Studying Abroad

    It must be admitted that education is the first route a student take to build his future. Some students prefer to pursue their study overseas while others want to further their study in their countries. Undoubtedly, studying abroad has its advantages and disadvantages. I strongly believe that the advantages are far more than the disadvantages.

     One advantage of studying abroad is that the students get to mingle with the different types of cultures and customs of that country. To illustrate, when a student travels abroad for study, he will be completely exposed to positive traditions and cultures of such people. Consequently, he will get useful benefits from such customs when he returns to his homeland. One example for that is my friend who, before one year, traveled to a country for the purpose of study. There, he acquired many positive things from that country such as respect of regulations and the kind treatment of people. Therefore, when he came back to his country, his family was immensely affected by his new positive merits to the point that it begins to apply to them.

     Another advantage of studying overseas is the massive benefits a student gets in his major. In fact, he will encounter the elite professors and academics from which he will acquire a good knowledge and experience in his field. Accordingly, the student will spend less time studying his major due to those highly-educated professors. Hence, it can be said that such student will be highly respected by his people when he returns to his home. Moreover, his immense knowledge and experience will dramatically contribute to the growth and development of his country.

     From the other side, it can be found that travelling abroad has minor negative effects on the students; some of which are clubbing and partying in the late nights. Those bad practices might cause the students deviate from their original morals and traditions. However, this mainly depends on the student himself. If he follows these bad routes, he will not concentrate on his study any more. Therefore, he will acquire the bad habits instead of his golden goal, namely study. Also his future and previous aspirations will be utterly lost.

     In conclusion, studying abroad has its pros and cons. However, as I stated above, that the advantages are the prominent feature. Subsequently, every student, if intended to study overseas, should pick out the good and beneficial merits from that country and extremely abstain from the ugly habits or customs. Accordingly, will get a multicultural educated and prosperous generation of which we will greatly proud.

The Importance of Reading

     Why is reading so important? Everyone knows that reading is important, but have you ever asked yourself why that is so? Through reading, you expose yourself to new things, new information, new ways to solve a problem, and new ways to achieve one thing. Who knows you might find your new hobbies within it get to actually explore one thing you really like and it may end up becoming your career and success in the future. Exploration begins from reading and understanding.

     Reading does help you form a better you, doesn’t it?  Through reading, you begin understand the world more. Through reading, you begin to have a greater understanding on a topic that interest you; for example: how to build self-confidence, how to make plan better before taking action, how to memorize things better and more. All of these self-improvements start from reading. Through reading, you create a structured path towards a better understanding and better actions to take in the future.

     The more you read, the more you understand one thing. For example, reading allows you learn more about crocodiles and their habits. That you need to be aware of places it usually lurks for, the purpose of staying away from being harmed or bitten. Or perhaps you can try by real life experience, in approaching the crocodile, to see what happen. It can also help you find out the truth of something, right? Reading also increases the understanding of the rules of life, in order for you to adapt, adopt and accommodate into the society better. To play well in a game, you first need to understand the rules well.

     Before you take action on anything, where should you seek for help and guidance? Reading is an essential way which can help you out. In today’s world, getting reviews and feedback from other people can make a big impact on your next decision, and the pros and cons of each choice. Read about how to cook a meal; how to play chess; which place is nice for the holiday family trip; read the menu before ordering food, read the manual before using a new gadget. These all can help you become more prepared before you really get into it.

     Reading exposes you to a world of imagination, showing you nothing is impossible in this world. By reading, you are exploring a different angle to see a thing you’ve known, on how different action leads to different results. Books are beyond imagination. It’s like a huge spider web, where you keep linking to more and more to things you knew, and things you just learn, structuring new solutions and answers.

So in your opinion, why is reading so important to you?

How does drugs affect our society?

The drugs that are beneficial to humanity may also be the same drugs that are detrimental to mankind. It is of no argument that drugs are created to cure diseases and to alleviate human condition; however people may misuse over-the-counter drugs and this is called drug abuse. It has become a social problem because it has afflicted the family, the economy and the community.

Drug abuse can be a source of problem to the family. First, the treatment for drug abusers is expensive. In a study conducted by Barnard, she found out that parents of drug abusers experience health deterioration due to stress and that family relationship become strained. At risk also are the siblings who may follow the same path due to exposure to mind-altering substances. They may also manifest denial behaviors to cope with the problem. Clearly, the family members struggle from their experiences in living with someone who misuse drugs.

Aside from the family, drug abuse also affects another segment of society and that is the economy. The amount spent on drugs can be used for the establishment of businesses and provide for more employment opportunities, it will boost the economy of a country. In addition, drug abusers may turn in poor quality work due to absences and inability to function normally, thus, affecting the overall output of businesses.

The wider community is also gravely affected by drug abuse. There are a number of HIV/AIDS cases due to injection drug use. In the United States alone, it accounted for one-third of the cases. Moreover, drug abuse has been associated with crime and violence. In Brazil, for example, drug abuse was identified as one of the causes of almost 30,000 homicides.

While drugs are envisioned to advance the welfare of the people, it can be a source of complicated social disarray if left uncontrolled. The government and other social groups should, therefore, strengthen their programs to curb this problem.

