Siapa Orang Muda?

Puspawati Rosman Jul 27, 10 10:18am Kita sering mendengar beberapa ayat yang menyentuh mengenai 'orang muda'. 'Dunia ini milik orang muda', 'kita memerlukan tenaga orang muda', dan macam-macam lagi. Masalahnya, siapa itu orang muda? Apa bezanya hak orang muda dan orang tua di Malaysia? Bagaimana pula dengan belia? 'Belia' tu muda juga kah? Kanak-kanak pula bagaimana? Adakah mereka dari spesis lain? Pernahkah anda rasa nak termuntah, bila seseorang yang rambutnya sudah beruban dan berperut boroi, mengaku dirinya sebagai orang muda dan belia? Bagi sesetengah orang, muda atau tua itu adalah perkara yang subjektif. Kalau umur tua tapi hati muda, maknanya kita masih muda. Banyak juga teknologi moden di zaman serba canggih ini yang boleh mengubah si tua menjadi si muda. Ada juga orang muda yang mahu cepat tua supaya pandangannya diambil serius. Tapi, bagaimana pula dari segi undang-undang? Saya cuba mencari jawapan siapakah sebenarnya anak muda dari segi undang-undang, tetapi jawapan yang saya temui tidak memuaskan hati saya. Akta Kanak-Kanak 2001 memperuntukkan bahawa kanak-kanak ialah mereka yang berumur di bawah 18 tahun. Akta ini juga memperuntukkan bahawa bagi kanak-kanak yang dibicarakan atas mana-mana kesalahan, kanak-kanak tersebut haruslah dibicarakan di mahkamah yang berasingan daripada orang dewasa, kecuali di dalam beberapa keadaan yang khas. Terdapat juga beberapa peruntukan di dalam akta tersebut yang memberikan layanan yang berbeza bagi kanak-kanak di bawah umur 10 tahun. Dahulunya terdapat Akta Kanak-kanak dan Orang Muda, yang mana kanak-kanak ialah mereka yang berumur di bawah 14 tahun, manakala orang muda ialah mereka yang berumur di antara 14 hingga 18 tahun. Tetapi akta ini tidak lagi digunapakai. Menurut Akta Pertubuhan Belia dan Pembangunan Belia 2007 pula, belia ialah mereka yang berumur di antara 15 hingga 40 tahun. Ini bermakna, kalau seseorang itu berkahwin pada umur 24 tahun dan mendapat anak pada umur 25 tahun, beliau dan anaknya akan sempat 'membelia' bersama-sama selama setahun. Hubungan seks Jadi, sekiranya anda berada di antara usia 15 hingga 18 tahun, anda boleh jadi kanak-kanak, orang muda dan juga belia sekaligus, tetapi layanan yang anda dapat adalah berdasarkan situasi. Jika anda melakukan kesalahan jenayah, anda akan dilayan seperti kanak-kanak, tetapi jika hendak menyertai mana-mana persatuan belia, anda akan dilayan seperti orang dewasa lain di bawah umur 40 tahun. Sekarang, mari kita bercakap tentang seks. Kanun Keseksaan memperuntukkan bahawa sekiranya seseorang melakukan hubungan seks dengan kanak-kanak perempuan di bawah umur 16 tahun, walaupun dengan kerelaan kanak-kanak perempuan tersebut, ia dianggap secara jenayah rogol. Jika kanak-kanak perempuan tersebut berusia di antara 16 hingga 18 tahun, walaupun beliau masih seorang kanak-kanak, ia bukan lagi satu jenayah (jika bukan Islam), tetapi hanyalah masalah moral. Persoalannya, bagaimana pula jika pasangan seks kanak-kanak perempuan tersebut juga masih di bawah umur? Adakah kita patut melayan kanak-kanak lelaki tersebut sebagai seorang penjenayah, atau pesalah moral? Pada masakini, kebanyakan kes-kes yang melibatkan 'perogol statutori' ini dibicarakan di bawah undang-undang jenayah. Perbezaan-perbezaan layanan ini bukan sahaja dialami oleh orang muda yang masih dianggap kanak-kanak, tetapi juga orang muda yang sudah memasuki kategori belia. Yang menariknya, perbezaan layanan yang mereka perolehi bukannya disebabkan umur, tetapi disebabkan latarbelakang pendidikan yang mereka terima. Mahasiswa-mahasiswa universiti tempatan kita rata-rata berusia di antara 18 hingga 25 tahun. Mereka termasuk dalam kategori belia. Di dunia luar, mereka akan dilayan seperti orang dewasa yang lain. Hilang hak Akan tetapi, sebaik sahaja mereka mendaftar sebagai pelajar universiti atau kolej tempatan, mereka akan secara automatik kehilangan beberapa hak yang dinikmati oleh rakan-rakan mereka yang mungkin tidak berpeluang untuk ke pusat pengajian tinggi tempatan (atau mungkin lebih bernasib baik kerana mampu belajar di luar negara?). Hak-hak tersebut ialah, antara lain, hak untuk berekspresi, berpersatuan dan berpolitik (Oh maaf, anda mungkin boleh menikmati hak itu secara terbuka jika anda menyertai parti politik dari pihak pemerintah). Disebabkan halangan-halangan ini, mahasiswa-mahasiswa kita sering mendakwa bahawa mereka dilayan bagai warganegara kelas kedua di negara sendiri, dan saya tidak menyalahkan mereka. Disebabkan perbezaan layanan, beberapa contoh ringkas yang saya beri di atas masih belum cukup untuk kita mengenalpasti siapakah sebenarnya orang muda dan apakah peranan mereka dalam pembangunan negara kita. Sehingga ke hari ini, orang-orang muda Malaysia dianggap cepat dewasa untuk mengenal seks dan jenayah, tetapi dianggap lambat matang untuk mengenal politik atau mengendalikan pertubuhan yang tidak bergantung kepada kerajaan. Bagaimana pula dengan orang-orang muda yang tidak terlibat di dalam mana-mana perkara di atas? Apakah pandangan penggubal undang-undang terhadap mereka? Apa pula pandangan mereka terhadap penggubal undang-undang dan kerajaan yang menentukan nasib mereka? Puspawati Rosman merupakan aktivis Lawyers for Liberty - sebuah perkumpulan peguam muda bagi mempromosikan hak asasi dan reformasi undang-undang.

