Acrophobia

Acrophobia is defined as the fear of heights. Unlike any other specific phobia like aerophobia (fear of flying), and other specific phobias, acrophobia can cause a person to fear for variety of things related to being far from ground. Depending on the phobia's severity, an acrophobic person may equally fear being on a high floor of a building or simply climbing a ladder.

The Story behind Medusa

Familiar with the name “Medusa”? I bet some of you recognized this Greek Gorgon, or monster, who have the hair of vicious snake. But have you know about the story how Medusa was exist? There are many versions of Medusa, but what I have always interested is that Medusa originally was a beautiful maiden, daughter of the ancient marine deities Phorcys and his sisterto from an archaic world (Yes, those Gods married their own relatives).

Even though she has been recognized as a monster since born, people of Greek also recognized her beauty. Certain version told that the ravishingly beauty was certainly faithful to Athena and live at the Athena's temple. But, Poseidon (the God of Sea) who attracted to her, raped her. Although she has begged Athena to save her, there no answer to her prayer. And worse of all, Athena felt disgusted and enraged, transforming her beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn onlookers to stone (or maybe they were mesmerized by her beauty and turned to stone, meh~)


More interesting facts is that after Perseus beheaded her using the sword from Hephaestus and Hades's helm of invisibility, a Pegasus, winged horse and Chrysaor, a golden sword-wielding giant sprang from her body. Both of them was believed to be Poseidon's children after he raped her. Other versions revealed that both Poseidon and Medusa were both in love and lovers, and Athena, who were enraged with Medusa whom always boasting about her beauty, turned her into the monster everyone known about.

Cause & Effect of Bullying

    Most people know that bullying is wrong. Calling someone names has absolutely no beneficial purpose. Moreover, hitting someone makes a bully feel good in the moment while doing permanent damage to the person being victimized. With the Internet, people now have even more opportunities to bully through cyberbullying. This includes sending crude pictures, posting fake web pages, or tweeting slanderous messages. Cyberbullying has subsequently led to a rise in a completely new kind of bullying.

    One of the effects of bullying is that it can change the victim’s personality. It can cause people who are normally confident and happy to become self-conscious, shy, and unsure. Additionally, victims of bullying may also become sad or depressed. Their confidence might completely disappear, keeping them from trying new things or trusting people. Once a person has been bullied, they may hesitate to participate in situations where he or she might be ridiculed, such as in public speaking or in sports. A bullying victim might even begin to possess previously absent anxious behavior.

    Despite all the negative effects of bullying, there are even far more serious consequences. People who have been bullied sometimes become so upset, scared, or depressed that they see no worth in themselves and no way out of their torment. There have been countless reports over the past few years of students committing suicide because they were bullied. 

    Meanwhile, there are times when victims see no recourse but to seek revenge by serious acts of violence against the bully and instigators. As a result of bullying, people can lose their ability to love and trust, denying them the chance to experience a quality relationship later in their life. They might find themselves as a submissive partner or they may want to be completely alone. Compounding all of these problems, victims often develop eating disorders, begin to self-injure, or require extensive counseling. Social bullying can also leave people without a supportive group of friends that they can lean on and spend time with.

    Another unfortunate consequence of this is that bullying is often cyclical. People who have been bullied can, in an attempt to gain their power and self-esteem back, become bullies themselves. In relation to this, bullies who are not confronted or stopped may find themselves in future positions where they can bully as adults. This is where manipulative bosses and child abusers come from.

    Aside from its long-term effects, some consequences of bullying can be seen and felt immediately. When one child calls another child names, the victim might cry and a bruise might appear after a punch to the arm. However, some effects of bullying are not always obvious to the naked eye. The results of bullying might grow and appear over time, damaging a person in profound ways for the long term. There are so many effects of bullying that they are impossible to count or predict. This is why it is so important to stop bullying.

Meet Nick Bateman

Hot boys always have the attention. Especially when they were almost successful. I've known him (not logically, but in the internet) him as a model after he appear several time on my tumblr dashboard. Meet Nick Bateman - model, actor, producer and a martial artist. 

Born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada on November 18, 1986 with the name NIcholas Kevin Stanley Yunge-Bateman, started practicing karate at the age 4 with the dream of becoming the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. While the dream didn't pan out, many others did for this four time Martial Arts World Champion, International model, television and film star.

In 1999, he focus on martial arts when he begancompeting at the world level. At just 17 years old, he was induced into the WKU Hall of Fame as Competitor of the Year and won two Sport Martial Arts Viewer's Choice Awards. He then began performing in televised martial arts events using weapons and choreographed fight scenes with Sideswipe, a performance team that combines martial arts with dance and gravity-defying acrobatics. 

