Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz : Album Review

BY HAFIZUL HAFIS

Miley Ray Cyrus or we know as Miley Cyrus is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born and raised in Franklin, Tennessee, she held minor roles in the television series Doc and the film Big Fish in her childhood.

            She is the one of my motivators when I was young. Based on the previous lyric and this time I want do a preview album about.

Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz

Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz is a free 23-track album—written and recorded outside the governance of Miley Cyrus' label and co-produced in large part by Wayne Coyne and other Flaming Lips members. It is the definition of a vanity project, an indulgent collection of experiments that exist for no other reason than because they can.

Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz dropped from the sky to cap off last weekend’s Cyrus-hosted VMA Awards like so much phallically-deployed glitter. The free 23-track album, written and recorded outside the governance of Cyrus' label and co-produced in large part by Wayne Coyne and other Flaming Lips members, appeared on Sunday accompanied by a New York Times interview where Cyrus detailed its making. In it, she recalls being told by her team that the album was too long. She proceeded to add "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz", as an impetuous reminder that Cyrus plays by no one’s rules but her own. That pretty much says it all: Dead Petz is the definition of a vanity project, an indulgent collection of experiments that exist for no other reason than because they can.

It would be hard to imagine Cyrus and Coyne’s talents combining to worse results: there’s nothing here as pleasant as her appearances on the Flaming Lips’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band cover albumlast year, nor are these collaborations audacious enough to fail in exciting ways. Mostly they are tossed-off Diet Yoshimi detritus, the kind of music these guys can fart out in their sleep. There are bright spots, many of them via former mentor Mike WiLL Made It’s handful of productions. But on the whole Dead Petz is a borderline unlistenable slog through dorm-room poncho bullshit and blissfully ignorant acid koans ("Can’t you see, all the clouds are dying?"), delivered earnestly from an ex-child star seemingly unaware of how fundamentally inseparable her own privilege is from her "do whatever the fuck you want all of the time" ethos, and enabled by a 54 year old who should know better.

Take "Dooo It!", the album's single of sorts. There's a lot going on in the track—weed, flying saucers, queries about the origins of the moon—but the part I keep coming back to is Cyrus proclaiming, "Peace, motherfuckerz! Do it!" Far be it for me to dash the idealistic, psilocybin-fueled dreams of a 22-year-old multi-millionaire whose emancipatory phase has swerved from ratchet-lite twerk ambassador to proudly pansexual LGBTQ advocate and Wayne Coyne bestie: she’s figuring it out, as 22-year olds do, though rarely from such a precipitous platform. But still: "Do it!" As if it were just that simple. 

But that’s why having an editor is important, and why "No parents! No rules!" is almost always better as a slogan than as a creative mode. "Self-control is not something I am working on," Cyrus trills on Mike WiLL cut "Slab of Butter (Scorpion)", and while she seems to be having a blast, we are left with the utterly pointless witch-house skid mark "Fuckin Fucked Up" (not to be confused with "I’m So Drunk"), and "BB Talk", a rambling monologue that wastes one of the album’s few salvageable hooks. "1 Sun"  namedrops Grace Jones alongside tuneless invocations to "Wake up, world! Can’t you see the earth is crying?" There is a twee piano ballad about a dead blowfish friend, who her human friends eat at sushi dinner. The circle of life, man. (She fake-cries at the end.)

Presumably, Cyrus will look back on all this and laugh, having learned something about herself and about making art, and move on, as she seems to have done with 2013’s Bangerz. And there are moments of promise here—most often, when Coyne backs off a bit. She’s much better at love songs than drug songs. "Space Boots" streamlines the album’s cosmic vibes into an electro pulse somewhere between Kavinsky and Rilo Kiley, with sweet, direct lyrics that pierce through the fog of bullshit: "I get so high cause you’re not here smokin’ my weed/ And I get so bored/ Cause you’re not here to make me laugh." Best of all is "Lighter", a stunning, '80s-nodding Mike WiLL ballad that poignantly redeems the general "whoa, dude" vibes: "We never get to see ourselves sleeping peacefully next to the ones that we love," she sings. It’s genuinely moving.

