Have you ever heard of a word ‘otaku’?
Literally ‘otaku’
is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interest, commonly the anime and ‘manga’ fandom.
In modern Japanese slang, the term ‘otaku’ is mostly equivalent to “geek” or “nerd”. When these people are referred to as ‘otaku’, they are judged for their behaviors and people suddenly see
an ‘otaku’ as a person unable to relate to reality.
In Japan the word ‘otaku’ has become taboo
because of Miyazaki Tsutomu who went
on a toddler murdering
spree
in the 80’s, videotaping the young girls he had murdered from an obsession with
‘lolicon’(female pedophilic manga)
Differently in the western country, they use this
term to call themselves ‘fanboys’ or ‘fangirls’ with almost no knowledge of
the horrific
roots behind the word.
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Now days, the word ‘otaku’ has multiple meaning. Casual anime fans use this word in the
context of being a well established fan who know much about anime and ’manga’. Japanese see this term as derogatory
which represents a person who is a lifeless nerd.
Most of the ‘otaku’
actually has Schizoid Personality Disorder. When they usually:
Don't want to get close to people.
Like it best when you're alone.
Don't have much, in any interest in sexual experiences.
Don't react much at all to criticism or complements.
Appear emotionless.
Paranoia
They also have ‘chunibyo
diseases’ which they cannot tell the different
between reality and fantasy. They usually imagine they had some-sort of supernatural
power when they had to defect the evil and bring
the peace to the
world. This diseases is actually affected because they watched too many
supernatural anime or ’manga’.
By NUR FATINI LIDYA
It is often we read about people, local and
foreign, affected by natural disaster and accidents.
We want to help as we
feel strongly about their unfortunate
circumstances. We want to help but feel distressed that we are not able to
do anything about it. Then
the feeling passes and life goes on. The spirit of
volunteerism for the charity is good but action
speaks louder than words.
There are many ways by which you can help others
who are less fortunate. One of the easiest and commonest ways is to make donations
in cash and kind. You read about a person or family in financial distress and
you donate generously. An orphanage is in need of electrical equipment, you dig
into your pocket to help them.
A more meaningful way of helping others is by
doing volunteer work. As example The Red Crescent Society offers its services
in government clinics especially during festive seasons when accidents are
prone to happen. Sometimes, these club members offer their services as tutor
for the orphans. This act might seem trivial but they make a difference.
Another form of charity service is reading to the
visually-impaired at their centre or visit sick children in the hospitals. You
can also volunteer as counselors for the ‘be-friends’, a non-profit
organization to help those in need of friend who is willing to listen but
non-judgmental.
At a higher level, various charity societies exist
to enable us to contribute to the community. There are many opportunities for
those who are suitable qualified to contribute to the betterment of society.
The National Red Crescent recruits volunteer to help in times of natural
disasters, like earthquake, floods, hurricanes, tsunami, and drought. They help
to relocate homeless people. The Malaysia Medical Relief Society (MERCY
Malaysia) provides medical relief and humanitarian aid for local and
international emergencies volunteer are always welcomed.
There are many ways one can do volunteer work. It
depends on whether one is willing or not.
By NUR FATINI LIDYA
COURAGE
Courage? Brave? They have same meaning
in different word. How we can describe about courage or maybe about brave? Here,
I have a story about someone who are too brave to save people’s life.
She was 17 years old this year. She lives near around
Kajang. She is so beautiful girl, talkactive, and also she was an athlete in
her school. She was a tomboy. Well, she’s acting like that because of her tough
life. She has too much haters because of her life. She didn’t ask for that
life. Either she want it or not, she have to accept it. That fate was written
before she was born.
Here the truth story. This accident had happened on March
2013. She is on her way to go to the school. Coincidence, on
that day, she walk alone to school. While she walk, she saw a red BMW, series 3
car, drive so fast. The driver did not follow the speed rules on the road. The driver
should know, when he driving on the road that have a school, he has to slow
down the speed. Or not, he will breach student school who walk to school. A few
minutes after that, she saw the car make a U-turn and speed to someone. The girl
shocked when she saw the car had aim to crash the boy who walked alone to pass
the side road. So she run over the road and grabbed the boy. The red BMW car had stop for a while and just drive pass
through them. The boy shocked for what had happen to him just now. The girl
help the boy stand up. The girl had ask him did he know who the driver was. The
boy just closed his mouth. Maybe he still trauma. The girl bring the boy to the
police station to make a report.
