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Hello readers! I am Tuan Rosmaizatuakmal Tuan Manan. This blog is an educational blog fro my Digital and Media Communication subject. I currently in semester 5 in Kolej Profesional Mara Indera Mahkota, Kuantan.

Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Only in Malaysia


        Malaysia is one the country who living with variety culture. Based on the short film/video above, this is the latest video that I've found to show the uniquely by living in Malaysia. The intention why i choose this video because it shows the truly attitude people in Malaysia.
        Firstly the scene with the guy who wearing reverse jacket was shown the habit of Malaysian. Its true that if we go to the other country, I betting you no one who will wearing this kind of jacket like him. Next is with how people on Malaysia calling everyone with Boss, Uncle, Auntie, from this scene the message that they trying to deliver is about there is no barrier between people in Malaysia, they are keep respecting even they are in different level of class, respectful shows the identity of our super duper country . For me this video is very interesting to show the dignity to be Malaysian. This how they are promoting the special part in Malaysia and how to attract other people/foreigner to come and stay in Malaysia.
        Besides that, based on the comment that I've found while watching this video, most of the audience were giving  positive feedback to this kind of video even the audience from Singapore or event Australia. Interesting right? Realize or not this is how we can show the the appreciate towards our own country.
        So in a nut shell i would to say that we as Malaysian need to be more appreciate by having this kind of country, by watching this video also make me feel thankful and glad to be Malaysian. Malaysia is full with variety culture and it is the unique. I'm proud to be Malaysian. How about you?

Friday, 20 April 2012

Stratification in Apocalypto

          
     
       Apocalypto had bring me big impact to me while im watching it. This movie is about the native people who surviving their life in the jungle.They were fighting for their own generation from their ancestor, father,child, grandchild and for the rest of their generation. However to reach the success to conquer the rain-forest they need to face a lot of obstacle and the STRATIFICATION between high class people and the lower class people (slave).



          The main character in this movie is Rudy Youngblood as a Jaguar Paw. He is a hunter from the village in the deep rain-forest. It captured by Mayan slavers and dragged across the country side with his villagers. In this movie Jaguar Paw and his friends has been brought to the place that they will scarified for their Sun of God.
       

          From here on out, it's all suffering and hardship. Dark dreams, bad omens and prophecies delivered by    disfigured children are followed by messy scenes of sadistic massacres and mass rape, artlessly directed and apparently edited at random. Throats are cut, veins are opened. Men are knifed, stabbed, clobbered, beheaded, caught in tar pits, mauled by wild beasts, poisoned by frogs and snakes, assaulted by beehive bombs, impaled on arrows and traps, gutted alive, crushed on rocks after tumbling down waterfalls. The blood flows, drips, squirts, gushes and sprays from bashed-in skulls, much like it did in Monty Python and the Holy Grail--but to less hilarious effect. 
   
    Apocalypto also is impassioned and well made, but the fact that it had falls back on chase movie keeps in really connecting. By right focusing on for most its time on one running man the movie never achieve the epic scale it needs to say that this is the bigger theme it looking for.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Fickle Friends-Kirsten Weir


            The excerpt fickle friend is an exciting on how can fickle friends can be bad for our health, but understanding this taxing relationship can make us feel less painful. The excerpt by Kirsten Weir suggested that friends somehow can be a FRENEMIES. However with this kind of friend are exist without we realize it can make us be tougher and consist of ambivalent friendship.
            The world is like a stage where we find a true identity by our self or even our own friend and by right we dint know their true colours. Besides, the terms of complicated relationship can be found in some relationship if this kind of friend or people are exist in our relationship.
            In this article shows that we can't live without this kind of friend even we know that we are living in a pain besides that by having many friends are very good rather than to have a good one. However,  the researcher were defined that the quality are exist in this relationship which are friendship as those scoring high on help intimacy, self validation, reliable alliance. emotional security and stimulating companionship. If we find the point from the positive sides, we sure that it can bring a good experiences even we knows that frenemies  is very problematic.
             Besides that, frenemies bring unhealthy ties. Stressful, blood pressure and so on. It depends to the people how to manage it. It prove that it was very unhappy thing and why we need to keep them? They will simply bother our activities especially for those who had face ambivalent that will feel more suffer rather than depression.
             In a nut shells, it show that we should't keep this kind of people in our life because it will bring the darkness and for sure will bring the negative effect in our life.

            



Friday, 2 March 2012

Steve Jobs Is The Best Evolution Of Apple

Steve Jobs was born February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption. Smart but directionless, Jobs experimented with different pursuits before starting Apple Computers with Stephen Wozniak in the Jobs' family garage. Apple's revolutionary products, which include the iPod, iPhone and iPad, are now seen as dictating the evolution of modern technology




Steve Job is one of the creators of Apple product that created the technology that can be accepted by whole world. By right, he also gave a lot of benefits to the people who used his Apple product and always get positive feedback about his product. He is very intelligent and innovative thinker who give the best evolution of technology of computer product. 

