Study: Malaysia has best English language speakers in Asia - Nation | The Star Online - 0 views
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Malaysia apparently has the best English language speakers in Asia, beating out Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, China and Kazakhstan - according to a Singapore-based English Language school.
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The school, Education First, which released the findings of their English Proficiency Index on their website Wednesday, ranked Malaysia as having the highest level of English proficiency out of 13 countries in Asia.
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On the global scale, Malaysia was ranked 11th out of 60 countries, with four of the top five slots going to Scandinavian countries, with Sweden and Norway taking the top two spots and Malaysia outperforming Singapore, Belgium, Germany, Latvia and Switzerland - countries which took the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th spots respectively.
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'Japan: high tech image, low tech reality' - - 0 views
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"Robots, high speed trains, electric cars, and cutting edge electronics; you know what country I'm talking about, right? Japan. But, move away from the bright, hi-tech lights of Tokyo, and you will find none of the above anywhere to be seen. Shocked? This is Japan's low tech reality."
Optimism and the Law of Attraction in Islam | Muslim Mind - 0 views
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If you have hope in God, if you are certain that He will give you what’s good, then this is what He indeed will give you. But if you don’t, it’s like you’re saying to Him: I don’t trust You. God is the Generous, if you don’t have hope in His bounties, it only means that you don’t even believe He is really Generous. Do you realize how serious this is?
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If you fear injustice, you forget that He is the Just. If you are confused and you don’t think you’ll find your way, you forget that He is the Guide. Remember that the reason to mention all that is to prove that a Muslim should be positive and focus on the positive; it’s how we Muslims should build our mind and our inner world.
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Poverty is the promise of Satan, while forgiveness and abundance are God’s promise. Which promise are we to believe!? Remember that poverty is not only lack of money, which is only a manifestation; poverty is first of all a state of mind. Those who live in this state of mind are following and believing Satan instead of God.
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"Not long ago, a book was published, which had a great success, and it was entitled: "The Secret". It tries to give an answer to the previous questions, and it claims that the secret of happy and successful people lies in what is called, "the Law of Attraction." So what is the Law of Attraction, and do we have it anywhere in the teachings of our religion? I will tell you what the secret and what the Law of Attraction are, then I will explain that the belief in this so-called secret, which was told about by our Prophet and revealed in the Quran in the most simple and expressive ways, is in fact essential for a true Islamic life-style. It is essential for the inner life of a true Muslim and believer."
"Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them." - 1st Ethical Charitable Tru... - 0 views
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""By Time! Indeed Man is in Loss. Except those who have faith and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to patience." (Q.103:1-3)"
Why I Hate School But Love Education||Spoken Word - YouTube - 0 views
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"As the cyclical and seemingly never ending debate about education rages on, the topic - somewhat ironically, often poses more questions than it provides answers. But what is the value of mainstream schooling? Why is it that some of the most high profile and successful figures within the Western world openly admit to never having completed any form of higher learning? Paying homage to Jefferson Bethke's "Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus", a piece that received 22 million views in the space of a week, I address a number of these issues in my offering "Why I Hate School, but Love Education". With scores of school leavers wanting to further their education with no guarantee of their dream job at the end of it, we should ask ourselves whether qualifications still hold the same value now as they did in previous years? Does success in the school system correlate to success in life? Or is the school system simply geared towards fact retention and regurgitation? What is true education? @sulibreaks universityofsulibreaks.tumblr.com Director: @KevinNgongo www.youtube.com/kevinngongo Graphics: www.mikegallardodesigns.com Music: Sunshine: Surface Of The Sun - John Murphy - Adagio in D Minor"
School System Part 2 By Sheikh Hamza Yusuf - YouTube - 0 views
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5:02: "Without teaching people meaning, without teaching people purpose, you create monsters, you create the disease known as 'civilisation'. This is what happens when you divorce education from the sacred." 6:10: The prophet Muhammad said "One of the signs of the end of time, is that people will study for other than the sake of God. They will build a school for other than the sake of God. " 6:30 "Every civilisation... understood that learning was to make a better human being, learning was not to make more money... it was to make a better human being; not for learning's sake, but for the sake fo Allah SWT."
Short Articles - 0 views
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Since my self improvement articles are normally pretty long, I thought I'd create a section for shorter articles on various topics. These articles may or may not be directed related to motivation but hopefully you will find some use out of them. Enjoy.
10 Smartest Ways to Live Beneath Your Means - by Dumb Little Man - 0 views
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Whenever possible, buy store brands.
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Avoid prepared foods.
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Shop at "you-bag-it" supermarkets.
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I managed to retire at age 51, and the way I did it was to live beneath my means. You can adopt this strategy too, by simply spending less than you earn. You may think that's impossible for you, but if you make it a challenge instead of a chore, you'll soon be creating ways to cut corners in everything you do. And believe me, it all adds up. There are no secrets to this strategy. It's just common sense. Here are my 10 favorite ways to live beneath your means:
Diseases of affluence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Diseases of affluence is a term sometimes given to selected diseases and other health conditions which are commonly thought to be a result of increasing wealth in a society.[1] Also referred to as the "Western disease" paradigm, these diseases are in contrast to so-called "diseases of poverty", which largely result from and contribute to human impoverishment.