(Sumber : http://www.malaysiakini.com/)

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Fikrah:-

1) Orang yang berusia lebih muda dari kebanyakkan orang lain, namanya orang muda lah. Seorang pemuda berumur 30 tahun dalam majlis kemasyarakatan yang kebanyakkan berumur 35-40 tahun, jadilah dia orang muda. Seorang pemuda berumur 30 tahun dalam majlis mahasiswa universiti, sudah tentu akan jadi orang yang lebih tua. Walaupun pada definisi di bawah Akta Pertubuhan Belia dan Pembangunan Belia 2007 menyatakan belia adalah dalam lingkungan umur 15-40 tahun, yang pastinya, apabila dikatakan orang muda, ia bergantung kepada semangat dalam diri citarasa segar dan jati diri seperti orang muda.

2) Apa citarasa dan jati diri orang muda? bersemangat tinggi, aktif fizikalnya, agresif dalam tindakan, dan suka pada cabaran lasak jiwa, dan raga. Samakah orang muda (young), remaja (teen) dan belia (youth)? Orang muda juga sering kali disama ertikan dengan junior. Tidak ada salahnya. Malahan, kesemua terma di atas adalah seerti dengan junior. Majlis Belia Malaysia, mengkategorikan belia kepada belia remaja (15-24), belia kerjaya (25-34), dan belia kepimpinan (35-40). Dengan erti kata lain, remaja adalah sub-set kepada belia.

3) Yang penting, fahami konteks di mana orang muda harus berdiri. Orang muda seharusnya, mampu menyatakan sikap dengan terbuka dan telus, dengan mendasari fahaman ilmu, adab, dan budaya setempat dan budaya Islami. Pendek kata, bersikap Ideal adalah jati diri orang muda. Dan pada hari ini, dengan segala macam gejala sosial yang merentapi umat, jelaslah bahawa jati diri orang muda sudah rosak. Junior adalah pewaris Senior apabila tiba masanya. Maka, masyarakat yang bagaimana akan kita hasilkan kelak dengan pewaris yang sebegini?

Ini adalah kesan-akibat. Apa puncanya? Siapa puncanya? Masih enggan lakukan perubahan?

Gejala Sosial Media

“Sayang, abang balik. Lapar ni, boleh siapkan makan?” Tanya Ali kepada isteri yang sedang berada di bilik.

“Kejap, bang. Sayang tengah bagi ‘kambing’ makan ni.” Jawab Aminah, sambil terus melayan ternakan virtual dalam facebook, permainan yang digilai ramai orang,

“Kambing bodoh tu bagi makan, suami lapar kena tunggu pulak?” Leter suami yang setiap hari menahan sabar dengan sikap isteri yg melekat dengan facebook.

Sejam kemudian aminah pergi ke dapur. Didapatinya pinggan bekas makan suami dalam sinki dan sebuah kuali di atas dapur. Suami, seperti biasa, menggoreng sendiri telur untuk dijadikan lauk kerana tidak dapat menahan lapar menunggu hidangan isteri.

“Mama, tolong Amar buat karangan ni. ” Rayu Amar kepada ibunya,  Aminah malam itu.

“Amar buat dulu. Kejap lagi mama datang.” Jawab ibunya. Aminah masih meneruskan hobi melayan kawan2 lama dalam facebook.

