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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-24274872622302997702016-12-30T10:04:00.000-08:002016-12-30T10:04:05.472-08:00Day 1: A New JourneyI have created a Facebook Group today called Communications Lab (Malaysia) with the purpose of sharing the scientific and strategic insights of Da'wah with a handful of people.<div>
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Style of presentation: Mostly videos</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-57060907496458537822016-09-07T09:24:00.004-07:002016-09-07T09:24:53.893-07:00KRA Group: A Public Affairs Consulting FirmBismillah,<br />
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Later today I will be going to KRA Group Main Office for my internship interview meeting. I pray for the best and everything will be fine.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-10708115011782354412016-09-07T09:18:00.001-07:002016-09-07T09:18:18.165-07:00Just some more....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-73077418977170244492015-12-17T20:38:00.001-08:002015-12-17T20:38:24.348-08:00Personality Test from July 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-84420946806065842492015-12-17T18:48:00.002-08:002015-12-17T18:48:49.252-08:00Introversion and its characteristics<ol style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"></ol>
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I have done a few online personality tests and introversion seemed to be persistently stealing the spotlight.</div>
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So, I did some googling and searching on the internet to find some public-level explanations of introversion. One of the results was this leisure video on 10 signs of an introvert. Although I can be certain that most, if not all, of the items are not backed by scientific studies, but I can relate to most of it. The list is as follows:</div>
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<li>Uncomfortable, tired and annoyed around loud people</li>
<li>Don’t like attention</li>
<li>Don’t like to waste other people’s time</li>
<li>Favour written words compared to verbal communication</li>
<li>More productive working alone</li>
<li>Filter the thoughts before saying it</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-87935841605160160482015-12-16T14:59:00.001-08:002015-12-16T14:59:15.210-08:00I just do it, bro: Observing and Non-observingIf you ask "why do you pray eventhough you can't see the being you are worshipping?" randomly to people who claim to belong to a religious groups,<div><br style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">a possible answer by a non-observing person could be "I just do it, bro",</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">and a possible answer by an observing person also could be "I just do it, bro".</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Although the possible answers are the same, there are two differences in terms of motivation that can be addressed. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">One is in terms of degree of disclosure. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">On one hand, the non-observing person is being fully honest on expressing his lack of rationale (all out). On the other hand, the observing person would say that to avoid being boastful by explaining his intrinsic motivation (partially out). </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">Second is in terms of an attempt to be concise in speech.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392);">In this case, the non-observing person would say that when he means, "i just do it because everyone is doing it" while the observing person would say that when he means, "i just do it because in my knowledge, it pleases Him".</div></div><div><br></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-75032115057399900882015-11-24T06:00:00.001-08:002015-11-24T06:00:25.521-08:00Career testThis is the result of a career test i took. I found it on the suggested posts section on FB. Not sure about reliability of it but i just clicked on the post called "Universum Career Test" just because i have the time to do it. 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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-63208488911274296942015-11-04T12:49:00.001-08:002015-11-04T12:49:26.762-08:00Things I do<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXgj1pGb364xE8yBN39BWlAOLUCB70YwJWBCBp4T6UiUFlV0O0PGZ-qeTANjotTLGhGQ2AFoL9lfFANmnF3rkoeML-uD2A-ZIpWv1NP_-27yAEneWY2Hw9PrbrX_zcEl7XxJWy12QK7w/s640/blogger-image-2091575932.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXgj1pGb364xE8yBN39BWlAOLUCB70YwJWBCBp4T6UiUFlV0O0PGZ-qeTANjotTLGhGQ2AFoL9lfFANmnF3rkoeML-uD2A-ZIpWv1NP_-27yAEneWY2Hw9PrbrX_zcEl7XxJWy12QK7w/s640/blogger-image-2091575932.