Saturday, November 1, 2008

reading habit

Hi for everyone. This is second time I comment the blog. The title is “There are worse crimes than burning books”. As a student, we should have a time for read a book. But from my experiences, I only read an interesting book. So, we will enjoy reading it and releasing our tension. The interesting book is a joke book. Besides you can laugh actually you can rest your mind and maintain a cute face. Therefore reading a book is a good thing.

For my opinion, reading a book is good because we can add our knowledge. According to the text, you cannot accuse the national library and the government of not trying. I totally agree with this statement. We should not blame each others for that problem. This is because a reading habit must come from our self. No body can change us except our self. For instance, you cannot change me, and I also cannot change your. If you have a reading habit, so you’re the one of the people in the percentage. In contrast, if you don’t have that kind of attitude, you should be change. The government and the National Library are important.

In we look at the paragraph 10, there is steady increase people who read a book between 1996 until 2001. That showed a very good improvement. But the increasing number of people who read a book is not gradually increase even though we have a launched on 1st July, this is cannot permit as to be whole Malaysian have a reading habit. If we look at rural area, there are a lot of people who can’t read. It is because there don’t enter the primary school. Therefore, we cannot say reading habit is practices by the community. Beside that, there are many people still cannot read even they are in secondary school.

One thing that takes my attention is the reason why people not reading the book. First, high cost. I totally disagree about this reason. There have a poor people but they still can buy a book. Actually that things depend to our interesting. According to the text, some said their fail in exam is cause by read a book. I think that is extremely. This is because our life is not full with successful.

In a conclusion, reading habit should be have in ourselves. Besides get more knowledge, we also can make our life meaningful. Enjoy a life by reading a book. And change yourselves because only you can do it.

1 comment:

p00-3 said...

Hello everyone....
I am raihan bt abdullah.
Now, I want to give my opinion about ‘Reading Habits Among Malaysian’. I am agree with my friend that Malaysian do not like to take reading as their daily habits. Why it is happen in our country? I think it is because we are not start reading since we are young.
Parents also did not support their children to take a reading as a daily habit. Other than that, they are more like to do something that do not give any benefit for themselves than reading. For example, among of us like to spend our time with playing computer games, watching television, shopping, and others. The price of books also can influence some people do not like to buy it. They thought better they buy play station or anything than wasting their money by buying an expensive book.

As we are know, many students in our country do not like to read and they are only read when they are going to sit the examination. They feel reading is something bored and do not give anything for them. They also feel ashamed when take a reading as their habit because their friends will laugh for them and their friends will called them as “scheme student”.

So, how to make reading as our daily habits? First, parents should teach their children to take reading as their daily habits since they are young. Parents also can make a mini library in their house to make easy for their children to get the books. They can also take their children to the government library or to the bookstore such as MPH Stores, Times, Popular or Play Less Books to find books. They also can make books as a presents for their children. So, by doing this, their children will know that reading is important for them. Secondly, schools also play an important role in produce students that want to make reading as their habit. Many activities can be carrying out in the school such as campaign, reading contest, quizzes, NILAM Program and others. So, students will make a reading before they attend to the contest or quizzes. Thirdly, we can make reading as our hobbies. We can spend our time during waiting someone or bus by reading books, magazines or novels.

Many benefits we will get by make reading as our hobby. The benefits are we can spend our time with doing something good that are not wasting our time, we also can get extra knowledge by reading newspaper or we also can improve our vocabulary very well. After study or working, we also can release our tension by reading novels or magazines. So, it is proved that reading is very important to us especially to students.

Lastly, I hope we as Malaysian should make reading as our daily habit because it does not give any bad for us. Parents also should encourage their children to read more. Thank you.

Raihan bt Abdullah
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