Category: Singapuraku

  • Wanita Melayu Yasmin Harunnarashid Antara Penerima Tauliah Kadet Spesialis SAF

    Wanita Melayu Yasmin Harunnarashid Antara Penerima Tauliah Kadet Spesialis SAF

    Lebih 1,200 pegawai ditauliahkan sebagai Kadet Spesialis Angkatan Bersenjata Singapura (SAF) hari ini (26 Mei).

    Mereka terdiri daripada anggota Angkatan Tentera Darat, Laut dan Udara Republik Singapura yang selesai menjalani kursus intensif selama 22 minggu.

    Sarjan Ketiga (3SG) Yasmin Harunnarashid, gadis bertubuh kecil yang mampu memandu lori seberat lima tan!

    Malah beliau ialah salah seorang daripada hanya dua pegawai wanita yang bertugas sepenuh masa di Unit Khidmat Sokongan Pertempuran, bahagian pengangkutan.

    Yasmin berkata kerjaya itu menjadi pilihan kerana minatnya terhadap kenderaan besar.

    Ia juga dilihat sebagai satu cara memenuhi impian kedua-dua ibu bapanya.

    “Mereka (ibu bapa) menyokong pilihan saya dengan sepenuh hati kerana dahulu, mereka pun mahu menyertai SAF tapi mereka terlepas peluang. Jadi apabila saya berada dalam bidang ini saya harap saya dapat menunaikan impian mereka dan membanggakan mereka,” Yasmin memberitahu BERITAMediacorp.

    Berkongsi lebih lanjut mengenai pengalamannya sepanjang latihan, Yasmin berkata beliau tidak pernah diberikan layanan istimewa hanya kerana beliau seorang wanita.

    Maka itu beliau tidak pernah menggunakan jantinanya sebagai alasan untuk tidak melakukan tugasan yang sama seperti rakan-rakan lelakinya yang lain, meskipun berdepan dengan pelbagai cabaran fizikal dan mental.

    Seorang lagi perajurit berjiwa kental ialah Sarjan Ketiga Muhammad Ihsan Ruzani Mohammad Swandi.

    Atas kelakonannya yang cemerlang, beliau diberikan Anugerah Bayonet Emas – satu anugerah berprestij yang diberikan kepada 10 peratus kadet terbaik dalam satu-satu kohort.

    Ini katanya hasil tunjuk ajar serta kesabaran komander platun yang memimpinnya sepanjang latihan.

    “Apabila kami menjalani latihan di Thailand, saya diberi tugasan sebagai Sarjan Platun. Dan walaupun saya banyak membuat kesilapan, Komander Platun saya tidak putus-putus memberi nasihat kepada saya. Saya amat berterima kasih kepada Komander Platun saya kerana tanpa dia saya tidak akan sampai ke tahap ini dan lulus kursus ini dengan cemerlang,” kata Muhammad Ihsan.

    Sarjan Ketiga Ihsan dan Yasmin di kalangan lebih 1,200 Kadet Spesialis yang lulus dalam satu latihan lasak selama lima bulan setengah.

    Hadir bagi memeriksa Perbarisan Pentauliahan Kadet Spesialis tadi ialah Panglima Angkatan Tentera, Mejar Jeneral Perry Lim.

    Menurutnya para kadet spesialis akan memainkan peranan yang berterusan dalam menjaga keamanan serta keselamatan negara.

    Tambah beliau, keupayaan tentera untuk bertindak terhadap sesuatu ancaman bukan hanya terletak pada peralatan ataupun struktur pertempuran.

    Ia juga bergantung pada keupayaan, komitmen serta semangat juang para anggotanya.

    Maka itu penting untuk mempunyai kepimpinan yang kuat di kalangan semua anggota SAF – tidak kira yang berpangkat tinggi mahupun berpangkat rendah

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Amos Yee Makes Video To Hurt Muslims, But Community Too Mature For Him

    Amos Yee Makes Video To Hurt Muslims, But Community Too Mature For Him

    Amos Yee has made an extremely provocative video with the intent of hurting the beliefs and sentiments of Muslims. The video is too vulgar to be shared with this post. We would probably get into trouble with the law if we did as well. But snippets from the video can be seen here: http://bit.ly/1VhKTjt.

    If Amos had hoped to cause outrage among the Muslim community here with the video, judging from the comments found to the Facebook post, the exact opposite is happening.