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIv9NOnLpHGDzjpmrjcryVNBUZsKm1v9m3CyyVH9jKsq9eHHd7AvOt7ssXKys8Nb26VSq4RDmbIlFZJh-vtecEl9OlHeu1B6y4k_x_crMMWHNXMJ3MkVb4ikxghJ-GdhYTgiygtMRg4E/s640/blogger-image-519117992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIv9NOnLpHGDzjpmrjcryVNBUZsKm1v9m3CyyVH9jKsq9eHHd7AvOt7ssXKys8Nb26VSq4RDmbIlFZJh-vtecEl9OlHeu1B6y4k_x_crMMWHNXMJ3MkVb4ikxghJ-GdhYTgiygtMRg4E/s640/blogger-image-519117992.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsA_-W1Iyg5tfV8Qk8y0jvUGl9_pgGoUPtuahgBv9e-Ec5X2_OBWrKxT-mAdAF0hsnnry2qav-bO64sjx7XS_w1_moMadjQ7Bi0a91Byel3ZOB9THYB6By6SZzlB7Z4cMQ_awqWnLpRc/s640/blogger-image--1351785236.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPsA_-W1Iyg5tfV8Qk8y0jvUGl9_pgGoUPtuahgBv9e-Ec5X2_OBWrKxT-mAdAF0hsnnry2qav-bO64sjx7XS_w1_moMadjQ7Bi0a91Byel3ZOB9THYB6By6SZzlB7Z4cMQ_awqWnLpRc/s640/blogger-image--1351785236.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivIv9NOnLpHGDzjpmrjcryVNBUZsKm1v9m3CyyVH9jKsq9eHHd7AvOt7ssXKys8Nb26VSq4RDmbIlFZJh-vtecEl9OlHeu1B6y4k_x_crMMWHNXMJ3MkVb4ikxghJ-GdhYTgiygtMRg4E/s640/blogger-image-519117992.jpg"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXXgj1pGb364xE8yBN39BWlAOLUCB70YwJWBCBp4T6UiUFlV0O0PGZ-qeTANjotTLGhGQ2AFoL9lfFANmnF3rkoeML-uD2A-ZIpWv1NP_-27yAEneWY2Hw9PrbrX_zcEl7XxJWy12QK7w/s640/blogger-image-2091575932.jpg"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_HZqwdYEwr0yANM11OdJeOCb41rWguw5_y1AuNfbEDaNGqBtaCtyw_9vE7fEG1qN7T-nNrCr60Q2PLWmv4ZUtmfP-vi1anNfw3kwpO_fQocDNvPCN9gHIHuv3_qgXpazlZlBivVAsT58/s640/blogger-image--1216667661.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_HZqwdYEwr0yANM11OdJeOCb41rWguw5_y1AuNfbEDaNGqBtaCtyw_9vE7fEG1qN7T-nNrCr60Q2PLWmv4ZUtmfP-vi1anNfw3kwpO_fQocDNvPCN9gHIHuv3_qgXpazlZlBivVAsT58/s640/blogger-image--1216667661.jpg"></a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-1715793607041563092015-10-18T11:40:00.003-07:002015-10-18T11:42:17.978-07:00Altruism and Helping Behaviour<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><i>Excerpts derived from “Altruism and Helping Behaviour” by Batson, Van Lange, Ahmad and Lishner (2007)</i></span><br />
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The long debate has raged for centuries from Plato and Aristotle, to St Thomas Aquinas, David Hume, Adam Smith and Friedrich Nietzsche. The majority view is that everything that we do including everything we do for others, is always done to benefit ourselves; we are unremitting egoists.</div>
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<li><i>Empathic joy</i> - the feeling of pleasure at seeing the person in need experience relief. The counterpart of this feeling is<i> empathic costs</i>. These are the discomfort you anticipate feeling because of the empathy you will feel for the person in need as they continue to suffer. </li>
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Reviewing the empathy-alruism research, as well as recent literature in sociology, economics, political science and biology, Pivialin and Charng (1990) concluded true altruism - acting with the goal of benefiting another - does exists and is a part of human nature.</div>
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Speculatively hypothesised, the most plausible answer for its existence relates empathic feelings to parenting in higher mammals, in which offspring live for some time in a very vulnerable state. As a result, it may promote one’s reproductive potential, not by increasing the number of offspring but by increasing the chance of their survival.</div>
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The collectivist motivation is a product of group identity. It is viewed as an enlightened version of egoism.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-26123261269666051612015-10-18T06:03:00.003-07:002015-10-18T06:05:44.705-07:00Of two designs in one night and a recognition from an influential figureMy most hectic schedule for this term is on thursday. On a normal basis, i deliberately choose to be unproductive after my classes end on a hectic day. But last thursday, i was unable to get my rest. I need to finish two illustrations in one night and on top of that, i have do some work for the society that i involved in. These are finished products.<br />
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This is a very simple design. The background is white and it does not have a lot of things going on. Just start forward message suitable for a small group meeting or sharing session.<br />
