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  • 5 Soalan Bersama Pengasas RoseValley, SMFW, Celebfest, Dian Rasid

    5 Soalan Bersama Pengasas RoseValley, SMFW, Celebfest, Dian Rasid

    Jenama RoseValley memang tidak asing lagi bagi masyarakat Melayu di Singapura. Kini ia mahu mengembangkan sayap sejauh Australia pula. Diasaskan tiga tahun lalu oleh Dian Rasid dan suaminya, Md Noor Hadi, RoseValley hanya bermula dengan penjualan produk-produk selebriti daripada Neelofa dan Emma Maembong.

    Sekarang, mereka bukan sahaja sudah bertambah maju, malah berjaya mengadakan acara besar-besaran di peringkat kebangsaan, termasuk Hujung Minggu Fesyen Gaya Sopan Singapura (SMFW) dan Celebfest yang turut diadakan di dewan-dewan gah Pusat Ekspo dan Konvensyen Sands, Marina Bay Sands dan Pusat Konvensyen Suntec.

    Berani mengorak langkah yang wajar dicontohi para peniaga tempatan, Cik Dian Rasid kini juga dipaparkan sebagai salah seorang daripada ‘wajah-wajah kejayaan’ dalam Kempen Ekonomi Masa Depan yang dilancarkan oleh Kementerian Perhubungan dan Penerangan (MCI).

    Minggu ini, wartawan Ira Musfirah mencungkil pemikiran Cik Dian Rasid, seorang mantan pensyarah Politeknik Temasek dan ibu kepada dua orang cahaya mata.

    SOALAN 1

    Ira: Apa antara cabaran yang anda hadapi sebagai pengasas bersama RoseValley?

    Dian: Terdapat pelbagai cabaran sebagai seorang usahawan. Ramai di kalangan ahli keluarga dan rakan-rakan kami yang tertanya-tanya mengapa kami meninggalkan kerjaya kami yang cukup baik itu. Kami terpaksa meyakinkan mereka bahawa kami tahu apa yang kami lakukan dan ini mendorong kami untuk terus membuktikan kepada mereka.

    Cabaran lain termasuk meyakinkan pembeli untuk membeli pakaian gaya sopan dan produk selebriti secara online melalui laman kami. Selain itu, kebanyakan daripada mereka biasanya menempah melalui Instagram dan belum pernah menggunakan sistem bayaran online seperti PayPal sebelum ini. Oleh itu kami juga harus membantu mereka untuk menggunakannya.

    SOALAN 2

    Ira: Anda sedang mengambil PhD dalam jurusan psikologi di Australia. Anda masih merancang untuk meneruskan pelajaran?

    Dian: Ya, saya masih ada rancangan. Malah, saya berhenti buat seketika kerana mahu mengukuhkan perniagaan saya dahulu. Pengalaman saya dalam bidang perniagaan sedikit sebanyak didorong oleh kajian PhD saya.

    Oleh itu, saya mungkin akan menyepadukan aspek-aspek tingkah laku pengguna dan bisnes ke dalam kajian saya. Insya-Allah saya akan cuba menyepadukan minat mendalam saya dalam psikologi dan perniagaan.

    SOALAN 3

    Ira: Apa yang mendorong anda untuk terus berjaya dalam bidang perniagaan?

    Dian: Pendorong utama saya adalah anak-anak saya, Ryan dan Alya. Mereka mendorong saya setiap hari untuk melakukan apa yang saya yakini. Dan saya anggap diri saya bertuah kerana mempunyai seorang suami yang sering memberikan sokongan, yang yakin pada impian saya dan yang saling melengkapi kemahiran saya.

    Sokongan yang diberikan oleh kedua-dua ibu bapa serta ayah dan ibu mertua terhadap perniagaan serta impian kami juga lebih memberikan saya dorongan. Sokongan keluarga memang banyak membantu.