He then competed at the 2004 ESPN International Best of the Best Martial Arts competition in Miami where he placed second against 10 world champions. While competing at the event, a Model Universe competition happened to be held at the same venue. As a joke, his friend signed him up and ended up placing fifth out of 100 models. His modeling career took him to Milan, Germany, New York and Miami. Since then, Bateman has graced the covers of over 100 New York times bestselling Harlequin novels (Hey, that's why he looked familiar! I read those!)

         

In 2006, he shifted focus and moved to British Columbia to take a business program at Capilano University in Vancouver. Upon graduating in 2008, he moved back to his hometown of Burlington and opened his own karate school called Bateman Martial Arts Academy. He continued to model on the side and became the face of FILA Canda for the 2010-2012 campaigns. He also starred in few film and to this days, still acts as mentor to his international martial arts weapon students, most notably Trace Megellas who now holds 14 World Titles and will be opening his own Karate School next year in Dallas, Texas.

       

For more interesting fact, you can visit his own website

Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) was established on 16 February 1984 under the Universiti Utara Malaysia 1984 Order (Statutory). The university was corporatised on 23 April 1998. The university is located in Sintok, Kedah and was established with the specific mission of providing a leadership role for management education in the country. Thus, the university is also known as a management university.

For more information, you can visit UUM Official website.

Everyone can be happy~

Dracula Untold, should we watch it or not?

I am always the big fan of paranormal and action movies (except twilight). And after watching Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug last year, I was totally into Luke Evans and when the trailer of Dracula Untold came out, I was ecstatic. So when it came out last week, I decided to watch it with my siblings. And guess what? 

I am dissappointed.

From what I've been told, Dracula Untold was based on Vlad the Impaler, or known as the original vampire. We Malaysian also have a mythical character similar to Vlad, we know him as Raja Bersiung. The king was known as the person who accidentally drank his maid blood in his food, ending up killing prisioner just so to have his thirst for blood.

In the other hands, Vlad the Impaler, or the Prince of Wallachia was from Romania. Vlad and his younger brother, Radu the Handsome has been sent to Andrianople, to appeased the sultan. He was known as Kazıklı Bey (Sir Impaler) by the Ottoman Empire after their armies encountered his "forests" of impalement victims. Since child, he and Radu has been trained as a soldier to fought the enemy of Turkey and each time he killed, he have this 'fascinating' ideas of impale his victims on a stick. So, yeah, that's why he was called Vlad the Impaler. 

(taken from http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Vlad)

Thousands were often impaled at a single time. Ten thousand were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu in 1460. In 1459, on St. Bartholomew’s Day, Vlad III had thirty thousand of the merchants and boyars of the Transylvanian city of Brasov impaled. One of the most famous woodcuts of the period shows Vlad Dracula feasting amongst a forest of stakes and their grisly burdens outside Brasov while a nearby executioner cuts apart other victims.

Although impalement was Vlad Dracula’s favorite method of torture, it was by no means his only method. The list of tortures employed by this cruel prince reads like an inventory of hell’s tools: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to wild animals, and burning alive.

No one was immune to Vlad’s attentions. His victims included women and children, peasants and great lords, ambassadors from foreign powers and merchants. However, the vast majority of his victims came from the merchants and boyars of Transylvania and his own Wallachia.

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Going back to the fiction story of Dracula Untold. Is it different? When I saw the trailer, I remember one of his line - "to protect his family and people". From whom? The Ottomans. And who are the they? The muslims. And because of that, they changed the history, yay!

I know it was a fiction, a made-up story to make it blockbuster. But have they thought about what would the non-muslims who saw the movies would think of the muslims nowaday.

As a muslim myself, I was dumbstruck when they potrayed the muslims (the ottoman, of course) as the vile and cruel creature, even though it wasn't play by muslim, of course again. And before the people who thought if this is how the muslim really are in the past, learn to read the history first. It may help you. The part when Allah's name shown in the screen really insensitive,

I love the movie but at the same time, my heart was crushed. No wonder my friend urge me to  watch Annabelle, but I can't. Seriously, no, guys. No possessed ghost stories. Enough with Chucky, guys.

Memories in College

When we're studying in college, we usually complain on how many assignment we had to do, without realizing it was the most precious experience in our life. Before we graduate, we should always appreciate those times, because when we're separate, it was the time we most remembered.

Elegant dress

It's a cat....and it's a cub~

Homelessness is a main concern in every country because it mirrored the society. It is a condition of people who lack regular access to housing and therefore, living on the streets. Homelessness became an issue of discussion among mass media, scholars and policy makers and the public in general. That is why the government were trying to solve this problem.

