Consumers still using as much water as when dams were full

Going down: The water level at the Sungai Selangor dam as seen yesterday.

PETALING JAYA: Selangor’s dams are running dry, but its residents are still using nearly as much water as they were when the dams were full.

Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry secretary-general Datuk Loo Took Gee said people in Selangor were only using 7% less water despite the water rationing in the state.

As of yesterday morning, the Sungai Selangor dam in Kuala Kubu Baru recorded a 36.53% capacity. Its critical level is 30% – which will be reached in just two weeks if water levels consistently drop.

“Despite the water rationing, the regulator has found that the (amount of) water saved is a mere 7%.

The demand has only dropped by (that much),” Loo said in an interview, citing National Water
Services Commission figures.

It was reported that the demand for treated water in Selangor was 4,641 million litres a day.

This would mean that a mere 325 million litres are saved each day, which Loo said was not enough.

Malaysia, she said, had low water tariffs and Selangor gave 20 cubic metres of water for free to its residents each month.

This did not motivate people to save water, and the ministry was mulling the possibility of a water surcharge to stretch the state’s resources, Loo said.

“It’s a possibility in light of the present dilemma that we have right now...If you go beyond a certain consumption, you must increase (charges),” she added.

According to the Malaysian Water Industry Guide 2013, Selangor residents are charged RM0.57 per 1,000 litres for the first 20,000 litres. This is bumped to RM0.72 for the first 30,000 litres and RM0.77 for the first 35,000 litres.

The state’s last tariff review was in 2006.

Loo said the Government might consider declaring a water emergency before dams reached critical levels.

“We’re not going to wait until the levels reach 30%,” Loo said, referring to the Sungai Selangor dam, the state’s largest.

“I hope that by the end of April there’ll be more rain coming. We have to prepare the necessary measures needed to be invoked, just in case,” she said, declining to say when either a surcharge or emergency might take effect.

She added that the ministry was considering taking water from the Labu and Ngoi-ngoi treatment plants in Negri Sembilan to supplement Selangor’s water needs during this time.

If the critical level is reached, a water emergency can be declared and the Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister is given discretionary powers to do whatever he wants to conserve water resources.

He would have the power to ban car-washing and garden-watering as well as take action against those violating the water emergency rule.

The Star Online
Tuesday 1 April,2014.

Tahniah dan Selamat Maju Jaya

Saya ingin merakamkan ucapan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya kepada PK Tadbir dan Akademik SMK Sinar Bintang Pn Hajah Hanipah Endut (Gambar) kerana telah di lantik menjadi Pengetua SMK Maxwell memangku Gred DG 52 mulai 24 Mac 2014.Pihak sekolah mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih dan penghargaan yang setinggi-tingginya kepada beliau selama berkhidmat sebagai PK Tadbir dan Akademik mulai April,2012 yang lalu setelah bertukar dari SMK Cochrane Perkasa.Pengetua telah memaklumkan kepada beliau pagi tadi mengenai pergerakan ini. Bersama beliau beberapa orang Pengetua baharu telah menerima surat pelantikan daripada Pengarah Jabatan Pelajaran Wilayah Persekutuan (JPWP) hari ini. Tahniah dan syabas semoga Pn Hajah Hanipah dapat memberikan perkhidmatan terbaik sebagai seorang Ketua Jabatan berdasarkan pengetahuan dan pengalaman yang di miliki.

Che Yahya Che Soh

Pengetua SMKSB@STAR,

Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.

Isnin 31 Mac 2014.

Duo in Sweden found guilty and to pay RM52,000 in compensation to children

by qishin tariq

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian couple accused of child abuse in Sweden has been found guilty and sentenced to prison by the Solna District Court.

Azizul Raheem Awalluddin, who is in Sweden as a Tourism Malaysia director, and his wife Shalwati Norshal will also have to pay damages to their four children.

Shalwati, a teacher who took unpaid leave to join her husband over there, was sentenced to 14 months in prison for gross violation of the integrity of their daughter and eldest son, as well as for assaulting their two younger sons.

Azizul will serve a 10-month sentence for gross violation of the integrity of his eldest son and for assault of his daughter and second oldest son.

He was, however, acquitted of any offences against his youngest son.

