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KLCC : The Monument of The Moments

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Friday 10 Nov : Kuala Lumpur honoured at The Top Asia Corporate Ball 2017 . I joint the  Top 10 of Asia (The Essence of High Achievers and Affluent Society) placed at main hall Mandarin hotel was besides the Petronas KLCC Twin Tower.  This night in particular the distiguished winning star-studded Awards. One of them  was selected is Sufie Rashid whose singaporean as New Asian Male Singers making Waves in the Music Industry. The dinner begin with the silence prayer for the flood victims in Penang. Then the speech by YM Tunku Mudzaffar Tunku Mustapha later the dinner was enjoy singing performance by Lisa Surihani, Dato' Ziana Zain , Dato' Awie and the comedy presented by Douglas Lim . And also, the young Sabah forms indigenous music tools, they had play their performance with very energetic spirits. and i stand come close to the stage which caused of exciting emotions. We will see there the invited guest from the outside looks very happy that nights, they having tak...

Eurocentrism : Re-view from Literature

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In 1991, American movie called 'Robinhood : Princes of Thieves' was made. It has some very interesting Eurocentric and non-eurocentric garment. The movie begin, which the Kevin Costner acted of Robinhood. The movie begin with the azan, dark jail Jerusalem with very cruel characters areas hudud laws being applied, Robinhood himself was under threat is hand of Chelt off. But the same time you have very interesting character by named of Azeem, the muslim, an arab played by the famous African American actor Morgan Freeman who was presented as a very civilized man and chivalrous man the quality of chivalry (futuwah) who was honourable he was catologically savvy, for example he have a portable telescope machine with out which he amazed the English man who around him, not showing the civilizing technological advancement of the muslims in those days.  Some interesting elements of an attempt to be counter to Eurocentric, but overall the film movie was euro-centric, because it still p...

The Seven Companion

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Among the insipid legends of ecclesiastical history, I am (Gibbon) tempted to distinguish the memorable fable of the Seven Sleepers : whose imaginary date corresponds with the reign of the younger Theodosius, and the conquest of Africa by the Vandals. When the emperor Decius persecuted the Christians, seven noble youths of Ephesus concealed themselves in a spacious cavern in the side of an adjacent mountain ; where they were doomed to perish by the tyrant, who gave orders that the entrance should be firmly secured with a pile of huge stones. They immediately fell into a deep slumber, which was miraculously prolonged, without injuring the powers of life, during a period of 187 years. At the end of that time, the slaves of Adolius, to whom the inheritance of the mountain had descended, removed the stones, to supply materials for some rustic edifice ; the light of the sun darted into the cavern, the seven sleepers were permitted to awake. After a slumber, as they thought, of a few hour...