Firstly, offer jobs opportunities. People become homeless when they unable to pay the bills like hospital bills or they have to sold the house due to massive. Some of them are unable to find work with high salary due lack of qualification. Thus, offering jobs opportunities help them in paying bills and save money to find new place to stay.

Then, build more affordable house. Since the price of house was very high nowadays, people who have low salary could not afford it. So, by building more affordable house, homelessness problem could be cure since low salary workers could buy their house even it wasn’t their dream house. Due to unstable economic nowadays, the homeless could save money from buying an expensive house.

Beside that, counseling for homeless. Homelessness also happened to teenagers, especially the one who run away from their house. Having a dysfunctional family could ruin your life, like being Abuse since they were small or did not have enough attention from their busy parents. This may be the reason why teenagers run away without having enough money to find another place to live. Some of them even refuse to come back home due to traumatize. This is why counseling and theraphy are important to solve the problem of homelessness.

To conclude, homelessness is a growing issue and requires social action. This problem can be accomplished by offering jobs opportunities, build more affordable house and counseling for homeless.

Dog that look like others stuff

There are many kind of dog, but have you saw one like these before?

The Effect of Invention to Lifestyle and Society

Everything that exist nowaday was made of inventions, whether it is in a form of technologies or transportation. Since we live in a global era, these inventions is an improvement on how human are trying to accommodate ourself for modernization. Inventions is an important component for human on surviving, transportation, obtaining knowledge and communicate with each other. Even though these inventions brings benefit to human kind, we should not forget that there is always happened to be side effect.

 One of the effect of invention like technologies to society or lifestyle is changing the way of the family relationship and interaction. Nowadays, there are many invention based on technology like cellphone that has application such as email, facebook and twitter. These communication applications cause people, especially young adults and teenagers to spend their outmost times to chat or surfing internet rather than spending times with their family. Originally, parents bought gadgets for their children to call them if there was emergency or for education. However, they misused the gadgets. Another problem is that they only messaging to their parents or family rather than talk face to face. This gesture could cause disrupt family relationship.

Beside that, invention lead to destruction of jobs. Inventions such as machines, robots and automation can replace human energy especially to the worker whom worked in an automobile factories. Many people suggested that by inventing these technologies, many jobs opportunities will be opened. However, certain people claim that this rapid technology have the ability to destroy jobs faster than creating them. Another example of destruction jobs is that technology is distracting them from doing their job at the place they worked. Worker busied themselves with technologies, distracting their focus from doing their jobs properly. Based from the prove given, it is proved that inventions causing the destruction of jobs.

The various of invention also lead to pollution and cause of disease. The invention of vehicles, such as car or lorry, was invented in the need for transportation and was made to make human life easier. However, car and other vehicles need petrol and produce carbon monoxide in return could cause air pollution. This become the main concern especially when traffic happened. The carbon monoxide affected the air we breath in and cause several problems like haze and acid rain. The poisonous gases also cause disease like lung cancer and the difficulties to breath. So, invention also lead to pollution and the source of disease.

For the conclusion, there are effect cause by the inventions. Although there are many benefits we could achieved from the inventions nowadays, we should not forget about the fact that the inventions also cause effect that could harm and wreckage social relationship. However, these problem could easily prevent by doing the right thing like cease the using of technologies to spend more times with family and friends or rather sharing the same vehicles for transporting to reduce the carbon monoxide produce by the vehicles. Sometime, people thoroughly thinking whether the invention nowadays are helping or just a flash in the pan.

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List of Animes You Should Watch!!! (with my recommendation!)

Anime has been began since the late 1910s, as Japanese filmmakers experimented with the animation techniques that has been found and explored in the West. During World War II, propaganda films such as Momotaro no Umiwashi (1943) and Momotaro: Umi no Shinpei (1945) were made, making them the first anime feature film. Anime developed further during the 1970s, separating itself from Western roots, and developing distinct genres such as mecha and its Super Robot sub-genre. Typical shows from this period include Lupin III and Doraemon. A few later, the masterpiece made by the filmmakers become famous, especially Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii.

As a beginner blogger, I have been told to write anything I felt I want to write. Since I was a huge fan of anime, I decided to post this lists, sharing with you whom have never heard about this anime. People always assumed anime have give nothing but entertainment and wasting out times when we could do something more better. You have to remember that anime and cartoons are a VERY different things.

