Saturday, July 21, 2012

Back to the Future : Love our Nature

Tupah is a recreation park located around 30km from Sg Petani town. Since school days, it has been a great fresh water picnic spot for me and my family beside the Chandi Batu Pahat, which is located another 15 km. It was once covered with big trees making it a cool relaxing place. The water is always cold and fresh, flows from the nearby mountain, the so call highest peak of the northern region, Mount Jerai which is the background scenary of this place. It has public facilities , but somehow poorly maintained, for the last 20 years, like most of the free recreational park.  Like most, not all of course.

I had camped there for nearly 3 times with my friends, enjoying the nature.  My friends and me used to create our own song during the camp called "Thrash Tupah", a lyricless and coherence melody, sang repeatedly with Kapok guitar, sitting on the stone, looking stone. Looking stone only , but we didn't do drugs.  By then, we were already 1Malaysia. Malay, Indian, Chinese. We camp, we ate , we swam, we fish and we slept together, without feeling any prejudice to each other. We shared  stories that I believe not many Malaysians have heard before. Imagine,  three major races talking about their cultures, sub-cultures, stories like that. Undercover stories and stuffs like that. Who dares to share now openly? So if Datuk Najib wants to find icon for 1Malaysia, I have a group of friends who pioneered this spirit, more than 20 years ago. We were taught about this concept while we were in Scouts. Scouts are brothers, regardless of race, religions or your skin colors. As simple as that. It is just not about acceptance, we simply live together.

Today, I took my kids to this place. And my parents whom always like sight-seeing, joined our simple picnic. Few weeks back, I promised my kids a swimming pool kind of vacation but anyhow we went to Cameron Highlands. What a pretty screw up trip ! Reached CH around 11pm, no vegatables to cook (already late , 11pm, all shops almost close). Took off the next morning after having had one of the most expensive breakfast "gerai type " food in Malaysia. So, this trip to Tupah, a day before Ramadhan is meant to give them the chance to get wet in a pool as promised. Without having to pay for a 4 stars hotel rate of course.

After 20 years, of course, I wouldn't put a high hope for this place. Understood the urbanization process. Anyhow, not much of an urban area. Just a UITM campus built nearby, many years ago. One thing for sure is that the green jungle scenery is now like 50 percent dissapeared. After clearing I dont see much progress or development. Not sure what is the purpose of clearing the trees. I do see a work in progress for some sort of water conservation project. Just a walking distant from our picnic spot today. Earlier, we drove to the end of the road towards the army camp. Not many shops were in business. We were looking for the famous Rojak or Laksa but none were available. Only some "goreng pisang" and ice-cream hawkers. I nearly break something at the bottom side of my car while ascending on a very steep slope. I was trying to search for a more suitable picnic spot. Away from the Mat Rempit groups (wild motorbikes riders).

Like any other recreational park, Tupah is a symbolic area for those who love nature. It is a place where  nature brings together friends and my family. Unfortunately my kids today couldn't really  see the actual serenity and the green forest as what I have seen in the past. The water now is also flowing slowly and lesser compare to the past.  Rubbish are everywhere like nobody business.

And today, most people are worry about the water quality and the risk if Leptospirosis disease. Few cases reported out in Kedah district. The mother nature is really frustrated with us. On the way back to Sg Petani, I saw a big billboard next to the Sg Petani Utara highway entrance. The message reminds the people about the need to take a good care of our tourist attraction centers. Which include the recreational park of course. Both public and authority should play a more vital role in preserving the nature.


