Watching Too Much TV Can Harm You !

Is watching television affecting your family life? Do you rush for the remote control?

   Most people watch television for relaxation, entertainment and information. Programme channels such as ‘National Geographic’ and ‘Discovery’ are good sources of information.

   However, too much television can harm you. It can lead to violent behaviour or lack of conversation between family members. Studies show that young people who spend too much time in front of the television may become lazy, gain weight and have problems interacting with others.

   To avoid such behaviour, just follow four simple steps to cut down on your TV time. Firstly, keep a record of how many hours a week you spend watching television. Secondly, do not watch just because you have nothing else to do. If you find a programme uninteresting, just switch off the set. Thirdly, set a time limit on the number of hours you watch TV. Lastly, spend more time reading a book or interacting with your family.

Become a smart TV viewer. Take control of the remote before it controls you.

SHELTER IN PETALING JAYA

When I was in school, we the members from the Lend-a-Hand Club visited Shelter in Petaling Jaya. We were there from 11am till 3pm.

    We went there to learn about the home and to spend time with the children. The children and the staff of the home were happy to see us. We sat and talked to them for a while. The children told us about life at the home. Some talked about their own families and why they were at Shelter.

    At 12.30pm, we had lunch that was provided by the Lend-a-Hard Club. It was a simple meal but the joy and laughter during the meal made it special. After lunch, we sang songs and played games.

    We also met James Nayagam, the Chairman of Shelter and Jega, the first person to join the home. By them, we get to know more about the home and current situation of the children.

    When it was time to leave, I felt happy that I had visited the children. At the same time, I felt a little sad. These children did not have the comforts I had. Yet, they did not complain. They were very sweet. Hope they will a get better life by God’s grace.

We all have that responsibility to save them and we should help them, it doesn't matter small or big. We can help them as much as we can. Let's share love...

Batu Caves with Family

During my holidays, my family and I went to Batu Caves,Gombak. I was so excited because before that my holidays was passed very bored at home. At 7 pm we packed or things and start our journey to Kuala Lumpur. The dark road and street lights were gave me a calmness. I just sat quietly and enjoy the journey with my favorite songs. But, my two sisters not like me. They were talking during the whole journey without a break. My mother also joined with them. Later, we have dinner at a Indian restaurant beside the road. The food was not bad. Even though the shop was small but the food was tasty and its cheap. And then, we continued our journey.

    After 45 minutes, we reached Kuala Lumpur. We planned to go Batu Gaves tomorrow. So that we stayed at hotel nearby Batu Caves. We all felt tired so we slept early. The next day, my mother waked up me early in the morning. I can't even open my eyes and I gave a lot of reasons to stay at hotel but still she didn't leave me. Same goes to my father and sisters. She asked us to get ready quickly because got morning prayers at Batu Caves. She don't want to miss it. As usual, my mother's decision is the last at home so that we all get ready and went to the temple. Thank God we reached the Batu Caves before the prayers start otherwise we all finished.  It was a great escape. Then, we entered in. After long time, I saw the high statue of Lord Muruga infront of Batu Caves. Its gave me a good vibrations.

    Later, we went to the temple and the prayers started. But got a lot of temples in Batu Caves. So, we went to the temples one by one. At the same time, Batu Caves was under renovation. So that there got many volunteers who help to carry the sand to the upstairs. Because there got 272 steps so its too tough to carry the sands overall. My family and I also volunteer to carry the sands. We all carry one bucket of sands each. When we look it, its easy. But, actually its not. First, it was going smooth. Later, my legs started to pain and my hands were cramp because overweight. Moreover, I have get away from the monkeys along the stairs. But I still manage and reach Temple Cave. Oh my God. My sisters and I were exhausted and sat there for a while.

     Later, we went to the temple inside cave and prayed. Soon, monkeys were crowded the temple. Everyone gave fruits and nuts to the monkey. My mother also gave fruits to them. But I ran away from there and went inside the temple because I scared for monkeys. Finally, the prayers all finished. Then, we went to the Cave Villa and saw the paintings and statues. They still maintained the antique look of the statues. We also went to the lake and gave food for fishes. The view over there was beautiful so we took some pictures there.

