A best word for your life

Why don't you want to do what you know you should do?
The reason you don't is that you're in conflict with yourself
by Tom Hopkins

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness
by Chinese Proverbs

When you enjoy what you do,
You'll never have to work a day in your life
by Confucius

All teachers make footprint on a student's life,
some just make a deeper one than others
by Caitlin B

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it.
We learn only from failure
by Kenneth Boulding

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation.
Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are
by John Wooden

Japanese Kid Dance : Star King

Hei guys, look what I have found yesterday in Youtube! It's simply amazing those kids dancing in a various dance like Hip-hop, Pop-in, Jazz and many more. The opening had attracted me to watch their skill full dance and what amazing is ... they are a girl and just 10 and 12 years old!! Get this link in every pictures I upload here. By the way, they danced just like a boy, and I hope they are boys but they are girls when they said that " Watashitachi wa on-na". Let us check it out those pictures :

Dance with DBSK/Tohoshinki in Mirotic!! They are so cute

She said "Pop-in"

Opening or intro for them coming to this Korean show, Star King. They are really Kawaii!

At the end, I reflect myself about Japan..they are eager and very hardworking in everything they do. From the way those kids dance, I can see that they like to dance and they do it without any grumble. I respect them so much to these innocent child. That's what I wanted to share and perhaps...we can be like them too...do what we want...and do with a high commitment and a little dream will be come true if we are hardworking! Aja - aja fighting! ^^

National Manga Competition!

Hey, to all Malaysian's art lovers, come on join this competition! After Gempakstarz have closed date for the Manga Competition, why don't we try this one?! Who knows if you are the best one? the great one? the true Manga-ka? and anything can happen when we try! I'm not give-up easily with my fate! I wanted to try to draw manga too! So, what we are waiting for! Join now before it is going to close : 09 October 2009 - You have 1 month to go after Merdeka Celebration!

And hehe...Happy Independence Day to all Malaysian ^^ - 1 Malaysia "Rakyat didahulukan, Pencapaian diutamakan". So, wish you all who join this competition a luck and never give-up! Try...Just try!! ^^

School president is a maid-cafe?!

May be all of you may got shock of the title above, am I right? Ne? ^^ There is nothing special thing to do today so I catch this time to share with you a story about a School president working as a maid-cafe after school's activities. So, I read this story from One_manga and in Japanese, this title pronounce as "Kaichou wa maid-sama". I confess this manga is really fun to read and I know, most of the student in Japan will doing a part-time job for earning money to keep on life. How ever, working part-time is forbidden as I knew it from Japanese drama but live for life over is getting tough and tough. So, if you read this manga, you will know how those the characters work and the Kaichou is really attracting my sight to think more of what she does. Before we click direct to the link, just let me introduce the manga-ka and also the genre :

Manga-ka : Fujiwara Hiro

Genre : Comedy, romance, school-life & Shoujo
Synopsis : Ayuzawa Misaki is the student council president of the former all-boy school, Seika High School. In order to protect the girls, she battles the boys everyday. On the other hand, she secretly works at a "Maid Cafe". But a popular boy from school, Usui Takumi, found out! Living in between the double identity of a Maid and a student council president~What should we do Goshujin-sama!?

* To read further, please click direct to the picture ^^
* Arigato-na

Simple Japanese cuisine : Okura recipe

Hey, I found this recipe in someone's blog and it is an interesting article to be follow. Well, Okura recipe in English mean is "Lady-finger recipe". When I look the picture, it is well prepared and you may also think that it is an easy recipe to do. So, let us try this recipe out!Here are the procedure that were need for this recipe. Good luck!

1. First off, boil Okura(Lady-finger) in water for 1 minute or less than that. (Do not boil them too long.)
2. Then cut off the top &and the bottom part of Okura.
3. Just roll Okura with sliced pork and fry them on the pan with a little bit of oil, season them with salt & pepper, and finally put Ponzu over them when you eat.















* Ponzu ~ Is a mixture of soy sauce and vinegar. Well, much better description is from Wikipedia.
The picture above tells us about its look.Very simple and easy cooking. ~ごちそうさま Gochisousama~

1000 word by Yuumei

This flash was made by Yuumei and I found out this flash video in her web. I took the picture and put in here because I like to watch her drawing, graphic, color effect and also the flash. Its really attracted me. Keep it up Yuumei ^^. Well, if you also minat at her drawing, you can go to the above link (deviantART). She drawn this drawing in Paint tool SAI, texture and editing done in Photoshop, web comic programming done in Macromedia Flash. You can further read this comment on her column (Artist's comment) by clicking the picture above. May all of you enjoy read the flash

Kadazanese culture

The Kadazan are an ethnic group of indigenous to the state of Sabah or Borneo. They are found mainly on the west coast of Sabah, the surrounding locales, and various locations in the interior. Due to similarities in culture and language with the Dusun ethnic group, and also because of other political initiatives, a new unified term called "KadazanDusun" was created. Collectively, they form largest ethnic group Sabah.Kadazan culture is heavily influenced by the farming of rice (Usually will celebrating Harvest Festival in the middle of May), culminating in various delicacies and alcoholic drinks prepared through differing home-brewed fermentation processes. Tapai and Lihing are the main rice wine variants served and consumed in Kadazan populated areas, and are a staple of Kadazan social gatherings and ceremonies.

The most important festival of the Kadazans is the Ka'amatan or Harvest Festival, where the spirit of the paddy is honoured after a year's harvest. This takes place in May, and the two last days of the month are public holidays throughout Sabah. During the celebration, the most celebrated event is the crowning of the 'Unduk Ngadau' or harvest queen, where native Kadazan & Dusun girls throughout the state compete for the coveted crown. The beauty pageant is held to commemorate the spirit of 'Huminodun', a mythological character of unparalleled beauty said to have given her life in exchange for a bountiful harvest for her community.

In marriages, dowries are paid to the bride's family and an elaborate negotiation is arranged between the groom and bride's families. As a traditional gesture of politeness and civility, the dowry is metaphorically laid out with match sticks on a flat surface, with a representative from each side pushing and pulling the sticks across a boundary to denote the bargaining of the dowry. Dowries traditionally consisted of water buffaloes, pigs, sacks of rice and even urns of Tapai. Modern dowry negotiations also include cash and land ownership deeds. Kadazan women from the Papar and Penampangand Dusun women from Tambunan and Tuaran areas are widely regarded to have the most expensive dowries.

While it is traditionally customary for Kadazans to marry within a village or a neighbouring village, a change of xenophobic attitudes over the past few decades has eased the difficulty once associated with inter-racial marriage. The Kadazans have a particularly good affinity with the local Chinese and this has resulted in the coinage of the term Sino-Kadazan, which is a phrase used to describe the half Kadazan, half Chinese offspring of such unions. Due to the overwhelming Christian influence, the Kadazan people place their Pagan with Christian. However, to keep this culture alive, some of them still keep on doing their believe such as " Bobohizan" and " Bambarion".

Eventhough I am half Chinese and half Kadazanese, I realize that I must appreciate both of the cultures and must respect both of my cultures. I think both of my cultures have their own believe and I must follow both of the cultures' rules. I hope this cultures will never gone as our ancestors keep it alive. The next generation must give respect like keep this culture ongoing. That is how we appreciating and give respect to our own culture despite this global day make changes on the people nor the atmosphere.