Kalau tak suka, pulangkan!

Kereta dihentikan betul-betul di hadapan rumah. Pintu pagar automatiknya terbuka. Perlahan kereta dihalakan ke dalam garaj.

“Horey! Papa balik!” Kelihatan anak-anaknya berlari mengiringi keretanya.
“Tepi! Bahaya tau tak?” Jeritnya.
Anak-anak termanggu. Cahaya kegembiraan di wajah mereka pudar.
“Aimin bawa adik ke belakang.” Arahnya pada anak yang sulong.

Pulangnya petang itu disambut dingin oleh anak-anak. Isterinya turut terdiam bila mendengar anak-anak mengadu tentang papa mereka.

“Papa penat. Aimin bawa adik mandi dulu. Mama siapkan minum petang. Lepas minum papa mesti nak main bola dengan kita,” pujuk Laila.
Dia yang mendengar di ruang tamu hanya mendengus. Seketika kemudian terdengar hilai tawa anak-anaknya di bilik mandi. Dia bangun.

“Hah! Main air. Bil bulan ini papa kena bayar dekat seratus. Cepat! Tutup paip tu! Buka shower!” Sergahnya. Suara yang bergema mematikan tawa anak-anaknya.

“Asal saya balik rumah mesti bersepah. Kain baju berselerak. Apa awak makan tidur aje ke duduk rumah?” sambungnya kembali bila isterinya terpacul di belakang pintu.

“Anak-anak pa. Diorang yang main tu. Takpe nanti mama kemas. Papa minum ye. Mama dah siapkan kat taman.” Balas isterinya lembut.
“Fail saya kat depan tu mana?”
“Mama letak dalam bilik. Takut budak-budak alihkan.”
“Boleh tak awak jangan usik barang-barang saya? Susah tau tak? Fail tu patutnya saya bawa meeting tengahari tadi.” Rungutnya sekalipun di hati kecil mengakui kebenaran kata-kata isterinya itu.
Suasana sepi kembali. Dia menarik nafas berat. Terasa begitu jauh berbeza. Dia tercari-cari riuh suara anak-anak dan wajah isterinya. “Laila” Keluhnya Akhirnya dia terlena di sofa.

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Touch Point Budget 2011

INSENTIF CUKAI

1. Memansuhkan duti import 5% -30% ke atas 300 barangan kegemaran pelancong dan barangan harian

2. Mengecualikan cukai jualan ke atas semua jenis telefon bimbit

3. Mengecualikan duti eksais 100% ke atas pembelian sebuah kenderaan nasional oleh OKU

4. Memperluaskan pelepasan cukai ke atas perbelanjaan perubatan ibu bapa sehingga RM5,000

5. Mengecualikan 50% duti setem ke atas surat cara pindah milik & perjanjian pinjaman bagi rumah kediaman pertama

6. Mengecualikan 100% duti import & duti eksais ke atas kereta hybrid

PEMBANGUNAN MODAL INSAN

7. Melaksanakan Program Latihan1Malaysia dengan peruntukan RM500 juta (Kolej Komuniti, IKBN, ILP dan Pusat Giat Mara)

8. Menubuhkan Majlis Konsultasi Gaji Negara sebagai platform dalam penetapan gaji dan pengenalan gaji minimum mulai Januari2011

9. Menambah baik peluang kenaikan pangkat pensyarah di IPTA ke peringkat tertinggi Gred Turus III,II & I serta penganugerahan Profesor Ulung

10. Menubuhkan Dana Belia 1Malaysia berjumlah RM20 juta

11. Menyediakan peruntukan pembangunan sebanyak RM250 juta untuk Sekolah Bantuan Modal Agama, Sekolah Kebangsaan Cina & Tamil, Sekolah Mubaligh dan Sekolah Bantuan Kerajaan

12. Membiayai bantuan per kapita untuk Sekolah Agama Rakyat (rendah & menengah) dengan peruntukan RM95 juta

ELAUN

13. Menaikkan imbuhan guru KAFA dari RM500 kepada RM800 sebulan

14. Menaikkan elaun bulanan RM750 sebulan kepada Imam

15. Menaikkan elaun kepada Pengerusi JKKK & Pengerusi JKKP, Tok Batin & Pengerusi JKKK Orang Asli, Pengerusi JK Kampung Baru, Pengerusi JK Kampung Baru Rangkaian & Pengerusi JK Kampung Bagan dari RM450 kepada RM800