    (Gambar-gambar: Dian Rasid/ Instagram)

    SOALAN 4

    Ira: Ada rancangan untuk memperluaskan perniagaan RoseValley?

    Dian: Kami bercadang untuk mengembangkan RoseValley ke luar negara terutama sekali di Australia dan di rantau ini.

    Kami berharap RoseValley dan usaha-usaha perniagaan tempatan lain akan sama-sama berkembang dan saling menyokong antara satu sama lain. Kita harus menyokong satu sama lain dan mewujudkan ekosistem perniagaan yang sihat.

    SOALAN 5

    Ira: Apa kata-kata nasihat yang dapat anda berikan kepada para usahawan yang baru berjinak-jinak dalam dunia perniagaan?

    Dian: Sebenarnya, saya juga masih hijau dalam dunia bisnes, hanya tiga tahun sahaja. Tetapi saya bersyukur atas sokongan dan peluang yang dihulurkan kepada saya dari pelbagai pertubuhan dan golongan masyarakat. Akan sentiasa ada individu yang negatif yang akan cuba menjatuhkan anda dan memberitahu anda bahawa anda tidak boleh mencapai impian anda. Mereka akan mengkritik idea anda dan cuba untuk membuat diri anda berasa kerdil.

    Bagi para usahawan baru, jadilah orang yang berani dan bijak. Jadilah orang yang berani untuk mempunyai impian, walaupun ia mungkin kelihatan mustahil. Jadilah orang yang berani untuk mengambil tindakan dan teruskan dengan apa yang anda yakini.

    Dan jadilah orang yang bijak – dengan mendengar pandangan pengkritik tetapi usah berasa mudah tawar hati. Ambil sahaja apa yang membina. Selain itu, usah merujuk kepada hanya satu sumber inspirasi dan carilah bahan-bahan rujukan yang lain juga.

     

    Source: http://origin-berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Saudi Arabian Woman Arrested For Indecent Dressing

    Saudi Arabian Woman Arrested For Indecent Dressing

    A young woman in Saudi Arabia has been arrested by police for wearing “suggestive clothing,” Saudi state television station Al Ekhbariya reported Tuesday.

    The brief clips, originally posted to the social network Snapchat over the weekend by a popular user named Khulood, show the woman walking through an ancient fort in Ushayqir, a village in Najd province about 95 miles from the capital, Riyadh.

    The woman wears a skirt that stops above her knees and a top that shows her midriff; her head is also uncovered.

    Such an outfit runs afoul of conservative Islamic ideas about women’s dress that are prevalent in Saudi Arabia. The country legally requires women to cover themselves while in public by wearing an abaya, a loosefitting cloak. Traditionally, Saudi women are also expected to wear some kind of hijab or head covering, and some opt to cover their face with a niqab.

    Although foreigners are usually exempted from such rules and Saudi women often find ways to skirt them, many religiously conservative Saudis feel strongly about them.

     

     

    Source: www.independent.co.uk

  • [Malaysia] PM Najib Razak: Indian-Muslims In Country Are Bumipiteras

    [Malaysia] PM Najib Razak: Indian-Muslims In Country Are Bumipiteras

    The government will consider a request from the Indian-Muslim community in Malaysia to be recognised as Bumiputera, Prime Minister Najib Razak said tonight.

    He said Bumiputera status could be applied to the group either “administratively or by gazette”.

    “I have listened to the requests made (by the community) and I accept that Indian-Muslims are Bumiputera.

    “The question now is how to implement this; we will study this further to see whether it should be done administratively or, as the Indian-Muslim community have requested, by gazette. However, you are considered Bumiputera,” Najib told members of Indian-Muslim NGOs at a Hari Raya and family day celebration in Seri Kembangan tonight.

    The term “Bumiputera” means “son of the soil” and is used to refer to the Muslims and indigenous peoples of Malaysia. Bumiputera currently form 68.8% of the country’s population.

    Federation of Malaysian Indian-Muslims president Dhajudeen Shahul Hameed tonight thanked the government for acknowledging the community as Bumiputera and requested that their status be made official through a circular.

