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‘Superwoman’ Tidak Wujud
Wanita tetap perlukan sokongan semua orang di sekitarnya dan boleh lakukan lebih lagi untuk majukan masyarakat bersama kaum lelaki, kata Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif PPIS, Cik Maznah Masop

SOALAN (S): Apakah trend mengenai wanita Melayu/Islam yang anda lihat hari ini?

JAWAPAN (J): Wanita hari ini lebih berpendidikan, lebih ramai bekerja serta lebih lantang dan berani meluahkan pendapat mereka, lebih-lebih lagi dengan adanya media sosial.

Mereka tidak lagi hanya membincangkan peranan mereka sebagai ibu dan isteri, bahkan sebagai anggota masyarakat. Mereka bercakap tentang budaya, kepercayaan mereka, isu tentang hijab, misalnya, perkembangan semasa dan dasar pemerintah.

Ini trend positif tetapi kami juga berhati-hati. Ada cara untuk meluahkan pandangan secara objektif untuk memastikan apa yang kita luahkan boleh dikaitkan dengan orang lain, bukan kita syok sendiri sahaja.

S: Apa isu wanita Melayu/Islam yang menjadi keprihatinan anda?

J: Saya prihatin mengenai wanita, yang dalam tekanan kehidupan hari ini, hilang arah, matlamat dan nilai pegangan hingga boleh menjejas tingkah laku moral mereka.

Apabila ini berlaku, ia boleh mendatangkan kesan ke atas anak-anak mereka yang mungkin hilang panduan atau menjejas hubungan suami isteri.

Contohnya, dahulu kita dengar tentang suami mempunyai hubungan sulit. Sekarang, kita dengar tentang wanita juga terlibat dalam hubungan sulit. Ada hamil dengan anak bukan daripada suami mereka. Secara anekdotal ini sedang berlaku.

S: Apa pendapat anda tentang wanita berpendidikan yang menjadi suri rumah?

J: Saya memahami keperluan duduk di rumah selama beberapa tahun, tetapi saya tidak pasti apakah ia perlu berlarutan.

Jika seseorang dianugerahkan bakat, saya fikir ia satu pembaziran jika beliau tidak keluar bekerja untuk menyumbang kepada masyarakat.

Ini pendapat peribadi saya, mungkin ada tidak setuju.

Sudah tentu ada wanita juga menghadapi isu apabila keluar bekerja seperti isu penjagaan anak mereka. Tetapi harap-harap mereka boleh huraikan isu itu dan mendapat sokongan keluarga.

Mereka juga mempunyai sokongan struktur dengan tersedianya pusat jagaan kanak-kanak atau pusat jagaan pelajar.

Jika kita jelas bahawa peranan wanita lebih daripada berada di rumah sahaja, kita boleh lakukan lebih lagi untuk memajukan masyarakat kita bersama kaum lelaki.

S: Apa pendapat anda tentang peranan suami dan bapa dalam konteks kehidupan hari ini di mana wanita juga turut keluar bekerja?

J: Kaum lelaki perlu mengubah pemikiran mereka dan sedar bahawa wanita berperanan penting, bukan sahaja di rumah, bahkan dalam masyarakat.

Mereka perlu lebih proaktif dan menyokong isteri mereka yang berpendidikan untuk menyumbang kepada masyarakat.

Perubahan minda ini harus ditangani sekarang. Ini kerana wanita akan menghadapi lebih banyak cabaran sedang penduduk menua.

Wanita akan memainkan peranan tambahan menjaga orang tua, selain perlu mengimbangi kerjaya dan menjaga anak-anak.

Lelaki mesti mengubah pemikiran mereka dan turut proaktif memainkan peranan juga.

S: Apakah pendapat suami anda tentang jawatan anda sebagai CEO (ketua pegawai eksekutif) sebuah pertubuhan untuk wanita?

J: Isunya bukan saya menjadi CEO. Isunya ialah saya menyumbang secara aktif kepada masyarakat. Perkara ini kami persetujui sebelum kami berumah tangga.

Beliau tahu ini laluan kerjaya yang saya pilih dan beliau menghormatinya.

S: Bagaimanakah anda mengimbangi kerjaya dan keluarga?

J: Saya mempunyai sistem sokongan baik di rumah, baik daripada suami mahupun ibu bapa saya.

Satu episod mencabar bagi saya ialah apabila saya perlu menjaga ibu bapa saya yang sakit. Ayah saya, sebelum beliau meninggal dunia, menghidap barah dan ibu saya telah menjalani pembedahan penggantian pinggul.

Saya bersyukur kerana turut mempunyai sokongan kukuh daripada adik-beradik saya.