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As for this design, i tried the minimalistic style of poster design. This is my first time trying to emulate the style in an A4 sized art board. I really liked the end product and i am quite proud of myself. Alhamdulillah (Praise be to God). </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-68717128955866030872015-10-18T05:39:00.001-07:002015-10-18T05:39:24.081-07:00My #4 99designs contest entryIt was a t-shirt design contest that you are required to incorporate a joke about data. I came up with this.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-27204747140429851092015-10-18T05:34:00.004-07:002015-10-18T05:35:10.877-07:00My #3 99designs contest entryShort and sweet. I made the polygon-style H logo myself and the idea of the multiple coloured background is to show that the logo can be incorporated in many different background. However the most outstanding ones are those in the bottom image. One is white, clean, simple and very suitable for the company's current image. And another one is very professional-looking dark blue. Elegant.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-50004021766005231842015-10-18T04:55:00.001-07:002015-10-18T11:42:01.113-07:00Diffusion of Responsibility<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Excerpts derived from “Bystander Intervention in Emergencies: Diffusion of Responsibility” by Darley and Latane (1968).</i></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indirect intervention - to report it to someone qualified to handle it, such as the police. For this type of intervention, sex or medical competence does not appear to affect one's qualifications or responsibilities. Anybody, male or female, medically trained or not, can find the experimenter.</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-54907122820400881072015-10-11T00:11:00.000-07:002015-10-11T02:56:10.636-07:00Language<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Language is one of the branch of cognitive processes alongside memory, perception, thought, reasoning judgement and action. The primary form of language is speech and the secondary is written language.</span><br>
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<i>Dual articulation</i> - a stream of speech can be divided into meaningful signs (...the dog chases the cat...), which can be further subdivided into meaningless elements (cat, dog, chase). </div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">So, the first step is listing out the words and secondly shuffle it to make sense of it. And shuffling can be done in many different ways. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;"><i>"The finite number of components combining to produce an infinite arrangement of novel utterances is an important property of human language."</i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">It is about a subject. It has reference and aboutness.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">1. <i>Arbitrariness</i> - For example, 'cat' means cat in English language and 'cat' means paint in Malay language.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">2. <i>Productivity</i> - by knowing word and grammar, you can create a new word. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 16.5pt;">1. <i>Onomatopoeia</i> - word that resembles the source of the sound it describes. For example, "meow", "moo" and "bang". In other languages, "meow" is "nyan" (Japanese) and "yaong" (Korean).</span></div>
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3. <i>Sound symbolism</i> - low pitched sound for large (big, large, gross) and high pitched sound for small (teeny, tiny, petit)</div>
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<b><i>Animal communication also involves dialect and accent.</i></b> For example, songbirds in different region has different song. The same goes to whale song. As for primate language teaching, vervet monkeys can assign different 'alarm'/noise to different predator. However, at best the can only have language comprehension of a two-year-old.</div>
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Verbal sound is made by manipulating air pressure in the larynx (contraction and relaxation) and moving the tongue to allow certain amount of air to pass through. However, the tongue moves in between sounds and as you are making a sound, your tongue is simultaneously moving to the next sound. This is called <b><i>co-articulation.</i></b></div>
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<b><i>In human being, the fundamental frequency and pitch for male is usually lower for male than female.</i></b> However, until the age of 60 male's fundamental frequency and pitch gets higher and female's gets lower.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-36910873226852189132015-10-09T01:50:00.002-07:002015-10-09T11:21:09.202-07:00My #2 99designs contest entryThis second contest was a hectic one!<br />
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It was a Facebook banner for a heath coach.<br />
