Sunday, December 19, 2010

T.A.S.K

T = to be done
A = at any cost
S = simple
K = knowledge-based

task to be done at any cost, have to be simple and knowledge-based ::

which is

:: script on women entrepreneurs for public speaking scheduled on Tuesday <nervous mode>

as this task done, I can go back to SP in peace,,yeay~~

anyway, speaking of public speaking this Tuesday I decided on giving a review on a paper done by a UM lecturer entitled: Conversations with Malaysian Women Entrepreneurs: Cultivating Innovation Through Female Leadership

I found that her thesis was interesting and easy to understand whereby I will focus on the leadership styles among these women entrepreneurs :: the "mother", the "boss", the "teacher" and the "chameleon"


got to practice all the advices from Mr. Hisham Karim, Miss Nani, Mr. Abdullah Yunos and Madam Rusilawati, insyaAllah..

Monday, December 6, 2010

How to Reach An Audience Through Blogging

Blogging may be one of the most easiest way to directly targeted on an audience where via it, you may express your ideas and share them on various related topics. Then, it will facilitates the scope of interest of the readers ad encourages their feedback.

Here are some points to gain the attention of the audience through blogging:

1. Write with the reader in mind with the right tone
 :: determine who'll be your primary and secondary target audience for your post, try to put yourself in their mind and you'll know what topic would be necessary to be discussed and what tone to be used. constantly use the tone till the end of your post to keep people reading it.

2.  Honesty
:: blogs that are written in honest judgement or ideas will always be a comfort, where people don't find any hypocritically and fake ideas through your writings.

3. Keep it double S ( simple and sweet) 
:: simpler way of expressing ideas would be preferable to those readers who don't like to waste their time reading articles. the usage of appropriate words or idioms may be useful to express the ideas not just in general but the wholly issue as well.

4. Use clear headlines
:: when it comes to the headlines issue, it always be the first impression basic. the headlines are the first thing that the reader actually read. if it is snappy and catchy it will attract them to further read the content and give feedback. it's not wrong to bold it though.

5. Write clearly like you talk
:: as you write like the way you talk you will be reader friendly where the audience will enjoy it as the writer is talking to them about the topic discussed. it is not wrong to write in a more formal way but it will turn out to be a text-book reading to the audience.

6. Check out for typos and grammatical errors
:: take it like this, you would not go to class with dirty shirts right? so, why would you publish your mistakes?

7. Read
:: read a lot of various sources of materials to improve the way of expressing and rationalizing your ideas as well as the style of writing.

These points would be a help in getting the best way of reaching the audience through blogging.


have fun blogging! ^_^

uNconDitiOnaL LovE + tRust

I am otter-ly loved: The adorable image of a baby otter taking a nap on its mother's tummy as she swims across a bay

It's an image of utter, unconditional trust. This baby sea otter has so much faith in its mother's ability to keep him safe that it is taking a nap curled on her stomach as she swims across an Alaskan bay. The pup kept its fur dry as it dozed away blissfully under the watchful eye of its parent, who was lying on her back.

cuddles
Thanks, mum! The mother otter grasps her sleeping baby protectively as she peers at the camera during her swim across the Prince William Sound


Photographer Steven Kazlowski, 40, snapped the otters drifting across Saw Mill Bay, in Prince William Sound, off the south coast of Alaska.


The sound has more than 3,000 miles of shoreline and is home to around 70,000 sea otters. Steven, from Seattle, United States, said he had to wait for almost eight hours before he got the snaps of the otters.
He said: "I had watched this area for several days and I found a rock which I thought would make a great place to watch the otters from. I had been hiding there for about eight hours one day when I saw the otter with its baby drift by".


love
This is the way to live life: The baby was sound asleep in the sun


"It was fantastic that after all that time I was rewarded with these images. The baby was just sleeping in the sun as its mother she floated in the sound on her back. It was something I will never forget".
Sea otters spend most of their time on their backs and propel themselves through the water by moving their tails and hind paws from side to side.
They float on their back while sleeping, resting or eating and use kelp or small icebergs to help them from drifting.
While on their back, they can crack open their meals and use their chest as a flat area to eat off.
Sea otters' fur is extremely dense with about 650,000 hairs per square inch and keeps them warm as they do not have insulating fat on their bodies.