    After that, we activated our shopping mood. We went to the shops and bought some sweets, bangles, dresses and so on. I also put henna there. The lady who put henna was very professional. Within 10 minutes she finished put henna on my hand. Many tourist also were waited there to put henna. After we satisfied with the shoppings and all. We have lunch at there and leave Gombak and back home.

MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD STORY

During our childhood life, we all love to hear stories. So, I also have one story which I like the most. Its short but got something to learn. You all must heard or read it. But I just want to bring you all to your childhood life for a while.

THE INEXPERIENCE MOUSE

Once upon a time, there got a little mouse named Bobo. He is very naughty and he lived with his mother. Once, Bobo asked his mother, " Mom, let me go out and see the world. I feel so bored here".His mother also allowed him to go. "Okay Bobo. But, be careful and back home soon".

       Bobo was very excited to see the world. So, he came out from his hold and started to walk. He looked around the world. He was mesmerized by the beauty of the nature, tall buldings, and all. Suddenly, he saw a colorful cock. As he had never seen a cock before so he got frightened by the sharp beak, colorful feathers and red crown of cock. Then, quickly he ran away by thinking, "What a horrible creature". After some time, he came across a pussy cat. "What a soft animal" he thought, "beautiful white fur and striking eyes!". He loved the cat.

     Later, Bobo returned home and he told what he had saw today to his mother. His mothers said, "the cock is really harmless. But the soft cat is our real enemy,it will eat you". Bobo was shocked and realized that what he thought was wrong.

The moral of the story is we cannot judge people by their appearance.

* Even its was an old story but its useful for this modern world. We cannot trust people       

  easily by their outlook. Not everyone who well dressed are good.

6TH UKM ASEAN ART FESTIVAL 2018

The 6th UKM Asean Art Festival 2018 was celebrated on 1 December 2018, at Dectar UKM. More than 5 Asean countries were participate in this event including Korea, Vietnam and Indonesia. Prof Madya Dr Roslee Rajikan  (Deputy Vice-Chancellor of  Students and Alumni Affairs) was the chief guest for this event. Participants from each country were performed their traditional dance except Koreans. They were performed k-pop. They got huge support from the audience because most of the audience were k-pop lovers and their performance was too good.

     All the participants were dressed well, followed their traditional theme and looked very colorful. They were well-trained and they did a wonderful performance. Before each performance starts, the hosts were explain audience about the history of each dance. It helps audience to understand the concept of their performance as well as their tradition too.

    Prof Madya Dr Roslee Rajikan also gave souvenirs to the representative from each country as a symbol of welcoming them to Malaysia and the Asean Art Festival. At the end of this event, all the participants were sang song and danced together. That was a perfect ending for that festival.

    This event were expand our knowledge by knowing other country's tradition. Its also helps to improve the relationship among Asean countries.

Night walk at UKM

It was a late night.. May be around 2 o’clock. We finished our aerobic practice and we was about to leave. Suddenly my roommate and I planned to go for a walk. So, we discuss together and informed our friends about this. Then, my friends also love to come with us. Later, we all started to walk. To avoid feeling bore, we started to sang songs and share our sweet memories with each others. We walked slowly along the road. We visited most of the hostels at UKM. We went to the foyer of few hostels and saw the facilities at there. Some facilities of few hostels were better than our hostel’s facilities. We keep continue our journey without getting bored and sleepy. Actually, it was really interesting to know more about UKM. Even more, its was our first night walk at UKM. So, we were very excited. 

     During our walk, we took some pictures to keep it as a memory. Finally, we reached hostel Keris Mas. At there we realised and look at our watch. Its was early morning 6 o’clock. We were really shocked and asked each others “how the time was running too fast”. It was really funny. Then, we planned to have breakfast there. But its was early morning so the shops were haven’t open yet. So, we sat there and take rest for a while. After the shops were openned, we bought foods and took bus to go our hostel back. We don’t have enough strength to walk back to hostel. Hahaha.. So, we took bus and then reached our hostel. It was a memorable day for us.

