The Advantages And Disadvantages of Using a Smartphone

In this modern era, nearly everyone has a mobile phone and majority of it they are using smartphones. It allow users to connect to the internet and run apps as well as sending texts and making phone calls. So, there are a lot of the advantages and disadvantages of smartphone.

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THE ADVANTAGES OF HAVING A SMARTPHONES :

1. With a smartphone we can keep ourselves entertained. For example, we can read the news, play games, listen to music or watch a movie.

2. We can complaining about products and services through social media. For example, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Many companies now use social media as a part of their customers service. It is easy, quick and we can do it anywhere using a smartphones.

3. Using a smartphone, we’re no longer going to use company’s computer to chat with our friends. Instead, we can keep our conversation away from the business’s network, protect our privacy.

3. As a smartphone is actually a small screen computer, it means we can carry out a wide range of tasks when on the go. For example, we can use our phone to list a tasks, write a report playing games and so on.

4. Drivers also use smartphone to use apps like Google Maps, Waze as a map to helping them to get to their destination and avoid traffic jams.

Addicted to smartphones

THE DISADVANTAGES OF HAVING A SMARTPHONES :

1. Smartphone can be addicted and we will spending too much time on them. It can make us socially isolated from the real world. We should avoid becoming obsessed with constantly checking it. It also can develop into compulsive behaviour.

2. There are a lot of our personal information so it’s quite dangerous if someone steal it. If our phone don’t have a password protected, screen lock, then all of our information will be at risk.

3. There are some apps that allow friends to track our location using our phone and if their phone gets stolen, it’s easy for the thieves to find out that you are away from home. Something bad could happen.

4. Smartphone have a weakness which is water. Although there are a few waterproof phone, but majority smartphones don’t get on to well with liquids.

5. Smartphones are small so there isn’t space for huge, built-in hard drive. Although we can buy SD card for music, images, videos but most of the data in the apps stored in internal storage by default.

COLOUR

Colors

There are plenty types of color in this world. Every color gives many kind of perception to someone. Bright colors give you some energy, spirit, strength. While dark colors give other way round.


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This are some option of color that shows their meanings in our life:

1. Black
Black Color Psychology and Meaning. Associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery. A mysterious colorassociated with fear and the unknown (black holes). Usually has a negative connotation (blacklist, black humor)

2. Red
Personality Color Red. ... People with red personality type are usually quite active, cheerful and optimistic, similar to sanguine personality type. It is interesting that word “sanguine” means “bloody” in Latin language, not in the meaning of bloodshed but in the meaning of excess of blood.

3. Blue
According to research blue is one of the most popular colors, especially between men. It is considered to be the color of peace and serenity. ... According to psychology of color your color personality is defined by your favorite color, so if your favorite color is blue you have blue color personality.

4. Yellow
Yellow are the fun lovers. Fun: the joy of living life in the moment, is what motivates and drives these people. They bring great gifts of enthusiasm and optimism and are generally charismatic, spontaneous, and sociable. The Color Code is different than ANY of the other personality profiles on the market today.

5. Pink
If pink is your favorite color, you are loving, kind, generous and sensitive to the needs of others. You are friendly and approachable with a warmth and softness others are drawn to. You are the nurturers of the world - you love to give nurturing and to receive nurturing in return.                      

Social Media

Social media

Social media is a rising trends in the world today.Communication skills are exemplified by use of social media networking.Social media networking allows for a communication outlet.Social media is being utilized by students,parents,business and religious organizations.Social media has lessened the use verbal communication and increased the use of online messaging.People nowday,can have 'phone conversation' over their computer.

                                                     

WhatsApp

WhatsApp is a free to download messenger app for smartphones. WhatsApp uses the internet to send messages,images, audios or video. Besides that, the service is vey similar  to text messaging services. However , because whatsapp uses the internet to send messages, the cost of using whatsApp is significantly less than texting . It is popular with teenagers because  of features like group chatting, voice messages and location sharing.  

      

                                                                                                                                 

                                                       Instagram

Instagram also an example of social media that users can posts a photos or videos on their account to enable them to share their on their photos or videos on the social media. Moreover, on instgram there is many thing can explore. For example the virals, location and channels. Besides that, instagram has a new update that is private messaging for the users easily to chat with their members. Then users also can post stories and do live on their account about their life when they have free time.

