Portait of myself

  What is news? Is everything that is published on the pages newspapers considered the news? Of course not! News is an information that happened recently and is conveyed in the form of media through television, radio, and the print media. Besides , a person , a thing or an incident that is interesting enough to capture the attention of people can also be reported as a news.

   Everyone knows news in a different way. For me, the first time I get to know about news was when I stayed with my grandparents during my school holidays. My grandparents lived at a place, which is considered as a rural area and so there was less fun activities for them to plan when they stay at home. My grandparents have a special habit which never changed since I've known them. They will turn on television on time at 8pm every evening to watch Mandarin News on tv2. For a five years old child like me at that point of time, it baffled me of what they were doing. It was a weird habit, I thought. So I asked them: “is there any interesting about the show? Why both of you are so obsessed with this show?” My grandparents laughed and explained to me that the show was all about the news that covers the whole world so that they will get to know what is happening outside there. They watched this show to know all about what had happened on our world.  I said to my grandparents : ‘I also want to know what happened on our world.” So starting from that moment, I sat next to my grandparents everyday when the ‘show’ started and watched together although sometimes I do not really understand what the host who talk about the news is talking about, but I can see the videos and pictures on the television know what was happened around us. But I do not practice this habit after my holidays ended.

  I went back to my home and stayed with my parents. As my parents do practice this habit so I did not follow the habit again. However, this do not stop me to know news from everywhere in our world. I started reading newspaper since primary school and that was the time I started learning vocabulary. My parents bought me  newspapers everyday so that I can read the news now but with another media, a print media. I read Chinese newspaper named Sin Chew Daily, my parents encouraged me to read more news not only about the entertainment news but the local news and international news as it will broaden my knowledge and will be useful in my future. But somehow I still do not understand what is politic news all about.

  Day by day, I grew up and became a teenager. I will watch television and listen radio to know about news. When I am inside the car, my dad will turn on the radio and listen about the news. Most of the time I listen to the radio because I want to listen to some hit songs but this also another way to know news. After that, I used Internet well to know about news. I read the news and watched the video from my friends profile on Facebook to know what had actually  happened around us. I found that this was an interesting way to know the world well. As we can share and discuss together about the news we know. So I will continue to know news with all these ways.

Week 2!!

International news

Oprah Winfrey finds sister she didn’t know she had

  The famous talk show host-Oprah Winfrey has found her sister. When Oprah Winfrey was a little child who was eight years old, her mother has given up her half sister for adoption. That was about 50 years ago.

  Winfrey was excited when she introduced her newly discovered sister to the audiences on Monday and she explained how determine her sister wants to find her birth mother. Winfrey mentioned her sister; Patricia was the miracle of all miracles. However she doesn’t mention any other information about her sister, Patricia. Patricia has put in lots of effort to look for her real family; her wishes came true when she met Winfrey during the Thanksgiving holidays in November.

  When Patricia was born in 1963, the little Winfrey was living with her father and she doesn’t know that her mother was pregnant. Patricia was staying in the foster home until she was adopted at seven years old. However she never gave up finding her family.

  One day, Patricia knew about the story of Winfrey’s mother which about of her children who had since died. All the information of the story was matched with her own adoption. Patricia found Winfrey’s dead sister daughter and they had a DNA test and make sure their relationship.

  Oprah Winfrey became rich since she started her famous talk show “The Oprah Winfrey Show”. Now, she is known as the richest women in the whole world. At first, I taught that her newly found sister appear in her life for a bad intension to cheat her money. However, the DNA proof that they are the real sibling. Then, I know that I was wrong. They can meet each other after almost 50 years that is truly amazing! Based on their interview, I feel touched and I can feel that they love each other as Patricia does not want Winfrey to get hurt about her assisting. Hope that both of them can live in harmony as sisters.

Local news

Misbun delays meeting with BAM president

  National coach Misbun Sidek has decided to delay the meeting with the Badminton Association of Malaysia ( BAM ) president DAtuk Seri Nadzmi Mohd Salleh. Based on this sudden situation, the BAM’s council who need to attend the meeting is impossible to make any decision.

  Reported by one of the members of council, they made a decision to get Nadzmi to make a stand over the problems surrounding Misbun. Nazmi said that Misbun had sent a message to him, the content of the message is Misbun preferred to have a meeting after the Malaysia Open. Nadzmi mentioned that he would respect Misbun’s decision and meet him after the Malaysia Open.

  Misbun become the man of the spotlight when he tendered his resignation on December 31. However, the BAM exco has demanded Misbun to re-consider his decision.When asked any decision would be made, Nadzmi said that they would make a careful consideration and had a serious discussion about Misbun’s resignation. Besides that, he promised there will be a pleasant decision on this matter.

  Based on the resignation of Datuk Lee Chong Wei’s coach Misbun Sidek, he was pulled a big shocker for all the Malaysian. We proud of the all achievement of the Datuk Lee Chong Wei on the badminton competition. However, we also appreciate that he so lucky to have an excellent coach to give him all the useful advice and he was successfully pulled him to become a world number one excellent player of badminton.

  Besides that, Datuk Lee Chong Wei also hope that Misbun can continue to coach him and he admitted that Misbun ‘s resignation had disturbed his concentration on the championship in Taipei. I believed that Datuk Lee Chong Wei and Misbun should have a very close relationship so that it will create a huge effect for the Datuk Lee Chong Wei if Misbun resigns. However we still do not know what had happened between Misbun and BAM president but we hope it would be the happy ending.

Week 1 !!

International news
Aussie towns expected to face once-in-200-year floods

The nervous citizens of the Australia expected to face for the once-in-200-year floods. Australia’s government said that this serious flood would bring their country into the critical time, as the crisis of the flood could be the costliest natural disaster ever in their country. The hub of Horsham is expected to be the worst hit area as more than 40 villages have already been influence. At least 31 citizens had been killed by the flood at Queensland. Many properties of the citizens had been destroyed by the deluge includes their houses and cars. In economic, there would be a heavy economic cost toward the damage of the entire infrastructure. There would be a big affect toward the government and the local citizens.

I feel upset and anxious when I read the news. I couldn’t estimate how much natural disaster has happened in our world. People lost their lovely home, property; family and might lost their lives. However, human are weak creature, as we cannot change our destinies and also stop the disaster from taking your life. I feel so lucky to born in a disaster free country but I cannot predict anything to happen in the future. Besides that, is that any guarantee that we can stay healthy and safe until we are old? It is no! The only thing that we can do is to appreciate life given by God and to enjoy everything great on our earth and go through our life.

Local news

RM1.6b for Felda community.

Malaysia’s prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak announced that an allotment of RM 1.6 billion will giving to the Felda settler community for their development national in 2011. Besides that, prime minister also announced a RM 8.5 million allotment from Felda for expand the infrastructural programme. The programme including the 500 houses that given to the second generation Felda settler which allotted RM 17,000.  The prime minister said that the allotment for the Felda settler can help them to extricate themselves from being the part of the 40% of people with low income and can categorized the Felda settler into the moderate income group in Malaysia. Prime minister also mentioned that all the Felda settler not only have to remember what the benefit they enjoy now but also have to make sure they would continue to bring the benefit for their community and the country.

From my point of view, the allotment for the Felda settler is leading them to a brighter and better future. They can develop their community well without worry about the money and at the same time to change their life from becoming the low incomes group. I feel proud of our country and hopefully we can stride forward to become a prosperous and developed country by giving aid and help for the difficult position group.