Link to for details of this place.

http://northern.malaysianaturalheritage.com/?p=149







Tuesday, July 17, 2012

To buy of not not to buy

Like any other kids, I know that one day I had to face the reality that they will be released to the real world on their own. No choice that I have to let them socialize , be with friends and spend time outdoors. In fact now, there are. They attended morning religious school at 7.45am, then go to their relieve nursery at 11.00am , then leave for school at 12.30pm until 6.30pm. And during night, they attended the Koran reading class until 9.30pm. And yet , they still insist to go for tuition.  They are now 8 and 9. When I was at their age, I guess I have much more longer free time compare to them. I already had a bicycle own my own, small bike, enough to take me to the nearest grocery shops to buy daily stuff for my mom to cook. The most famous items were grinded coconut or my mom calls it "Kelapa Parut" , fish , vegetables etc. In the afternoon, I will cycle to my friends house or the nearest soccer field, we will play together until dawn, or until one of the kids told us that our parents are looking for us. Then we shall stop and go back home.  Those days,  back in 80's, most of the games were outdoor , even though I used to own video games and stuff like that  , but still, outdoor adventures were much more fun. I do remember, how i beg my parents to buy me a bike. Almost daily follow up until I got one. Those days, not having one means you are out of the social network.

Few years back , my wife bought them a small bike each, which only last less than a year, before the accessories were vandalized and removed, by them. No more brakes, handles were also being broken off and spoilt tires. Now they became scrap metals at the backyard of our house. Recently the desire in them to have another set of bike came back, since some of their peers are riding here and there. I told my wife that sooner or later, these kids will go into the real world, that we would have no choice than to release them. I just hope that I could delay this process, even though it is inevitable. Delay is one thing, but most importantly is to figure out how to release them correctly and decently. Things around us are much more different than those days.  Crime rates, unexpected people, are increasing. These days people got lots of wild ideas from the internet, so you are hardly can guess what can go wrong around you. At the same time, I am also wishing them to be extroverts. Get socialize, build some network on their own and learn some leadership. These are equally important. So, to my kids, Intan and Adam, be patient , the world is always not enough. So to buy or not to buy a bike , it's just a matter of time.










Monday, July 16, 2012

Late start for 2012



2012 seems to be moving too fast and too furious for me. I don't know exactly why , but I guess there were lots of routines and issues needed to be resolved, more than the previous years of course. I wish to catch up with the time. It's already July now, and next week is the fasting month of Ramadhan.

Approximately two years ago, my father was admitted to the hospital due to mild heart attack, and then the medical team conccluded that he is having a chronic kidney disease. He recovered two months after the admission and early this year, he had another angina attack , and again recovered. Syukur Alhamdullilah for the speedy recovery. Also thanks to those people who had involved, friends and families. Most and foremost, my mother who had been there every single seconds. By default or not, she delivered the result. She definitely deserved the biggest appreciation from all of us.

This year, I didnt celebrate father's day and mother's day as the previous years. I didn't even wish to my parents. I somehow came to know that these celebrations are actually againts the Islamic practice. Anyhow, this is not brought to be official as national TV and media still promote the Father's Day and Mother's Day. A day after this year mother's day, I went to see my mother, I showed her the fact that I happened to see in youtube. Also some facts and fatwa about this in other websites. I did ask around too and many agreed to the call. My mother kind of cool and accepted the fact. In the nutshell, based on the explanation by the ustaz, Islam promotes everyday as Father's Day or Mother's Day, not just a day in a year.

So for those who still have parents around, this is the time you should celebrate parent's day. It's everyday, every single minutes of your life. Those whom parents already passed away, your prayers are the source of celebration , the replacement of your never ending loves towards them. I understand that every single individual has their own definition of loving their parents, and I am surely not a person to tell others what need to be done. Its your life, your choice. But I like the phrase I read in my friends Facebook, "what comes around, goes around". Like my first message in this blog, time flies very fast, too fast and too furious, you would never expect that your old days arrive very soon, and too sad to find , by then, that your childrens don't celebrate parents day , and probably history repeats her story. So, its really, really your choice.        


Thursday, December 29, 2011

More than just "Tenderfoot"


Nota : Diambil daripada Blog Pergerakan Pengakap Malaysia  

Persetiaan Pengakap 

Bahawa dengan sesungguhnya, saya berjanji dan bersetia yang saya dengan seberapa daya upaya, saya akan:-
Taat kepada Tuhan, Raja dan Negara
Menolong orang pada setiap masa
Menurut undang-undang pengakap


Undang-Undang Pengakap



Pertama ~ Pengakap adalah seorang yang sentiasa dipercayai maruah dan kehormatan dirinya.

