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International Purchases with Debit Card

During this pandemic COVID-19, I have so many things to do and one of them is improving my general knowledge by reading some books. A few days ago I just found something interesting that I want to read on Kindle which is Relativity by Albert Einstein. The problem occur when I want to buy that book but it is only available on Amazon and I need to pay Amazon which was I never bought something on it because it is from international. And I need an account that can make transaction for overseas.  Luckily my brain functioning so well during this hot sunny day hahahaha, I remembered that I already activate my account bank to make any overseas transaction. And how I know about this ? Of course from people. You know.... the fastest way to gain knowledge is from people :P . Thanks to Kak Fatin, my supervisor during internship who recommend me to do this because I need to pay GoDaddy to pay my uhmmmmmm nrlsyhmina.com  .  In this case, I use Bank Islam because I have no cho...

Stoicism

Zeno of Cyprus, it became the foundation of his life's work and legacy. The once wealthy merchant lost everything when he was shipwrecked in Athens around 300 BCE. With not much else to do, he wandered into a book shop, became intrigued by reading about Socrates, and proceeded to seek out and study with the city's noted philosophers. As Zeno began educating his own students, he originated the philosophy knows as Stoicism, whose teaching of virtue, tolerance and self-control have inspired generations of thinkers and leaders. The name Stoicism comes from the Stoa Poikile, the decorated public colonnade where Zeno and his disciples gathered for discussion. Today, we colloquially use the word stoic to mean someone who remains calm under pressure and avoid emotional extremes. But while this captures important aspects of Stoicism, the original philosophy was more than just an attitude. The Stoics believed that everything around us operates according to a web of cause and eff...

Is Social Interaction important to us ?

Some of country including Malaysia implement movement control order as a preventive towards the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). As Malaysia partial lockdown, we have been quarantine for 14 days because the government want to make sure that there is no people being infected by the virus. Okay back to the topic, I am concerned for some people especially for extrovert because not all of them can stay at home for a long time. The thing that I want to say is, please have some social interaction with someone in your surrounding. No matter what conversation we have even with simple "Hye" would be better rather than just looking at your family and say nothing. Why is social interaction is very important to us ? Because it is the most important factors of our physical and mental health. It helps us in coping with stress and major life changes. Knowing that we are valued by others is an important psychological factor in helping us to forget the negative aspects of our lives su...