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[fakta FFCrew] Kraftangan simbol Negara
Kraftangan simbol Negara
Karftangan adalah produk kebangaan Negara. Produk kebanggan kita sebgai anak Malaysia. Kita harus berbanggan dengan segala bentuk kraftangan yang dihasilkan oleh anak Malaysia. Kraftangan Malaysia terlampau banyak jenis, dari rantai sehingga binaan rumah. Sungguh hebat, kraftangan Malaysia ini.
Jika kita teliti secara halus, kraftangan Malaysia tidak sama dengan Kraftangan yang dihasilkan dari Negara-negara lain seperti China dan Arab Saudi. Kraftangan dari Malaysia adalah kraftangan berunsurkan alam semulajadi. Jika kita lihat kraftangan China pula, ia berusurkan haiwan seperti naga dan kraftangan Arab Saudi adalah berunsurkan corak Islam bersegi. Seperti mana di lihat pembinaan di Masjid-masjid baru.
Apakah langkah kerajaan untuk kraftangan Malaysia?
Alhamdulillah, kerajaan telah mengambil langkah yang drastic untuk memastikan kraftangan Malaysia sampai ke pengetahuan luar Negara. Disamping, dapat meningkatkan ikonomi usahawan Bumiputera yang kebanyakannya terlibat dalam bidang kraftangan ia dapat juga memperkenalkan Malaysia di mata dunia. Sebagai contoh, kerajaan Malaysia telah memperkenalkan kain batik ke Negara-negara luar yang menjadi minat bagi mereka untuk membeli batik. Baru-baru ini, dipetik daripada majalah Kraf kelauran Kraftangan Malaysia edisi Jan – Mac 09 dikabarkan kraftangan Malaysia telah memasuki Harrods, London. Kraftangan Malaysia menjadi tarikan ekslusif disana. Di Malaysia pula, kalau kita lihat perkebangan positif kraftangan Malaysia adalah kita dapat lihat penjualan batik Malaysia di jahit oleh jenama-jenama popular dari Barat seperti John Master dan D’urban. Tapi, saya tidak pasti adakah pasaran batik itu hanya di Malaysia ataupun turut dipasarkan di luar Negara.
Apakah peranan ahli kraf?
Bagi saya, ahli kraf adalah orang yang membuat hasil kraftangan tersebut. Peranan ahli kraf seperti adalah mereka harus reka atau hasilkan sesuatu yang lebih komprehensif dan mudah guna. Supaya, barang yang dihasilkan mempunyai ciri-ciri kemelayuan, selalu dan mudah digunakan.
Kita sebagai pengguna?
Kita haruslah memberi sokongan kepada mereka 100% dengan hasil kraf buatan Malaysia. Tidak perlulah diperkecil-kecilkan benda ini. Kraftangan adalah kebanyakan hasil keluaran Bumiputera. Jadikanlah barangan kraftangan ini sebagai satu barang yang asas anda.
Bagaimana hasil kraftangan Malaysia boleh dipelbagaikan?
Cadangan saya adalah pertama kita gunakan hasil kraftangan nie dalam industri binaan. Dimulakn dengan pembuatan hotel-hotel, bangunan pejabat dan rumah. Ini adalah kerana, rumah hasil kraftangan adalah sangat indah jika pandai “decorate” dan sususan yang teratur. Dan die boleh dipermodenkan dan menjadi rekaan ekslusif. Percayalah, dari binaan boleh dibawa kepada rekaan yang kecil-kecilan.
Cadangan yang kedua adalah kita buat satu landscape berunsur kraf di kediaman rumah atau halaman pejabat. Ini mengindah pemandangan halaman rumah kita
Akhir sekali, jom kita berkunjung ke Hari Kraf Kebangsaan 2009 bertempat di Jalan Conlay Kuala Lumpur dari 19-30 Mac 2009. Untuk maklumat lanjut layari laman web ini http://www.kraftangan.gov.my
[Fakta FFCrew] 9 Reasons people cheat!!
1. Bored
I'd say this is the most common reason that people cheat.It's tough to keep that edge throughout a relationship. Things start off grand and then level off and then you both realize that it's still real life. When you meet someone else, that inaugural excitement of a new relationship kicks back in.
2. Dependence
At first glance, cheating seems like independent behavior. It could be interpreted as doing what you want, when you want. But I would argue that cheating is a dependent behavior. A cheater is dependent because they are not strong enough to break up with their significant other in order to get with the new person.
3. Confusion
Sometimes life or a particular situation can get to you.
When the perfect storm of confusion is
going on in your head, you make mistakes.