Cyrus returns to idealized depictions of sleep and dreams often here, and given how hyper-regimented most of her life must have been, her attraction to relinquishing control to drugs or the subconscious makes sense. But for all the Instagram nudes and real talk about gender and sexuality in the press, very little of Dead Petz reveals much about Cyrus beyond the bacchanalia and non-sequiturs. I can’t shake the sense that Dead Petz exists more as a glorified VMA party favor than as a work that can stand on its own.

Speaking of: the biggest irony of Cyrus’ clash with Nicki Minaj is that if Cyrus were to pay closer attention, she might recognize Minaj as a trailblazer for the career path she's trying to take—a massively famous woman who does things the "wrong" way, pisses a lot of people off in the process, and refuses to give a fuck. As far as surrealist pop albums this decade, it doesn’t get much ballsier than Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. But the stakes there were huge, and there is literally nothing at stake for Cyrus here. In a way, Dead Petzis a fascinating milemarker of pop music in the post-album, post-Internet era: a major pop album that lands with a splash, then sinks like a brick, as ephemeral as the Tumblr culture Cyrus draws from. Maybe that’s the most visionary aspect of Dead Petz: it feels like it was built to disintegrate.

Bob Dylan's 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan': Album Review

BY AMIRY FAHMI

            Robert Allen Zimmerman, or famously known as Bob Dylan, is one the most profound singer-songwriters ever to have graced our musical history. His brash and powerful lyrics driven of politics, philosophy, social and literary influences, have captured us all in awe. Although his songs were written way back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, yet these songs are still lingering around our mind and has had overpowering memories for us to share.

            His second album, which I was able to fully experience last night, entitled ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ was truly a remarkable listening experience.

            Written in 1962 and released in 1963 by Columbia Records, Dylan’s second album consisted of 13 songs – 12 were acoustic and harmonica sessions and 1 (Corina, Corina) was a full band ensemble. Whereas his self-titled debut album, Bob Dylan, had only contained two original songs, Freewheelin’ represented the beginning of Bob Dylan’s song writing brilliance – eleven out of the thirteen songs on the album are Dylan’s original compositions.

            The album starts off with one of the most important and moving song of all, ‘Blowin’ In the Wind’. In this song, we listen to Dylan asking rhetorical questions about peace, war and freedom. Dylan depicts the song as a sad anthem of desperation for freedom in humanity. He poses a list of hypothetical questions that are questions people may say but cannot be answered. Dylan does not claim to know the answers, but beautifully sing in the chorus that the answers are out there, ‘blowing in the wind’.

            Other politically driven songs that gained heavy attention is ‘Masters of War’. With its rugged acoustic rhythm guitar in the background, Dylan’s voice and lyrics is truly powerful and superficial. Masters of War is not only a protest towards the Vietnam War, but towards war in general. It demonstrates the real nature of war – the ‘masters’ who initiate and orchestrate the wars are safe in their homes, while normal (and usually young) people are forced to go out to fight and fear for their lives. The song also talks about how these ‘masters of cowards’ think that by having an enormous amount of power, they can outweigh death and can buy forgiveness with money. Is your money that good / Will it buy you forgiveness / I think you will find / When your death takes its toll / All the money you made / Will never buy back your soul.

Bob Dylan

            As the album mainly consists of political compositions such as ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ which Dylan articulates the anxieties of nuclear warfare during the Cuban Missile Crisis; ‘Oxford Town’ a song about the first black-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi; ‘Talkin’ World War III Blues’ where Dylan writes about his dream of World War III and his visit to the psychiatrist; and ‘Down the Highway’ where Dylan sings religiously about his fear of not being able to land a position in the gardens of heaven, we can also dive into Dylan’s love life and social experiences.

            For example, ‘Girl from the North Country’ is a song that Dylan sadly sings about his former lover, Echo Helstrom who was Dylan’s high school sweetheart. Dylan’s lovely, sad and husky voice blends in exquisitely with the soft guitar plucking in the background and daunting harmonica playing in between. If you’re travelin’ to the North Country fair / Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline / Remember me to one who lives there / She was once a true love of mine.

            Apart from that, ‘Bob Dylan’s Dream’ is a song that I was immensely connected to. Drifting away from the love and political compositions he had written, this particular song sets apart from the rest. It is a sad depiction of the separation of friendship we all go through. The depressing thought of not having the opportunity to relive those moments with the ones we love, and how we long to reunite with the ones we had spent happier times with.

