Assalamualaikum, salam sejahtera ke atas semua pelawat blog. Moga kita sentiasa di dalam rahmatnya. Perkongsian kali ini bakal membawa anda kepada permasalahan budaya "Hedonisme" yang kian menular, merebak umpama racun berbisa yang semakin menyerang remaja islam. Admin bukanlah pakar dalam soal ini. Cuma, sekadar berkongsi kefahaman dan pengetahuan.
Baiklah sahabat, apakah Hedonisme? Hedonisme adalah berhibur secara berlebihan, yakni secara melampau!
~Ya,terus apa bahayanya pada remaja kita?~
Baik, cuba anda baca apa yang akan saya sampaikan. Budaya ini mengajak remaja-remaja islam berhibur. Ya, memang tidak salah berhibur. Tetapi, budaya ini mengajak mereka berhibur secara BERLEBIHAN atau lebih tepat lagi secara MELAMPAU. Lihat kesannya,ia akan melahirkan generasi muda yang amat tidak mementingkan masa hadapan. Apa tidaknya, mereka hanya tahu berhibur dan bersuka-ria. Malah mungkin juga ada yang sampai melupakan kewajipan kepada agama.
"Remaja hari ini adalah pemimpin hari esok".
Lihat ayat ini. Era ini, kita memerlukan seorang pemimpin yang mampu memimpin dengan baik. Mampu memikul tanggungjawab tanpa khianat kepada mana-mana pihak. Cuba anda fikir, jika remaja kita terlibat dengan budaya Hedonisme ini, bagaimana pemimpin kita pada masa hadapan? Siapa pemimpin kita pada masa hadapan? Remaja pada hari ini bukan?! Ya! Justeru, budaya ini ternyata sangat berbahaya. Tidak perlu diterangkan dengan lebih panjang saya sudah tahu, anda dapat memahaminya bukan? Anda dapat memikirkan tentang impaknya bukan?
Sekali lagi saya ingin mengajak anda berfikir, rasanya, sesuaikah budaya hedonisme ini dengan kita sebagai masyarakat timur yang mementingkan budi bahasa dan adab sopan? Jika permasalahan ini tidak dititikberatkan, maka ia akan meracuni fikiran remaja-remaja yang masih belum berfikiran matang. Jika dibiarkan, sudah pasti ia akan mengubah adat hidup dan budi bicara mereka nanti. Benar bukan?
Banyak lagi budaya yang telah dilahirkan oleh Hedonisme ini. Antaranya, budaya MALAS.
Hedonisme telahpun membius, menyuntik dan melekakan pemikiran remaja, lalu mereka tidak lagi berusaha bersungguh-sungguh untuk mendapatkan sesuatu kerana apa yang mereka tahu hanyalah berhibur sahaja.Pada mereka, hidup hanya sekali, so? "Jom kita enjoy!". wah! Banyak cantik! Korang fikir hidup ini hanya untuk berseronok ya?
Kita dapat lihat sendiri. Gejala sosial turut dilahirkan oleh budaya Hedonisme ini. Eh, bagaimana itu? Baik, mari saya terangkan. Jika sudah di'set'kan di dalam mindanya, life is just for fun, maka sudah pasti hanya ingin gembira sahaja bukan? Hal ini dapat dibuktikan melalui pemerhatian kita, apabila remaja islam mula berkumpul di tempat-tempat yang tidak senonoh seperti di kelab malam, pub, disko dan sebagainya utntuk bersuka-ria. Nah! Di sinilah lahirnya gejala sosial itu. Penyakit sosial mula menjangkiti seperti, meminum arak, terkinja-kinja menari seperti orang gila, mendengar lagu-lagu rancak yang menyakitkan telinga sambil menggoyangkan kepala, bukan ada untungnya malah mengusutkan rambut sahaja. Buat apa yang mereka suka tanpa menghiraukan orang sekeliling. Mereka fikir orang lain tidak ada perasaankah?. Di mana perasaan malu? Di mana adab sopan masyarakat timur? Malah, di mana akhlak remaja islam? Ah, daripada sini,pasti juga akan berlaku pergaulan bebas lelaki dan perempuan yang akhirnya sudah tentu membawa kepada zina. Maka akan rosaklah remaja kita! Saya ulang sekali lagi, rosaklah remaja kita! Bakal menjadi sampah masyarakat.
Sekian, sampai di sini sahaja yang mampu saya kongsikan. Maaf jika masih banyak informasi yang belum dapat saya sampaikan. Moga kita diberi kefahaman. InsyaAllah.
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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
An analysis, the 2011 budget
By Syed Akbar Ali
Hot news versus one week later analysis. Well when sometime has passed we get more hindsight and more 'analysis paralysis'. I am just rounding it up and putting my two cents worth about the Budget 2011.
Today the Plus folks reveal that the five year postponement of toll hikes simply means that the Government has to pay Plus RM5.0 billion compensation. Plus the RM2.5 bilion unpaid compensation still owing to Plus by the Government, that is RM7.5 Billion of taxpayers’ funds. That is simply leaving money in the right pocket and paying taxpayers money to Plus from the left pocket. Apa beza sangat ?
There are adventurous ideas like building an RM5 billion 100-storey Warisan Merdeka by PNB. The PM said yesterday, somewhere, that the 100 floors of this building will fill up with offices and businesses, implying the 100 storey building means jobs and humming businesses. Well it does not work that way.
Assuming each floor has a minimum of 100 occupants, the 100 storey building will house 10,000 people. These 10,000 people must already have successful businesses before they can move in and pay the rent in a 100 storey “Malaysia’s tallest building”. You cannot build a 100 storey building which will magically create successful businesses to become its tenants.
I guess what will happen is that PNB will arm twist all the GLCs under its wing to take up space at the 100 storey Warisan Merdeka.
There is precedent because this is what UEM(?), MRCB(?) had to do to fill up the Sentral Project in Brickfields. Ask the GLCs and Government departments to move into Sentral. Wouldn’t 1MDB’s Sg Besi redevelopment, Naza’s Jalan Duta redevelopment and all the other Greater Kuala Lumpur skyscrapers also be clamoring for the same GLCs and the same Government departments to fill up their empty spaces? So please plan well.
Then the PM’s wife’s pet project the Permata program has been given another RM111 of taxpayers’ money – three times the RM36 million given last year.
Last year the Prime Minister said there were 900 “anak pintar”. So do we have three times more anak pintar kids this year? Number of children is a biological function. You cannot triple ‘pintar kids’ in one year. Todate the total amount spent on the Pintar program is over RM176 million – which works out to RM195,500 spent per pintar kid so far. That’s more than degree at a private university. OK let me ask a simple question : how are the Pintar kids doing? Folks our money is being spent. So how are the Pintar kids doing? Do you all recall the Monsoon Cup?