4. Because They Let You
If any girl ever cheated on me, I'd break up with her
immediately. Forgiving a cheater is putting up with
it, and starts a vicious cycle. That person who
cheated may lose respect for you and might continue to
cheat-because they know they can get away with it, because
you'll continue to take them back.
5. Nurturing
If someone is mistreating you, then your first instinct is
to get away from him or her. But sometimes it's not that
simple-maybe you are raising kids together. If you feel
trapped in a bad relationship, it's only natural that you
will run to the open arms of a person who treats you well.
6. Revenge
This is quite simple- an eye for an eye. Cheat on them if
they cheat on you. If they continuously hurt you or abuse
you in some way, you do it to get them back.
7. Confirmation of Attractiveness
Sometimes when you're in a long relationship, or if
your significant other is taking you for granted, you
begin to wonder if you're still attractive.
Perhaps, because you were out on the dating circuit, you
felt more attractive when you were single. If you have an
affair, you've proven that a new person can be attracted to
you.
8. The Thrill
Some people just enjoy the thrill of cheating:
running around secretly, risking getting caught, andcreating
thrilling moments with a forbidden romance.
9. They Don't Consider It Cheating, Even Though You
Might
Relationships have that grey area, usually right
before you become exclusive. He thinks date #4 is when
you're "together," and you think date #2 is when you're
"together." If you haven't talked about exclusivity,
someone may think they are well within their rights to see
other people, even though the other person in the
relationship may not.
I don't understand why people don't break up as soon as they
have an urge to cheat. Is it natural to have temptation, or
is temptation a sign that the relationship is losing its
fire? What reasons would you add to this list, and do you
disagree with any? If you've ever cheated, why did you do
it? Could you forgive a cheater? If you are single, but
seeing a person who is in a committed relationship, does
that make you a cheater?
[advise FFCrew] IbuBapa!!! Jom Bersama anak-anak
Ye!! Cuti!!
Fuh, cuti sekolah selama seminggu ini menjadikan pusat pusat pelancongan penuh "book". Sepanjang tempoh cuti juga, jalan raya tidak "jem" lagi kerana ibu bapa bercuti bersama dengan anak-anak mereka. Itu satu tindakan yang positif.
Bagi ibu bapa yang mempunyai kelapangan masa, waktu cuti sekolah inilah, ibu bapa harus sentiasa bersama dengan anak-anak mereka. Bersama dengan anak-anak mereka berjalan-jalan tidak kira dimana sahaja. Tidak bermaksud berjalan-jalan itu hanyalah ke pusat peranginan sahaja, bersama dengan anak-anak berjalan ke pusat membeli-belah juga adalah aktiviti yang digalakkan.
FFCrew team, memang berharap sepanjang musim cuti sekolah ini. Ibubapa meluangkan masa yang lebih kepada anak-anak. Mereka memerlukan pengorbanan dan kasih sayang dari ibu bapa yang mereka cinta.
Jom bercuti!!!!
Kemiskinan Bukan Penghalang Kejayaan
[Fakta FFCrew] Single Session School
Abdullah explained that this would mean that students have to start school at the same time as they are doing now and go home later. Hence parents, especially working parents, would be relieved to know that their children were safe in school where they could be monitored.
How it works
Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom supports this view.
“Students can be supervised better in a single-session system,” he says.
“One of the justifications for the implementation of single-session schools is to reduce incidents of children being left at home alone after school hours.”
According to Alimuddin, the Education Ministry is striving to implement single-session schools throughout the country.
Presently, 6,757 primary schools (88.4%) and 1,392 (63.8%) secondary schools are single-session schools.
The ministry aims to increase the percentage of single-session primary and secondary schools to 90% and 70% respectively by 2010.
A pilot study on single-session schools in Setiu, Terengganu — conducted by the ministry in 2006 — found that schools utilised the extra hours in the afternoon to offer Islamic religious lessons, coaching under the tuition voucher scheme and sports activities.
In addition, the longer hours enabled schools to provide more structured co-curricular programmes that encouraged students to participate actively in clubs, societies and sports activities.
“There are more contact hours between teachers and students,” muses Alimuddin.
“This promotes better student-teacher interaction and schools are able to offer extra lessons in critical subjects, religious studies, Mandarin and Tamil classes.”
Single-session systems are already popular in cluster and private schools in the country.
In general, such schools start like any morning session school, with formal classes ending at around 2.30pm and co-curricular activities, sports and extra classes keeping students in school till 4pm.
Feedback
When quizzed, the majority of students and parents were divided on the issue.
Sue Thong Sei Yin, a remisier by profession, was definitely in favour of single-session schools.
“I have a son in Form Four and a daughter in Form One,” she explains.
“It is much easier for me to send them to school and pick them up at the same time.