            In conclusion, ‘The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan’ is one powerful, sentimental and musically simple album. It did not require such complicated musical concepts – although blues arrangements such as 12-bar blues was constructed in ’Down the Highway’, and folk-blues chord arrangements can be heard in numerous songs in the album.    

            One thing to remember, was that Bob Dylan was only 21 years old when this album came out. For someone at that age to blatantly and bravely come out and sing tunes that invoke freedom, peace and love is something to respect for at a higher degree.

            His music might not be one’s cup of tea, yet his words will definitely move you one way or another. Like the African-American jazz producer who produced this album, Tom Wilson recalled: "I didn't even particularly like folk music. I'd been recording Sun Ra and Coltrane (Jazz musicians) and I thought folk music was for the dumb guys. [Dylan] played like the dumb guys, but then these words came out. I was flabbergasted."

Belajar Menulis Berita

OLEH FARIQ ODNAN

Assalamualaikum w.b.r dan salam sejahtera.

Komunikasi Massa bukan sahaja melibatkan berkomunikasi dan pergaulan semata-mata, tetapi Komunikasi Massa melibatkan pergaulan dalam komunikasi untuk mendapatkan informasi dan berita terkini khususnya untuk para mahasiswa/i yang melibatkan diri di dalam industri Komunikasi dan Media.

Jadi pada hari ini, kami didedahkan dengan salah satu tugasan kami yang berkait rapat dengan Komunikasi Massa, iaitu Penulisan Berita. Kebiasaanya, kebanyakkan orang hanya akan membaca berita semata-mata tanpa melihat dan memerharikan cara penulisan berita itu ditulis. Dan pada hari ini, kami mendapat ilmu baru berkenaan penulisan berita di dalam kelas Writing for Media.

Antara ilmu yang diperoleh kami ialah:

1. Cara menulis nama beserta usia di dalam berita. Contoh:
a) Merujuk kepada MUHAMMAD FARIQ, 20, ........ (X)
b) Merujuk kepada Muhammad Fariq bin Odnan, 20, ........ (X)
c) Merujuk kepada Muhammad Fariq, 20, ......... (/)

Sebab salah dan betul.
a) Salah kerana di dalam penulisan berita, nama seseorang mestilah ditulis dengan huruf kecil.
b) Salah kerana di dalam berita, perkataan "bin/binti" tidak perlu ditulis kerana berita mestilah pendek dan padat.
c) Betul kerana nama ditulis dalam huruf kecil tanpa perkataan "bin/binti".

Itulah di antara ilmu yang diperoleh oleh kami di dalam kelas pada hari. In Sha Allah, kami akan kembali pada minggu depan dengan tajuk berita yang lebih menarik.

The name of Malaysia

BY HAFIS APIS

Assalamualaikum. Today as we can see, people  in Malaysia always wonder  how and why we can be very undeveloped? We kind of weird to see this situation. Don’t  you all jealous of other more developed countries? When can we be like them? Therefore, we as a Malaysian people we need to move forward by our self and not to depends on other people. Try to see with our own eyes and head, example; such as Japan, they are magnificent with their existing technology. What Malaysia have is just the beauty of God's creation.

We also need to create something  for enhancing Malaysia on the world stage. The question is, how?  Well, we will dismantling and give our opinion. For enhancing Malaysia is with people who have high education, inventions are created by Malaysians themselves, a stable economy and the environment.

If we want to bring and introduce Malaysia to the world, we must have a high education. We as human being must learn and know all the knowledge that exists on this earth. From there, we can demonstrate to other countries that we Malaysians are expensive in terms of science and knowledge.

 Muslims also know that the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w once said "Seek knowledge even as far as the state china" This shows that education  is very large and will not fade in the face of this earth. When we Malaysians have a high education, is not strange if we are called to work abroad and no wonder if many people from other countries come to work in Malaysia.

Try you imagine if our country is ahead of other countries because of the knowledge that we earn.

In addition, with their inventions can also make Malaysia better known among other countries. We can look at other countries that often invent something, is China. Many technology and the tools that they have the design and its tools is the name of China rise and known throughout the country.

