LGBT in social media

  LGBT could be a very sensitive topic to some people and today we are going to talk about how the Internet, or social media can cause people to become LGBT. Internet has various kind of platforms and many of them could make people become LGBT.

   Platforms like Instagram, Face book and Twitter are platforms where trending topics will frequently get posted and no doubt that there will be some bad topics. Children who gets exposed to these kind of things without the supervision of adults could make them want to experience it out of curiosity. Children do not have the mind to decide what is wrong and what is not and therefore they will follow whatever they see and hear. Adults could also go LGBT through social media, if some person who is a LGBT and starts to interact with you and slowly convince you to go LGBT too, this shows that not only children but also adults need to be careful when using social media.

   Celebrities could also promote LGBT. Recently there was one man, Holland, who just debuted as a K-Pop artist and he is the first K-Pop artist to be gay openly and by being gay of course he supports LGBT. He could convince some people to be his fans, and most fans will always follow in the footsteps of their idols and could result in his fans to become LGBT.

   Movies, videos and even music might not look like one place where LGBT is promoted but it actually can! Like I said before, children who are vulnerable will learn form whatever they hear and see and without adults supervising, they will eventually follow. Lyrics of songs could promote LGBT, movies could have two people of the same gender fall in love with each other and this all might not seem true but it is all already out there in the Internet.

   Automatically as Muslims we would think that LGBT is wrong and one of the reasons is if the same genders marry there is absolutely no way to reproduce and eventually human population will decrease drastically if many people continue to become LGBT. But that doesn't mean we should hate on people who is LGBT, they might have some problems or they might not have anyone to teach them whats right that lead them to LGBT. We should treat them like humans just like us and advice and teach them whats right but we must also be careful not to have the opposite effect where they convince us to be like them. That's all from me for today and finally do be careful when surfing the Internet!

Mean in grouped distributions

   Today I'll be talking about how to find the mean in grouped distributions. I'm sure most people would know how to search mean. You need to search the sum of the datas and divide it by the number of values like this:

Q) 3, 1, 5, 7, 13, 9, 12, 3, 18, 11, 2, 18, 12, 19, 20, 5, 8, 17, 14 and 16. These are the scores of a video game for 20 people. Find the mean from their scores.

     First you add up the numbers: 3+1+5+7+13+9+12+3+18+11+2+18+12+19+20+5+8+17+14+16 

                                                      =213

     Then you divide it by the number of values: 213/20 = 10.65

      So therefore the mean is 10.65.

   Then you make a grouped frequency table:

     

Score	Frequency
1 - 4	4
5 - 8	4
9 - 12	4
13 - 16	3
17 - 20	5

                                   

                        

So 4 people got scores between 1 and 4, another 4 got scores between 5 and 8, etc..    Now that you know how to find the mean you might ask what mean in grouped distributions mean. In the procedure above you could know what are the scores of each person but what if the only information you received was the table. Could you still search for the mean? Not accurately but you can estimate and that's what you call finding mean in group distributions.        Firstly you'll have to find the midpoints of the score. To find the midpoint you'll have to add the two numbers and divide by two:           1+4 = 5    5/2   = 2.5           5+8 = 13  13/2 = 6.5         9+12 = 21  21/2 = 10.5       13+16 = 29  29/2 = 14.5       17+20 = 37  37/2 = 18.5    Then you'll have to multiply each midpoint with the frequencies:     2.5 x 4 = 10     6.5 x 4 = 26   10.5 x 4 = 42   14.5 x 3 = 43.5   18.5 x 5 = 92.5     and add them all together: 10+26+42+43.5+92.5 = 214  then divide by the number of people or the sum of the frequencies which is 20:   214/20 = 10.7    You can see that it's very close to the answer that we got earlier. So that's how you find the meaning grouped distributions. I hope this has helped you understanding means in grouped distributions a bit. I hope to see you guys again!

The war of Uhud

   Greeting, in today's post I'll be telling 10 facts of the war of Uhud that you might have known. Let's start with the first fact. Did you know, one of the reasons the war started was because the Quraisy wanted to retrieve the route to Syams (where the trading market is). The Quraisy in Mecca would need to pass through Medina to get to to Syams (which in the middle of the Roman empire and Persia), but because they do not want to pay tax to the Muslims in Medina for passing through, they decided to start a war and wanted to make Madinah as their property so they do not have to pay.

   While the Quraisy was moving to Medina, the Muslims had a spy spying on them, he was Saidina Abbas R.A. He was Prophet Muhammad's uncle.

   At the morning of the war, there was one man who converted to Islam.

   The Muslims left for Uhud on Friday after the Friday prayers and fought on a Saturday afternoon. This is during the month of Syawal.

   When the Muslims were heading to Uhud, there was one man name Abdullah bin Ubayy decided to betray the Muslim army and pull himself out from the army and 299 other people followed him. These people are called the Munafiks, they pretend to be a Muslim but they don't do the things required to be a Muslim. This has cause the Muslim army to decrease by 300 people even before the war started.

