Saturday, May 9, 2009

The future of the world

In tomorrow’s world, there will be changes that are truly mesmerising and jaw-dropping and each of us will be virtually transformed and shipped into a whole new area that is so different and atypical to our present lifestyle. The changes may come in various shapes and sizes, but it remains to be seen whether there are for the better or worse. Of course, it is everyone’s hope and aspiration that these irrefutable revolution and transformation will make our lives better in every aspect but if current record and situations are to be any indications, we will be in for a rough and bumpy journey ahead. From the environment perspective, global warming will show its true colour at an increasingly faster rate than initially expected if we continue to ignore the absolute importance of resolving the long standing quandary at its very root causes. The consequences of our ignorance and lackadaisical attitude towards this predicament are already well known by many but still, we have not reached that level where each and every individual living on earth actually shows true commitment and passion in nipping the problem in the bud. When ignorance sets in, we will be blinded with the contentment of life at present. We will not be able to look far in the future and we feel contented with our present way of life and do nothing to correct the wrongs and save the future of the world. What will the future generations think of us when they suffer the full effects of this crisis in their lives? The biggest problem in the world could be solved when it was small with the right determination and mindset. The same goes to the other major issues affecting the world as well like the infamous and continuing wars and conflicts, nuclear and terrorist threats, food and water shortages, deadly and infectious diseases such as the bird flu, economic downturns which will cause inflation, natural calamities caused by other phenomenons and the list will go on endlessly. As humans, we will face great hurdles and challenges as we go through our life. We live as one and all of us share the same home, that is earth and we carry the ultimate responsibility to cure it from all the sicknesses portrayed above. These are just a tiny fraction of some of the many concerns that really need our utmost and undying attention to make this world a better place for all of us to live together as one. While most of us are filled with enthusiasm what the world will hold for us next, the best way is still to work and work hard towards creating and achieving all the dreams and desires. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Compassion, understanding and empathy are very much needed in our world today. There is no other way other than working together unconditionally and wholeheartedly as one race and identity as the human race. What the world will be like tomorrow wholly depends on us. We have the power to either destroy it or make it better. As humans, we have our own strengths and weaknesses. A wise person will use his or her strength to the fullest to help, motivate and inspire others to achieve what is right for them and find their voice and true visions in life. The world lays out the path for us and works as the platform for us to help others in need and seek peace and prosperity. We are born to help others and bring them joy, hope and fulfillment. One undeniable aspect that will occur in tomorrow’s world will be the rapid development and modernisation. Technology will cultivate and develop at a rate that has never been seen before and utterly leaves us flabbergasted. We may soon find ourselves enjoying the luxury of travelling airborne inside our cars at an incredible speed and handphones will be historic with the widespread use of sophisticated multi-functional watches that can give you any information at the press of a button. Time travel may be possible and we may be mingling with the Neanderthals or even running away from T-Rex or the mammoth. I also do not rule out the possibilities of mankind setting foot on Saturn or even Pluto or building a gargantuan colony on Mars. Science will play a pivotal role in the future in shaping the right conditions for us to live comfortably. The million dollar question is how all these scientific successes will benefit mankind when we cannot even settle problems back home and work together to find solutions to these dilemmas as mentioned above? Advancement comes with a price and sometimes, it will be a heavy one too. As society embraces science and technology, everyone will be ultimately bitten by the technology bug and the social and moral values will soon decay and eventually wiped out from the norm of mankind. There is no need to look far beyond the future as this occurrence is happening right here and now. I always like to emphasise the underlying need to resolve the key concerns affecting the world as long as we live to create a better prospect not only for ourselves but for the generations to come. As Gaylord Nelson put it, ‘The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for the future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard’. There has been too much focus on the bright side of the world in the future without actually taking remedies to heal the current maladies. I strongly and fervently believe the power of the people on earth to stand up together and show the strength, fervor, eagerness and determination to bring changes for the better and eventually opening a whole new chapter for mankind that is based on the spirit