Money or Life
Don’t get so caught up going after money that you forget to live. (Image from @Visual_Guide_)
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Children See, Children Do
You are your child’s first and most important teacher. They are watching and learning from you each and every day, whether or not you intend to teach them. Children learn more by observing the behaviour of adults and they try to copy it. This is sometimes called “observational learning”. Wherever they are, whomever they are around, children are observing and learning. “Parents try to...
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DON’T FALL INTO THE BEAUTY TRAP
by Afiqah Sumayyah Women and girls are being given the wrong message about beauty. Beauty today is associated with one’s body shape, weight, height and facial proportion, and relies entirely on marketers’ idea of what it means to be beautiful. This definition of beauty by advertisements and social media has created unhealthy expectations in society today. As a result, billions of people are...
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IS YOUR HANDPHONE DESTROYING YOUR FAMILY LIFE?
Many families today are spending more time “alone together” – they make less eye contact and have less face-to-face communication as they prefer to look at their handphones instead of at one another, even at the dining table. There’s a word to describe this unhealthy practice – phubbing. Phubbing (coined from the words “phone” and “snubbing”) means paying attention to your...
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THE PARADOX OF MODERN LIFE
“The paradoxical situation with a vast number of people today is that they are half asleep when awake, and half awake when asleep, or when they want to sleep.” ― Erich Fromm
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ARE WE SLAVES IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY?
“In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” — Ivan Illich
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Demand for Safety and Priority
Roads are designed for automobiles only. Not cyclists, pedestrians or children, old and handicapped. We, the normal healthy people, are all handicapped in many instances, imagine you with a family of 4 young children trying to cross a road with bags full of merchandise. All of the other road users besides the autos become afterthoughts of road design. The main purpose of roads design is speed...
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The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urgently calls on the government to ban violent e-games like the Player Unknown’s Battleground (PUBG) that was emulated by the terrorists who massacred people at the mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, recently. It is highly regrettable that the Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman claimed that such terror attacks should not be...
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CAP: Samsu, A Social Poison
Samsu is cheap intoxicating liquor, widely consumed by young people. CAP survey showed that once commonly consumed by estate workers and village folks it has now become a trendy drink among the urbanites. It is popularly drank by youths of all races and foreign workers. It has been a common practice among youth to mix samsu with cola or carbonated drinks or pour it into plastic bags with ice...
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