1. Choose attractive, pleasant, undisturbed surroundings. In order to deactivate habitual daily concerns, begin with 2 or 3 minutes of becoming mindful of your breathing.
2. Check to see that you are actually sitting comfortably and free from disturbances.
3. Recall a situation in which you were content, free from hostility and stress, calm and happy.
4. Imagine this situation visually. You can also bring to mind any other sense perceptions that were connected with this situation. Stay with this memory for about 1 minute.
5. Note the feeling that you feel in your body in connection with this recalled situation.
6. Tag this pleasant feeling with a word like “happy,” “relieved,” or “content”—perhaps you will find a better word to label the mood you felt.
7. Now let the details of the imagined situation fade out and just stay with this mood.
8. Permit yourself the wish “May I be happy!” (as in the recalled situation), which after all expresses a healthy desire for well-being.
9. Mentally repeat a few times the words “May I be happy!” Repeat this exercise as often as needed to begin forming the habit of happiness.
According to the statistics made available through the Socio-Economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI) think-tank, Malays account for about 40% of the population base while Chinese represent 42% in the ethnicity demographics.
There is not much difference in the population growth between the diverse ethnic backgrounds in Penang since 2006.
In 2006, Penang’s population base was 1.49 million and it has grown steadily to 1.61million in the past five years.
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The newspaper said the 21-year-old mother of one became furious when she found out that her husband had married another woman without her consent, prompting her to bring the teenager home when the man was away.
Religious authorities conducting an operation against khalwat raided her Terengganu home at 2.25am to find the woman fully clothed and the naked 19-year-old hiding in the kitchen.
Verify here.We have all seen over the years how those who had scored a string of A’s in their SPM and STPM examinations had not excelled beyond recognition.
There have been many among them who had been sent abroad, yet, there is no one among them who had created a stir when they were at those universities abroad, or when they returned to the country to assume posts. So few were admitted into the prestigious Ivy League and Oxbridge universities in the US and UK respectively.
If some of them had gained admission, surely, it could be considered to be an achievement. But so far not many or none among the present group of students who have got the string of A’s had bothered to even apply for admission into such universities.
If they had, and if their application for scholarship was rejected then surely, there is cause for alarm. But the truth is that these top scorers have only pieces of paper to show the A’s they got for the dozen or so subjects.
Yet, many of them can’t speak fluently in English or Bahasa Melayu. They could get the answers right, but many may not know what they are writing about.
If they really wanted to excel, then they should on their own seek admission into prestigious universities, where their qualification and personal achievements will be verified and recognised.
But all of them just want to study abroad without caring which university it is.
I did not possess an impressive academic record but I still managed to gain admission into an Ivy League university in New York City. The university was impressed with my academic achievements and extracurricular activities and other personal interests and hobbies. Its officials also took into consideration all these things other than the academic qualification I had then.
Yet, Mara officials still chose to reject my application for a scholarship. I had to work for a year, before I was given a study loan the following year after an appeal.
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Strip and you'll walk away with a free laptop a notice at a computer shop in China said.
Sin Chew Daily reported that the shop, located in Shaanxi, has made the offer to single women in conjunction with its grand opening last Saturday.
Those who strip to their bra and panties were awarded with a laptop.
The first woman arrived around 11.30am.
Clad in a yellow blouse and sunglasses, she was seen walking towards the stage where a group of entertainers were performing.
She removed her dress, and successfully walked away with the gadget within a minute.
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P/S: Will this kind of business promotion be copied over here? Whao....! Sure pact of people, not to walk up to get the free item but to see see maa... kah..kah..kah..... All sort of business gimmicks manipulating human's weaknesses!
1. The curious thing about zombies is that they don't always know that they're dead.2. They have been dead long enough to know it for sure. Whatever are they fighting for? If asked, they will claim to be fighting for the people.
3. Then you have zombies roundly rejected, they won zero, and lost every one by large majorities. But there they are, still strutting about making pompous statements.
4. Despite having lost his own seat, but then proved so incompetent that he had to be replaced by someone else. Of which fact he pretends to be blissfully unaware, collecting his redundant salary every month, borne by the struggling taxpayers.
5. If they weren't sure that they had joined the ranks of the walking dead, they should surely know by now. But still they hang around, making feasts of the scraps and bones thrown to them by their masters. Another bunch of garbage-pickers!
6. Soon to be joining them is another group of zombies, clearly forsaken of popular support. Its members, having learnt no lessons from 2008, decided that it was a good idea to elect a scandal-tainted politician as their President, who was thick-skinned enough to later talk about morality.
7. At a loss for ideas on how to regain support, these zombies resorted to threatening that they would not accept any posts if they lost. But we have yet to see these zombies giving up any posts. They bark at their own people, and wag their tails for their masters.
8. We can only sit and watch bemusedly, at all these lurching, putrefying zombies wearing fancy suits, dining in 5-star hotels, driving expensive cars, and of all things. Not only do dead men can vote, they contest seats!
9. It really may be time to be rid of these zombies.