16. Elaun kehadiran mesyuarat kepada semua ahli jawatankuasa (JK) dinaikkan dari RM30 ke RM50

PENJAWAT AWAM

17. Bantuan khas kewangan sebanyak RM500 kepada penjawat awam gred 54 dan ke bawah, pegawai kontrak dan pesara Kerajaan

18. Memansuhkan Penilaian Tahap Kecekapan (PTK)

19. Menyambung perkhidmatan Pegawai Khidmat Singkat yang akan tamat perkhidmatan pada 31 Disember2010 untuk tempoh 1 tahun lagi

20. Kemudahan pinjaman perumahan kepada penjawat awam:

a) Menaikkan kadar pinjaman kepada RM20,000 untuk kerja-kerja tambahan rumah kos rendah bagi Kumpulan Sokongan Dua

b) Menaikkan had kelayakan maksimum pinjaman perumahan kepada RM450,000

21. MenaikkankadarBantuanMengurusJenazahkepadaRM3,000

22. Memberi fleksibiliti dengan menentukan cuti bersalin sehingga 90 hari kepada penjawat awam wanita tertakluk kepada had semasa 300 hari

SKIM PERUMAHAN

23. Skim Rumah Pertamaku dengan jaminan Kerajaan ke atas bayaran pendahuluan 10% bagi harga rumah di bawah RM220,000

24. Menyediakan Skim Pembiayaan Perumahan Kos Rendah untuk pekerja estet oleh BSN

25. Program Bantuan Rumah (12 ribu unit) untuk golongan miskin & miskin tegar dengan peruntukan RM300 juta

PENGGUNA

26. Mewujudkan [UTF-8?]“Portal 1Malaysia [UTF-8?]PenggunaBijak”

27. Memperkenalkan Program Pengedaran Barang Perlu bagi menyeragamkan harga barangan

28. Memperkenalkan Program Transformasi Kedai Runcit, Bengkel Automotif dan Projek Pasar Komuniti

MENCERGASKAN PASARAN MODAL

29. Melancarkan Dana Pencen Swasta

30. Melancarkan Skim Amanah Hartanah Bumiputera bernilai RM1 bilion dan patuh syariah

31. Suruhanjaya Sekuriti akan menawarkan 3 lesen broker saham baru kepada syarikat tempatan dan asing

32. Bursa Malaysia akan membangunkan international board

33. Bursa Malaysia akan melancarkan sukuk dan bon runcit

34. Dana Permulaan Perniagaan bernilai RM100 juta untuk menggalakkan industri modal teroka

KUALITI HIDUP

35. Menyediakan multi-vitamin untuk pelajar sekolah rendah seluruh negara

36. Meneruskan Projek PIA & PIAS dengan peruntukan RM500 juta

37. Meneruskan program subsidi bayaran bil elektrik bagi penggunaan bawah RM20 sebulan

38. Kadar tol di 4 lebuh raya milik PLUS Expressway Berhad tidak akan dinaikkan bagi tempoh 5 tahun akan datang bermula serta-merta

39. Mengkaji semula had minimum kebankrapan yang pada masa ini berjumlah RM30,000

40. Permohonan PR boleh dilakukan selepas 5 tahun

41. Menyediakan 4 buah bas sebagai Klinik Bergerak

42. Merangka Model Baru Pembangunan Orang Asli dan Pribumi

43. Memperkukuh JHEOA dengan mentransformasi kepada Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli

What's wrong with eating too full?

What's wrong with eating too full?

Don't over eat and don't encourage your family members and friends to overeat - unless you wish to shorten their healthy living and perhaps die younger!

An interesting article about eating too full...

In Today's Dr Lee Newsletter Issue:

"What's wrong with eating too full?"

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"The more you eat, the sooner you die. The lesser you eat, the longer you live". This is what Dr Lee always says in his health talk. He also mentions, "Eating too full causes all sort of health problems such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, etc."

Why eating too full is so harmful to your health? What can you do about it?