Kedua ~ Pengakap adalah seorang yang taat kepada Yang Dipertuan Agong, kepada Rajanya, Negaranya, pemimpin-pemimpin pengakapnya, ibu-bapanya, orang-orang diatas dan orang-orang yang dibawahnya. 

Ketiga ~ Pengakap wajib menjadikan dirinya berguna dan menolong orang pada setiap masa. 

Keempat ~ Pengakap itu sahabat kepada sekalian dan saudara kepada lain-lain pengakap walau apa negeri, pangkat dan agamanya sekalipun. 

Kelima ~ Pengakap itu baik dan sempurna budi pekertinya dan sentiasa berbudi. 


Keenam ~ Pengakap itu baik dan kasih kepada segala binatang. 

Ketujuh ~ Pengakap itu seorang yang sentiasa menurut perintah dan suruhan ibu-bapanya, ketua patrolnya atau pemimpin-pemimpin pengakapnya dengana tiada apa-apa soalan (kecuali dalam hal-hal yang berkemusykilan dan maklumat tambahan). 

Kelapan ~ Pengakap itu seorang yang sentiasa sabar dan manis mukanya dalam kesusahan. 
Kesembilan ~ Pengakap itu jimat dan cermat 
Kesepuluh ~ Pengakap itu bersih dan suci fikirannya, perkataannya dan perbuatannya.

(Below excerpt taken from BoyScout Trail website)

Tenderfoot Rank Requirements:
  1. Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
  2. Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.
  3. On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.
  4. a. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
    b. Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.
    c. Using the EDGE method, teach another person how to tie the square knot.
  5. Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during the day and at night. Explain what to do if you are lost.
  6. Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
  7. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto, and slogan.
  8. Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.
  9. Explain the importance of the buddy system as it relates to your personal safety on outings and in your neighborhood. Describe what a bully is and how you should respond to one.
  10. a. Record your best in the following tests:
    SkillCurrentAfter 30 days
    Push Ups____________________
    Pull Ups____________________
    Sit Ups____________________
    Standing Long Jump____________________
    1/4mile walk/run____________________
    b. Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a after practicing for 30 days.
  11. Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
  12. a. Demonstrate how to care for someone who is choking.
    b. Show first aid for the following:
    - Simple cuts and scrapes
    - Blisters on the hand and foot
    - Minor (thermal/heat) burns or scalds (superficial, or first degree)
    - Bites or stings of insects and ticks
    - Venomous snakebite
    - Nosebleed
    - Frostbite and sunburn
  13. Demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.
  14. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
  15. Complete your board of review



























Monday, December 26, 2011

Conventional Cassette : A side and B side.

As what I understood after reading a book by David Schwartz , "The Magic of Thinking Big", people who "Think Big" do not get themselves involve in small talk about others bad behaviours. .You can find these kind of people everywhere, anytime and when you start to learn about them,  you'll meet more of their kind along the way. People who live in mediocrity, will then start to think and behave stereotypically mediocrity. Their presence may sometime seem like dragging you into the path of rat racing in their own interests of bad mouthing, slandering and sarcastic remarks. I call these people as B side of a cassette.

Recently, I had spent an evening with people who seem to be so nice to be with,  cheerful and full of jokes (they do actually) ,  but then the badmouthing chapters started to drip through their mouth, one drop at a moment and than slowly, "woosh.." , I was wet and soaked. In my opinion, badmouthing is a product of being mediocre. If you are not careful or sharp enought to sense its presence, you may as well indulge in the "mediocritism",   and non-value add information and discussion started to jam into your brain inbox.

On  the other hand, sometime these people are also good people that kind enough to assist you voluntarily. I call it, the A side of the cassette. I wonder why. I have dilemma in that mode of role transition. Probably that's the way things are engineered in this universe. A radioactive can be a useful element in medical science, and it could also be a destructive weapon of mass destruction. By chance or not, most of the people that I met whom like to  tell under the skirt stories are very helpful people. In other word, you can depend on them for help when you are in need, provided you become a good listener to what they wanted to tell.

