A Thousand Splendid Suns

Tiada apa yang "splendid" pun tentang kehidupan dua watak utama (Mariam dan Laila-kedua2nya isteri Rasheed) dalam buku ini. Buku ini membuatkan kita banyak berfikir terutama wanita muslim.

Mendung

Adik yang selalu mengurut kaki saya ini nampak tidak ceria semalam. Dari mula m'urut sehingga selesai

Linda

Linda Nanuwil adalah naib juara Akademi Fantasia musim ke-2. Beliau merupakan pelajar AF yang banyak menerima undian daripada saya. Saya suka dia kerana pada pandangan saya dia seorang yg cukup berbakat.Saya selalu bayangkan yang suatu hari nanti dia boleh menjadi Pengarah muzik, komposer perempuan yang juga berjaya dalam nyanyiannya.

Beliau telah menghasilkan album sulung berjudul "Jika Kau Kekasih" dibawah Maestro Record. Walau bagaimanapun disebabkan sakit kerongkong yang kronik beliau tidak dapat mempromosikan album tersebut dan terpaksa melupakan bidang nyanyian buat seketika. Hampir setahun beliau menghilang dari dunia seni kini beliau muncul kembali bersama album baru berjudul "Linda" melalui syarikatnya sendiri. Album ini mengandungi lagu Kadazan dan hampir kesemua lagu ditulis dan digubah oleh beliau sendiri......Well Done Linda!!!

Three Cups of Tea

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations... One School at a Time

Review by Gary Hunt

The first cup of tea is offered to every stranger as a respectful custom. Sit down with a village elder for the third time to share a cup of tea and you have gained an ally and become part of the family. This is how Greg Mortensen has been building elementary schools, primarily for girls, throughout the remote regions of northern Pakistan and Afghanistan for the last decade -- teacup by teacup.

Mortensen’s passport listed his occupation as ‘climber’ when he first journeyed to Pakistan to make an assault on K2, the second highest peak in the world and the most difficult. The attempt failed and he was forced to retreat, but he lost his way and strayed into a remote village of Shi’ite Muslims who took him under their wing and nursed him back to health. It took weeks for Mortensen to regain his strength for the arduous trek back to civilization and he spent this time getting to know the people of this village and was shocked to observe that the hundreds of children who lived there had no school, nor was there any regular means of education. He made a promise to Haji Ali, the tribal leader, that he would come back and build these children a school.

The challenges and obstacles involved in building that first school in the high Karakorum were incredible and it’s hard to believe that anybody would go to such great lengths of personal sacrifice to keep an impetuous promise, but it becomes evident that Greg Mortensen is no ordinary mortal, and that this is a story about a true Hero. He embarked upon an odyssey of fund-raising and finagling and soon was back in Pakistan with the $12,000 that he had convinced a wealthy donor that it would take to accomplish his mission, and set about building relationships in order to acquire construction materials and haul them into the Himalaya.

That was the beginning of the Central Asian Institute which has now built hundreds of secular schools that are educating thousands of tribal Muslim children throughout a war-torn region marked by poverty and lack of education, making it prime recruiting grounds for radical and terrorist Islamic groups. The most effective way to fight terrorism, according to Mortensen, is to educate children and give them a future, and help them rebuild their villages that have been shelled into oblivion over the last couple of decades.

The progress that he has made and the fearlessness with which he pursues his ideals is remarkable, as is this book which chronicles his efforts. It gets my vote for the most inspiring book of the year, and I guarantee that you will find it hard to put down.

Tompok

Nama saya Tompok. Sebelum ini saya tinggal di Tasik Cempaka tetapi saya bernasib baik kerana telah di bawa pulang oleh tuan saya ke rumah beliau. Sekarang saya telah sihat dan suka bermain-main dgn kawan serumah saya-Putih dan Oren, saya yang paling kecil.

Beca

Setiap kali ke Kota Bharu, saya akan menaiki beca selepas membeli belah di pasar Khatijah untuk pulang ke hotel, walaupun jaraknya tidak sampai 100 meter. Kali ini juga tidak terkecuali. Cuma kali ini hanya ibu saya yang menaiki beca bersama barang-barang yang dibeli. Saya berjalan kaki mengikut beca itu dari belakang. Sebenarnya perjalanan kaki saya lebih pantas daripada kayuhan beca tersebut.Namun saya tetap teruja untuk mengupah pakcik beca tersebut.

When the night feels my song

Percaya

I believe in under-promise and over-deliver

Orang yang duduk di atas tanah tidak akan jatuh dan tidak ada orang yang akan menendang anjing yang sudah mati.

Anita

Taken from ProjectSenso.com

By Anita Roddick (founder of Body Shop)

I never went to business school. I went to the business school of life. And I did so from an early age. I was brought up in an Italian immigrant family with a work ethic that teetered on the verge of slave labour. We got up each morning at five to make breakfast for the local fishermen in our café in Littlehampton and did not close until the last customer wandered home. The other cafés opened at nine and shut at five. This was a clue to me about what makes some people entrepreneurs and not others. Our café was owned by ferociously determined immigrants; the others were not. This is an important difference and the reason that I do not advise new entrepreneurs to submit themselves first to the rigours of an MBA is that business schools do not understand it. The conventional advice to budding entrepreneurs is that they should groom themselves to be the whizz-kid with a suit and a fascination for spreadsheets that bank-managers like. Actually, potential entrepreneurs are outsiders. They are people who imagine things as they might be, not as they are, and have the drive to change the world. Those are qualities that business schools do not teach. An MBA can give you useful skills that can be applied to a life in business. But they will not teach you the most crucial thing: how to be an entrepreneur. They might also sap what entrepreneurial flair you have as they force you into the template called an MBA pass.

