Applying Science into Our Daily Lives
How do we apply scientific formulas or theories into our daily lives?
According to Associate Professor Dr Hon Wei Min, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences at UCSI University, the
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3D Animation for the Future
Are you creative? Need a platform to design? Get to know School of Design and explore your talent in it!
Although being relatively the smallest school in UCSI University, Associate Dean
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happenings
Negeri Sembilan Cultural Carnival 2010
By Farezza Rashid
The Negeri Sembilan Cultural Carnival is an annual event organized by the state’s Ministry of Tourism to promote tourism through its local cultural performances. This year the Carnival was held from 18th until 20th of June in Seremban with 700 participants from the districts of Negeri Sembilan, the different states around Malaysia as
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Leisure & Lifestyle
Engelbert Humperdinck’s ‘Legacy of Love’
For more than four decades, Engelbert Humperdinck has shared his music with fans from every age on every continent including Malaysia. His Legacy of Love World Tour which stopped at the Resorts World Genting’s Arena of Stars on the 18 & 19th June was anything but superb.
At 74, he showed no signs of slowing down.
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Talk To Us
By Joshua Chay I would have wanted to start with an inspirational quote from a famous figure about how education is the cornerstone of any great man. Then move on to share my personal experiences from the 3 years that I was in university, explaining to you how I am now better prepared for the challenges
"The Road to Menara Gading and Back"
District 9: No Humans Allowed
The movie was set in South Africa, and the story takes place in the slums of Johannesburg known as District 9, a refugee camp set up to separate the humans from the aliens who have lived there for 20years. The emotional movie which was shot documentary-style to reflect reality shows how human beings built a relationship with the extraterrestrial race that is forced to live in slum-like condition on earth. Then suddenly (the aliens) finds a friend in government who is exposed to their technology by accident.
Sharlto Copley (Wikus)
Alien space crafts are seen hovering over many locations of the city, interrupting daily human lives and raising concerns from the residents of the area. The movie which is sort of a human commentary and also a reverse of the usual (alien movies) where humans are afraid of aliens, this time around, the aliens are the ones who are scared of what the humans might do to them. Though there is evidence that those extraterrestrials - brutally referred to as prawns because of their loosely crustacean appearance - represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth are marked by filth and dysfunction.
And they are viewed by South Africans of all races with suspicion, occasional pity and racist hostility. The South African setting improves the story of District 9 to a quick relevant point. That country’s history of apartheid and its continuing social problems are never mentioned, but they hardly need to be. And the film’s implications extend far beyond the boundaries of a particular nation, which is taken as more or less representative of the planet as a whole.
At its central part the film tells the story hardly a strange one in the literature of modern South Africa of how a member of the socially dominant group becomes aware of the injustice that keeps him in his place and the others, his chosen inferiors, in theirs. The cost he pays for this knowledge is brutal, as it must be, given the dreadful outline of the system. But if the film’s view of the world is unwelcoming, it is not quite a rejection. It suggests that sometimes the only way to become fully human is to be completely alienated. This brilliant piece of work was directed by Neill Blomkamp and produced by the visionary Peter Jackson.
There not many movies that would impact you, this was one that moved me. at the end, the kids are still what the future holds regardless weather human or alien.