Critics have also pointed out an allocation of RM65 million to renovate the Prime Minister’s residence. The question is why? It’s still a new house, made of concrete and steel. Why renovate a new house? And why cost so much?
The good part in the Budget are the incentives for home buyers. A 4 percent interest rate for a maximum of RM60,000 for low cost houses, government guaranteed down payments of 10 percent for houses below RM220,000 for first time buyers earning less that RM3000 a month, and 50 percent stamp duty exemption for first-time house buyers of houses not exceeding RM350,000 is just great. Helping folks financially with the 10% house deposit for huses below RM220,000 is just awesome.
This will help more Malays and other lower income folks own houses (this is a real problem lah). Kudos to whoever managed to slip this gem into the Budget. I take it that this also means that the banks can still lend 90% loans for the remainder purchase price? Syabas. Lets increase house ownership – it will lead to economic growth.
Abolishing import duty on approximately 300 items like apparel, handbags, shoes, shampoo, suits, children’s apparel, wallets, hair colourants, golf balls, imitation jewellery, talcum powder, curtains, table cloth, blankets, bed sheets, shirts, undergarments, lingerie, nightwear, perfumes and mosquito netting (?) is great.
Please include cars and motorbikes in the list too.
I agree with Dr Mahathir that the Employees Provident Funds should be careful with investing 20 percent of its assets overseas (from 7% now). On the one hand we want foreign investment. On the other hand we are sending out our money by the shiploads. What gives? Please don’t buy shopping malls overseas ok. Want to play safe buy OECD Government securities. If it is Greek, discount heavily first.
The Auditor General’s Report has been postponed. Do you share the feeling that there is going to be some embarrassing news? FMT has written about the 2006 Auditor-General’s Report “about a RM32 screwdriver set bought for RM224, a RM160 pen for RM1,146, and a RM50 carjack for RM5,700? …more shocking RM290 million spent by the Customs Department for an outdated user-hostile information system.”
This is the sin of our system for the past 40 years, we do not pay market prices. We always overpay and get less. It is not just bad for us the taxpayers but it is worse for the businesses, the entrepreneurs and the economy. Easy money has made us non competitive and condemned us to the wheel chair.
One Taikor said “the Government pays three times more fo everything anyway”. That is three time market price. The 2011 Budget totals RM212 Billion. There is plenty of fat inside I am sure. Looking at past Auditor-General’s Reports and what the Taikor said, we can achieve what we want to achieve for 2011 using maybe just one third of the amount or RM70 Billion only.
The remainder RM142 Billion will be used to make nails in our coffin, by making easy money GLCs, easy money cronies and other easy money addicts uncompetitive, lazy and handout driven. No need to be innovative, creative, work hard or be bold.
The 2011 Budget also says that “Private Sector Investment” will increase to RM86 Billion. There is some ‘pulling the wool over the eyes’ going on here. The businesses that I run are 100% private sector. The Government never asked me how much I will be investing over 2011. Even if they did, how does my “private sector investment” become part of the Government’s Budget Planning?
What is meant by “private sector investment” actually means spending by the GLCs. That is taxpayer’s money ok, it is NOT private sector investment. For example the Government has Guaranteed 1MDB’s RM5.0 billion Bond issue (that’s taxpayers money folks).
i. The Kuala Lumpur International Financial District valued at RM26 billion.
ii. The Mass Rapid Transit in Greater KL costing RM40 billion (targeted 2020).
iii. the Warisan Merdeka 100-storey tower valued at RM5 billion
So I hope someone will advise the Prime Minister not to keep repeating Private Sector Financing (do you notice that they have dropped that other misnomer “Private Finance Initiative”?) There is no such thing. The taxpayer’s will be paying for everything.
Other than the 100 storey Warisan Merdeka, there are a couple of other dicey suggestions which have slipped under the radar. One is the RM3.0 billion resort developmet in Karambunai.
“Najib said Nexus Karambunai, a renowned resort in Sabah, had committed to developing an integrated RM3bil eco-nature resort, the first in the world, by leveraging on its natural beauty and uniqueness.”
The Government will “give” RM100.0 million. Hah? What do you mean by “give”? Let me guess, the balance RM2.9 billion is “private sector financing”? I find this very hard to accept. I suspect taxpayer’s money will be involved again. Somehow I smell fish here. RM3.0 billion for a resort? In Sabah? I say bro, RM30.0 million tak boleh ke?
Here is some Standard Two calculation to get the Pay Back period. Pay Back period represents the number of years for a business to generate net profit to payback the total money invested in the project.
Saya the Karambunai Eco Resort will have 500 rooms. Say it is 5 star and room rates average RM500 per day (well lets assume the Mubadalla guys from Abu Dhabi will stay there).
Assuming 80% occupancy the whole year (I am being very very optimistic) the calculation is like this : 500 rooms x 80% x 365 days x RM500 = RM73.0 million revenue. Taking 30% "net profit" (a very very optimistic assumption again), net profit will be = RM22.0 million.
So Pay Back Period = RM3.0 billion / RM22.0 million = 136 years ! ! It will be 136 years before they can recover the investment. (Usually most viable businesses have a payback period of 6 - 12 years)
Lets give them even more optimistic scenarios. Lets double the room rates to RM1000 per day (OK lah the Emir of Abu Dhabi may come calling too). At double the net profit, the Pay Back period will be halved ie 68 years. This is still too far fetched.
Here is some more Darjah Dua arithmetic. Say the cost of construction is RM100 psf. It means RM3.0 billion will buy us 3.0 million square feet of resort space in Karambunai. For your imagination and comparison, the Mid Valley Mega Mall has 4.5 million sq ft of space.
Here is some trivia about the Mid Valley Megamall
4.5 million square feet (420,000 m²), a shopping mall, an office tower block, 30 signature offices and 2 hotels, 430 shops on five and a half floors, five anchor tenants; Carrefour, Jusco, Golden Screen Cinemas, Metrojaya and Harvey Norman, an 18 screen Cinema, a state-of-the-art bowling centre, two mega food courts, a 48,300 square foot (4,500 m²) convention centre, a 646 room business hotel named Cititel
I know a resort and a shopping mall are not like “apples and apples” but RM3.0 billion for an eco resort? Shouldn’t it be the case that in an “eco” resort you must preserve the greenery with minimum cutting and covering with concrete. RM3.0 billion sounds way too much. Sinkhole comes to mind.
The other ‘blackhole’ that should be on our radar is the Talent Corporation. Even the name Talent Corporation sounds like some Las Vegas adult entertainment “talent hunting” company. There was no mention of the amount to be given to this Talent Hunters but I think it is a ripoff of taxpayers funds.
The plan to get back 70,000 Malaysians working overseas is ridiculous. Even getting back 10% of this figure or 7000 of them is ridiculous.