If I Was Poor (A Letter Written by a Billionaire) « The Activists - 0 views
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If I was poor I would steal bread, I would steal food, I would steal my life back from those who thrive from crushing the lives of others. If I was poor, I would not lie submissively waiting for the billionaires to become humane, I would seize the means of production. If I was poor, I would form a gang of poor people and take control of the streets. If I was poor, I would spend every ounce of energy showing other poor people how to rise above their inner and outer poverty. Unfortunately for you poor scum, it is I, that writes the laws. Unfortunately for you starving children, it is the club of billionaires that change and modify the laws to suit their needs.
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There was a protest in my city, I called the idiotic mayor and told him to put curfew rules into places, the law is my friend. The law is your enemy, the law is the enemy of those with no power. The law is a reflection of the appetites and needs of the powerful. I am the law, you are the slave of the law. I am the lawyers, you are the ones arrested and brutalized because of your skin shades. I am the law, you are the poor citizens who cannot even afford a lawyer.
50 things to do before you leave university - Student Life - Student - The Independent - 0 views
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University is a very special time in your life. There are some incredible opportunities for personal growth. And also for being very, very silly. Studentbeans is all about this (plus, of course, the freebies, discounts and money saving - join now, it's free!) - so they've created this handy list to work through before you leave uni. How many have you already done?
If Your House Were Burning, What Would You Take With You?: Obsessed: Entertainment: gla... - 0 views
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Your house is on fire, and you have to get out fast. Now you have to prioritize your lifetime of possessions to a handful of the most meaningful items--what would you take? It's a simple (albeit very sad) concept, but one that highlights what's most important to you.
15 Diet Tweaks for Weight Loss | GirlsGuideTo - 0 views
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"Losing weight is hard. We are a culture that likes to eat, and let's face it, we like to eat the stuff that's not good for us. One of the best ways to get started making healthier choices is by changing one small thing at a time. Small tweaks that over time add up to something big. But what's the best thing to change? Shape gathered up expert opinions from trainers that reveal exactly what they tweak to get lasting results. Here are their tricks!"
Someone said that... - 0 views
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A collection of memorable quotes to think about and/or live by.
50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do - 0 views
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1. Build a Fire
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2. Operate a Computer
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3. Use Google Effectively
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Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one.
50 Easy Ways to Lose Weight | Reader's Digest - 0 views
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1. Once a week, indulge in a high-calorie-tasting, but low-calorie, treat
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After breakfast, make water your primary drink.
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Write down every single morsel that enters your lips — even water. Studies have found that people who maintain food diaries wind up eating about 15 percent less food than those who don’t
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"You know the drill when it comes to losing weight -- take in fewer calories, burn more calories. But you also know that most diets and quick weight-loss plans have about as much substance as a politician's campaign pledges."
25 Documentaries That Will Make You Cry Uncontrollably - 0 views
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No list of tear-inducing documentaries is complete without "Sex In A Cold Climate." It follows survivors of Ireland's Magdalene Asylums, and the abuse they endured there, working long hours for no pay, forcibly separated from their children, some being beaten and molested by nuns and priests. The idea that such places existed in our lifetime (the last asylum closed in 1996) is mind boggling, and these women still have not seen justice.
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I really suggest "Under Our Skin." It's a documentary that shows the struggle of Chronic Lyme disease patients and how so many people are going untreated. As a Chronic Lyme disease patient myself, I must say that everything being documented in this film is completely accurate. I would't say this unless I was absolutely confident. I know many documentaries tend to be biased, but this one says it like it is. I promise you won't be disappointed.
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I Cried so hard watching Bridegroom Movie
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Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley | Talk Video | TED - 0 views
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. I have found no evidence that Americans don't get irony. It's one of those cultural myths, like, "The British are reserved." I don't know why people think this. We've invaded every country we've encountered.
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I knew that Americans get irony when I came across that legislation No Child Left Behind. Because whoever thought of that title gets irony, don't they, because -- (Laughter) (Applause) — because it's leaving millions of children behind. Now I can see that's not a very attractive name for legislation: Millions of Children Left Behind. I can see that. What's the plan? Well, we propose to leave millions of children behind, and here's how it's going to work. 2:04 And it's working beautifully. In some parts of the country, 60 percent of kids drop out of high school. In the Native American communities, it's 80 percent of kids. If we halved that number, one estimate is it would create a net gain to the U.S. economy over 10 years of nearly a trillion dollars. From an economic point of view, this is good math, isn't it, that we should do this? It actually costs an enormous amount to mop up the damage from the dropout crisis.
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the difference between the task and achievement senses of verbs. You know, you can be engaged in the activity of something, but not really be achieving it, like dieting. It's a very good example, you know. There he is. He's dieting. Is he losing any weight? Not really. Teaching is a word like that. You can say, "There's Deborah, she's in room 34, she's teaching." But if nobody's learning anything, she may be engaged in the task of teaching but not actually fulfilling it.
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