Dear Friends, please help me spread awareness of this hatred crime that is being done to my family.
My Sister In Law has suffered this abuse for the past 6 years and it needs attention from the LAW!
Action needs to be taken ASAP on this neighbour! Thank you…PLEASE SHARE! TURN ON “CC” BUTTON FOR ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Source: Hanis Hussey
Why do some people even think it’s okay to borrow money from others, promise to pay back by a certain date, come up with 101 excuses when it’s time to pay, and then finally stop replying to your messages or worse still, block you everywhere? EH??
WHAT’S UP WITH THESE LOAN JUNKIES?
I made the mistake of trusting a friend. He was my good friend. (Or I thought he was.) I believed his story when he asked to borrow. I did not even think twice about helping him. But he stopped replying to my messages after promising this and that. He is still in my FB list. Saw him having an open house (which I was not invited to, dang!) and celebrating raya like a normal functional family. Happy for him. ?
Money can indeed turn friends or family members into strangers, huh?
You know what really gets my goat?
The borrower will make the lender feel bad for wanting him/her to repay the amount owed. The lender on the other hand, ends up being A NAG, BAD WOLF, and THE CALCULATIVE ONE.
Where’s the logic even, dude?
Perhaps next time, before these loan junkies even think about borrowing money from someone, they should borrow a sense of responsibility first.
Source: Diah Mastura
Pakar tembikar tersohor Singapura, Iskandar Jalil, yang biasa dan mesra dipanggil ‘Cikgu Iskandar’, kini boleh memakai gelaran ‘Dr Iskandar’ pula!
Ini apabila beliau menerima Ijazah Kehormat Doktor Persuratan (D.Litt) dari Universiti Teknologi Nanyang (NTU), sebagai mengiktiraf pencapaiannya dalam seni tembikar dan khidmat cemerlang beliau dalam bidang pendidikan.
Pengiktirafan itu disampaikan pada hari pertama majlis konvokesyen NTU hari ini (25 Jul).
Ini merupakan pengiktirafan tertinggi dan terkini buat pakar seramik itu yang sebelum ini dijulang dengan Pingat Budaya, Bintang Bakti Masyarakat, dan Darjah Matahari Terbit dari Maharaja Jepun.
Iskandar Jalil bersama Duta Jepun ke Singapura, Haruhisa Takeuchi. (Gambar: Loke Kok Fai)
TEMBIKAR BELIAU DISIMPAN ORANG KENAMAAN
“Ijazah Kehormat ini satu kejutan manis. Saya tidak mengejar anugerah mahupun gelaran. Namun saya tahu dan hargai betapa tingginya pengiktirafan ini. Saya berasa begitu terharu dan rendah diri diberi penganugerahan ini oleh NTU,” kata Dr Iskandar.
Sejak tahun 1970-an, hasil seni Encik Iskandar menyerikan banyak ruang muzium dan awam.
Malah ia turut menjadi pilihan bagi menghiasi ruang orang-orang kenamaan termasuk mantan Presiden Singapura Wee Kim Wee, mantan Perdana Menteri Singapura Lee Kuan Yew, Sultan Brunei, mantan Presiden Amerika George Bush, mantan Gabenor Hong Kong dan Koleksi Seni Presiden di Istana Singapura.
Encik Iskandar pernah memupuk ramai bakat seni muda dan sudah berjaya menerusi kegiatan mengajar di pelbagai institusi.
Encik Iskandar juga memainkan peranan penting menubuhkan kemudahan membuat tembikar dan bengkel-bengkel bagi kumpulan-kumpulan seperti Persatuan Paraplegik Singapura, Jalan Bahar Clay Studio dan Pusat Warisan Melayu di Kampong Glam.
SOKONG PARA PELAJAR DALAMI PEMBELAJARAN
Beliau turut menyokong para pelajar dalam pameran-pameran tembikar dan program-program pertukaran budaya di luar negara supaya mereka dapat mendalaminya.