Most of them are non Malays who have left the shores for greener pastures overseas. Why would they come back? And if they come back, where would the Talent Corporation place them? Can the Talent Corporation go to IOI Corporation or Gleneagles Medical Center and say ‘we have found this guy who is earning USD30,000 a month overseas. Can you give him a job for RM150,000 a month?’
Its not going to happen. The only alternative is to find them places in the GLCs. I don’t think this will happen either.
So what gives? The fun will be in the “talent hunt”. Whoever the clever beggar “con” sultant or sub-contractor who thought up this idea and slipped it between the sheets is going to make tons of money undertaking the “hunt”. Whether they bag any birds is not relevant. The fun (and the money to be made) is in the hunt. No need to head to the Las Vegas “one armed bandits”. The stick up can be done here. ‘Stick ‘em up’.
Hot news versus one week later analysis. Well when sometime has passed we get more hindsight and more 'analysis paralysis'. I am just rounding it up and putting my two cents worth about the Budget 2011.
Today the Plus folks reveal that the five year postponement of toll hikes simply means that the Government has to pay Plus RM5.0 billion compensation. Plus the RM2.5 bilion unpaid compensation still owing to Plus by the Government, that is RM7.5 Billion of taxpayers’ funds. That is simply leaving money in the right pocket and paying taxpayers money to Plus from the left pocket. Apa beza sangat ?
There are adventurous ideas like building an RM5 billion 100-storey Warisan Merdeka by PNB. The PM said yesterday, somewhere, that the 100 floors of this building will fill up with offices and businesses, implying the 100 storey building means jobs and humming businesses. Well it does not work that way.
Assuming each floor has a minimum of 100 occupants, the 100 storey building will house 10,000 people. These 10,000 people must already have successful businesses before they can move in and pay the rent in a 100 storey “Malaysia’s tallest building”. You cannot build a 100 storey building which will magically create successful businesses to become its tenants.
I guess what will happen is that PNB will arm twist all the GLCs under its wing to take up space at the 100 storey Warisan Merdeka.
There is precedent because this is what UEM(?), MRCB(?) had to do to fill up the Sentral Project in Brickfields. Ask the GLCs and Government departments to move into Sentral. Wouldn’t 1MDB’s Sg Besi redevelopment, Naza’s Jalan Duta redevelopment and all the other Greater Kuala Lumpur skyscrapers also be clamoring for the same GLCs and the same Government departments to fill up their empty spaces? So please plan well.
Then the PM’s wife’s pet project the Permata program has been given another RM111 of taxpayers’ money – three times the RM36 million given last year.
Last year the Prime Minister said there were 900 “anak pintar”. So do we have three times more anak pintar kids this year? Number of children is a biological function. You cannot triple ‘pintar kids’ in one year. Todate the total amount spent on the Pintar program is over RM176 million – which works out to RM195,500 spent per pintar kid so far. That’s more than degree at a private university. OK let me ask a simple question : how are the Pintar kids doing? Folks our money is being spent. So how are the Pintar kids doing? Do you all recall the Monsoon Cup?
Critics have also pointed out an allocation of RM65 million to renovate the Prime Minister’s residence. The question is why? It’s still a new house, made of concrete and steel. Why renovate a new house? And why cost so much?
The good part in the Budget are the incentives for home buyers. A 4 percent interest rate for a maximum of RM60,000 for low cost houses, government guaranteed down payments of 10 percent for houses below RM220,000 for first time buyers earning less that RM3000 a month, and 50 percent stamp duty exemption for first-time house buyers of houses not exceeding RM350,000 is just great. Helping folks financially with the 10% house deposit for huses below RM220,000 is just awesome.
This will help more Malays and other lower income folks own houses (this is a real problem lah). Kudos to whoever managed to slip this gem into the Budget. I take it that this also means that the banks can still lend 90% loans for the remainder purchase price? Syabas. Lets increase house ownership – it will lead to economic growth.
Abolishing import duty on approximately 300 items like apparel, handbags, shoes, shampoo, suits, children’s apparel, wallets, hair colourants, golf balls, imitation jewellery, talcum powder, curtains, table cloth, blankets, bed sheets, shirts, undergarments, lingerie, nightwear, perfumes and mosquito netting (?) is great.
Please include cars and motorbikes in the list too.
I agree with Dr Mahathir that the Employees Provident Funds should be careful with investing 20 percent of its assets overseas (from 7% now). On the one hand we want foreign investment. On the other hand we are sending out our money by the shiploads. What gives? Please don’t buy shopping malls overseas ok. Want to play safe buy OECD Government securities. If it is Greek, discount heavily first.
The Auditor General’s Report has been postponed. Do you share the feeling that there is going to be some embarrassing news? FMT has written about the 2006 Auditor-General’s Report “about a RM32 screwdriver set bought for RM224, a RM160 pen for RM1,146, and a RM50 carjack for RM5,700? …more shocking RM290 million spent by the Customs Department for an outdated user-hostile information system.”
This is the sin of our system for the past 40 years, we do not pay market prices. We always overpay and get less. It is not just bad for us the taxpayers but it is worse for the businesses, the entrepreneurs and the economy. Easy money has made us non competitive and condemned us to the wheel chair.
One Taikor said “the Government pays three times more fo everything anyway”. That is three time market price. The 2011 Budget totals RM212 Billion. There is plenty of fat inside I am sure. Looking at past Auditor-General’s Reports and what the Taikor said, we can achieve what we want to achieve for 2011 using maybe just one third of the amount or RM70 Billion only.
The remainder RM142 Billion will be used to make nails in our coffin, by making easy money GLCs, easy money cronies and other easy money addicts uncompetitive, lazy and handout driven. No need to be innovative, creative, work hard or be bold.
The 2011 Budget also says that “Private Sector Investment” will increase to RM86 Billion. There is some ‘pulling the wool over the eyes’ going on here. The businesses that I run are 100% private sector. The Government never asked me how much I will be investing over 2011. Even if they did, how does my “private sector investment” become part of the Government’s Budget Planning?
What is meant by “private sector investment” actually means spending by the GLCs. That is taxpayer’s money ok, it is NOT private sector investment. For example the Government has Guaranteed 1MDB’s RM5.0 billion Bond issue (that’s taxpayers money folks).
i. The Kuala Lumpur International Financial District valued at RM26 billion.
ii. The Mass Rapid Transit in Greater KL costing RM40 billion (targeted 2020).
iii. the Warisan Merdeka 100-storey tower valued at RM5 billion
So I hope someone will advise the Prime Minister not to keep repeating Private Sector Financing (do you notice that they have dropped that other misnomer “Private Finance Initiative”?) There is no such thing. The taxpayer’s will be paying for everything.
Other than the 100 storey Warisan Merdeka, there are a couple of other dicey suggestions which have slipped under the radar. One is the RM3.0 billion resort developmet in Karambunai.
“Najib said Nexus Karambunai, a renowned resort in Sabah, had committed to developing an integrated RM3bil eco-nature resort, the first in the world, by leveraging on its natural beauty and uniqueness.”