Credit to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram

Facebook

Facebook may be accessed by a large range of dekstops,laptops,tablet computers and smart phones over the internet and mobile networks.After registering to use the site,users can create a user profile indicating their name accupation,school attended and so on.Users can add other users as friend,exchange messages,post status updates and digital videos and links,use various software applications and receive notifications when ohter update their profiles or make posts.Additionally, user join common interest user groups organized by workplace,school,hobbies or other topics.

Their friends into lists such as people from work or close friend.

After that,users can complain about or block unpleasunt people.

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To be fair and honest we need to mention that social media has its positive outcomes and has it drawbacks as well.As it have been relived in this writing at the end it is your choice to either use social media in a positive way and benefit from it in your social and academic life, or fall as victim of social media's negative impacts.

FESTIVALS

                  There are many festivals in Malaysia. Among the festivals of the races are:

Hari Raya Day

Eid al- fitr is an important religious holiday celebrated by muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan,the islamic holy month of fasting. The religious eid is the first and only day in the month of Syawal during which muslims are not permitted to fast. 

The holiday celebrates the permitted fast. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the 29 or 30 days of dawn to sunset fasting during the entire of Ramadhan. The day of eid falls on first day of the month Syawal. 

The date for the start of any lunar Hijri month variety dated on the observation pf new moon by local religious authorities, so the exact day of the celebration varies by locality.

Deepavali

Deepavali is India's biggest and most important holiday of the year . The festival of lights, sees millions attend firework displays, prayers and celebratory events across the world every autumn . The festival were celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains . 

To celebrate this festival, houses will be decorated with candles and colourful lights and huge firework displays was held while families feast and share gifts . 

The festival usually falls between the middle of October and the middle of November, although this is decide upon by the Hindu lunar calender .

Thaipusam

Thaipusam or Thaipoosam (Tamil: தைப்பூசம், Taippūcam ) is a festival celebrated by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (January/February).

It is mainly observed in countries where there is a significant presence of Tamil community such as India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia,Mauritius,Singapore,South Africa and other places where ethnic Hindu.

Thaipusam is a day where believers redeem themselves from sin, perform prayers and repent. 

The festival is celebrated in honour of Lord Subramaniam (also known as Lord Murugan), who represents virtue, youth and power, and is the destroyer of evil. Celebrations are performed by worshipers in the temple.

By doing colorful parade, the Thaipusam festival is said to be a celebration where believers are grateful to their gods, seeking blessings and fulfilling vows.

Thaipusam festival is a public holiday in Malaysia. Thaipusam followers performed their ceremonies at Batu Caves, near Kuala Lumpur & Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Temple, in George Town, Penang Temple & Nattukkottai Chettiar in Penang. There are also foreign tourists who meet the place where the ceremony is held.

Gawai Day

Gawai Day is an annual festival celebrated by the Dayak people in Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia on 31 May and 1 June. It is a public holiday in Sarawak and is both a religious and a social occasion recognized since 1957.

Gawai Day was celebrated first time on 1 June 1965. Gawai Day has become a symbol of unity, aspiration and hope of the Dayak people. It was the day when the people expressed their gratitude to the spirits who had given the abundant harvest to the community, and marked the preparation for the new agricultural season and the future life in general.

Before the feast day, they will be busy doing general cleaning, visiting graves, drying paddy and milling, collecting and preparing food and decorating the final home, where necessary. The way Gawai Day celebrations is vary from place to place and preparations will usually start early.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, also known as the "Spring Festival" (Chinese: 春节; traditional Chinese: 春節; Pinyin: Chūn Jié)

In modern China, it is an important Chinese celebration celebrated in the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This festival usually runs from the night before the first day, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. 

The first day of the New Year falls on the new moon between Jan 21 and Feb 20. In 2017, the first day of the Chinese New Year on Saturday, January 28, started the year of the Rooster.

Customs and traditions about Chinese New Year festivals are very different. Every evening before the Chinese New Year is an opportunity for Chinese families to gather for an annual gathering dinner.

It is also traditional for every family to clean the house carefully, to eliminate any wealth and to give way to the fate of entering. Windows and doors are decorated with red pieces of paper and coupled with popular themes "good luck" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity".