    “Even though we are acknowledged as Bumiputera, we still face a lot of bureaucracy and misinterpretation. Therefore, we hope Datuk Seri Najib Razak will issue a circular to state that Indian-Muslims are indeed Bumiputera,” Dhajudeen said in his speech at the event attended by about 20,000 people.

     

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsight.com

  • Puan Noor Aishah And President Yusof Ishak – Love At First Sight

    Puan Noor Aishah And President Yusof Ishak – Love At First Sight

    Puan Noor Aishah was just 26 when her husband Yusof Ishak was made Yang di-Pertuan Negara in 1959.

    Her role as the spouse of Singapore’s head of state was completely uncharted waters.

    Puan Noor Aishah was born in 1933, and adopted by Fatimah Ali and Mohammad Salim Jusoh, an Eurasian man originally known as Barney Perkins, who had converted to Islam.

    They lived an unassuming life in Penang – until Puan Noor Aishah caught the eye of Mr Yusof. He was then 39, and finally ready to settle down after years of rebuffing matchmaking attempts to focus on his work at Utusan Melayu, the Malay-language newspaper he co-founded.

    A close friend coaxed him into looking through photos of potential brides. The last photo was of Puan Noor Aishah.

    Something about her face intrigued Mr Yusof, who told his friend: “This one, I agree.”

    He was whisked away to Penang, where a first meeting was orchestrated. But, recalls Puan Noor Aishah, although her older sister had taken her to a garden one day to meet “a good man”, all she did was sit at a table sipping tea. She never saw Mr Yusof that day.

    He and his friend were seated somewhere nearby so Mr Yusof could steal glances at her. But, it later turned out, he was too shy to take a good look.

    Even so, he wanted to marry her. The couple had their first proper meeting two days later, on their wedding day.

    He helped Puan Noor Aishah along in her quest to learn more, bringing home books for her to read, and arranging for a teacher to help his wife hone her sewing skills.

    Their first home together was in a small kampung with no running water or electricity. One day, Mr Yusof, who loved growing orchids ,ended up quarrelling with a neighbour whose cow would wander into their compound, worried it would eat his beloved flowers.

    But it was tumultuous times for Singapore, and Puan Noor Aishah and Mr Yusof’s lives too would soon be thrown into upheaval.

    When the People’s Action Party won the 1959 general election, Mr Yusof was founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew’s pick for Yang di-Pertuan Negara.

    And so Puan Noor Aishah had to start a new life at the Istana with her husband and three children.

    PM Lee in his speech noted how Puan Noor Aishah had insisted that they live simply so that their children’s lives could be as “normal” as possible.

    Unaccustomed to the grandeur of the Istana, the family chose to live in a small bungalow on the grounds, which had previously been the official residence of the under-secretary of the Straits Settlement.

    Mr Yusof called their new home Sri Melati, or Jasmine, and paid for the rent out of his own salary.

     

    The upcoming election, which will be held in September, is reserved for Malay candidates. This means Singapore can expect its first Malay president since Mr Yusof.

    PM Lee said: “I hope it will be a president who will bring as much distinction and honour to the office, and will be as well-loved and remembered by Singaporeans as Encik Yusof.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

     

  • Taxi Driver Parked Car Without Consideration For Others, Blocked Path Of Makcik In Wheelchair

    Taxi Driver Parked Car Without Consideration For Others, Blocked Path Of Makcik In Wheelchair

    Local celebrity author Zai Miztiq was so miffed by an inconsiderate taxi driver that she had to make a video to give attention to the situation.

    The driver was already parking illegally on double yellow lines and made it worse by blocking a wheelchair-access ramp. The drivers inconsiderate action made it difficult for Zai’s wheelchair-bound mother to get into a waiting car.

    A reminder to all drivers, the road does not belong to you. If you have to park illegally, park illegally in an inconsiderate manner.

     

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