Electronic Communication and Its Trend

QUESTION : The world today is turning more to electronic communications such as the e-mail,    Facebook, and Short Message System ( SMS ). What is your opinion of this growing trend? Discuss.

Do you know that 23.8 billion people world wide rely on social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Short Message System ( SMS ), email and many more. Amazingly, these people are dare to admit that they can’t even live without those media. Why is that so? What had brought the guts in them to say so? Definitely because it must be some reasons behind this phenomena. It is shown that the social media have contributed significantly in the field of education, communication as well as in business.

First of all, media such as Facebook, is one of knowledge sources. Here is a simple example. ‘Doctors Group’ in Facebook is created and joined by many Facebook users with purpose of discussing on certain topics about medic. It can be about diseases, modern treatments or medicine. In such group, each member is free to contribute and share additional knowledge by posting his or her opinions. The discussion itself, may consist of question and answer ( Q&A ) session or sharing facts which can be expressed by posting educational articles and essays or through video clips. Therefore, these media have successfully established themselves as an effective alternative for learning instead of using books only.

Unavoidably, people have to stay away from their homes and families for any purposes such as for studying abroad or even for working outstation. They use media such as Skype, SMS, or video conference for long-distance communication. Let’s say a student in Egypt may use Skype to communicate live with his mother in Malaysia anytime when he needs a company. A busy VIP or businessman prefers to use video conference rather than going to the meeting place due to the matter of time and cost. Isn’t that clear enough to portray how the media are beneficial for communication means? Absolutely yes.

Malaysians nowadays, due to compact daily schedule, are more preferred to do online shopping. Hence, business runners may not want to miss this golden opportunity to widen their business. Wonder how this may relate with the media? Here is the answer. A boutique owner, let’s say, uses Facebook to advertise her products. By posting pictures of items together with their respective prices for customers reference, this can ease them to make purchases. Not only that, her business’s email  is also inserted for any enquiries, orders or complaints from customers. The buyers also are not an exception. They also need to have at least one email account to purchase as well as to make payment. From here, we can conclude that business can be developed more with the help of the media.

In a new era, people tend to change their lifestyle to adapt. This also applies to people nowadays where technologies are learned and mastered in order to ease one’s life. Media have been proven to be something important in our lives due to how they can be beneficial to us. Hence, we need to appreciate the media and use them for our own benefits.

WORLD AIRLINES AWARDS 2007

WORLD  AIRLINES  AWARDS  2007

 

RANK	AIRLINE	RANK 2006
1	SINGAPORE  AIRLINES	7
2	THAI  AIRWAYS	4
3	CATHAY  PACIFIC	3
4	QATAR  AIRWAYS	6
5	QANTAS	2
6	MALAYSIA  AIRLINES	9
7	AIR  NEW  ZEALAND	18
8	CHINA  AIRLINES	10
9	EMIRATES	5
10	BRITISH  AIRWAYS	1

Table above shows the rank of top-ten airlines that was declared at World Airline Awards on 2007. Included here is also the rank of those airlines for the previous year award as comparison.

Singapore Airlines was ranked first followed by Thai Airways and Cathay Pacific. Qatar Airways got the forth rank while Qantas the fifth. Our local airlines, Malaysia Airlines was in the sixth rank followed by Air New Zealand. The last three in the ranking were China Airlines, Emirates and British Airways respectively. Air New Zealand made the most increment; that is from rank 18 for the year 2006 to rank 7. Other airlines that also show an increment were Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways, Qatar Airways, Malaysia Airlines and China Airlines. Unfortunately, some airlines show a decrement in ranking like Qantas, Emirates and British Airways. British Airways show the most decrement that was from rank 1 plunges to rank 10. While others show an increment or decrement, Cathay Pacific kept its third rank constant from previous year until 2007.

From the data given, we can conclude that there was an unstable increasement and decreasement in term of rank by those airlines where some show an obvious increasement and decreasement while the other kept constant. All airlines must work hard to satisfy their customer's needs.

ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES

QUESTION : In today's world, we have taken the comforts of modern day conveniences for granted. These include electrical appliances and equipments like refrigerators, washing machine, and mobile phone. In your point of view, justify would you or wouldn't you give up all but one of these conveniences.

Being living in this millennium era, people nowadays become too dependent on modern conveniences such as electrical appliances and equipments. From the hardest to the simplest tasks like mopping the floor, machines are being used instead of doing it manually. It is absolutely impossible to continue the way we live our lives today without these conveniences. We cannot give up either one of these conveniences as they have their own specific functions as well as respective prices which can contribute economically to our country.