I often get asked to talk about entrepreneurship - even by hallowed institutions such as Harvard and Stanford - but I am not at all convinced it is a subject you can teach. How do you teach obsession - because often it is obsession that drives an entrepreneur’s vision? How do you learn to be an outsider if you are not one already? In the business school model, entrepreneurs are most at home with a balance sheet, a cash-flow forecast and a business plan. They dream of profit forecasts and the day they can take the company public. These are just part of the toolbox of re-imagining the world: they are not the defining characteristics of entrepreneurship. The problem with business schools is that they are controlled by, and obsessed with, the status quo. They encourage you deeper into the world as it is. They transform you into a better example of corporate man. We need good administration and financial flair, after all, but we need people of imagination too. So here are 10 lessons that entrepreneurs need more than what they teach in business school.

1. Tell stories. The central tool for imagining the world differently and sharing that vision is not accountancy. It has more to do with the ability to tell a story. Telling stories emphasises what makes you and your company different. Business schools emphasise how to make you toe the line.

2. Concentrate on creativity. It is critical for any entrepreneur to maximise creativity and to build an atmosphere that encourages people to have ideas. That means open structures, so that accepted thinking can be challenged.

3. Be an opportunistic collector. When entrepreneurs walk down the street they have their antennae out, evaluating how what they see can relate back to what they are doing. It might be packaging, a word, a poem or something in a different business.

4. Measure the company according to fun and creativity. Business schools are obsessive about measurement. The result is vast departments of number-crunchers, but often little progress. What is most important in a company - or anything else - is unquantifiable.

5. Be different, but look safe. If you are different, you will stand out. But do not take risks with people who can make the difference between success and failure, especially if you are a woman trying to borrow money from the bank - which is how I came to be turned down for my original loan.

6. Be passionate about ideas. Entrepreneurs want to create a livelihood from an idea that has obsessed them; not necessarily a business, but a livelihood. When accumulating money drives out the ideas and the anger behind them, you are no longer an entrepreneur.

7. Feed your sense of outrage. Discontentment drives you to want to do something about it. There is no point in finding a new vision if you are not angry enough to want it to happen.

8. Make the most of the female element. Companies as we know them were created by men for men, often influenced by the military model, on complicated and hierarchical lines and are both dominated by authoritarian principles and resistant to change. By setting up their own businesses, women can challenge these models and will be welcomed by customers for doing so.

9. Believe in yourself and your intuition. There is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others do not. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

10. Have self-knowledge. You do not need to know how to do everything, but you must be honest enough with yourself to know what you cannot provide yourself.

Suka

Suka? Dalam hati ada kata teruja

If Only....

If only things are as easy as picking up the phone.....

Truth is xxxxxx and me, we are hurting. I blamed her for what happened...I know it was not totally her fault. But each time I see the thing I feel so sad and angry with her.

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Bibir tersenyum tetapi hati menangis. Itulah yang dirasai saat ini.

So close yet so far away...

1. Palm Kernel Oil

Palm kernel oil is a co-product of palm oil production. The production ratio is 1/0.11 palm oil to PKO. Attempts are being made to increase palm oil and PKO production as world demand insreases, by improving plantation practices, extraction methods and introducing new varieties of palms that can produce either more liquid palm oil and/or more PKO. PS1 is a new variety of oil palm introduced to the Malaysian industry to increase the yield of liquid while PS3 was introduced to increase the yield of PKO to as high as 30%.

Besides C12 & C14 fatty acids, PKO contain other fatty acids including C8, C10, C16, C18 and C18:1. In processing, the oleochemicals industry in Malaysia usually splits the PKO, removes (strips) the C10 and lower acids, and distills off the C12-C14 acids, leaving a by-product which contains C16, C18 and C18:1. The by-product is usually fractionated to yield C16-C18 and C18:1 fractions. These fractions fetch lower prices compared to the C12-C14 fractions. Among the two lower value fractions, the C18:1 or crude oleic acid fraction offers interesting possibilities because it has a degree of unsaturation which provideds a site for further chemical modifications. One possible chemical modification is to convert the unsaturated bond to an epoxide, the hydrolyse to yield 9,10-dihydroxystearic acid.

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Akhir

Hari ini hari terakhir Ramadhan. Moga dipanjangkan umur untuk bertemu Ramadhan yang akan datang.

Check List

• Baju raya- sudah dibeli di Vietnam, baju yang ditempah belum tentu siap.
• Kasut/selipar- Tidak perlu lepas raya baru beli
• Kuih raya- sudah dibeli
  
• Duit raya- Tidak perlu tukar, guna duit raya tahun lepas yang tidak habis.
• Baju raya anak buah juga sudah dibeli seorang satu semasa di Vietnam.
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• Barang-barang rumah pakai yang sedia ada.