Yesterday, the court also ordered Shalwati, 46, and Azizul, 38, to pay compensation to their children in the sum of 67,200 SEK (RM33,900) and 36,400 SEK (RM18,362) respectively.

Staying strong: Siblings (from left) Adam, Ammar, Ariff and Aishah seen together as they start their school sessions in Kelantan in early February. - Bernama 

Shalwati’s counsel Kristofer Stahre said she was not appealing. With one-third remission on the sentence and discounting the three months already spent in detention, Shalwati will be released in about six months and Azizul in less than four months.

District Judge Mattias Möller said even if the violence was relatively minor, he found it fell “under the more serious charge of gross violation of integrity involving systemic and repeated violence”.

He said the children’s testimony was “highly credible” and there was “nothing to support the idea that the children wanted to harm their parents by inventing incorrect information”. 

“Most of the violence has been inflicted with the hands but a cane — called a rotan — and a clothes hanger have been used as well,” said Judge Möller in a press release issued by the District Court. 

He, however, rejected the prosecution’s request to deport the couple at the end of their sentence.

The judge’s full 61-page verdict was posted on the court’s website, though only in Swedish.

Shalwati and Azizul have been in detention since Dec 18, last year after their second child, Ammar told staff at his school that he had been hit at home, leading them to report the matter to the authorities.

The couple was charged on Feb 10 with multiple counts of gross violation of a child’s integrity.

The offences took place in the family home in Spånga, a Stockholm suburb, between Sept 15, 2010 and Dec 17, last year.

Sweden has outlawed corporal punishment since 1979 and is known to punish offenders heavily, with the minimum prison sentence being nine months. 

The Star Online

Saturday 29 March,2014.

Malaysia Is Doing Its Best In Finding MH370 - Hishammuddin

KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 (Bernama) -- As Malaysia is doing its best to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370, there is thus, no requirement to do it any differently, said Acting Transport Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

He said despite being watched like a hawk and frequently criticised by others, Malaysia had been very consistent and did not speculate, unless there was evidence which was corroborated and verified.

He noted, that was proven by the focus of the search and rescue (SAR) operation - led by Malaysia - which shifted to the southern Indian Ocean area, given that no one had thought it would be the last flight path for the ill-fated aircraft.

"Where we are today, is based on very consistent and transparent efforts on our part.

"At the early stage of the search, nobody would have thought that we will find the plane in the Indian Ocean, (which is exactly) where we are today.

"Earlier, we were talking about the plane landing in Nanning (China), oil slicks on South China Sea, sighting of the plane in the Melaka Strait, going north to Andaman," he said in the daily media briefing on the search operation which entered its 21st day, at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) here today.

Also present were MAS chief executive officer Ahmad Jauhari Yahya and Department of Civil Aviation director-general Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman.

Hishammuddin believed that history would judge Malaysia as a country "that was very responsible" and advised the Chinese not to be too emotional and (not to) listen to speculation.

"Emotions are running high. Lots of interest in this issue and people get crowded.

"I genuinely believe the SAR (search and rescue) team from Malaysia and the three gentlemen up here (referring to himself, Ahmad Jauhari and Azharuddin) have conducted ourselves responsibly, and history will judge that," he said.

Flight MH370, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, left the KL International Airport at 12.41am on March 8, and disappeared from the radar about an hour later while over the South China Sea.

It was to have arrived in Beijing at 6.30am on the same day.

After 17 days of searching, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak on Monday announced the aircraft flight path had "ended" in the southern Indian Ocean, after searchers used a new form of data analysis - never used before in a search for a missing plane.

-- BERNAMA 

Bernama online

Friday 28 March 2014.

