2• Menjaga suara. Latih diri bercakap dengan nada yang lembut, tidak sengau atau suaranya terlalu kuat. Jangan menjerit jika tidak perlu. Panggil dengan cara baik, dan dekat dengan orang lain.
3• Menjaga cara berkata-kata. Biasakan menggunakan perkataan yang melambangkan keluhuran budi seperti 'tolong' serta 'minta maaf'. Jangan gunakan perkataan yang terlalu beremosi seperti bosan, sakit hati, menyampah, benci dan sebagainya kerana ia akan menyebabkan muka jadi berkerut dan masam.
4• Menjaga kulit. Kebersihan sentiasa dijaga. Makanan yang berupa ulam-ulam yang wangi serta sayuran dan buah-buahan segar patut selalu dimakan, jadikan ini rutin. Gunakan sabun yang tidak merosakkan kulit.
5• Menjaga muka. Tangan perlu sentiasa bersih dan lembut. Jangan gunakan bedak yang bukan-bukan. Selalu menggunakan bedak sejuk untuk menjaga kulit muka
9• Menjaga cara berberjalan. Latih cara berjalan. Jauhi dari berjalan mengengkang atau tangan terlalu dihayun. Langkah jangan terlalu besar. Berjalan jangan terlalu laju. Badan jangan terlalu membongkok atau tegak (tongek). Leher jangan terteleng (senget sebelah). Muka elok ditundukkan sedikit.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Rahsia Gadis Mengekalkan Keayuan
Manfaat Bercouple....
1) Seronok (dapat fitnah)
hiasan sahaja*
2) Seronok (dapat dosa)
3) Seronok (dapat geng dgn syaitan)
4) Dapat luahkan segala masalah (ALLAH kan ada)
5) Banyak habis duit (lebih baik guna utk bersedekah)
6) Banyak risau (takut awek orang lain kebas.... berapa kali dah miss sembahyang pasal dok asyik berdating tak risau)
7) Banyak termenung dan senyum sendiri (pasal ingat peristiwa riang dgn awek... kita sebagai muslim patutnya banyak mengingatkan MATI yg boleh datang bila-bila masa).
8) Lebih mengutamakan awek drp orang lain (hidup dlm dunia sendiri, dia dan awek dia.... lain dah tak kisah ).
9) Menepati masa dan janji (takut awek marah/sakit hati...... sembahyang fardu lewat tak takut pulak, sampai sanggup gadai body kene tebuk, last2 xkawin gak )
10)Lain2 lagi yang memberikan faedah dlm menambah saham DOSA drp saham PAHALA
hiasan sahaja*
1) Banyak sekolah/pusat pengajian campur i.e. perempuan dan lelaki satu kelas tanpa ada usaha drp pihak yg bertanggungjawab untuk mengawal percampuran ini supaya tidak bercanggah dgn syarak.
2) Pekara ini sudah jadi kebiasaan maka didapati ada pendapat (tak tahu le dalil mana dia guna) mengatakan tak apa ber'couple' asalkan tak melanggar batas2 syarak..... Nauzubillah. Pada pendapat mereka keluar buat date kat khalayak ramai, bukanya berduaan ditempat sunyi, tak pegang tangan, jalan pun tak rapat2 dan si awek tu pula pakai tudung.... so tak pe le dosa pun sikit je. Nanti dah kahwin settle dan taubat le.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
2012
2012 Phenomenon Myths of the Near Future?
The release of the new Roland Emmerich Hollywood blockbuster ‘2012’ has brought fresh fervour to Internet geeks and astrological scholars alike, both of whom might have a keen interest in the prophesised events of December 21, 2012, although most likely for different reasons. The end of the world predictions for 2012 stem from the belief that at the conclusion of the 5,125 year-long Mayan long count calendar, which coincides with December 21, 2012 in our Gregorian calendar, there will be some sort of earth-shattering event or a series of events that will bring about the destruction of mankind.