We regularly use the washing machine to wash our clothes or the television to watch our favourite shows. These indicate that each electrical appliances have their respective function that is beneficial to our lives. We constantly use these devices to complete our daily tasks. If you think these current devices can be replaced with a multi-task machine, you are totally wrong. Can you just imagine how thing is going to be if that single machine is suddenly broken? Wouldn’t that be a huge problem? Therefore, it is essential to possess these devices separately as to maximise their usage on specific tasks.

After all, it is better to have a variety of devices separately rather than a single device that complement all the tasks since they surely have distinctive prices. Here is an example. An electrical iron which we usually use is much cheaper than an LCD television. For a small-incomer family, I bet they won’t spend a lot on appliances which do not bring benefits to them. Imagine if the multi-task device is to be sold, it will surely be expensive and not affordable to all people. Plus, not all of the functions of that single device are needed for different people with different lifestyle. A housewife needs a washing machine more than a businessman, who uses laptop regularly, does. Hence, these electrical appliances have to be sold separately as to meet ones’ affordances in buying them.

We do realize that there are a lot of companies that sell different electrical appliances to the people such as Singer, Panasonic, Dell, Toshiba and a lot more. If we are to compare these companies selling the same convenience with companies selling different convenience in a particular country, don’t you think that the higher profit will go to the companies with variety of devices? This will indirectly contribute to the nation’s economy as these devices are charged with taxes which approximately ranged from RM 50 up to RM 200 per devices, depending on the brand. These companies surely compete with each other to win the people’s hearts to consume as well as to purchase their products. Thus, this will create a healthy competition among the companies which eventually bring our national economy to a higher level.

In the nutshell, we would like to stress on the fact that all electrical appliances have their own unique functions and thus, making it impossible for us to choose only one device to live with. Here is a simple analogy. You have a mum who can do everything for you and can act like your other family members. Do you prefer to live with her alone or together with the other members who, of course, are special in their own ways? Therefore, think wisely before you decide on something so as not to cry over spilled milk.

Legal Immigration Must be Stopped

Do you know that the total amount of immigrants in Malaysia now has surprisingly reached about three times the population in Singapore? Our country is constanly being changed into an alienated land. Are you willing to risk your country for that? Definitely no. Therefore, legal immigration must be stopped in order to maximise manpower of Malaysians as well as to reduce money spent and problems associated with these immigrants.

First of all, the major factor of a nation’s success lies in the hands of its people. Instead, Malaysia is now being too dependent on immigrants. We can see nowadays that a lot of Indonesian employees are being imported especially for construction field. Even though they are legal immigrants, their presence obviously restrict our manpower to be maximised. A lot of different fields from babysitters to business owners are now being dominated by these outsiders. These jobs opportunities should be offered to our own citizens so as to achieve success purely by Malaysians themselves.

As a human being, immigrants also have their rights for basic needs such as shelters, monthly payments and also health insurance. This will indirectly make a decreament on our nation’s economical status. For instance, when an immigrant worker involved in an accident at his workplace, the employer which is usually a Malaysian, has to pay for his hospital bills as well as his life insurance if the injuries involve any lost of his physical capability or even that cause him death. Those money actually can be used for other beneficial  purposes rather than being spent on someone who cannot be sured to stand and fight for our country.

Like we all know, each citizens of a country has been taught, whether in school or at home, to love their country and to have strong spirit of patriotism since childhood. These is also being instilled among these immigrants. Such norm might put our people in a big risk. How is that so? When two governments got into some political misunderstandings, the immigrants of respective countries will defend their homelands by any means such as riot or dreadful threat. This action is clearly observable when the Indonesian immigrants shout out “ Crush Malaysia” in October 2009 over a simple misunderstanding on culture. During this period, our people suffered from  a  horrible experience of scaredness and insecurity, which should have been avoided from the first place.

We do realise that our government together with all Malaysians are putting our whole hearts and efforts to bring Malaysia into a fast-developing country by the year 2020, which I believe excludes the immigrants. Therefore, a paradigm shift is totally needed to establish the importance of Malaysians, not the immigrants, to make Vission 2020 into a reality. Once again I would like to highlight the fact that Malaysia does not need immigrants at all to be developed. Just bear in mind, we are 1Malaysia and we are one nation.

PRINCESS'S DIARY

Hmmm...here our first task. We were assigned to make a 350 words essay entitled " Legal Immigration Must Be Stopped". like it or not, the assignment must be settled before the dateline...which is just AROUND THE CORNER....!!!

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