Antara Bala' dan Dosa

Bumi tempat bermukim setiap makhluk hidup di sediakan Tuhan dengan berbagai kenikmatan dan kesenangan secara gratis. Alam luas terbentang mengandungi khazanah berharga untuk manusia.Dalam perut bumi ditemukan berbagai  bahan galian  seperti emas,perak,timah, gas,minyak dan bermacam jenis logam untuk kesejahteraan hidup kita.Lapisan kerak bumi juga mengandungi air, batuan dan garam mineral yang sangat penting untuk kelestarian kehidupan organisma. Beraneka jenis spesis flora dan fauna yang mendatangkan manfaat kepada manusia bukan sahaja menjadi penyeri alam tetapi berperanan menstabilkan ekosistem kehidupan makhluk di bumi.Tumbuh-tumbuhan membina makanan melalui proses fotosintesis berbekalkan cahaya matahari,hidupan lain pula menjalankan proses peristalsis untuk menelan bahan makanan sebelum di serap oleh sistem pencernaan badan.Allah SWT memilih molekul-molekul makanan bergizi untuk di simpan dalam bentuk lemak sebelum di sintesis menjadi asid amino untuk keperluan tumbesaran sel-sel menjalankan fungsi tubuh. Demikian Allah SWT mengatur ekosistem kehidupan dengan sempurna namun sedikit sekali manusia bersyukur.

Kehidupan Hasanah

Setiap mengakhiri solat kita membaca doa Rabbana Aatina Fiddunia Hasanah Wafil Aakhirati Hasanah Waqinaa Azaabannar.Manusia mengharapkan kebahagiaan di dunia dan kebaikan di akhirat semoga  di jauhkan dari azab neraka.Kebahagiaan ialah suatu nikmat yang tidak boleh di ukur dengan nilai materi kerana hartawan sekalipun tidak mampu membeli sebuah ketenangan.Ia sangat subjektif yang tidak dapat di cerna secara saintifik dan kesarjanaan yang di miliki.Kebahagiaan perlu di cari,di gali, diselidiki, di hayati dan di aplikasikan dalam setiap tindakan dan perbuatan melalui solat yang berkekalan (muqimassolah), sedekah berpanjangan,berlaku ehsan kepada kedua orang tua,menjalin hubungan silaturahim sesama insan mengikut acuan Tuhan untuk mendapat predikat kehidupan  hasanah sebagai jambatan menuju akhirat yang berkekalan dan di jauhkan dari azab neraka.Amal yang baik seumpama biji benih yang di tanam, tumbuh subur, berdaun lebat sentiasa berbuah ranum  yang tidak pernah habis untuk di petik.


Taufan dahsyat melanda Fillipina.

Bala' dan Dosa

Bala' ialah balasan Tuhan kepada manusia yang melakukan kemungkaran dan kefasadan di muka bumi.Manusia mengingkari perintah Tuhan dalam perbuatan dan tindakan , jauh sekali dari rukuk dan sujud sebagai manifestasi perintah yang turun dari langit penuh dengan keberkatan.Allah SWT menganjurkan manusia berlumba-lumba membuat kebaikan sebaliknya orang berbondong-bondong ke tempat hiburan dengan alasan mencari ketenangan.Kedamaian di cari belum di temui,bala' pula yang datang.Antara fujjuraha dan wataqwaha sentiasa berlaku konflik  yang memerlukan neraca pertimbangan iman sebagai benteng diri terjebak dengan nafsu mazmumah yang sangat jijik sehingga mengembalikan darjat manusia kelembah kehinaan dan kesesatan berpanjangan.Antara bala' dan dosa berkait rapat dengan perlakuan manusia.Tuhan menjanjikan ketenangan dan kemakmuran kepada sesebuah mukim,kariah, kampung, negeri dan negara jika penduduknya beriman dan melakukan amal soleh dengan BALDATUN TOYYIBATUN WARABBUN GHAFUUR sebaliknya azab Allah amat pedih kepada mereka yang melakukan kezaliman dan lupa menjaga hak-hak Allah. Bala' yang turun terkena kepada semua orang tanpa memilih mereka yang berbuat baik atau sebaliknya.Terlalu banyak contoh yang berlaku di depan mata tetapi manusia memang mudah lupa setiap peristiwa yang menimpa sehingga mengambil korban ratusan ribu nyawa.

