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Hehe.... Once I entered our group blog,,my eyes got 'colour'-shock!!

Since when our blog changes its skin colour,,Kak Zura?? Dani??

Hahaha.... But still,,look nice..... ^^,

But I like PINK colour even more!!! Hahaha XD

Emm...I had read Posts in our blog today,,and I'm so the very are proud with the two of my group members,,Kak Zura and Dani...

Although there's just the two of you there but you guys still could create such an awesome blog post!! I'm felt a bit shame with the both of you.....

I'm so sorry to just left you guys at UPMKB.........to become the victims to write all these posts you have over here.......

You must be tired all this while,,rite?? Hmmmmmmm.....

Congrats Kak Zura and Dani.......... ^^,

Raya 2009 Juz Around the Corner!!!!!!!!

Hmm...... Raya is coming right up, guys!
I want to wish all of you especially to my group members,, Kak Zura and Dani,, and also to our beloved,handsome,Sir Fakhzan,,(cehh.......haha XD) "Selamat Hari Raya,Maaf Zahir dan Batin"...
This year's Raya maybe the last Raya I'm going to celebrate with my beloved family.....
Because for the next3 6 Raya ahead I'm going to celebrate it in 'somewhere' else......
Felt so sad when to think of it......
Huhu..... But at the same time,,I got 'cheerishful' news yesterday from one of my closest friend in UPMKB,,Saki a.k.a Kino............
Hehe..... She said she got offer of furthering her study in Egypt as well.......
In Uni. Al-Azhar......
Better than my offer,,leh....... Hihi.......
And I'm so damn happy about it because at least there is still 'somebody' that I know,,standing on the same land,,same country as me.... Hehehe.....
This year's Raya we are going to celebrate it in Weston....
It is actually my father's village,,dowh......
Hmm.... Ok,,I think I had written enough things now.......
After a too-long-writing-blog-vacation........... Kekeke................
Hope I got hundreds and hundreds of 'Duit Raya' this year!!!!!!!
Yeah!!!!!!!! So,,once again,,HAPPY RAYA all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MAORI

The Polynesians Maori is an ethic people which is found in New Zealand and scientists believe that their first canoe migrates from Hawaiki, the legendary homeland, 1000 years ago and now, they recover over 14% of New Zealand population. They first arrive in Aoteraroa, NZ and live in all over New Zealand but many of them prefer north island more because the climax is much more warmer.

After the Second World War,significant immigration from the Pacific Islands began, and they become more nationals from some specifics island nations that prefer to live in New Zealand rather than their hometown. Their wide variety cultures have combined with others in New Zealand, mostly in South Auckland, forming the new subculture that is separate from the Maori culture. However, Maori cultures Are still famous and being known by world until now.

Māori is an oral culture rich with stories and legends. The Māori creation story describes the world being formed by the violent separation of Ranginui, the Sky Father, and Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, by their children.

Maori is the symbol of uniqueness of culture and art. Dancing,festival. sports, houses, costumes and carving are very synonym with them.Their language and culture has a major impact on all aspects of New Zealand life.

(This canoe's prow is one of the example of the thousands of maori carving which is very well known by world)

The most common figures found in Maori carving are the human figure and the manaia (a bird-like figure), the marakihau (a mermaid figure), the pakake (whale) and the moko (lizard).The preferred wood for carving is totara, a wood which is very durable and soft. Paua shell (an abalone species) is still traditionally used to carve the figure's eyes.

Other than carving, mauri also famous by their music and song. The most popular one is peruperu, a song and that is performed by the army during war in order to give spirit and support for them to concure the war in which they believe that mauri people can concure and controll the death by their own.

"Ka mate! Ka mate!Ka ora! Ka ora!

Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru,

Nana nei i tiki meiI whakawhiti re ra!

Upane! Upane!Upane!

Kaupane!Whiti te ra!''

"It is death! It is death!It is life! It is life!

This is the hairy personWho caused the sun to shine!

One upward step! Another upward step!

One last upward step!

The step forth!Into the sun that shines!"

This peruperu has been adopted by a number of schools and some sporting groups, and is occasionally performed at school rugby matches in New Zealand.

(A mauri greeting-Hongi- practise during festival)

CLASSICAL DANCE OF INDIA

There are many types of dance in India. One of them is Classical Dance. The content of classical dance are usually always spiritual and love to God. Classical Indian dance is the art that required skill , hard work and discipline. Every dance posture has a specific meaning. All Indian dancer describe some expression of life. Themes used in Indian dance are from Indian mythology. Most of the dances include an Indian God couple such as 'Vishnu & Lakshmi' , 'Rama & Sita' and 'Krishna & Radha'. To be a good dancer and performer , they must work hard and practice a lot because Indian dance are very unique and full of expression.

There are six types of Classical Indian Dance such as Kathakali and Mohoni attam from Kerala , Bharata natyam from Tamil Nadu , Kuchipudi from Andhara Pradesh , Odissi from Orissa , Kathak from Uttar Pradesh and Manipuri from Manipur.

Khatakali means story-play. It is an elaborate dance depicting the victory of truth. A striking features of Kathakali is the use of make-up and colourful costumes. This is because to show that the characters are super being from another world and their make-up is easily recognisable. The theme of Mohini attam is love and devotion or loyalty to God. Vishnu and Krishna is most often to be the hero. The basic dance steps are the Adavus which are four kinds such as Taganam , Jaganam , Dhaganam and Sammisram. The Mohini attam dancer used to maintain realistic make-up and wear a simple costumes compared to Khatakali. The dancers are put on beautiful white with gold border Kasavu saree of Kerala with white jasmine flower around at the side of their head.