Do you really thing the only anime could do is making us laugh? No, It's also brings tears to us, giving many useful advice about friend and family. Anime also gave certain people courage on how to be brave to face the world. Because anime itself have many genre. Conflict and tragedy are normal. That's why I love about anime. <3 ~

1. Anohana



When it involves girl, there's always the boys.Six childhood friends grew apart in high school. One of them is Jintan, now a shut-in. He gets a request to fulfill a wish for Menma, the only one of their friends to have stayed the same over the years. In order to grant her wish, he will have to find and reunite their old friends.

2. Attack on Titan

Several hundred years ago, humans were nearly exterminated by giants. Giants are typically several stories tall, seem to have no intelligent, devour human beings and worst of all, seem to do it for pleasure rather than as a food source. A small percentage of humanity survived by walling themselves in a city protected by extremely high walls, even taller than the biggest of giants. Flash forward to the present and the city has not seen a giant in over 100 years. Teenage boy Eren and his foster sister Mikasa witness someting horrific as the city walls are destroyed by a super giant that appears out of thin air. The people then watch in horror as the titans eat the villager. Eren vows that he will murder every single giant and take revenge for all of mankind.

3. Princess Mononoke

A calm village residing in the mountains comes under attack from a demon-possessed boar one day. Ashitaka, a young man and the prince of the tribe, engaged the creature in an attempt to save his village. During the battle, he was attacked and cursed. Following his village's traditions, he is exiled and become a wanderer, looking for the answer to cure his curse before it engulfs him. He accidentally save two men from Iron Town, a town that produces large amount of Ironsand for gunpowder that lead to the destruction of the forests, whom was under leadership of Lady Eboshi. He also stumbled onto a human girl from the Wolf clan called San who seek revenge for the forest.

4. Free!

The story revolves around Haruka Nanase, a boy who has always loved to be immersed in the water, and swim in it. Before graduating from elementary school, he participated in swimming tournament along with his fellow swimming club members, Makoto Tachibana, Nagisa Hazuki, and Rin Matsuoka. After achieving victory, each boys went on their separate ways. Time passed and suddenly Rin appears, challenging Haruka for a match in which he wanted to won desperately. Haruka gather together with Makoto and Nagisa and brings a new member, Rei Ryuzaki to create the Iwatobi High School Swimming Club in order to defeat Rin.

5. Howl's Moving Castle



A plain young hatter named Sophie has her life changed when an evil with transforms her into an old woman. Unable to face her family in such condition, Sophie runs away to search a way to become young again. After a help from the turnip she saved, Sophie found herself in the moving castle owned by the wizard Howl. She befriend Howl's apprentice, Markl, and the fire demon Calcifer, and eventually, Howl himself. She decided to becomes the castle's cleaning lady in an effort to not only find the solution to her problem but also to save Howl from his terrible secrets as well.

6. Ponyo



Hayao Miyazaki's version of My Little Mermaid. Brunhilde, a child from the sea was saved by a human boy Sosuke when she was wandering in the sea and got stuck in a bottle. After lick Sosuke's blood on the wound. Taking a liking on her, Sosuke decided to keep her and named her Ponyo. After Ponyo was taken by by her father, she flee one more. And this time, to tell Sosuke she loves him. Is she going to have her happily ever after?

7. Bokura wa Minna Kawaisou!

Thanks to his parents' job transfer, high school freshman Kazunari Usa finally gets to enjoy living on his own in the Kawai Complex, a boarding house that provides meals for its residents. Ritsu, the senpai he admires, also lives in Kawai Complex, as do a few other "unique" individuals: his masochistic roommate Shirosaki; beautiful, big-breasted Mayumi who has no luck in finding men; and sly, predatory college woman Sayaka. Surrounded by these people, Usa never finds his daily life boring.

8. Kuroshitsuji



In Victorian-era London lives the young earl, Ciel Phantomhive. On the night of his tenth birthday, a fire engulfed his manor house, his parents were murdered, and he was captured by a mysterious organization. After a month of enduring excruciating and humiliating torture, Ciel returns to the Phantomhive household with an enigmatic black-clad butler, Sebastian Michaelis. To others, it seems that the butler is simply the best at his craft, from anticipating his young master's needs to carrying them out to the best of his inexplicable abilities. Little do they know, Sebastian is actually a demon that has entered into a contract with Ciel, promising to help the boy achieve revenge on those who have wronged him in exchange for his soul. As the Queen's Watchdog and standing at the top of the British underworld, Ciel solves the crimes plaguing London while waiting for the day he will exact his revenge.

