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I got headache today...

What is a headache?

A Headache is defined as a pain in the head or upper neck. It is one of the most common locations of pain in the body and has many causes.

How are headaches classified?

Headaches have numerous causes, and in 2007 the International Headache Society agreed upon an updated classification system for headache. Because so many people suffer from headaches and because treatment sometimes is difficult, it is hoped that the new classification system will allow health care practitioners come to a specific diagnosis as to the type of headache and to provide better and more effective treatment.

There are three major categories of headaches:

1. primary headaches,

2. secondary headaches, and

3. cranial neuralgias, facial pain, and other headaches

What are primary headaches?

Primary headaches include migraine, tension, and cluster headaches, as well as a variety of other less common types of headache.

* Tension headaches are the most common type of primary headache. Up to 90% of adults have had or will have tension headaches. Tension headaches occur more commonly among women than men.

* Migraine headaches are the second most common type of primary headache. An estimated 28 million people in the United States (about 12% of the population) will experience a migraine headache. Migraine headaches affect children as well as adults. Before puberty, boys and girls are affected equally by migraine headaches, but after puberty, more women than men are affected. It is estimated that 6% of men and up to 18% of women will experience a migraine headache in their lifetime.

* Cluster headaches are a rare type of primary headache affecting 0.1% of the population (1 in a 1,000 people). It more commonly affects men in their late 20s though women and children can also suffer these types of headache.

Primary headaches can affect the quality of life. Some people have occasional headaches that resolve quickly while others are debilitated. While these headaches are not life-threatening, they may be associated with symptoms that can mimic strokes or intracerebral bleeding.


For more information about headache please visit http://www.medicinenet.com/headache/article.htm

I hate PUBLIC SPEAKING

Publisher: Zulfadhli

What are you feel when somebody ask you to give a talk or you are forced to be a talk?

NERVOUS of course its the most accurate vocab for describing the feeling and the emotion wave that hits on your heart beat at that time. For most infrequent or have low self-confidence, they are most likely to feel that they will not be able to speak like politician.

For sure POLITICIAN is a person whose good at giving speech. But they only good at giving promises but don't practice on English PROVERB "ACTION LAUDER THAN WORDS".

My fellow readers,
to be able to speak in front of people do make a big deal.
It is take long time to build skill in giving a talk on various issue.

Here i would like to share something about tips on how to manage the "anxious or nervous" feeling.

1. Be ready on topic you want to talk
2. Have knowledge on topic you going to talk
3. Have a concrete stand on the issue
4. Seeking various background of information on the topic
5. Quote famous people about that issue that relate yours stand

6. Be familiar to using mic



Many people feel uncomfortable when using mic. Their hands are shaking. The voice projection isn't steady. The their voice tones become high and low. This is my 1st experience when making an announcement. It takes years to be "friend" with mic. When, you become BFF to mic, I believe that you are a step to be a good public speaker.

7. When delivering a talk, to gain confident you have to look into your audience's eyes. Believe me, when you make eye contact you gain two major things. First, you gain confident. You will feel easy and it seems your are given a PASS as a good public speaker because you create a connection to the audience. Secondly, the information that you want to deliver will be sent without any interference because to be focus of something your eyes that should be FOCUS.

8. There is no short cut to become a good public speaker. It demands a lot of practice and practice. Be a volunteer to voice out your opinion.

Does the implimentation of Teaching Science and Mathematics In English is WRONG?

Do you know that,72.1% of Chinese Teenagers say Bahasa Melayu is not important, followed by Kadazan 40%, Indian 37 % and others races 31%. Meanwhile, Iban contributes 28.8% and the Malay 23.9%.

Those are the percentage that produced by a survey made by Profesor Dr Nor Hashimah Jalaluddin from Linguistic & Language Study Centre of UKM. The survey entitled "Sosiokognitif dan Penguasaan Pragmatik Bahasa Melayu Remaja Malaysia: Kupasan Ilmiah"

Through out the implementation of PPSMI in Public School, its affect mostly on adolescent development in seeking and building a firm and steady self-image or we can call as their identity.