The basis for these doomsday predictions appears to have some slightly thorny origins. The December 2012 date is connected to the conclusion of a time cycle in an ancient Mesoamerican calendar that began its countdown somewhere around 3114 BC. This starting point is when the ancient Maya people believed the previous world ended and a new one (the current one) began. The modern day interest in all this can be traced back to the late 1950s when Maud Worcester Makemson, an archaeoastronomer (someone that studies ancient astronomy and its sociological implications) noted that the end of this time cycle would have had great significance for the ancient Maya people. This idea was further developed by an American anthropologist called Michael Coe. In his book The Maya Coe claimed that some ancient Mayan writings suggested that the end of the long count calendar on December 21, 2012 marked the end of the world, Armageddon, doomsday!
There are a number of issues with these theories that should be noted however. Firstly, many scholars argue that in classical Maya literature there are conflicting accounts of what the end of the long count calendar might actually signify, and very few sources suggesting that it might mean an end of world scenario like the one interpreted by Micheal Coe. Secondly, the countdown was calculated differently from one Mayan city-state to another, so the precise date of the conclusion of the Mayan long count calendar is far from clear. It is also interesting that modern decedents of the ancient Maya people place little or no significance on the date December 21, 2012. Also, the ancient Maya scribes wrote about events that were set to take place after the date corresponding to December 21, 2012, so at least some of them did not predict the end of the world to take place on that date. Furthermore, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that either the end of the long count or its somewhat arbitrary beginning a little over 5000 years ago, have any scientific significance whatsoever.But there are even more grand things going on in our picture of the end of the world cataclysm predicted for December 2012. Our doomsday prophecy puzzle also incorporates the idea of a significant galactic alignment that just happens to coincide with the 2012 winter solstice in December 2012, meaning the galaxy itself is conspiring against us. An American author called John Major Jenkins, who has written extensively about the Mayan culture and its relation to New Age mysticism suggests that the ancient Maya knew of this galactic alignment of planets and stars, and that this was part of their calendar countdown. However his claims, which relate to where in the sky the zodiacal constellations appear, would have had more credence in 1998 when the alignment he talks about was more precise than it will be in 2012.
No end of the world predictions would be complete without a little input from the most famous seer of them all, practically a by-word for futurology, none other than Nostradamus himself. While there are many accounts that can be found floating around the Internet, which say Nostradamus predicted the end of the world in 1997 or was it 1999, or even 2012, none of them are able to say conclusively what the predictions really were, and clearly some of them were just plain wrong, since we are still here. This is mainly because Nostradamus wrote in such an archaic language, mixed with mysticism and metaphor, no one really knows for sure what his precise meaning was in many of his predictions. In any case, most experts agree that if he did set a date for our demise it is somewhere in the late 38th century, so we should be OK for at least our lifetimes.
As well as the better known, or at least more talked about end of the world predictions, there is also a theory that a massive geomagnetic reversal is on the cards in 2012. This involves the magnetic poles and the Earth’s magnetic field completely reversing. Scientists in this area do agree that the Earth is long overdue such a reversal, and end of the world theorists have tied this into the predicted peaks in solar flare activity that are due in 2012, which could theoretically affect the Earth’s magnetic field. However experts are keen to point out that geomagnetic reversal is not something that would simply ‘start one day’. The process takes several thousand years and is not necessarily triggered by solar activity. What is more, the original predictions of a peak in solar activity in 2012 have now been put back to 2013.Perhaps the most bizarre end of the world prophecies centres on the mysterious Planet X, which was once thought by scientists to be the tenth outlying planet in the solar system. However, later evidence proved that the perceived gravitational effects of Planet X were actually miscalculations, and that it actually never existed. Not to be put off by mere evidence, New Age thinkers, most notably Nancy Lieder, adopted the planet and re-named it Nibiru, claiming that it she had information that its orbit would take it right by the Earth somewhere around 2010, creating geomagnetic polar shifts that cause absolute devastation across the world, wiping out most of humanity. Incidentally, Lieder’s predictions are based on information she was given through an implant in her brain from aliens living in the Zeta Reticuli star system, honestly.
Philosophy & Theology Living Like There's No Tomorrow
The concept of the end of the world has fascinated human beings for thousands of years, and is certainly no less of a fascination in the modern world, particularly with the impending 2012 doomsday predictions filtering into the global consciousness via Internet chatter, press hype and Hollywood blockbuster movies. But perhaps it was inevitable that no sooner had our ancestors begun to grapple with the notion of their own mortality, they would soon start to imagine the end of world scenarios that might befit all of humanity, so beginning our passion for prophecy and our predilection for prediction!
