Media and Culture in Malaysia

Last week in the lecture class, Dr Carmen gave us a task about finding the principle of Rukun Negara. Is it a good things to learn back again or is a nightmare for me?Well, at least I able to discover on what is it and how's the Rukun Negara coming from. Rukun Negara, called that National Principle,is the Malaysian declaration which Malaysian people will institute the national philosophy from the independent day until nowadys. The v ision of the Rukun Negara is for the realization of the social contract agreed upon by the major races and d octrine to achieve unity for the sake of harmony and prosperity since the reaction to the race riot of 13 May incident happened in Malaysia .  It was formulated and held by the national consultative council (NCC) Tunku Abdul Razak. The aim of creating Rukun Negara is to harmonize and unite among races in Malaysia. From the text of the Rukun Negara, I searched from the Wikipedia.com and tried to understand the whole idea of the principle ...

It was day to visit a  a nice and comfortable renovated printing workshop. I arrived there around 2pm and I didn't know all the classmate reached there early than me. During the time I had lunch there while they are waiting for the talk show started. I looked around the places, It was nice and I can feel the modernization places especially the high class restaurant and the barber shop. I loved it. Later, I went inside the printing workshop building and the show was going to start soon. At 3pm, the talk show already started. I was listening how they talked and explained about the Science Fiction film all the time. I was confused what they tried to tell us about the issues or the history of making Science Fiction in Malaysia. After one of the Malay speaker started to talk about the history of making Science Fiction in Malaysia including the book novels and the 19th century movies until year 21th century. Picture 1 show the speaker started to talk about top 10 of Science Fict...

Last week, it was an amazing day to work as volunteer in Kedai Jalanan with my course mates. I took a train to reach Monorail Tuanku Medan with course mate Jagung Wong.  Picture 1: Jagung and I are on the way to the Kedai Jalanan by taking LRT Sri Petaling to Monorail Tuanku Medan I thought that Kedai Jalanan will be somewhere at the night market. However, the real Kedai Jalanan is located in the nice  shelter to organize Kedai Jalanan. Picture 2: The signbroad for Kedai Jalanan The volunteers and Kedai Jalanan’s helpers were coming to prepare by arranging the clothes, pants and the accessories. Picture 3: The clothes booth for Female Picture 4: The clothes booth for Male Picture 5: The Helpers and the classmates are preparing for the 'Big Sale' Picture 6: Dr Andrew, Dr Carmen and the helpers are preparing the foods and drinks Later, the briefing session started. One of the volunteers talked about the purpose of ...