Why we don't look again in Look to The East Policy. Does Japan learn science and maths using English? Nope. Does the Korean do the same as we do? Not they are not. Because they have their own stand on this linguistic issue.

As an engineering student, the matters of language is non-practical problem. As we speak, the real problem is to understand the principle of science application via basic knowledge in Physics and Engineering.

The NUMBER 1 leading problems is OUR LEADER had been brainwashed from OVERSEAS UNIVERSITY that learning and earning understanding ENGLISH is NUMBER ONE.

They believe and always believe that only ENGLISH can help their race to achieve advancement in SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. Do this statement correct?

Our leader has BIPOLAR PROBLEM. They dont understand the basic and the objective of seeking knowledge. Thus, the policy made by them are always FLIP FLOP....

What are yours OPINION?

Independence Day

In Your point of view what does the true meaning of Independence Day?
It is not late to express your patriotism emotion a.k.a feeling towards your beloved nation.

Do we have a common aim to be achieve together? Or something that you would contribute to the nation prosperity?

Do we love this nation very much?

Do you will stand for this nation even it need you to defend it?

Let's talk bout it here...

My Video on ER Presentation

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

This is my video that i had share the info with the class on 12 October 2010.
So, please enjoy the video.

Hopefully, this video can cheer up your life and give motivational spirit to you all.

As i presented in this class, 3 main points that obviously can be learn from this video are, first, in order to gain something we have to sacrifice something. 2nd, we have to value and grateful to others sacrifice. 3rd, to have strong pillar in believing God, be a pious man and always believe that everything we do has pay in hereafter whether it is a good pay or a punishment.

Online Survey

Dasar Pendidikan Kebangsaan

Latarbelakang

Dalam tahun-tahun menuju kemerdekaan, telah timbul kesedaran di kalangan pemimpin dan rakyat Malaysia tentang betapa mustahaknya diadakan satu sistem pendidikan kebangsaan untuk mengganti sistem pendidikan penjajah bagi memenuhi kehendak negara. Atas kesedaran inilah lahir satu Dasar Pendidikan (Pelajaran) Kebangsaan melalui Penyata Razak 1956 dan dimaktubkan dalam Ordinan Pelajaran, 1957. Dasar pendidikan ini telah disemak semula dalam tahun 1960 yang menghasilkan Laporan Rahman Talib. Laporan Rahman Talib ini kemudian dimaktubkan dalam Akta Pelajaran, 1961.

Kemudian, sebuah Jawatankuasa Kabinet telah ditubuhkan dalam tahun 1974 untuk mengkaji semula Dasar Pendidikan dengan tujuan untuk memperbaiki pelaksanaannya supaya matlamat untuk melahirkan satu masyarakat yang bersatupadu dan berdisiplin serta memenuhi keperluan tenaga rakyat yang terlatih bagi pembangunan negara dapat dicapai. Laporan Jawatankuasa ini telah diterbitkan dalam tahun 1979.

Rasional

Sistem pendidikan di zaman penjajahan telah berkembang tanpa mengambil kira kepada keperluan pembangunan, pembentukan identiti kebangsaan dan perpaduan negara. Sistem Pendidikan berkenaan mengekalkan tumpuan taat setia rakyat pendatang dan keturunan mereka kepada negara asal mereka dan menekan suppress semangat pembangunan rakyat tempatan. Sistem ini mungkin secocok dengan Tanah Melayu yang terjajah tetapi apabila Tanah Melayu sudah merdeka, ia didapati tidak lagi sesuai. Oleh itu, langkah-langkah diambil bagi menggubal satu sistem pendidikan kebangsaan yang sesuai untuk negara yang merdeka dan mempunyai matlamat-matlamat sendiri.

