Blog

  • Alias Kadir Terpaksa Kudungkan Kaki; Ramai Peminat Masih Sokong Dan Doakan

    Alias Kadir Terpaksa Kudungkan Kaki; Ramai Peminat Masih Sokong Dan Doakan

    “Saya harap peminat dan semua boleh dan akan terus mendoakan diri saya ini.” Begitulah permintaan pelawak terkenal Singapura, Alias Kadir. Kaki kirinya kini sudah dikudungkan setelah melalui pembedahan empat jam kelmarin (4 Ogos).

    Apakah Alias Kadir nanti tidak akan serancak dulu? Apakah Alias Kadir teraksa mengenepikan dunia seni dan dunia komedi tempatan? Itulah antara persoalan yang muncul lantaran keadaannya itu setelah kakinya dipotong.

    Sejak BERITAMediacorp melaporkan keadaan penyakit kencing manis Alias Kadir hingga terpaksa dipotong dua jari kaki kirinya pada April lalu, ternyata penyakitnya menjadi bertambah teruk dan kini bahagian bawah kaki yang sama, terpaksa dikudungkan pula.

    Ketika ditemui di Hospital Universiti Nasional (NUH) pada Khamis lalu (3 Ogos) sebelum pembedahan dijalankan, pelawak setempat ini sempat menunjukkan muka yang ceria dan masih lagi tersenyum dan ramah melayan pertanyaan wartawan.

    Ketika itu, kedua-dua isterinya juga turut hadir sama memberikan sokongan kepadanya, selain ditemani oleh keluarga dan sanak saudara. Isteri pertamanya, Cik Suriana Sanusi, 54 tahun, dan isteri keduanya, Cik Begum Jan Mohd Ayub, 64, tahun turut sama membantu menjawab pelbagai pertanyaan dari BERITAMediacorp.

    ALIAS SAKIT TERUK SELEPAS HARI RAYA

    Menurut Alias, 54 tahun, keadaannya bertambah serius selepas Hari Raya lalu, dan perlu keluar masuk hospital beberapa kali kerana demam panas yang berlarutan dan kadar gula yang terlalu rendah. Ini menurutnya lagi, membuatkan badannya lemah dan seakan ingin pitam beberapa kali, baik di rumah, mahupun ketika di luar.

    “Sejak seminggu yang lalu, saya sudah dimasukkan di hospital kerana demam panas, pneumonia (radang paru-paru) dan muka yang sudah membengkak. Sehingga doktor pun sudah menelefon isteri dan keluarga dan menyuruh mereka datang ke hospital, kerana keadaan saya yang dah teruk dan tidak sedarkan diri.

    “Namun, Alhamdulliah, bengkak dan air di dalam badan sudah berkurangkan. Namun keadaan kaki kiri tetap parah, dan saya diperintahkan untuk menjalani … dan perlu dikudungkan bahagian di bawah lutut, kerana kuman sudah pun merebak,” ujarnya dengan serius.

    Isteri keduanya, Cik Begum Jan turut memberitahu, keadaan kesihatan Alias bertambah teruk sehingga perlu di hantar ke hospital, bermula dari demam panas melebihi 41 darjah selsius, dan radang paru-parunya dipenuhi dengan air yang banyak. Ini juga menyebabkan keadaan kesihatan dan komplikasi penyakit yang lain. Alias turut menghidap penyakit kronik yang lain seperti darah tinggi, serta buah pinggang.

    “Memang keadaan kesihatannya bertambah lebih teruk lagi sejak beberapa bulan yang lalu. Namun, kami ingatkan cuma demam panas biasa, tetapi lama-kelamaan ianya serius hingga terpaksa dirawat di hospital juga.

    “Kini pembedahan sudah pun selamat dilakukan semalam (Jumaat) dan Alias dinasihatkan untuk berehat di hospital, mungkin selama seminggu atau lebih. Jika kakinya tidak dipotong dengan segera, ianya boleh membawa maut, kerana kuman di bahagian tersebut sudah pun dijangkiti teruk, bernanah dan tidak boleh diubati lagi,” jelas Cik Begum Jan kepada BERITAMediacorp. Beliau sebenarnya menghidap penyakit barah buah dada dan sehingga kini masih lagi memerlukan rawatan untuk penyakitnya.