 Now it's our time to go and try to create something  that can be used for the enjoyment of the public. Plus, it can also make Malaysia be a better known country if what we create get welcome by others.  As long as we live on this earth, most Malaysians are copyright of cosmetic products. It is a great way to raise the name of Malaysia. But why this product is not known around the world? We can see that most of China's products are sent to other countries as we see now an example of smart phones Huawei recognized by all countries because of the affordable price and also the power that they have. Therefore, we have to create and move the name Malaysia itself with glory.

Next, a stable economy is very important in all of these things. If we have a stable economy we can do these things easily. You all must be wondering how we want to stabilize the economy. It is easy, when we've created a tool, we can sell it in other countries and about the price, we can double the price in our own homeland. In this case, the country's leaders should play his role. We can see that Malaysian’s economy is not stable. A national leader should supervise and care when this is the case and make sure he does not use his power wrongly.

Now we go to look at our nature and surrounding. When our environment clean and beautiful, we are not ashamed of tourists.

When tourists see the environment that we have probably they will be amazed. When they go on vacation from Malaysia, they will probably tell you to contact them that Malaysia has a very clean environment and can make Malaysia a place for them to stay calm.

If Malaysia is full of rubbish everywhere, it’s not that strange if Malaysia being called as garbage storage areas and we also want to touch the issue of modesty,  if we stay polite with the tourist, they will be flattered us and assume we have manners and courtesy are high. If people treat tourists like some kind of rubbish, then they will surely also be fed up with us.

There are many ways for us to raise the name of Malaysia, but it is on us whether we want to change it or let it just like now. Over time, the name of Malaysia may not be known by generations to come from overseas.

We are enhancing Malaysia by people who have high education, inventions are created by Malaysians themselves, a stable economy and the environment. If we do these things, its not strange if someday maybe we'll move forward just like other countries. Change and progress of the country located on ourselves. We hope you live your  life more positively and get blessed. Assalamualaikum.

Natural Disaster fourth most powerful earthquake in the world

BY HAFIS APIS

First, how many of you know about natural disasters? What I know is a natural disaster is a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life. In Malaysia we face the flood, heavy rain and equinox but other countries face the other things. Actually, I want to explain about Volcano, Tsunami, and Flood.

Volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. Earth's volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its mantle.

In Hawaii, Mauna Loa is an active volcano and is due for an eruption. Mauna Loa has erupted 15 times since 1900. These eruptions have lasted from a few hours to 145 days. Since 1950, Mauna Loa has erupted only twice, in 1975 and 1984.

According to Ken Hon, a volcanologist at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. He has found many, many more explosions than we thought existed.

In Malaysia, we never face the volcano eruption.

Tsunami is also known as a seismic sea wave, is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.

A Tsunami usually happens after an Earthquake underwarter. Because of vibration at the land that’s why it affects the sea.

In 2011 in Tohoku, Japan their face the worst natural disaster. It was earthquake and tsunami. According to Wikipedia on Friday 11 March 2011, with the epicenter approximately 70 kilometres east of the Oshika peninsuola, Tahoka and the hypocentre at an underwater depth of approximately 30 km. The earthquake is also often referred to in Japan as the Great East Japan earthquake and also known as the 2011 Tahoka earthquake, and the 3.11 earthquake. It was the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to have hit Japan, and the fourth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record keeping began in 1900. The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres in Miyako in Tahoka’s Iwate Prefecture, and which, in the Sendai area, travelled up to 10 km inland. The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m east, shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm and 25 cm , and generated infrasound waves detected in perturbations of the low-orbiting GOCE satellite.

Tsunami in Malaysia happened 12 years ago in Pulau Pinang. According to Awani Astro Channel it was the first time tsunami happen in Pulau Pinang. Apparently, it was a side-effect from Indonesia’s Tsunami.

A flood is an overflow of water on land which is usually dry. Sometimes a river receives too much extra water, either from heavy rain or other natural disasters. When this happens, the water overflows from its normal path in the river bed and onto dry land. This is called a flood. Flash floods happen quickly.

The World's Worst Flood – 1931. Flooding in China in 1931 killed as many as four million people, and left 80 million homeless. It was preceded by a three year drought and heavy snow/rain. Atmospheric CO2 levels were 310 ppm, well below Dr. Hansen's “safe” level of 350 ppm.