of unity, togetherness and harmony. The earth is very much like our own body system. To function properly and effectively, it needs all the cells, tissues, organs and systems to work together. Even if one part of it breaks down, then the whole body will be affected. We are all in the same boat and when there is a hole in one part of the boat, then all of us will sink together. This aptly applies to the situation in our world today. To keep the world alive and running, all countries, people and other inhabitants need to work hand in hand without prejudice and insularity. To put two and two together, we must truly and always remember that we belong to one big family and we are all inhabitants on this wonderful earth. At this point in time,what really matters is the need to come together and pledge our dedication and love for the world. We belong to the most important race that is the human race. My aspiration for tomorrow’s world is to create a loving and caring society that consists of compassionate, benevolent, tolerance and kind-hearted people that will chart a new course for the world. Each and everyone of us carries an extremely heavy responsibility to make tomorrow’s world a better place for all and to ensure a prosperous and harmonious society.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Sekolah kebangsaan peneraju wawasan

Tonggak kejayaan seseuah negara datang daripada perpaduan serta kekuatan rakyatnya.Kita merupakan contoh terbaik di mana rakyat kita yang berbilang kaum.agama serta budaya dapat membangunkan negara bersama-sama selama lebih 51 tahun kemerdekaan. Tidak dapat dinafikan terdapat pelbagai dugaan serta cabaran yang dihadapi dan keadaan semasa sememangya tidak menyakinkan berbanding keutuhan perpaduan yang dinikmati sebelum ini. Kita perlu mengambil langkah tepat dan segera dalam meyelesaikan kemelut ini untuk mengelakkannya daripada bertambah parah.Banyak persoalan telah dikemukan dan jalan penyelesaian cuba dirungkai bagi mengukuh serta megutuhkan perpaduan kaum seperti Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN).Saya sememangnya berpegang kuat dan percaya kepada kelebihan dalam memupuk perpaduan pada peringkat awal iaitu sejak dari sekolah rendah lagi. Sistem pendidikan terutama di peringkat sekolah rendah perlu diberi perhatian yang mendalam kerana pada peringkat inilah generasi pelapis negara dibentuk,dididik dan diasuh mengikut sistem dan acuan berteraskan perpaduan untuk menjadi insan yang berjiwa tinggi dan berpatriotik.Sekolah kebangsaan perlu diperkasakan dalam semua aspek supaya dapat dijadikan pilihan masyarakat.Sememangya ia amat baik dan terbukti berkesan dalam membentuk generasi muda yang dapat menghayati erti perpaduan dengan cukup menyeluruh dan mendalam. Inilah langkah serta pendekatan terbaik untuk melahirkan bangsa Malaysia yang bersatu padu dan berjiwa patriotik. Di sinilah bermulanya medan percampuran antara kaum di mana setiap kaum dapat berinteraksi,berkenalan,belajar,bermain serta menghabiskan masa bersama selama kebih kurang 6 tahun di sekolah rendah. Peringkat ini merupakan peringkat yang paling penting dalam membentuk serta mengasah keperibadian seseorang murid dalam apa jua bidang dan semestinya dapat membentuk perpaduan yang sejati dan berkekalan. Masyarakat umum perlu didedahkan dengan kebaikan sekolah kebangsaan yang merupakan wadah terbaik untuk memupuk perpaduan,semangat patriotisme dan kesetiaan dalam jiwa dan raga generasi muda. Sememangya, tempoh 6 tahun yang pertama untuk kanak-kanak akan menberikan dan meninggalkan impak yang cukup besar dalam attitud,kelakuan,pemikiran,prinsip serta pegangan mereka dan apabila ditambah dengan program yang lain seperti PLKN,mereka akan dapat mengenal erti sebenear perpaduan dan keharmonian masyrakat sebagai rakyat Malaysia. Segala persepi negatif serta tanggapan salah masyarakat terhadap sekolah kebangsaan perlu ditepis dan diperbetulkan dengan menberikan penerangan serta penjelasan yang menyeluruh.Begitu juga dengan sebarang penambahbaikan serta pembaharuan yang perlu dijalankan dalam menjulang sekolah kebanggsaan ke tahap yang lebih baik dari segi jenis subjek pengajaran sehinggalah kepada infrastruktur sekolah. Saya sememangya berasa cukup bangga sebagai seorang bekas pelajar sekolah kebangsaan dan dapat melihat sendiri kebaikan dan keberkesanannya dalam merealisasikan hasrat serta matlamat negara dalam melahirkan masyarakat yang bersatu padu,setia dan berpatriotik selaras dengan konsep 1Malaysia.Inilah kualiti yang tersemai dalam sanubari hampir kesemua pelajar sekolah kebangsaan kerana mereka telah didedahkan dengan suasana perpaduan yang mencerminkan masyarakat Malaysia yang sebenar.Saya menaruhkan kepercayaan yang menggunung bahawa sekolah kebangsaan merupakan wadah terbaik dalam memupuk perpaduan utuh pada masa kini dan juga selama-lamanya. Sejarah telah membuktikan bahawa kita boleh berjaya dalam mengatasi apa sahaja krisis serta dugaan yang menimpa sekiranya kita bersatu dan tidak mengenal erti putus asa. Kita telah menempuh segala kesusahan dan hidup bersama dengan aman damai selama lebih daripada 51 tahun kita mencapai kemerdekaan dan inilah masanya untuk kita berganding bahu dalam memperkasa serta menjulang kedaulatan,martabat serta pembangunan negara ke tahap setinggi angkasa..Sesungguhnya,tiada yang lebih penting daripada berbakti serta berkorban kepada negara tercinta dan semangat inilah yang harus disemai dalam dada setiap rakyat jelata. . Semangat perpaduan utuh, toleransi, bekerjasama dan permuafakatan mesti disemai dalam hati dan minda setiap anak jati