>> credits to Assoc Prof Dr Harinder Rai Singh for this lovely article.. ^_^

eNjoY da JapAnEse cReatiVity

Got an email from a friend and it's so stunning that i really want to share it.. what a so creative people the Japanese are, awesome!..

If you've already seen this, you might enjoy it a second time.
RICE FIELDS OF JAPAN.... ^_^ 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan, but this is no alien creation. The designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays using no ink or dye!
Instead, different color rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.
 
A Sengoku warrior on horseback has been created from hundreds of thousands of rice plants.
The colors are created by using different varieties. This photo was taken in Inakadate, Japan.
Napoleon on horseback can be seen from the skies. This was created by precision planting and months of planning by villagers and farmers located in Inkadate, Japan.
Fictional warrior Naoe Kanetsugu and his wife, Osen whose lives are featured on the TV series Tenchijin, appear in fields in the town of Yonezawa in the Yamagata prefecture of Japan. 
 
This year, various artwork has popped up in other rice-farming areas of Japan, including designs of deer dancers.
Smaller works of crop art can be seen in other rice-farming areas of Japan such as this image of Doraemon and deer dancers 
The farmers create the murals  by planting little purple and yellow-leafed Kodaimai rice along with their local green-leafed Tsugaru, a Roman variety, to create the colored patterns in the time between planting and harvesting in September. The murals in Inakadate cover 15,000 square meters of paddy fields.
From ground level, the designs are invisible, and viewers have to climb the mock castle tower of the village office to get a glimpse of the  work.
Closer to the image, the careful placement of the thousands  of rice plants in the paddy fields can be seen.
Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalization project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees.
The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces.  In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of  Mount Iwaki every year.  But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention.
In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art. A year later, organizers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently colored rice varieties that bring the images to life.

can't wait for Malaysians to do this as well,. MALAYSIA BOLEH!!

Sunday, December 5, 2010

fLowEr vS pEarL :: a beautiful story for muslim women ::

once, there was a conversation between a flower and a pearl.. the flower was so proud of itself that was admired by most people because of their fragrance whereas the pearl that lives far in the bottom of the sea and has none of these characteristics. Both got acquainted with each other.

The flower said: "Our family is large; roses and daisies are members of the family. And there are many other species that are various and countless; each has a distinctive scent, appearance etc."

Suddenly, a tinge of distress appeared on the flower. "Nothing accounts for sorrow in your talk; so why are depressed?" The pearl asked.

"Human beings deal with us carelessly; they slight us. They don't grow us for our sake but to get pleasure from our fragrance and beautiful appearance. They throw us on the street or in the garbage can after we are dispossessed of the most valuable properties; brilliance and fragrance."

The flower sighed. And then the flower said to the pearl: "Speak to me about your life! How do you live? How do you feel it? You are buried in the bottom of the sea."

The pearl answered: "Although I have none of your distinctive colors and sweet scents, humans think I am precious. They do the impossible to procure me. They go on long journeys, dive deep in the seas searching for me. You might be astounded to know that the further I lay, the more beautiful and brilliant I become.

That's what upraises my value in their thought. I live in a thick shell isolated in the dark seas. However, I'm happy and proud to be in a safe zone far from wanton and mischievous hands and still the humans consider me highly valuable."

Do you know what the flower and the pearl symbolize?

Think, Think, Think...

You will find that: The flower is the unveiled woman (who shows her charms) and the pearl is the veiled woman (who conceals her beauties)...