Other activities include firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes. In about a third of the landowners, or 500 million Northers, dumplings (mainly vegetarian fillings) have prominent characteristics in the food celebrating the festival.

RECIPES

WORLD'S BEST LASAGNA

Ingredients

1 pound sweet Italian sausage

3/4 pound lean ground beef

1/2 cup minced onion

2 cloves garlic, crushed

1 can crushed tomatoes

2 cans tomato paste

2 cans canned tomato sauce

1/2 cup water

2 tablespoons white sugar

1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil leaves

1 tablespoons salt

1/4 black pepper

4 tablespoons chopped parsley

12 lasagna noodles 

16 ounces ricotta cheese

1 egg

1/2 teaspoons salt

3/4 mozzarella cheese, sliced

3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Direction

1. In a dutch oven, cook sausage, ground beef, onion, and garlic over medium heat until well browned. Stir in crushed tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce and water. Season with sugar, basil, 1 tablespoon salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons parsley. Simmer, covered for about 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally.

2. Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to boil. Cook lasagna noodles in boiling water for 8 to 10 minutes. Drain noodles, and rinse with cold water. In a mixing bowl, combine ricotta cheese with egg, remaining parsley and 1/2 teaspoons salt.

3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C)

4. To assemble, spread 1 1/2 cups of meat sauce in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Arrange 6 noodles lengthwise over meat sauce. Spread with one half of the ricotta cheese mixture. Top with a third of mozzarella cheese slices. Spoon 1 1/2 cups meat sauce over mozzarella, and sprinkle with 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. Repeat layers, and top with remaining mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Covers with foil: to prevent sticking, either spray foil with cooking spray, or make sure the foil does not touch the cheese.

5. Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes. Remove foil, and bake an additional 25 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes before serving.

TRANSPORTATION

Vehicles are one of the mediums for humans moving from one place to another. In the past, humans used animal energy to be used as vehicles. Like merchants used horses, cattle and camels to carry their merchandise. Such as the sultan and the emperor by raising the stretcher if necessary.

The vehicles have many distinctive mediums. The main mediums are air, land and water. Air carriers are airplanes, helicopters and hot air balloons. Aircraft creations are produced by Wright brothers in 1903. They engrave their own fans and assign Charlie Taylor to build the engine in Dayton, Ohio. The helicopter creation was inspired by Igor Sikorsky in 1942. The helicopter is a plane lifted using one or more horizontal rivets. 

During the stone age of antiquity, we walked and ran upon the solid earth and swam and floated in dugout canoes upon the liquid rivers or seas. By 3500 BC, we began using wheeled carts and river boats. By 3100 BC, we tamed horses to assist our way. By 2000 BC, we built chariots. By 600 BC, we built wagons. By 332 BC, we built submersibles. By 312 BC, we built miles of paved roads. By 236 BC, we constructed our first elevators. By 214 BC, we built canals. By 200 BC, we constructed manned kites to fly.

During the middle ages in the 800s, we paved streets with tar.

During the 13th century, by the late 1200s, we invented sky-flying rockets.

During the 15th century, by the later 1400s, we built advanced sailing ships to cross entire oceans.

During the 16th century, we began using horse-powered rails of wood and stone.

During the 17th century, by 1620, we launched the first oar-propelled submarine. By 1662, we invented the horse-drawn bus. By 1672, we built the first steam-powered car.

During the 18th century, by 1740, we invented the foot-and-hand-powered carriage. By 1769, we experimented with the steam-driven artillery tractor. By 1760, we used iron rails. By 1776, we propelled submarines by screws. By 1783, we launched the first hot air and hydrogen balloons. By 1784, we built a steam carriage

  

During the 21st century, by 2001, we launched the first self-balancing personal transport. By 2004, we operated commercial high-speed Maglev trains and launched the first suborbital space flight — SpaceShipOne. By 2012, we have now probed and viewed beyond the edge of our solar system with Voyager 1 spacecraft.