………
After
make the report, the boy thanked to the girl who had saved him and said, “You’re
a girl. But you are so brave to save me from the accident. Thanks a lot. I indebted
with you. I don’t know how to pay it.” Then
she said, “Never mind. It was part of my job to save another people life”. Then,
the girl left the boy and went to school with messy cloth. Teachers in that
school weird why she went to school with messy cloth. She just entered her class, and when she reached
the classroom, the teacher ask why she look so messy. She told the teacher what
had happen and the reason why she came late to the school on that day. Teacher
in the class shocked but at the same time she thanked to God because God still
give she time to continue her life.
Don’t
you think this girl are really brave? How she would endangering her own life only to save other people's lives? I wish I could be like her who are too
brave to save people’s life. Don’t you want to be like her? Yes, maybe it was
too dangerous for us, but at least we can save another life too.
That’s
all for now. Thanks for reading!
Written
by,
Nurina
Izzatie binti Maizatul Akmam
Are technologies a blessing or are they a danger to society? In my opinion, technologies are a menace to society.
It could be argued that technologies are so useful that they are used everywhere – from the boardroom to the classroom. We have to use the technologies or miss out in improving our knowledge. The internet is an indispensable source of information. The world is latterly at our fingertips. Search engines will get you whatever information you need.
On the other hand, we are spending more time on entertainment than gathering knowledge. We are surfing the Net for games, music, chat rooms, books and so on.
Moreover, the family is broken up by the technologies. How many times your mother called you for dinner and your answer is ‘Wait’, ‘Coming’. We are riveted to the internet or the online games. We are not interested in family excursions or get together. They are too boring. As a result, family ties are neglected. In addition, we are more computer savvy than our parents. That has to a widening of the generation gap.
There is even less time for face-to-face socializing. Chatting online is what we all love doing. We can keep in touch with friends who are all over the world. On the other hand, through social networks like Facebook and Twitter youth are spending hours on the computer. Though they may have hundreds of friends and spend all their time updating on the site, it is still friendship made without leaving the computer. Many are so addicted to their games that they have become quite anti-social. Of course there is always the danger of exposing the young to sleazy materials.
Furthermore, because of the amount of time spent holed up with the computer, we are spending less time in fresh air with friends. Games like badminton and soccer have been overtaken by computer games. Cyber life has overtaken real life.
To sum up, we have all fallen victim to the technologies. Addiction to the technologies is fast rising. Be honest, have you not skipped family activities or class or handed in incomplete homework simply because computer, tablet, phone games is more exciting?
Written by $yifa
The world around us
is in danger. The earth faces problems of global warming and massive pollution.
Our rainforest are disappearing. Animals in the rainforest are in danger
extinction.so are our natural resources. How can one person save the environment?
There are many things
that we as individuals can do to stop the destruction of the environment. We
should take green steps, that is, change our habits and lifestyles to stop
polluting and harming the world around us. After some contemplation, I know
that I can do to contribute towards saving our environment. I will practice the
3Rs – reduce, recycle, and reuse – my dictum in life. I will not be part of the
use-and-throw society.
Firstly, I can reduce
consumption of paper by using handkerchiefs. This will definitely save many
trees. Every kilogram of paper I do not use can save 2.5 kg of greenhouse gases.
I will also say ‘NO’ to plastic bags. Plastic is not biodegradable. How many
times have we read from newspapers of fish being choked to death because of
plastic bags? I will instead carry a cloth bag with me to carry all my
shopping.
As a result, there
will be less littering and pollution. Moreover, I will add to my ‘NO’ list of
disposables, especially Styrofoam and polystyrene containers. Again I will go
everywhere prepared. For my takeaways, I will bring my own tiffin carriers and
containers.
This will definitely
reduce the amount of rubbish I throw away. Of course, it be quiet inconvenient
but ‘little drops of water make the mighty ocean.
Another example of
what I can do is to reuse. I will use paper on both sides, reuse any paper and
cards. I will creatively reuse warping paper, ribbons, birthday cards. Every ton
of paper I reuse will save seventeen trees.
I can also do a
compost from my kitchen and garden. All the leftover food and garden trimmings
can form mulch and enrich the soil. Old toothbrush can be used for cleaning
shoes and walls and hundred other things. To do this alone is difficult, so I will
get help of my mother and the rest of the family.
Instead of an
individual effort, it becomes a family or class effort. It is more effective
this way. For example, if I can convince my ‘gang’ to separate paper, plastic,
glass and metals for recycling, it will really help to reduce the emission of
methane. Still another example is computer recycling. As we change our
computers and other related electronic products quiet quickly, we should sent
them to recycling companies that specialize in such work. Just throwing them
away will cause a major problem of disposal.
