Category: Sosial

Anak-Anak Kumpul Duit Untuk Tunaikan Hajat Mak Menunaikan Haji

Seorang ibu yang berasal dari Kampung Parit 5, Sungai Sumun, Bagan Datuk, Perak, Cik Muslikah Abd Kadir, amat beruntung kerana anak-anak beliau berusaha keras mengumpul wang untuk membolehkannya ke Tanah Suci demi menunaikan ibadah haji. Beliau merupakan antara jemaah Malaysia paling tua melaksanakan ibadah haji tahun ini dan beliau amat bersyukur kerana terpilih sebagai dhuyufurrahman (tetamu Allah) di Tanah Suci.

Cik Muslikah berkata, impiannya yang ditunggu-tunggu selama ini tercapai akhirnya dan beliau telah berlepas ke Tanah Suci bersama anak saudaranya. Sementara itu, Jaimah Selamat, 62 tahun, bersyukur kerana sepanjang menjaga ibu saudaranya itu di sana, beliau mampu melaksanakan ibadahnya sendiri walaupun terpaksa berkerusi roda.

“Saya memang mahu menolaknya sendiri (menggunakan kerusi roda) supaya ibu saudara saya dapat merasai nikmatnya bertawaf di hadapan Kaabah. Tetapi semasa melakukan umrah pertama kali tempoh hari, kami dirempuh jemaah lain. Namun itu tidak melemahkan semangat saya untuk menunaikan tanggungjawab. Jika upah orang lain yang menolak, saya bimbang ibu saudara saya tidak dapat menghayati sepenuhnya melakukan ibadah itu,” katanya, dan menyatakan Cik Muslikah dalam keadaan sihat dan begitu bersemangat untuk melakukan ibadah di Masjidil Haram.

Source: Bernama

August 10, 2017
Dr Bibi Jan Dianugerah Bintang Bakti Masyarakat Atas Sumbangan Kemasyarakatan

Sumbangan Dr Bibi Jan Mohamed Ayyub selama tiga dekad dalam menyelaras usaha keluarga titipan diiktiraf dalam Anugerah Hari Kebangsaan tahun ini.

Dr Bibi Jan, 59 tahun, merupakan antara tujuh individu yang menerima Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Lintang) – antara pengiktirafan tertinggi dalam anugerah sempena Hari Kebangsaan itu.

Beliau, seorang kaunselor dan pendidik, telah terlibat sebagai sukarelawan dalam Jawatankuasa Titipan di bawah Kementerian Pembangunan Sosial dan Keluarga (MSF) sejak 1987.

Dr Bibi Jan pernah menjadi pengerusi jawatankuasa itu pada 2003 dan dilantik semula sebagai pengerusi pada 2015 hingga sekarang.

Jawatankuasa yang terdiri daripada karyawan pelbagai bidang itu berperanan menilai kes titipan di Singapura dan memastikan keselamatan dan kebajikan anak dalam keluarga titipan.

Beliau juga pernah menerima Pingat Bakti Masyarakat pada 1987 dan Bintang Bakti Masyarakat pada 2006.

Seorang aktivis masyarakat, Dr Bibi Jan merupakan pengarah lembaga Angkatan Karyawan Islam (AMP) dan pernah bergiat dalam banyak pertubuhan lain seperti Yayasan Mendaki, Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis), Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura (PPIS), dan Kesatuan Guru-Guru Melayu Singapura (KGMS) seawal 1980-an.

Beliau memiliki ijazah kedoktoran daripada Universiti Durham, United Kingdom; ijazah Sarjana Pendidikan daripada Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS); dan ijazah Sarjana kedua dalam Bimbingan dan Kaunseling daripada Universiti James Cook yang berpangkalan di Australia.

Source: www.beritaharian.sg

August 10, 2017
38 Year Old Jobless PMET Divorced, Distressed

Hi Gilbert,

I truly need help I am feeling suicidal at times. My life has been a challenge since the beginning of my life. I try to get pass through by trying to compare myself to the less fortunate. I do not know how much longer I can hold on. I hope we can meet up and talk.

I also hope you can publish the following at your site. Hopefully, there would be some like-minded readers who can provide some insight about my situation. If you can, please edit it for me.

I am just stating facts and grieves of my life, if you want to be critical, please step out of your comfort zone and reply at a logical level. I am a true-blue Singaporean with roots as deep as 3 generations, aged 38.

While in Secondary school, I started my working life sweeping the streets, literally. My single mom couldn’t afford to send me to a computer school after secondary school which was my interest. Thus, I have to work on school nights and weekends as a hotel cleaner from 11pm to 7am but that took a toll on my health and my education. Not to mention I had family issues. Unable to handle it, I dropped out of school, worked my way up slowly. After a few years of local jobs and my own business, I started my career in a multi-national company with rapid rise to management level. However, armed with only a O level cert, I could not get above $4.5k salary even though the role usually gets more, alot more.

When I tried to get a new job, I couldn’t as I was not “educated” enough. I even remember when I went for an interview with a local hiring agency, the director of the company asked me why am I getting paid $4.5k with only a O level education. Moving forward, everyone wants to negotiate my salary dependent on my previously-earned salary.

This would not happen in any other 1st world nation as they would not only look at your education only but your ability and the job role they offering as well. A culture only present in Singapore among developed nations!

To SINGAPORE HR Folks : Does it really matter, what I drew in my previous role? Would you pay me a roadsweeper’s salary if I did 6 months of sweeping the roads as I cannot get employed? Staff remuneration should be based on the fact that what role you are offering, and a competitive remuneration to ensure retention.