Cultures, societies and individuals right across the globe, and throughout history, have made predictions about the end of the world, often met with a mixture of derision and amusement. But the recognition of our own mortality is part of what it means to be human, and knowing that one day we will cease to be is perhaps the only universally shared human condition. So is this shared condition the basis for our fascination with the end of the world? Perhaps it is, but many other aspects of society and culture have certainly played their part in doomsday predictions, not least of which are the world’s major religions.
The study of end of the world scenarios is known as eschatology, from the Greek Eschatos, meaning ‘last’ and the suffix ‘ology’, meaning ‘study of’. It is a branch of philosophy and theology that deals with the ultimate destiny of the human race, and takes account of the various religious and mystical approaches to the question of what might happen to us all. A theme common to the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) involves the idea of Armageddon, an epic battle of good versus evil, often believed to be around the time of a second coming of a major prophet, resulting in a very fiery and final end to the world as we know it.
In Eastern religions such as Hinduism, it is thought that we are currently in a cosmological ‘age of darkness’, and that human beings have witnessed a gradual decay in the moral and social fibres that bind us together. This will eventually lead to our destruction at the hands of Shiva, the ‘Auspicious One’, also known as Rudra, ‘The Destroyer’. However, like other Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Hindus believe in a cyclical view of time and the cosmos, which means that our fate at the hands of Shiva is merely one instance in a never ending cycle of creation and destruction that happens over and over for all eternity.
Recently some of the beliefs and mysticism surrounding the ancient Mayan society have returned to the fore as we come toward to end of the 5,125 year-long Mayan long count calendar. It was the creation of the Maya people, whose society was established around 2000BC in what is now southern Mexico and Central America. The calendar counts down to a date that corresponds closely with December 21 in the year 2012, according to our modern Gregorian calendar. It is thought to be the date on which a significant change or event will take place on a global scale. Some interpretations of this have taken it as prophesy of the end of the world.
In addition to the religious standpoints, many great independent thinkers have pondered the end of world possibilities and their significance to the way we ought to live. The events of doomsday are inexorably linked to certain schools of thought such as the philosophy of history, which take the events of the end of the world to be important in defining our understanding of history and its significance at the level of the individual, society and the whole of humanity.
From a psychological perspective, people who are aware of their own impending demise through illness or old age are faced with the ultimate mystery of human existence. And while some find solace in religion and thoughts of what may come, ultimately the expectation of anyone on their deathbed is that other lives at least will continue to be lived after they are gone, and therefore they will be remembered in some form or other. The end of the world is a completely different set of circumstances for the human psyche to deal with, and can only be comprehended if you begin to imagine the incredible and frightening realisation of its events.
The prophecy and prediction of the end of the world can bring about the sort of self-fulfilling psychology that we associate with doomsday cults, where groups of people prophesise cataclysmic events and are often characterised by suicidal tendencies or violent behaviour towards others. The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God is one such example. Formed in Uganda in the 1980s, its leaders predicted the end of the world to occur in the year 2000. When their predictions did not come about, the cult leaders proceeded to murder members of the movement by poisoning, starting fires and even strangulation. In all it thought over 750 people were killed when the predicted apocalypse failed to emerge and caused dissention among the ranks.
In culture and art, the end of the world has been a subject for artists for centuries. A ‘Doom’ was the mediaeval term for a painting depicting the events of judgement day in Christian eschatological belief, and several examples of Dooms are still in existence, including the ‘Last Judgement’ by Fra Angelico, a panel painting from the late 14th century that now sits in the Museo di San Marco in Florence. In literature an entire genre known as apocalyptic fiction has sprung up to tell tales of nuclear extermination, natural disasters and suchlike, some of which have inspired popular films. Songwriters have also made reference to the end of the world, with the most obviously example being REM’s It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).
Apocalyptic Fiction A Disaster Movie Waiting to Happen
The end of the world is not only a topic for interesting philosophical debate; it has also proved an excellent subject for artists, fiction writers and film-makers to play on some of our most deep-seated fears about our place in the universe. The attraction of end of world scenarios is that they let the artist’s imagination run wild, giving them free rein to paint, write or film the destruction of humanity from an almost god-like perspective. But, early artistic depictions of the end of the world may have been slightly less immodest in their creation, such as the 14th and 15th century Doom paintings.
