The Effects of Smoking-Say NO to Cigarette!

Smoking is an unhealthy habit nevertheless it has become a normal phenomenon in our society. Smoking is said to be unhealthy because cigarette contains about 4000 different chemicals which can damage the cells and systems of human body. However, many people still think that the image of being a smoker is clever, cool or “grown up” especially to the youths. Smoking will bring many negative effects to us. Higher risk of getting diseases, affect the health of the babies and children, and affect one’s image are those negative effects of smoking.

   
   The chemical substances in the cigarettes such as tobacco, nicotine, tar, carbon monoxide and so on are harmful as they will cause many diseases to the smokers. Tar in the cigarettes will coat the lungs and can cause lung and throat cancer to the smokers. While the carbon monoxide in cigarettes will cause heart attack and stroke as it will reduce the amount of oxygen available to the brain and blood. This will result to the malfunction of our heart and brain. Besides, when a smoker is smoking, these harmful substances are drawn into the body where they interfere with cell function and cause problems ranging from cell death to genetic changes which lead to chronic diseases such as cancer and other circulatory diseases. The only one and final consequence from getting these diseases is death.

  
   Smoking will not only affect the health of the smokers, but also to their babies and children. A smoking of a pregnant female will greatly increases the risk of miscarriage, associated with lower birth weight babies, and inhibits child development. The health of the new born babies from a smoker would be affected because of the effects of the substances that the infants inhale when they are in the womb. Sudden infant death syndrome or cot death and higher rates of infant respiratory illness such as bronchitis, colds and pneumonia are those effects to the infants and children of the smokers. The smoking habit of the parents will ruin the future of their children because the health and intelligence quality of their infants and children would be weaker because of their parents’ smoking habit. Their infants will not grow up like the other normal children because of the effects of smoking.

   
   The image of a person will also be ruined by the cigarettes. It is because a smoker will have grey appearance, bad smell, yellow teeth, tooth decay and bad breath. These effects will affect one’s appearance and image. The smokers will leave a bad impression to other people when the others see their awful appearance. Their bad appearance and image will also affect their employment. The boss will not give a good impression to you if you have a bad smoker look and bad body odor when you attend an interview. Besides, your customer and colleagues will also dislike you when they always smell your bad breath and body odor. A good image is very important to a person in this society of the 21st century, so the bad image of a smoker is a disadvantage in this realistic society.

   
   As conclusion, smoking is a bad habit which will harm our life because it brings many negative effects to us. A small cigarette will not only affect the smokers’ health and images, but also threaten their infants and children’s life and future. Hence, we should avoid from become a smoker and advise the smokers around us to stop from being smoking in order to save them from death.

What is ICT?

Information Communication Technology (ICT) covers any products that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. The example of ICT devices are computer, mobile phone, digital television and more. ICT is an extended synonym of Information Technology (IT). It stresses the role of communication and the integration of telecommunication (telephone lines and wireless signals) , intelligent building management systems and audio-visual systems in modern information technology. 

  

   The phrase of ICT has been used by academic researches since 1980, but it became popular after it was used in a report to the UK government by Dennis Stevenson in 1997 and in the revised National Curriculum for England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2000.

   ICT is important in our daily life in 21st century. ICT is an essential ingredient in managing business processes of most organizations. Without the help of ICT, many business transactions and commerce activities cannot be carried out. For example, if one organization do not have any computer, it cannot calculate its loss and profits, it cannot communicate with other organizations via email, it also cannot get the latest information about the share market. Therefore, most of the organizations need ICT to help them managing their business processes. 

   Besides, ICT also improve staff productivity. Some daily routine of the organizations can be speed up by using computer if compare to using labor. For instance, if one staff want to record the daily routine of an organization, it is more productive to use the computer worksheet or spreadsheet compare to hand-written. The staff can produce more in the same time if he use computer but not hand-written. 

   ICT also helps to reduce administration costs. Many paper work can be reduce by the use of ICT. This directly reduce the administration costs of an organizations. For example, if an organization want send a formal notification to others, they can send the document by using e-mail instead of posting. 

   Furthermore, ICT also creates opportunities for new services, products and business ventures. The invention of ICT devices such as mobile phones and computers had created many new business opportunities because almost every one need an ICT device. For example, the amount retail outlet of ICT devices had been increased rapidly these years due to the rapid advancement of ICT field. The amount service center of ICT devices will also increased by the way. All these business opportunities are created because of the advancement of ICT today.

   People cannot live without ICT in today's societies. We should utilize the advantages the ICT and avoid from being abuse using the ICT devices because it would also bring disadvantages to us. 

