Meh Balik Kampung

To the Malay community, school holiday is the right time to hold "kenduri kahwin" because normally school holiday is the time wheres' parents will taking leave to joint with their schooling kids on their family programme. Many of relatives who are working outside the kampung also taking off from working to come back to kampung during this period.

Balik kampung is a tradition for many Malaysian, especially to the Malay, and it should be continue to go on. By doing this, it will expose our children to the live in kampung that we had experienced during our childhood. May be the surrounding nowadays is different from the years before, but at least they could learn something that they can't experience in town.

My son and daughther are like to go for fishing, go to the paddy field and enjoying playing water (bath) in the canal as I did during my time.

At least they know how difficult the life that their father had to face at their age.

Life-long Learners

Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it." - Samuel Johnson (1791)

Life-long learning is the process of acquiring and expanding knowledge, skills, and dispositionsthroughout your life to foster well-being. It's much more than taking an adult pottery class or reading a nonfiction book occasionally.

It's about the decisions you make and the problems you solve in everyday life. From enrolling in unstructured, formal education program to considering whether to believe an infomercial's gimmick, lifelong learning takes many forms.

Life-long learners choose to seek out new ideas and alternative perspectives. They embrace our

changing, dynamic, information-rich society by keeping their senses active and their minds full

of ideas. Much of this learning is self-directed. To be successful, the child or adult must have

basic information inquiry knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

Life-long learning isn't just about emotional well-being. According to medical research, people

with active minds are less likely to suffer Alzheimer's Disease and other ailments.

Life-long learning is about anticipation, exploration, and reflection. Think about your own life.

How has your time been spent? How would you like to spend your time? Each person makes

their own choices and decisions. What will yours be? As parent we need to model the kind of

life we envision for our kids including enthusiasm for life, love of reading, human-kind and life-long learning!