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June 26, 2014

Musang King Malaysia Bukan Jaguh Kampung


Dengan hanya bau buah durian sahaja, sudah boleh mengamatkan keadaan di Australia. Bau enak yang sentiasa dinikmati rakyat Malaysia ini disangka kejadian kebocoran gas di sana. Segagah nama yang dibawa, durian Musang King (Mao Shan Wang / 猫山王) atau pun dipanggil Raja Kunyit terdahulu ini sudah dua kontena sampai ke tanah kangaroo. Raja buah durian Musang King ini bukan sahaja sudah terbang merentasi Lautan Hindi malah juga sudah merentasi benua hingga ke Eropah.

Isi ulas durian berwarna kuning keemasan ini manis apabila masak. Setiap ulas isi durian ini tebal, berkrim, berlemak, dan mempunyai biji yang sangat kecil. Antara durian Musang King terbaik berasal dari Bentong/Karak, Tangkak dan Balik Pulau.

Raja Musang ini telah didaftarkan pada tahun 1993 di Tanah Merah, sebuah daerah di jauh utara Malaysia dekat Kota Bahru. Pada ketika itu ia digredkan kod D197. Musang King yang cukup popular di Gua Musang berasal dari daerah Guar Musang dan ia merupakan daripada keluarga durian kunyit sebelum ia dikacukkan dengan durian lain dan diubah suai namanya ke Musang King seperti sekarang.

Untuk mengenali dan cam buah durian Musang King ini adalah paling senang melalui kulitnya. Pada pangkal buah akan terdapat corak seakan bintang pecah lima atau ada yang panggil corak tapak sulaiman. 

Antara durian-durian terbaik penggemar durian di Malaysia: 

Udang Merah (Ang Hae) 
D 175 
 D600 
D101 
ThRaka (竹脚) 
Ho lor 
XO 
Durian Penang D24

June 16, 2014

MH370: Hari ke-100 dan Teori Konspirasi


Kehilangan pesawat komersial negara, MH370 telah masuk hari ke-100 hari ini selepas dilaporkan hilang pada 8 Mac 2014 lalu dalam perjalanan dari Kulala Lumpur ke Beijing. Pencarian pesawat buatan Amerika Syarikat, Boeing 777 ini telah melibatkan kerahan tenaga lebih 20 negara dalam membantu misi pencarian pesawat yang sehingga kini masih samar bagaimana pengakhiran kepada MH370 ini. Adakah terhempas ke dasar lautan? Adakah meletup di udara? Pelbagai kebarangkalian ini timbul dan bermacam lagi teori kehilangan pesawat komersial Malaysia Airlines ini. Walau apa pun jalan cerita bagi MH370, dimanakah bangkai pesawat ini masih belum dapat dijawab.

Prinsip asas penulisan kewartawanan masih belum dipenuhi apabila  soalan “dimana” tidak terjawab setelah masuk hari ke-100. Bukan sahaja para media yang masih mendebatkan isu ini, malah seluruh dunia dan rakyat Malaysia khususnya masih hangat memperkatakan tentang misteri kehilangan ini.

Merujuk kepada  artikel dari Mingguan Malaysia 6 April 2014 bertajuk ‘CIA dan Teori Konspirasi Hilangnya MH370’, kemungkinan penulisan artikel ini ada wajar dan logik akalnya. Ia bukan suatu perkara yang baharu buat dunia apabila ada tangan-tangan ghaib disebalik kehilangan MH370 ini. Kapasiti pesawat yang membawa 227 penumpang dan 12 krew pesawat masih menjadi tanda soal mengenai kapasiti di bahagian kargo pesawat itu pula.

Dengan 135 penumpang warganegara China menjadikan teori mengenai penglibatan dalang CIA makin kuat apabila dua kuasa besar dunia iaitu China dan Amerika Syarikat masing masing sebenarnya terlibat cecara tak langsung. Mana tidaknya, pesawat buatan Amerika Syarikat membawa kapasiti 135 penumpang warga China, tetapi mengapa melalui MAS (Malaysia Airlines)? Adakah ia untuk menutup penglibatan secara langsung AS? Adakah ini suatu sabotaj buat Malaysia yang mempunyai hubungan diplomatik yang akrab dengan kedua-dua negara gergasi ini? Adakah ini suatu ujian buat Malaysia mengenai kesetian dipihak mana Malaysia  berada?

