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  • Rudy Marican: Apa Dah Jadi Dengan Masyarakat Islam Kita, Mak Sendiri Pun Tak Ambil Kisah?

    Rudy Marican: Apa Dah Jadi Dengan Masyarakat Islam Kita, Mak Sendiri Pun Tak Ambil Kisah?

    Malam ne hati saya rasa amat sedeh hingga saya jadi sanggat emotional dan tak tahu macam mana nak tolong satu lagi mak chik yang di tinggalkan oleh anak anak nya!

    Lima anak dewasa dan satu pun tak takut Allah bila dengan hati yang keras mereka tak nak ambil tahu pasal mak langsung walaupun mak dah tua dan sakit! Macam mana saya tak menagis dalam kesedehan bila dengar macik ne mengadu pada saya. Anak anak bergadoh dengan satu sama lain tak nak jaga mak!!!

    Apa dah jadi pada masyarakat Islam saya? Kenapa mereka buat begini pada mak sendiri ?

    Ada kah mereka tak sedar yang mereka juga akan tua dan anak anak akan buat yang sama pada mereka?

    Ada kah mereka tak faham agama kita…ia itu cara yang paling senang nak masok shurga ia lah jaga orang tua kita dengan penuh kaseh sayang ..walaupun kita tak ada cukup duit…dan hidup kita penuh dengan cabaran???

    Tapi kalau dengan hati penuh ikhlas dan kaseh sayang kita tetap jaga orang tua kita…Allah akan memberi kita ganjaran yang amat besar..kenapa kita maseh nak dengar bisikan Shaitan???? Saya sedeh sanggat kerana saya sendiri dah tanamkan mak kesayangan saya!!

    Saya bermohon kapada anda tolong lah buat perubahan sebelum terlambat kalau anda rasa anda dalam golongan ne…saya tak ada niat nak kecikkan hati sesiapa ya…cuma saya amat sedeh bila macik menangis kat saya..

    Memang mak kita tak sempurna sepenuhnya…tapi kita pun tak sempurna kan? Jadi ingat satu aje…kita boleh pileh kawan…tapi kita tak boleh pileh mak…itu juga ujian kita dari Allah semasa dalam dunia sementara ne!

    Tiap tiap hari kita berdoa supaya Allah maafkan dosa dosa kita , tapi tanpa kita sedari dosa besar kita terhadap mak kita…bila kita tak bantu sikit pun kepada mak yang mengandongkan kita 9 bulan dan kemudian mengalami kesakitan yang amat dahshat untok melahirkan kita!

    Saya berdoa anda cuba lah …memang jaga mak kadang kadang ujian nya berat tapi Allah dah janji Janna kan…? Mesti lah cabaran nya berat sikit…sabar lah…banyak doa supaya kita lulus ujian ne dengan cemerlang…

    Saya berdoa malam ne …kalau saya dapat menpengarohi satu anak untok menjaga mak atau ayah dengan penuh ikhlas dan kaseh sayang…saya akan amat bershukur pada Allah!

    Salam dari saya dan maafkan saya kalau bahasa saya kurang sempurna ya!

     

    Source: Rudy Marican

  • Law Grads Hit The Barriers

    Law Grads Hit The Barriers

    The dream of becoming a lawyer helped her persevere through law school’s tough curriculum.

    Miss Meryl (not her real name), with her eyes set on a future in the legal industry, has been applying to as many law firms as she could for the past year. She started doing so even before graduating.

    But she might now have to shelve that dream.

    The 24-year-old fresh graduate told The New Paper that all her applications were unsuccessful.

    Miss Meryl, who graduated from the UK’s University of Bristol in June, said: “I can only keep searching and if I find a training contract, then it is an opportunity to train.

    “But if I don’t, I will need to tread another path.”

    She has been unemployed since graduation, but she is not alone.

    Law school graduates are finding it hard to land a training contract these days, resulting in what some are calling an “oversupply” of new lawyers.

