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Another interesting major event that will be held in this coming macrch, the 29th Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair (KLIBF) which will be organized  from 19th to 28th March 2010 at Putra World Trade Center (PWTC). Organised by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia through the National Book Council (MBKM), together with the Malaysian Book Industry [...]

It is universally accepted that humor, in most of the situation, considered a great way to entertain a large number of people. This is a reason why cracking jokes have been a universal thing found in all countries of the world in one form or the other. A joke is a short and funny story, [...]

Few weeks back as usual I’ve attended my leadership development course, nothing special about the lecture, its typically academic and theory plus some leadership examples of global and local leaders. The professor successfully enhanced our perception of leadership and what is leadership all about. One of the most significant characteristic of a leader is that [...]

First of all what is a critique all about? Some may say that it just simply a paper that gives a critical assessment and evaluation of a book or article. Critique will be dependent on its objects, but its objects will in turn define the very meaning of critique. the primary task of critique will [...]

Another interesting topic discussed in my Leadership Development class guided by Associate Prof Dr. Azahari Ismail of UPM which I think worth sharing here. These five types of friend are actually derived from the main topic discussed yesterday regarding ‘Self development As a strategy of Human Resources Development”, and among several elements to instill self [...]

Nowadays everybody should acknowledge the existence of blog as an emerging trend in social interactive communication, I’ve came across another interesting academic finding on the usage of blog in this millennium age.  The journal article titled ‘The blog as a high-impact institutional communication tool’ written by Tom Goodfellow and Sarah Graham, from University of Sydney, [...]

I’ve came across an interesting journal regarding how gender contributes personal tendency to  frequent blog posting. The journal titled “Gender differences in reasons for frequent blog posting” was done by Hsi-Peng Lu and Kuo-Lun Hsiao, from the Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan and published in Online Information [...]

Some people simply said “I Can’t Accept Criticism….”, and our quick response to them is of course your are, and as a matter of fact, if you still don’t know, no-one enjoys being criticized. And it might interest you that probably not many people enjoy doing the criticizing either, ..except maybe those who need to [...]

Generally, hypothesis transform a general idea into a plan for what to look for, Hypothesis presents the researcher’s expectation about the relationship between two or more variables. (Ary, Jacobs and Sorensen, 2010). Hypothesis is defined as “a logical supposition, a reasonable guess, an educated conjecture. It provides a tentative explanation for a phenomenon under investigation.” [...]

The background of the problem is longer than the statement of the research problem itself. It is one of the determinant factors that give significant impact on research, it should explain the origins of the research question or problem, drawing on researcher’s preliminary reading. All cited materials should be presented with specific references, prepared according [...]

Here comes another interesting assignment relating to adult learning process, this time our group will be focusing on some learning processes by villagers who participate in Homestay tourism industry. Homestay or ‘Inap Desa’ in Bahasa Malaysia is a form of accommodation where the tourist can live with the chosen host family and has the opportunity [...]

Participation in Adult Education (AE) is largely based on voluntary activity and the adult themselves can choose whether to participate or not in the learning activities. Kim et al (2004) described that adults participate in various types of educational activities to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for them to succeed in the workforce, earn [...]