Sadie and Maud (Poem that I choose for my assignment...)

Maud went to college. Sadie stayed home. Sadie scraped life With a fine toothed comb. She didn't leave a tangle in Her comb found every strand. Sadie was one of the livingest chicks In all the land. Sadie bore two babies Under her maiden name. Maud and Ma and Papa Nearly died of shame. When Sadie said her last so-long Her girls struck out from home. (Sadie left as heritage Her fine-toothed comb.) Maud, who went to college, Is a thin brown mouse. She is living all alone In this old house. Written by : Gwendolyn Brooks

'Mai daling-daling" ...

       

Mai daling-daling samai daling-daling,

Mai daling-daling samai daling-daling,

Mai  daling-daling samai daling-daling.

          The dancers dance softly with the lyrics of the traditional song, Daling-daling song. This was a traditional dance for Bajau native, which is one of the peculiarities of Malaysia’s culture. I once had chance to watch this unique traditional dance in my school, during the ‘school day award’ for the excellent student and I was stunned by the way the dancer dance with their body look so gracefully with the music.  

           Malaysian daling-daling dance was actually a traditional dance that brought by the Suluks from Mindanao archipelago, Phillipines. In other meaning, daling-daling dance was not purely originated from Bajau native in the niche of Sabah parts, Semporna district. Due to the intermingling relationship between the Bajau and Suluk in the previous lifetime, daling-daling dance nowadays are well-known as the Bajau native’s heritage dance especially for the Bajau community in Semporna.

             If we listen to the first and the most words in the song’s lyric, the phrase ‘daling-daling’ were frequently repeated throughout the song. The phrase ‘daling’ was influenced from the English word, ‘darling’ which meant ‘the love one’.

The advantages of multiculturalism..(another writing's work.. sorry for any error that I'd did)

           If you’re not lazy, you’re not Malay,

           If you don’t cheat, you’re not Chinese,

           If you don’t drink, you’re not Indian.

          

           Quoted from a book entitled ‘Honk! If you are Malaysian’ by Lydia Teh had clearly reflect on the racial stereotypes of some or most citizen in Malaysia, an example of multiracial country. These lopsided viewers of different races and cultures were not just existed in this country but also in other different multiracial country. Why should this non-relevant issue raised instead of being grateful with peculiarities of many cultural practice shared and gained as a multiracial country? Due to these, nurturing multiculturalism spirit is vital as it give many advantages to multiracial country.

             Multiculturalism is defined as the acceptance or promotion of multiple ethnicity culture applied and being together in the same society. It helps people that come from different background to learn and understand more about others social background. This will help to avoid misunderstanding and racial prejudices among citizen which can cause riot and lead to a political instability. Besides, we should not feel threatened with other culture and religious. It is really not a big deal at all, instead, the citizen will become more aware and appreciate their own culture and religious to assure the continuity of their culture and learn deeper about their religious so that the next generation knows better about it. As quoted by a French social philosopher, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1889), ‘Though is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life, what is most important for it is not that all citizen profess the true religion but that they should profess religion’.

             Furthermore, multiculturalism is also an effort in recognizing cultural diversity and promoting the equality of all cultural and tradition which will give great absurdities of multicultural country’s lifestyle. The problem of ethnocentric can be overcome and people will find it easier work hand in hand when doing things that required commitment and corporation among them which comes from different culture. Through this, unity bonding will become stronger as there is more cultural relativism between the people in the country. In addition, people that instill multiculturalism within themselves are less likely to suffer from culture shock when go abroad or enter a new society as they are easier to accept new culture and adapt themselves in a new place.

            Apart from these, it can become the asset of tourism. Varieties of culture that practices in the country can attract people from around the world to know more about this and visit the multicultural country to experience and watch the uniqueness of varies culture there. This will help the country to be better known in worldwide, and help in increasing the country’s income. As stated in the TravelDailyNews.com in the article entitled ‘A New Model For European Tourism Is Needed’, ‘The necessity for European Union (EU) to develop a new tourism model based on European multicultural principle and values was highlighted by the Vice President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Mrs. Irini Pari at her key-note speech during the luncheon of the conference.

           In conclusion, multiculturalism should be highly considered and instill in all of us especially when living in a multiracial country. As the saying goes, ‘there is no peace without unity’, through this, prosperous and peaceful country will be gained and no more pain and problem of culture rivalry among the citizen of multiracial country.

Malaysia in 2057 (one of my first writing's homework, sorry for the grammatical error and etc..)

Previously, we had heard about the ‘2020 Vision’ that was been stated by our fourth minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir. This is the time when our country is expected to become a well-developed country. However, have we ever wondered about what is waiting for us beyond the year 2020? Probably most of my 19-year-old contemporaries do not think beyond the year 2030, let alone myself but to be asked about the future that illuminates 2057 the current trend of development is a foreshadow of what is to come 47 years from now on. In 2057, our country may be one with advanced technology and preserved cultural values, but the recent trend of advancement in our country suggested that these two elements will not walk hand in hand.
It is acceptable to say that Malaysia may become a superb well-developed country in 2057. Nature friendly cars will be available and used by all the citizen of Malaysia instead of using the heavy polluting of carbon fuel car that we have now. The risk of polluting the air will be reduced with the usage of this technology. Apart from these, big improvement in public transport such as eco and nature friendly vehicles. For instance, our monorails, buses, and other public transportations will be substituted with superb transportations that are complete with amazing technologies. These transportations will be faster, safer and reachable to almost every part of Malaysia. Besides, there will be many sky crappers and facilities around Malaysia. These will make Malaysia’s to be on par with other developing countries.
As the saying goes, ‘there’s a price for the development of technologies’. The acceleration of our technologies will cause the deprecation of cultural values. It will bring a bad future for our culture as to pay the price of modernization that we enjoy during that time. Most of the youngsters are lack of knowledge about their culture, either their traditional culture or the previous Malaysian norms culture. They will not have interest in joining the traditional festivals that our forefather used to celebrate every year. More than that, they also might lose the ‘assabiah spirit’ which is the spirit of living together as one big family in a community as they are busy enjoying the technologies. Their outfits are also be heavily influenced by the western style with shorter and small shirts that considered as trendy and nice to be wear in public. The worst thing is that most citizens might lead an immoral lifestyle. Pre marital sex, same-sex relationship and abortions will be common to us due to the levelling of our country development with other developed countries.
But, since we cannot predict but we can expect our country to be according to the trend that we have nowadays, the problems of having a bad future culture can be avoided with the aid of alternative situations for technologies and cultural values to co-exist. For example, in religious term, mobile phone manufacturers have developed popular phones for Muslim users that support their religious practices. Firstly, by reminding them when it is time to pray, secondly by orientating them towards Mecca and thirdly by disabling incoming calls for 20 minutes. Although these phones are already being produced, but it still can be improve in 2057 to be better with more features such as make reminders of any festival celebrated or providing more information about religiosity and cultural information in the gadgets invented.

Thus, although Malaysia will grow into a well-develop country, the cultural value that we have should not be left aside. Some sort of things that we have in our life would be better if undergo improvement. But, there are valuable things that should be preserves for the sake of our well-being.