Thursday, October 6, 2011

Hidup pindah-randah kerana miskin


Akibat dibelenggu kemiskinan, sebuah keluarga terpaksa hidup berpindah-randah selepas sering gagal menjelaskan sewa rumah.
Ketua keluarga tersebut, Mohd. Zulkifli Abdul Latif, 35, memberitahu, disebabkan kemiskinan, anak-anaknya, Shahri, 9; Shafiq, 11, dan Nurul Afifa, 12, terpaksa berjalan kaki sejauh kira-kira tiga kilometer untuk ke sekolah setiap hari.

Bagaimanapun, kesusahan mereka yang sebelum ini tinggal di Kampun Telok Petata, Kupang terubat apabila seorang penduduk Kampung Merubi yang hanya mahu dikenali sebagai Pak Lang Tahir, sudi membenarkan keluarga itu menumpang di sebuah rumah kecil berhampiran rumahnya.

Mohd. Zulkifli yang bekerja kampung dan mempunyai lima anak, setakat ini sudah tiga kali berpindah dalam tempoh tidak sampai setahun kerana tidak mampu membayar sewa.
"Saya faham tiada siapa yang mahu benarkan rumah mereka disewa oleh orang yang tidak mampu membayar sewa seperti saya.

"Mujurlah ada Pak Lang Tahir yang sudi membenarkan kami menumpang di rumahnya," kata Mohd. Zulkifli yang juga bapa kepada Safwan, 6, dan Nur Hidayah 3, ketika ditemui di Kampung Merubi, dekat sini, semalam.
Sementara itu, Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Bayu, Azmi Che Hussin berkata, masalah yang menimpa keluarga Zulkifli seharusnya mendapat perhatian banyak pihak sejak awal-awal lagi.

Azmi memberitahu, beliau hanya mengetahui kisah kemiskinan keluarga itu melalui pihak sekolah apabila dimaklumkan bahawa anakanak Mohd. Zulkifli terpaksa berjalan kaki ke sekolah setiap hari semata-mata untuk belajar disebabkan kemiskinan keluarga itu.
"Disebabkan itu, saya datang ke sini untuk mendapatkan penjelasan daripada keluarga Shafiq (anak kedua Mohd. Zulkifli) mengenai masalah mereka," katanya.

Azmi menegaskan, pihaknya bercadang menghantar Shafiq dan Shahri ke Yayasan Al-Bukhari di Alor Setar untuk membolehkan mereka mendapat pendidikan yang lebih sempurna.
"Sekiranya ibu bapa mereka benarkan, saya akan buat surat sokongan untuk pastikan anak-anak ini mendapat pendidikan yang lebih sempurna," katanya.
Selain itu, kata Azmi, pihaknya akan berusaha memastikan keluarga berkenaan turut mendapat perhatian sewajarnya.








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Dah tak tahan, janganlah makan..


Sebuah restoran dikecam kerana pertandingan memakan cili paling pedas di dunia yang dianjurkannya menyebabkan dua peserta dirawat di hospital.
Peserta terbabit menyertai pertandingan anjuran Restoran Kismot di Edinburgh, tiba-tiba muntah, menggelupur di lantai dan pitam.

Seorang daripada pelanggan restoran itu, Curie Kim, berkata dia berasa tidak selesa selepas merasa hidangan Kismot Killer disediakan restoran berkenaan.
Kata Curie, dia terpaksa dikejarkan ambulans ke hospital dua kali dalam tempoh beberapa jam kerana sakit perut dan muntah. Restoran itu mewajibkan peserta mesti berusia lebih 18 tahun dan menandatangani perakuan sebelum menyertai pertandingan berkenaan.

Walaupun dua petugas Palang Merah Britain bersedia memberi bantuan di restoran itu, mereka gagal menangani insiden berkenaan.

Laman sesawang restoran itu menyatakan, pertandingan itu “bukan mencari siapa makan paling banyak, tetapi pemenang dipilih berdasarkan ketahanan mereka kepada masakan cili paling pedas di dunia.”




P/S - Dah tak tahan makan pedas, kenapa nak makan?





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Amanda dijangka akan kaya....