Di tempat kerja saya mempunyai majikan dan pekerja yang memahami keadaan saya dan membolehkan saya bekerja secara fleksibel. Saya juga mempunyai seorang pembantu rumah yang banyak membantu.

‘Superwoman’ tidak wujud dalam dunia ini. Seorang wanita perlu sokongan semua orang di sekitarnya.

BIODATA

NAMA: Maznah Masop

USIA: 44 tahun (Julai ini)

KERJAYA:
- 2009 – sekarang: Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif (CEO) Persatuan Pemudi Islam Singapura (PPIS)
- 2005 – 2009: Ketua, Pembangunan Dana, Madrasah Al-Irsyad Al-Islamiah
- 1998 – 2003: Pengarah, Amni Management & Promotions Pte Ltd
- 1994 – 1998: Eksekutif, Perdaus
KELUARGA:
- Dua anak perempuan berusia 17 tahun dan 15 tahun
- Suami jurutera di sebuah syarikat berbilang negara
PENDIDIKAN:
- Ijazah Sarjana Muda Sastera (Ekonomi), Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS) 1993
- Diploma Undang-Undang Syariah, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 1998
Source: http://beritaharian.sg
May 26, 2015
Gilbert Goh: Join The Income Inequality Forum on 30th May At Bras Basah Complex!

Come and support our Income Inequality forum this coming Saturday 30 May from 230pm to 5pm at 04-41 Bras Basah Complex.

We face a crisis situation now whereby our income growth lags behind that of inflation for the past decade. Our cost of living is also at the world’s highest this year.

More than 200,000 Singaporeans still earn $1000 and below a month putting them very close to the poverty line.

Yet, we have the highest number of millionaires in the world exaceberating the income gap we have between the have’s and the have not’s.

A high income gap not only inhibits social mobility but also encourages social class division and strife.

Come and hear our four keynote speakers Mr Osman Sulaiman, Ms Fatimah Akhtar, Mr Roy Ngerng Yi Ling and Mr Goh Meng Seng expound on the topic with some PMETs giving short accounts of what they face in the job market.

Email [email protected] for a seat.

Singaporeans supporting Singaporeans.

Source: Gilbert Goh

May 26, 2015
Woman In Alledged Ponzi Scam Reported Missing

Madam Leong Lai Yee, the woman at the centre of an alleged million-dollar ponzi scam who has been uncontactable for more than a week, has been reported missing.

Investors who say they are owed a total of $60 million fear that she has left the country.

Madam Leong’s sister Veronica had reported to the police last Saturday that she was missing.

Last week, about 60 investors came forward to say they had given Madam Leong money, which she said would be used to buy distressed properties in prime districts to be sold at a profit to overseas buyers. They were promised payments on May 18, after several months of postponements.

But when the day came, several of them received not money but a letter from Madam Leong in which she said she would take her life.

An investor who gave his name only as Mr Ong went to her house in Tanah Merah on May 16 after she did not reply to text messages, and calls to her and her husband’s phones could not get through.

“The lights were on and both cars were seen,” Mr Ong told The Straits Times, adding that no one responded when he pressed the doorbell.

He said he contacted “all those people close to her to ask them if they know where they are, as it’s weird to have the whole family go overseas at this stressful period of time when she promised payment to investors”.

The Straits Times called Madam Leong, her husband, two of their children and Madam Leong’s sister, but could not get through to them.

Madam Leong and her husband Lim Eng Soon were believed to be former property agents. Mr Lim later traded in foreign exchange, investors said.

The couple had owned or managed a total of 11 companies, including an educational consultancy, a real estate company and an investment holding company, at various times from as far back as 1983.

All have since been cancelled, terminated or struck off, according to records from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority.

The newest one, Golden Space Investment, was registered in November 2009 and struck off 11/2 years later.

The couple are known for being generous.

At least two investors attended a Chinese New Year party this year where guests were treated to a lavish buffet spread including wine and crayfish. One of them, Mr S. Goh, 58, a businessman who has known the family for 14 years, said the family regularly hosts Chinese New Year gatherings and birthday parties at their three-storey semi-detached house.

“It’s posh. There are plenty of art pieces and she even had a bamboo garden which she said cost more than $15,000,” he told The Straits Times last week.

Mr Goh was also told by Madam Leong that she owned five other condominium units. He visited two of them, in Simei and Orchard Road. But he believes she has since sold all five.

The Tanah Merah property had been renovated recently and was listed for sale online last month.When The Straits Times visited the house yesterday evening, a Mercedes-Benz and a BMW, which neighbours said belonged to the family, were parked there. Investors say the couple live with their son and daughter. Another daughter is overseas.

What appeared to be a week’s worth of newspapers were strewn about the front porch.

