Ini musim membeli pakaian seperti baju Melayu dan baju kurung untuk Hari Raya. Malah anda juga mungkin sibuk mencari pakaian lain seperti seluar dan baju kemeja untuk anak-anak anda.
Bagaimanapun, jangan terlalu ghairah memakai pakaian yang baru dibeli dari kedai. Pakaian apa sekalipun.
Sebaliknya, anda perlu membasuh pakaian baru itu sebelum pertama kali memakainya.
Rupa-rupanya, perbuatan terus memakai pakaian baru tanpa membasuhnya terlebih dahulu mungkin boleh menjejas kesihatan anda, lapor laman Metro.
KUMAN PADA PAKAIAN BARU
Pakar Pengilangan Pakaian Lana Hogue menjelaskan kepada laman Elle, terdapat dua sebab utama mengapa anda perlu membasuh pakaian baru sebelum memakainya.
Pertama, besar kemungkinan terdapat pelbagai jenis kuman yang melekat pada pakaian yang baru dibeli disebabkan proses mencuba pakai, sebelum ia dibeli.
Anda mungkin salah seorang yang mencubanya dan bayangkan berapa ramai orang yang mungkin sudah melakukan perkara yang sama sebelum anda.
ADA KIMIA PADA PAKAIAN BARU
Kedua dan yang paling penting, menurut Lana seperti yang dilaporkan laman Metro, setiap pakaian diselaputi dengan bahan-bahan kimia yang boleh memberikan kesan sampingan yang serius apabila terkena pada kulit.
Oleh itu, “anda seharusnya basuh pakaian sebelum memakainya,” kata Lana.
“Lebih-lebih lagi apa sahaja yang akan disarungkan pada kulit atau yang akan terkena peluh,” tambah beliau.
“Kebanyakan bahan kimia yang digunakan untuk mewarna kain dan benang bagi memudahkannya diproses menerusi peralatan menenun kain, diketahui boleh (membuat kulit) merengsa.”
Bahan-bahan itulah yang boleh menyebabkan masalah seperti radang kulit, menurut laman Metro.
Lana menjelaskan bahan-bahan kimia seperti resin formaldehyde dan pewarna azo-aniline perlu digunakan sepanjang proses pengilangan, “malah pakaian yang dibuat daripada kapas juga mengandungi bahan kimia”.
Maka, langkah terbaik melindungi diri adalah dengan membasuh pakaian baru sebelum ia dipakai.
Semoga kulit anda tidak terasa gatal pada Syawal nanti.
Push your child too hard and he or she could suffer from depression or anxiety, and may even lead to suicide.
This was the finding of a five-year study on primary school children in Singapore by researches from the National University of Singapore (NUS). It involved 7-year-olds from 10 schools and the parent that was more familiar with the child. The study found that children with intrusive parents had a higher tendency to be overly critical of themselves, which got worse over the years.
The children who demonstrated high or increased levels of self-criticalness also reported having elevated depression or anxiety symptoms.
Assistant Professor Ryan Hong, who led the study which was conducted by a team of researchers from the Department of Psychology at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, said: “When parents become intrusive in their children’s lives, it may signal to the children that what they do is never good enough. As a result, the child may become afraid of making the slightest mistake and will blame himself or herself for not being ‘perfect’.”
Asst Prof Hong added that over time, such behaviour, known as maladaptive perfectionism – commonly known as the ‘bad’ form of perfectionism – develops and may be detrimental to the child’s well-being as it increases the risk of the child developing symptoms of depression, anxiety and even suicide in very serious cases.
In the first year of the study, Asst Prof Hong and his team assessed parental intrusiveness using a puzzle played by the child, then 7, with the parent accompanying the child. The puzzle had a time limit, and the parent was told that he or she could help the child whenever necessary.
An example of a highly intrusive parental behaviour would be when the parent took over the game to retract a move made by the child. The purpose of this task was to observe whether the parent interfered with the child’s problem-solving attempts, regardless of the child’s actual needs.
Subsequent assessments on the children were carried out at ages eight, nine and 11.
Of the 263 parent-child pairs studied from 2010 to 2014, 60 per cent of the children were classified as high and/or increasing in self-criticalness, while 78 per cent of them demonstrated socially prescribed perfectionism – characterised by the perception of others having unrealistic high expectations of oneself.
59 per cent of the children demonstrated both self-criticalness and socially prescribed perfectionism.
“Our findings indicate that in a society that emphasises academic excellence, which is the situation in Singapore, parents may set unrealistically high expectations on their children. As a result, a sizable segment of children may become fearful of making mistakes,” Asst Prof Hong said.
“Also, because they are supposed to be ‘perfect’, they can become disinclined to admit failures and inadequacies and seek help when needed, further exacerbating their risk for emotional problems,” he added.
The findings of study were published online in the Journal of Personality in March 2016. This study is funded by the Singapore Children’s Society, as well as the Social and Family Research Fund awarded by the Ministry of Social and Family Development.