Dua jam kemudian, selepas Aminah menutup komputer didapatinya Amar sudah tertidur menangkup atas buku tulis dengan pensel di tangan. Karangannya tidak habis ditulis.  Terlalu lama menunggu mama yang tidak kunjung datang membantu.

Aminah adalah salah seorang dari jutaan manusia yang menjadi mangsa ketagihan facebook. Kes ketagihan facebook semakin parah dalam masyarakat barat dan kini menyusupi masyarakat Malaysia yang menyerang bukan saja anak2 muda malah warga emas yang menghabiskan masa berjam2 menulis dan menjawab status kawan2.

Facebook dijadikan pelarian dari masalah dan tanpa disedari ia menyedut berjam-jam masa produktif yang sepatutnya digunakan untuk melunaskan amanah dan tanggungjawab. Bagi pelajar masa yg sepatutnya untuk membuat kerja sekolah, membuat assignment, membaca buku terbuang begitu saja kerana merasakan semua itu membebankan dan beralih kepada facebook untuk melegakan perasaan.

Masa untuk membaca buku bertukar kepada masa membaca facebook. Waktu beribadah tahajjud pun boleh turut terjejas kerana tarikan facebook.

Hari ini tidak lagi perkara luar biasa melihat suasana di rumah orang bandar jam 8 malam yang biasanya keluarga berkumpul dan bergurau senda di ruang keluarga sambil menonton tv kini masing2 menghadapi facebook di tempat masing2. Ibu dan ayah dg laptop masing2 di bilik. Anak2 di bilik mereka  atau di ruang tamu dan masing2 punya laptop sendiri. Tiada bunyi, tiada suara  kecuali bunyi keyboard dan suara bibik sedang mencuci pinggan di dapur.

Adalah masih dikira baik kalau mereka masih berkomunikasi sesama sendiri. Yang malangnya setiap orang sedang berfacebook dengan kawan2 masing dan ahli keluarga tidak termasuk dalam senarai yang di ‘add’ sebagai ‘friends’ dan tiada ‘mutual friends’ di kalangan ahli keluarga.

Ciri-ciri ketagihan facebook:

1. Tidak dapat berenggang dg. internet

2. Terus mencapai facebook sebaik saja bangun dari tidur, sampai di pejabat atau sampai di rumah.

3. Sentiasa terbayang apa yg ada dalam facebook semasa offline,

4. Sentiasa terbayang untuk menulis sesuatu dalam facebook semasa offline

5. Lebih selesa melayari facebook dari keluar rumah atau menonton tv

6. Masa dihabiskan lebih setengah jam setiap kali melayari facebook.

7. Melayari facebook lebih 3 kali sehari sekadar berbual kosong.

8. Facebook dijadikan tempat meluahkan perasaan.

9. sentiasa mengharapkan ramai orang memberi komen.

10. Rasa gelisah yang amat sangat apabila berada lama di tempat  yang tiada internet.

Facebook amat berguna untuk merapatkan hubungan persahabatan dan keluarga, mencari teman2 lama atau siapa saja yg ingin dihubungi sekiranya tidak dapat dihubungi dg tel. Adakalanya pada waktu2 kritikal facebook amat diperlukan utk menghubungi seseorang.

Mat rempit dan kaki lepak dikaitkan dengan masalah anak2 generasi Y. Tetapi anak2 generasi Z rasanya lebih selamat dari gejala rempit kerana mereka lebih suka duduk di rumah melayari internet menghubungi rakan2 dalam dunia maya. Malangnya mereka sukar berinteraksi secara alam realiti.

Sesuatu yang baik itu boleh digunakan  untuk keburukan jika kita mahu. Sesuatu yang buruk itu boleh juga digunakan untuk kebaikan sekiranya kita mahu. Hanya akal yang terpimpin dengan prinsip agama saja yang mampu menjadikan setiap sesuatu itu menjadi berharga untuk dirinya, orang lain dan alam seluruhnya.

(Sumber : http://blogs.iium.edu.my/martinelli/)

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Fikrah:-

1) Segala yang Harus, apabila dilakukan secara keterlaluan, akan jadi apa ye?
2) Tak lekang dengan gejala sosial, kini timbul pula istilah gejala sosial media. Generasi Y pun tak habis diledani, timbul pula gejala generasi Z yang semakin rumit dengan realiti kehidupan. Ironinya, penghabisan generasi ini akan menarik segala generasi dari A-Z untuk turut sama terlibat. Yang indahnya, tua dan muda, sama sahaja. indah ke?
3) Di mana kita berdiri di sini?

Kisah Muthu

MUTHU & THE INTERVIEWER  

Interviewer: 'What is your birth date?' 
Muthu : '13th October.' 
Interviewer : 'Which year?' 
Muthu : 'Every year 

               ***** 

MUTHU & HIS MANAGER

The Manager asked Muthu at an interview... . 
'Can you spell a word that has more than 100 letters in it?' 
Muthu replied: 'P-O-S-T-B-O- X.' 