“A single-session school allows curricular and co-curricular activities to be carried out during school hours so that students can then go home and enjoy family time together.”
Although she agrees with Thong that single-session schools are convenient, fifth former Shaza Hana Muhd Faisal, 17, says she would opt for a double-session format any day.
“Schooling hours are just too long,” complains the student from single-session school, SMK Puteri Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur.
“My friends in other schools go home at 12.30pm or 1pm, but I have to stay on till 2.30pm.
“I’m involved in Puteri Islam (a uniformed body) and I only get to go home at 4pm some days. This can be very tiring.”
Although many students agree with Shaza, SMK USJ12 Form Five student Denise Leom begs to differ.
Originally a single-session school, SMK USJ12 was converted into a double-session one after a sharp increase in Form One student enrolment.
“The change came when I was in Form Two. Although I now get to go home earlier, I still prefer single-session schools,” she says.
“There was greater school spirit then, and I learnt a lot from the Form Four and Form Five prefects. However, I guess the switch to double sessions was unavoidable.”
Clear benefits
Apart from safety, single-session schools also offer other benefits, as principals of various schools are quick to point out.
“Single-session schools allow for better planning and the optimal use of manpower,” said Sri Kuala Lumpur Primary School principal Tan Khun.
“In a double-session system, lower primary or lower secondary teachers who are qualified to teach their students as they proceed to higher levels can’t do so because the system prevents this.
“However, this kind of continuity is possible in single-session schools.”
SMK (P) Sri Aman principal Alainal Hasani Md Noor also points out that a single-session school fosters greater staff and student solidarity.
“Everyone feels that they are part of the school as there is no separation between morning and afternoon sessions,” she said. “With all students in school at the same time, it is also easier to organise sports and team building activities.
Wesley Methodist School principal Vimala Matthews agrees that there are advantages to single-session schools as students do most academic work in the morning.
“Afternoons are just a bad time to study as the hot weather is not conducive,” she said.
“Many government schools don’t have air-conditioning.”
Challenges
However, Alimuddin admits that implementing a single-session system nationwide will not be easy.
“There are many implications,” he says. “For example, parents will incur more expense as they need to provide extra pocket money for their children’s lunch. The ministry also anticipates a 50% increase in electricity and water usage.
“A single-session system may also cause greater traffic congestion in the mornings and late afternoons, especially in urban areas.”
Alimuddin also highlights several stumbling blocks to implementing a nationwide single-session school system — the lack of suitable land to build new schools in urban areas and the high cost of upgrading and building new school blocks.
“Even if new schools are built, there is no guarantee that parents will be willing to transfer their children there as such schools need to build up their reputation,” he says.
There is also the problem of rising enrolment figures for schools in areas like Kuala Lumpur and Johor, which sometimes result in former single-session schools getting converted into double-session ones.
Maznah (not her real name) is a former principal of one such school in Selangor. Her school became a double-session one after an increase of 300 new students.
“The ministry said that the school was over populated and we had to split into two sessions,” she says. “Many of us teachers were disappointed. We appealed against the decision but were overruled.
“Management of a single-session school is easier,” she adds.
The way forward
Dr Tan is no stranger to when it comes to over-populated schools. He encountered this problem when he was the principal of SMJK(C) Chung Hwa, Kelantan.
With more than 2,000 students and record enrolment every year, bold measures had to be undertaken to ensure that the school’s single-session format could continue.
A believer in the dictum “the sky’s the limit”, Dr Tan and his staff decided to construct three five-storey blocks.
“Yes, space is always a problem, especially for popular urban schools but we can’t use that as an excuse,” he said. “You have to make full use of all available land.
The ministry is of the same mind. Alimuddin feels that the construction of “high rise school blocks” like the eight-storey SMK Cochrane in Kuala Lumpur, may be a possible solution to the lack of land problem.
He also feels that most teaching staff would, in the long run, prefer the single-session system.
“There may be some initial dissatisfaction and adjustments must be made,” he says.
“However, I sincerely believe that teachers will warm up to the idea eventually as they will have more time to prepare for lessons and examine students’ work during school hours.”
Another point worth noting is that while some single-session schools in the Klang Valley have been changed into double-session ones, the reverse has also happened.
“Sri Aman was originally a double-session school but being a cluster school, we had the autonomy to revamp our system and we opted to go single-session after our afternoon supervisor retired,” shares Alainal.
With contributions worth RM1.4mil from the school’s parent-teacher association, a new block was constructed. This contained more classrooms, a meeting room, computer labs and a gym.
“All of us are happy and we hope to remain a single-session school. The students are responding well to the change, and our science students study English Literature and Principles of Accounting after 2.30pm.
“The only ‘problem’ is congestion in the staff room,” says Alainal, with a laugh.