Malaysia. Proses transformasi negara ke arah negara maju yang berteraskan modal insan yang berkualiti dan dapat menjulang nama bangsa yang dilalui sekarang haruslah dipermudah, diperkembang dan dipercepatkan perjalanannya supaya generasi kini dan masa depan dapat menikmati hasilnya. Kita mestilah bersatu padu, komited dan berdiri teguh untuk menghadapi apa-apa cabaran yang bakal dihadapi sepanjang proses pembangunan ke arah kemajuan ini dan berfikir jauh ke hadapan dan terus meyokong dan mendukung segala hasrat dan usaha kerajaan untuk kebaikan bersama. Proses pembangunan yang cukup pesat telah kita lalui sebelum ini dam marilah kita bersama-sama mencurahkan segala keringat dan pengorbanan untuk menjadikan segala aspirasi, hasrat dan dasar kerajaan terutamanya konsep 1Malaysia sebagai realiti dan mengharumkan nama negara di persada dunia.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Time

In this avant-garde, refined and sophisticated world today, we are drawn to confront innumerable impediments that can emphatically change the way we live our life. The continuing altering world at this point in time brings boundless of quandaries to the community at large and the prospect of globalisation and urbanisation will always remain in our daily life, thus resulting in the escalating annihilation of the environment. We must set the record straight that while we need development and modernisation to bring up a country, the sake of the environment should never ever be compromised. The consequences will be devastating and detrimental to the world that seems to be in a revolution. In this perception, time plays a deciding role in saving our beloved planet and brings it to its right path. The threat of global warning is ceaseless and experts predict that the earth will suffer very serious corollaries in the next 50 to 100 years. We must act now and take the bull by the horns to have any hopes of saving the world in the near future. It is the time factor that will decide everything and the fate of our planet. Just take a look around us. Developed countries such as USA, Russia, Germany, Britain and others are very committed towards the successful upbringing of their respective motherlands and the end result will surely affect the whole population in the world. Developing nations also do not want to be left behind and all of them are striving very relentlessly to be on par with all the powerhouses of the world and again, the upshot will be detrimental to the younger generations in the future. It takes a very mammoth and intense endeavour to turn things around and we must appreciate every second that we enjoy now as there is not much time left to try and save the environment and at least ensure the survival of our adolescents in the years to come. If the current trend continues, the globe will soon have its day and it will be the very end of all organisms on it. We cannot afford to be self-centred and turn our back on the future generations of the world. As we all comprehend, the environment’s substances to us are abundant and fathomless and should thus be given the uppermost priority by each and everyone of us in this vastly world. There is an imperative correlation between the utilities of the environment and our daily living. This is perceptibly an incontrovertible piece of information that ought to be granted a fundamental rejoinder by the civics. All of the public figures, in particular, should blaze a trail by practising the ever elemental preservation of our supreme ecosystem besides coming out with a number of first-rate ideas to change the mindset of the community who plays a significant role in the corrosion of the natural world. It is exceptionally indisputable that we are the main ‘perpetrators’ to the worsening condition of nature lately. There are indubitably plentiful of methods to disentangle the immense predicament that is irrefutably disconcerting all and sundry of us in this futuristic as well as contemporary world in this day and age. The elucidations are right out there, waiting to be fully utilized and exploited but it is unreservedly demoralizing to discern that we ourselves do not even perturb to pay heed to all these circumstances and instead bestowing to the intensifying extermination of the environment. This kind of unconstructive attitude must be eradicated at all cost to ensure the ever noteworthy prolongation of our natural world’s perpetuation and fortification. It is conclusively high time for all of us to eventually come up with the best ever solutions to annihilate the staple cause of the environment’s decrepitude. It is an eminent fact that it is exceedingly labyrinthine to instigate the easier said than done modus operandi that are implemented to deal with this much-talked about conundrum. In spite of this, we should take show a bold front and act conscientiously as well as meticulously to facilitate the progressions that will be embarked on. One of the bounteous of methods includes regular monitoring of the logging activities that are unquestionably becoming more rampant nowadays. This enigma is contributing loads of problems to many countries in this world. The authorities should take a pivotal note of this long disregarded enigma that will incontestably pose a perilous threat to the most of the nation’s assets if not repressed promptly. Let’s take our much-loved nation, Malaysia for instance. While we all understand that industrialisation and modernisation are fundamental for our nation’s growth and advancement, we clearly cannot afford to forgo our precious green