CLOSING CEREMONY OF SUKEM AT UKM

The closing ceremony was held on 5 Dec 2018 at Stadium Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Prof. Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr. Noor Azlan Ghazali-Vice Chancellor of UKM was the chief guest of this event. Apart from that, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UKM, Prof. Madya Dr. Roslee Rajikan (Students and Alumni Affairs) and Head of each college were joined in this ceremony. As a opening of this ceremony, students and athletes from each college were marching in the decorated path of the stadium and each college come up with different kind of themes. Actually, its a marching competition. They were well organized, steady and their rhythmic walk was too good. The audience were cheer up the students who marched and the jury members were gave marks to each college according to their creativity, perfection and so on. After that, there got an inspirational speech from the chief guest. He was very supporting and encourage students to be active in sports. And then, everyone did cheers together to support the Malaysian Football team because on that day there got a football match between Malaysia and Thailand. In addition, during the ceremony also they honor the athlete who was selected to the Malaysian Sport's Team. After that, the prize giving ceremony was started. The Vice-chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor were gave prizes to the winners of the games which is held along the November month and to the overall winner. The overall winner of the SUKEM was Kolej Aminuddin Baki (KAB). During the last part of the ceremony, all students were gathered;sang songs and took pictures. Finally, the closing ceremony was ended well. 

Night drive with friends

It was one day before our Deepavali holiday. My three friends and I felt so stressed. So, we planned to go for a night drive to release our tension. We booked a car a day before so that we can feel comfortable and there is no one to disturb us. As per our plan, we should leave after finish our co-curriculum. Luckily, that day our co-curriculum also cancelled. So, we leave UKM early, May be its about 7 pm. First of all, we all felt very hungry and we all craved to eat 'Satay Kajang' because everyone gave good comments after went and eat there. So, we planned to go there first. After reach Restaurant Satay Kajang, without wasting time, we four went to the counter to order food. There got variety of food and satay to eat.

                                 

Later, we ordered 'satay', 'roti john' and juice for us. After long time, we ate different kind of foods there because at hostel always the same menu and we felt so bored to eat it everyday. The 'satay' was delicious. We felt like want to eat it more and more.

                         

    After we had our satisfied dinner, we went to the playground nearby the restaurant. We all became children and started to play the seesaw, swing, slides and all. Its really funny and we try to relax our mind by doing this kind of things and actually its worked. Later, we went to the car and started our journey. We just go along the road with melody songs. Actually, Kajang is a new place for us. So, we looked around and saw what are shops located there. May be later its easy to us, if we want to go somewhere or to buy things. And then, we went to Semenyih to drop one of our friend at her home. For her, the Deepavali mood was activated but for us the next day we still got class to go. So, she went back home early. 

    We went to her home and her parents were welcoming us because it was the first time we visited her house. They were very friendly and caring. They served sweets and biscuits for us which is made for Deepavali. The sweets and biscuits were very tasty especially I like it a lot. Because of I'm a foodie type, my friend packed few biscuits for me to eat during our journey. Then, its time for us to leave. So, from there we planned to go UKM because its already 11 pm and its took half an hour to reach there. During our journey, as usual we played our favorite songs and talked about the life at UKM, what we felt and all. At the same time, I'll ate the foods given by my friend. Hahaha.. Later, my two friends started to felt hungry again. Not only me even my friends also foodie persons. Hahaha.. So, we straight away go to the McDonald's nearby the UKM. There we bought food and finally we back to UKM. 

    The journey was not too long but we really enjoyed the small things that happen on that day and we felt stress free and happy. Its not bored at all. 

MANDARIN CLASS IN UKM

It was just two weeks that we joined Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Later, we got information that my seniors are organizing mandarin class. So, my roommate and I planned to join the mandarin class. Later, we filled the google form and register ourselves. I still remember, our first class was on thursday. Actually, our class is on every thursday. hahaha.. My friends and I were very excited to learn mandrin. We enter the class, our chinese seniors which is our mandarin teachers were welcome us to the class. Later, we gave our attendance and get our mandarin books.

                                               

   Mr friend Jegadhes was too excited until she started to study before our mandrin class starts. And then, our class starts. Actually it was really funny because when we pronoun the mandarin words, it didnt sounds good. hahaha.. We make fun of each other's pronunciation. We really enjoyed that class. The teachers also was good and they were very patient. They teach us one by one and make us feel comfortable to ask whatever that we don't know. Then, the class ended well.

