My Biodata

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Background

My name is Muhammad Afifuddin Bin Musameh and I'm 22 years old. Most of my friend call me Afif  but my family call me Pudin. I was born on 11st October 1993 in Hospital Besar Kuala Terengganu. I have 7 siblings including me, 1 brother and 5 sisters. As you all might guess, I'm the fourth in the family. I live in Kampung Banggol Tasek, Bukit Payong,Marang, Terengganu. 

Parents & Siblings

My father's name is Musameh Bin Jusoh. He's 57 years old. My father's job is government servant. My mother's name is Salmiah Binti Abd Manaf. She's 49 years old. My mother is a full-time housewife since he got married to my father. Both my parents have been dedicated their lives in raising the 7 of us and ensure that we become successful individuals in this world and hereafter. I thank God to have such great parents.
The eldest among my siblings is my sister, Nurul Iftitah. He's 28 years old and already married. He has been blessed with 1 son. He graduated from Universiti Malaya in medical. He now works as Temporary lecturer at University Malaya. The second one is Nurul Afifah. She's 26 years old. She got her first degree which is Da'wah from Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin Kuala Terengganu (UNISZA). Then recently, she have been studying at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in course Da'wah too. The third one is my another sister, Nurul Iftitah. She's 24 years old and still single. She graduated from Universiti Mu'tah, Jordan in Usuluddin and Arabic language. My brother Faizuddin is the third-last one in my family. He's 20 years old. He is still single and have been studying at International Islamic University Malaysia in Islamic Law. The second-last one in my family is my sister,Nurul Najibah, she have been studying in secondary school at Sma(a)sza Batu Buruk, Kuala Terengganu and the last one is Nurul Syahirah and still studying in secondary school at Sma Khairiah,Terengganu.

Educations

My primary school life begun when i was 7 years old. The school is Sekolah Kebangsaan Padang Midin. I pass with flying colors in UPSR in standard 6. Then i went to secondary school, Sekolah Menengah Agama Sultan Zainal Abidin Ladang. I managed to do well in PMR in Form 3 and continued my Form 4 in the same school. Once again I did quite well in SPM and I have been offered to enter form 6 in 2012. I completed my form 6 study in 2 years and have been accepted to further my first degree in UUM. Now, I'm a 2rd year student in Bachelor of  Muamalat Administration and will finish my study in two year. My matric no is 226562 and my handphone no is 014-5341485.. See me at muhammadafifuddin93@gmail.com.

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Some of the creepiest Halloween destinations to visit

New Orleans has been singled out as one of the creepiest places to spend Halloween.

Edinburgh, New Orleans and Rajasthan have been identified as among the most haunting, scariest destinations in the world for getting your chill on in advance of Halloween.

The list, curated by Cheapflights.com, shines the spotlight on cities that offer the best “creepy tours around the world,” deliciously frightful itineraries that take visitors through cemeteries, prisons, bridges and forts, purportedly haunted by unhappy spirits and shadowy figures of the dead.

Here’s a sample of some of the best places to get your spook on:

New Orleans, Louisiana
A New Orleans Ghost Tour presents a striking contrast to the lively music and colour traditionally associated with the city, by showing visitors its darker, more sinister side, namely via Madame LaLaurie, a 17th century socialite known for the heartless, brutal torture tactics she used on slaves. The tour also sheds light on the city’s vampire past.

Salem, Massachusetts

In the 17th century, mass hysteria beset a small New England town, in which a group of locals were accused of practising witchcraft. The town would execute 19 women at the famous Salem Witch Trial in 1692. Participants of the Spellbound Tour are taken to the old Witch Dungeon, and the second oldest cemetery in the US.

Rajasthan, India
Urban lore has it that the Bhangarh Fort is the most haunted place in India. Story goes, the fort is cursed by a scorned sorcerer, angry that his love for the palace princess was not returned.

Naturally, he placed a curse on the palace, sentencing its residents to death. To this day, the site prohibits visits between sunset and sunrise, and locals claim that no one who has stayed in the ruins after sunset has returned.

Edinburgh, Scotland
Ghost hunters would have a field day in the Scottish capital, said to be a hive of paranormal activity and ghost sightings. When the plague caused massive die-offs in the mid-1600s, people were left to die in hidden underground streets and tunnels that became mass graves.

Tours take participants through the city’s labyrinthine underground like Mary King’s Close and to the South Bridge Vaults, said to be haunted by ghostly locals.

Other destinations on the list include Prague, London, South Africa's Kimberley, Chicago and Victoria, Australia. – AFPRElax, October 26, 2014.

The Theory of Cumulative Stress: How to Recover When Stress Builds Up

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For most people, stress is simply a fact of life, and you need to learn how to manage it. Simply ignoring the stress in your life can cause it to snowball and take a physical toll. Here's how to deal with your stress when it starts to build up.