The Government will “give” RM100.0 million. Hah? What do you mean by “give”? Let me guess, the balance RM2.9 billion is “private sector financing”? I find this very hard to accept. I suspect taxpayer’s money will be involved again. Somehow I smell fish here. RM3.0 billion for a resort? In Sabah? I say bro, RM30.0 million tak boleh ke?
Here is some Standard Two calculation to get the Pay Back period. Pay Back period represents the number of years for a business to generate net profit to payback the total money invested in the project.
Saya the Karambunai Eco Resort will have 500 rooms. Say it is 5 star and room rates average RM500 per day (well lets assume the Mubadalla guys from Abu Dhabi will stay there).
Assuming 80% occupancy the whole year (I am being very very optimistic) the calculation is like this : 500 rooms x 80% x 365 days x RM500 = RM73.0 million revenue. Taking 30% "net profit" (a very very optimistic assumption again), net profit will be = RM22.0 million.
So Pay Back Period = RM3.0 billion / RM22.0 million = 136 years ! ! It will be 136 years before they can recover the investment. (Usually most viable businesses have a payback period of 6 - 12 years)
Lets give them even more optimistic scenarios. Lets double the room rates to RM1000 per day (OK lah the Emir of Abu Dhabi may come calling too). At double the net profit, the Pay Back period will be halved ie 68 years. This is still too far fetched.
Here is some more Darjah Dua arithmetic. Say the cost of construction is RM100 psf. It means RM3.0 billion will buy us 3.0 million square feet of resort space in Karambunai. For your imagination and comparison, the Mid Valley Mega Mall has 4.5 million sq ft of space.
Here is some trivia about the Mid Valley Megamall
4.5 million square feet (420,000 m²), a shopping mall, an office tower block, 30 signature offices and 2 hotels, 430 shops on five and a half floors, five anchor tenants; Carrefour, Jusco, Golden Screen Cinemas, Metrojaya and Harvey Norman, an 18 screen Cinema, a state-of-the-art bowling centre, two mega food courts, a 48,300 square foot (4,500 m²) convention centre, a 646 room business hotel named Cititel
I know a resort and a shopping mall are not like “apples and apples” but RM3.0 billion for an eco resort? Shouldn’t it be the case that in an “eco” resort you must preserve the greenery with minimum cutting and covering with concrete. RM3.0 billion sounds way too much. Sinkhole comes to mind.
The other ‘blackhole’ that should be on our radar is the Talent Corporation. Even the name Talent Corporation sounds like some Las Vegas adult entertainment “talent hunting” company. There was no mention of the amount to be given to this Talent Hunters but I think it is a ripoff of taxpayers funds.
The plan to get back 70,000 Malaysians working overseas is ridiculous. Even getting back 10% of this figure or 7000 of them is ridiculous.
Most of them are non Malays who have left the shores for greener pastures overseas. Why would they come back? And if they come back, where would the Talent Corporation place them? Can the Talent Corporation go to IOI Corporation or Gleneagles Medical Center and say ‘we have found this guy who is earning USD30,000 a month overseas. Can you give him a job for RM150,000 a month?’
Its not going to happen. The only alternative is to find them places in the GLCs. I don’t think this will happen either.
So what gives? The fun will be in the “talent hunt”. Whoever the clever beggar “con” sultant or sub-contractor who thought up this idea and slipped it between the sheets is going to make tons of money undertaking the “hunt”. Whether they bag any birds is not relevant. The fun (and the money to be made) is in the hunt. No need to head to the Las Vegas “one armed bandits”. The stick up can be done here. ‘Stick ‘em up’.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Take healthy food......... live healthier
Salam and hi to all my dear frenz. Its been quite some time we haven't meet. Well, busy with works and other activities keeps me apart from writing any entries...With this little time i would like to take the opportunity to introduce to some healthy food which contain some herbs, spirulina, the powerful effect of astaxantin and some vitamins and minerals. Introducing to you GAMAT MAXX, a supplement of Gamat with Blueberry flavor.Great taste with great vitamins at an affordable price....Try it at all Dr. Azimuth branch.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Belaian Oscar Tanda Ajal Telah Sampai
Oscar, kucing yang berpelesiran di hospital Steere House di Rhode Island, Amerika Syarikat memiliki keupayaan menghidu kematian.
- Foto www.metro.co.uk
BAGI mereka yang meminati kucing, setiap kali binatang peliharaan itu datang menghampiri mereka sambil dengan mengiau dan menggeselkan badan dengan penuh manja,hati yang gundah pasti cair dan akan terbit perasaan teruja, gembira dan rasa sayang.
Namun, berlainan pula dengan seekor kucing bernama Oscar yang berpelesiran di hospital Steere House di Rhode Island, Amerika Syarikat.
Kedatangannya di tepi katil pesakit amat digeruni oleh setiap orang.
Ini kerana kehadiran kucing berwarna coklat bertompok kelabu di belakang badan dan putih di bahagian perutnya itu menandakan si pesakit bakal menemui ajal dalam masa terdekat.
Semua kakitangan dan doktor hospital itu mengetahui kelebihan kucing yang mempunyai kelebihan luar biasa ini.
Kehadiran Oscar 'digeruni' kerana ia menandakan ajal seseorang pesakit telah sampai.
Mereka tahu sudah sampai masanya untuk memberitahu ahli-ahli keluarga apabila Oscar 'melawat' si pesakit tertentu.
Jika diasingkan di luar bilik pesakit itu, kucing itu akan mencakar pintu dan dinding sebagai tanda ia ingin masuk ke bilik tersebut.
Malah sesetengah ahli keluarga memuji kucing itu kerana mereka percaya Oscar telah datang untuk memberikan sokongan moral atas kematian saudara-mara atau rakan.
Pelbagai teori dan andaian dibuat berhubung dengan kelebihan Oscar.
Ada yang berpendapat kucing tertentu memiliki keupayaan menghidu sel-sel pesakit yang sudah mati dan bakal menemui ajal tidak lama lagi.
Oscar dipercayai termasuk dalam golongan kucing istimewa yang memiliki keupayaan tersebut.
-edirossa
Thinks the right way 1
People who are nobody: Instead of thinking and trying to understand why people don't get success in their life and try to relate with our condition we should juz help them to achieve their goals...that is if they wanted to.We pray for them too.
People who are somebody:We should think and understand how was the great leaders or great personalities face difficulties in their life starting from their poverty, family problems, obstacles in educations, critics, and refusals toward their ideas.We should understand their spirits,the fun and tears along their way in achieving am ambition so that everybody can enjoy the benefits.
So frenz, lets thinks the right way and have a goal which is parallel with Allah commandment so that we are alwayz in His redha.