Mediaeval ‘Doom’ paintings represent various examples of artwork depicting Armageddon at the hands of God. Most were inspired by the Bible’s Book of Revelation, which can be viewed as a prime example of apocalyptic writing. The paintings were typically allegorical reverence to God’s authority over mankind showing a fire and brimstone end to our existence on the day of judgement. Although the 20th century was perhaps less well-known for its apocalyptic art, it was certainly the period in which apocalyptic fiction writing flourished. While the genre (sometimes considered a sub-genre of science fiction) has its roots in ancient Judaic and Babylonian mythology, the latter half of the 20th century was when it really took off.
One of the earliest examples of apocalyptic fiction was Mary Shelley’s The Last Man. Written in 1826 (8 years after Shelley’s most famous novel, Frankenstein), it tells the story of plague that wipes out humanity at the end of the 21st century. The 1898 publication of H. G Wells The War of the Worlds was another landmark moment in end of the world fiction, and it went on to inspire numerous TV and film adaptations as well as the famous Orson Wells radio broadcast. At the end of the Second World War, the tense cold war period that emerged in its place, with its perpetual threat of nuclear annihilation, brought about a golden age of apocalyptic fiction. The cold war inspired such notable additions to the canon as; Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, The Last Ship by William Brinkley and many others, which as well as illustrate the stark reality of a nuclear war, also tell of the bleak aftermath, in what came to be known as post-apocalyptic fiction – the sub-sub-genre that is perhaps even more terrifying.
The usual topics for apocalyptic fiction are quite simple and easily conceivable ideas, and therefore all the more disturbing when they are presented as a means to our own end. As well as nuclear holocaust, pandemic disease and natural disasters occur again and again in stories about the end of the world. Steven King’s The Stand combines the apocalyptic horror of a plague with some of the earliest apocalyptic ideas presented in The Book of Revelation. Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend follows a similar theme of disease causing the end of the world as we know it, replacing a decimated human population with zombie-like creatures that hunt the few remaining humans at night. Such was the success of the novel that it was turned into a film on at least three separate occasions, most recently in 2007, in Will Smith’s film of the same name.
Throughout the history of Cinema, the end of the world and post apocalyptic fiction has provided screen writers with no shortage of material. From dystopian visions of future society after some cataclysmic occurrence, to all-out annihilation by natural (or unnatural) disaster, the end of the world is a movie maker’s goldmine. Sometimes, a series of disaster movies come along at the same time, such as the 1998 release of both Armageddon, starring Bruce Willis, and Deep Impact, with Morgan Freeman and Elijah Wood among the cast. It is no small coincidence that these two films, both with plots involving a massive object heading straight for the Earth, were released just before the millennium. This was a time when people were already building up the paranoia about everything from the Y2K bug to any number of end of the world prophecies relating to Mayan calendars(again), objects from outer space, aliens, earthquakes and war.
NASA scientist has recently condemned the idea that the world is about to come to a sticky end after receiving more than 1000 enquiries from worried members of the public, some of whom had seen promotional material for the latest Emmerich film on the Internet. Dr. David Morrison says he has even had teenagers claiming they would rather commit suicide than witness the end of the world, which according to Dr. Morrison proves that the film’s viral promotions on the Internet and TV are ethically wrong, given that there is no scientific basis for any of it. But what it also shows is that, unlike other film genres that aim to keep us on the edge of our seat, end of the world disaster films have an alarming psychological hold over us, which is strong enough to push us right off our seats into a state of extreme paranoia and fear. It also seems that while there is still a few days, hours or minutes left of existence in which to make some money, someone somewhere will be trying to make it. So if the end of the world finally does come in 2012, expect street vendors to be flogging 2 for 1 deals on “I was at the end of the world and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” t-shirts.
Oakley Frogskins
The sunglasses shown here are not truly vintage, they fall more into the category of "Retro" as they are a newly manufactured version of a classic Oakley design from the 80s using the original tooling. The Frogskins have a simple shape similar to the Ray Ban Wayfarer in design and with a touch of the classic Persol "keyhole" under the bridge. The new Frogskins come in a variety of lenses and frame combinations ranging from clear to "glow in the dark" frames. The pair shown here have brilliant fire iridium mirrored lenses to make them really stand out.