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Mice experiment

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To see how eating habit affects life span, a professor from University of Texas did an experiment on mice.

For the first group of 100 mice, he let them eat without any restriction, just like a buffet meal.

The second group was fed only 60% full. And the third group was given food without restriction too. But this time, he reduced protein content to half. After 2.5 years, guess how many mice were still alive out of 100?

* First group (eat without restriction) - only 13 mice were alive. Opsss...

* Second group (eat 60% full) - 97 mice were still alive. Only 3 mice died.

* Third group (eat without restriction with protein cut half) - 50 mice still alive.

What can we learn from these results?

Firstly, eating too full is really harmful to your body. Secondly, eat 60% full if you want to live longer and healthier. Thirdly, taking too much protein is harmful to your body too. We don't need so much protein after all.

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Overworking body

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Imagine having a small family car. Instead of using it for short travel between home and office, you use it for long distance travel between different cities every day. Instead of using it 1 hour a day, you use it for 10 hours a day. Instead of driving at 70 km/h, you always speed up to 170 km/h, hitting engine's red line.

Can you estimate your car life span? Do you expect having various problems with your car after a short time? Driving your car at high speed for a long time is like always eating too full. You force your body to always work at its red line.

Do you know digestion is the most demanding work for your body? Think about the organs involved such as your mouth, stomach, liver, pancreas, duodenum and intestine. Think about the length of digestive tract from your mouth to intestine. By eating too full, your body zaps up much of your energy for digestion. Otherwise, this energy may be used for other purpose such as enhancing your immune system.

Do you realize you become very tired easily after a big meal? That is the sign of your body working hard to digest all the food you take in.

If you eat an extra bowl of noodle, your pancreas has to produce extra insulin hormone to process the extra carbohydrates you take.

Your liver, stomach and intestine also have to produce extra enzymes to digest and process specific nutrients from that bowl of noodle.

Therefore the more you eat, the harder your body has to work to process it. Of course, we must eat to survive. But we don't have to eat that much!

If you drive your car slowly and handle it gently, you can use it for a long time. But if you always floor the accelerator and drive like a rally driver, you know the consequence on your car life span.

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Side effect of eating

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Your car engine burns fuel to move your car and bring you to anywhere you like to go. As a result, the engine produces exhaust smoke which is toxic. It must be dispersed out from your car.

Similarly, your body cell burns nutrient for energy to survive. In the process, it produces free radicals. Since free radical is toxic to your body, it has to be neutralized and expelled.

"Just metabolizing food especially fatty and carbohydrate-rich fare causes the body to produce free radicals, which attack cells and can promote the development of chronic conditions including heart disease, diabetes and cancer," says Ronald L. Prior, Ph.D.

Of course, your body can control free radicals in small quantity. But the more you eat the more free radicals your body produces. Without adequate control, these free radicals easily attack your body cells and eventually cause all sort of diseases.

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Good eating habit

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After knowing the harmful effect of eating too full, what's your choice? Do you want to live longer, just like the second group of mice in the experiment? Or do you want to risk ending your life earlier, just like the first group of mice? If you wish to live longer, here are some tips you can follow:

1. Always eat until 70% full. Do not exceed 80% full. You may want to stop eating when you feel slightly full.

2. Avoid having buffet style meal which makes it harder to control how much you eat. Instead, prepare the food you want to eat in a plate. After finishing it, don't add anymore food.

3. Leaving the dining table earlier may prevent you from picking some extra food to eat.

4. It is always a good idea to prepare lesser food in the first place. Some people are afraid of having not enough food for everyone. Actually, lesser food is beneficial for everyone..

In a restaurant, order in small amount first. You can always add in some extra order if necessary. But if you can get by with the original smaller order, that's great.

Remember this: You have higher chance of overeating if you serve more food on the table.

You have better chance of not overeating if you serve less food.

5. Avoid stuffing your fridge with ice cream, chocolate or other dessert. You cannot eat what you do not have.

6. When someone prepares a big plate of food for you, look at it first. Ask yourself, "Do I want to stuff it all into my stomach?"

If your answer is no, just put aside some food to another empty plate first. After finishing your food, look back at the extra food on that new plate. Say to yourself, "Phew! Luckily I didn't stuff that portion into my stomach."