Steve Jobs also  also made a lot of quotes and very good for each words that can inspired people to success in their life.

This is one of his quote
 ``A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.''

In conclusion, i found that Steve Jobs had bring a very good evolution of the computer technology ti the people around the world and had give a very good inspiration from his quotes and successful.

...men and women are merely players by- Robert Greene


Robert Greene is the author of t---men and women are merely players. He was born at Norwich about 1560, and educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1578. After travelling abroad he returned to Cambridge in 1580, and graduated M.A. from Clare Hall in 1583. In the same year he came up to London and published his first book. In 1585, when he was incorporated M.A. at Oxford, he also describes himself as a student of medicine; but this pursuit was not carried far by him. 


                The excerpt show that ,``Men and women are merely players’’ is and enlightenment about the human being or who shows the different character to expose their own life. As a human being we are created our own roles by the social ideals. Instead of it the human being could manipulated by the one who are extremely to get their power to control the life that full with affectation. We are perform our life on the platform that shows the attitude,  good behaviour and everything that appear civilized, decent, democrat and fair. 
                 It can simply achieve the role of people that trying to control the life.  However, some people face the game that playing the power how indirect seems evil, a social a relic of the pass and they grow through the foolish. By right, there’s nothing to do with power, we as a human being need to beware by facing such of other human who can express their opinion strictly despite they are truly often to grab the powers. 
                Author make the readers realize that we need to be careful with the power that people sort it in strategies and manipulated others. Despite of it we can see that people keep compete to grab the chance.

In conclusion i think that Robert Greene would like to tell us that every human being has their role to play in their life.

Saturday, 18 February 2012

The Pianist, living in the war.





"The Pianist" is the biographical war movie that begins in Warsaw, Poland in September, 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, first introducing Wladyslaw (Wladek) Szpilman, who works as a pianist for the local radio. He is the brilliant pianist who can escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
The Polish Army has been defeated in three weeks by the German Army and Szpilman's radio station is bombed while he plays live on the air. This story starring by Adrien Brody 






 At the first site, i thought that this movie will make me boring and how could i burned out with World war II era war, but i get it wrong. Instead, while watching this video definitely make me hard to understand for what is actually they are talking about. But, i force my self to stick with this video and the result is the two hours an half long had give me very good impression about the story line. Especially the rhythm from the sounds of the piano make me feel the qualities of the story. 


When the video reaching their climax where as i saw the old man in the wheelchair had been thrown out from the apartment by the evil Nazis its really make feel the hard time that they are facing by right they such an innocent people who are suppose to get suffer at this World War II. From my observation. the pianist is not for everyone and i don't think also kids are suitable to watch this kind of video because its is coldly brutal and violence. This video also shown the uncensored, unapologetic towards the humankind.   


By watching this kind of video make me feel very thankful by living in very harmony and peace country which is had stay far away from the world war. Instead, The Pianist had play the role about people who had suffered to fight for their right in their own country.

Jack The Ripper was a Serial Killer

      The Jack the Ripper murders occurred in the East End of London in 1888 and, although the Whitechapel Murderer was only a threat to a very small section of the community in a relatively small part of London, the murders had a huge impact on society as a whole.  the best-known as serial killer. One of the things that puzzles many people about this particular long ago murder spree is quite why the crimes are still so famous, even though over a hundred and twenty years have elapsed since they occurred.
      By the video that i've watch, Dramatic reconstructions bring the streets of Whitechapel in 1888 vividly to life, whilst contemporary Victorian photographs and maps provide an insight into what the streets looked like then and of the layout of the district where the murders occurred.
      If, as is generally believed, Jack the ripper had only five victims then he wasn't a particularly prolific murderer compared to many who have come since, and the fact that his so-called reign of terror lasted a mere twelve or so weeks means that he wasn't at large for a particularly long period of time. Yet there is little doubt that he is the world's most famous serial killer. Why should this be?
Several factors combined to help make this series of crimes famous all over the world. Not least amongst them was the fact that the newspapers of the day gave a huge amount of coverage to the crimes and provided their readers with daily updates on them with the result that Jack the Ripper effectively became a menacing media figure.
        Next, the area in which the killings occurred was perceived as being a hotbed of vice and villainy, and a breeding ground for social unrest, squalor and disease. The Whitechapel Murderer, in the eyes of the wider Victorian society, came to be seen as the personification of all the evils with which the East End of London was associated.
          Finally, there was, of course, the name by which the killer came to be known - Jack the Ripper. It was this name - which was probably the invention of a journalist - that had the effect of turning five sordid East End murders into an international phenomenon and of catapulting the unknown miscreant responsible into the realm of legend.