Fungsi akal

Akal tidak lagi berfungsi sebagai pusat kecemerlangan minda kerana di kuasai nafsu mazmumah yang tidak pernah berasa puas dengan kehidupan yang bersifat fatamorgana semata.Analogi sebuah kehidupan seumpama kita berjalan di Padang Sahara yang panas,dari kejauhan kelihatan seperti adanya air semakin hampir rupanya hanyalah pantulan cahaya matahari yang mengelabui pandangan mata.Manusia tidak pernah berhenti mengejar kehidupan materi sekali pun memiliki gedung perniagaan yang mewah, harta melimpah ruah sehinggakan orang miskin meleleh air liur melihat mereka.Kuatnya nafsu menguasai diri mendorong manusia sanggup membeli bukit dan pulau sebagai syurga kehidupan  di bumi.Benarlah Sabda Rasulullah SAW,sekiranya anak Adam memiliki dua lombong emas, nescaya ia akan berusaha untuk mendapatkan sebanyak mungkin sehinggalah mulutnya penuh dengan tanah. Demikian kurang lebih maksud pengajaran dari Nabi SAW. Antara Bala' dan Dosa menjadi indikator kehancuran umah jika tidak di bentengi dengan Iman yang kukuh berpaksikan Tauhid kepada Allah SWT dalam mengatur urus tadbir mengikut ketetapan Tuhan.Allah SWT menyeru setiap jiwa dengan panggilan yang sangat mulia "Yaa Ayyatuhannafsul Mutmainnah Irjiii Ilaarabbikiraa dhiyatan mardhiyyah fadhkhulii fii ibaadii wadkhuli jannati".

Renungan,

Che Yahya Che Soh

Pengetua SMKSB@STAR

Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.

Khamis 27 Mac,2014.

MH370 crash: ‘I love you’ - flight steward’s last words to wife
           

Mohd Hazrin and his wife Intan Maizura. - mStar pix

SHAH ALAM: "I love you" were the last words that MH370 flight steward Mohd Hazrin Hasnan had uttered to his wife just hours before the Malaysia Airlines aircraft was reported missing on March 8.
The words will forever be ingrained in the memory of Intan Maizura Othaman, 34.

Recalling the last few hours before the disappearance of MH370, Intan Maizura who is pregnant with their second child, said Mohd Hazrin had missed the vehicle provided by MAS for its staff on the night of March 7.

She said her husband had then requested her to send him to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang.

"During the journey, we had the usual conversation and Mohd Hazrin held my hand and kissed it. 'I love you' were his last words," she said when met at her residence here on Wednesday.

Intan Maizura said her son Iman, 4, had been asking about his dad prior to the announcement on Monday by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak that the MH370 flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

"The following day, I told Iman that his father had gone to work and the plane that he was on had malfunctioned, so he would not be returning home as he is now in heaven," she said. - Bernama

The Star online
Thursday 27 March 2014.

Mandi Cara P.Ramlee

Sesungguhnya setiap manusia yang pernah di lahirkan ke muka bumi ini mempunyai kelebihan tersendiri.Perwatakan, cara hidup dan modal sosial budaya menjadi sebahagian daripada  cerminan tingkahlaku seseorang. P.Ramlee atau nama dalam Kad Pengenalannya Ramlee bin Puteh, seorang sutradara,pelakon dan penyanyi versetail yang sukar di cari ganti walau pun sudah berdekad meninggalkan kita.Filem-filem arahan dan lakonannya bersama Sudin, Ajis, Tompel, Ibrahim Din, Mat Sentul dan rakan-rakan lain sungguh berkesan kepada kita malah anak-anak kecil meminati P.Ramlee.Kisah-kisah kehidupan masyarakat yang di tuangkan melalui layar perak mengandungi makna yang sungguh mendalam seperti Ibu Mertua Ku, Antara Dua Derajat,Labu Labi dan banyak lagi peninggalan Seniman Agung yang boleh dijadikan teladan kepada kita.Orang tidak jemu menonton lakonan mereka yang selamba dan bersahaja.  Demikian secuplikan kisah seorang penghibur yang mempunyai nama besar sebagai figura masyarakat hingga kini.

P.Ramlee,Tompel dan Ibrahim Din selamba dan bersahaja.
sumber: intenet

Mandi Cara P.Ramlee

Pagi tadi sesudah Solat Subuh saya menjirus badan  beberapa kali dengan pencebuk kerana kekurangan air. Hari ini ada mesyuarat profesionalisma di Jabatan Pelajaran Kuala lumpur. Jadi saya terpaksa bergegas bagi mengelakkan kesesakan. Mengikut jadual catuan hari ini ada air, tapi masih belum tiba. Tangki masih kering. Setelah membasahi badan, saya keluar bilik air. "Isteri bertanya dah siap bang? "Spontan saya menjawab  mandi cara P.Ramlee maa" sambil tergelak besar.Saya bilang sekarang terasa masih terkucil tapi abang tahan tak cukup air. Isteri saya turut sama ketawa lebar mungkin terbayang kisah P.Ramlee,Ajis dan Sudin dalam filem Seniman Bujang lapok yang sungguh menggeletek hati.Dalam keadaan begini terpaksa menerima keadaan walau pun badan berasa tak keruan, rimas dan sedikit masam dengan peluh kerana kekurangan air.Manusia tidak boleh bertahan tanpa air yang cukup.