Most of the time, I just couldn't avoid hearing negative stuffs as I had to be around these people for some valid reason. Most of the time , I would made my own way, doing my own activities or thinking, just to avoid or distract an influence from these people. People always like when you listen to them, hearing all the nasty stories,  but honestly, I don't always like what I listen. Some may think that I am choosy about friendship or relationship, and yes, they are most probably right, because I dont have the capacity to listen to the unnecesary fairy tales.

One thing I learn in order to stop or temporary skip this kind of behaviour is to ask these B side people about  great truth about themselves or perhaps the person that they adored (like their kids or good friends), good things that they had experienced, good people that they met, and yes...they do have good story too, and there you go, grab the juice out of it, keep the bad stories in the fridge.

Having said this, it is not to say that you should totally prohibit yourself from talking about others, but you have to think about the intention of having that conversation. If the intention is to avoid the same mistake, learn from that mistake or to tell save the audience from getting into trouble, than it would be a considerable bad mouthing. For example, you got a very bad service from a shop that cause you to lose money, it is ok to share this with your friends so that they do not get into the same problem.

On contrary, if the B side stories are intended just to past time , just to fill the conversation , just to get influence so that people support you or just to let go your feeling, I think this is not ethical. Some people may enjoy, but honestly I don't. Sorry for not being a good listener.

- UnspokenSpirit.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Teknik pernafasan mulut ke mulut , pendengaran telinga ke telinga.

Dalam kehidupan seharian, terlalu banyak maklumat yang kita perolehi. Daripada internet, suratkhabar, bahan cetakan lain dan yang paling kerap adalah melalui percakapan mulut ke mulut. Sogokkan peralatan canggih hari ini seperti smart-phone, tablet, netbook, laptop meledakkan atau memangkin proses ini dengan lebih eksponential ke seluruh pelusuk platform komunikasi , desa, bandar, kota metropolitan, institusi pengajian , sekolah-sekolah, malah di lorong-lorong taman perumahan.

Atas pemerhatian saya , masyarakat kita terutamanya orang Melayu sangat berkecenderungan untuk mendapat atau menerima maklumat-maklumat terutamanya tentang keburukan atau kekurangan orang lain. Dan yang lebih parah, mereka sering percaya bulat-bulat tanpa membuat sebarang kajiselidik, pengesahan dan bertanya sendiri tuan yang empunya tentang sesuatu perkara. Saya juga ada bertanya kepada rakan-rakan yang berbangsa Cina dan India sama ada situasi sebegini muncul dalam masyarakat mereka, ironinya, mereka menyatakan perkara yang sama juga berlaku, mungkin dengan kaedah atau magnitud yang berbeza. Pemerhatian saya mungkin agak sempit, iaitu melalui bahan-bahan bacaan dan ruang-ruang terdahulu yang pernah saya lalui seperti zaman persekolahan, institusi kekeluargaan, institusi kejiranan, ruang kerja , jaringan sosial (social network seperti Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc)  dan seumpama dan sewaktu dengannya.

Mungkin sebab itu apa-apa berita yang muncul dalam internet, klip video mahupun perbualan audio sangat mudah menular ke dalam masyararakat. Topik-topik seperti itu dijadikan sandaran untuk dibincangkan di meja-meja kedai kopi, di ruang pejabat malah di dalam masjid ataupun surau.

Atas pemerhatian dan penelitian saya juga (* tiada bukti saintifik) , memang terdapat golongan-golongan  manusia yang telah terlatih untuk menyebarkan berita-berita sensasi ini. Ibarat sehari tidak berkata buruk, tidak lengkaplah hidupnya. Terlatih di sini bermaksud tabiaat atau sikap yang telah lama di bawa oleh individu-individu tersebut, mungkin sejak dari kecil , bangku sekolah atau zaman remaja. Untuk mengubah orang-orang sebegini amatlah sukar kerana amalan tegar mereka berulang-ulang dan menjadi darah daging. Namun fokus saya di sini bukanlah untuk mengubah mereka, tetapi mengubah diri kita menerima kehadiran  mereka di dalam masyarakat. Menerima mereka seadanya dan tidak menjadi sebahagian daripada mereka. Mereka tetap kawan atau keluarga kita, namun kita perlu lebih berhati-hati dalam menghadapi individu-individu ini. Kita mendoakan agar dipercepatkan proses kesedaran dalam diri mereka agar masyarakat akan menjadi lebih aman dan tenteram.