Objektif

Objektif dasar ini dinyatakan dalam Pendahuluan kepada Akta Pelajaran, 1961, iaitu:


"BAHAWASANYA dasar pelajaran seperti yang diisytiharkan dalam Ordinan Pelajaran, 1957 ialah untuk menubuhkan satu sistem pendidikan yang akan dapat memenuhi keperluan negara dan menggalakkan perkembangan kebudayaan, sosial, ekonomi, dan politiknya..." Objektif ini dinyatakan secara am tetapi dalam melaksanakannya, Kementerian Pendidikan dengan berpandukan kepada Penyata Razak 1956 dan Laporan Rahman Talib 1960, telah mentafsirkannya sebagai menyatupadukan kanak-kanak sekolah berbilang kaum dan menyediakan tenaga kerja ("tenaga rakyat," istilah yang digunakan oleh Laporan Jawatankuasa Kabinet) bagi keperluan ekonomi.

Seterusnya, objektif-objektif ini diperkhususkan lagi apabila Jawatankuasa Kabinet ditubuhkan dan bidang tugasnya ditetapkan. Ini mencerminkan hasrat bahawa Dasar Pendidikan diharapkan dapat memenuhi keperluan tenaga rakyat negara ini dalam jangka panjang dan pendek dan melahirkan masyarakat yang bersatupadu, berdisplin dan terlatih.

Falsafah Pendidikan Negara yang diasaskan kepada hasrat serta aspirasi negara dan dinyatakan secara bertulis baru-baru ini memberi penekanan kepada usaha melahirkan insan yang berilmu dan berakhlak, seimbang dan harmonis, yang boleh mencapai kesejahteraan diri dan memberi sumbangan kepada keharmonian dan kemakmuran masyarakat dan negara. Ini menjadi satu matlamat penting sistem pendidikan kebangsaan.

Strategi Pelaksanaan

Beberapa strategi telah digubal untuk mencapai matlamat Dasar Pendidikan yang telah ditetapkan seperti berikut:


(a) Menjadikan Bahasa Kebangsaan sebagai bahasa pengantar yang
utama;
(b) Mengadakan kurikulum yang sama dan berorientasikan Malaysia bagi semua jenis sekolah;
(c) Mewujudkan sistem peperiksaan yang sama bagi semua;
(d) Melicinkan tatacara pengurusan pendidikan;
(e) Meningkatkan mutu pendidikan keseluruhannya dengan menyediakan pendidikan yang menyeluruh, seimbang dan bersepadu;
(f) Mengadakan peluang pendidikan asas selama sembilan tahun;
(g) Mendemokrasikan pendidikan dari segi peluang dan mutu dengan
mengagihkan peruntukan secara adil dan memberi perhatian khas kepada kumpulan yang kurang bernasib baik dan kawasan luar bandar atau pendalaman;
(h) Menyediakan pendidikan rendah mengikut Kurikulum Baru Sekolah Rendah (KBSR) yang berasaskan 3M iaitu membaca, menulis dan mengira pada tahun 1983 yang menjurus kepada kurikulum bersepadu Sekolah Menengah (KBSM) pada tahun 1989. Matlamat utama kurikulum baru ini adalah untuk melahirkan individu yang seimbang dari segi ilmu pengetahuan dan kemahiran yang sesuai dan mempunyai moral serta nilai etika yang kukuh;


(i) Memperluaskan pendidikan Vokasional dan Teknik melalui
penyusunan semula kurikulum Sekolah Vokasional pada tahun 1978;


(j) Mempelbagai dan memperbanyakkan kemudahan pendidikan di
peringkat universiti terutama dalam bidang sastera gunaan dan sains gunaan;


(k) Mempertingkatkan pendidikan kerohanian, moral dan disiplin;


(l) Menjadikan Bahasa Kebangsaan dan Bahasa Inggeris sebagai mata
pelajaran yang wajib diajar di sekolah-sekolah dan memberi peluang yang sempuma bagi pembelajaran bahasa-bahasa lain seperti Bahasa Cina dan Bahasa Tamil; dan


(m) Menggalakkan aktiviti ko-kurikulum yang memupuk disiplin,
seperti pasukan-pasukan kadet tentera, kadet polis, pengakap, puteri Islam dan lain-lain.