Tims dan Pisa

Ucapan Timbalan Pengarah Pudu Bangsar Haji Ismail Musa,walau pun agak kelakar dan lawak tetapi mempunyai mesej yang sangat dalam. Menurutnya beliau berlepas ke China pada 11 Mac, 2014 tiga hari setelah kehilangan pesawat MH370 atas urusan rasmi.Rasa takut dan fobia mencengkam diri namun jika takdir menentukan terserah kepada qadha dan qadar Allah,katanya membuka bicara. Sepanjang berada di Beijing, beliau melawat beberapa buah sekolah di Shanghai untuk melihat sistem pendidikan dan amalan pengajaran dan pembelajaran di sana.
 
Hj Ismail Musa 
TP PPWBP
Mengikut Hj Ismail Musa lagi, Shanghai menjadi pilihan kerana mutu pendidikan mereka sangat baik dengan menjuarai dunia pendidikan dalam Tims dan Pisa. Tims ialah Trend International Mathematics and Science Study._PISA ialah Program International Student Assessment.Shanghai mendapat tempat pertama di dunia.Beliau menekankan pembudayaan dan penguatkuasaan  peraturan merupakan indikator utama dalam menentukan kejayaan bagi sesebuah sekolah. Mesyuarat berakhir jam 12.45 tengah hari. saya terus ke sekolah menyiapkan kerja-kerja pengurusan dan pentadbiran sehingga 5.00 petang.

Che Yahya Che Soh

Pengetua SMKSB@STAR

Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.

Rabu 26 Mac 2014.

Takziah Kepada Keluarga MH370

Penantian selama lebih dua minggu sejak Sabtu 8 Mac 2014 yang lalu telah terjawab dengan pengumuman Perdana Menteri Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak semalam Isnin 24 Mac mengenai kehilangan MH370 yang mendapat liputan meluas seantero dunia.Sebanyak 26 buah negara terbabit dalam usaha mencari dan menyelamat(SAR) yang di ketuai oleh Australia. Perginya pesawat lewat tengah malam Sabtu 8 Mac lalu meninggalkan titik hitam dalam sejarah penerbangan negara sesudah tragedi Tanjung Kupang dalam tahun 1977, 37 tahun yang lalu.Pesawat yang membawa 239 penumpang bersama anak-anak kapal meninggalkan landasan KLIA pada jam 12.41pagi gagal di kesan radar sebaik memasuki ruang udara Vietnam telah berakhir di Lautan Hindi (Indian Ocean). Demikian pengumuman Perdana Menteri malam semalam.Ucapan takziah sedalam-dalamnya kepada keluarga penumpang MH370 atas musibah yang berlaku semoga mereka terus bersabar dan tabah menerima ketentuan Ilahi.Kehidupan mesti di teruskan walau pun terlalu pahit untuk menerima kenyataan bahawa orang yang dikasihi telah pergi buat selama-lamanya. Kita hanya mampu mengucapkan Innalillahi wainna Ilaihiraa jiuun, dari Allah kita datang dan kepada Allah jua kita pulang. AlFatihah..

 

 sumber:www.stratfor.com

Sumber:nursa zack

Che Yahya Che Soh

Pengetua SMKSB@STAR

Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.

Selasa 25 Mac 2014.

MH370 crash: Outpouring of grief over 239 lives lost

by michelle tam AND victoria brown

From Wan Swaid Twitter.

PETALING JAYA: Netizens took to social media Tuesday in a collective outpouring of grief for the 239 passengers and crew members on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

On Monday night, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced that MH370 had gone down in the southern Indian Ocean at a remote location west of Perth, and all on the aircraft were feared dead.

Izzat Nazli, the nephew of leading steward Wan Swaid Wan Ismail, posted a series of tweets from @theonlywannn after the press conference: “Today I gave up holding my tears. Ya Allah give us all strength to go through this.”