National Service

  National service have various of benefits depending on how the person views it. There's various motives, some youths wouldn't want to attend National Service because of various reasons, some do really want to go because it has been their life dream to go for National Service.

  The youths who doesn't want to go for National Service would have not expect a lot of things from it, but rather than just army drills and constant discipline. When the youths have no interest in coming, will there be any benefit for them? Yes, surely! In National Service, their mindset will be change because it will be very new to them and the culture is different from home. Their comfort zone will perish as they first set foot on the bus. The youth will have to adapt to the new culture and what benefits for them is that they learned more how to be more discipline and more dependent on themselves. 

  Youth usually depend their life on parents or maids to do their work. After youth have return home from National  service their normal life is change and they will start to do most of chores themselves. Their lives will be more discipline and in order as they also learn to be more dependent on themselves. 

   The youths who are more willingly to participate National service are more ready to expect anything. That doesn't mean nothing will benefit them because they are well prepared. It will give them a harder push in life. Where life is never going to be easy and things will get harder when you are older. National Service is not to bring your confidence down but to help youths to realize that there's more than just a simple basic life that everyone goes through. There will always be ups and downs in unexpected times youths will learn how to handle it. 

  The most important thing that everyone will learn from National Service is that we truly learn the true meaning of One Malaysia. Where you mix with different races and know their background. The youths will learn to love and care not just for themselves but friends and family. 

Family

Family is the single most important thing in many people’s lives. From the moment of their birth, children rely on their families to provide for them and make sure their needs are attended to. The most important learning process of a person’s whole life takes place in their earliest years and their main teachers at this stage of their lives will be their parents.

The importance of family can be seen very clearly in the impact it has on people who are not fortunate enough to have a loving family during their childhood years. People who suffered abuse, neglect, or had one or both of their parents missing from their lives during their childhood usually suffer some negative effects throughout the rest of their lives. Children who were brought up badly are much more often to grow up to be criminals, drug addicts, or suffer from mental health problems. Even children brought up in good foster or care homes are more likely to have such issues than other children, suggesting that growing up with your biological or at certain cases adopted family is important.

Family is important as you get older because people of all ages need a good support network around them. Many people rely on their parents or other older relatives for advice about a variety of topics, even when they have grown up and have their own children, because these family members have more life experience and have probably been through many of the same things before. When a woman has her first child, for example, one of the most important people in her life is often her own mother. Many women want their mother to be present at the birth and be available for support, particularly during the first few weeks, because their mother has done it all before with them.

Another reason that family is important is that a loving and supportive family will be there for you no matter what. Friends may leave your side when things get very tough, or if you mess up and do something wrong or something to hurt them. Many families however, will stick by a person no matter what they have done, because they love them unconditionally. This kind of unconditional love can only be found within a family unit and is most commonly found from a parent to their child.

Siblings can also be very important to many people. Children growing up as an only child can be lonely during childhood and they don’t learn vital social skills from an early age, like communicating and playing with other children and dealing with conflict. Many people are very close to their brothers and sisters when they grow up, even if they fought as great deal as children, and there are lots of people who consider their brother or sister to be their best friend. Siblings are usually a fairly similar age and have had similar experiences, so if there is a difficult time as a family a sibling may be the best person to talk to.

Stress

Teenagers nowadays are going through a lot of stress. Stress is a body’s way of reacting to challenges. It has a wide range of effects on emotions, mood and behaviour. For example, the person may have chest pain, palpitations, rapid pulse, obsessive or compulsive behaviour, social withdrawal and isolation.  There are many factors that contribute to this problem such as family problems, school, relationships and also financial issues.

Divorced and broken families affect the children mentally even if the parents do not realize it. There will be constant arguments or even fights between family members. Some children may even have the thought that their parents argue and divorce because of them and often put the blame on themselves. This causes them to lose focus on their studies.

Other than that, school may also cause stress in teenagers. There are many cliques in schools nowadays, especially high schools and there are also many students that do not belong to any of them. They usually have the need in them to belong somewhere and they often have stress trying to make themselves fit in. Not only that, students also tends to compete with their classmates and compare their grades which may be a good thing to push them to do better but may not be a good thing also. This is because they will feel stressed even if they tried their best but did not meet their expectations.

The King of Fruits

One of the many things Malaysia is known for is the various kinds of food. Many tourists come from all around the world just to have that taste of Malaysian food.  Durian, the king of fruits is most sought after but there are many who think that it has a bad scent. Thus, dare not have a taste of it. The smell has been described variously as rotten onions, turpentine and raw sewage. Yes, it has a very strong smell but it is pleasing to some. It has a taste like creamy custard. The durian is a seasonal fruit, unlike some other non-seasonal tropical fruits such as the papaya, which are available throughout the year in Peninsular Malaysia. The season for durians is typically from June to August, which coincides with the season for mangosteen, another fruit that compliments durian.  Prices of durians are relatively high as the demand for it is also very high. It varies with the species and different grades. This very fruit can be eaten by itself when it is ripped or it can also be used in desserts such as ice creams, cakes, puffs, dodol and cendol. These are just a few examples out of many. Durian is indeed a pride to Malaysia.