Mohini attam dance

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Bharata natyam dance has been handed down through the centuries by dance teachers called Devadasis (guru). The training traditionally took around 7 years. So long... And this dance are usually passed down through the generations.

Bharata natyam dance

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Kachipudi is a dance drama that still exist today. Kachipudi is the classical dance form from the South-East Indian state in Andhra Pradesh. It derives its name from the village of Kuchelapuram , a small village about 65 km from Vijaywada. It is known for its graceful movements and its story narrative or dramatic character. It can most closely be associated with the Sanskrit theatrical tradition that knows as Bhagarata Mela Natakam. The actors sing and dance. The style is classical.

Kuchipudi dance

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Odissi is based on the popular devotion to Lord Krishna. The Odissi dancers use their head , bust and torso in soft movement to express specific moods and emotions. The expressions are similar to Bharat natyam. There are a number of characteristics of the Odissi dance. One of the most characteristic features of Odissi dance is the Tribhangi. The concept of Tribhangi divides the body into three parts, head, bust, and torso. Any posture which deals with these three elements is called tribhangi. The mudras are also important. The term mudra means "stamp" and is a hand position which signifies things. The use of mudras help tell a story in a manner similar to the hula of Hawaii.

Odissi dance

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Kathak is north Indian dance. It is bound with classical hindustani music. The Kathak comes from the original Sanskrit word "Khattaka" which means a storyteller. "Katha kahe so kathik kahave" , which means 'one who tells a story is a storyteller'. A woman storyteller was known as "Khatika" and male storyteller "Khataka". These include the epics and mythological stories and added expressions demonstration. The dancers traveled around country to entertained and educate people with legends and mythology.

Kathak dance

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Manipuri is a dance style originally called jogai which means circular movement. Manipuri dance is purely religious and it is spiritual experience. Development of music and dance has through religious festival and daily activities of the Manipuri people. Not only the dance for enjoyment purposes , but for all socio-cultural ceremonies. Manipuri classical dance not only claimed to be softest and mildest but also the most meaningful dance of the world.

Manipuri dance

The classical dance is a unique and interesting to learn. Nowadays , not only Indian learn classical Indian dance but also from another race. We must appreatiate our traditional arts. This is identity or symbol of ethnicsity. We must keep it and passed down through generations.

RADIO INDUSTRY-THE NEXT DEEJAY!

Driving alone without a company surely will make us boring especially when it comes to a traffic jam. Cars seems like not moving even for inches. Stress will surely control the situation. And what we always do to avoid this situation is by turning on the radio. However, besides playing songs, radio is also one of the entertainment media that provides lots of benefits and latest information. In this world of radio broadcasting, there is some talented people that play a big role on attracting listeners. These people are the deejays(DJ)!

Being a successful DJ is not an easy way, where hard work is needed in order to make it real. If you want to be a DJ, you need to start from zero. Here are a few tips for on how to become a good DJ. Firstly, try to understand the real radio broadcasting world by casting a small role such as news writer(prepare the scripts for the news reader in the radio station) first or maybe you can be the music executive first before getting the chance to be a DJ.

Secondly, once you get the chance being a DJ, the radio company will place you in the most hardest and the lowest rating slot such as midnight slot as your first test. Here, you need to work much more harder to catch your boss's heart by performing extremely well. You need to fulfill your slot with the most interesting segment in order to attract your listeners and rise up your rating. After you manage to be dominant among the other hot, senior DJ, I'm sure that you will be promoted for more comfortable slot in which you are now almost half way to your target of being a famous DJ.

The next thing needed to be practice is maintain your reputation and keep doing well and the rest is up to you, how you treat your fans, how you keep your image clean, how you exposes yourself to public and what can you offer to the listeners that will make them remember you hard work. That is the real thing that will award you with success!.........

Skin Colour Discrimination

Colour discrimination occurs when individuals were treated differently than other person who are similarly situated because of their skin. This also can occur race discrimination. It happened when member in the same race are treated differently because of their skin colour. For example , the employer does not hire anyone who skin colour are darker , but does hired light skin or white persons of all races.

In Latin America and Caribbean , discrimination against black people and indigenous people are generally occurs. This situation also happened in America and some other country even the government are trying so hard to solve this issue from overwhelming. However , we can see that the racism level is decreasing and black people are started to be welcomed. For example like the election of President of United State that belong to Barrack Obama , black people.

In Mexico for instant, the Afro-descendant population state that less than two percent of the country's 104 million people. A survey that is published in October 2000 by the Mexico City newspaper El Universal state that 56.6 percent of respondents believed that there was racism in Mexico, while 61.1 percent said that there was discrimination based on the colour of people's skin.

Earlier this year in Ecuador, the government sponsored the First National Survey on Racism and Racial Discrimination. 37,500 people were interviewed, 65 percent believed that there was racism in their country, and 88 percent said that blacks were suffered the worst discrimination.

The studies conducted by the Ministry of Education in Brazil there is the country with the largest number of Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean show's that a 2.2 percent of university students are black, 18 percent are of mixed-race heritage, and the majority, 80 percent are white.

Nowadays,skin colour discrimination should not exist anymore.People shoul be treated same as another. People should respect each other without thinking about skin colour or other thing. In modern era, our mind must be opened. We should consider that every single person have their own potential to be succeed and we should not stop them from being successful just becauce of their skin colour different from each others.

Everyone should be given the same oppurtunity to live peacefully and have the same right in this world no matter who are there or wether there are black skin colour or white skin coloyr.

"The color of a person’s skin, more than their race, is becoming a key cause of racism"