           ***** 

MUTHU & LONDON TRIP 

After returning from a foreign trip, Muthu asked his wife, 'Do I look like a foreigner?' 
Wife: 'No! Why?' 
Muthu : 'In London , a lady asked me, 'Are you a foreigner?'. . that's why.' 
Wife : ????????? 

         ***** 

MUTHU & TOURIST 

A tourist from U.S.A. asked Muthu whether any great man was born in his village  ... 
Muthu said , 'No sir, only babies were born here.' 

        ***** 

MUTHU & HIS EXPERIMENT 

Muthu was doing an experiment with a cockroach. First he cut off one leg and told it to 'WALK! WALK!' 
The cockroach walked. Then he cut off it's second leg and told the same. The cockroach walked. 
Then he cut off the third leg and did the same. 
Finally, he cut off its fourth leg and ordered it walk! 
But the cockroach didn't walk. 
Suddenly, Muthu said loudly, 'I found it. If we cut a cockroach's four legs, it becomes deaf.' 

       ***** 

MUTHU & DRIVER 

When Muthu was travelling with his wife in a motorised tricycle, the driver adjusted the mirror. 
Muthu shouted, 'You are trying to see my wife, eh? Sit in the back. I will drive.' 

      ***** 

MUTHU GOES TO HOTEL 

Muthu went into a hotel. To wash his hands, he went to the washbasin. 
Then when he had finished, he started washing the basin. 
Seeing this, the manager asked what was he doing. 
Muthu pointed towards the signboard 
'* WASH BASIN * ' 

    ***** 

MUTHU & INTERVIEWER - FINAL PART 

Interviewer : 'Just imagine you're in the 20th floor of a building and it's on fire. How will you escape?' 
Muthu: 'It's simple.. I will just stop my imagination. ' 

   ***** 

Oh... Lastly.... I forgot ............ the funniest.... 

At a political rally, Muthu was arrested. 
Why  ????????? ??? 
Because a lady journalist with a badge which read '*PRESS*' pinned on the right part of her blouse walked past him 
... and he did it ! 




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Fikrah:-


There are many things that looks very simple, yet there're peoples out there that mis-lead the meaning.


Well, everyone is different... in a way..

False Predictions from so called 'Experts'

Prediction on Radio, Air-plane, and X-ray
In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. The Wright Brother’s first flight covered a distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747. He also said, “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”

Prediction on Earth
In the 6th century BC Greek mathematician Pythagoras said that earth is round – but few agreed with him. Greek astronomer Aristarchos said in the 3rd century BC that earth revolves around the sun – but the idea was not accepted. In the 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Erastosthenes accurately measured the distance around the earth at about 40,000 km (24,860 miles) – but nobody believed him. In the 2nd century AD Greek astronomer Ptolemy stated that earth was the centre of the universe – most people believed him for the next 1,400 years.

Prediction on Automobiles
In the early 20th century a world market for only 4 million automobiles was predicted because “the world would run out of chauffeurs.” Shortly after the end of World War II (1945), the whole of Volkswagen, factory and patents, was offered free to Henry Ford II. He dismissed the Volkswagen Beetle as a bad design. Today, more than 70 million motorcars are produced every year. The Beetle became one of the best-selling vehicles of all time.

Prediction on Phones
The telephone was not widely appreciated for the first 15 years because people did not see a use for it. In fact, in the British parliament it was mentioned there was no need for telephones because “we have enough messengers here.” Western Union believed that it could never replace the telegraph. In 1876, an internal memo read: “This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” Even Mark Twain, upon being invited by Alexander Graham Bell to invest $5 000 in the new invention, could not see a future in the telephone.

Prediction on Trains

Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793 – 1859) didn’t believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: “Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers ‘ would die of asphyxia’ [suffocation].” Today, trains reach speeds of 500 km/h.

Prediction on TV

In 1927, H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, asked, “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” In 1936, Radio Times editor Rex Lambert thought “Television won’t matter in your lifetime or mine.”

Prediction on Computers

In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for “maybe only five computers.” Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally… but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1977, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Predictions on IPod

After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small Japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954. In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W. Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of “adding a few decimal places to the results already obtained.”

Prediction on The Beatles
In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, “You ought to go back to driving a truck.” In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”

Predictions on Machines and Miniskirts
In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, “By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.” In that year too CoCo Chanel said about miniskirts: “It’s a bad joke that won’t last. Not with winter coming.”

Prediction on Market Swing
Sometimes a few decimal places make a massive difference. Investment banks rely on computer models to direct trading activity; in August 2007, Goldman Sachs’s hedge funds and other quant funds were left exposed by a series of market swings, each of which their software predicted would occur only once every 100,000 years. Goldman Sachs required a $3 billion (€1.9 billion) bailout, with other banks joining the hand-out queue.