Friday, December 3, 2010

iS tHis mE??

this was a result of Prof Madya Dr. Haji Fadzillah Kamsah 25 years of research on the personality of a person according to the month: I was born in February and here were some of the personalities that most of the Aquarians/Pisces have:

1. Sukakan benda yang realiti dan abstrak
* urm,not really.. but i do love daydreaming,hahaha~~~ abstract??
2. Intelligent ,bijak dan genius
* oh,alhamdulillah..at least someone noticed it!! ^___^
3. Mudah menawan orang lain
* attractive?? don't think so, i'm a person who don't like being in the center or even to show off.. nO,No,NO~
4. Agak pendiam,pemalu dan rendah diri
* i'm not! talkative is another definition of me,hahaha~~ i love talking, about anything but surely not for public speaking.. i love to express all my ideas, comments, critiques and i do want friends like me definitely.. so far there's someone who's totally accept me by being like this which is my one and only dearest sister,, oo..miss her so much!!  =(
5. Jujur dan setia pada segalanya
* aha, this one correctly suits me... i'm very loyal + honest especially to people whom i love the most.. parents, siblings, friends,blablabla.... i do want people to be the same as well towards me but it can't be determined,as i can't control the way people act towards me,right? so, i just stick to this "Don't ask something that you yourself don't do it"

6. Suka kegiatan lasak (Kerja luar)
* NEVER!! i don't like outdoor activities.. i even did join lots of camping,jungle tracking during my alma mater times.. olla, really hate it..
7. Emosinya mudah terluka dan sangat sensitif
* yes, i do concern how people chat with me, act towards me and sometimes i got hurt by them... this is not so positively side of a personality but i think that it is a need to be atleast sensitive and alert to people or else people would call you a person without an antenna,blurr,aliens,, (*.^)
8. Mudah mempamerkan marahnya (emosinya)
* i'm an expressive person,people would easily notice if i'm angry or sad. it is shown all over my face,whenever i'm quiet then it means there's something that i don't like happened.
9. Tidak suka benda yang remeh-temeh(banyak guna otak kanan)
* yeah,i'm a lefty and i use the right side of my brain everyday.. did u know that there was a research done on the life span of the right handed person compared to the left-handed person? the result was: the left-handed person's life span is 9years shorter than the right-handed.
at the moment i read it, i was so shocked! sure,it's not a good news to be told that you'll be die 9years earlier than your friends.. but to think the rational side of the study, it's true that the lefties would die earlier than those who regularly use their right hands. it is because most of our technology,tools and machines were built or designed to be user friendly with right handed person not to lefties.. for example, scissors and fruit peelers. as for this two things, it may turn to be a crime tools if the left-handed person dont use it correctly right?
so, GOOD NEWS to the lefties:- there were scissors,fruit peelers and most of the tools used in kitchen specially made for us..so,go get them before you'll get accidentally murdered (scary huh?) ^__^
10. Pemerhatian yang tajam
* i agree with this one...for instance today, I did notice there was a pricetag below someone's heels and i wonder when did she bought it, yesterday maybe?? hihi~~
11. Suka hiburan dan sukan
* i do love entertainments but sports?? badmintons maybe... oh, i really admire Lin Dan, a China player or meet him eye 2 eye,hopefully one day!! oh God, please....
12. Kecenderungan pada benda yang tahyul
* ghost? urm...im sort of like to read but not to hear about it... ----> NIGHTMARE (don't want!)
13. Amat mudah dan boleh menjadi terlalu boros
* yeah, im sort of a spendthrift person.. $$$  still trying to change it,bit by bit...insyaAllah being better later...


>> as for this study by Dr. Fadzillah Kamsah,, i did treasure lots of values from it... some good points to be adapted and certain not-so-good point to be avoided... 'IMPROVEMENTS IN DA PROGRESS'

Lucky 2 be me ^____^

am I lucky enough???
yeah,sure.. alhamdulillah

i've been granted:
> mom + dad
> brothers + sister
> friends
> .........
and the list continues, expands everyday

having all these people in my life; SURELY I'm lucky ^___^

they are all here and there to support and help me whenever I'm down, in misery, complicated "20's syndromes",,hahaha~~~~

as for today, I'm lucky coz there're people who taught me on how to start blogging,and here I am,yeah!!!
special credits to BeST organizers as well as the trainers, I'm happy to be a blogger ^___^