Emo Life

What is Emo exactly???

Emo is a slang term used to describe or refer to the fashion, attitude or overall subculture linked to post hardcore fashion and its subculture. Emo may also describe a genre of music. It is also used to identify someone fitting a particular emo stereotype, or of being over emotional.
The Personality
Most definitions of emo hold that an emo person is emotionally candid, sensitive, introverted, quiet, shy and glum when referring to a person's personality and attitude. Sad, depressed and heart broken are often used to describe the emo personality. Emo music and poetry often describes unrequited love, emotional and relationship problems, suicide and death. Attention seeking and over dramatic is also associated with being emo.

Fashion
By practically all current definitions, Emo clothing consists of tight jeans or skinny's on both males and females, long side fringes which are brushed to one side of the face or over one or both eyes, dyed black, straightened hair often with a patch of red or pink, tight t- which often bear the names of emo bands, belt buckles, studded belts, canvas sneakers which are usually converse brand or skate shoes or other black shoes, if they wear glasses, they will often be thick, black horn-rimmed glasses. The Emo fashion is also starting to include tattoo's, Stretched ears and other facial piercing's. Emo kids might also wear eyes make up and accessories like wrist bands and bandanas.

Breast Cancer in Malaysia

Breast cancer is a cancer that starts in the breast, usually in the inner lining of the milk ducts or lobules, These variations have been attributed to variations in body size, diet, reproductive characteristics such as age of menarche (first period in females), parity (number of children), age at first childbirth, and age at menopause. The incidence rates also vary with race,

The incidence (number of new cancers) is steadily increasing. The statistics are more frightening in countries like the Malaysia

Breast Cancer in Malaysia – the stark facts

Breast cancer was the commonest overall cancer as well as the commonest cancer in women amongst all races from the age of 20 years in Malaysia for 2003 to 2005.
Breast cancer is most common in the Chinese, followed by the Indians and then, Malays.
Breast cancer formed 31.1% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in women in 2003-2005.

The primary risk factors that have been identified are sex, age, childbearing, hormones,a high-fat diet,alcohol intake,obesity and environmental factors such as tobacco use, radiation and shiftwork.However, studies of environmental and lifestyle factors only attribute a small increase in breast cancer to each factor.

The most cases in breast cancer causes of :

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  Personal history of breast cancer: A woman who had breast cancer in one breast has an increased risk of getting cancer in her other breast.
  



• Family history: A woman's risk of breast cancer is higher if her mother, sister, or daughter had breast cancer.



• The risk is higher if her family member got breast cancer before age 40. Having other relatives with breast cancer (in either her mother's or father's family) may also increase a woman's risk.
  



• Certain breast changes: Some women have cells in the breast that look abnormal under a microscope. Having certain types of abnormal cells (atypical hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ [LCIS]) increases the risk of breast cancer.
  



• Race: Breast cancer is diagnosed more often in Caucasian women than Latina, Asian, or African American women.
  



• No physical activity: Women who are physically inactive throughout life may have an increased risk of breast cancer. Being active may help decrease risk.
  



• Tamoxifen may interact unfavorably with certain antidepressants when used for prevention of breast cancer recurrence.

Fly! Sumazau Fly!

Traditional dance is an art that can attract a big crowd. Sabah has its fair share of traditional dances which includes ritual dances as well as modern ones. Like other states, Sabah is rich in traditional dances.
Among the most popular and well-known traditional dances are the sumazau.

This type of dance is one of the most well known traditional dances in Sabah as well as throughout Malaysia. It belongs to the Kadazandusun tribe. This ritual dance serves varied functions such as thanksgiving for bountiful paddy planting and harvesting, prayer against evil spirits, honouring the spirits as well as to cure illness. The movement and rhythm of this dance is elegantly soft and slow.

The dancers, male and female, will face each other, move their feets in small movements and move their heels up and down to the beat of the music. While dancing the dancer will spread up their hands and move it up and down just like a bird spreading their wings to fly. The Sumazau is usually performed during festive occasions and gatherings.