Perhaps the guy who got it wrong most was the commissioner of the US Office of Patents: in 1899, Charles H. Duell, assured President McKinley that “everything that can be invented has been invented.”

To prophesy is extremely difficult – especially with regard to the future – Chinese proverb

(Source : http://didyouknow.org/predictions/)

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Fikrah:-

1) Sometimes, It is tough to believe predictions from the Experts, especially when they have interest in particulars.

2) Sometimes, numbers also can be fluctuated and can be manipulated. Well, it still one of the method that help us to come out with a good prediction.

At least, it is much better than coming from an octopus!  

The bubble burst

To the human eye the bursting of a bubble is a simple affair. One prod of a finger and - pop! - it’s vanished in a split second.

But as these breathtaking pictures show, the process is spectacular - if only we could see it.
These images were taken with a slow-motion camera to show every stage of the soap bubble’s disappearance.

Richard Heeks spent weeks capturing his images of the bursting of a bubble: This is how it begins.

A tiny prod with a fingertip and the delicate surface of the bubble is broken

Photographer Richard Heeks, from Exeter, used a fast shutter speed of 1/500th of a second and chose a perfect wind-free day so nothing would disturb his shoot, while his wife Sarah provided the all-important finger.
A bubble is made up of three layers - one thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules.
As Mrs Heeks’s finger breaks the surface tension, the perfect sphere is replaced by a round mass of soapy droplets which dissolve into the air. And the bubble is gone.
Mr Heeks, a student, used a macro camera to get in close and had to wait patiently for a windless day.
He even had to find a sheltered spot in his garden so any sudden gust would not disturb the shoot.

As the droplets begin to fall away only a small part of the bubble’s surface is left intact

It took him a month until he got the sequence right after seeing his nieces playing with bubble mixture.

‘I was looking ideas for new things to photograph and I just thought the bubbles looked beautiful and with a bit of luck I managed to get one mid burst,’ he said.

‘That’s what started it off.

‘One day I was so absorbed in the project I didn’t notice a group of builders watching me. I think I must have looked a bit of an idiot, but maybe they thought it was fascinating. Who knows, because I got embarrassed and scuttled back into the house.’

A bubble is actually made up of three layers - one thin layer of water sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules. No matter what the shape the bubble is initially, it will always try to become a sphere because it as the smallest surface area and requires the least amount of energy to achieve. The biggest bubble ever blown was 50 feet by 2 feet in diameter. It was achieved by David Stein from New York in 1988.

biasiswa JPA 2009

56 Per cent Of PSD Scholarship For Bumiputera

KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 (Bernama) -- The Public Service Department (PSD) gave out 2,850 scholarships to students to study abroad last year, said a minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Nazri Abd Aziz.

He said about 56 percent of the scholarships were awarded to Bumiputera students including in Sabah and Sarawak while the rest were awarded to non-Bumiputera students.

Speaking to reporters at the Parliament lobby, Nazri said distribution of the scholarships was based on four categories namely merit, ethnic race, Sabah/Sarawak Bumiputera, and their social background.

For the merit category, he said 59 scholarships (20 percent) were given out to Bumiputera while 241 scholarships (80 percent) were for non-Bumiputera.

For the quota based on racial groups, Bumiputera students received 557 scholarships compared with 343 for the non-Bumiputera.

Another 150 scholarships were given out to Sabah and Sarawak Bumiputera while 1,500 scholarships were given out based on the recipients social background -- 841 scholarships for Bumiputera and 657 for non-Bumiputera.

"If based on merit, only a few Bumiputera succeeded in getting the scholarship, thus, next year, Bumiputera students need to study harder," Nazri said.

-- BERNAMA

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Fikrah:

1) 20% for Bumiputera on Merit based, means the level of standard of the bumiputera's students still in critical condition. Thus, to study harder indeed, is a good suggestion.

2) Overall, PSD (JPA) scholarship is still one of the main important sources for the students to pursue their studies. Human Resource (Sumber Insan) indeed, is priceless, and worth all the money can buy; especially, when living in Malaysia.

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10 Perkataan Lazim Kaum Hawa

10 PERKATAAN LAZIM KAUM HAWA 

FINE 
Ini la yang perempuan suka gunakan untuk hentikan pergaduhan, lebih-lebih lagi bila dia rasa dia yang betul dan anda kena diam. Jangan sekali kali gunakan perkataan ini untuk memberi gambaran rupanya, terutama sekali apabila dia sedang mencuba pakaian di kedai - hanya akan membawa anda berdua bergaduh. 

LIMA MINIT 
Ini sebenarnya setengah jam. Ianya sama jugak dengan lima minit yang perlawanan bola sepak akan berakhir sebelum anda membawa sampah ke luar, jadi ini adalah pertukaran yang seimbang. 