Pelajar Amerika Syarikat, Amanda Knox yang baru dibebaskan daripada dakwaan membunuh rakan sebilik warga Britain di Itali, mampu meraih berjuta-juta dolar jika sedia menjual pengalamannya sama ada dalam bentuk buku, siri televisyen malah filem.

Ketika keluarganya mempunyai cadangan untuk anak mereka itu menghabiskan masa bersendirian bagi menyesuaikan diri dengan kebebasan, pemerhati bersetuju gadis berusia 24 tahun itu kini mempunyai peluang cerah meraih keuntungan.

“Kisah Amanda Knox boleh mendapat sambutan kerana beliau masih muda selain dianggap sebagai kisah yang sinonim dengan rakyat Amerika, dan ramai mengikuti kisahnya,” kata Charlotte Gusay, ejen sastera selepas Knox tiba di rumahnya semalam.

“Saya jangka dia akan mendapat keuntungan antara AS$500,000 (RM1.5 juta) hingga AS$1 juta dolar (RM3 juta). Dia sudah tentu ditawarkan perjanjian menerbitkan kisahnya dalam buku dan filem jadi perlu menjelajah selain dikejar untuk muncul dalam rancangan dikenali ramai,” kata Gusay.

Knox yang masih lagi bersedih ketika tiba di Seattle bersama keluarganya, sehari selepas digugurkan daripada dakwaan membunuh dan dibebaskan dari sebuah penjara Itali, tempat tahanannya selama empat tahun.

Pada satu sidang akhbar singkat di lapangan terbang, pelajar itu lebih menekankan niatnya untuk kembali menikmati kehidupan normal.
“Keluarga adalah perkara paling penting kepada saya sekarang. Saya hanya mahu bersama mereka,” katanya.





P/S - Berita terdahulu [KLIK]







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Car left stranded in giant pothole


Many of us get that sinking feeling on the way to work. For this driver, however, the problem ran a little deeper.
As she made her way to her office, the ground opened up and swallowed her car.
Fortunately the motorist, who has not been named, was able to clamber out of the giant pothole, caused by a water main bursting below the road on the A320, between Woking and Chertsey in Surrey. 

But her silver Vauxhall Meriva was not so lucky, becoming submerged in the crater as tens of thousands of gallons of water gushed from the fractured pipe.
Paul Rimmer, who saw the incident today, said the leak washed away layers of soil beneath the road, causing it to cave in.
He added: ‘The driver managed to get out while stuck quite far down in the hole and she walked off to work, leaving engineers to haul out the car.
‘However, the car then just sank lower and lower and then it started to fill up with water. She had a very lucky escape.’
The large pipe erupted at about 5am, flooding the busy road.


The female motorist driving her hatchback had stopped her car after hearing a loud noise coming from the road.
In a matter of seconds, the road then gave way and swallowed her car up.

Police were called to the scene shortly afterwards and the road was then closed at around 7am.
The water was turned off by 8.30am, but the road remained shut on Wednesday lunchtime because of the substantial hole in the southbound carriageway.

Gordon Foat, who lives nearby saw the stricken silver Vauxhall Meriva wedged into the gap.
He said: 'There's a car which has been absorbed into the road, it just went in.
'Apparently a woman was driving along and heard a noise so she got out of her car to check it, and that's when it happened.'
The incident took place between the Six Crossroads roundabout in Woking and the McLaren Technology Centre roundabout at Martyrs Lane.


Police Inspector Roger Nield said: 'In order to get everybody straight we had to close the road which gridlocked the traffic.'
He added: 'When the water company come to repair it they will have to close the road for three or four days. The water has been turned off at the moment.' 











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Taj Mahal runtuh


Mercu tanda India yang sering dianggap satu daripada tujuh keajaiban dunia, Taj Mahal, bakal runtuh dalam tempoh lima tahun lagi, kecuali langkah segera diambil bagi mengukuhkan asasnya.
Bangunan marmar berusia 358 tahun itu menjadi daya tarikan paling popular di India dan dilawati kira-kira empat juta pelancong setahun.