There seems a lot to
be done. I will start today. I will get my family and friends to participate in
earth hour. One small step toward saving the environment.
written by $yifa
Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that
ranges from interpersonal affection ("I love my mother") to pleasure
("I loved that meal"). It can refer to an emotion of a strong
attraction and personal attachment. It can also be a virtuere presenting human
kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent
concern for the good of another". It may also describe compassionate and
affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals. Ancient
Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity (in Greek, storge ),
friendship (philia), sexual and/or romantic desire (eros), and self-emptying or
divine love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of
romantic love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or
symbioses of these states. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with
the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to
consistently define, compared to other emotional states. Love in its various
forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to
its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the
creative arts. Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings
together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species. The
word "love" can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in
different contexts. Many other languages use multiple words to express some of
the different concepts that in English are denoted as "love"; one
example is the plurality of Greek words for "love". Cultural
differences in conceptualizing love thus
doubly impede the establishment of a universal definition. Although the nature
or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the
word can be clarified by determining what isn't love (antonyms of "love"). Love as a
general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like) is commonly
contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally
intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust;
and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is sometimes
contrasted with friendship, although the word love is often applied to close
friendships. (Further possible ambiguities come with usages
"girlfriend", "boyfriend", "just good friends").
Abstractly discussed love usually refers to an experience one person feels for
another. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing
(cf. vulnerability and care theory of love), including oneself (cf.narcissism).
In addition to cross-cultural differences in understanding love, ideas about
love have also changed greatly over time. Some historians date modern
conceptions of romantic love to courtly Europe during or after the Middle Ages,
although the prior existence of romantic attachments is attested by ancient
love poetry. The complex and abstract nature of love often reduces discourse of
love to a thought-terminating cliché. Several common proverbs regard love, from
Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All You Need Is
Love". St. Thomas Aquinas, following Aristotle, defines love as "to
will the good of another."Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition
of "absolute value," as opposed torelative value. Philosopher Gottfried
Leibniz said that love is "to be delighted by the happiness of another.
"Biologist Jeremy Griffith defines love as "unconditional
selflessness". Love is sometimes referred to as an "international
language" that overrides cultural and linguistic divisions.
By Irfan
When talk about culture, Japan has
become the most
outstanding one because
of it bizarre
culture. Here are the top 5 list of Japan bizarre culture.
1. Hikikomori
‘Hikikomori’
literally mean people who refuse to leave their house and isolate themselves from
society in their homes for a period exceeding six months. In Japan most of the ‘hikikomori’ are disaffected teenagers and twenty-something. There
is no precise explanation for the rise in ‘hikikomori’, though there are
several known contributing factors such as internet, intense academic
pressures, and not to forget there are parents who are willing to shelter their
children well with hiding them from society.
2. Crime
Although legends of the
yakuza are prevalent, crimes rates are particularly low in Japan. It is
illegal to own a handgun and even ceremonial swords must be registered
with the police(O.o). However, you can be almost
certain that you are going to jail (indeed, no joke). The conviction
rate is said to exceed 99%.
Unlike most other countries, death row inmates are only informed an
hours beforehand and that was when their time is up (how
cold can they be?! =..=). Furthermore, the family is not informed until the offender is dead!
Although Japan has a history of rather gruesome and
unconventional methods of execution, prisoner is generally executed by hanging today.
3. Food
Due to a coincidence of language, the kit kat chocolate bar is
enormously popular in Japan. ‘kit kat’ is remarkably similar to the phase ‘kitto katsu’ which mean you
shall surely win and often used as a sentiment of good luck. Students are
often given the candy beofore an exam as a good luck charm. Unlike
the rest of the world, which features only a
milk chocolate version, Japan maintains dozen of exotic flavors,
such as grilled corn, miso, camembert cheese, baked potato, and soy sauce.
4. Job
Performed
Japanese are well known for their industrious work ethic,
the stereotype of the boozy
businessman warbling ‘margaritaville’ in a karaoke bar is not that far from the truth (=..=).
Marathon drinking sessions are often seen as a cornerstone of
the Japanese business-corporate relationships
are forged over gallons of sake. Younger salary man usually struggle in vain to
keep up with their seasoned bosses.
That said it’s also relatively easy to nurse a hangover
(O.o). The Japanese business culture values an employee who naps on the job. ‘Inemuri’
as it is known, is a quick cat-nap meant to recharge the batteries. It is seen
as a sign of hard work and commitment.
5. Yaeba
Anyone who has suffered through the stigma of wearing braces (or
any parent who has shelled out thousands for orthodonture) understands the
importance of straight, even teeth. In
Japan, however, there is a growing trend among young women for ‘yaeba’ (literally “double tooth”)
caps on the canines, which lends their smile a
kind of crowded appearance.
As bizarre beauty trends go, this one is somewhat costly to implement—but at least it is
reversible.
By NUR FATINI LIDYA BT MOHAMAD ZAINI
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