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A nice and pleasant surprise to hear opera aria by a 13 year old Romanian at America's Got Talent 2016. Its the first time I am hearing of a Golden Buzzer!....Woooweeee!   How much effort does an adult take to master such beautiful renditions? I can imagine many understudies who have now wondered if they were suppressed of their potential by their opera guru. For now, Laura has gotten offers to perform on live shows and I am sure her mother is please with her.

Found these partly completed colourings. When the children were away from their gadgets and working on colourings, there were much more interactions between them.

There are records by Frank Swettenham on Malays or also know as Melayu are people of from Malaya in his book. One particular topic of interest is on the local superstitions in Chapter XVII of his book. Lot of traditional elements are mentioned but dispelling of evil spirits had included traditional and reference to god for assistance. There were spirits by name of Bajang, Polong, Pelsit, Langsuior. Bajang Pelsit Polong Langsuir Makes one wonder, does everyone in Kedah those days keep a Pelsit? There is a nice short description of how Jin, Hantu and Bajang originated. Who would have thought that the story of Adam from Genesis would have been related to these occurrences? The Sumatran men who have skills on transformation, are Korinchi. Something that is seen in many animation movies but who would have thought these were from a land so far away. In this book, its also good to read the account of an English man with the services of a Arab astrologer to find...

The Malaysian Ministry of Education (MOE) introduced an online system where every student, teacher and parents have a single login to tools provided by FrogAsia and Google apps. I did sound like an online learning system but I fail to see how its beneficial to a student. Or is there a specific group its catered for? Teachers have the administrative task to create their own students, but this extra work, is it worthwhile and how many is doing so? If its for the benefit of our future leaders, I am all for it. From the site, it explains what the VLE is for; Bayangkan Persekitaran Pembelajaran Maya Frog (Frog VLE) sebagai intranet, bilik darjah online dan ruang sosial untuk sekolah, semuanya dalam di bawah satu bumbung. Ia adalah sistem pembelajaran berasaskan laman web yang menyerupai pendidikan dunia sebenar dengan menyatukan konsep pendidikan konvensional. Sebagai contoh, guru-guru boleh memberi tugasan, ujian dan markah secara maya, sementara para pelajar boleh menghantar kerja ...