Asal usul chess

Today, i found an interesting fact about CHESS in dictionary.

Word History: The words check, chess, and shah are all related. Shah, as one might think, is a borrowing into English of the Persian title for the monarch of that country. The Persian word shh was also a term used in chess, a game played in Persia long before it was introduced to Europe. One said shah as a warning when the opponent's king was under attack. The Persian word in this sense, after passing through Arabic, probably Old Spanish, and then Old French, came into Middle English as chek about seven hundred years ago. Chess itself comes from a plural form of the Old French word that gave us the word check. Checkmate, the next stage after check, goes back to the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning "the king is dead." Through a complex development having to do with senses that evolved from the notion of checking the king, check came to mean something used to ensure accuracy or authenticity. One such means was a counterfoil, a part of a check, for example, retained by the issuer as documentation of a transaction. Check first meant "counterfoil" and then came to mean anything, such as a bill or bank draft, with a counterfoilor eventually even without one.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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tajdid semangat

Admission
Suatu masa dulu, saya kurang suka SEJARAH, sebab subjek ini kena hafal banyal perkara.

Starrting new
Tapi kini saya SUKA SANGAT SEJARAH. Kenapa?
1. Dari sejarah ada banyak sangat yang boleh dipelajari, dikenali, difahami dan seterusnya diambil pengajaran untuk kita menjalani kehidupan yang lebih baik di masa akan datang.
2. Kita tidak perlu mengulangi kesilapan orang yang lepas apabila kita dah tahu apa dan mengapa sesuatu perkara berlaku,
3. Memang sejarah berulang. Tapi ia akan berulang pada orang dan masyarakat yang mengulangi perbuatan seperti masyarakat di zaman lampau.
4. Buku sejarah umpama novel, menceritakan kisah2 hidup manusia.
5. Kita lebih menghargai apa yang kita ada hari ini dengan melihat apa yang berlaku pada masa lampau.

Justeru, Saya SANGAT CINTAKAN sejarah dan saya punya PASSION yang tinggi untuk MEMBACA buku2 sejarah.
INSHA ALLAH.
Apa peluang yang perlu saya rebut hari ini?
Apa masalah yang perlu saya tangani hari ini?
Ya Allah permudahkan pengajian saya hari ini,

Nota, baca ini setiap pagi bangun tidur.

How to succeed as a PhD Student

I found a useful powerpoint by a senior advisor. Although he is Science Advisor, but I found many of his presentation helpful for me.

click for powerpoint

kamus online english

url: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

saya suka kamus english online ini sebab dia bagi makna pelbagai kalau ada banyak, siap dengan contoh2, dan dari angle bidang cth: medic , engineering, phisics, dll.

ada suara juga untuk bantu pronounciation.

Dislexia PhD student, how to succeed

Interesting article to read.

Dislexia PhD student, how to succeed

My objective of sending this is:
1. To read this and think back when we deal with our children. Sometime they did not do what we ask them to do but have we ever ask them why they cannot do that? And even try to understand/ find out why they cannot do it.
2 As motivation to those in hardship facing their master/PhD. Even Dislexia student can have their PhD. Find way out and don’t stuck!.
3. Sometime we see people around us, might be our neighbour, friends, oldfolks, anybody, they do something that we cannot accept. Something that might make us angry, hate, whatever bad feeling. Same with No 1, have we ever ask them why they did that, or even try to understand why they did that and try to lend our hand for some help to get them away from the sticky problem.
4. Dont run away from people who try to help. Some people have ego to accept that they had problem.

Have a nice day.