Malaysia also facing the flood disaster.                                        

Based on my experience the natural disaster that I faced is flood at Kelantan. In December 2014 the worst flood happen in Kelantan. According to the council’s report, the water level of Sungai Kelantan at Tambatan DiRaja, which has a danger level of 25 metres, reached 34.17 metres last month compared to 29.70 metres in 2004 and 33.61 metres in 1967.

In 29 December 2014 many citizens in Kelantan loss their home and stuff. Some of them cannot control their emotional. Some of them just “Redha”  what happen to them.

Natural disaster can happen anywhere, it depends on our God where he wants to put he is power.

WELCOME TO 143SUNDAY!

BY AMIRY FAHMI        

Glad you have found us!

            Welcome, selamat datang and bienvenue to 143Sunday!

            We are six young aspiring bloggers from Universiti Selangor (UNISEL), studying Diploma in Mass & Communication, and are excited to provide readers an opportunity to foresee our thoughts, opinions and writing materials.

            In this blog, you will find a range of materials to read. From entertainment (music, movies, books), technology, sports, food, news, and event coverage.

            Our task as a team is to accomplish 101 posts in just 9 weeks by the end of our semester, for our class assignment, Writing for the Media.

            Each post will be written by different individuals, and their name will be written at the end of each post.

            Any comments regarding our posts, can be directly interacted through the comment section. We will accept feedback, discussions and ideas from you and we will reply them as soon as possible. However, comments that are unsuitable, insensitive, and irreverent, will be removed immediately. 

            We will publish posts daily by different individuals, and we will keep our blog updated as much as possible.

            Any further questions, inquiries, and remarks to our writers, you can contact us directly to our emails, respectively.

            What are you waiting for? Proceed to our posts, and enjoy 143Sunday! 

Yuna's 'Chapters': Album Review

BY AMIRY FAHMI

            As I put my earphones on, and listened to Yuna’s latest album Chapters, I realized something: I might have a little ‘crush’ on her.

            Chapters, her 5^th studio album, released on May 2016, is an album rich with soul and R&B influences with added elements of hip-hop and electronics – all of which combined with her soothing, sweet and silvery voice made the album a unique listening experience.

            The theme of this album revolves around overcoming heartbreak, which is typical in the midst of a multitude of heart-broken artists today. Although her songs depict the ups and downs of love, she also uses her originality by expressing her thoughts to words and music of her life experiences.

            The record starts with ‘Mannequin’, as Yuna’s soft vocals serenading an unnamed lover of her devotion in the face of love gone awry, and then entering her struggle to cope with the idea of love being a falsification, in an electronic-pop song entitled ‘Lanes’.

            Her famous song, ‘Crush’, gained much attention, especially with her collaboration with famous soul and R&B singer, Usher. Currently, this song is the most played song on her latest album on Spotify, being played already 20 million times around the world.

            Yuna also collaborated with young, new aspiring singer, Jhené Aiko, in a soul-electronic pop song, ‘Used to Love You’. The combination of Jhené’s strong husky voice, resembles with Yuna’s soft and angelic voice exquisitely.

            Besides her love anthems such as ‘Your Love’, ‘Too Close’ and her beautiful, sentimental ballad ‘All I Do’, are also songs that convey motivational messages as well as insights to her personal life experiences.

            ‘Places to Go’, is one song that separates itself from the whole album. It is a combination of hip-hop influences that corresponds with Yuna’s soul and sweet voice which strangely suit the occasion. Even listening to her sing in the first verse, resonates similarly to a well-known female R&B singer, Rihanna.

The beautiful and elegant, Yunalis Zarai.

            ‘Places to Go’, is a song that hits me personally, if not for many Malaysians. Here, Yuna talks about her difficulties in allocating herself comfortably to places around the world which she finds rejection on her doorstep regularly. Apart from that, the bevy amount of work she endures, and the amount of travelling she goes through, makes her feel a little homesick. ‘What’s the weather like in Kuala Lumpur / This time of the year / It’s so beautiful / I just need a place to call home / Cause I can’t be here no more, no more.’

            Her last song on the record, ‘Time’ is a beautiful one indeed. To end an album that contained such deep and meaningful messages, ‘Time’ was something that struck Yuna personally. She sings about her struggles and rejections in her early days, yet her love and passion for music continues to realize her dreams. She also sings about the death of her sister when Yuna was fifteen while her sister was battling cancer. But all of which comes down to the chorus, where her mother comes in and says: It takes time / It takes time, baby / It will be fine, yeah / It takes time, baby.