Neighbours said they have not seen the family in two or three weeks, but described them as friendly. “The husband would give us starfruit from their tree,” said Madam Pan Lay Choo, 59, a housewife.

She said she has known Madam Leong’s family since they moved in about eight years ago, and her son is friends with one of Madam Leong’s two daughters, although the two families are not close.

A car used by one of the daughters had not returned to the house recently, Madam Pan said, adding that the family’s maid and dog were nowhere to be seen. The police were seen at the house last week.

Source: www.straitstimes.com

May 26, 2015
The Man Behind The Forklift Coin Trick

Operating heavy machinery takes finesse, but one man takes it to the next level. A video of him using a forklift to pick up a 20 cent coin from the floor and transferring it into a container, posted on Labour Chief Chan Chun Sing’s Facebook page, has chalked up nearly 83,000 views and 1,000 likes in just under a month. Impressed netizens lauded the forklift operator for his “hole in one” trick, with some saying “Wow”, and others commenting that that “Singapore’s got talent”.

In reality, the smooth moves are not a trick, but an activity designed for students who take a course in forklift operations at the NTUC LearningHub – also known as LHUB.

The man behind it is Mr Ronald Khoo – a trainer with more than 20 years of experience under his belt. He came up with the coin exercise about 10 years ago when he realised that students learned best by applying technical know-how with practical skills.

“I hope that I can impart all these skills, the correct attitude and knowledge so I can make training and learning fun,” Mr Khoo said.

Typically, students will exert some pressure on the coin using the fork, in order to flip the coin onto it. Then, students will have to control the speed of the lever in order to move the coin to the edge of the fork, before it can be deposited into the container.

During a demonstration for Channel NewsAsia, Mr Khoo took it up a notch. Instead of using a 20 cent coin, he used a 10-cent coin – and successfully deposited it into a water bottle, with a much smaller opening. “Yes!” he would shout after each successful attempt, complete with a fist pump.

The aim of the exercise is to help trainees adapt to different types of situations and cargo. “After coming up with this activity, I feel that when participants go back to the practical aspect of their job, subconsciously, they are able to do the job,” he said with pride.

He also has another exercise called the “Figure 8”, which involves picking up a crate with a ball sitting atop a cone, and then wending around obstacles. Mr Khoo said a “Japanese master” taught him the exercise when he first started as a junior trainer in 1993.

“This trains us on speed control, on the position of the vehicle, and on the correct time to turn the steering wheel,” he revealed. “It can also train a participant with no driving knowledge on how to turn left, right, and how to make a U-turn.”

“If you use the old-school methods of teaching, they may feel bored. This will make it fun and enjoyable,” said Mr Khoo, adding that he has also trained ex-offenders, who find this approach useful.

BEING A TEACHER IS A ‘DREAM COME TRUE’

Mr Khoo’s colleagues said he is always jolly and incredibly passionate about his job.

Describing himself as a “humble kampong boy” who was “born next to a drain”, Mr Khoo said his passion stems from a driving instructor whom he felt did not teach him in a way that was applicable. As a result, he needed to take 10 driving tests before obtaining his licence. From then on, he wanted to be a teacher, so others would not have to endure the same agony.

“My mum said no, you come from a humble village background, you don’t have a chance to become a teacher, especially if you don’t study hard,” he said. “I don’t like studying. When I study, I get a headache.”

Despite not completing his O-levels, Mr Khoo said Workforce Skills Qualifications courses gave him the opportunity to become a trainer. “I enjoy doing all of this because I partially take it as a passion, and partially I fulfilled my mum’s dream for me to be a teacher,” he said.

“I am grateful to everyone who supported my training. It makes a difference in my life,” Mr Khoo said. “When my students go out there, they can earn a living, so I feel even better.”

As for the praise for his skills on Facebook, Mr Khoo said it was unexpected. He also did not know that the video was a hit to begin with.

“I don’t have Facebook,” he admitted, followed by a huge belly laugh.

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

May 26, 2015
Zulfikar Shariff: Benarkah Pemerintahan Lee Kuan Yew Berasaskan KeIslaman?

Dulu ada MP Melayu yang cakap…Lee Kuan Yew ada ciri-ciri Rasulullah.

Sekarang ada event yang meraikan Nabi Muhammad….Lee Kuan Yew pun turut diraikan.

Dah angkat si Firaun.

Semasa dia hidup, dia kutuk islam, dia paksa orang Islam tinggalkan keIslaman. Dia zalimi muslimah.

Bila dia mati, kita puji dan puja.

Macam mana lah Islam tak kena abuse. Orang Islam puji orang yang benci Islam.

Source: Zulfikar Shariff

May 25, 2015