He also took to Instagram with a captioned picture to express his grief: “Heartbreaking news for 'legacy Wan Ismail', no words can describe my feelings right now. We miss you Uncle Swaid. Al-fatihah.”

Director Shamaine Othman urged others to log off social media and spend precious time with a loved one: “ I am going to get ice cream with my mother and sister. Say a prayer for the passengers, their friends and families and the many men and women who searched for answers. Thank you to those who have contacted me. Dina, Maria, Aunty Bibi and her sister you will be missed tremendously. Al-Fatihah.”

On Facebook, a former staff member of Malaysia Airlines, Ritzeraynn Rashid, voiced his sorrow for those who lost their loved ones: “Heartfelt Condolences and to the crew, especially Patrick Gomes and Capt Zaharie … I'll miss you guys. Thanks for a wonderful time we shared working together. May Your Souls Rest In Peace MH370. Ameen.”

TV personality Daphne Iking also offered her thoughts and prayers to the families and friends on board MH370: “May you be granted strength during this extremely difficult time. To everyone who has and continues to work around the clock in the search operation, THANK YOU for the dedication. We will continue to pray.”

Flight MH370 went missing on March 8 with 239 people aboard en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Najib said that based on new analysis by satellite company Inmarsat and the UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) on the satellite data provided, it was concluded that MH370 flew along the southern corridor to its last position in the middle of the Indian Ocean west of Perth.


The Star online
Tuesday 25 March 2014.

Flight MH370 ended in southern Indian Ocean, says Najib

by joseph loh

PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has announced that British investigators from its Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) have concluded that the flight of Malaysian Airlines MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean.

He said that Immarsat, the company that indicated the plane flew along northern and southern corridors, have managed to trace its final flight path, using sophisticated technology. 

"Using a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort, they have been able to shed more light on MH370's flight path."

He said that MAS, together with AAIB, determined that MH370 flew along the southern corridor, and its last position was in the middle of the Indian Ocean West of Perth.

"With deep sadness and regret, that according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean," he said.

He added that a press conference would be held tomorrow with further details about the latest findings. 

"In the meantime, we wanted to inform you of this new development at the earliest opportunity. We share this information out of a commitment to openness and respect for the families, two principles which have guided this investigation," said Najib.

MH370, which had been missing for the last 17 days, disappeared from Malaysian radars at 2.15am on March 8 after taking off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport for Beijing at 1.30am. It carried 239 passengers and crew.

The Star online

Monday 24 March 2014.

Malaysia Will Be High Income Country By 2020 - Dr Mahathir

KATHMANDU, March 24 (Bernama) -- Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia, currently a middle-income country, would be a high income nation by 2020, for which the Malaysian Government had laid out a comprehensive plan and was working out accordingly, to achieve the set goal.

Delivering an extempore speech in the Nepal Business Conclave 2014 on Sunday, Dr Mahathir set forth the vision for development which he adopted during his long tenure as Malaysia's prime minister.

"In fact, it is not me but the founding fathers of Malaysia who set the guidelines for the country's development, modernisation and industrialisation, which I simply followed," he said while speaking on the policies during the early days of Malaysia.

"When Malaysia gained its independence, 50 per cent of the people were in poverty and the founding fathers realised that the country must lift these people out of poverty for which they focused on stability, social harmony and sharing of political power and economic resources in an equitable manner," he said.

He added that this policy paid off and Malaysia could slowly emerge as a middle income country.

Stating that Malaysia was a multi-racial country, Dr Mahathir said its founding fathers focused more on harmony and co-existence among the different races, which created stability and social harmony.

"This was an important basis for industrialisation and development. Sharing of political power and economic resources among all people is yet another most important basis for development for any country in the world and Malaysia put this vision into practice, which not only empowered the people but also gave them the feeling of ownership in the development and decision-making process."

Dr Mahathir pointed out that the other important basis for the country's development and industrialisation was education, and Malaysia did its best to ensure that its people had every opportunity to be educated.

"We need to upgrade people's skill and knowledge for development, which we accomplished by ensuring free primary education, scholarship to secondary-level students and fund and incentives for building and establishing universities.