Your Bucket of Health and Energy

Imagine that your health and energy are a bucket of water.

In your day-to-day life, there are things that fill your bucket up. These are inputs like sleep, nutrition, meditation, stretching, laughter, and other forms of recovery.

There are also forces that drain the water from your bucket. These are outputs like lifting weights or running, stress from work or school, relationship problems, or other forms of stress and anxiety. [1]

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The forces that drain your bucket aren't all negative, of course. To live a productive life, it can be important to have some of things flowing out of your bucket. Working hard in the gym, at school, or at the office allows you to produce something of value. But even positive outputs are still outputs and they drain your energy accordingly.

These outputs are cumulative. Even a little leak can result in significant water loss over time. Like a boat taking on water, you can't stay afloat if there are too many leaks.

The Theory of Cumulative Stress

The physical stress of my workout routine can also illustrate this idea. I usually lift heavy three days per week. For a long time, I thought I should be able to handle four days per week. However, every time I added the extra workout in, I would be just fine for a few weeks and then end up exhausted or slightly injured about a month into the program.

This was frustrating. Why could I handle it for four or five weeks, but not longer than that?

Eventually I realized the issue: stress is cumulative. Three days per week was a pace I could sustain. When I added that fourth day in, the additional stress started to build and accumulate. At some point, the burden became too big and I would get exhausted or injured.

In extreme cases, like that of my professor, this snowball of stress can start to roll so fast that itpushes you to the brink of physical collapse. But it's important to realize that cumulative stress is something that you're dealing with even when it isn't a matter of life or death. The stress of extra workouts or additional mileage. The stress of building a business or finishing an important project. The stress of parenting your young children or dealing with a bad boss or caring for your aging parents. It all adds up.

Keeping Your Bucket Full

If you want to keep your bucket full, you have two options.

1. Refill your bucket on a regular basis. That means catching up on sleep, making time for laughter and fun, eating enough to maintain solid energy levels, and otherwise making time for recovery and relaxation.
2. Let the stressors in your life accumulate and drain your bucket. Once you hit empty, your body will force you to rest through injury and illness. Just like it did with my professor. Obviously, you don't want to go this route.

Recovery is Not Negotiable

I'm in the middle of a very heavy squat program right now. (It's called the Smolov squat program—if you're interested, I laid it out in a spreadsheet here.)

I've spent the last two years training with really easy weights and gradually working my way up to heavier loads. I've built a solid foundation of strength. But even with that foundation, the weights on this program are heavy and the intensity is high.

Because of this, I'm taking special care to allow myself additional recovery. I'm allowed to sleep longer than usual. If I need to eat more, so be it. Usually, I'm lazy about stretching and foam rolling, but I have been rolling my little heart out every day for the last few weeks. I'm doing whatever I can do to balance the stress and recovery deficit that this squat program is placing on me.

Why?

Because recovery is not negotiable. You can either make time to rest and rejuvenate now or make time to be sick and injured later. Keep your bucket full.

The Theory of Cumulative Stress: How to Recover When Stress Builds Up | James Clear

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[1] Image of the bucket inspired by the original idea of the stress and recovery bucket mentioned in Paul Chek's book, How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy!

Photo by Val Thoermer (Shutterstock).

10 of the best sights in Istanbul

Istanbul's many attractions include towering minarets, underground Byzantine cisterns and steamy bathhouses.

Basilica Cistern

The city's most unexpectedly romantic attraction, the Basilica Cistern, offers an insight into the complicated system that once brought drinking water into Istanbul from Thrace (an area of the south-east Balkans now constituting Turkish land n the European mainland, and a chunk of Bulgaria). Constructed in the sixth century and then forgotten for centuries, the cistern that once stored the water has been fitted with lights and music. Fish flitter around the bases of the 336 columns that support the ceiling. Don't miss the upside-down head of Medusa that forms the bottom of one column, proof that Byzantine builders saw Roman relics as little more than reusable rubble.
• Yerebatan Caddesi 13, Sultanahmet, +90 212 522 1259, yerebatan.com, entrance £3.50. Open Tue-Sun 9am-7.30pm (Apr-Sep), 9am-5pm (Oct-Mar)

Aya Sofya

 Photograph: Salvator Barki/Getty Images/Flickr RM

After decades in which scaffolding cluttered the interior of Emperor Justinian's sixth-century Byzantine masterpiece, the thrill of being able to experience the extraordinary spaciousness of this famous church-turned-mosque-turned museum is hard to overstate. Downstairs the building is largely empty; the best of the glittering mosaics lurk in the galleries upstairs. Newly opened are the tombs of several early Ottoman sultans and their slaughtered sons – before primogeniture new sultans immediately had all potential rivals killed. Before the end of the year, the city's finest carpets will go on display in the soup kitchen added after the church was turned into a mosque.
• Aya Sofya, Sultanahmet Square, +90 212 522 0989, hagiasophia.com, entrance £7. Open Tue-Sun 9am-7.30pm (May-Oct), 9am-5pm (Nov-Apr)

