Saya mengaitkan keruntuhan Iraq kerana kezaliman pemerintahnya dan juga amalan syiah yang di amalkan oleh sebahagian penduduk
Saya mengatakan tsunami yg teruk melanda di Indonesia dulu kerana amalan karut yang dipraktiskan di sana
......tetapi siapakah saya untuk menjatuhkan hukuman kpd sesama agama saya....
Kita melihat pada negara Arab dan kita katakan mereka tidak bersatu dan kerana itu mereka mudah diperkotak katikkan. Sekarang kita lihat pada negara kita sendiri, adakah kita bersatu? Walaupun kita belum sampai ke peringkat berpecah tetapi adakah kita bersatu.
Saya pernah diperlekehkan kerana sering menggunakan barang terpakai atau "second hand". Sewaktu kecil mungkin saya tidak ambil pusing dengan kata-kata sindiran tersebut. Namun apabila meningkat usia, mengguna atau membeli barangan terpakai boleh memberi berbagai makna dalam diri saya. Pernah sekali saya meninjau barangan yang dijual di kedai "bundle" bersama rakan pejabat. Rakan saya itu dengan nada sedikit mengejek mengatakan " eeee..gelilah beli barangan second hand, mana tahu pemilik asal pakaian ini ada kurap". Mungkin telahan beliau benar.
Membeli barangan terpakai tentulah harganya lebih murah. Namun disebalik harga yang murah tersimpan makna yang mendalam dalam diri, yakni mengguna barangan terpakai seolah-olah menyambung harapan pemilik asal.
Contohnya, saya sangat sayangkan kereta yang pertama saya beli dengan duit gaji saya. Setiap pagi sebelum ke pejabat saya akan mandikannya, bila malam saya menidurkannya dgn memakai sepasang baju tidur. Namun, sampai waktunya ia perlu dijual semula atas sebab tertentu. Semana menyerahkan ia kpd pembeli saya mengharapkan tuan barunya dpt menjaga nya dengan baik.
Mungkin begitulah perasaan seorang ibu yang terpaksa meleraikan ikatan kasih sayang anaknya kepada orang ketiga, atas sebab yang tidak dapat dielakkan. Jerih perih melahirkan bayi comel itu terpaksa dilupakan yang ada hanyalah doa secara tunai agar bayi itu dapat membesar dengan sempurna.
Mewariskan harta benda tidak sama dengan mewariskan ilmu dan kasih sayang. Tiba saatnya kita terpaksa melepaskannya, dengan harapan agar generasi berikutnya dapat menyambung tumpuan kasih sayang seperti kita menjaganya ketika kita milikinya.
Oleh itu..Jangan malu membeli/mengguna barangan terpakai kerana kita mungkin boleh membentuk sikap minda kelas pertama untuk generasi akan datang.
Sekarang sana-sini ibubapa sibuk membeli kelengkapan sekolah menjelang sesi pengajian 2009. Rupanya banyak juga belanja yg diperlukan untuk kanak-kanak.
Senarai harga yg telah dibelanjakan untuk 3 orang kanak-kanak sekolah rendah
Jumlah yang perlu dibayar selepas diskaun adalah RM221.30
Syukur kepada Tuhan kerana telah memberi ilham dan kekuatan untuk saya menulis. Terimakasih kepada pihak pengurusan organisasi saya kerana selalu memilih manuskrip saya.
Kadang kala jalan ke destinasi yang ingin kita tuju itu penuh liku dan rintangan. Namun kita telah membuktikan dengan semangat dan kehendak serta tenaga yg dijana oleh keinginan yang kukuh di dalam hati, maka kita telah sampai ke destinasi yang ingin kita tuju itu. Setelah berada di tempatnya, tempat yang kita idam-idamkan dulu. Di puncak itu, kita tersenyum bangga kerana segala penat lelah sudah terbayar. Lalu memandang jalan yang telah dilalui dulu, tidak menyangka pula kita berjaya meredah onak dan duri untuk sampai ke situ
Namun, dari sini (puncak ini), kemudian hendak ke mana?
Jika pendaki gunung akan turun kembali ke tanah (walaupun ada yg tidak turun-turunkembali).
Kita pun begitu?
Mungkin ya, mungkin tidak; Kitalah yang menentukannya.
Hari ini, tanyalah kpd hati dan jawablah dgn tulus:-
Tidaklah gembira seperti bila diri menyelesaikan sesuatu tugas atau bila hasil kerja di guna pakai oleh orang lain. Kadang kala terpaksa buat-buat happy sebab dapat duit kononnya......
Hujan di MPO*B ini sudah tiada masa untuk mencari payung berteduh kita bawah surat khabar lalu terbaca berita lama kata hujan ini tak akan reda ikut rasa ingin sahaja aku hampirinya tapi ku takut apa pula kata semua bukan senang untuk ku meluangkan masa ini sekadar peluang mengisi ruang kosong
Setiap individu sudah pastinya mempunyai cara yang berbeza dalam menlaksanakan sesuatu hal/perkara. Untuk diterima kadang kala kita terpaksa mencari persamaan dalam perbezaan itu. Namun ada masanya kita perlu kekal dengan apa yang ada pada diri kita untuk membentuk identiti. Kelainan ini akan menjadikan kita lebih mudah mempunyai kelompok sendiri untuk dikenali dan didekati. Mungkin cara kita dianggap tidak baik oleh sebahagian individu sehingga timbul rasa skeptikal terhadap kita, tetapi itulah yg perlu kita terima dan menempuhnya. Bila kita sabar dan sanggup dgn apa jua cabaran dan keadaan, pasti akhirnya usaha itu akan membuahkan hasil....
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