Kalau dahulu, mitosnya, orang perempuan seringkali dikaitkan dengan tabiaat membawa mulut ini, tetapi sebenarnya golongan lelaki juga tidak kurang banyaknya. Sebagai contoh, saya pernah mengikuti suatu kumpulan rukun tetangga berdekatan kawasan  kediaman saya, sepanjang malam semasa membuat "patrolling", ada beberapa karektor dalam kumpulan itu sangat suka menceritakan keburukan jiran-jiran, bermula dari satu rumah ke satu rumah. Ironinya, ada telinga-telinga yang sudi mendengar. Jadi situasi ini adalah saling lengkap dan melengkapi. Mesej saya di sini adalah proses membawa mulut ini memerlukan dua pihak , sekurang-kurangnya dua pihak. Maka jika kita tidak dapat mengawal mulut seseorang, sekurang-kurangnya kita boleh mengelakkan diri kita daripada menjadi penerima. Saya memilih untuk tidak mendengar, tidak menyambut dan tidak memberikan "approval gesture" kepada golongan-golongan ini. Kadangkala, biarlah orang mengatakan kita sombong, berdiam diri dan tidak memberikan reaksi bila orang bercerita. Kadangkala dalam sesuatu majlis, saya lebih suka bersendirian kerana ruang yang kosong seringkali dijadikan forum untuk mencetuskan "al-kisah, al-alkisah" yang tidak baik.

Contoh kedua, semasa transformasi remaja dan proses mengenal dunia , saya juga tidak terlepas daripada terlibat dalam golongan ini. Hampir  segala-galanya bermula di meja teh tarik. Ada tukang karut dan ada pula penonton. Saya selalunya teribat dalam menjadi penonton dan pendengar setia. Hampir setiap hari sekumpulan rakan-rakan kami akan berkumpul, dan tukang karut selalunya orang yang sama atau karektor yang hampir sama. Tanpa disedari, kadangkala virus tukang karut akan turut menyerap ke dalam minda kita dan secara automatik kita juga akan menjadi seperti mereka. Di asrama kolej dahulu, hampir setiap hari ada persidangan tidak rasmi, namun isu bawa mulut  tentang keburukan orang lain amat kurang, kecuali wujud kes yang sahih dan tertentu. Semasa menjadi pelajar dahulu, yang selalu mendapat kritikan selalunya bukan rakan-rakan, tetapi pensyarah yang "kedekut markah" atau "killer". Mungkin budaya pelajar dulu, kalau nak kutuk, kata saja depan-depan, dan selalunya kawan-kawan ok. Namun , ada juga yang tak ok, tak tahan...hmm... itulah manusia, rambut sama hitam, hati lain-lain.

Ada banyak perkara sekiranya diteliti, ditimbal periksa , disiasat betul-betul, ianya berkemungkinan besar bukan apa yang kita fikirkan semasa maklumat mula-mula diperolehi. Sebagai manusia biasa, kita mungkin berkecenderungan untuk berfikiran "stereotype" atau " preset values", terhadap sesuatu kumpulan lain, individu lain, fahaman lain, kepercayaan yang lain dan sebagainya. Mungkin juga masyarakat kita malas untuk mengambil usaha kedua menyelidik maklumat, jadi apa yang diberikan , maka itulah maklumat sahih. Malangnya, maklumat-maklumat tidak betul, tidak sahih atau separa lengkap ini memecah-belahkan agama, bangsa , kekeluargaan , persahabatan dan sebagainya. Malah ada sesetengah kes, perpecahan antara ibu dan anak sendiri akibat intervensi yang melampau.