7. When you get too hungry before your meal time, just take some fruit instead of heavy meal.

The tendency to overeat is very high for modern people.

This is a SPECIAL REMINDER to MYSELF and YOU! ;)

Roh di bulan Ramadhan

From my Inbox.

"Walau setinggi mana kasih sayangku, sesungguhnya Allah lebih berhak menyayangimu. Damai lah engkau disana di bawah limpahan rahmat dan kasih sayang-Nya. Sesungguhnya kami semua akan menyusulmu di kemudian hari... Al-Fatihah buat semua muslimin dan muslimat yang telah pergi mendahului kita"

Roh di Bulan Ramadhan

Pagi tadi sempena hari Jumaat bulan Ramadhan yang mulia ini, aku menghadiri majlis ilmu yang membincangkan tentang amalan di bulan Ramadhan. Satu perkara yang menarik perhatian aku tadi, ustaz penceramah bercerita tentang keadaan roh di bulan Ramadhan. Menurut satu hadith Rasulullah... (maaf aku tak sempat catat perawi hadith ini)... menceritakan apabila tiba bulan Ramadhan, semua roh berkumpul di Luh Mahfuz memohon kepada Allah S.W.T untuk kembali ke bumi. Ada roh yang dibenarkan pulang ke bumi dan ada yang tidak dibenarkan. Roh yang dibenarkan pulang adalah kerana amalan baik mereka semasa hayat mereka ataupun ada penjamin-penjamin yang mendoakan mereka. Manakala roh-roh yang tidak dibenarkan pulang disebabkan kesalahan mereka semasa hayat mereka akan terus di penjara di Luh Mahfuz.

Apabila roh dibenarkan pulang, perkara pertama yang mereka lakukan adalah pergi ke tanah perkuburan untuk melihat jasad mereka. Kemudian mereka akan pergi ke rumah anak2 mereka, orang yang mendapat harta pusaka mereka dan ke rumah orang yang mendoakan mereka dengan harapan orang yang mereka lawati itu memberi hadiah untuk bekalan mereka.Perkara ini akan berlarutan sehinggala tibanya Hari Raya Aidilfitri. Pada saat ini mereka akan mengucapkan selamat tinggal kepada jasad dan pulang semula ke Luh Mahfuz dengan bekalan yang diberikan oleh mereka2 yang masih hidup.

Di sini ustaz memberitahu hikmah adanya alam kubur. Alam kubur membuktikan bahawa Allah itu Maha Penyayang. Orang yang melakukan kesalahan semasa hayatnya boleh dibantu dengan doa orang2 yang masih hidup. Alangkah bahagianya jika seseorang yang telah meninggal dunia masih mendapat bekalan dari orang-orang yang masih hidup.

Oleh itu wahai sahabatku, jangan biarkan orang-orang yang kita sayang, yang mengadap Allah terlebih dulu darip ad a kita sepi tanpa doa dan sedekah daripada kita. Sesungguhnya apabila mati seseorang anak adam itu, terputus ia semua hal kecuali 3 perkara iaitu doa anak2 yang soleh, ilmu yang bermanfaat dan sedekah amal jariah.

Mari berlumba dalam kebaikan.

Something to ponder

There are times in all of our lives where we feel worthless. Let this inspirational story remind you that no matter what you do or, where you are in your life, that you bring value. Hope these inspirational words of wisdom inspire you to never give up.

Our Lives In Money

-By Author Unknown

A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up.

He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the $20 dollar bill up.

He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands were up in the air. "Well", he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.

He picked it up, now crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air.

"My friends, we have all learned a very valuable lesson", he said, "No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless.... and especially to those who love you.

The worth of our lives comes not in what we do or whom we know, but by WHO WE ARE.

"You are special - Don't EVER forget it."

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Sebelum mengeluh tentang suami atau isteri anda, fikirkan tentang seseorang yang memohon kepada Tuhan untuk diberikan teman hidup. Sebelum kita mengeluh tentang anak-anak kita, fikirkan tentang seseorang yang sangat ingin mempunyai anak tetapi dirinya mandul.

Happy 15th Ramadhan To All Of You! :)