Is Social Science better than Pure Science? Last weekend I went for some Islamic talks. The talks were not about the title I wrote above, but the question came out from the facilitator when we were discussing about our history. Talking about various streams of Science, I started to think which stream is the best? Pure Science is basically the streams of all the hard-thinking persons like the engineers, scientists, architects and many more. As for Social Science, it is the stream for the good-communicating persons. As what I got from the talks, it said that the Social Science persons can give commands to the Pure Science persons. It is true. The Social Science person for example a boss that took management course during studies would surely be in higher position than an engineer in a company. An engineer could never be the boss of the boss, right? Maybe can, if the engineer himself is the boss of the company. But back to the core, why would you be in the stream that will surely put you below than others? And why would you just let others studying something that surely will put them above you? Life is though right? As for the Social Science persons, they use what they learnt in daily life. For example, an accountant will be thinking to buy the most valuable thing in the supermarket because it will save money.

If I communicate, then it is OK. (HYPOTHESIS) Right now, I am handling three languages; Malay language, Japanese language and English. After almost one year learning Japanese language, I can feel that my two main languages; Malay language and English are being worst day by day. For Malay language, it is not so obvious because I am using it to communicate with my friends. Unfortunately, my English is the worst language for me right now. I have one English class per week in my college. During the lesson, my English teacher gives many grammar exercises to strengthen the language. I realized something, even if I do as many exercises on the language as in only in writing, it still cannot help me in the language. The only right thing that I should do now is I have to communicate in English. Now, surprisingly I only speak English with my English teacher unlike last five years, I speak English at school with my teachers and even my friends. Same goes to my Japanese language I think. We have four lessons of Japanese language per day, but we write and do grammar exercises in almost all lessons. Sometimes, we will have speaking lesson but I realize again that I am still not using the language to communicate. It is so difficult to communicate in other language when everybody is using Malay language. Now, I should start to think how to improve my three languages. Maybe the best way is just speak and do not care about what others may say. I guess?

I am soon an aunt!! My sister-in-law is now in her eighth month of pregnancy. As I am telling everyone, this is my parents` first grandchild. That means this is my first niece and I will soon become an aunt. Our family has been quiet with the baby crying sound for about 16 years. All of us are extremely cannot wait for the baby. A bit different to my mother. Maybe she just cannot believe the fact that she will become a grandmother, she keep warning us to ask her what should we call her when the baby is born. It was so funny. I loved hearing my sister-in-law telling me stories about the activities of her soon-to-be-born baby. She described the wonderful feeling of having her own ‘treasure’ inside her, kicking and moving around. Sometimes, she could feel the tiny fingers poking her tummy from inside. From the beginning of her pregnancy, my sister`s love for her unborn baby was so obvious. She took care of what she ate and drink, took care of her health and became concerned with many things. So as my brother. Having the first baby is such a wonderful moment. He really took care of her wife. Living in different house and quite far from our family house had added on the toughness of the pregnancy. There is one time, my sister-in-law fall down at her work place and had been admitted into the hospital. It was such poor news for us. But, Alhamdulillah she was fine. At the third month of pregnancy after scanning the tummy, the doctor said it was a baby boy but the latest news was the baby was a girl! Either boy or girl, it will be fine for me. I am just cannot wait to see the baby`s face. I cannot wait to be the first person in my family to hold the baby. I cannot wait to kiss the baby gently and close my eyes to smell the smell of Heaven. How wonderful will it be? I really cannot wait for the moment.

Only 1!! This is a story of my 2012 February. What will you feel when you can only get something for only one? For me I will fell angry. My February this year is only given one day holiday in a week and it is only Sunday! Before the month of February, there was a strong storm hit my college and at that time it was so wonderful because we were given one week holiday because of the damages. Getting into February, here comes the tough part. In a week we have only Sunday to rest. There are three replacement classes on the three Saturdays of February. Unfortunately, two of my important Sundays have also been stole. I have my acting rehearsal on those Sundays. It is so sad and tiring. Moreover, there will be three important tests before mid-semester holiday in March on three subjects; Physics, Mathematics and Japanese. And of course it will be in February. Seriously, I am really looking forward for March.