"In addition, we sent many Malaysian students to study abroad in various areas of science and technology so that they would return home with more skill and knowledge to help build infrastructure and innovate our economy and other sectors."

These schemes paid well and it helped to upgrade the people's living standard and modernise Malaysia's economy, noted Dr Mahathir.

When he cited that the most important factor for Malaysia's development was the determination and dedication of its leaders and people to translate their promises into action and practice, the audience applauded.

"Unlike in some other developing countries, our plans do not remain on paper but they are really implemented so that their goals and targets are achieved."

The important lesson Nepal could learn from Malaysia was the culture of coalition, said Dr Mahathir.

"In Malaysia, we build coalition before election and share power on the basis of election outcome. But Nepal has coalition only after election."

"Coalition before election is the real coalition forged with the determination and vision for a country's development. But the post-election coalition is just the coalition of convenience which generally does not work.

"Even now, we have the coalition government of 40 parties and the opposition has also formed a coalition. Coalition has become Malaysia's political culture which can be a lesson for other countries as well, including Nepal," he said in response to a question on what Nepal could learn from Malaysia's experiences.

He also said politicians, including himself, must not work for themselves but for the people, adding "that alone wins the hearts of the people and contributes to a country's prosperity."

Speaking on political system, he said that democracy was necessary for a country's well-being.

"But democracy should not be dictated and imposed by others, it should be the political system that can deliver to the people.

"Democracy needs constant reforms and improvement to make it better as democracy can never become perfect anywhere in the world," he said.

On Nepal, he said it was a beautiful country and had tremendous potential for development, adding that if these potentials were properly harnessed, it could be a prosperous country.

Noting that about half a million Nepalese were working in Malaysia, he said they had contributed to Malaysia's development and prosperity, and the Malaysian Government had duly recognised their labour and contribution.

Dr Mahathir is the keynote speaker at the Nepal Business Conclave 2014, which concludes today.

The Business Conclave was inaugurated by Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala, who also praised Dr Mahathir highly, for steering Malaysia into stability, prosperity and modernisation.

-- BERNAMA 

Bernama online

Monday 24 March 2014.

Cuaca Kembali Menyengat

Sudah tiga hari hujan tidak turun setelah beberapa ketika membasahi bumi.Mulai Sabtu 21 Mac hingga hari ini Isnin 24 Mac, cuaca panas kembali menyengat.Suhu sekitar Kuala Lumpur dan Lembah Kelang 31Darjah Celsius dengan sedikit berawan. Kadang kala berasa  berada di Mekah dan Madinah menghadapi cuaca seperti ini.Catuan air terus berkekalan bagi kawasan yang telah di jadualkan oleh Syabas mengikut giliran iaitu dua hari sekali.Seluruh kawasan AU Keramat, Wangsa Maju dan sewaktu dengannya kekeringan air.Apakah fenomena ini berterusan  hanya Tuhan sahaja yang mampu merungkaikannya. Kehebatan teknologi tidak mampu merobah keadaan cuaca untuk menggerakan awan, memperjalankan angin dan mengumpul awan untuk  menurunkan hujan kerana langit akan menurunkan titisan air bila mana di perintahkan PenciptaNya iaitu Allah SWT.Ini bermaksud manusia perlu bertaubat dan berdoa tanpa henti kepada Allah dalam keadaan susah dan senang kerana setiap musibah yang berlaku mempunyai pertalian dengan gerak tangan manusia sendiri.












 Gambar hiasan:sejuk segar kaya oksigen.

sumber: Utusan.com.my

Salah manusia

Bumi ialah planet tempat berkongsi oksigen dan pembebasan karbon dioksida bagi makhluk manusia, haiwan dan tumbuhan melata.Rantaian kehidupan ini saling perlu memerlukan antara satu sama lain untuk keseimbangan ekosistem dan ekologi alam.Habitat haiwan terpaksa mengungsi diri mencari kawasan hutan yang belum di perkosa oleh tangan-tangan manusia yang tamak haloba.Penghuni hutan menjerit kelaparan kerana sumber makanan semakin pupus akibat perbuatan tangan manusia menggerogoti pemukiman mereka.Haiwan tidak pernah sama sekali merosakan habitat mereka tetapi manusia kelihatan sembrono menggondol bukit menebang hasil hutan untuk aktiviti ekonomi yang tidak pernah berhenti. Alam semakin musnah akibat penerokaan berterusan sehingga mendatangkan mala petaka kepada penghuni bumi yang lain dalam bentuk  kemarau berpanjangan kerana hilangnya punca tadahan hujan.