   Rasullulah offered his army to use his sword and Zubair bin Awwam wanted it but Rasullah gave one condition, it is ti us the sword forever until it is broken. After that, Abu Durjanah accepted the condition and he was the one to get the sword.

   Rasullulah was protected by nine people, seven ansars and two sahabats. They were assigned to help Rasulullah escape after they realised the muslims were losing. The ansar decided to be the decoys but the kafir was clever enough and got to Rasulullah anyways. The seven ansars were believed to died in matyr.

   After Rasulullah cried, the Jabal Uhud also cried and turned reddish to represent blood. It is said that Jabal Uhud will be one of the mountains in jannah.

   When Rasulullah checked the army before the battle started, he found underage kids in the army. They wanted to contribute but Rasulullah said you have to be above 15 year old to participate so four of them had to return but  some were accepted and one of them was Rafiq bin Khadij. He was accepted because of his exceptional archery skills.

   After the war, they started collecting the corpses of the Muslims and found one body that was in really bad condition that no one could recognize who it was, but miraculously his sister recognized him by looking at his finger.

   That is all I have for today. I hope we all learned something about the war of Uhud through this post and I hope to see you guys again.


   

 

Majulah Singapura!

   Today is the 9th of August which marks the 53rd national day of Singapore. You know sometimes us Singaporeans always look at Singapore's bad side that definitely can be improved but when it is national day season we all will get together as one and celebrate this memorable occasion. That's what makes this day special, we'll all be able to truly see the beautiful side of Singapore.

   It's a shame this year I won't be celebrating it in Singapore. Some of my friends will be performing in the NDP this year, I hope I'll also be able to do the same thing one day. It just makes me happy to watch the videos of NDP even though I don't attend it.

   That would be all from me, Thank you for reading and have a great national day and Majulah Singapura!

 

My special video

   Many of my friends or teachers or even my family members might not see me as someone who needs to watch videos as motivation, but in reality I always do. For example if I need motivation to give a presentation I'll watch videos people of giving presentations. Firstly because you can learn from it and it just relaxes myself to see someone doing something I'll be doing.

   This video is made by a part of a speech by Eric Thomas. His job is giving motivational speeches, and this is one of my favourites. It's very short and not even hard to understand, but sometimes you just need someone to tell or remind you this.

   Although it is a very short video, I hope it helps other people too just like it has helped me before.
Thank you for reading, and see you guys again.

Favourite moments in ASIQS

   Welcome back to my blog! Despite the fact that I left ASIQS temporarily, it has been one a half years since i joined ASIQS. Let's talk about my favourite moments that happened during this long period of time.

   To be honest, I can't really choose one moment to be my favourite, so I'll list a few of them. One of them would definitely be the QLS project where we had to cook, do the dishes, set up the food area and clean the class areas for four weeks. I won't lie, I was definitely nervous and was not looking forward to it at first. But hey, it wasn't that bad. In fact it was fun as I leanrned many things such as the right way to cook, to do dishes, how to sweep properly and more. Without this, the only thing I would have known how to cook / make would only be sandwiches!

   Next would be during the celebration of Malaysia's national day in 2017. I think that was the first time ever I presented or talked in front of the whole ASIQS. It was nerve wrecking! I talked about how did the two neighbouring countries, Malaysia and Singapore seperated. Since mine was the longest among others and received so much praise from my friends and Teacher Rafiq during rehearsals, I felt overwhelmingly satisifed after it ended.

   Last but not least would be the debate i did recently. We debated about whether the benefits of the internet outweigh the negatives. I think to be honest I did really bad. But I was really excited for this and thankfully we won! I'm also thankful to be able to win the best speakers award!

   There is so much more I want to talk about but I guess I'lll stop here . Since we just moved to a new place I hope I get the chance to make more moments / memories like these again. See you guys again in my next blog!

Things ASIQS gained from the move

   Hello and greetings to those who are reading my blog. As you might already know, ASIQS moved to a new building. So today I will be telling all about the the things ASIQS have and gained.

   Let's start with the environment. As there is no fans around ASIQS in Space U8, the air conditioner will be turned on more often than during in the old place. Making it a colder environment for the teachers and students.

   As the place is in a mall and a public place, it will receive attention from outiders. This will allow ASIQS to have a higher chance of students enroling. Talking about attention, it will also make the teachers to make sure the students have a better attitude. Don't want any passerby to see a bad side of ASIQS!

   Last but not least, the library. I'm sure many of us have been waiting for this. ASIQS finally gained a library after moving to Space U8. Although it is not finished furnishing yet,  I'm sure all of us can't wait to use the library.

   In a nutshell, I think this move has more ups than downs to it. We may lose some good points about the old place but there is much things we gained and more to come insyaAllah. Although some of us may miss the old place, we all look forward to stay and have a good time here for many years to come. That is all from me, gonna go and enjoy learning in the new ASIQS, ASIQS Space U8!