Chechnya is an interesting country ,well its not exactly a country its a regional government and its still under the control of the Russion. there's where the conflict between the regional (pro-Russian) and separatist government come into the picture.Chechens are controlled by regional teips or tribe, even when they have pro-and anti-Russian political movement. The conflict between Russia and Chechnya has resulted in 1994-1996 wars as well as 1999 wars. Russia successfully established pro-Chechya Russian regime especially with the death of the leader of separatists group including former President Aslan Maskhadov and the most prominet Checknya freedom fight Shamil Basayev.
Ironically, the current president of Checknya is Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov who was former Chechnya freedom fighter.
Is it peculliar that people could change their position in the society ?former so-called rebel by Russion to current president?Many anti-russian chechnian viewed their president as a traitor. I guess ,when you keep losing in a war and many lives of your people are killed , you gotta surrender and join the enemy for the best of the nation even its against your own principle.
But why are muslim always under the rulling of the non-muslim? are we(muslim) the victim? Someone gotta answer that.............
Bytheway, nasrul presentation was average although i think he could have done a lot better because he's voice projection was good ,he had the confident and he has good command of english. i guess, he was just lack of preparation because he kept on reading the slides and neglecting the audiences by not providing them eye contacts.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Checknya is a regional government
NO SMOKING
Hey there, if you guys have a “smoker” boyfriend/girlfriend or “smoker” relatives or “smoker” friends around you, here are some tips to help them to stop this “killing” addiction. Don’t forget to tell them about this. I hope it can help them out. Good Luck!!! And here are TOP tips to quit (source: taken form CLEO):
1- Write down all the reasons why you are determined to quit and stick them on your soft board, on your locker, or wherever you are most likely to see them everyday
2- Choose a quit date or a specific date to start this “stopping” program, and stick to it!
3- Throw out your cigarettes, ashtrays, matches and any other things related to your smoking habit.
4- Keep yourself busy.
5- Beware of other smokers that might try to sabotage your attempts to quit. Reaffirm all your reasons (1st step) why you gave up.
Monday, March 3, 2008
4TH - LEBANON
With regards to Nasra’s presentation, in my opinion, there are a lot of spaces where she could improve on. Even though she has prepared many things about this country, it seems that she couldn’t be able to deliver it well. In terms of her sound projection, well I could say, people who sat at the back cannot really understand and grab every single thing that she said. Fortunately, I sat in front of her, yet I still cannot grab her sentences. Another thing that I have observed in the way she present was her limited eye contact, posture and also gestures.
In my point of view, she needs to speak louder when delivering a speech, particularly in every presentation, this is because her voice is too soft sometimes looks like she is whispering to our ears, hihihihihi… she also needs to observe the way she stand up in front of many people, and what she needs is also hand movements. As we have learnt from intercultural communication, non verbal cues are essential in everyday communication and of course in delivering speeches.
In my point of view, she needs to speak louder when delivering a speech, particularly in every presentation, this is because her voice is too soft sometimes looks like she is whispering to our ears, hihihihihi… she also needs to observe the way she stand up in front of many people, and what she needs is also hand movements. As we have learnt from intercultural communication, non verbal cues are essential in everyday communication and of course in delivering speeches.
17TH - BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
On Friday last month, another student was presented another Muslim country that has assigned to her which is BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA. The capital city of Bosnia Herzegovina is Sarajevo (READ: Sarayevo). The ethnic groups were dominated by Bosniak, followed by Serb, Croat. Surprisingly, the majority of Bosnians are Muslims with the percentage of 40 percent. The tragedy that haunted the Bosnians begins when one of the ethnic group: the Serbs were doing what so called an ethnic cleansing in 1994 towards the Bosnians. The main purpose was to totally wipe out the Bosnians histories from their own homeland. To be frank, I know nothing about Bosnia before, but because of this presentation as well as the presenter’s and our lecturer’s explanation, I have opened up my mind to think ☺☺. From what the two of them have said, the Serbs were terribly cruel towards the Bosnians. Women and girls were raped many times in a day and most of the time they were raped in front of their family members. They were also asked to rape their own mothers and daughters. The Bosnians were survived mainly because the United Nations through NATO had an intervention and sent its troops to curb this problem.