Sebagai blogger, saya hanya menyampaikan apa yang berada di minda dan pemerhatian dari semasa ke semasa. Dan sudah tentu , bagi saya, semasa proses penulisan ini, beberapa individu muncul dalam kotak fikiran dan saya tersenyum sendirian mengenangkan insiden-insiden yang pernah berlaku dalam hidup saya. Kebelakangan ini, bila "social network" menjadi satu platform komunikasi, saya melihat masyarakat kita tidak terlepas daripada kegelinciran moral yang menjurus kepada pembawaan mesej yang negatif, maklumat yang tidak sahih dan penaburan fitnah yang tidak terkawal. Saya bersimpati kepada rakan-rakan atau individu-individu yang menjadi mangsa "open attack" dalam "social network" yang kadang-kala tiada kesudahannya. Pada pendapat saya, "open attack" yang berunsur peribadi adalah lebih baik ditujukan secara tertutup atau bersemuka supaya mendapat penjelasan (sekiranya niat adalah untuk menyelesaikan masalah). Itu adalah lebih baik daripada menabur kisah-kisah yang tidak baik ( belum tentu kesahihannya) dan menanam benih di minda ratusan orang lain yang mungkin tidak tahu menahu akan hujung pangkal cerita. Kata maaf memang boleh diunjurkan selepas isu sebenar dikupas, tetapi bayangkan serpihan-serpihan dan parut-parut yang ditinggalkan, tidak mudah untuk disembuhkan.

Ibarat kata seorang rakan senior ,"...hidup ini bukannya lama sangat , entah esok lusa mungkin giliran kita. Nak buat baik sesama rakan, jiran atau keluarga pun masa kita kat atas dunia. Di akhirat nanti , kita tidak tahu nasib kita. Maka lebih baik bersangka baik, berbuat baik dan cuba untuk memaafkan orang lain, di sekeliling kita, sementara mereka masih ada.





Friday, December 23, 2011

Monkey See , Monkey Do : Dilemma of the Baby Boomers, Gen X, Y, Z..


   
   Pagi tadi saya membawa keluarga bersarapan di sebuah kedai, seperti di kebanyakan tempat, terdapat gerai menjual suratkhabar dan majalah. Kami sekeluarga memang jarang sekali membeli suratkhabar kerana kebanyakan berita dapat diperolehi melalui internet secara percuma. Kebetulan isteri saya membeli sebuah suratkhabat tempatan; di laman depan terbentang kisah sosial sensasi masyarakat Malaysia. Dan hampir setiap hari kisah-kisah sensasi sebegini mendapat tempat di kalangan pembaca Malaysia. Apa mungkin bahan bacaan sebegini dapat menbentuk satu generasi yang matang. Apa faedahnya diceritakan secara besar-besaran kisah yang tidak baik tentang seseorang, sesekumpulan , kaum atau agama (hampir setiap hari). Mungkinkah ianya akan menambahkan lagi perkara-perkara yang tidak baik kerana bagi pembaca, ini adalah lumrah seharian mereka. Monkey see Monkey Do....the point is , can we show monkey some other better things to do.... so that it is okay to have Monkey See Monkey Do Great Things... Orang lain sudah sampai ke bulan dengan kenderaan rocket , kita juga sampai ke bulan, tapi menumpang rocket orang lain. Orang lain sudah cipta Tablet yang mengubah kehidupan manusia, kita juga tidak ketinggalan mengguna alat itu , tapi guna untuk terus menyebar fitnah , keburukan orang lain dan gossips. Bila kita hendak mencipta alat-alat itu bila hampir setiap hari generasi kita hanya terlalu dibuaikan dengan kisah-kisah seperti tangkap basah, rogol, ragut, menteri rasuah, CEO rasuah, video lucah, teori konspirasi dan sebagainya.  


Ada seorang kenalan "Mat Salleh" dari negara Barat memberitahu saya bahawa apabila dia mengkaji media cetak utama di Malaysia, cerita-cerita sosial lebih mendapat perhatian berbanding cerita-cerita mengenai kewangan atau perniagaan. Dari sudut sosiologi,  ini adalah perkara yang baik kerana ianya secara tidak langsung menunjukkan keprihatinan sesuatu masyarakat terhadap status sosial.

