(5)Informal Letter

208  Blok 3 Jalan Jelawat,

17/1 Seksyen 17,

Shah Alam

40200 Selangor Darul Ehsan.

19th August 2011

Dear fortunate people in the world,
    I am writing this letter specially for you as i remember your present in my life. I am quite shocked as i know your condition, I am totally shocked when they said you are under depression. My friend, you are not like the one i know before. You look strong back then, you seems happy yesterday, but why have you be like this? Feels all alone with your life. Remember this my pretty friend, you are always in my heart.


    From my analysis, depression means a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well-being. You must be feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, or restless right now, right? My dear friend, there must be some ways or solutions for you to manage your problems. Here some advises for you.


    First thing to do is cultivate supportive relationships. You can turn to trusted friends and family members. Share what you’re going through with the people you love and trust. Ask for the help and support you need. You may have retreated from your most treasured relationships, but they can get you through this tough time. You have to think that everyone is there for you.


    Next, join a support group for depression.  Being with others who are dealing with depression can go a long way in reducing your sense of isolation. You can also encourage each other, give and receive advice on how to cope, and share your experiences. You are also advice to busy yourself by joining social activities. When you’re depressed, it feels more comfortable to retreat into your shell. But being around other people will make you feel less depressed.


    Then, challenge negative thinking. Depression puts a negative spin on everything, including the way you see yourself, the situations you encounter, and your expectations for the future. But you can’t break out of this pessimistic mind frame by “just thinking positive.” Happy thoughts or wishful thinking won’t cut it. Rather, the trick is to replace negative thoughts with more balanced thoughts.


    In a nut shell, dont feel depressed cause you are not alone in this world to handle your problems. Remember this, God will not test His servant if His servants could not endure. You can also try to go for a therapy, medication and lifestyle changes that can help you. Last but not least, i will always by your side in hard or easy time.


Your truly friend,
Shaky

(4)Paper, Plastic, or Something Better?-Article

http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/reusablebags.htm

    Do you know what is the better used as a carry bag for something that we bought from a supermarket? Do you still used plastic bag or paper bags? Do you know how much harmful the plastic is and how pollute the environment are when people using paper bag?

    Two or three years back then, we always talked about paper bag is the best user than a plastic bag. Now, people realize that both have their own disadvantages as paper bag will make the trees being cut legally or illegally. According to the American Forest and Paper Association, in 1999 the U.S. alone used 10 billion paper grocery bags, which adds up to a lot of trees.

    Nowadays people know that plastic bags is more dangerous than paper bags. Plastic bags cannot be degradable in ground. There are cases which aquatic organisms had died as they ate plastic for their mistake thinking that it is their food. Plastic is the substance where it takes about million or thousand years to be composed in the ground.

    As the article has been read, i know that the best way to solve this problem is by using reusable bags. We can see lots of reusable bags sold outside there. I can remember shops that started to sell reusable bags like The Body Shop, Cotton On, F.O.S, Topshop and etc. It is a high-quality reusable shopping bags made of materials that do not harm the environment during their production and do not need to be discarded after each use.

    Malaysia has taken a step to reduce the usage of plastic bags in the market by imposed RM0.20 for each plastic bag they wanted to use. This has been proved by the experimental that have been conduct in Ireland. It shows that Irish government has reduced consumption by 90 percent when they started introduced this method.

    As a conclusion, government, companies and everyone has to make their own precaution steps by decrease the usage of plastic or paper bags. Everyone should also think how to make plastic bags one of the biodegradable stuffs so that it can be used in a day life.

(3)Movie Review

    500 days of summer! What i understand about this movie is it is about the journey of Tom(acted by Joseph Gordon-Levitt)in 500 days where he met the girl he loves. He's the man who learnt architecture but he worked as a writer at greeting card company in Los Angeles. I can see that he is boring with his stuffs.
    On January 8, he met a girl named Summer Finn(acted by Zooey Deschanel) in a lift on the way up to his office. Summer does love the song that he heard and she did sang the song together. Actually, Summer is a new secretary of his boss. Tom started to show his interest towards Summer.
    Tom's friends realize that he started to like Summer. After a few months know each other, they began to be closed. But Summer does not believes in true love and she's not yet ready to have a boyfriend. Tom quite disappointed but he always try to win Summer's heart.
    Tom brought Summer to his favorite spot in the city. He loves to see the structure of all buildings but he said that parking lots disturbed the beauty of the ambience. After several times of dating, they had their first time argument when someone has flirted Summer.
   On day 290, they watched The Graduate movie that shows what true love is. They managed to ended up their relationship. Tom cannot accept their broke up and his friend did called his sister to give him some strength. Summer quits from her job.
   Tom has moved to the consolations department due to his mood which not able him to be in greeting department. His boss moved him after she saw that Tom was so depressed and it is not suit to happier event. Months later, Tom and Summer attended their co-worker marriage. They dance at the wedding and Summer catches the bouquet.
    Summer invites him to a party at her house. He attends the party but he leaves after he saw Summer is wearing her engagement ring. He returns to work and he quits his jobs. He decides to go to an interview to be an architect. He met a new girl named 'Autumn'.