TAKDE APA-APA Ini bermakna "something" dan anda perlu berjaga-jaga! Perkataan ini melambangkan perasaan perempuan yang inginkan anda berputar-putar kat dalam macam mesin basuh. Selalunya, ini akan memulakan pergaduhan yang akan bertahan selama 'LIMA MINIT' dan diakhiri dengan 'FINE'. 

PERGILAH! (dengan kening terangkat) Ini adalah satu cabaran yang akan membuat si perempuan menjadi marah dengan 'TAKDE APA-APA' dan diakhiri dengan 'FINE'. PERGILAH (dengan kening biasa) Ini bermakna 'mengalah' atau 'buat je la apa yang awak nak sebab saya tak kisah'. Anda hanya akan mendapat situasi ini dan dalam beberapa minit diikuti dengan 'TAKDE APA-APA', 'FINE' dan dia akan bercakap kembali dengan anda dalam masa 'LIMA MINIT' apabila dia dah sejuk. 

MENGELUH YANG KUAT Ini sebenarnya bukanlah perkataan, tetapi kenyataan yang sering disalah anggap oleh kaum lelaki. 'MENGELUH YANG KUAT' bermakna dia merasakan anda adalah seorang yang bodoh ketika itu dan dia sendiri terfikir kenapalah dia menghabiskan masa berdiri di situ dan bergaduh mengenai 'TAKDE APA-APA'. 

MENGELUH YANG PERLAHAN Lagi sekali, ini bukanlah perkataan. 'MENGELUH YANG PERLAHAN' membawa maksud yang dia berasa puas. Adalah lebih elok jika anda duduk diam, jangan buat sebarang tindakan... dan dia akan kekal puas. 

OKAY LAH Ini adalah kenyataan yang paling merbahaya seorang perempuan boleh buat kepada lelaki. 'OKAY LAH' bermakna dia ingin berfikir panjang sebelum dia membalas terhadap perbuatan anda yang telah menyakitkan hatinya. 'OKAY LAH' selalunya digunakan dengan 'FINE' bersama 'Kening Yang Terangkat'.

BUAT LAH Satu ketika di masa depan dalam masa terdekat, anda akan dilanda masalah yang besar. 

TOLONGLAH Ini bukan kenyataan, sebaliknya adalah pelawaan. Seorang perempuan memberi anda peluang untuk mengeluarkan sebarang alasan atau sebab di atas apa yang telah anda lakukan. Anda mempunyai peluang yang adil dengan kejujuran, jadi berhati-hati dan anda tidak akan mendapat 'OKAY LAH'. 

TERIMA KASIH 
Seorang perempuan mengucapkan terima kasih. Jangan pengsan. Terima dan ucapkan sama-sama. 

TERIMA KASIH BANYAK-BANYAK Ini banyak berbeza dari 'TERIMA KASIH'. Seorang perempuan akan menggunakan ini apabila dia dah terlampau marah pada anda. Ini menunjukkan yang anda telah menyinggung perasaannya dan akan diikuti dengan 'MENGELUH YANG KUAT'. Berhati-hati untuk tidak bertanya apa yang salah selepas 'MENGELUH YANG KUAT' kerana ini hanya akan membuat dia berkata 'TAKDE APA-APA'.

sumber: hawa 


Fikrah:-
1) Indahnya makhluk wanita ni... 

kisah anjing bersemangat

Ada dua ekor anjing, tersesat di sebuah pulau.. Anjing A dan Anjing B. Maka, kedua-dua ekor anjing berazam utk menyeberangi laut tu utk sampai ke darat. 


Anjing A pun berlatih bersungguh-sungguh, meningkatkan stamina, berlatih berenang dan menguatkan otot2nya. Sedangkan anjing B rileks jer.. Berehat dan bersenang2, saja melihat anjing A berlatih. 


Bila tiba hari utk menyeberang, mereka pun berenang merentas laut cina selatan. 


Walaubagaimanapun, anjing B sampai dulu ke tanah besar sedangkan anjing A tertinggal jauh dan hampir saja kelemasan. 


Anjing A hairan, dengan nada kecewa bertanya, Macamana anjing B boleh sampai dulu sedangkan dia tak berlatih langsung? 


Anjing B jawab dgn selamba.. , "yer lah, aku kan Anjing Laut"... 


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Hahahah! :-)




Fikrah:-
1) Kenali diri untuk tahu potensi diri
2) Kerja dengan bijak dan kerja dengan kuat
3) Jangan jalan jauh-jauh sampai sesat;
4) Sesat kehujung pulau, balik berenang ke pulau besar.

The 'Future is in your hand, hold it gently'

MUST READ till the end.. 

Excellent poems (do excuse the language though) by not so famous poets... found on toilet doors and walls...

Published on February 26th 2010; (How can i miss this??)