            As a Malaysian, I am proud of Yuna. Her success in breaking through the international music scene has put Malaysia in the limelight for the right reason. Her devotion and creativity has awarded her, currently, in the top Billboard R&B albums located at #16.

            Personally, I have huge respect for her, especially with her bold initiative to write songs about her difficulties. For her to allow millions of listeners to get a grasp of her personal life experiences, and successfully achieving it, is top notch.

            Why buy the album? Well, musically it compliments both her soothing voice and the different elements of her musical influences. This album shows her maturity in her music as she comes out stronger than her albums before. As a Malaysian, we should support our local talent to strive to achieve the American Dream. Many have tried, the likes of Siti Nurhaliza, Ning Baizura, and Jaclyn Victor, but none has made it as far as Yuna.

            Hopefully, this album will result her in a place among the nominees of the Grammy’s R&B album of the year. Personally, I reckon she has the chance to be nominated. However, to compete with artists such as Beyonce and Rihanna is difficult. Although, chances of her taking home the award are slim, even a nomination would get the whole Malaysian people up on their feet.

            With this being her most successful album of yet, it is a strong message and inspiration to young teenagers not only around the world, but here in Malaysia. For those young talented singers and musicians, their dreams can be achieved and that nothing stands in their way. Even if there is, Yuna has been through it, and she is where she is now.

            Apart from that, Yuna’s background education as a graduate with a Bachelor of Legal Studies (Hons.) degree in UiTM, Shah Alam, shows that having an educational foundation is perfectly fine in pursuing a musical career in the future.

            Yuna’s album Chapters, is appropriately titled as it is about the struggles of her life in love, music and family. As she depicts the end of her personal life in one chapter, we wish her luck for all of her success in a beginning of another chapter. 

DOTA 2?

BY MEGAT AIMAN

Pengenalan DOTA 2

Dota 2 adalah sebuah permainan multiplayer online battle arena. Ia merupakan singkatan kepada "Deffence Of The Ancients" yang dicipta dari inspirasi Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos dan Warcraft 3 : The Frozen Throne. DotA 2 dikembangkan oleh Valve Corporation, diterbitkan pada julai 2013 yang mana ia dapat dimainkan melalui operation system Microsoft Windows, OS X and Linux.  Cara untuk para penggemar game memuat turun ke pc mereka adalah dengan membuat akaun Steam yang mana distributor rasmi nya VALVE. Apa yang lebih menarik adalah permainan ini percuma untuk dimuat turun. 

  Pengembangan Dota 2 bermula sejak tahun 2009. Ketika pemaju mod DotA, Icefrog, diupah oleh Valve sebagai lead designer. Dota 2 dipuji oleh pengkritik kerana gameplay-nya, kualiti pembuatan dan kesetiaan pada gameplay pendahulu (DotA mod Warcraft 3).Dota 2 juga dikatakan sebagai permainan yang susah dipelajari dan para pemain yang tidak ramah. Dota 2 menjadi game yang mempunyai pemain paling banyak aktif di Steam, dengan kiraan 800,000 pemain dalam talian setiap hari.

GAME PLAY

Dota 2 dimainkan oleh 2 team yang mana beranggota 5 orang pemain setiap pasukan. Setiap pasukan mempunyai markas yang berada di belah berlainan dan mempunyai satu bangunan bernama "Ancient" dimana pasukan itu harus berusaha menghancurkan "Ancient" musuh agar dapat memenangi pertandingan tersebut. Setiap pemain mengawal satu watak "Hero" yang memberi tumpuan kepada penaikan level, mengumpulkan gold, membeli item dan berlawan dengan musuh untuk menang.

PLAY IN VIRTUAL REALITY

BY IQMAL TUGIMAN

WHAT IS PLAYSTATION VR?

Sony has joined the world of virtual reality with PlayStation VR. Sony’s headset represents the cheapest of the “big three” on the market right now, and is the only one currently available to console gamers.