Both full-time and operationally ready national servicemen will be provided life and personal insurance coverage by the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) and Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
This applies to servicemen in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), Singapore Police Force (SPF) and Singapore Civil Defence Force and it will take effect on July 1. It was one of the recommendations by the Committee to Strengthen National Service to better recognise the contributions of national servicemen.
Mindef and MHA will provide $150,000 group term life and $150,000 group personal accident insurance coverage during the servicemen’s full-time national service or reservist duties. The appointed insurance company for this scheme is Aviva Ltd.
The same insurance coverage will also be extended to regulars in Mindef/SAF and the Home Team (Uniformed Officer) during their period of employment. National Service (NS) volunteers from the SAF Volunteer Corps, SPF Voluntary Special Constabulary and Civil Defence Auxiliary Unit will also be granted the same insurance coverage during their official duties.
National servicemen, regulars and NS volunteers who want to further insure themselves outside these periods, or insure their dependants, can purchase additional coverage. This scheme will be available on July 1 for MHA personnel and Oct 1 for Mindef personnel.
“The provision of this group term life and group personal accident insurance, which is on top of our current welfare and compensation frameworks, is our way to thank (our national servicemen) for their contributions to national defence,” said Mindef’s director for National Service Affairs Colonel (NS) Simon Lim.
MHA director of NS Affairs Directorate Colonel (Ret) Rupert Gwee said: “This group insurance is one of the many ways in which we look after the well-being of our officers, whether they are regulars, national servicemen or volunteers, as they go about their duties to keep Singapore safe and secure.”
This was the leftover food that a family of three walked away from after tucking in to iftar, prompting one angry diner to share the image online, sparking a debate about waste.
Fifteen plates were crammed onto the table in the minutes before the trio ended their fast. A mother, father and child picked at the meal before leaving, according to a nearby diner who spoke to 7DAYS after sharing the image on Reddit.
More than 80 people commented on the threat, with one, Java Beans, writing: “This is disgraceful. That’s exactly the opposite of what Ramadan is for.”
It has been estimated that more than 3 million tonnes of food (worth about Dhs14 billion) is wasted in the UAE every year.
The diner, who gave his name as Majid, said he took the snap at a restaurant in Dubai.
He said: “I promised myself I would not go to any buffet again. All I could think of was how many people sleep every night with empty stomachs.”
The diner told 7DAYS: “It was in an iftar buffet. There were two people and a child eating and they started putting food out 15 minutes before Iftar.
“From the beginning you could clearly tell they were not going to finish what they put on the table.
“I had to calm my friend down as she was going to talk to them, but it’s not our business and we didn’t we want to get in trouble.”
Majid added: “A person in the Reddit thread shared a number of a charities that are willing to take extra food. Also I think restaurants should apply a policy of paying extra if you leave a full dish of food on the table.”
Another wrote in response to the photo: “I see this behaviour a lot in iftar buffets. People should know after fasting for years that there is only so much their stomachs take.
“This is just greedy and wasteful. Completely against Ramadan values.”
Another added: “Sheer waste of food. The other day I was at Papa Johns for their Ramadan offer and I saw two kids leaving insane amount of uneaten food.
“We even asked the lady who served us about the uneaten food and what they intend to do with it. She said they’ll have to bin it.”
Do you know the best way to defeat the Malays? No need to fight them. Just sit back and watch them kill one another. So what DAP’s ‘Superman’ said during the Sarawak by-election was actually very true. All the Chinese need to do is to support one group of Malays to fight another group of Malays and the Malays will wipe themselves out.
NO HOLDS BARRED
Raja Petra Kamarudin
I was already 18 going on 19 in 1969 when the race riot (and not the first race riot, mind you) erupted on 13th May, three days after the Saturday, 10th May, general election.
Much has been said and written about one of these dark periods in Malaysian history (oh yes, we have had many dark periods in Malaysian history). Nevertheless I was there, so I can tell you what happened (or partly about what happened) from an eyewitness’s account.
It is true that on the 11th and the 12th of May the non-Malays were parading (at least from what I witnessed in Bangsar and Brickfields where I lived) and were shouting insults at the Malays and telling the Malays to leave Kuala Lumpur and balek kampung because the Chinese now own the town(s), etc. However, that was not why ‘May 13’ started. That was the excuse they used to start ‘May 13’.
In fact, I was not only a witness to the events in early 1969, I was also at the anti-government demonstration in front of Pudu Jail earlier (where we got shot with tear gas) and I attended all the opposition ceramahs in Brickfields, which were very inflammatory and racial in tone.
So, yes, there was a build-up to the 13th May 1969 race riot and it was built up over a period of time. But then this was intentionally allowed to happen. And as much as Tunku Abdul Rahman tried to curtail all this and he issued instructions to the police to clamp down on the racial rhetoric, there were others in Umno and in the government who countermanded the Tunku’s orders and undermined Tunku so that the racial heat can build up even higher.