I stopped work so I can go after a Masters as a maturde candidate. I have passed my Masters without even taking a degree course. For those who are wondering, how? I not ashamed to say I am pretty smart (Singapore Mensa tested at 142 IQ) and anyone I know would easily tell you I have pretty high E.Q. as well. I never needed to go to school to learn these stuff, I read or learn through life experiences and pretty much grasp almost anything.

8 months have almost passed since completion of my Masters, and I still don’t have a job. I was even willing to take up non-IT roles as Condo Manager for $3k. Though I was able to impress in the interview, I was not offered a role. Only to find out later, that it was likely they were only willing to offer $2.8k for the position, which is the same they are willing to offer an inexperienced staff with diploma.

I cannot get government jobs or government-related jobs which are advertised everyday, simply because I do not fit the profiled definition of a normal candidate.

I have about $100k in the CPF unusable. I can’t afford a HDB, as I need to be employed and I cannot apply for BTO. Furthermore, I went through a divorce, I cannot get a HDB BTO home without waiting for 3 years after my divorce. I would be 39 by then, and by the time I get a home, I would be 45.

I now sit in J.B. (Malaysia) still applying for jobs in Singapore while trying to figure out if I can start out on my own. Even trying to be an entrepreneur in Singapore is difficult, I cannot afford an office location. I cannot apply for grant for entrepreneurship as I have a previous company when I started my IT business. This is restricting me from applying for a government grant under the entrepreneurship programme.

All those people who support the current political administration, please tell me what is wrong with the picture? Am I not hardworking? Am I dependent on the government to spoon feed me? Am I too demanding?

I am stressed to the extreme, though I don’t show it to people much. I still put up a fighting front, as no one likes a person who complaints too much. But it is getting to me, I needed an outlet.

I need to know that there are also people like me who seep through the gap so I don’t feel so alone.

Steve

Source: www.transitioning.org

August 10, 2017
School Girl Wrote A Love Letter To Handsome Teacher To Express Her Love And Jealousy

Kids nowadays are so brave and bold. There is a viral handwritten love letter written by one Fatimah, a student of a handsome teacher who confessed her love for the teacher and how she got jealous when her teacher smiled at one of her classmates. Below is a gist of the love letter addressed to the teacher, Mr. Hanafi (translated from Malay):

“Hello handsome teacher. Yesterday, you smiled at Shila. I’m jealous okay. Last week you smiled at me, and I already accepted your love. Can you please don’t play with my heart? Can or not? Please say something? I’m crying right now. I’m absent from school today because my heart is broken. My mum doesn’t know about this yet.”

Definitely, Fatimah’s love for her handsome teacher is sincere as you can see how she proofread and edited her own mistakes before giving it to her teacher. Well, good luck to Fatimah in getting Mr. Hanafi’s attention.

Rilek1Corner

August 10, 2017
Yishun Residents: No Problem If Halimah Yacob Continues Living In The Estate If She Becomes President

Tucked away in a quiet corner of Yishun is an unassuming public housing flat that could possibly enter Singapore political history.

The Housing and Development Board (HDB) flat, built in 1987, is home to Madam Halimah Yacob.

She told reporters she was very comfortable in her HDB home and hopes to continue living there with her family, as they have done for over two decades, even if she is elected to the top office in the land.

Traditionally, the Istana serves as the official presidential residence and office. “I don’t see why I can’t continue (living in a HDB flat) unless there are other considerations like security, for instance, because I know it can be quite a nightmare to ensure security in public housing,” the 62-year-old presidential hopeful told reporters on Sunday night. “Other than that, I see no reason why I cannot continue.”

A number of her neighbours and shopkeepers in her neighbourhood agree. “This is public housing. She’s a public servant. There’s nothing unsuitable about her staying here,” said shopkeeper Lee Swee Seng, 53, whose 17-year-old provision shop is frequented by Mdm Halimah’s family members for household items such as bread or detergent.

Madam Susan Ho, 63, who lives two doors down from Mdm Halimah’s family, agrees.

“If she wins, I would be excited because my neighbour in this HDB block would be the President,” said Mdm Ho, who stays with her daughter and son-in-law on weekdays, helping to care for her grandson.

“She’s very humble to stay in such a house. Most presidents would stay in the official residence,” Mdm Ho added.

Not everyone, however, is convinced that it would be practical for a President to live in a HDB flat.

“For security reasons, I don’t think she can continue staying here if she becomes President,” said a 46-year-old taxi driver who lives one floor above Mdm Halimah.

He declined to give his name, adding that he felt it would be more appropriate for her to live in a private house.

Mdm Halimah and her family currently live in two adjacent HDB units in Yishun that they bought on the resale market.

The presidential candidate is most often seen waiting for her chauffeur at the void deck in the morning.

At other times, she can be seen lugging groceries home from Mr Lee’s provision shop or the neighbourhood supermarket.

“During Hari Raya this year, she came over personally to share pastries such as pineapple tarts and cookies,” said Madam Chris Toh, 50, Mdm Halimah’s next-door neighbour. “When we see her, we just treat her as a neighbour. She’s truly a person with no airs … (if she wins), I won’t think of her as President,” added Mdm Toh.

Mr Lee, the shopkeeper, said he has seen Mdm Halimah’s five children grow up over the years. “They’re very well-mannered and will always ask after us while buying things at our shop,” he added.

For now, the buzz of presidential politics has yet to descend on this sleepy neighbourhood, where familiar daily routines and habits continue uninterrupted.

Mdm Toh said: “I’ll see (Mdm Halimah) climbing the stairs as I take the lift up. So I asked her, ‘Mdm, are you exercising?’ And she said, ‘Yes, must exercise’.”

Source: www.todayonline.com

August 10, 2017