Di samping strategi ini, Dasar Pendidikan Kebangsaan juga dilaksanakan dengan mengada dan memperkembangkan tenaga pengajar yang terlatih dan juga mendirikan sekolah-sekolah selaras dengan pertambahan kanak-kanak. Di Kementerian/Jabatan Pendidikan pula, beberapa Bahagian dan Jawatankuasa yang meliputi perkara-perkara yang dibangkitkan oleh Dasar Pendidikan Kebangsaan telah ditubuhkan atau diperkuatkan bagi memastikan tercapainya hasrat Dasar Pendidikan ini. Diantaranya termasuklah penubuhan Bahagian Perancangan dan Penyelidikan Pendidikan, Bahagian Pelajaran Teknik dan Vokasional, Jawatankuasa Pusat Kurikulum, Biro Buku Teks, Majlis Sukan Sekolah-sekolah Malaysia, Jawatankuasa Perancangan Pendidikan, Bahagian Perkhidmatan, Sebaran Pendidikan dan Pusat Perkembangan Kurikulum.

Penutup

Dasar Pendidikan Kebangsaan sememangnya dapat menampung keperluan-keperluan negara buat masa ini dan masa depan. Selaras dengan hasrat negara untuk mencapai tahap negara perindustrian adalah penting rakyatnya diberikan pendidikan secucuk dengan keperluan-keperluan swasta bagi bidang-bidang tertentu seperti pengeluaran, pelancongan, perkhidmatan, dan sebagainya. Oleh itu dasar ini bukan sahaja dapat memenuhi keperluan tenaga manusia dari segi jumlah tetapi juga dari segi kualiti. Dasar ini seharusnya dapat menggalakkan lebih ramai rakyat yang terlibat secara aktif dalam bidang keusahawanan dan tidak bergantung semata-mata kepada kerajaan untuk mencari kerja. Ini adalah selaras dengan dasar kerajaan semasa yang menekankan penyertaan swasta secara aktif.

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Kindergarten COMICS of ER

Karikatun I

The Meanings of Ethnic Relationship

What is the meaning of ethnic relationship?

Ethnic
-means connected with or relating to different racial or cultural groups of people.

Relations
-The way people behave.

Ethnic relations

-The area of the discipline that studies the social, political, and economic relations between races and ethnicity at all levels of society. This area consists of the study of racism, residential segregation, and other complex social processes between different racial and ethnic groups. The sociological analysis of race and ethnicity frequently interacts with other areas of sociology such as stratification and social psychology, as well as with post-colonial theory.

At the level of political policy, ethnic relations is discussed in terms of either assimilationism or multiculturalism. Anti-racism forms another style of policy, particularly popular in the 1960s and 70s.

In Malaysia, we have to understand at every corner about the ethnic relations because in Malaysia, we lives with various cultures and races, so that we have to understand and tolerant with each other in order to live in peace and harmony. That's why the prime minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak had lunch 1Malaysia. The slogan of 1Malaysia is a way of him to administer this country and all of his political wills is aim to achieve justice in Malaysian people.

Why Ethnic Relations important?

Ethnic relations is important to Malaysians because we deal with various people from different background of culture, race and belief. To live in harmonic and peaceful, every people must understand and have a steady grab of ethnic relation so then we understand each other and find a point of unity and tolerance.

12 Basic Concepts of Ethnic Relations

Here are some information about 12 basic concepts of ethnic relations:

(i) Acculturation
Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct.