Dapat dilihat melalui artikel Mingguan Malaysia ini dimana tragedy “9/11-WTC” yang kesudahan ceritanya ialah dengan pencerobohan keatas bumi Afghanistan dan pembunuhan kepala pengganas Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden. Adakah persamaan modus operandi 9/11 dengan MH370 ini? Yakni dengan mewujudkan kegemparan dan kemudian bertindak menyerang demi keamanan dunia seperti yang dimegahkan oleh AS sebagai polis dunia.

Peranan media antarabangsa juga dilihat sengaja menimbulkan keraguan terhadap bagaimana Malaysia mengendalikan misi pencarian. Ini telah mengeruhkan keadaan para keluarga penumpang terutama warga China. Siapakah yang dengki dengan hubungan akrab Malaysia-China? Amerika Syarikat mungkin? Apa yang membuat Presiden AS, Barrack Obama datang ke Malaysia pada April lalu? Apa ada dengan Malaysia? Episod kebencian bantahan warganegara China terhadap Malaysia telah dipadamkan dengan kehadiran dua ekor Panda dan lawatan rasmi diplomatik Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak ke China bulan lalu.

Wang berjuta ringgit telah dilaburkan dalam misi pencarian MH370 ini, dan jutaan air mata telah mengiringi kehilangan yang masih misteri ini. Kesudahan misteri ini masih belum terjawab. Iringan doa dan airmata ketabahan buat semua rakyat Malaysia dan keluarga penumpang dan krew khususnya.

June 06, 2014

Malaysian Smartphone Addiction


Smartphone had become one of the most important tools like any others such as wallet and home's key. Smartphone love has swept the world by 'sexting' over the phone had become trend for the youngster who practicing open sex nowadays. A social problem like this occurs to most countries which sex is a taboo among their community, especially Asian countries. Therefore, US falls behind many other nations with only 25% have sent sexually explicit texts or content. A sex education at young ages is one of the factor why US is more civilised in practicing open sex as they already been introduced at an early ages. 

In Malaysia, according to the study, smartphone penetration increased from 47% in 2012 to 63% this year while tablet penetration increased almost threefold from 14% in 2012 to 39% in 2013. The study is based on an online survey which queried 500 urban users who use the Internet daily, and are aged between 16 and 60. Besides voice calls and SMS, the need to connect to the Internet is one of the key drivers for buying a smartphone.

A trends by having a smartphone is only for the purpose of communication only, it also will symbolised as a social status among their friends. It will cause stress among the teenagers or youngster nowadays if their parents not giving them a smartphone. The penetration of the social network becoming wider with Facebook, Twitter and others social platform becoming trending and popular. Malaysia urban society may overlook this as a normal society progress of developing country or civilisation. But instead the addiction and too much depending on smartphone had caused lots of negative impact among the society and family especially. 

There is a case in Miri, Sarawak, where a son had murdered his mom for not allowing him having a new smartphone. This happened when the youngster's trend had set a benchmark for everyone to have a smartphone, and those who not having may become deviance and weird among the society. The 18 years old suspect found with a knife which believed to be the murder weapon for stabbing his mom. This example of phenomenon showed us that this addiction have become danger.

By having a smartphone also had isolate ourself from the social integration in real life. Where our social life might only by posting picture through Instagram and posting status through Facebook only. This had created a dull and unhealthy dinner table ambiance among family at the dinner table, where the children and both parents busy with their smartphone while waiting for the food to be served. Theres is no contact orally that can create a long conversation of the family.