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My first design was eliminated for too much overall design. So i made three more.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-38856590181738141192015-10-09T00:55:00.000-07:002015-10-18T05:22:39.860-07:00My #1 99designs contest entryI really enjoy graphic designing!<br />
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As a spirit to broaden my portfolio in graphic designing, I challenged myself to enter online designing contest. I found the website, 99designs.com a long time ago but abandoned it until recently. I assigned my name as IzzathaikalMY and I was ready to go!</div>
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My first contest was a sponsored ads for Facebook to promote a book called, unWorking. The book is said to be similar to Tim Ferriss' book <i>4-Hour Workweek</i> or Robert Kiyosaki's<i> Rich Dad Poor Dad</i>. So i designed something of my own based on my own interpretation.</div>
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Long story short, my designs were eliminated. But overall it was a fun process.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-23756197360292612422015-10-09T00:17:00.001-07:002015-10-09T00:17:27.621-07:00On ImmortalityOne will die or more precisely one should die. The only way to become immortal is to leave a legacy that outlives one's age. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-51351373994839331102015-10-09T00:02:00.000-07:002015-10-09T00:09:20.728-07:00RM35.27Alhamdulillah,<br />
My first ever trade in Malaysian market (Bursa Malaysia) was a success. It was sort of a trial actually, to get the taste of what trading really is. My friend consulted me on the actions i need to take.<br />
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As for my first investment, i bought 120 lots of Systech stock at RM0.23 and managed to sell it at RM0.235. It was not a big number to be honest but fairly reasonable for a first trade.<br />
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I am lucky to befriended those who are inclined towards politics, economy and all of the scary stuffs. They taught me a lot.<br />
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How to start investing:<br />
1. Have interest. Search for investment classes.<br />
2. Open a CDS account - I chose Malacca Securities. Only your IC and bank statement are required.<br />
3. Pump in your money - preferably above RM5k to minimize the transaction cost.<br />
4. If you open at Malacca Securities, download M+ online app - easier on the go.<br />
5. Continue to learn from the more experienced.<br />
6. Download KLSE Screener app - for easier transaction calculation<br />
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Things to learn as a start:<br />
1. Market opens from 9am to 5pm (GMT +8), on a break from 12pm to 2.30pm.<br />
2. Familiarize yourself with the tools - e.g., Bursa Marketplace website.<br />
3. Leverage on technical analysis - learn to make sense of the graphs.<br />
4. Search for Shariah compliant counters only - for muslims.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-467521766538826162015-09-21T02:34:00.001-07:002015-09-21T02:34:34.295-07:00Go Area & No-Go Area<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Since religion deals a lot with moral compass, spirituality and philosophy, </span><div><div>one can say that religion exists simply to facilitate us to become a good person.</div><div><br></div><div>Religion by nature has an orientation. "Okay, this is good and this is bad" despite the possibility of a grey area that is highly malleable by the general population's perception. </div><div><br></div><div>Other branches of knowledge on the other hand have no orientation. Some options may suppress the basic feeling of guilt and shame. </div><div><br></div><div>Take chemistry for example. One can be a great chemist who cures cancer or an evil chemist who helps to produce weapon of mass destruction. In both cases, the acquired knowledge of chemistry is utilized. </div><div><br></div><div>Acquiring only other branches of knowledge besides religion is not enough to become a good person. </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-52816528788175522412015-09-21T01:58:00.001-07:002015-10-09T00:08:53.135-07:00Dishoroning Our Upmost Superior Quality<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04154681283278690080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6786182035699166945.post-80108096463791026022015-07-02T03:34:00.002-07:002015-07-02T03:37:37.449-07:00Big 5 Personality Test (30/6/2015)I didn't check on the website thoroughly but I think this result (and the test itself) is legit.<br />
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