    ALIAS KADIR STABIL TETAPI LEMAH

    Cik Begum turut menjelaskan, Alias yang dilihat stabil tetapi masih lagi lemah selepas pembedahan turut diberikan ubat penenang dan ubat penahan sakit untuk melegakannya. Pemakanan dan ubatannya perlu dipantau dengan ketat supaya, kesembuhan dapat dikecapi dengan segera.

    Cik Begum Jan turut memberitahu kami, beliau tanpa henti memberikan dan menasihatkan Alias dengan kata-kata semangat dan menyuruhnya berzikir setiap waktu agar hatinya lapang, dan dimudahkan segala urusan olehNya.

    “Sebagai isteri walaupun saya sendiri kurang sihat, saya tanpa henti menyuruh Alias tetap bersabar, memberikannya semangat untuk tidak putus asa, ingat anak-anak dan cucu dan jangan lupa untuk berzikir dan berselawat memohon keampunan dari Allah, semuga kami juga diberikan kesihatan dan dimudahkan segala urusan sekeluarga.

    “Kami juga memohon doa dari semua peminat agar doakan Alias supaya cepat sembuh, walaupun kurang sempurna fizikalnya nanti,” tambah Cik Begum Jan lagi.

    INGIN TERUSKAN BUAT SINGLE BERSAMA HAMZAH ADON

    BERITAMediacorp dimaklumkan Alias masih lagi ingin berkarya, namun bukan di waktu terdekat ini. Beliau masih ingin meneruskan bidang nyayian dan sudah pun berura-ura ingin merakamkan lagu single bersama pelawak terkenal dan teman baiknya, Hamzah Adon.

    Ketika dihubungi, Hamzah menjelaskan, lagu yang hendak dirakamkan sudah pun dipilih dan dicipta oleh Faizal Sapuan, seorang karyawan muzik tempatan.

    “Lagu terbaru untuk single kami berdua sudagpun siap dipilih dan cipta untuk Abang Lias (Alias Kadir), kini hanya menunggu masa terbaik, selepas beliau sembuh sepenuhnya, dan bolehlah kami mulakan rakaman. Saya berharap peminat akan terus menyokong Alias Kadir dan turut mendoakan beliau lekas sembuh dari pembedahan kakinya,” kata Hamzah, pelawak berusia 45 tahun ini lagi.

    INGIN MENGGUNAKAN KAKI PALSU – KAKI PROSTETIK

    Bila ditanya mengenai perancangannya selepas ini, Alias memberitahu beliau sudah pun berbincang dan bersedia untuk memakai kaki palsu atau kaki prostetik, supaya kehidupannya tidak akan teruk terjejas, dan tidak kisah pula untuk berkerusi roda buat jangka waktu terdekat ini.

    “Saya sudahpun bersetuju dan ingin menggunakan kaki prostetik untuk meneruskan kehidupan. Saya rasa kerusi roda juga mungkin akan diperlukan buat waktu terdekat ini. Saya tiada pilihan, saya ok dan reda dengan ketentuan ini.

    “Kita mesti ingat positif dan jangan fikir-fikirkan lagi. Lihat sahaja, Hamid, (pemain bes dan ahli kumpulan Black Dog Bone) dia juga menggunakan kaki prostetik dan kini boleh berjalan dengan baik dan meneruskan kehidupan seperti orang biasa,” kata Alias yang jelas mahu meneruskan kehidupan seperti biasa.

    Beliau akur bahawa rawatan dan proses untuk sembuh akan mengambil masa. “Tetapi saya yakin, boleh melakukannya. Saya harap peminat dan semua boleh dan akan terus mendoakan diri saya ini,” ujarnya lembut.

     

    Source: berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Singaporean Rizan Wins WBC Asia Continental Bantamweight Title

    Singaporean Rizan Wins WBC Asia Continental Bantamweight Title

    He was floored at least five times by his younger opponent, but he refused to throw in the towel.

    Singaporean boxer Mohamad Nor Rizan’s never-say-die spirit was rewarded when he knocked out Thailand’s Piched Chianawa in the ninth round to win the World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia Continental bantamweight title at The Pavilion at Far East Square last night.

    Speaking to The New Paper at ringside after his victory, Rizan was delighted with his hard-fought win over the 24-year-old Thai.

    “I knew his game plan, and I was able to read it,” said the boxer, who turned 39 last month.

    “He knew that I am much older, and wouldn’t have the endurance.

    “So he tried to go for a knockout from the fifth round onwards, but I was already prepared for a 10-round fight.