People who are somebody:We should think and understand how was the great leaders or great personalities face difficulties in their life starting from their poverty, family problems, obstacles in educations, critics, and refusals toward their ideas.We should understand their spirits,the fun and tears along their way in achieving am ambition so that everybody can enjoy the benefits.
So frenz, lets thinks the right way and have a goal which is parallel with Allah commandment so that we are alwayz in His redha.
ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get catgut? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane? Orange (of course)
haha...i guess most of u failed the quiz, and i was too...
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get catgut? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane? Orange (of course)
haha...i guess most of u failed the quiz, and i was too...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Kembali Menguruskan Rambut
ADA SEORANG LELAKI PERGI KE KEDAI GUNTING RAMBUT UTK MENGGUNTING RAMBUT DAN JANGGUTNYA. APABILA BARBER ITU MEMULAKAN TUGASNYA, MEREKA PUN BERBORAK DAN BERCAKAP MENGENAI BYK PERKARA.TAPI BILA MEREKA MULA BERBICARA MENGENAI ALLAH, BARBER ITU PUN BERKATA,'' SAYA TAK PERCAYA ALLAH ITU WUJUD.''
''KENAPA KAMU KATA BEGITU?'' TANYA SI LELAKI TADI.
'' CUBA KAMU KELUAR DI TGH JLN ITU DAN TUNJUKKAN PD SAYA BAHAWA ALLAH ITU WUJUD. KALAU BETUL ALLAH WUJUD, KENAPA RAMAI SGT ORG SAKIT KAT LUAR TU?KENAPA MASIH ADA KANAK2 YG TERBIAR? KALAU BETUL ALLAH WUJUD, DAH TENTU TIADA KESAKITAN DAN KEPERITAN HIDUP DLM DUNIA NI. SAYA X DPT BAYANGKAN ALLAH YG MAHA PENYAYANG BOLEH MEMBENARKAN SEMUA INI BERLAKU''.
SI LELAKI ITU PUN BERFIKIR SEJENAK. TAPI DIA TIDAK MEMBERI SEBARANG JAWAPAN KERANA TIDAK MAHU MEMULAKAN PERTENGKARAN. SELEPAS BARBER ITU MENGHABISKAN TUGASNYA, SI LELAKI TADI PUN PERGI.
SELEPAS BEBERAPA LANGKAH,SI LELAKI TADI TERNAMPAK SEORG LELAKI BERAMBUT PANJANG, SELEKEH, KOTOR DAN JANGGUT TIDAK TERURUS. SI LELAKI TADI PUN BERPATAH BALIK DAN PERGI SEMULA KE KEDAI GUNTING RAMBUT TADI DAN BERKATA,'' KAMU TAHU TAK YG SBNRNYE BARBER JGK TIDAK WUJUD?''
''KENAPA KAMU KATA MCM TU? SEDANGKAN SAYA BARU SAJE GUNTING RAMBUT KAMU TADI''..KATA BARBER.
''TIDAK!'' KATA SI LELAKI TADI.''KALAU BARBER WUJUD, DAH TENTU TIDAK
ADA ORG YG BERAMBUT PANJANG TIDAK TERURUS DAN KOTOR SERTA JANGGUT YG PANJANG DAN KOTOR MCM LELAKI DI TEPI JALAN ITU''.
''AH! BARBER MMG WUJUD! LELAKI TU JADI MCM TU SBB DIA TIDAK DTG PADA SAYA UTK MENGGUNTING RAMBUTNYE!'' KATA BARBER.
''TEPAT SEKALI!''. KATA SI LELAKI TADI.
''THAT'S THE POINT!. ALLAH JGK WUJUD. ITULAH YG TERJADI (KEPERITAN & PENDERITAAN) JIKA MANUSIA TIDAK MENGINGATINYA DAN KEMBALI PADANYA UTK MEMOHON PERTOLONGAN.'
RENUNG-RENUNGKAN DAN SELAMAT BERAMAL..... :-)
''KENAPA KAMU KATA BEGITU?'' TANYA SI LELAKI TADI.
'' CUBA KAMU KELUAR DI TGH JLN ITU DAN TUNJUKKAN PD SAYA BAHAWA ALLAH ITU WUJUD. KALAU BETUL ALLAH WUJUD, KENAPA RAMAI SGT ORG SAKIT KAT LUAR TU?KENAPA MASIH ADA KANAK2 YG TERBIAR? KALAU BETUL ALLAH WUJUD, DAH TENTU TIADA KESAKITAN DAN KEPERITAN HIDUP DLM DUNIA NI. SAYA X DPT BAYANGKAN ALLAH YG MAHA PENYAYANG BOLEH MEMBENARKAN SEMUA INI BERLAKU''.
SI LELAKI ITU PUN BERFIKIR SEJENAK. TAPI DIA TIDAK MEMBERI SEBARANG JAWAPAN KERANA TIDAK MAHU MEMULAKAN PERTENGKARAN. SELEPAS BARBER ITU MENGHABISKAN TUGASNYA, SI LELAKI TADI PUN PERGI.
SELEPAS BEBERAPA LANGKAH,SI LELAKI TADI TERNAMPAK SEORG LELAKI BERAMBUT PANJANG, SELEKEH, KOTOR DAN JANGGUT TIDAK TERURUS. SI LELAKI TADI PUN BERPATAH BALIK DAN PERGI SEMULA KE KEDAI GUNTING RAMBUT TADI DAN BERKATA,'' KAMU TAHU TAK YG SBNRNYE BARBER JGK TIDAK WUJUD?''
''KENAPA KAMU KATA MCM TU? SEDANGKAN SAYA BARU SAJE GUNTING RAMBUT KAMU TADI''..KATA BARBER.
''TIDAK!'' KATA SI LELAKI TADI.''KALAU BARBER WUJUD, DAH TENTU TIDAK
ADA ORG YG BERAMBUT PANJANG TIDAK TERURUS DAN KOTOR SERTA JANGGUT YG PANJANG DAN KOTOR MCM LELAKI DI TEPI JALAN ITU''.
''AH! BARBER MMG WUJUD! LELAKI TU JADI MCM TU SBB DIA TIDAK DTG PADA SAYA UTK MENGGUNTING RAMBUTNYE!'' KATA BARBER.
''TEPAT SEKALI!''. KATA SI LELAKI TADI.
''THAT'S THE POINT!. ALLAH JGK WUJUD. ITULAH YG TERJADI (KEPERITAN & PENDERITAAN) JIKA MANUSIA TIDAK MENGINGATINYA DAN KEMBALI PADANYA UTK MEMOHON PERTOLONGAN.'
RENUNG-RENUNGKAN DAN SELAMAT BERAMAL..... :-)
WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ
Hi everybody, For this entry, i got a quiz for u all...
Passing requires 4 correct answers
But dun worry this mark will not not be included in ur Cary mark..have fun.
1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?
Write your answer first then chekidout on the next post...Gud Luck =)
Passing requires 4 correct answers
But dun worry this mark will not not be included in ur Cary mark..have fun.