“(Dengan) pengiktirafan ini, boleh saya katakan pemerintah dan institusi pengajian tinggi mengakui bahawa ada peluang, ada masa depan untuk mereka kalau mereka berdedikasi untuk pelajaran,” kata Encik Iskandar.
“Saya juga berasa sangat terdorong kerana ia bermakna institusi-institusi kini menjadi lebih sedar tentang seni tembikar dan perkembangannya. Sungguh meyakinkan untuk mengetahui bahawa akan ada sokongan bagi generasi tembikar seterusnya dan untuk murid-murid saya,” ujar beliau lagi.
Cikgu Iskandar menyertai Maktab Latihan Perguruan (kini NIE) untuk menjadi guru matematik dan sains pada tahun 1960.
Iskandar Jalil. (Gambar: BERITAMediacorp)
Beliau kemudian menjadi antara segelintir sahaja orang yang mendapat bukan satu, tetapi dua Biasiswa Rancangan Colombo.
Bagi biasiswa pertama, beliau mendalami bidang tekstil, dan bagi biasiswa kedua pula Pak Iskandar mendalami kejuruteraan seramik di Jepun. Dari situlah bermulanya perjalanan sepanjang hayat beliau dalam bidang tembikar, pendidikan dan hubungan kebudayaan beliau dengan Jepun.
IJAZAH KONVOKESYEN NTU 2016
Dr Iskandar menjadi antara penerima ulung dalam majlis konvokesyen NTU tahun ini, di mana lebih 9,100 lulusan akan menerima ijazah masing-masing.
Satu tinjauan universiti itu menunjukkan 70 peratus siswazah tahun ini berjaya mendapatkan pekerjaan sebelum tamat pengajian mereka.
Kadar itu sama seperti kohort tamat pengajian tahun lalu tetapi lebih tinggi berbanding kohort dalam tahun sebelumnya.
Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg
About Arabisation of the Malays
So much has been said recently on the alleged trend of Arabisation among the Malays. This fear of Malays becoming Arabized has become so chronic (ironically even among Arabs here who want Malays to still respect them as Sayyids) that there are calls for Malays to become less “Arab” . What these people are actually calling for is quite superficial.
1. Don’t dress like Arabs. (Most of my Arab friends actually prefer wearing Tshirts and track pants).
2. Avoid using Arabic words. (Eid Mubarak must not be replaced by Selamat Hari Raya. Funny because my Morroccan friend said Hari Raya is preferable because he can celebrate for a month when Arabs do it for only a day).
3. Keep away from Arab versions of Islam, aka strict, rigid and literalist sort. (Try asking an Arab friend out with a Malay dude to tag along. You will realize the Arab one won’t look for Halal signs and check ingredients for E227).
So what is actually the issue here? At the heart of this Arabisation scare is actually two things. First, it works to the advantage of close-minded secularized folks who cannot accept that Muslims are becoming more cosmopolitan in their adoption of other cultures, blending Arab, Western, Indian and Malay motifs in the things they wear, eat and in their speeches. They just want Malays to be Western. Full stop. They don’t fancy Malay culture of respect for the elderly and are in utter disdain of age-old Malay customs which the Arabs who brought Islam here didn’t actually change.
More crucially, these people actually look down at the Malays. They feel that Malays are easily swayed by the many influences that bring them away from their pure and authentic culture, which in reality, is a product of interactions with so many civilizations. For them, Malays cannot think for themselves. They will do the thinking and the way forward is to remove Arabic traces in Malay thought, language and traditions, and finally Islam.
So the next time you read stuff about Malays getting more Arabized and meet people who advocate such shallow thinking, sit back and have a good laugh. These people know very little about what they are talking about. It makes it worse when their names are Ahmad, Ismail and Faridah. And yet, before you head off (which you should) to leave them to their devices, spare a thought to say the Arabic word, Salam. Because that’s what the Arabic-language Quran teaches us when dealing with the ignorant.
Peace.
Source: Khairudin Aljunied