    “My birthday was last month so this knockout win is definitely a birthday present for me.”

    Rizan attributed his victory to killer instinct.

    He said: “I didn’t predict that I’ll win by a knockout because I had conditioned myself to go the full 10 rounds.

    “At the end of the day, it all boiled down to what I did in training.

    “My reflexes were instinctive.”

    The first five rounds of the bout saw the two fighters throwing careful hooks at each other.

    The fight sprang to life in the sixth round, as Piched threw a barrage of haymakers to Rizan’s body for a good two minutes.

    The Thai’s valiant effort to knock down the Singaporean soon came back to haunt him.

    Rizan pounded him with clinical jabs to his face in the ninth round, before delivering the killer blow in the 46th second with a right straight.

    In another bout, Singaporean Zakaria Ismail earned a split-draw decision in his professional boxing debut against American Will Chope.

     

    Source: http://www.tnp.sg

  • Damanhuri Abas: If There Is No By-Election In MYT GRC, The Malays Are Triple Short-Changed

    Damanhuri Abas: If There Is No By-Election In MYT GRC, The Malays Are Triple Short-Changed

    If there is no By-Election in MYT GRC, the Malays are triple short-changed.

    1. Our race used for EP reserved justification when in reality it don’t matter to us as we were never honestly asked for nor about it. It is all about preventing Dr TCB his last shot not about us lah (jangan shiok sendrik). We are used BIG time guys.

    2. End up now we probably will get a genetically bad-deal, you know what i mean. I know of someone who could have made it (the re-EP) at least all worth while (true blue Malay, my takraw buddy in campus, me NUS and he NTU, very good man) but it was not meant to be i guess.

    3. Race card evoked and the PAP got a 2 year free-Malay (minority) ride for a GRC with a substantial number of Malays in Marsiling. This proves once again this Minority representation thingey is but a convenient bogeyman wagged on command to serve political ends.

    Kudos to us the Malays. 52 years on. We got it made bro.

    Fortunately there is God and HIS justice!!! There ain’t No free ride up there bros. Patient i am and in God i put my trust and whose help i seek, for this country and the truly multi-racial people in it that we love and want to see.

    Happy National Day my fellow Singaporeans.

     

    Source: Damanhuri Bin Abas

  • No By-Election If Mdm President Halimah Yacob (Minority MP) Leaves GRC, Explained Chan Chun Sing

    No By-Election If Mdm President Halimah Yacob (Minority MP) Leaves GRC, Explained Chan Chun Sing

    If a minority candidate leaves his group representation constituency (GRC), a by-election will not be called, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Chan Chun Sing said in February 2017.

    That was the response he gave to the opposition Workers’ Party’s Mr Pritam Singh (Aljunied GRC), who wanted to know what would happen if a minority member of a GRC were to step down to run for presidency.

    Mr Singh specifically used Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob as an example in his question.

    As most Singaporeans have known, Madam Halimah, the minority member of Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, has been tipped as a potential candidate for the upcoming election, which is reserved for Malays since months ago.

    Mr Chan said that when Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong explained the GRC system in Parliament decades back, he said its intent was to achieve two purposes:

    One, to ensure enough minority members in the House. This, Mr Chan said, had been achieved over the years.

    Two, to ensure no political campaign on issues of race and religion, “that we will all, regardless of party lines, campaign on the basis that we are all Singaporeans, that we will not use race, language or religion for political reasons”, Mr Chan said.

    Elected members are also expected to serve all residents, regardless of race, language and religion.

    These key goals would not be affected if one member of the GRC left, Mr Chan added.

     

    Source: http://www.straitstimes.com

  • Commentary: Halimah Yacob Has Abandoned And Betrayed Residents That Voted For Her In The First Place

    Commentary: Halimah Yacob Has Abandoned And Betrayed Residents That Voted For Her In The First Place

    She was voted by the residents living in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, yet instead of serving the residents as she was voted in for the next 5 years, she abandoned the residents who had voted for her and choose to run in September’s Presidential Election. And wayang so much whether want to contest in the election, no way would I voted for this joker who abandons the residents and abandons her constituents and self-claim herself Malay while her father is an Indian.

    She betrays the residents who had voted for her in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC and betray her own race. What would you expect if she was voted in, perhaps would be even worse than Tony Tan who has done nothing while being a president.

     

    Source: Wong Hong Teng