Megacity

TASK E : QUESTION (D)

Would you like to live in a megacity? Give as many reasons as you can for your answer.


LIVING IN MEGACITTY
Before skyscrappers were built by Man, and before the city lights were there to light up the roads and buildings, there were already people who tried to make the city they lived in as useful and beautiful as possible. New inventions and technologies were introduced to the world due to this urbanisation desire of Mankind. As for today, we experience the same kind of situation in global. For this, I woud love to live in a megacity in specific, as there are countless advantages that I can get by doing so.
By living in a megacity, I can easily get and catch up with the latest technology. For example, Tokyo, Japan megacity, is always made a place for the exhibition and marketing for the latest sophisticated technology such as cars, audio devices, portable gadgets and also computers. This will make my life more comfortable and will keep me in touch with the people and their culture all around the globe.
The next reason for me to choose megacity as a place that I would love to live in is because I can get so much that the urban life has got to offer, amusement. Big well-known cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and London, would never be ever so famous as they are today without the enjoyable fun that they have got to offer to the world. I can live my life as happy as I can, having my night life being spent and filled with joy and laughter. Plus, I can get to experience lavish lifestyle, the way the well-off people do in Hollywood and Vegas.
As we all know, in order for one to get known and famous, migrating to a big city and living the city life is a base for that dream to come true. Movie stars, Models, big bands and film directors are all introduced to the public once they enter the urban life. As for me, I also would love to be well known and notorious the way I enjoy the most which is to form a rock band. In the U.S., based in the big cities in specific, there were countless bands successfully introduced to the world. This is because it is easier to get the needed facilities in big developed cities, compared to the less modern rural area.
So, living in a megacity is indeed a pleasure for me to achieve one day. There are lots of fun and benefits too from experiencing the city life. If I were given an opportunity, I would love to leave for New York or perhaps Hollywood where I can enjoy my life the most there.

WHO WILL DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF SARAWAK'S PENAN

BRUNO AND THE BLOWPIPES

Bruno Manser was born on 25th of August 1954 in Basel, Switzerland. During his lifetime, Bruno Manser, one of the founders of the Bruno Manser Fund and its president for many years, was the best-known Swiss activist campaigning for the protection of the rainforests and the respect for human rights. He has been missing since his last journey to the Rainforest of Sarawak.

In the jungle of the Eastern Malaysian state of Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, near the Indonesian border of Kalimantan, Manser created richly illustrated notebooks during his stay in 1984 to 1990 with the Penan people. He stayed with the nomadic band of Along Sega, who became the Penan figurehead for their struggle. He also visited many other settled Penan communities in the Upper Baram district. These notebooks were later published, with some succes.

Having spent much of the 1970s educating himself in a stunning array of practical handcrafts, Manser took himself off in 1984 to find a way of life in which he could use his skills for greater benefit. Arriving at the home of the Penan, he liked what he saw, settled, and showed no inclination to re-emerge. Yet re-emerge he did in 1990, armed with a mission to get help. The Penan's habitat was being destroyed by the Sarawak's timber industry, and the few surviving nomads would be soon to follow. He helped the Penan to resist further intrusion by the logger and became the international mouthpiece for the treatened people of the primeral forest.

Declared 'enemy of the state number 1' by the Malaysian government, Manser bristled to the challenge, and founded the Bruno-Manser-Fonds in Basel to raise attention to rainforest issues, those of the Penan in particular. During the 1990s, his determination to make governments take notice and action to halt rainforest destruction revealed his stamina and flair for the dramatic. . In 1993 he conducted a 60-day hunger strike outside Bern's Bundeshaus to highlight the need for an import embargo of tropical woods. The strike received nationwide support, but little action resulted. He travelled, he lectured, he exhorted; but change was coming too slowly.

He felt the tide was flowing faster and faster against the Penan, and he grew more desperate. Making the occasional undercover visit to the people who had adopted him and called him Laki Penan. He made a diplomatic overture to Sarawak chief minister Taib Mahmud, offering to take responsibility for creating the Penan's biosphere himself, but he got no response. glider He learned how to parachute, planning to float down with a lamb of peace on the Hari Raya festival in Kuching.

The Malaysian embassy successfully lobbied the airlines to stop him, so he parachuted into Geneva instead. No response. He flew above the Taib residence, and landed, allowing himself to be arrested. He was transported.

In 2000, he made one final attempt to do something, anything, to save the Penan. Allowing himself to be filmed as he made his way through the jungle to Sarawak, he sent off a few hundred postcards, and on 22 May was seen crossing the border alone into the land of the Penan. The jungle has not returned him.

In my opinion, Bruno Manser was right to stop the government from developing the jungles of Sarawak and to defend the Penan from change. This is because the jungles of Sarawak used to be the 'home' of the Penan until nowadays. But i do disagree to Bruno Manser because people in Sarawak, especially the Penan people, need some development to expose them to the modern globilisation so that their lifestyles can be inproved.

Silat or pencak silat is a collective word for martial arts created by the Malay people from Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what is now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, silat was also traditionally practiced by the Malay communities of Brunei, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws or animal-based techniques. Silat schools are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced.The movements of silat are often performed as a dance during festivities such as weddings. These performances can be done either solo or with a partner and are often accompanied by music, notably the gong, gendang (drum) and seruling (flute). There are stances and footwork in silat that make up the training. These footworks act as preset postures meant to provide stability whiloe in motion. These footworks and stances include horse stance (kuda_kuda), cat step (langkah kucing) and warrior step (langkah lawan). Along with the human body, silat employs a wide variety of weapons. Prior to the introduction of firearms, weapons training was actually considered to be of greater value than unarmed techniques. Among the hundreds of styles are dozens of weapons but the one most commonly used is the keris or dagger.

In Malaysia, there are well known silat styles that attract followers across the country. These incluce Silat Gayung, Silat Teralak Asli, Silat Cekak and Silat Kalimah. Until today, silat is still one of the most preferred art of defense in Malaysia. This priceless heritage should be fully appreciated and practiced in order for the future generations to make benefits of this Malay tradition in a continuous way.

THE MEDIA

The Media should be stopped from giving opinions against the government.
Do you agree with this opinion? Give reasons.


No, our group are not agree on the statement. Overall, the government are act as the leader of the our country.

The media should defines what are the government's functions. The media not only giving opinion about against the government. As we know, the government is a group members that leads us and leads the country. Because of that, the media should supports the government in the right ways.

Without the government, our country will disaster, including having many types of problems, such as unsatisfied in humans right.

The opinion against the government will arouses the suspicious among the citizens. In case, they will not respects the government. Although the government withdraw the uncomfortable rules for us, at least we should be respects them as the our leader. The media can discover the right ways to solve all these problem.

Definitely, the government not always true and right but as the freedom citizens, we should know how to giving our opinions.

The media not only write the negative feedback about the government. We must remember, because of them, we are not in starvation and not in wars. So, we strongly disagree with the opinion against the government.

Just thankful with what we had today, if you still have any suspicious just adapt them in the right position.