Terletak di Agra, Taj Mahal berdepan dengan pelbagai masalah persekitaran apabila sungai yang terletak berhampirannya diancam pencemaran serta aktiviti perindustrian serta penebangan hutan.
Aktivis berpendapat, asas yang menampung bangunan Taj Mahal semakin lemah dan longgar.

Beberapa retakan dikesan di bahagian makam dalam Taj Mahal pada tahun lalu, manakala empat menara yang ada di bucu bangunan itu menampakkan tanda condong.

Taj Mahal dibangunkan pemerintah Mogul, Shah Jahan, yang bersedih akibat kematian isteri tercintanya, Mumtaz Mahal, ketika melahirkan bayi.

Imej Taj Mahal yang selalu dikaitkan dengan romantik turut menjadi perhatian selebriti dan kerabat diraja, termasuk Puteri Diana, yang pernah bergambar di depannya selepas rumah tangganya dengan Putera Charles menemui kegagalan.

Sejarawan India, Prof Ram Nath, berkata kedudukan Taj Mahal terletak berhampiran tebing Sungai Yamuna yang semakin susut.

“Keadaan ini tidak pernah dijangka pembinanya.

“Sungai Yamuna adalah sebahagian daripada reka bentul Taj Mahal dan jika ia mati, Taj Mahal juga tiada maknanya lagi,” katanya.







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Nikah 11 Disember, hantaran RM20,000


Pelakon Ana Dahlia, 28, dan Mohd Nadzri Redzuawan, atau Chef Riz, 30, akan melangsungkan pernikahan pada 11 Disember depan selepas dipersetujui dalam majlis pertunangan yang diadakan di rumah Ana di Changkat Jering, Taiping, Perak, Rabu.

Ana berkata, mengikut perancangan awal, majlis pernikahan itu nanti akan diadakan secara sederhana yang mana di sebelah pihak lelaki akan berlangsung di Sungai Koyan, Raub, Pahang, pada 18 Disember.
"Buat masa ini, tidak banyak perbincangan mengenai urusan perkahwinan dilakukan. Sebaliknya, kedua-dua belah pihak hanya bersetuju mengenai pemilihan tarikh pernikahan terlebih dahulu," katanya.
Mengenai wang hantaran, Ana memberitahu pihak lelaki akan memberikan wang sebanyak RM20,000 sementara hal-hal lain masih belum diputuskan.

Bercerita mengenai majlis pertunangan yang diadakan, Rabu, Ana memberitahu pihak lelaki dari Kuala Lumpur hadir seramai 15 orang manakala pihaknya pula menanti lebih daripada 100 orang.
"Majlis berlangsung secara sederhana pada pukul 1 tengah hari dan tamat pada dua jam selepas itu. Memandangkan saya tunggu di dalam bilik, rasa hati tidak tenang dan ingin tahu apa yang mereka bincangkan.
"Selepas perbincangan mengenai perkahwinan selesai, barulah keluarga kami saling berkenalan. Saya gembira, keluarga ayah Riz, Datuk Redzuawan Ismail (Chef Wan) menerima keluarga saya yang sederhana ini, Alhamdulillah," tuturnya.

Dalam pada itu, Ana juga bersyukur kerana keluarga Chef Riz juga tidak kisah dengan statusnya sebagai janda dan ia bukanlah penghalang untuknya mendirikan rumah tangga dengan lelaki yang disayanginya itu.
"Kita semua tahu, setiap orang mempunyai kisah silam masing-masing, begitu juga saya. Asalkan keluarga, rakan-rakan terdekat dan bakal mentua tahu, itu sudah memadai.
"Lagipun sebelum ini bukan saya ingin merahsiakan status 'janda'. Cuma saya fikir, tidak perlulah orang tahu mengenai hal saya yang agak peribadi itu.

"Apa-apa pun saya bersyukur kerana kami berjaya melalui beberapa dugaan walaupun tempoh perkenalan saya dengan Riz tidak sampai setahun. Mungkin inilah namanya jodoh," ujarnya.








