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Weapon to Success: Determination & Sincerity

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Jennifer Ong serves multitudinous consumers with a sincere heart Jennifer Ong Ong Shaw Khim, who is usually called Jennifer, is 45-year-old this year and has been a WeChat merchant that sells beauty products for almost eight years. Before Jennifer came into contact with the job of WeChat merchant, she was just an accountant working in an office with a fixed schedule which is from Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm, and getting a fixed salary. Then only she became a WeChat merchant and slowly developed her way for online business and now opens up her physical store. Jennifer has shared about how she started up an online beauty product selling from an accountant and now opens up a physical store to collaborate online and offline for her business.  The reason for her getting into the mindset to become a beauty products WeChat merchant is quite interesting and unusual but also ordinary at the same time. The interesting and unusual part is firstly she got into contact with the WeChat merchan...

Family Affection Is Giving or The Hands Push Others to Abyss

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  This blog will talk about family affection, which is the relationship between parents and children. There is a quote in Mandarin that explain family affection, which I think is suitable for the writing in this blog, stated below:  ‘Family affection is silent, but it's as deep as the sea;  Family affection is silent, but it’s as heavy as the mountain’ Many people seem to be taught from childhood to listen to what their parents say. “They are older than you; they have more experience than you; they overcome more obstacles than you, so it is right to listen to them.” But did you ever have any idea about wanting to escape from when you were growing up?  Parents too often impose their ideas on their children based on their experiences, past, and failures. But few of them know about what their children think and what they want. Parents always use their understanding and experience to help their children avoid pitfalls, arrange their children’s future, and use their value...

Right or Wrong; Incident between Lee Zii Jia and BAM

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Malaysia national badminton player Lee Zii Jia submitted his resignation from the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) on January 11. After the discussion among the members in BAM, BAM has made a decision and announcement on Lee Zii Jia having a 2-year ban from joining any Badminton World Federation sanctioned tournaments starting from January 18 on January 21.  This incident involved Lee Zii Jia who is the rising star for Malaysia’s badminton career therefore it has gained lots of the public’s attention in this incident. But after Lee Zii Jia appealed for the decision made by BAM, both sides had a meeting and discussion on it and came out with the result that Lee Zii Jia will participate in the coming Asian Team Championships and BAM gave a blessing on Lee Zii Jia to become a free agent badminton player on January 25.  Before the 25th January meeting between Lee Zii Jia and BAM, the incident between Lee Zii Jia and BAM about the 2-year ban has caused a heated discussion am...

Malaysia History is not ‘Malay History’

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The subject 'History' is a significant medium or channel for shaping the national consciousness and consolidating national unity for a country. However, the content of the history textbooks in our country has not reflected the facts of the history which is inaccurate with the factual error and half-truths found, and the appearance of the contributions of all ethnic groups to the country in the history textbooks seem to be biased and lopsided. This issue has existed for many years while it is getting worse for the latest edition of the secondary school history textbooks. Many scholars are criticizing this issue.  The latest history textbooks for secondary school still have a strong ‘Malay dominance’ mentality shown even though the textbook has been updated for several editions. The writers of the secondary school history textbooks are having a racial disproportion where out of the writers, there is only one non-Malay writer can be found in it. This leads to the students looking ...

Why Do Flash Floods Happen in Malaysia?

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Recently, there was a menacing flood happening in Klang due to the continuous heavy rain. It happened on December 17 and it has strongly affected the operations of Klang. Many people were stuck from the way home and many of them were suffering from food shortage and damage that was brought by this disaster. Before the flash flood in Klang, a serious flood happened in Kelantan in 2014. But the flood happening in Klang shows the failure of flood prevention.  The Causes of Flash Floods Climate change is one of the causes of flash floods nowadays. As the climate gets warmer, there will be more vapors and moisture to be held in our atmosphere. It brings extreme changes in temperature and the volume of rainfall. Due to the long-term impact of climate change’s effect, when sudden heavy rainfall, especially in the monsoon season,  happens then floods happen.  Other than climate change, rapid development on urbanization is also a cause of flash floods. Urbanization has modernized ...

Domestic Abuse during The Pandemic

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Source from Internet The idea of writing this blog about domestic abuse is due to the many times I have read through the articles and news on this topic either happening in Malaysia or overseas. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people were restricted under the Movement Control Order (MCO) and the record on domestic abuse cases from January to August in 2021 almost reached 5000 cases. Domestic abuse cases recorded included domestic violence and sexual harassment not only from physical but also online. The rising number of domestic abuse cases must be taken seriously by everyone in the society. BUT what makes the cases for domestic abuse during the pandemic rise nearly reach the number of cases happening in 2019 in just eight months? During the MCO period, most of the people were restricted to stay at home and due to the pandemic, it affected the function of the economy which caused lots of businesses to shut down and most of the employees lost their job. In my view of point, people stayed ...