forests, exquisite rivers and scenic hills at the extent of them. It has undeniably been a way of life for the malefactors to perpetrate such a detrimental endeavour. They manifestly are deficient in the desirable inventiveness to ultimately face up to the prospect that their licentious act can be ruinous not only to the well-being of them, but the whole society as well. The government should therefore take unyielding measures to obliterate these delinquents and their hinge of activities. Tightening the issuance of licences to the loggers will ameliorate the disintegrating situation substantially. Although it may seem convoluted to implement this course of action, we must not capitulate to these sinners. Extra vigilance should be given to the existing rulings to deal with these law-breakers so that amendments can be made with the object of giving the early admonition to them. It attests to be effectual when it comes to immobilizing their egocentricity acts in certain countries. This will serve as the icing on the cake when the government thrives in curtailing the deleterious upheavals that they created. When contemplating about this substance, we should not merely place the whole obligation at the hand of the government and just stay back to watch all the dignitaries carry out their respective tasks. The best ever methodology to staunch this incessant enigma is to work hand in hand with people from all walks of life irrespective of age and status. It is only with the undivided support as well as full collaboration with the populace that will invigorate the much-awaited results. Public feedbacks are affectionately welcomed in view of their effectiveness in bequeathing the government the entire requisite assessments and outlooks to further alleviate the already mounting government’s errands. The laypeople ought to acquaint the authority proviso they stumble upon any phenomenon such as illicit logging and the process of smuggling them out of the country to be sent abroad to many other places. This kind of injudicious act can substantiate to be a peril to the nation’s spiralling of assets and mammon of the inestimable green and refreshing trees regardless of their kinds. The setting up of a committee board to address the public’s rejoinders and apprehensions regarding this quandary is evocatively welcomed by every one of us in sight of the contemptible system that was unanimously practised by the authority in the past. It is merely because of this predicament that dampens the extensive preventive predetermines that have been outlined. All these measures do not apply only to Malaysia alone as they can be implemented worldwide with the same effectiveness. There are countless of facets if we are keen to articulate about the relapse of the cherished environment and it is not only about the continuing felling of trees that triggers us to press the panic button that we should have done long ago when the circumstance is still very much under control. The upshots of global warming are beginning to accumulate and these will incontestably cause a major trepidation and high corollary on all the inhabitants on earth. Catastrophes like hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, tropical storms and many other disasters have over the years gather more and more strength due to the altering course of environment as well as the weather. Most of us certainly are on familiar terms with this horrendous verity but again, it is predominantly because of the ever existing public apathy that truly thwarts all the methodically planned illuminations to this long standing predicament. Something have got to be done dexterously, adroitly and of course, with alacrity in order to combat this so called critical tight spot that has been beleaguering the infinite society irrespective of age, races and also religions. Educational and gratifying programmes should be started in full swing and at the early stage; obviously, with the intention of targeting the adolescences and the young ones that will one day take over the helm of a certain country. All the steps that are being engaged by the authorities to inculcate the much needed environmental awareness on the teens are longed-for to nip this quandary in the bud. It is highly recommended for the authorities to instigate a subject about the environment that can be taught in the primary school. This move will unquestionably substantiate to be an unambiguous coup in changing the stance of the people. To put two and two together, it is all in our very own hands to save the situation from becoming serious and cause losses that will run into billions or will generate more and more destructive forces that will leave a trail of destruction and sufferings for the people. All is not lost yet and we still have time to revolutionise the whole world. That is why time brings such a momentous hope for all of us here to really open our very eyes and see the actual situation that is happening now. I once again stress that the time that we have now should be cherished unreservedly and be used to pull off all the methodologies to save the greenery of the world before it is too late for us to do anything. Hopefully, all these notions will serve as an eye-opener to all individuals living in this wonderful world of ours. We live only once and there is no turning back. Let us all pray hard that this quandary can be solved with the right approach and keen collaboration by all for I strongly believe that success can only be achieved through interminable exertion and steadfastness by all parties.