1) How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?
Write your answer first then chekidout on the next post...Gud Luck =)
Friday, January 22, 2010
Alhamdulillah...Wa syukurillah...
Alhamdulillah...Wa syukurillah...
Bersyukur sepanjang waktu...
lagu yang seringkali kite dengar bile saja bukak tv untuk melihat sinetron2 disitu...
lagu yang baik yang membawe kite mengingat kembali nikmat2 yang telah Allah beri pada kita yang seringkkali kita abaikan.
Antara nikmat2 Allah yang dia berikan pada kite yang seringkali kita terlupe akan adanya ialah:
1. Nikmat anggota badan yang sihat dan sempurna yang kita boleh gunakan untuk beribadah,menuntut ilmu,beriadah, berukhuwah dan lain-lain.
2. Nikmat pakaian, tempat tidur, makanan, dan semua keperluan harian yang mana ianya masih menjadi kebutuhan bagi sesetengah penduduk di dunia.
3. Nikmat Iman dan Islam iaitu nikmat yang yang mana hanya orang betol2 memiliki iman sahaja akan merasakan nikmatnya menjadi seorang yang sentiasa dilingkungi hidayah Allah.
4. Nikmat kesusahan yang diberikan agar kite kembali kepada ajaran, perintah dan supaye kita menjadi lebih dekat kepada yang maha Esa.
5. Nikmat berukhuwah atas dasar persamaan akidah yang hanya boleh dipisahkan dengan hilangnya nyawa dari badan.
6.banyak lagi nikmat Allah yang tak terhitung banyaknya.
“Dan jika kamu menghitung-hitung nikmat Allah, niscaya kamu tak dapat menentukan jumlahnya. Sesungguhnya Allah benar-benar Maha Pengampun lagi Maha Penyayang.” (QS. Al-Nahl :18).
Fabiayyiala irabikuma tukazzibaan....
maka nikmat tuhanmu yang manakah yg telah kamu dustakan...
MasyaAllah...banyak betul nikmat yang kite tak sedarkan selama ini yang mana apabila ia di tarik baru kita akan merasa kehilangan.Saudara2 dan sahabat2, sebelum kita kehilangan nikmat2 ini marilah kiranya kita manfaatkan seluruhnya agar kita tidak merasa rugi apabila kite kehilangannye nanti...
Para ulama mengemukakan tiga cara bersyukur pada nikmat yang maha esa iaitu:
1.Bersyukur dengan hati:
kita mengetahui dan sentiasa menyedari bahawa seluruh nikmat yang kita peroleh setiap detik hidup kita tidak lain berasal dari Allah. Hanya Allahlah yang mampu menganugrahkan nikmat-Nya.
2.Bersyukur dengan ucapan:
Ungkapan yang paling baik untuk menyatakan syukur kita kepada Allah adalah hamdalah. Dalam sebuah hadist Rasulullah bersabda, “Barang siapa mengucapkan subhanallah, maka baginya 10 kebaikan. Barangsiapa membaca Laa ilaaha illa allah, maka baginya 20 kebaikan. Dan barangsiapa membaca Alhamdulillah, maka baginya 30 kebaikan.”
3.Bersyukur dengan perbutan:
Dalam erti perbuatan kita menggunakan setiap nikmat yang diberikan seperti diatas sekurang-kurangnya kearah kebaikan, iaitu agar ia dapat memberi manfaat kepada kita dan orang lain disamping menjadikannya sebagai satu ibadah kepada Allah.
sesuuai dengan ungkapn dari Abu Hazim Salamah bin Dinar yang berkata:
"Perumpamaan orang yang memuji syukur kepada Allah hanya dengan lidah, namun belum bersyukur dengan ketaatannya, sama halnya dengan orang yang berpakaian hanya mampu menutup kepala dan kakinya, tetapi tidak cukup menutupi seluruh tubuhnya. Apakah pakaian demikian dapat melindungi dari cuaca panas atau dingin?"
Friday, January 8, 2010
Nikmatilah Kehidupan Anda
Sekumpulan alumni yang mempunyai kedudukan dan tahap yang tinggi dalam
kerjaya mereka membuat perjumpaan di rumah professor yang mengajar
mereka di Universiti dahulu.
Mereka berbual-bual dalam berbagai topik dan perbualan itu bertukar
kepada rasa "stress" atau tekanan yang mereka hadapi di tempat kerja
ataupun kehidupan mereka.
Professor mereka masuk ke dapur dan kembali semula dengan sebuah teko
besar berisi kopi dan bermacam jenis cawan dan gelas. Ada yang diperbuat
dari porcelain, plastik, kaca, kristal. Ada yang kelihatan biasa dan ada
yang kelihatan mahal.
Professor itu menyuruh mereka menuang sendiri kopi tersebut.
Setelah semua anak muridnya mengambil kopi masing-masing, professor itu
berkata:
"Jika anda semua perasan, semua cawan yang cantik dan mahal telah
diambil meninggalkan cawan yang biasa dan kelihatan murah. Adalah
keadaan yang biasa anda semua mahukan yang terbaik dalam hidup anda
tetapi itulah punca kepada masalah dan "stress" yang anda semua hadapi"
"Apa yang sebenar anda perlukan adalah kopi, bukan cawannya tetapi anda
sendiri telah memilih untuk menganbil cawan yang terbaik. Dan lebih
teruk dari itu, anda memerhatikan cawan yang diambil oleh orang lain."
Kehidupan adalah kopi, kerjaya, wang dan kedudukan anda dalam masyarakat
adalah cawan tersebut. Cawan itu hanyalah alat untuk mengisi
kandungannya iaitu kehidupan. Kehidupan tidak berubah hanya alatnya yang
berubah.
Kadangkala kita terlalu fokus kepada cawan yang kita pegang hingga kita
gagal untuk menikmati kopinya.
Nikmatilah kehidupan yang ada.
by kasih...
kerjaya mereka membuat perjumpaan di rumah professor yang mengajar
mereka di Universiti dahulu.
Mereka berbual-bual dalam berbagai topik dan perbualan itu bertukar
kepada rasa "stress" atau tekanan yang mereka hadapi di tempat kerja
ataupun kehidupan mereka.
Professor mereka masuk ke dapur dan kembali semula dengan sebuah teko
besar berisi kopi dan bermacam jenis cawan dan gelas. Ada yang diperbuat
dari porcelain, plastik, kaca, kristal. Ada yang kelihatan biasa dan ada
yang kelihatan mahal.
Professor itu menyuruh mereka menuang sendiri kopi tersebut.