    They see him for who he is – an attention seeker.
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    3The Muslims here do not view it as an attack from the Chinese majority.1They pity the mother and don’t blame her upbringing for his waywardness.
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    They have reported Amos to the authorities instead of taking matters into their own hands.
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    And most importantly the Muslim community forgave him.567

    And since Amos’ performance was so bad in the video, one suggested he should read another ancient text instead.
    8Meanwhile the activists had an update form Amos’ mom.

     

    Source: http://theindependent.sg

  • Amos Yee To Face New Charges Related To Religion

    Amos Yee To Face New Charges Related To Religion

    Less than a year after he was released from jail for posting online an obscene image and content intended to hurt the religious feelings of Christians, teenage blogger Amos Yee is set to be charged on Thursday (May 26) with similar offences.

    The 17-year-old will face eight charges, including five for allegedly wounding the religious feelings of Muslims and one for allegedly wounding the religious feelings of Christians. These charges relate to content he posted online between November last year and last Thursday.

    The remaining two charges are for allegedly failing to show up at Jurong Police Division last December and this month, despite a notice from Assistant Superintendent of Police Doreen Chong and a magistrate’s order to do so.

    Lawyer Alfred Dodwell, who represented Amos previously, said he will not be representing the blogger this time.

    Yee posted images of the eight charge sheets on his blog on Wednesday, and pointed to more content of the same nature he had posted, that he was not being charged in court for.

    His brush with the law last year had ignited public debate and involved many twists and turns, including time in custody before a family counsellor posted bail for him. The counsellor discharged himself as bailor when Yee defied the bail conditions.

    Three lawyers, including Mr Dodwell, stepped forward to represent Yee. Civil society activists and the public packed the courtroom during his trial.

    The prosecution had sought probation and reformative training at various stages of court proceedings but Yee had refused to cooperate and was sentenced to four weeks’ jail last July. His appeal against conviction and sentence was dismissed in October.

    If convicted of deliberately wounding the religious feelings of others, Yee could be jailed up to three years and fined. For failing to show up at Jurong Police Division in spite of an order, he could be jailed up to a month and fined up to S$1,500.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Embracing Ramadan – Help Children In Single-Parent Families To Break Poverty Cycle

    Embracing Ramadan – Help Children In Single-Parent Families To Break Poverty Cycle

    Visited this single-parent Malay family at their one-room rental flat in Marsling.

    Reminded me of my growing up years when my parents were staying in such housing for about 16 odd years before we could afford to buy our own place.

    I grew up sleeping on the floor with a mattress and learn to appreciate what I have while growing up.

    I spent alot of my growing up years poring over novels from the Famous Five series to Alfred Hitchcock thrillers as they allowed me to escape into another world.

    We also want to take this opportunity to thank the many Good Samaritan who bought milk powder, pampers and food grocery for the young family when we publicised their request for assistance.

    One of their 8-year-old daughter is also being sponsored in our sponsor-a-child programme for children living in vulnerable condition.

    Some of you have contributed one-off financial help for the needy family.

    It broke my heart to hear that the family does not have any Macdonald meals before due to the cost factor and they only bought the $2 burger for the kids.

    We also agree to break fast with the family during the Ramadan fasting month to foster community goodwill.

    If you welcome us to break fast with you at your home, please let us know. We are more than willing to do so.

    Editor’s note: not all the kids in the photo belong to single mum Suriani – some are from the neighbouring unit next door.

     

    Source: Gilbert Goh

  • Andrew Loh: Governement Is Hypocritical In Its Handling of Singlish

    Andrew Loh: Governement Is Hypocritical In Its Handling of Singlish

    I don’t understand how the Prime Minister himself can dissuade Singaporeans from speaking Singlish, and his press secretary even finding it necessary to write to a foreign publication to disabuse a fellow Singaporean poet for being supportive of Singlish – and at the same time, the government have its Tourism Board spend taxpayers’ money to create a slick 3-minute video using that same Singlish to attract tourists.

    And in your “Little Black Book” publication, a guide for tourists, you describe Singlish as “Singapore’s unique gift to the English-speaking world.”

    A gift to the world but Singaporeans themselves should not speak or support it?

    How does that work?

    I hate to say this but this is really hypocritical.

    You tell Singaporeans not to speak the language but you glamourise it on a national stage at the National Day Parade 2015, and you also use it to attract tourists, and your MPs and ministers use Singlish during election rallies to portray themselves as ordinary citizens like the rest of us.

    But Singaporeans should not use Singlish because not all of us have PhDs and are thus unable to “code switch”?

    What lousy double standards you have.

     

    Source: Andrew Loh

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