                                  
So, where do the remainder years of this century and the future of transportation now take us? Back to the moon, to Mars, or to Jupiter and beyond? Will we continue on our pioneering quest for those proximal and then most distant planets and stars that at present we have only a dim apprehension of? Will we probe the greatest depths and heights of the Earth and exceed the greatest speeds and teleport the holographic particle forms of our most creative imaginations? Will there be an end to our inventive and transportation horizons? Or will we continue to go where no man or woman has ever dared to go before and beyond?
It is our nature to explore, encompass and conquer the world and the many potential worlds we now appear to know. Our anthropology demonstrates this ever-expanding quest for awareness and influence. The history of our evolving transportation and the mystery of its future will be in our hands, hearts and minds. The only limits to our creative and inventive endeavors will be those we self-impose and those of the misunderstanding of our constraining and possibly liberating laws of the universe. May we step out onto the diving board of life and take the next quantum leap into the inspiring and inventive frontiers of the transportation minds of the future. May we let no boundary stop us from our ultimate destiny to reach for the stars. May our compelling desire to know the universe lead us onward and outward to those new and broader transportation horizons of tomorrow. Wow, what an inspiring reflection upon from where we have come and to where we will go.

THE ADVANTAGE OF LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Language is a tool used by people to communicate since ancient times. In adressing this era of globalization, the ability to master and communicate in various language is an advantage to a person. Without the ability and multi-lingual speaking skills, it is quite difficult for a person to communicate specifically with different people of the race. Therefore, a lot of interest will be gained by someone by masering various languages other than the mother language.

The Advantage of Learning Foreign Language :

1. Meet new people

Doors are opened to you around the world. If you’re learning in a group setting, you immediately have new friends to share your new language. Once you go somewhere and are actually able to employ what you’ve learned, you’ll be surprised how open people are when you speak their mother tongue.

2. It's become essential

Many would argue that bilingualism is becoming a progressively necessary and essential skill for anyone who wants to keep up with today’s rapidly increasing global economy. Those who only speak one language will begin to get left behind in our shift towards more integrated and connected global society.

3. It's great for travelling

Knowing more than one language opens up your vacation destination possibilities. Locals anywhere appreciate that you’ve taken the time to at least attempt to learn and communicate in their tongue. It’s shows a greater level of respect and is an easy way to meet new people. Getting to a comfortable speaking level in a foreign language is a great motivator to get you out there and practicing your new language in a new country.

4. Become smarter

It will improves your memory and increase your attention span. The process of learning a foreign language will challenges you to concentrate and boosts your problem solving skills.

5. It's builds up your self-confidence

In order to master in a new language, we must communicate with people who knows the language that you learn. It's good to improve your speaking skills and will make the conversation more fluently. Plus, by communicate with other people to improve your speaking skills will make you have more friends out there.

In conclusion, all these benefits will indeed occur when a foreign language becomes a skill in a person. All parties should look at foreign language as something good and important to learn especially by our young people. Those who understand importance of foreign language will definitely act promptly because they want to win the good that language has to offer. The slogan of the language symbolizes the spirit of the nation should be understood by all levels of society in this country immediately so that we are not left behind.

Family

"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing"

Family is a group of people that consists of parents, children, and relatives. Family is someone that you can trust and share all your problems with. They were the one who take care of your needs. Therefore, family is someone who love each other unconditionally and support each other through thick and thin.

What should parents do to strengthen the relationship between family members? First, parents should spend more time with their kids. For example go on a family vacation or do outdoor activities such as picnicking or play sports together. Every families must have their bonding session at least once a month, talk to your kids, have deep conversation with them, know what their problem is and give them moral support and advises. Lastly parents should treat their kids with respect, never belittle them in-front of their friends or relatives.

Each family members have their own responsibilities, for example, parents must provide their kids with shelter, food, education and keeping the family in harmony. In other words don't fight in-front of of your kids, because things like that can affect their behavior, and for kids always listen to your parents and always make them proud of you.

There are many ways to reward our parents. Among them, we must be diligent in learning. Believe it, all parents are hoping that the children will be able to pursue their studies in the ivory tower. Therefore, we must study hard to repay the services of our parents. In addition, we must be a noble personal child. we must always be kind and gentle when speaking to parents. We must obey the parents and make their advice as a living guide. We must be mild in the bones. Parents have been working hard all day long to earn a living for their families. As a child, we should help parents do housework. Not only that, we must be attentive and love our parents, We should take care of our parents when they are old and sick. We must always remember the parents service and sacrifice, indeed their sacrifice cannot be valued with money. In short, parent services are huge. Let's not be like peanut forget about the skin.