Nenek`s Hometown. Last holiday, I went back to my friend, Nazliah`s hometown with another one of my friend, Ain at Pontian, Johor. The place located at the most south part of Malaysia. Reaching nenek`s (grandmother) house at about 3 o`clock in the morning really made us exhausted after four hours journey from Kuala Lumpur. At least we had the opportunity to salam (kiss hand) nenek before we got back to sleep. After about five hours slept, we awoke. Then we ate the delicious Johor nasi lemak. Surprisingly, nenek could memorize my full name and Ain`s. The funny part is she called Nazliah, her grandchild with different name, ‘ Jijah’. Nenek kept asking us to eat, eat and eat. That morning, although nenek has reached about 65 years old, she hooked petai ( Malay traditional vegetable ) with a five meters rod to reach the petai on the tall tree. I was so amazed. Talking about food, nenek`s dishes were so delicious. Maybe that was my first time tasting Johor dishes, but trust me they were delicious. We ate rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I couldn`t imagined if I were there for one month. I could be fat! On the second day, Nazliah`s auntie brought us to Tanjung Piai, the southernmost point of Peninsular Malaysia and thus the most southern point of mainland Eurasia. The place was so beautiful. We need to walk through the mangrove added with some monkeys, many kinds of slugs, snails and crabs for about one kilometer to reached the sea. Reaching the beach part was the most amazing part. There, we could saw in front of us was Singapore and on our right side was Indonesia. Amazing! And at that point, the sea was ‘divided’ into two parts, the left part was Johor straits and the right part was Malacca straits. We were so excited to know about that. Before we went back on the third day, nenek cooked something special for us. Our bus was at 10 o’clock in the morning. Nenek cooked and packed our lunch before we went back. She also packed another three packs of breakfast in case we were hungry during the journey. It was so wonderful to live with nenek although it was just three days. I will not forget that moment.

The Power of The 'RED BULL'. Have you ever heard about an energy drink called ‘Red Bull’?? The first time I drank this Red Bull was the last four years. It was when my brother offered me when he intended to watch the Manchester United football match that night. It tasted yuck!! I can`t stand the taste. It was so weird. Last year, during the night before my Chemistry paper, my friend Munira offered me the drink. At that time, I accepted her offered because I just wanted to stay all night to study. I forced myself. Here the power of the ‘Red Bull’ came. I could stayed all night until about 4 o`clock before I did my Subuh prayer and slept for half an hour before the exam. It was so powerful! After that incident, I drank three to four cans of ‘Red Bull’ in a week. I have addicted to that powerful drink! This year surprisingly, I tried to prove the powerfulness of the drink when I am in the class. It worked! I took it every day before I went to the afternoon class. It really worked. My two friends beside me, they were too sleepy every afternoon class and that really makes me more energetic because I can focused without talking and chit chatting with them. Focusing in class especially in Japanese class is the most important part of my daily life. Red Bull drink has really changed my life!

