Last Day

Hehe! Today is the last day of my long, forsaken, hard experiment! I should have gone with a informative experiment than a habitual experiment :( [developing a new habit is haaardd].
For a wrap up, I started this experiment because I notice the decrease in people who buys newspaper, and would rather go online for news source instead. By doing so, it is fast and efficient. Besides, I also notice how people are less interested in reading the newspaper too! Why? I included it in my report below! :D

In my experiment, I noticed a vast difference between the main sources I chose. They are BBC, CNN, ABC and TheStar respectively. The differences between them are :

• The amount of national/international news published.
• The amount of political/accidents/entertainment news
• The way they focus on different news source. [which news site focus on which.]

During my experiment, I often got lost on where should I start because of the wide choice provided. On BBC news, as easy as it seems, they have the one-minute world news (which was my favorite) to guide you on where you should start your news with. They normally includes political news and events that are occurring in the world. and they are similar to the newspaper headlines. However, in CNN and ABC news, they focuses more on events and entertainment news. Which for one, I call it "scoop" and not "news". As we follow back to Day 12's Actress alleges Polanski assault, even so some people know who she is [I don't even know her!], it is not a huge concern of our daily life which we want to read about it. Compared to the Oil spill, and Iceland's volcano ash, her suing Polanski is a very minor issue. I believe these entertainment news are very much the reason why people are less interested in reading/watching the news anymore. It does not focus on the community's concern. In addition, these [entertainment news] are not even considered news! So, why do people want to read these?! They could buy a magazine instead, than scooping around in the news section.

As i was conducting this experiment, I found what amuses me most are the different things going on in different parts of the world yet, at the same time. For example, the Oil spill at the Gulf of Mexico, Iceland's volcanic ash, Times square bomb attempt, Bangkok trouble, and much more! Watching/reading the news is a never ending thing. It is not like a book where we can finish up in a week or two. I like this habit of watching the news and keeping me informed of the current issues. Yet, on the other hand, its also very time consuming and I find that I have lesser time to do other things. A dilemma I have of being aware of my surroundings and the laziness in me! :P All in all, I believe watching/reading the news pays off, because these are all becoming part of the world history, and we can all learn something from it.

Day 29

30 mins for the last day!!! :D:D:D

The price of ignorance

"You can live with HIV for years but die everyday from discrimination"

This post is about people who got HIV, and got discriminated in many ways.

For example, family disown, fear of achieving a dream, and nobody wants to be their friend.

There is also a story about how doctors "cleaned" a HIV patient with clorox to "disinfect".

HIV is unable to transmit through physical activity such as sneezing, hugging or swimming in the same pool.

As Jo-Jo Struys went to the PT Foundation for more stories,

she came upon many discrimination stories, most of them involved family disown.

All in all, even thought someone is living with HIV, it is not an excuse to be discriminated by other people.

Student Tech

As a student, do not stop imagining things, as it may come true even bigger than you think.

This post talks about how 4 students who are trying to finish up their final programming project, yet ended up as the finalist of this year's "Olympics of student technology", the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2010 Malaysia finals.

They won themselves RM10,000 and to represent Malaysia for the World finals in Poland.

The software they made is concentrating on housewives who have a hard time deciding what to cook for dinner.

It includes sections that shows nutrition value, allergic, or medical issues such as diabetes.

So if a person is allergic to peanuts, they could check off this ingredient, and get another list of "peanut-less" recipes.

Easy, fun, and very new.

Day 28

i spent 15 minutes today.

New World Cup ball slammed as a 'disaster'

Giampaolo Pazzini from Italy, claims that Adidas World Cup ball is a 'disaster'.

Why? seems like Adidas soccer ball is not much different than what you buy in a supermarket.

Difficult to control, predict, all in all, horrible and terrible! (as said by Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar).

This article is practically talking about the Adidas ball and how Alberto Gilardino and Giampaolo Pazzini are really nice to each other...(wow. :D )

Two boys die in shophouse fire

2 age 5 and 3 boys are locked inside the bathroom.

suspected that they died due to large amount of inhaled smoke.

In my opinion, i think the father, who failed to save his 5 year old son and 3 year old neighbor may have a phobia forever.

"I just could not do anything, they were screaming for help and the bathroom door was locked. I tried to force it open but it was just too hot for me to remain in the building" he said.

Just like the podcast, it became a fear in his life, an awful incident that he been through.

Day 27

i spent 30 mins today browsing through the list.

Drama to give Orang Ulu flavour to harvest festival

This post is interesting because it talked about the legend/myth of a Sarawak Culture.

titled Batang Arong and the Sky Goddess:When Love Hunts for Magic.

It is about a sky goddess who came to earth, and married to a nobleman, Batang Arong.

As the goddess got bored of the human life. He asked Batang Arong to go look for magical things to keep her entertained.

He then came back with 1) a magical sape that can produce food 2) a magical comb which produce jewellery

even so, the goddess sent him off for another quest to obtain eternal youth.

During his quest, he meets 5 blood-sucking sisters and a giant cobra.

The story ends here~! if you want to know how it ends, it cost RM60 for adults and RM30 for children aged 6-12! :D cheers!

Service to provide home delivery of library books

it is open for Sarawakians to have easy access to library books.

They could just stay home, click on the books they wish to borrow, and Pos Malaysia will deliver it to the house.

It is very convenient way for Sarawakians because they could just go online and search which library have what they want, rather than going to the library themselves.