Setelah semua anak muridnya mengambil kopi masing-masing, professor itu
berkata:
"Jika anda semua perasan, semua cawan yang cantik dan mahal telah
diambil meninggalkan cawan yang biasa dan kelihatan murah. Adalah
keadaan yang biasa anda semua mahukan yang terbaik dalam hidup anda
tetapi itulah punca kepada masalah dan "stress" yang anda semua hadapi"
"Apa yang sebenar anda perlukan adalah kopi, bukan cawannya tetapi anda
sendiri telah memilih untuk menganbil cawan yang terbaik. Dan lebih
teruk dari itu, anda memerhatikan cawan yang diambil oleh orang lain."
Kehidupan adalah kopi, kerjaya, wang dan kedudukan anda dalam masyarakat
adalah cawan tersebut. Cawan itu hanyalah alat untuk mengisi
kandungannya iaitu kehidupan. Kehidupan tidak berubah hanya alatnya yang
berubah.
Kadangkala kita terlalu fokus kepada cawan yang kita pegang hingga kita
gagal untuk menikmati kopinya.
Nikmatilah kehidupan yang ada.
by kasih...
Thursday, January 7, 2010
One Year After Israeli Invasion of Gaza, World Leaders Fail to Act but Global Citizens Step Forward - By Medea Benjamin, Common Dreams (30/12/09)
One year ago, the brutal Israeli 22-day invasion of the Gaza Strip shocked the world, leaving some 1,400 people dead, thousands more wounded, as well as hospitals, schools, prisons, UN facilities, factories, agricultural processing plants and some 20,000 homes damaged or destroyed. As we mark the one-year anniversary of the invasion, the plight of the people of Gaza continues unabated:
• Despite pledges of money for reconstruction, Israel refuses to allow in the machinery necessary to clear the rubble or the materials needed to rebuild--banning cement, gravel, wood, pipes, glass, steel bars, aluminum and tar. Many who were made homeless during the bombing are still living in tents amidst the onset of another cold winter. Desperate, some are reverting to the ancient techniques of building homes made of mud.
• Trade depends on an elaborate system of illicit and dangerous tunnels between Egypt and Gaza. The goods brought in are expensive, but they are the lifeline for the 1.5 million people who live under siege. The Israelis periodically bomb the tunnels, the Egyptians inject them with gas, and now, with U.S. technology and funds, Egypt is building a wall descending 70 feet into the ground to seal up the only trade route the inhabitants of Gaza have with the outside world.
• Recent restrictions on the transfer of gas resources into Gaza have left many without adequate means to cook or provide heating as winter deepens.The Ministry of Health says that several hospitals lack the gas supplies to provide adequate hygiene for their patients. Similar restrictions on the movement of industrial fuel into the Strip have forced Gaza's sole power plant to drastically limit the amount of electricity.
• Water and sewage infrastructure has reached a crisis point, with tons of raw sewage pumped daily into the Mediterranean.Amnesty International recently deemed that 90 to 95 person of the water available to Gaza's inhabitants was unfit for human consumption, and 60 per cent of the Gaza Strip's residents have only irregular access to water. Repairs to Gaza's overburdened sewage and water networks are largely prevented by the blockade.
• The once-steady flow abroad of many hundreds of students a year, often to pursue postgraduate studies in Western universities, has slowed to a trickle. Israel is not even allowing students from Gaza to study in the West Bank.
• Attempts at hold Israel accountable for crimes committed during the invasion have been thwarted. The September 2009 Goldstone Report recommended that if Israel and Hamas did not investigate and prosecute those who committed war crimes, the case should be referred to the International Criminal Court. But US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, and the U.S. Congress, condemned the report, assuring that it will not be brought before the U.N. Security Council.
In a report released on December 22 called Failing Gaza: No rebuilding, no recovery, no more excuses, a group of 16 humanitarian organizations detailed the ongoing suffering of Gaza's 1.5 million people from Israel's invasion and ongoing siege. "It is not only Israel that has failed the people of Gaza with a blockade that punishes everybody living there for the acts of a few," said Jeremy Hobbs, Oxfam International Executive Director. "World powers have also failed and even betrayed Gaza's ordinary citizens."
While international governments and UN institutions have failed their obligations, global citizens and civil society organizations have stepped forward. The past year has seen the mushrooming of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel. South African dockworkers refused to offload an Israeli ZIM Lines ship in February; the British bank BlackRock divested from Lev Leviev settlement projects on the occupied Palestinian territory; the Norwegian government pension fund withdrew its investments in the Israeli military contractor Elbit Systems; following the lead of South African, Irish and Scottish trade union federations, Britain's 6.5-million member labor federation, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), called for a consumer-led boycott and sanctions campaign against Israel, specifically targeting settlement products; and Hampshire College decided to divest from several companies profiting from the Occupation.
Another group making waves is Free Gaza, which has broken the siege by bringing shipments of aid by boat. Sometimes their boats have miraculously managed to sail from Cyprus to Gaza without Israeli interference. On their last effort, however, their boat was illegally intercepted on the high seas by the Israeli Navy.
Viva Palestina, a group led by British MP George Galloway, organized a massive convoy of material aid to Gaza in a month after the attack, using public pressure to force the Egyptian government to let the convoy pass through the Rafah crossing. They sent another caravan of aid in July, and to mark the one year anniversary, Viva Palestina is bringing 210 trucks and 450 activists laden with massive quantities of humanitarian aid.However now the egyption goverment have make some blockage and they have to go straight to port in syria.
Another creative initiative is the Gaza Freedom March. Conceived in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, the Gaza Freedom March was designed to mark the one-year anniversary with a massive march to the Israeli border. Some 1,350 international participants from 43 countries are setting out for Gaza via Egypt to join with thousands of local people for the march. On the Israeli side of the border, Israelis and Palestinians will gather to join the call for an end to the siege. While the Egyptian government is refusing give permission for the international delegation to enter Gaza, the group is challenging that decision with thousands of phone calls to Egyptian embassies worldwide. They are also organizing solidarity actions in cities all over the world.
The Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, noting the world community's failure to help the people of Gaza, cited the Gaza Freedom March and the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign as "the only meaningful current challenge to Israel's violations of its obligations as the Occupying Power of the Gaza Strip under the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter."
As the year-end brings horrifying memories to the Palestinians in Gaza, we hope they recognize that grassroots groups the world over are not only thinking of them, but actively organizing to lift the siege that makes their lives so difficult.
• Despite pledges of money for reconstruction, Israel refuses to allow in the machinery necessary to clear the rubble or the materials needed to rebuild--banning cement, gravel, wood, pipes, glass, steel bars, aluminum and tar. Many who were made homeless during the bombing are still living in tents amidst the onset of another cold winter. Desperate, some are reverting to the ancient techniques of building homes made of mud.
• Trade depends on an elaborate system of illicit and dangerous tunnels between Egypt and Gaza. The goods brought in are expensive, but they are the lifeline for the 1.5 million people who live under siege. The Israelis periodically bomb the tunnels, the Egyptians inject them with gas, and now, with U.S. technology and funds, Egypt is building a wall descending 70 feet into the ground to seal up the only trade route the inhabitants of Gaza have with the outside world.