 

Gambar hiasan: Ayam hutan Jantan (kiri) dan dua
ekor betina di Taman Negara Kaziranga, Assam, India

Beradab dengan alam

Semua kejadian yang berlaku berkait rapat dengan aktiviti manusia yang sangat tidak beradab dengan alam lingkungan sehingga menjejaskan seluruh kehidupan.Sumber air semakin susut, tanah kering merekah, hutan terbakar, hidupan sungai semakin lumpuh dan tidak selamat akibat pencemaran sisa toksik yang di buang secara berleluasa.Tuhan tidak menzalimi hambaNya selagi manusia masih beradab dengan alam lingkungannya.Sikap sesetengah manusia yang kita saksikan di abad ini terlalu jauh menyimpang dari pesan Tuhan tanpa segan silu melakukan kemungkaran dan kefasadan sehingga mengundang bala berpanjangan.Kita sedang di uji dengan berbagai musibah yang semua orang sedia maklum ketika ini, seharusnya menjadi pengajaran dan iktibar yang sangat berguna untuk merefleksi setiap kealpaan dan kesalahan melihat dengan mata hati setiap kejadian yang berlaku di depan mata. Perspektif kehidupan perlu di lihat secara holistik yang dalam bahasa Agama di sebut syumul bagi melindungi setiap jiwa manusia dan makhluk melata dari azab Tuhan. Nauzubillah.

Che Yahya Che Soh

Pengetua SMKSB@STAR

Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.

Isnin 24 Mac 2014.

Frontier of Knowledge

We are now living in the 21 century which is very sophisticated millennium era. Knowledge and Sciences become more tough than the past.The technology advanced such as whats App,tweeter,Facebook is taking place in spreading all information and communication within a second.People across the globe use the electronic devices to communicates between each other beyond boundaries and territories.The learning and teaching process is never ending to all people until the end of our breath.We should not be complacent with the degree we have such as Bachelors, Masters or PhD in the University because it is just a formality to get a specific job parallel to our graduation.Many people who hold a degree but unfortunately they do not getting available profession due to their qualification.We may ask our self why this situation could be happen? To me the appropriate answer is on our own character, our personality, our credibility, our performance, knowledge and ability to do the job well.

Frontier of knowledge

The school system is provided to educate young people with the proper knowledge. Leaders today was early determine by the school administration in all aspects.In school we have co-curricular activities, uniform and club societies beside academic excellence to nurture  students betterment. Students was trained by the teachers in building skill and self confidence to explore thinking ability in front of audience during the school function and events.We are responsible to shape and sharp their mind to think broadly as an epitome scholars to face the world challenging in the 21 century.But sadly to say public interpretation to the school were not so proud than the past.Teachers has no right  to educate students because there are a lots of interference by the people surrounding us.

Education objective

The teaching and learning process become harmful to manage people if public  do not fully trusted teachers profession.What is the main purpose of education? Why people always question our credibility? Where is our main objective ? How to make our education process more benefit to the people? There are several argument always come in my mind due to teaching and learning process in school today.The main objective of education is to educate the young generation with knowledge,skill and competence for the better future.We teach and guide them to be good in personality,building humanity character through frontier of knowledge and skill development in all areas.Teaching profession is a noble job to produce human intellectual honesty for the nation. I personally appreciate and congratulates my teachers who works patiently to generate human capacity building among students.

Che Yahya Che Soh

Principal SMKSB@STAR

Segambut, Kuala Lumpur.

Monday 24 March,2014.

Kajang By-election Results

RESULTS - SELANGOR: N25: KAJANG

RESULTS - SELANGOR

N25: KAJANG: SELANGOR : 39,278

1. Chew Mei Fun (BN)..........................11,362

2. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (PKR)................16,741

Voter Turnout.................................28,314

Percentage.....................................72.1%

Votes rejected...................................176

Majority.......................................5,379

Incumbent: Lee Chin Cheh : PKR

Votes polled: 2013: 19,571

Majority: 6,824

-- BERNAMA 

Bernama online

Sunday 23 March 2014.