9. Romeo X Juliet



In the floating continent of Neo Verona, the Montague family seized control and murdered every member of the Capulet family with the exception of Capulet's daughter, Juliet Fiammata Asto Capulet. 14 years later, Juliet and the remnants of Capulet's retainers live hidden from the iron fist of the Montague family. Juliet has long forgotten the murder of her family or her identity, and cross dresses as Odin and the town's hero of justice, "Red Whirlwind". A sudden escape in her daily escapades leads her to meet Romeo Candorebanto Montague, the kind son of the tyrannical Montague. Destiny has been set as these two individuals soon to be "star-crossed lovers" are cruelly toyed with by fate in the midst of war. Loosely based on the play by William Shakespeare.

10. Barakamon



As a punishment for punching a famous Calligrapher, young handsome Calligrapher Handa Seishu is exiled on a small island. As someone who has never lived outside of a city, Handa has to adapt to his new wacky neighbors, like people traveling on a tractor, unwanted visitors who never use the front door, annoying kids using his home as a playground, etc. Can this city guy handle all the crazy hardships?

11. XxxHolic



Watanuki Kimihiro can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures for a price. She demands that he work at her "store" that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events.


12. My Little Monster



Mizutani Shizuku is the type of person who only cares for her own grades. But when she accidentally delivers lesson notes to Yoshida Haru, he becomes convinced they are friends. Haru turns out to have a very innocent personality, but who would've thought that Haru would actually confess to Shizuku? A cold-hearted girl and super-troublemaker romance with a fresh new perspective.

The Velvet Lady's Family

Everyone have their own family. For me, I have my parents, an older sister and two younger brothers. Our family lives peacefully at a certain suburban place in the town Kulai. My father works as bank clerk, serious yet understanding father and husband. He has never raised his voices to us, giving us our own spaces to do our favorite things and always taught us how to be a human being, especially in driving the car, because he had told us early never always to expect anything for people around us. For my opinion, this is true because we know, as the children, we should not expect our parents to keep giving us money when we are older and wiser enough to find a job.

My mother, in other hands, is a strict but loving and patient mother and teacher. My mother and I are in fact are bestfriend when it comes to shopping, books and foods. Not to forget, I am actually have similar face like my mother, even everyone around me told me so. My mother loves to read, sharing the same hobby as me and usually we spend more times shopping in bookstore than buying clothes (not so true, actually). And as a teacher, she have taught us on our early age on how to read, in Malay and English and, together with my father, taught us to recite Al-Quran and Shalat.

Together, they makes an...awesome couple, especially when they stepped their foot on the kitchen. The fact that my father was VERY good in creating either old or new recipes, with my mother whom expert in cooking western foods.

My sister, two older than me, is currently studying at University Malaysia Pahang (UMP), majoring in Science in Computer Application. In all of my siblings, I'm the closest to her since we enjoyed shopping and watching movies together. Both my brothers are one and five years younger than me. Both of them enjoyed playing football and playing PC games.

When we all grew older, we have to lives apart to further our studies. My sister at Pahang, me at Negeri Sembilan and my brother (the one that youngeer a year by me) in Perak. We all stayed conneccted through facebook, email and call. My parents had taught us that family is everything. Helping each other is a must, and must not hoping for the gain.

The Beautiful One

In this wordly life,

The most beautiful word is Allah الله

The sweetest name ever is Muhammad (SAW)

The most perfect book ever is the Quran

The most complete physical exercise is Salah

The most beautiful message is the Azan

The most fortunate and lucky ones are you, dear brothers and sisters because Alhamdulillah you are all Muslims.

(via slhmhtr)

The Velvet Lady

I myself is normal yet typical girl from the town of Kulaifornia (or rather Kulai), state in Johor, Malaysia. Since a little girl, I love to read, from Enid Blyton, to Jane Austen, to J. K. Rowling, to the Bronte sisters and next to many famous writers.

Born in 1993, I'm the second daughter from four siblings. My parents is a teacher and a bank clerk, clearly indicates that I respected the person who taught us everything - the teachers. At a young age, I received education from Sekolah Kebangsaan Kulai, Kampung Melayu and Sekolah Menengah Menengah Kebangsaan Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Kulai, Johor. I'm currently studying at Kolej Teknologi Alpha, Seremban 2, Negeri Sembilan. I'm also interested in Islamic History, Historical Romance, anime and foods.

The reason I started this blog is for the assignment for one of my subject, Computer Applications and my greatest wish is that I could continued to write what I had in my mind in this blog. Please, enjoy my hobbies. Love all of you.

You can also enjoy some of my hobbies on tumblr at http://misszahiah.tumblr.com/

The Story of the Velvet Lady

I have created this blog for entertaining and for studies. As a muslim and a woman myself, there's a limit to my fondness for the outside world. And as a woman, I expect many expectation. This blog is about religion, women, entaining, reviewing english romance books, drama, daily life, and not to forget...anime. Hahaha~