June 03, 2014

Homeless Children: An Untold Reality

By: Amirul Aiman, Faarzana, Salmie & Zul Khairi

A harmony and progressive country like Malaysia sealed an untold story behind it. A city light at night become the only beam that witness loneliness and emptiness of homeless children especially in Kuala Lumpur and others city in Malaysia. The developing of the country had neglected this minority from having the same benefits like other citizens. 


Most of the homeless children are being abandon from both their parents who working late night and this will lead them to be engaged with social security problem like sexual abuse, human trafficking and others crimes. There is also homeless children who are refugees such as Rohingya and also illegal child who their mother a sex workers that make their home as place for that unhealthy activity. Does this untold realities are irritating? This unlucky minority had gone through a hard time to keep their survival. 


The numbers of homeless children or street kids is increasingly and worrying as this will lead to other unhealthy social problems. As said by UNICEF, in Malaysia, children living on the streets include undocumented children, stateless children and children of migrants. Some children may have run away from home, often in response to psychological, physical or sexual abuse. Those children without right birth registration will deny their benefits from having good education and healthcare.



According to an Inter-NGO Program on street children and youth, a street child is “any girl or boy who has not mature and reach adulthood level, for whom the street has become his or her usual sojourn and source of livelihood, and who is deficient protected, directed, and look over by responsible adults.”

IMPACTS ON HOMELESS CHILDREN


The analogy is simple-
1) What if: a herd of sheep release naked in sahara among wilderness—among lions and cheetah?
2)The cheetah and wilderness represent city and rough black hazardous environment, while sheep is symbolic to homeless kid or children.

The rough environment will shape and affect the children, while other kids enjoying pencil and book with guidance from teacher,homeless will enjoy their day with daydream or loitering around their neighbourhood without proper education. They will repeat the cycle of their parents life. In 2012 level of illiterate in Malaysia is 37,504 from 468,808 SPM candidates. (Datuk Ahmad Zahid Hamidi,2012)

From 468,808 students are taking SPM in 2012, how about homeless? Are they seat for SPM too?

Children are persona from their elder, parents, brothers and who they friends with, the other effect of homeless is the margin of crime rapidly increase day by day. Their father as drug dealer, while sister and mother as prostitute and friend join the gangster club to try fit in the society. They are the 'noir' side of Kuala Lumpur-Chow kit. Are you sure they will became “Imam Muda’ after being raised in this black society—sure they can. But in one fine day.

ACT AND NGO's INVOLVING HOMELESS CHILDREN

            The Child Act 2001 [Act 611] was enacted in our country to fulfil its obligation under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which is in 1995 and the goals of CRC are to uphold its commitment to the protection and welfare of her children. This was a major step for the country.

Act 611’s preamble provides that every child is entitled to protection and assistance in all circumstances without regard to distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, social origin or physical, mental or emotional disabilities or any status. In addition, the provisions of Act 611 are based on the four core principles of the CRC that is, non-discrimination, best interest of the child, the right to life, survival and development and respect for the views of the child.


Apart from that, the Act also established the National Council for the Protection of Children, which advises the Government on child protection issues while the National Advisory and Consultative Council for Children acts as a national focal point for children's well-being and development.

Act 611 also requires the setting up of Child Protection Teams and Child Activity Centres at both state and district levels. For instance, it is aimed at mobilising community participation in the implementation of preventive and rehabilitative programmes, these initiatives are targeted for children at risk or children vulnerable to all forms of abuse and exploitation.

There are following non-governmental groups that are working to respect and uphold the rights of children in our country such as Malaysian Child Resource Institute, Childline Malaysia, Malaysia Care, National Early Childhood Intervention Council, Protect and Save the children, Voice of Children, and Yayasan Chow Kit.



In a nutshell, those unlucky homeless children who being neglected apart from the developing world should have a better place and it is not only one responsibility as this issue takes more than that to combat these social problems. Lack of love and attention towards their needs had made them become vulnerable and a good approach from NGO and leader of community are needed. The NGO in our country especially should uphold the principles and provisions of the CRC such as the General Principles of the CRC concerning non-discrimination, the best interests of the child, the right to life and survival and development and the right of the child to express their views freely.