Moral Values
As a human, we should not be easily give up. Tom has to continues his life although he lost his loved. And we should strive to get what we want. We also have to do our job zestfully. We should believe in true love because it is all God's creation. We cannot deny our feeling toward others. As a friends, we should support our friends in all condition whether its happy or sad.


Character That I Love The Most
I do loves the two best friends of Tom because they always support what Tom's do and they always be by his side when he got problem. They never leave Tom alone to go through his problem on his own. They make Tom happy when he feels cry and they always spend their time together.That shows how valuable your friends are.


My Opinion about This Movie 
I  would love this movie if  Tom and Summer being together. They complete each other. And Summer should not act like she does not believes in true love because love comes naturally without being force. Summer should not give any hopes to Tom because at last, Tom will be so frustrated. Tom also should not put high hopes to be in a relationship with Summer. But Tom has tried his best to win Summer's heart.


Conclusion 
In a nut shell, the whole movie brings the enjoyment to me. And it teaches me not to put something too high because if i cant achieve it, i will be suffer. And yet, we have to struggle to get what we want. Do not just easily give up with our failure but rise up to be somebody who learn from the mistakes.

(2)Article Review

http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongbeauty/tp/smiling.htm

    Smiling is a good habit for those who wants to look younger. Smile is the most fun way to prolong our life span. Smiling is the simplest way to stay beauty. So, do smile to everyone every second. But make sure that we give a very honest smile to others to make it looks as sweet as a candy.

    Smile can makes us more attractive. Someone can simply attract others attraction by smiling. Smile can brings a new aura for someone. So that she/he can be easily attract others to always watch them. By smiling, we can change mood of others. Let say someone has been disappointed on that moment and suddenly we sit besides him/her and smile to him/her. Probably he/she will automatically reply back the smile. So, it may turn their mood to the positive side and we help them forget about their problems.

    According to the study, smile is contagious. You'll influence everyone around you to smile. With smile, you will draw people to you. Smile also relieves the tense. Stress can be expressed by looking at someone face. So try to put on a smile to make you relief. As my friend told me, we used about 15 muscles when we smile while we used about more than 15 muscles when we sad or mad. So, keep on smiling.

    The facts of smile, you can prevent yourself from flu and cold. Smiling boost our immune system by make the immune system work better. As the smile sketched on the lips, immune function is improves possibly because we are more relax. It is also lowers the blood pressure. As we know smile can relieves stress so we can lower our blood pressure automatically because we are not under tense anymore.

    In a nut shell, everyone has to smile. Just smile and no need to talk much because smile has shown our personality. And remember this, prevent wrinkles from occur by smiling. It is not a burden for anyone because smiling is the simplest way to stay beauty.

(1)The Power of Time

    Every single thing we do is related to time. Time management is the most important thing for anybody. Time management of someone shows how success she/he is. Time is not waiting for us but we are always waiting for time and sometimes we did not full the time beneficially.
    Time is something so precious to me. We always hear others said that time is more valuable than a gold. Yes, i do agree with it because in one second we can find something that have the same value as a gold or may be it is more valuable than a gold. We have to stop by doing all the unworthy stuffs.
    Time also teach us to be somebody. As the time past, we have learnt a lot of lessons that make us strong. Life is never being perfect as long as people did not learn something from their mistakes. We should not afraid to flash in the pan because successful comes from failure. Once we failed, then we will always remember what have we done and yet we will strive to not do it again in the future.
    Teenagers regularly filled up their leisure time by playing games and gossip-ing. Men always be in front of their video games while women always gossiping, and story about others. They did not realize that they have wasted their time by doing all kind of activities which give them nothing to success. Maybe they have no time to make self-reflection, that is why they still and keep doing the same activities.
    Last but not least, to achieve greatness, people should first know how to manage time perfectly. Time is not something that we can rewind. And time never wait for us. So we have to conscious about what kind of activities we should do to fill in our time. And as a muslim, remember to stay away from the prohibitions of Allah.