STID 1103 COMPUTER APPLICATION IN MANAGEMENT

What is Computer Application In Computer? I never heard of these words before I entered UUM. I started to hear about this subject last semester-when my ex-roommate took it last semester. I always saw her studying this subject until midnight. She told me it is hard for her to understand the content of the subject because it involves much computer knowledge that we did not learn before. Hence, I start to afraid that I cannot handle this subject when I take it this semester. There are too many of slides that we need to study and too many computing knowledge that we need to learn. I still remembered I spent almost two weeks on study this subject just for handle the mid-term exam. When comes to the chapters about Word Processing and Spreadsheet, I need to follow all the steps on the slides and test them one by one on my laptop-it was time consuming. When I thought I had prepared well for the mid-term exam of this subject, I found that I was wrong after I opened my question sheets. There are a lot of questions that I never seen before in the past year papers and many unfamiliar terms that I cannot find on the slides I referred. I felt totally lost during the examination. I had not confidence to get good score on this paper-I had many questions that do not have confirm answers. After I finished the paper, I published one status on my social media site, Facebook: "This is so far the most exam paper that I had sat during my university life" I do not dare to think about the result. I know I will not fail but I think I cannot get good score as well for this paper. Fortunately, I am an easy come easy go person. I forgot about this worried feeling the few days later. However, I started to feel worried again when the lecturer said she was going to show the result of mid-term exam to us on the class this Sunday. The feeling came back again-I started to feel nervous again. As the lecturer scroll down the result sheet on the screen, I saw my Matric No.! But I cannot see my result yet because the scrolling speed is too fast. Later on, the lecturer showed us the result by scrolling down the sheet slowly. I waited for my Matric No. to show up patiently. Finally, I saw my Matric No., 219819! I saw my result. I get 75 marks! At the time I saw my result, I felt unbelievable because I never thought I can get such good marks in this paper! I cannot believe my eyes! Therefore, I wanted to make sure my eyes did not playing prank on me. I checked again my result when the result sheet scrolled down once again. This time I know my eyes did not playing me-I saw the same figure-75, an A-! I was so happy! This figure made up my day! I started to have interest on this subject since that day. Before that I only know to study the slides and get a pass on the exams. Although I know this subject is very useful on our future works, I still cannot force myself to like it because there is too much raw knowledge for me. Start from that day, I want to devote more time and passion on this subject. I cannot believe that a figure will make me so happy and start to change my view towards this "scary" paper. I hope I can learn up these computing knowledge through this subject and utilize them on my future job. I think STID 1103-Computer Application in Management-is the most useful subject that I take in this semester. It provides me much useful yet profound knowledge about computer and technology that I can apply on my future life. Therefore, I need to love this subject more start from today. Please love me-Computer Application In Management-ok?

What's Special About Me-An Extra Ordinary Girl?