Topkapi Palace

 Photograph: Tony Souter/ DK Limited/Corbis Tony Souter/ DK Limited/Corbis

If there is one absolute must-see in Istanbul, it has to be the Topkapi Palace, home to generations of sultans and their wives, who were closeted in the famous harem. A collection of lush green courtyards and delicate kiosks, the Topkapi boasts a treasury to put the crown jewels in the shade, as well as views to die for over the Sea of Marmara, Bosphorus and Golden Horn. The secretive harem – really just the family quarters – is a warren of lushly-tiled rooms wrapped round a gem of a Turkish bath. Try to visit on a day when no cruise ship is in town to avoid the worst of the crowds.
• Sultanahmet, +90 212 512 0480, topkapisarayi.gov.tr, TL20 (£7). Open Tue-Sun 9am-6pm (harem 9am-5pm)

Ayasofya Hürrem Sultan Hamam

There are several magnificent steamy Ottoman bathhouses to choose from in the city, including the Çemberlitaş, Cağaloğlu, Galatasaray and Sülemaniye baths, but in 2011 for the first time it's also possible for visitors to try out the spectacular 16th-century Ayasofya Hürrem Sultan Hamam right in Sultanahmet Square and designed for Suleiman the Magnificent's scheming wife Roxelana. Think acres of marble, the sound of running water echoing around stupendous domes, and a massage fit for a sultan. You'll come out almost purring.
• Cankurtaran Mahallesi Bab-i-Hümayaun Caddesi l, Sultanahmet Square, +90 212 517 3535, ayasofyasultanhamami.com, treatments from €70. Open daily 7am to 11pm, separate sections for men and women

Blue Mosque

 Photograph: Mustafa Ozer/AFP/Getty Images

Facing Aya Sofya across a small park and mirroring its domed silhouette, the early 17th-century Blue Mosque is one of only a handful of mosques in the world to boast six minarets. Is it really blue? Well, not noticeably, although all the walls are papered with fine İznik tiles. To view it as the architect, Sedefkar Mehmed Aga, originally intended, enter via what looks like the side entrance from the Hippodrome. Afterwards, pop your head into a building the size of a small mosque on the corner of the complex. This houses the tomb of Sultan Ahmed I, the man who gave his name to both the mosque and the neighbourhood.
• Sultanahmet Square, bluemosque.org. Open outside prayer times

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

 Photograph: Massimo Borchi/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Massimo Borchi/ Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis

Walk to Istanbul's three-in-one equivalent of the British Museum via the grounds of Topkapi Palace or through Gulhane Park. If time is tight, go straight to the large porticoed building housing the glorious sarcophagus of Alexander which depicts scenes from the life of Alexander the Great in vivid 3D. Kids will love the model Trojan Horse in the children's section. Then pop into the lovely Tiled Pavilion, one of the city's oldest Ottoman structures, beautifully restored to show off its finest ceramics. Finally, catch a glimpse of a peace treaty from 1269 BC preserved in the part of the museum nearest to the gate.
• Osman Hamdi Bey Yokuşu, Gulhane Park, +90 212 520 7740, entrance £3.50. Open Tue-Sun 9am-6pm (May-Sep), 9am-4pm (Oct-Apr)

Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum

 Photograph: Steve Outram/JAI/Corbis Steve Outram/ Steve Outram/JAI/Corbis

Housed in what was originally the palace of Ibrahim Pasha, a favourite grand vizier of Suleiman the Magnificent, and overlooking the Hippodrome where Byzantine lovers of chariot racing once brought the same passion to their sport as modern Turks do to football, this museum houses a magnificent collection of gigantic carpets from all over the country. Its basement features reconstructions of everything from a fully-fitted nomad tent to a grand interior from a 19th-century Bursa mansion. Don't leave without trying a thick black Turkish coffee in the pretty cafe in the grounds.
• The Hippodrome, Sultanahmet, +90 212 518 1805, kultur.gov.tr, entrance £3.50. Open Tue-Sun 9am-4.30pm

Süleymaniye Mosque

 Photograph: Alamy

Unmissable as you stand on the busy Galata bridge and look up at the city's historic skyline is the mosque designed by the great Ottoman architect Sinan for Suleiman the Magnificent. Newly restored to its original splendour, it is generally regarded as the finest of the 42 surviving mosques he designed for Istanbul. Unusually, it retains much of the original complex of social service buildings that came attached to it, including several madrasahs, a hospital, a library and a hamam. Locals come here to eat kuru fasuliye, the Turkish take on baked beans, in a street once haunted by opium addicts.
• Professor Siddik Sami Onar Caddesi. Open outside prayer times