First Visit to Bukit Tinggi Pahang I have just gone back from my Raya holiday last week. It was a three day holidays. It was the first Raya that I had with my family away from our house in Penang. My family came to Kuala Lumpur where I and my sister stayed. They left Penang on Friday afternoon and reached Kuala Lumpur at night time. After finished my last class on Friday, I quickly left my college and took train to my sister`s house. It was so fantastic to see all my family there. The next day, we went to Bukit Tinggi. It took about two hours there because the road was so busy. After we reached there, I can`t almost recognize my own country. The scenery there was so beautiful. It was full with fantastic designed building. It is located 2,500 feet above sea level. It was so amazing to feel the coolness of the air. It was about 25˚ Celsius. There were many places there to visit. First we went to Colmar Tropicale. There was a replica of a collection of buildings from a north-eastern village in France dating back to the 16th Century. It was just like a postcard picture. We took so many pictures there. Colmar Tropicale was surrounded by lush tropical forest land. The buildings are curvy, so we have to walk up down to view the entire place. Next we went to the Japanese Village. The place was away higher up. We took a special lorry there. The lorry took us at the bottom of the hill and we have to climb about 300 meters more. The atmosphere there was so lovely. The place was the first place in the world to have a tea house in the jungle. There was a few Japanese houses there. There were so beautiful. There was also one house for us to try the Japanese famous suit, kimono. Unfortunately, I did not have the chance to try the kimono because there was a group of Turkish trying all the kimonos. Then we went down the hill and went back. It was so amazing spending holiday with my family on this Raya holiday.

HOW TO SHARPEN YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS. After reading some of the books, I found three steps everyone should used to communicate with others. First according to one of a wonderful hadith (word used in the Qur'an), repeating what we say three times so that we may be understood better is a really an efficient communication technique. Three times would be sufficient to deliver the message. I love that. It`s so simple. Second, you should speak with clarity, word by word. It is important to let the one talking to you to easily understand what you want to tell. This means that we should used clear words that could be understood by others. So, if we are talking to students, we must use a different language compared to the language we use when speaking with professors. Children need simpler language, too, as compared to teenagers. That is the third one. Use words that are understood by audience. Let me share a story that I read about what would happen if and when we failed to exercise the three steps to communicate. CALLER: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan? OPERATOR: Yes, you can speak to me. CALLER: No, I want to speak to Annie Wan. OPERATOR: Yes, I understood you want to speak to anyone. You can speak to me. Who is this? CALLER: I`m Sam Wan. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It`s urgent. OPERATOR: I know you are someone, and you want to talk to anyone! But what`s this urgent matter about? CALLER: Well.. just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured, and now No One is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital. OPERATOR: Look, if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital. Then the accident isn`t an urgent matter! You may find this funny, but I don`t have time for this! CALLER: You are so rude! Who are you? OPERATOR: I`s Saw Ree. CALLER: Yes! You should be sorry. Now give me your name!! OPERATOR: That`s what I said. I`m Saw Ree… CALLER: Oh, God!! Pretty hilarious, don`t you think? This could happen to me and you. So let`s strive for clarity in communication.

My First Experience Flying PART3 It was really fast until I closed my eyes and suddenly I had a feeling to vomit. My sister was so panicked. She quickly found anything so that I can threw out. Then she saw one small paper back in the seat`s pocket. She passed to me and there it was. I have vomited in the plane! It was so funny. When the plane was already stable in the air, I went to the toilet. The toilet was really small that allow such a little movement. During the journey, there was one stewardess pushing a trolley of food and asking the passengers to buy. After checking the price of the food, I and my sister took the decision to just keep our hunger until the plane landed. The price of all the food was so expensive. I bet it was because the place we were going to have the food was. It was so hard to have food in the air right? There it is, if you want to have food in the special place, pay more. After for about 25 minutes in the air, the pilot announced to us about the weather at that time and the time we were going to land. It was another 5 minutes. We were told to go back to our seats and wore the safety belts. There it was again. The feeling I felt when I was going to vomit before. My sister gave me a bottle of oil with a really strong smell for me to smell. Yes, it worked! It diminished my feeling to vomit. Finally, we have landed. We were allowed to get up from our seats until the plane was finally stopped moving. Then, we took our bags and went out. The way to the entrance of the waiting area in Penang International Airport was so terrible because there was a renovation going on. According to the news, Penang International Airport is going to be another one of the world-class airport in Malaysia. I have looked the new plan for the new airport. It was awesome! Then, we saw our family. They were waiting for us. There it is! My first experience flying!