Well, enjoy reading..

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A budding poet trying his best...

Here I lie in stinky vapor,
Because some idiot stole the toilet paper,
Shall I lie, or shall I linger,
Or shall I be forced to use my finger.

Before he graduated to be a poet, he wrote this...
Here I sit
Broken hearted
Tried to shit
But only farted

Someone who had a different experience wrote,
You're lucky
You had your chance
I tried to fart,
And shit my pants!

Perhaps it's true that people find inspiration in toilets.
I came here
To shit and stink,
But all I do
Is sit and think.

There are also people who come in for a different purpose...
Some come here to sit and think,
Some come here to shit and stink,
But I come
here to scratch my balls ,
And read the bullshit on the walls....

Toilets walls also double as job advertisement space.......
(written high upon the wall)
If you can piss above this line, the SingaporeFire Department wants you.

Ministry of Environment advertisement.
We aim to please!
You aim too! Please

On the inside of a toilet door:
Patrons are requested to remain seated throughout the entire performance.

And finally, this should teach some a lesson...
Sign seen at a restaurant:
The hands that clean these toilets also make your food...please aim properly.

(source : FreeMalaysiaToday)

Confession of a Cikgu

Confessions of a Cikgu

Teacher Talk by NITHYA SIDHHU

(The Star, 11 April 2010)

A senior teacher talks about how she is fast losing her enthusiasm for the job because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores she has to take on.

IT was recently announced that a committee, headed by Education Director-General Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom, and comprising representatives from various teachers’ unions, has been directed to look into complaints by teachers on how they have been burdened with other chores instead of focusing on their primary duty — teaching.

However, it is comforting to know that the Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has himself said that he feels that there is a basis to teachers’ concerns. He wants the committee to thrash out problems and get back to him with sound recommendations to improve the lot of teachers in the country. The deadline? Two months.

Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Teachers are looking forward to some positive and workable recommendations from the committee.

The story below is of a teacher with 27 years of experience whom I shall refer to as Tee. Tee loves sharing her knowledge with students. She even takes pride in class projects and thoroughly enjoys the interaction with her charges.

However, over the years, she has been burdened with paper work and has been constantly called to work on Saturday and dumped with more responsibilities.

Teachers are bogged down by unnecessary paper work which leaves them with little time to focus on teaching. — File photo

Such duties which can easily be carried out by a clerk, is taking a toll on Tee, 52, who is losing her enthusiasm for teaching. It will be a shame if the country has to lose dedicated teachers like her.

A steady job

Tee was born in a small town in Selangor, and is the eldest of 10 children. Tee’s father was a lorry driver and her mother, a rubber tapper. After completing her secondary school education, she decided to teach and had applied for a place in the then teacher training college (it is now known as teacher training institute).

“It had always been my ambition to be a teacher and my parents had no objections, so long as their eldest daughter had a steady job, or as they would refer to it, an ‘iron rice bowl’ job.”

However, before that materialised, she accepted a JPA (Public Services Commission) teaching scholarship at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Science and graduated with honours in 1983. She obtained a Diploma in Education from UKM the following year.

Tee started teaching in a secondary school in Karak, Pahang and had stints in Sekinchan, Sg. Pelek and Selayang all in Selangor, before she was posted to her present school in Petaling Jaya in 2004.

“When I began to teach in the eighties in small towns, students then were very simple and they respected their teachers.

They did not seek much outside help or tuition for the subjects they were weak in, as they do today.

“At that time, their only source of knowledge and solution to their problems lay in doing the homework we gave them in school.

“As such, the the teacher-student relationhip was good. I could actually chart the personal development my students made under my tutelage. We teachers were instrumental in shaping their personality and character,” she says proudly.

Tee does not mince her words when she is asked to comment on how teaching was like, more than two decades ago.

“Those days, all I had to do was to teach, guide and to get to know my students as well as I could. If there was paperwork, it was minimal.

“If you look at students today, you can see that, because of their exposure, they are more knowledgeable. They have higher expectations and demand more from their teachers. I even feel that some of them are very egotistical.”

There’s one aspect of her job that Tee feels has changed for the better — preparing and setting examination questions.

“It was a more difficult task back then, but now, with the advent of numerous workbooks, the computer and educational DVDs, the job has become so much easier.”

I ask her if she is satisfied being a teacher.Tee thinks hard before responding.

“When I first began teaching, my salary was very low but I was a happy teacher. Today, my salary is much higher, and rightfully I should be happy, but I am not.”

“The clerical work I have to do, is becoming unbearable. You see, as a Mathematics teacher, I already have a lot of preparation, planning and marking to do.

“Now, on top of that, there are many other deadlines to be met. All parties, including parents, the principal, colleagues and students have high expectations.”

As a ketua bidang (head of department), life at school is even more stressful for Tee.