• Recent restrictions on the transfer of gas resources into Gaza have left many without adequate means to cook or provide heating as winter deepens.The Ministry of Health says that several hospitals lack the gas supplies to provide adequate hygiene for their patients. Similar restrictions on the movement of industrial fuel into the Strip have forced Gaza's sole power plant to drastically limit the amount of electricity.
• Water and sewage infrastructure has reached a crisis point, with tons of raw sewage pumped daily into the Mediterranean.Amnesty International recently deemed that 90 to 95 person of the water available to Gaza's inhabitants was unfit for human consumption, and 60 per cent of the Gaza Strip's residents have only irregular access to water. Repairs to Gaza's overburdened sewage and water networks are largely prevented by the blockade.
• The once-steady flow abroad of many hundreds of students a year, often to pursue postgraduate studies in Western universities, has slowed to a trickle. Israel is not even allowing students from Gaza to study in the West Bank.
• Attempts at hold Israel accountable for crimes committed during the invasion have been thwarted. The September 2009 Goldstone Report recommended that if Israel and Hamas did not investigate and prosecute those who committed war crimes, the case should be referred to the International Criminal Court. But US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, and the U.S. Congress, condemned the report, assuring that it will not be brought before the U.N. Security Council.
In a report released on December 22 called Failing Gaza: No rebuilding, no recovery, no more excuses, a group of 16 humanitarian organizations detailed the ongoing suffering of Gaza's 1.5 million people from Israel's invasion and ongoing siege. "It is not only Israel that has failed the people of Gaza with a blockade that punishes everybody living there for the acts of a few," said Jeremy Hobbs, Oxfam International Executive Director. "World powers have also failed and even betrayed Gaza's ordinary citizens."
While international governments and UN institutions have failed their obligations, global citizens and civil society organizations have stepped forward. The past year has seen the mushrooming of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign aimed at Israel. South African dockworkers refused to offload an Israeli ZIM Lines ship in February; the British bank BlackRock divested from Lev Leviev settlement projects on the occupied Palestinian territory; the Norwegian government pension fund withdrew its investments in the Israeli military contractor Elbit Systems; following the lead of South African, Irish and Scottish trade union federations, Britain's 6.5-million member labor federation, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), called for a consumer-led boycott and sanctions campaign against Israel, specifically targeting settlement products; and Hampshire College decided to divest from several companies profiting from the Occupation.
Another group making waves is Free Gaza, which has broken the siege by bringing shipments of aid by boat. Sometimes their boats have miraculously managed to sail from Cyprus to Gaza without Israeli interference. On their last effort, however, their boat was illegally intercepted on the high seas by the Israeli Navy.
Viva Palestina, a group led by British MP George Galloway, organized a massive convoy of material aid to Gaza in a month after the attack, using public pressure to force the Egyptian government to let the convoy pass through the Rafah crossing. They sent another caravan of aid in July, and to mark the one year anniversary, Viva Palestina is bringing 210 trucks and 450 activists laden with massive quantities of humanitarian aid.However now the egyption goverment have make some blockage and they have to go straight to port in syria.
Another creative initiative is the Gaza Freedom March. Conceived in the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, the Gaza Freedom March was designed to mark the one-year anniversary with a massive march to the Israeli border. Some 1,350 international participants from 43 countries are setting out for Gaza via Egypt to join with thousands of local people for the march. On the Israeli side of the border, Israelis and Palestinians will gather to join the call for an end to the siege. While the Egyptian government is refusing give permission for the international delegation to enter Gaza, the group is challenging that decision with thousands of phone calls to Egyptian embassies worldwide. They are also organizing solidarity actions in cities all over the world.
The Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Richard Falk, noting the world community's failure to help the people of Gaza, cited the Gaza Freedom March and the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign as "the only meaningful current challenge to Israel's violations of its obligations as the Occupying Power of the Gaza Strip under the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter."
As the year-end brings horrifying memories to the Palestinians in Gaza, we hope they recognize that grassroots groups the world over are not only thinking of them, but actively organizing to lift the siege that makes their lives so difficult.
Monday, January 4, 2010
2010 vs 1431
Salam,
hai kawan-kawan, Apabila di sebut sahaja tahun baru maka apa yang terdetik di benak pemikiran kita ialah sambutan besar-besaran yang dibuat setiap tahun....
"tahun nie kite nak p sambut tahun kat mana?pukul berape nak gerak nie?Yea kita enjoy"antara ayat2 yang biasa kedengaran di seluruh pelusuk malaysia.
bagi sesetengah pihak, sibuk bertanyakan akan azam tahun baru untuk 2010.
"Aku target hujung Tahun Baru nie nak bertunang"
"Aku target tahun nie nak lebih bedrdisplin"
"Aku target tahun nie nak selalu bangun awal pagi"
macam-macam azam yang kita dengar, Alhamdulilllah...Atleast ada azam, capai atau tidak itu soal kedua.
Apabila masuk tahun baru islam sahaja, kemeriahan yang dirasa tidaklah sehebat mana sehingga ada pihak yang tidak tahu pun masuknya tahun baru hijrah.
Ada sesetengah pihak mempersoalkan mengapa tidak sambutan 1431 hijrah di sambut semeriah tahun baru masihi.kita kan orang islam...Kita meriahkan sambutan Islam,kita buat konsert2 islam, Bunga api dan apa2 sahaja yang serupa tahun baru masihi tetapi di "islamic" kan.
kawan2 dan sahabat2 sekalian...
Ya saya bersetuju bahawa kite perlu memeriahakn sambutan tahun baru islam tetapi tidaklah dengan pembaziran dan sambutan yang berupa fizikal semata-mata.jika kita lihat kembali tujuan islam menyambut sesuatu perayaan itu, kita akan dapati bahawa islam tidak akan menyambut sesuatu perayaan melainkan ada nilai2 yang di dalamnya yang mana ianya perlu di praktikan oleh segenap umat islam.
Di dalam konteks tahun baru ini, Apa yang di tuntut di dalam islam adalah perubahan iaitu hijrah dari yang kurang baik kepada yang lebih baik.Mengenai sambutannya,adalah digalakkan supaya kita menyemarakkan sambutan tahun baru islam lebih dalam masa yang sama mempromosikan nilai2 yang di bawa bersama.Tidak perlu untuk kita menyambutnya dengan pembaziran yang melampau seperti pembakaran bunga api yang banyak dan sambutan sehingga lewat malam.
Solusinya kita menyambut menyambut, memeriahkan dan menyemarakkan sambutan tahun baru islam lebih dari masihi, mungkin bukan kerana diskriminasi terhadap yang bukan islam tetapi kerana mesej dan nilai yang terkandung di dalam sambutan tahun baru islam di samping cara sambuatan yang tidak melalaikan.wallahua'lam.
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