can contribute to the community by preparing myself well to be the best student. In addition, I want to contribute to clubs such as the Black Student Alliance and others. My interest while in college is to broaden my love for knowledge, and to take advantage of the study abroad programs. Travelling and learning are two passions of mine. By going abroad for a semester whether it be Hong Kong or France to learn their culture, language and view the biggest attractions available is something I hope to achieve in my college career. The power an education holds on an individual and using that as a tool to unlock countless opportunities in life means a great deal to me. I want to experience first hand the different outlooks on life people have, also to have a sense of independence. Gaining an extensive understanding of my major International Business will give me the knowledgeable tools to accommodate and commit to my small business in the future. 

At a young age I was educated on the lesson of commitment. When I was eight I wanted to try out for the youth baseball league. My mother signed me up and I built the team. Being left-handed, it was difficult to throw and catch the ball right handed. On defence I played the left outfield. I would catch the ball, drop my glove, and throw the ball to first base. In practice, I would knock the balls out the park but when game time came around it was the complete opposite. When it was my turn to bat I would strike out every time. This would happen for the rest of my season, and I started to loose interest for the sport until I got my first hit on the last inning of the season. The moral of this story is that I was terrible at baseball and I wanted to quit, but my mother made me tough the season out. I now understand what she wanted me to realize, and that's commitment. I think that kind of commitment is what I'd like to bring to my degree along with my career related projects in the future.

To recap, I'm preparing myself in community college to advance to the next level of education. I've shared my aspirations while in college, also my desire to fully understand my major, lastly my lesson with commitment. Mentally, I'm ready more than ever to pursue my education. The power to influence the future lies in my hands and CU Boulder is the right university to make my dreams and ambitions a reality.