Chora Church

 Photograph: Sandro Santioli/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis Sandro Santioli/ Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis

It's a bit of a schlep to get there but the restored Chora Church in the old city walls offers a stunning glimpse of late Byzantine splendour, its walls and ceilings adorned with glittering mosaics and breath-taking frescoes. Like Aya Sofya, it has made the journey from Byzantine church to Ottoman mosque and then to modern museum, and now stands in a neighbourhood of restored Ottoman wooden houses, prettily painted in pastel colours. Before you go back to your hotel, take a look at the nearby walls that ringed old Constantinople and date back to the fifth century.
• Kariye Camii Sokak 26, Sultanahmet, +90 212 631 9241, entrance £4.50. Open Thu-Tue 9am-6pm (Apr-Sep), 9am-4.30pm (Oct-Mar)

Galata Tower

 Photograph: Yasinuss Photography/Getty Images/Flickr RF

Watery Istanbul is a city that cries out to be viewed from on high, and you can get a bird's-eye view of everything from the balcony at the top of the Galata Tower in Beyoğlu, the modern part of old Istanbul that, in pre-Republican days, was home to the city's foreign residents. Built in 1348, the tower once formed part of a sub-city belonging to the Genoese that stretched right down to the Bosphorus. In a footnote to aviation history, it was from this tower that Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi flew across the Bosphorus from Europe to Asia in 1638, thus inaugurating the first ever intercontinental flight.

My Portrait Picture

I have edited the picture by using a Photoshop CS5. Check out this awesome picture.. 


This is the original portrait picture that has been captured by using my Canon 1100D DSLR.



And this is the portrait picture that I have edited black and white with our National 57th year of Independence Day logo by using Photoshop CS5.

‘Anti-Facebook’ social network gets viral surge

The new social network Ello has become the hottest ticket on the Internet. – AFP pic, September 28, 2014

In a matter of days, the new social network Ello, described as the "anti-Facebook" for its stand on privacy and advertising, has become perhaps the hottest ticket on the Internet.

Created last year as a "private" social network, Ello (www.ello.co) recently opened its doors on an invitation-only basis.

Because of the limited supply and strong demand, the invitations have been selling on eBay at prices up to US$500 (RM1,630). Some reports said Ello is getting up to 35,000 requests per hour as a result of a viral surge in the past week.

Ello appears to have caught on with its simple message which seems to take aim at frustrations of Facebook users.

"Ello doesn't sell ads. Nor do we sell data about you to third parties," the company says.

Its "manifesto" states: "We believe a social network can be a tool for empowerment. Not a tool to deceive, coerce, and manipulate – but a place to connect, create, and celebrate life. You are not a product."

Ello's policy states that the practice of collecting and selling personal data and mapping your social connections for profit "is both creepy and unethical."

"Under the guise of offering a 'free' service, users pay a high price in intrusive advertising and lack of privacy."

Based in Vermont, Ello was launched by a group of artists and programmers led by Paul Budnitz, whose previous experience include designing bicycles and robots.

Budnitz says on his page that Ello was designed to be "simple, beautiful and ad-free."

'Different politics'

Nathan Jurgenson, a social media researcher at the University of Maryland, welcomed Ello's fresh approach.

"I love these moments of new social media when conversation explodes, moved to imagine how social media can be different, questioning core assumptions instead of just fretting and complaining – all before this paint even dries," he said on his Ello page.

"Ello is getting so much attention precisely because it promises social media of a different politics. We've collectively come to the realisation that the rise of social media has been accompanied by handing far too much power to far too few people, and there's energy to shake things up, even if just a bit."

Ello's rise also comes amid complaints against Facebook from the gay community that the world's biggest social network began disabling accounts using stage names instead of real names.

A San Francisco protest is planned against Facebook supporting "drag queens" who lost their Facebook accounts. Ello does not require real names.

Business plan?

It remains unclear if Ello will end up being a flash in the pan, or if it will develop a profitable business plan.

Ello states it plans to remain "completely free to use," but that it could start offering some premium features for a fee.

Some question if Ello can succeed on this kind of model and keep its principles.

But former Ello collaborator Aral Balkan said Ello has already been compromised by taking US$435,000 in venture capital funding.

A designer and founder of ind.ie, a privacy advocacy group, Balkan said he worked briefly for Ello but left when he learned of the venture investments.

"When you take venture capital, it is not a matter of if you're going to sell your users, you already have," says a blog post from Balkan.

"It's called an exit plan. And no investor will give you venture capital without one. In the myopic and upside-down world of venture capital, exits precede the building of the actual thing itself. It would be a comedy if the repercussions of this toxic system were not so tragic." – AFP, September 28, 2014.