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Rugi RM2,600 akibat sindiket gores dan menang

Seorang jurujual kerugian RM2,600 gara-gara menyertai peraduan gores dan menang baru-baru ini.
Kejadian bermula apabila mangsa, Tan Sim May, 18, menemui dua lelaki di monorel KL Sentral yang kemudian memujuknya untuk menyertai peraduan gores dan menang.
Katanya, setelah bersetuju, dia diajak lelaki itu untuk ke pejabat mereka di Taman Danau Desa.

"Pada masa itu, saya hanya mempunyai RM2,600 dan mereka menawarkan RM1,000 sebagai pinjaman.
"Saya kemudiannya dibenarkan menggores sekeping kad dan memenangi hadiah dua tilam kesihatan dari Korea bernilai RM6,188," katanya pada sidang akhbar di Ibu Pejabat Gerakan di Cheras di sini hari ini.
Jelas Sim May, dia bagaimanapun tidak menerima hadiah itu, sebaliknya hanya diberikan bantal urut diperbuat di China.

"Hadiah bantal tersebut merupakan cagaran kerana saya perlu membayar wang pinjaman RM1,000 terlebih dahulu," ujarnya.







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Raja Lawak kena tahan

Seorang pelawak berkumpulan yang pernah menjuarai program Raja Lawak ditahan polis kerana disyaki terbabit dalam penyalahgunaan dadah selepas ditemui ‘merayau tanpa tujuan’ di pekan ini, kelmarin.
Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 10 malam itu, artis berusia lingkungan 20-an terbabit dilihat berjalan seorang diri di kaki lima bangunan dalam keadaan mencurigakan, menyebabkan dia ditahan anggota Jabatan Siasatan Jenayah (JSJ) Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Tuaran.

Difahamkan, selepas ditahan pelawak itu dibawa ke IPD Tuaran untuk siasatan lanjut dan sumber mengesahkan ujian air kencing terhadap artis yang masih aktif berlawak itu didapati positif mengambil dadah.
Berikutan itu, artis terbabit yang masih bujang ditahan reman selama empat hari di IPD Tuaran bagi membantu siasatan. Sabit kesalahan, dia boleh dihadapkan ke mahkamah mengikut Akta Dadah Berbahaya (ADB) 1952.

Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Daerah Tuaran, Deputi Superintendan Zaharudin Rasip, ketika dihubungi enggan memberi sebarang ulasan kerana masih belum menerima laporan daripada pihak bawahannya.







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Steve Jobs, Apple founder, dies


Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56.
The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.
More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.

"Steve Jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism," New York Times columnist Joe Nocera said in August. "His intuition has been phenomenal over the years."
Jobs' death, while dreaded by Apple's legions of fans, was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as chief executive in August because he could "no longer meet (his) duties and expectations."
Born February 24, 1955, and then adopted, Jobs grew up in Cupertino, California -- which would become home to Apple's headquarters -- and showed an early interest in electronics. As a teenager, he phoned William Hewlett, president of Hewlett-Packard, to request parts for a school project. He got them, along with an offer of a summer job at HP.

Jobs dropped out of Oregon's Reed College after one semester, although he returned to audit a class in calligraphy, which he says influenced Apple's graceful, minimalist aesthetic. He quit one of his first jobs, designing video games for Atari, to backpack across India and take psychedelic drugs. Those experiences, Jobs said later, shaped his creative vision.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future," he told Stanford University graduates during a commencement speech in 2005. "You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
While at HP, Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak, who impressed him with his skill at assembling electronic components. The two later joined a Silicon Valley computer hobbyists club, and when he was 21, Jobs teamed with Wozniak and two other men to launch Apple Computer Inc.

It's long been Silicon Valley legend: Jobs and Wozniak built their first commercial product, the Apple 1, in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van to help finance the venture. The primitive computer, priced at $666.66, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves.
The following year, Apple unveiled the Apple II computer at the inaugural West Coast Computer Faire. The machine was a hit, and the personal computing revolution was under way.

Jobs was among the first computer engineers to recognize the appeal of the mouse and the graphical interface, which let users operate computers by clicking on images instead of writing text.
Apple's pioneering Macintosh computer launched in early 1984 with a now-iconic, Orwellian-themed Super Bowl ad. The boxy beige Macintosh sold well, but the demanding Jobs clashed frequently with colleagues, and in 1986, he was ousted from Apple after a power struggle.