Priced at £349.99, it’s significantly cheaper than the Oculus Rift (£549) and HTC Vive (£759). However, players will also need to invest in a PlayStation Camera priced at £44.99, and, to enjoy the “full” experience, a couple of PlayStation Move controllers, with a twin pack costing £69 (although you could probably find them for less). This brings the total cost to £464, still cheaper than the Rift headset, with Oculus also charging £189 for its own controllers.

PLAYSTATION VR – DESIGN AND COMFORT

The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets aren’t the snazziest bits of kit. The first consumer models look like glorified prototypes. The PlayStation VR, on the other hand, looks like an expensive bit of tech that you’d be happy to have on your shelf.

Everything about it looks gorgeous: the sleek white edging, the black fascia and the cool lights to allow for motion tracking.

The headset is pretty sizeable, with a cable coming out of the back, trailing down to a small adaptor with controls to turn the volume up and down on your headphones (which plug into the adaptor), as well as a power button to turn the headset on or off. Putting the headset on, I immediately noticed how comfortable it is.

Unlike other VR headsets, PSVR doesn’t fasten to your face with Velcro. Instead you press a button at the back of the headset to extend the plastic band, place it over your head and then it automatically adjusts to fit, kind of like a vice – a cuddly vice.

source: http://www.trustedreviews.com

Jawbone UP3

BY SAFWAN MUSKAMAL

Everyone has grasped the wearable mantra by now: sleeping is good; moving is good; humans aren’t good at remembering to do either.

As a result, what we really need is a device which integrates unobtrusively into our lives, monitors our lifestyle and reminds us to put down the controller every so often.
The difficulty, of course, is that any wearable worth its salt needs to handle a lot of data – think heart rate, step counts, skin temperature, times of day, sleep cycles. All of those numbers make a simple, usable interface pretty tricky – constantly monitoring your own stats sounds more Holby City than Usain Bolt.

Despite packing heaps of sensors into its subtly styled shell, the UP3 takes a more holistic approach, giving you only the data you need, when you need it.

What's more, it only does so through the streamlined and sophisticated partner smartphone app, while also letting statistic-seekers search deeper into the app if they really must.

Seeing the device as a partner to the UP app might not be how Jawbone wants to market the UP3, but it’s definitely the way to understand user interaction with it – apart from vibration reminders from the device itself (which you set via the app), all data is delivered through your smartphone.

This makes sense once you realise that the UP3 is not a sports activity tracker, but a lifestyle monitor: heart rate is only measured during sleep and at rest, it’s splashproof but not waterproof (so no swimming), and there’s no way to check activity progress on the device itself.

Instead, the greatest feat of the UP3 is that you completely forget you’re wearing it. Splashproof means you can keep it on in the shower, and, with a battery life of five days (increasing to closer to seven with the latest update), you can go at least the working week without taking it off.

It’s this facet of the user experience which really makes Jawbone’s latest effort a success – it nails the ‘background' concept. Constant data is unhelpful, particularly for noticing trends; a device which instead sits in the background, unnoticed, providing meaningful feedback at relevant times is a winner – and that’s exactly what the UP3 does.

The UP app learns from your activities, suggesting bespoke step targets, giving you hydration tips and telling you how much sleep you should be getting. And it does so in an app environment which puts motivation first – headline stats go at the top, with complex and detailed data found with a delve, while goals, trends and coaching are truly the order of the day.
What’s more, the suggestions actually mean something, because the app and device working together can help you to achieve them.

So, for instance, you get smart alarms which wake you in the best phase of sleep and vibration reminders to get you moving - all very useful. The UP app even gives you snippets of the latest studies on the benefits of movement and sleep, so you can exercise your brain while improving your lifestyle. Connect with social networks and your goals become even more meaningful.
Perhaps the epitome of the effectiveness of the UP3 was its alert that I was dehydrated the morning after a few too many drinks the night before, a conclusion it reached because my heart rate was higher and my sleep restless.

The device gave tips to get me back on track and, though it sadly can’t cure a hangover, it did stop me wallowing in self pity. Well, mostly.
In a way, the fact that the UP3 doesn’t give you all of its data off the bat can feel a little Big Brother-ish. It often knows how well you slept before you did and, if you go in for the food-logging function, it will start to suggest meals for you. But if you really buy in to Jawbone’s approach to wearable wisdom, the UP app is an impressively integrated, incredibly functional user experience.