    Like the other law graduates and students we spoke to for this story, Miss Meryl declined to be identified as she was afraid that speaking out about her situation might jeopardise her chances at landing a job.

    Training contracts, which typically last for six months, are an entry requirement to the Bar.

    Some law students are awarded these contracts when they apply for jobs at law firms after graduation, while others receive one during an internship.

    Another recent law graduate, who wanted to be known only as Mr Lim, said: “There just are not many jobs for us to go around. The number of law students keeps on increasing but the number of training contracts does not.”

    In the last five years, the number of new lawyers who have been called to the Bar has almost doubled.

    In 2011, 257 law graduates were called to the Bar. During this year’s Mass Call, which was held late last month, the number was 509.

    At the event, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon said this oversupply meant that of the 650 fresh law graduates here last year, around 100 did not receive training contracts.

    Some firms retain only about one-third or half of their original intake of trainees, he added.

    This challenge in securing training contracts – and consequentially, jobs in the legal industry – has prompted some law graduates to tweak their plans.

    One such graduate is Mr Dennis, who declined to reveal his full name.

    Mr Dennis, who graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a law degree last year, waited nearly 14 months before he was offered a job “with the right prospects and in the right company”.

    He turned to yoga, which he has been practising for eight years, in the meantime.

    He said: “I worked as a yoga teacher for about 11 months because I needed to survive.

    APPLICATIONS

    “Even then, I sent out a good 20 applications but none returned with a positive offer. The only one or two firms I heard from could not offer me a decent salary.”

    Not everyone will be as lucky as Mr Dennis, and the fear of not securing training contracts has prompted many law students to take up multiple internships.

    A second-year NUS law student, who declined to be named, said: “I will be applying to as many firms as I can during the holidays.”

    But he added that there is a limit to how many internships one can go through. “It is only feasible to do two or three internships as it usually lasts four weeks.”

    In a bid to solve the problem, it was announced at the Mass Call that a new committee will be set up to review the system by which new lawyers start their careers.

    The committee will examine how law firms offer training contracts to fresh law graduates, make decisions to retain them, and later nurture them.

    But it might be too late for Miss Meryl, who said she is getting increasingly discouraged by her failure to land a training contract.

    “If I fail to do so, then I will have to choose an alternative path.”

  • PAP New Face: Malay Muslim Lawyer Set to Champion Social Mobility Issues

     

     

    SINGAPORE: A new face, who could be a potential election candidate for the People’s Action Party, was spotted at the groundbreaking ceremony for a new integrated development in Woodlands on Saturday.

    He was later introduced to the media by Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Education and Manpower Hawazi Daipi – who is also the MP for Marsiling division of Sembawang GRC.

    He is 35-year-old Amrin Amin, a corporate lawyer with Watson, Farley and Williams Asia Practice LLP.

    Amrin, a member of Marsiling’s Citizens’ Consultative Committee for about a year, has been helping with Meet-the-People sessions.

    Previously, he was a member of the Chong Pang CCC since 2004.

    He was also a legislative assistant to Law Minister K Shanmugam.

    A MUIS scholar, he also spent four years in New York studying and working.

    He is also on the board of Nanyang Polytechnic and serves in the National Council on Problem Gambling.

    Mr Hawazi said: “The party (PAP) always looks to younger Singaporeans to consider and to offer themselves as potential candidates of the party.

    “While I look at Amrin as someone who has the potential to be a candidate, it depends very much on him and whether the party assesses he can do the job in serving the community and Singapore.

    “I’m sure Amrin has all the attributes needed to serve the community and the country and you’ll have to ask whether he would be ready.

    “But the opportunities for him to contribute are immense and the opportunities for us to benefit from the services of young men and women like him are also immense.

    “So far in the last one year and at MPS, I think it has benefited both sides.”

    Amrin said: “It’s too early at this stage to discuss whether I’m ready. I think I have much to learn and I’m very happy the reception from residents has been very, very kind.

    “I’m very passionate on social mobility and youth development. I think these are two very important issues and perhaps the defining issues of our time.”

     

    Source: CNA