Sunday, February 20, 2011

Birth Order Trait

     Hello readers. How have you guys been doing lately? Awesome? This post is followed the title given, "Birth Order Trait". What would you think of birth order trait? Is it true that the eldest child more responsible, mature, a perfectionist, good leader, high IQ and low self-esteem? Or the middle child which is not an achiever, creative, artistically inclined, often felt neglected and lack of direction? Or the youngest where often get away with anything, not independent and often not taken seriously? For me, all this is not true. It's just a simple made-up condition.

 The simpson family
 
     I'm the middle child myself, and my character is almost the same as the eldest child. I'm more mature than my elder sister, and I could say I'm a good leader in the family when handling anything or a problem. This happen because I'm the only son in the family. I have one older sister, and two little sister. Each of them have a different character. The birth order trait theory is a false. 

     Usually when you're the only son in the family, you got to take responsible on anything happen in your family. For example, when my family had a crisis or a problem, usually I would go and find a way to solve it, unlike my elder sister, she rarely didn't take part in solving any family problem. The point where the middle child is not an achiever, I'm very disagree with it, as a middle child, I'm always going and trying to achieve anything, to proves that I'm better than my elder sister. I'm always racing with my elder sister in getting good grades. When my parents happen to go out or away, they always ask me to take care of my siblings, and this again proves the birth order trait is a false.

      The birth order trait have prove wrong. The character depends on family, where the son is the leader of the family.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

vocaloids 3D concert.

Hello everyone! we meet once again for this 8th entry this week (hmmm... suppose to be 10th actually) but don't worry. we try to make it up somehow. Eventually, we are not trying to discuss on the food topic for this week, but, we would like to share some other things with you all. On our previous topic we have shared with you all on BIG MUFF PI which is a musical instrument gadgets. For this entry also, we would like to discuss on the same genre topic which is vocaloids. I'm sure that a lot of you have never heard of this vocaloids before. What is vocaloids? It is a musical software which is very popular in Japan. Mostly, we know that Japan is famous with sushi and rice ball, and we also know that they are really advance in technology. Vocaloids is a vocal software where the software build a human voice for singing. The co-creator of the vocaloids, YAMAHA, says that the human voice have their limit in singing. But with the software, it build a vocal singing with high range pitch almost like the sound of a flute. With the software, the composer only need to key in the music notes and lyrics and the software start to sing. Because it is a computarize vocal voice, they think (YAMAHA) they need a suitable character to impersonate the voice character. We also know that Japan is so famous with their colourfull anime. So, they build up an anime character to impersonate the voice. Until today, they have almost 8 voice character with different voice gender. The most famous vocaloids is Hatsune Miku.

These are the vocaloids anime character.

 Vocaloids Miku: Hatsune Miku



Hatsune Miku have been a phenomenon in Japan. The vocaloids Miku have been on the top most singer although it just a vocal software. The composer of it songs are mostly the buyers of the software. They made the song and post it online or share it with other vocaloids user since the software supported internet connection and connected with other vocaloids saoftware user. Until today, the YAMAHA have collected more than 100 songs from 1000 plus songs that have been created to commercialize them. With a lot of fans around the world the YAMAHA Production have announce the tour concert for the vocaloids in Japan. Most question from fans ask how are they going to bring the concert live. Once again the Japanese leads the most advance technology today with hologram 3D with 360 degree view and the first technology in the world.  


 

The Hologram 3D concert was a success and a lot of fans around the world want them to visit their country. Who knows maybe hologram will be part of our life in future like we see Iron Man movie.  What do you guys think of it? share it with us.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Big Muff Pi

Hello people! As you can see on our blog, every post we always talk about food, but today I'll be telling you somethings that is not about food!! :) I will talk about the "Big Muff Pi". I just bought it last week, and it was an awesome gadget! Cant wait to use it for another gig.

Probably a lot of you was wondering, what is this Big Muff Pi actually?? It is actually a gadget for guitar and bass. There are different types of Big Muff, there are Big Muff Pi (USA version), Big Muff Pi (Russian version), Little Big Muff Pi, Double Muff, Big Muff With Tone Wicker and others. The one that i just bought was the Big Muff Pi (USA version). Its quite similar with the Russian version, just the Russian version quiet hard to find nowadays.

  Big Muff Pi (Russian version)


Big Muff Pi (USA version)

The USA version is the classic distortion that countless rock guitar legend, like Hendrix and Santana, relied on for its rich, creamy violin-like sustain. A timeless piece. The Big Muff Pi has defined the sound of rock guitar for over 30 years. From Pink Floyd to the White Stripes, everyone got to have this piece of Pi! I already got one, and I'm using it for both of my bass and guitar. Cant wait for the next gig to use it!!


p/s: do you know why it is call "BIG" Muff? Because its big! Maybe its about a size of my face.




Monday, February 7, 2011

Do you think we should give monetary incentives to the KP2 students to motivate them to get better grades?

Hello again dear followers. I bet sure lots of you are already at home right now having your holiday?? For this post, we would like to discuss from the topic given, "Do you think we should give monetary incentives to the KP2 students to motivate them to get better result grades"

         
Studying has been getting hard every day. Most of the time studying will get a student getting board weather in classes or study time. So, that is why a lot of student are failing in subjects they were taken. This thing rather happened in school and mostly would happen when they are in university. When they fail, they got to repeat the subject. On the other hand, failing subjects in university will affect their cumulative grade pointer average or CGPA. With a lower CGPA it is affecting their education loan and pocket money. This will give more burdens to the students for having money problems while facing with study problem. Should they be given monetary incentives to the KP2 students to motivate them to get better grades? 

In our opinion, there are good and bad by giving money to motivate the KP2 students to get better grades in their study. Meanwhile, money itself is important as it should be depending on what way it is used. If the KP2 students used the money to buy reference books, this will sure help them in study. But, if it is vice versa, than there are no benefits come from that money. Let’s look on the good site of giving money to students. A psychologist test showing that a person is getting motivated and inspired when they were given a token or gift. In this case, by giving monetary incentives, they are surely exited and would strive hard to achieve it. 

Moreover, not all the students are brilliant to achieve great result. Some are a slow learner and need incentives practise to overcome their weaknesses. So with another chance given, they will prove themselves that they are good. Some of the student probably achieved good pointer after given another chance. To achieve a great CGPA, the KP2 student needs a hard work done in the fourteen week of study time. They would probably have a moral down issue after getting such result. By giving them the intensive money should give them a kick start to achieve better result in the future. 

But, there are also negative views of giving the monetary incentives to the KP2 students. Eventhough they achieved good result, they achieved it because of the prize given. In the end, they did not learn anything from the class they attend. Besides the attitude of the student that should affect their score in study. If they were being motivated with money, soon they only did things and work for money. They could even try bribes. These will create bad culture within citizens.

Giving them money incentives also could lead these students to enjoy with the money they get. As stated in the first paragraph, KP2 student does not receive any pocket money or tuition fees from the lender. On the other hand, they can recover back their money as soon as they get better result for the coming semester. If the universities intend to give them money even for a hundred ringgit, they would use it for enjoyment. Living live as students sure got a lot of challenge to be face. But not all of them are capable to live life they want. 

As for conclusion, giving the KP2 student monetary incentives give both the good and bad views. But the most important things to get the KP2 students having a better result is by teaching them the attitude to study. Only then they would understand the important of study and the benefits they get for the future. Besides, experience is the best teacher where they learn their weakness in study and how to overcome it by studying SMART and HARD and not by getting money.