Regarding the presentation, Umi Khairani was the one who presented this topic. Well I’m not sure about her introduction because when she present I was came late =P. When I came and listened to her presentation, she was terribly nervous and too afraid of something that she doesn’t even know what it was. She got the confidence and has a good voice projection. Even though she prepared all the staffs earlier, she seems a bit lost while remembering certain points. Umi’s also lacks in hand movements but be able to control her posture.
In my observation, it was good because she has done research before presenting the topic by reading many books and articles from the internet but not from Wiki, I guess.
She was expecting bucks of questions from the class and due to this reason she has prepared the answers for any possible questions that might be asked in her small notes. It was extraordinary thing, I might say, because people are usually using the notes to refresh their memory about the information flow but not her. “Sedia payung sebelum hujan”.
Overall, Umi’s presentation was quite good, according to our lecturer; at the end of her presentation she was “sad”, was it because of the Bosnians or was it because of her presentation that she claimed to be “teruk”.
Regarding the presentation, Umi Khairani was the one who presented this topic. Well I’m not sure about her introduction because when she present I was came late =P. When I came and listened to her presentation, she was terribly nervous and too afraid of something that she doesn’t even know what it was. She got the confidence and has a good voice projection. Even though she prepared all the staffs earlier, she seems a bit lost while remembering certain points. Umi’s also lacks in hand movements but be able to control her posture.
In my observation, it was good because she has done research before presenting the topic by reading many books and articles from the internet but not from Wiki, I guess.
She was expecting bucks of questions from the class and due to this reason she has prepared the answers for any possible questions that might be asked in her small notes. It was extraordinary thing, I might say, because people are usually using the notes to refresh their memory about the information flow but not her. “Sedia payung sebelum hujan”.
Overall, Umi’s presentation was quite good, according to our lecturer; at the end of her presentation she was “sad”, was it because of the Bosnians or was it because of her presentation that she claimed to be “teruk”.
16TH - IRAN
Iran is an Islamic Republic which governed by President Ahmed Dinnejad, this is because in 1979 revolutions were happened in all over the globe and before it in 1983 Iran has managed to hold hostage the American people in a year Iran is a Muslim country in the Middle East in which it managed to remain independent throughout much of its history. Iran has 70 millions population consists of people from diverse background. It composes of Persian, Azeri, Gilaki and Mazandarani, Kurd and Arab. Basically, Iran is located beyond the Tigris River, which considered to be the longest river in the world. Iran is a rich country because it has a huge quantity of uranium-a radioactive metal that is used to produce nuclear energy and weapons. Iran has its own media system, news agency and they are very successful in many areas.
Apart from that, the informative speech on this country was given to Marziana @ Julie. Hurm…what should I say about this girl???. Without further a due, as our lecturer said before, Iran is an interesting country to be discussed, the reason why is because Iran is a country that George W. Bush afraid of, and another reason maybe because she was expecting an excellent presentation from Julie. In my opinion, she begins her presentation with a good introduction and succeeded to grabs people’s attention by her clear and loud voice and also her “Shakespear” idea. She got the confidence inside her.
I might say that, Julie’s presentation lacks in content because even though she doesn’t put many things in her slide as what I did she still looks unprepared because she makes us waiting (minutes) until she got her new ideas about the topic AGAIN. To be honest, I don’t like the way she stands in front of her audience because it was too relax and she kept lean herself on the computer table. Overall, Julie’s presentation was quite okay-lah…=)
Apart from that, the informative speech on this country was given to Marziana @ Julie. Hurm…what should I say about this girl???. Without further a due, as our lecturer said before, Iran is an interesting country to be discussed, the reason why is because Iran is a country that George W. Bush afraid of, and another reason maybe because she was expecting an excellent presentation from Julie. In my opinion, she begins her presentation with a good introduction and succeeded to grabs people’s attention by her clear and loud voice and also her “Shakespear” idea. She got the confidence inside her.
I might say that, Julie’s presentation lacks in content because even though she doesn’t put many things in her slide as what I did she still looks unprepared because she makes us waiting (minutes) until she got her new ideas about the topic AGAIN. To be honest, I don’t like the way she stands in front of her audience because it was too relax and she kept lean herself on the computer table. Overall, Julie’s presentation was quite okay-lah…=)
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