Then came a 10-year hiatus during which he founded NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on with consumers.
Jobs had more success when he bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before the company made it big with "Toy Story." Jobs brought the same marketing skill to Pixar that he became known for at Apple. His brief but emotional pitch for "Finding Nemo," for example, was a masterful bit of succinct storytelling.

In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, returning Jobs to the then-struggling company he had co-founded. Within a year, he was running Apple again -- older and perhaps wiser but no less of a perfectionist. And in 2001, he took the stage to introduce the original iPod, the little white device that transformed portable music and kick-started Apple's furious comeback.


Thus began one of the most remarkable second acts in the history of business. Over the next decade, Jobs wowed launch-event audiences, and consumers, with one game-changing hit after another: iTunes (2003), the iPhone (2007), the App Store (2008), and the iPad (2010).
Observers marveled at Jobs' skills as a pitchman, his ability to inspire godlike devotion among Apple "fanboys" (and scorn from PC fans) and his "one more thing" surprise announcements. Time after time, he sold people on a product they didn't know they needed until he invented it. And all this on an official annual salary of $1.

He also built a reputation as a hard-driving, mercurial and sometimes difficult boss who oversaw almost every detail of Apple's products and rejected prototypes that didn't meet his exacting standards.
By the late 2000s, his once-renegade tech company, the David to Microsoft's Goliath, was entrenched at the uppermost tier of American business. Apple now operates more than 300 retail stores in 11 countries. The company has sold more than 275 million iPods, 100 million iPhones and 25 million iPads worldwide.
Jobs' climb to the top was complete in summer 2011, when Apple listed more cash reserves than the U.S. Treasury and even briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company.

But Jobs's health problems sometimes cast a shadow over his company's success. In 2004, he announced to his employees that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He lost weight and appeared unusually gaunt at keynote speeches to Apple developers, spurring concerns about his health and fluctuations in the company's stock price. One wire service accidentally published Jobs' obituary.

Jobs had a secret liver transplant in 2009 in Tennessee during a six-month medical leave of absence from Apple. He took another medical leave in January this year. Perhaps mindful of his legacy, he cooperated on his first authorized biography, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in November.
Jobs is survived by his wife of 20 years, Laurene, and four children, including one from a prior relationship.
He always spoke with immense pride about what he and his engineers accomplished at Apple.

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do," he told the Stanford grads in 2005.
"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."




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Pengemis campak bayi dalam laut


Akibat cuba mengelak daripada ditangkap, seorang pengemis wanita sanggup mencampak bayi lelakinya yang berusia enam bulan ke laut ketika diserbu dalam operasi membanteras kegiatan mengemis di sini hari ini.

Kejadian berlaku berdekatan Sabindo, ketika operasi bersepadu membabitkan Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat, Majlis Perbandaran Tawau (MPT), Jabatan Imigresen dan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) dijalankan pada pukul 11 pagi ini.
Wanita itu yang berusia lingkungan 40-an bukan sahaja mencampakkan anaknya, malah dia sendiri turut terjun ke dalam laut untuk melarikan diri.

Tiga lagi anaknya yang berusia antara 6 hingga 8 tahun turut terjun dan sempat melarikan diri ke tengah laut.
Berikutan tindakan keluarga itu terjun ke laut, pihak penguat kuasa yang menyertai operasi tersebut segera terjun dan berjaya menyelamatkan wanita dan bayinya.
Operasi tersebut berjaya menahan seramai 23 pengemis, termasuk 13 kanak-kanak yang kesemuanya berusia antara 6 bulan hingga 60 tahun.

Penolong Pengarah Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat Tawau merangkap ketua operasi, Asnah Kassim berkata, operasi itu diadakan bagi memberi bantuan serta perlindungan kepada kutu-kutu rayau di bandar ini.
Katanya, ia dibuat setelah banyak aduan diterima berhubung kegiatan mengemis yang dikuasai warga asing selain penglibatan anak-anak mereka.

Beliau berkata, hasil daripada operasi yang dijalankan, ia diharap dapat membersihkan imej bandar ini daripada dilabelkan sebagai pusat pengemis, khususnya kepada para pelancong.








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