Namun bila dilihat dari aspek yang lain , contohnya sikap sesuatu masyarakat terhadap isu utama, ianya memberikan implikasi yang kurang baik kerana majoriti masyarakat yang dipamerkan melalui media lebih menjurus kepada permasalahan sosial seperti isu remeh-temeh artis , isu pergolakan rumahtangga, masalah politik berpanjangan , masalah sosial seperti Mat Rempit, pembuangan anak , masalah sekolah dan sebagainya.

Ini secara tidak langsung mempamerkan masyarakat kita terlalu sibuk menyelesaikan masalah sosial dan berkemungkinan ketinggalan terhadap tanggungjawab yang lain seperti sistem pendidikan, sistem kewangan, pembangunan insaniah, sistem perniagaan dan lain-lain. Mungkin juga masyarakat kita terlalu ditaburkan dengan cerita-cerita sensasi sehingga setiap media perlu diselitkan dengan kisah-kisah sensasi.
Tinggal lebih kurang lapan tahun sahaja lagi bagi Malaysia mencapai status negara Maju. Namun masyarakat hari ini menghadapi terlalu banyak dugaan terutamaya ledakan maklumat tidak bersempadan.  Bukan setakat media cetak, media internet rupanya lebih hebat memainkan perananya dalam konteks pembinaan minda sosial.



Baby Boomers dan sebahagian Gen X dan Y mungkin masih menggunakan media cetak yang dilihat pro akan sesuatu kumpulan, baik politik, agama , NGO dan sebagainya. Sebahagaian besar Gen Y dan juga tidak lama lagi Gen Z hari ini hampir langsung memilih media internet sebagai rujukan utama mereka. Penyebaran maklumat dalam internet bersifat global dan pandangan dalam internet adalah secara langsung tanpa sebarang penapisan.



Dilihat secara kasarnya, Gen Y hari ini lebih bersifat bebas fikiran dan bersifat ingin berdikari, mahukan perubahan revolusi dan banyak lagi kehendak unik yang sebahagian besarnya disogok melalui internet seperti blog, facebook, twitters, myspace dan lain-lain lagi. Namun daripada beberapa pemerhatian peribadi, saya melihat sebahagian daripada Gen Y ini umpama nekad tanpa muafakat, bertindak tanpa membuat homework. Dan lebih sukar lagi mereka terus mempercayai bahawa kebebasan boleh membawa kepada matlamat akhir perjuangan. Dan kadang-kadang isi perjuangan yang mereka cuba perjuangkan tidak diteliti dengan cermat. Yang menanggung beban bukan hanya Gen Y kerana Baby Boomers (Generasi ibu bapa kepada Gen Y) turut menjadi mangsa. Gen X yang juga terumbang-ambing hanya mampu melihat Gen Y dengan dunia mereka, kerana apa yang akan berlaku pada anak-anak Gen X iaitu Gen Z masih kabur, namun dominasi rasa bimbang sudah tentu terterap dalam diri Gen X.

Tidak hairanlah, statitistik tidak rasmi yang dikeluarkan oleh sebuah NGO penganalisa halaman sosial, Malaysia merupakan sebuah negara yang mempunyai aspek ratio sebanyak hampir 50% pengguna facebook, yang kedua tertinggi di dunia selepas Amerika Syarikat. Hampir 13 juta orang di Malaysia mempunyai akaun Facebook.

Maklumat dalam internet hampir tidak bersempadan , sungguhpun ada badan yang memantau maklumat , namun hampir mustahil untuk menyekat maklumat-maklumat negatif atau website yang memudaratkan. Institusi terdekat adalah keluarga, ibu-bapa, abang-kakak dan saudara mara perlu lebih agresif memantau keadaan ini. Sungguhpun sangat sukar untuk menegah sesuatu pendirian. Sebagai maklumat tambahan, saya juga ada terbaca bahawa sebenarnya, kaum lelaki lebih banyak menghabiskan masa di hadapan media sosial. seperti Facebook, Twitters dsb. Saya berharap pelaburan masa saya di laman sosial adalah untuk kebaikan dan pembangunan bersama. Sebagai blogger yang baru setahun jagung, saya akan terus belajar, Monkey See , Monkey Do..



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