She is in charge of several academic programmes and for her, the documentation and filing she has to oversee, is literally back-breaking.

At 52, and with menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flushes, plaguing her, Tee’s sentiments about school have not changed.

In fact, for the first time in her teaching career, she was stressed and worried when the new school year began in January.

“I was anxious about my work and the ever-increasing responsibilities for the entire year. Could I take all this and more for another year?” she asks with a frown.

Tee tells me of an ex-colleague who had just passed away due to breast cancer, and of another one, who was currently undergoing treatment for uterine cancer.

When Tee herself went for a mammogram recently at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), she was startled to hear from a nurse at the Radiotherapy Department that nine out of 10 patients undergoing chemotherapy at the hospital were teachers.

“Do you think it’s caused by stress?” she asks.

I found her question disturbing to say the least. Can it be?

Blank expressions

“You know,” she tells me, “I also find myself thinking a lot about my students these days. Sometimes, when I see ‘blank expressions’ on their faces, especially from those who are academically weaker, I wonder to myself ‘Why are they here? What do they feel about having to learn something that is not relevant to their daily life?

“For some of them, Mathematics is such an alien subject that even I begin to wonder what I am doing with them. On top of that, I feel that students today have to learn too many subjects and this makes life very challenging for the weaker students.”

Tee is of the opinion that the Government should set up more vocational schools to provide living skills training to this group of students.

“At least then we can help produce our own skilled workers, rather than having to import them.”

Tee feels that these days, she is more like a clerk doing paperwork instead of spending time giving personal attention to her academically-challenged students.

“Just think. Each class has about 30 to 40 students, so to be efficient, one has to have classroom management skills too. With the type of students we have, it is no easy task managing them. Many young teachers are afraid when they have to enter a classroom.”

Tee also regrets that with her increasing workload, she has little time to mentor and guide young teachers at her school.

“These teachers lack experience badly, and I feel they need to be guided for at least a year.

“With senior teachers being bogged down with non-teaching duties, there is hardly any time to develop a young teacher’s potential, or help boost their self-confidence.

“Often, they just get thrown into the deep end of the pool and unlike us — the teachers of the older generation, who had so much more grit and resilience — this group of young teachers take a longer time to adjust and cope.”

Tee tells me that despite being graduates, many of them lack communicational skills.

“For the teaching of Science and Maths in the higher forms, young teachers simply aren’t competent in the language of instruction.

“Students then start complaining and parents start calling up the school demanding an explanation.”

Tee shakes her head. “If I’m given the choice today, I don’t think I’ll choose to be a teacher anymore. I’m not against teaching; I enjoy being with my students. In fact, I’m at my happiest when I’m in the classroom. But our job today isn’t just to teach and deal with students, is it?”

“Don’t get me wrong. In class, I still do all I can for my students. I know they view me as a stern person because I follow the rules and I mean business when I am teaching them. I’m a hardworking and responsible teacher.

“I do sometimes crack a joke or two, and we all laugh together. Sometimes I tell them stories about my difficult childhood and how I had to be like a mother to all my younger siblings — how I had to act responsibly even when I was just a teen and the amount of housework I had to do and how difficult life was for me.

“I know my students admire me for the determination I have shown through the years to make something of myself. We have a good relationship – my students and I. I am firm but kind. I even treat them with sweets and chocolates.”

Tee also shares with me what she thinks about her relationship with her students.

“Oh, without question - they are very bold, talkative and not as disciplined. They want to be treated as friends rather than as students. In class, they are quick with their comments and remarks.

“In fact, I get aggravated when my students are rude or indifferent.

“But, personally, I’m a cheerful person so I do let down my guard once in a while and have some fun with them. As a teacher, I realise that they have needs that I must meet.

“For their sake therefore, I have to be prepared mentally and emotionally, as well as be sound in my own knowledge, especially in the subject that I teach. So far, that has not been a problem with me.

“When they tell me that I’m the best Additional Mathematics teacher they’ve had, I feel truly rewarded.

“When they get good results in Maths, some of them have even hugged and thanked me for being their teacher.

“I like getting positive feedback from my students, and I must admit that I feel young because I’m always surrounded by them.

“So, you see, it’s not the teaching part I don’t like. It’s the other chores that get me down.”

I ask Tee what is the best compliment she has received as a teacher. She is wistful, but her answer moves me as it still does her.

“One of the happiest moments in my life was when a mother thanked me for helping her son to be a cheerful, confident young man.

“The mother told me that her relationship with her son had improved tremendously because of me. It felt very good that I had such an effect on someone’s life.”

Does Tee have any advice for young teachers?

“Be committed, be knowledgeable and be prepared for what you are supposed to do. Always remember that if you want your own children to be taught by good teachers, then be a good teacher to the children of others. What goes around comes around.”

On a serious note, Tee is already thinking of applying for optional retirement next year simply because of the ever-increasing non-teaching chores.