  Next, on our third class, we celebrated moon cake festival. Our teachers said that we going to celebrate that festival after the class. So, they ended that class a bit early. First, my seniors played some videos about moon cake festival and we get to know the reasons of this festival and so on. Later, they provided moon cake for us. Its was delicious. We got chance to taste different flavors of moon cakes there. After that, we go out and they gave us a "tang long". We lighted up the "tang long" and walked around UKM. In the dark, we walked with "tang long" and its looked beautiful to see the lights. We took some pictures together and ended the festival well.

 

  After that, our classes passed as usual;learning process. We are waiting to celebrate the next festival together. 

 

BHARATANATYAM CLASS IN UKM

It was the first time, I'm joining in a classical dance which is Bharatanatyam in UKM. Actually, i took it as my co-curricular activity. Bharatanatyam is a pre-eminent Indian classical dance form presumably the oldest classical dance heritage of India is regarded as mother of many other Indian classical dance forms. Conventionally a solo dance performed only by women, it initiated in the Hindu temples of Tamil Nadu and eventually flourished in South India. 

    Apart from that, their costumes also look different. They wears a gorgeous tailor-made sari that consists of a cloth specially stitched in pleats that falls in the front from the waist and when the dancer performs spectacular footwork that include stretching or bending her knees, the cloth widens up like a hand fan. The sari worn in a special manner is well complimented with traditional jewellery that include the ones that adorn her head, nose, ear and neck. Plus, vivid face make-up specially highlighting her eyes so that audience can view her expressions properly.

    During the first day of bharatham class, they teach us the basic steps. That's also really tough for us because their dancing manner is totally different and our body should be flexible while dancing. So, we try to stretch our body to do it. We cannot do it well but they give excuse to us because it was our first class. Then, start from second class, no more excuses for us. We have to learn as soon as possible because we have to perform during the big event of our citra. Even more the dancing steps all become too difficult. We should concentrate on both hands and legs on the same time. Oh my god!!!!... We struggle a lot to learn it. One of my friend is a bharatam dancer. So, she is the one who help us to teach the each of every step. Every week, before our bharatham class starts, my friends and I recalled the dance steps and practice a while. This is because later when the class starts, it will be easy for us to dance.

    We are still practicing for the event. The event is going to held on 15th Dec 2018. Hope we can do our best and get good marks.

FRIENDS GATHERING !!!

After we finished our school, my friends and I planned a gathering. So, we fixed to go Bangi Wonderland. It was a fine morning, I packed my things and my friend Kasturi was came to my home to fetch me. Then, we started our journey to Nilai. From there our excited mood were activated. Our other friends were already there and they waited for us.



    Later, we reached Nilai. Then, we have breakfast together at a Muslim Restaurant. After that, we took train to go Bangi. During our journey, we cracked jokes and sang our favorite songs. Its was really fun although its not a long journey. After we reached Bangi, we took grab to go Bangi Wonderland. Bangi Wonderland is a water theme park. Next, we bought the tickets and change our cloths to bath.

    We were stared when we saw it because this unique water theme park features 15 attractions, namely Pirate Spa, Water Cannon, Surf Rider, Kid Adventure, Body Slide, Spiralax, The Fall, Anaconda Trail, Insane Racer, Wonderloop, Green Pearl, Pirates Bay, Boomeriang, Magic Funnel and lots more. Without wasting time, we started to play each games. Wow!! It was awesome.



In the afternoon, we have our lunch there and we continued to play. We played until the theme park closed. Hahaha... Later, we change our cloths and took grab to go our homestay at Bangi. It was a double-storey house and it fully furniture. So, we planned to cook dinner our own. My friend Suga and I went to supermerket to buy things to cook. My friend Teepa and Logapriya were make dinner for us. After having our dinner, we played truth or dare game and we talked about our holidays and plans of our further studies. The whole night passed just like that.



The next day, my friend Suga make breakfast which is bread toast and coffee for us. We having it together and I played our favorite movie 'Nanban'. We enjoyed it by giving comments and cracked joked about the movie. Its was really funny when we watched movies with our friends.After that, we packed our things and leave the homestay. Finally we reached Nilai again, our faces all started to turn sad because its really tough for us to meet after this because we all have start our studies in different universities and collages. We hugged each others and said goodbye. Then, we all back home by bringing our sweet memories in Bangi. It was a memorable days for us and we still waiting for our next gathering....