And this was why the Tunku stepped down one year later in 1970. The Tunku did not step down because of May 13 or because he failed to stop May 13. He stepped down because of a broken heart. His heart was broken by the fact that so many Malaysians had to die unnecessarily (some estimates put it at 600 and others at thousands, although ‘officially’ it is less than 200) just because some people in Umno were trying to oust him from power.
Even decades later the Tunku would still break down and cry whenever he talked about this. You can see he was still upset until the day he went to his grave and one of the people he blamed for ‘May 13’ was Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The Tunku even went so far as to say that Malaysia would be cursed if Mahathir ever took over as Prime Minister.
Over the last ten years since 2006 (when Mahathir first launched his campaign to oust Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) Mahathir has travelled the length and breadth of Malaysia to talk about how Malays lost power. Yes, that is the gist of Mahathir’s lectures — about how Malays lost political power and now have to share power with the non-Malays.
Mahathir starts with the story of Melaka and about how some Malays collaborated with the Portuguese, which resulted in the collapse of the Sultanate in 1511 and which resulted in Melaka and eventually the rest of Malaya getting colonised for hundreds of years (and for Penang and Singapore becoming Chinese-owned).
Anwar Ibrahim, however, has a slightly different version of that same story. Anwar says it was because of the treachery of the Mamak that Melaka fell. And that is why ‘Mamak Bendahara’ (meaning Mahathir, the then Prime Minister) must be ousted. It is actually quite hilarious considering that Anwar himself is Mamak so it was actually a battle of the Mamaks but using the Malays to fight this battle.
Anyway, the point that Mahathir was making (at least in his lectures over the last ten years since 2006) is that the Malays perpetually fight amongst themselves and in the end the foreigners take over the country. And Mahathir is also telling us that unless the Malays unite then Malaysia will always be in danger of getting colonised or the non-Malays would be able to grab political power.
This was what Mahathir told the Malays in 2006-2008 when he wanted to oust Abdullah and this is what Mahathir is telling us now when he wants to oust Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak. The Malays fight with the Malays and the non-Malays or foreigners end up taking over the country.
In 1969, Mahathir told the Tunku that the reason the Malays were very angry (and did not vote Umno) was because he (the Tunku) gave too much face to the Chinese. In 2013, Mahathir told Najib the same thing: that he (Najib) was giving too much face to the Chinese (who do not support the government anyway) and was neglecting the Malay voters (who are actually Umno’s support base).
As Mahathir is so fond of telling us, the Malays love to self-destruct. The Malays love fighting each other. Malays suffer from a syndrome called PHD (perangai hasad dengki). They can’t stand seeing someone have more than them so if you spend RM1,000,000 on your daughter’s wedding then I must spend RM1,500,000 and if you invite Mahathir as your VIP guest then I must invite Mahathir and Muhyiddin Yassin.
Yes, the Malays first became divided in 1951 when PAS was created (by Umno people themselves). Then, in 1987, the Malays further became divided due to a power struggle within Umno (that involved Mahathir and Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah) and which resulted in the creation of Semangat 46. In 1998, the Malays became divided, yet again, due to, yet again, another power struggle in Umno and Parti Keadilan Nasional was created followed by an opposition coalition.
So the history of the Malays is that every few years they will fight and they will get divided and they will become a little bit weaker because of it. And the non-Malays will take advantage of this (as they should) and unite while the Malays divide.
Over the last two years the Malays have become divided even more, the worst ever in history. Umno is divided with the Mahathir faction leading the ANC (Anti-Najib Campaign). PAS is divided with the creation of PAN a.k.a. Amanah as the breakaway party. PKR, a Malay-based multi-racial party, is also divided with the Anwar and family faction on one side and the Azmin Ali faction on the other.
Yes, and while the Malays are divided into six, or maybe even seven or eight, the Chinese are united under Pakatan Harapan. And because the Malays now see how weak they have become and now that they realise they no longer have bargaining power like they used to (and that even MCA, MIC, Gerakan, etc., now dare challenge Umno when in the past they would not dare squeak) the Malays need to find someone to blame. And the most convenient scapegoat would be to blame the Chinese for this.
This is a typical Malay attitude. When they are lazy and they fail, they will say this is God’s will (so they blame God for their failure). When they fight amongst themselves and become weak, they will blame the Chinese for uniting and for splitting the Malays. When they are bankrupt of ideas, they will use Islam as the political weapon or political platform and then will blame the non-Muslims for insulting Islam or for not respecting Islam.
Do you know the best way to defeat the Malays? No need to fight them. Just sit back and watch them kill one another. So what DAP’s ‘Superman’ said during the Sarawak by-election was actually very true. All the Chinese need to do is to support one group of Malays to fight another group of Malays and the Malays will wipe themselves out.