This picture is taken nicely right?? Well, it was taken by my friend, Ewen. This picture was taken when I went to Dannok, Thailand last year. We took this picture beside a Mc Donald restaurant. In Malaysia we cannot find a Uncle Mc Donald figure that do a "SAWADIKAP" hand gesture like the figure did above. That's Thailand's special culture! Well, do you curious about the girls in the picture? The girl on the left is Feon. She is my ex-roommate. Ex-roommate means she is not longer living same room with me, which is a sad case for me. She is a cute girl, brilliant as well. She has a bright smile and a pair of bright big eyes. She is a Finance student in UUM. Opps....forgot to introduce myself. The girl on the right in me, the one with short hair and pink colour blouse. My name is Chan Si Fong, an UUM student too. I am studying Communication course right now. What's special about me? I do not know too. Just simply talking about my background first. I am 21 years old, a Johorean. I was coming Sintok, a jungle in Kedah, which is about 900 km far from my hometown, just for fulfil my university life. UUM, Universiti Utara Malaysia, in English is called Northern University Malaysia, is really located at the northeast part of Malaysia! Thailand is even nearer than Alor Setar from Sintok, which surprised me the first time I knew about that. My school is an unique school, which I believe is the only one university in Malaysia(or maybe in the world) that bounded by jungle. Well, bounded by jungle means the outsider who want to enter the university will only see TREES before they enter the campus. The whole campus is bounded by trees. The amount of trees is more than the man-made building. I think 90% area of UUM is made by these trees. I think my eyesight should become better after I came to UUM since everyday I see the trees more than I see everything else! Sintok is a rural area, means we cannot enjoy city life here. There is no Mc Donald in Sintok. The nearest Mc Donald outlet from UUM is located at Dannok, Thailand, which is the place that I took the picture above. There is no Karaoke, no big shopping mall(I wonder C-Mart counted as shopping mall?), no night life(although I never enjoy night life in my hometown), no cinema, no entertainment facilities that the youth want around the university. However, we have a lot of trees here, which is rare to be found in the city. Despite the lack of entertainment facilities around UUM, UUM is a beautiful and large university. The only one advantage of studying here is we can travel to many places around Kedah: Thailand, Perlis, Penang and other states that near Kedah. I do not have many chances to travel these places before I came to UUM because Johor is too far from here. Therefore, after I came to UUM, I have chance to visit those places. Aside from traveling around, I really do not find other activities that I enjoy to do in the university life. I seldom join university activities, because I do not want to get myself too busy. I have too much assignments to be handle-I think Communication course have the largest amount of assignments among the courses that UUM offered. Hence, everyday my life is full with assignment, assignment and assignment. This type of university life is really boring, so I talk to myself I need to participate more on other curricular activities in the next semester-trying to be more active but not get myself trouble with too busy life. I always say this to myself but at the end I also always failed to to this-never mind-I still have another 5 semesters to be spent at here. I had became an university student for about one year. The university life is really much different from secondary school-we do not have fixed classroom and fixed classmates. We met a lot of classmates every day, but after few months we may not meet each other at the same class anymore. I always see my classmates on the way I go to my lecture-too many of them-but we only say Hi and Bye. This is because every one is rushing for their own matters. I always walk very fast when I am in the campus-rushing for attend lecture, rushing for meeting friends or course mates, rushing for taking bus to go other places or go back to the dorm. About the matter of taking bus, that is a horrible experience for every students in UUM I think. Every time when we want to get on the bus, I feel like we are like the prisoner who want to break the prison-all of us want to get on the bus faster so we can go to another place faster. No one will queue up or show your their gentlemen manner and let you get on the bus first-even the guys. Every one is like "I cannot let you get on the bus first if I do so I will be late!" No way to be a manner person when it comes to taking the bus. It is a shame for us, the university students, to act like a person who do not know what is civilization. Although I myself also one of the kind, but I am being forced! Sometimes I do not want to get on the bus urgently but the people behind me always push me harshly so they can get on the bus faster! I do not even move my legs; someone behind me will "help" me to get on the bus. I wonder if they will die if they do not get on the bus the first before anyone else. Boys also do not show they are gentlemen when it is coming to get on the bus. This phenomenon make me speechless. How would the university students-the future leaders of the nation-behave like a "beast" like this? Despite from this, I still find the students in UUM quite friendly. I met many friends here, all of them are kind and helpful people. I thought I will met mean and wicked people in the university before I came here, luckily I have not met any one like this so far. Although I have not met some one that is really mean and wicked, I had met many types of people here. Some are clever, some are hardworking and some are lazy. However, I do not think I had met some one who is stupid, because the one who qualified to attend the university must have ability. So no one is stupid is the university, but there are many lazy person. The lazy I mean here is lazy to think, lazy to react and lazy to take action. As an university student, I thought every one should know how to be a hardworking person. However the reality is not. Many people that I met behave lazy. When it comes to assignment, they are lazy to search the information. They always say "I do not know", "I cannot find the information", "Can you help me to find those information?" etc. I had met many people like this when comes to assignment. Most of time when they came to me and tell me they cannot find some materials, I will find out in the end with just few clicks in the google. I do not know how much different my google with theirs. Why I can find those but they cannot? I really feel speechless about those called-university students' attitude. How could they survive after they graduate? Do they think their colleague and boss will help them every time when  they are lazy to think and act? This is a terrible phenomenon that I found among the university students here. Of course I also met some people which have high initiatives and always perform their best in their tasks, but the amount of this type of people is like the pieces of the iceberg. I really admire those people who have ability and capability to do anything even those things are challenging. They do not ask for others help before they had tried their best. This type of spirit is I hope to find on all the university students here. However, the reality is not as good as I imagine. There are too much of disappointment I found at this jungle, but there are still some happiness. I have an ambition that I want to achieve before I came here: my ambition is to become a translator or editor. However, my desire to pursue my ambition became lesser after I came to UUM. This is because the course offered here is not related to my desire career in the future. I fell totally lost when I found out I being assigned to study Communication course in UUM-this course and this university is not what I want. However, I still need to accept the reality. I still came to this jungle, I still try my best to study hard and get good result. God bless I did not disappointed myself- I received good result in the past two semesters. Although I am studying what I do not have interest in the first place(I do not hate it either), I still do not allow myself to loose up. I try my best in the assignments and tests. I want to get good result every semester and graduated with flying colour. After I came here, I start to wonder what I want to do in the future. I still do not have a clear idea about my future-what career do I want to pursue? However, one thing is certain-I want to get as excellent result as I can and gain as much knowledge as I can in these four years. I want to graduate successfully-my desire is to get the first-class honour degree. It is my dream currently. I do not want to think about my career first because I know the destiny will arrange for me. I do not think much after I came here. I do not care whether I can to pursue my ambition that I want to before in the future. All I care now is the degree certificate that I will get in 2016-I know this piece of paper will decide my future life. I am not trying to become a study machine- I am not because I do not study all the time. I just want to be an excellent student in these four years. An excellent student does not mean excellent in the exams only-it means excellent the thinking and behavior. Thinking is important for an university student. I found that many university students still do not know what is critical thinking. They only know how to study and memorize notes but when it comes to thinking they failed to do so. They do not have mature and critical mind. This is what I feel sad for Malaysian students. I know that I have a clear mind and a brain that do not lazy to function: I want to utilize my brain and think as much as I can in the coming years. I do not want to be a machine and only repeat the same routine every day. I know what I want to achieve and I will try my best to get it. This is me-an extra ordinary girl.