(ii) Pluralism
Cultural pluralism is a term used when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, and their values and practices are accepted by the wider culture.
One example is Lebanon where 18 different religious communities co-exist on a land of 10,452 km². In a pluralist culture, unique groups not only co-exist side by side, but also consider qualities of other groups as traits worth having in the dominant culture.
The current contemporary art world in the 21st century is an example of cultural pluralism. For another example, a community center in the United States may offer classes in Indian yoga, Chinese calligraphy, and Latin salsa dancing. That community may also have one or more synagogues, mosques, mandirs, gurudwaras, and/or Buddhist temples, as well as several churches of various Christian denominations.
The existence of such institutions and practices are possible if the cultural communities responsible for them are protected by law and/or accepted by the larger society in a pluralist culture.

(iii) Nation
A nation is a group of people who share common history, culture, ethnic origin and language, often possessing or seeking its own government. A nation is different from a country in that a country is the land that belongs to a nation, and from a state in that a state is the government of the nation and country.

(iv) Racism
Racism is the belief that the genetic factors which constitute race are a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Racism's effects are called "racial discrimination." In the case of r certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or receive preferential treatment.Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, although anyone may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basis, independently of their somatic differences.

(v) Segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of different kinds of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a washroom, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation is generally outlawed, but may exist through social norms. Segregation may be maintained by means ranging from discrimination in hiring and in the rental and sale of housing to certain races to vigilante violence (such as lynchings, e.g.) Generally, a situation that arises when members of different races mutually prefer to associate and do business with members of their own race would usually be described as separation or de facto separation of the races rather than segregation.

(vi) Accomodation


(vii) Prejudice
A prejudice is a prejudgment: i.e. a preconceived belief, opinion, or judgment made without recourse to reason; drawing typically instead upon received information or upon instinctual preference. The word prejudice is most commonly used to refer to a preconceived judgment toward a people or a person because of race, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, sexual orientation or other personal characteristics. It also means a priori beliefs (without knowledge of the facts) and may include "any unreasonable attitude that is unusually resistant to rational influence." Both positive and negative prejudice exist; when used negatively "prejudice" implies fear and antipathy toward its subject, whilst when used positively can be used to decribe intrinsic or subconscious preferences (such as tastes).

(viii) Discrimination
Discrimination is a sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or against a person of a certain group in consideration based solely on class or category. Discrimination is the actual behavior towards another group. It involves excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to other groups.

(ix) Ethnocentrism
Ethnocentrism is the tendency to believe that one's ethnic or cultural group is centrally important, and that all other groups are measured in relation to one's own. The ethnocentric individual will judge other groups relative to his or her own particular ethnic group or culture, especially with concern to language, behavior, customs, and religion. These ethnic distinctions and sub-divisions serve to define each ethnicity's unique cultural identity.

(x) Stereotype
A stereotype is a commonly held public belief about specific social groups or types of individuals. Stereotypes are standardized and simplified conceptions of groups based on some prior assumptions. Generally speaking, stereotypes are not based on objective truth but rather subjective and sometimes unverifiable content-matter.

(xi) Enculturation
Enculturation is the process by which a person learns the requirements of the culture by which he or she is surrounded, and acquires values and behaviours that are appropriate or necessary in that culture. As part of this process, the influences which limit, direct, or shape the individual (whether deliberately or not) include parents, other adults, and peers. If successful, enculturation results in competence in the language, values and rituals of the culture.

(xii) Assimilation
Cultural assimilation is a socio-political response to demographic multi-ethnicity that supports or promotes the assimilation of ethnic minorities into the dominant culture. It is opposed to affirmative philosophy (for example, multiculturalism) which recognizes and seeks to maintain differences.The term assimilation is often used with regard to immigrants and various ethnic groups who have settled in a new land. New customs and attitudes are acquired through contact and communication. The transfer of customs is not simply a one-way process. Each group of immigrants contributes some of its own cultural traits to its new society. Assimilation usually involves a gradual change and takes place in varying degrees; full assimilation occurs when new members of a society become indistinguishable from older members.

ETHNICUMP: Group Members...

ETHNICUMP: Group Members...: "1. Zulfadhli 2. Farhan 3. Adli 4. Khairulazwan 5. Yazid"

Group Members...

1. Zulfadhli
2. Farhan
3. Adli
4. Khairulazwan