Panggil 'Abang Atau Pun Sayang'- Datuk Rosyam Nor.

"Hendak panggil 'Datuk', 'abang', 'Rosyam' atau pun 'sayang' saya tetap akan sahut panggilan daripada mereka kerana gelaran tersebut bukan untuk saya bermegah-megah," seloroh Rosyam Nor kepada pihak media sekaligus turut menyatakan dia tidak mahu gelaran 'Datuk' yang diterimanya baru-baru ini meletakkan jurang sedangkan prinsip hidupnya tetap sama.

Pada Ahad (semalam), penerbit filem dan pelakon ini menerima gelaran Datuk sempena ulang tahun ke-75 Yang Dipertua Negeri Melaka, Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob. Rosyam antara 79 penerima Darjah Pangkuan Seri Melaka (DPSM) yang juga membawa gelaran Datuk termasuk penyanyi Ramli Sarip yang menerima DPSM Kehormat membawa gelaran yang sama.Istiadat pengurniaan pingat dan darjah kebesaran berlangsung di Dewan Seri Negeri Melaka.

Dalam pada itu beliau juga menyifatkan gelaran Datuk yang diterimanya sebagai satu penghormatan kepada anak seni terutamanya dalam bidang perfileman. Penganugerahan itu adalah bukti bahawa kerajaan mula memandang serius terhadap usaha yang dilakukan oleh anak seni sepertinya dalam membangunkan industri seni tanah air. "Saya sangat merendah diri dan bersyukur apabila diberitahu saya antara penerima pingat berkenaan dan ia satu penghormatan buat saya sebagai pelakon dan penerbit. 

"Ia bukti semua usaha membangunkan industri hiburan negara selama ini mula dipandang serius oleh pihak kerajaan dan penganugerahan ini akan memangkinkan lagi semangat saya selepas ini," katanya. Tambahnya, anugerah itu diharap dapat dijadikan inspirasi kepada individu lain untuk terus memperjuangkan industri dengan lebih bersungguh-sungguh.

Your Kids Can Play With Dolphin While You Eat Dolphin Meat.

Masaki Wada is a Japanese official from Taiji—the dolphin-meat-happy town from the 2009 documentary The Cove. This Week, he announced a plan to build a park where anyone can swim and play with dolphins, “while tasting various marine products, including whale and dolphin meat.”

They’re apparently trying to capitalize on their existing notoriety for rounding up and stabbing thousands of dolphins every year, and they’re not pretending otherwise. According to Wada: “We already use dolphins and small whales as a source of tourism in the cove where dolphin-hunting takes place.

In summer swimmers can enjoy watching the mammals that are released from a partitioned-off space. But we plan to do it on a larger scale.”It seems to be a publicity grab, intended to gain back some much-needed business from a nation that has lost interest in snacking on the chewy, fatty, mercury-laden meat. It’s also a massive trolling attempt, aimed to milk the rage of thousands of activists for worldwide attention.

The sexy superimposition of eating charming sea mammals while also laughing at their antics has always existed: according to The Cove and some compelling photos obtained by the Sea Shepherds, trainers from marine parks show up annually to tell Taiji’s fishermen which dolphins to spare, because they’ve got the goods to make it in showbiz.

Besides eating them and putting them in shows, why else would dolphins exist in Japan?

There are already ocean-themed parks there with trained dolphins on display, including Kamogawa Sea World. Parks of this nature, it should be noted, also draw the ire of the Sea Shepherds, not just for buying dolphins from Taiji, but also for being generally shitty places to be a dolphin. 

America’s Sea World parks aren’t exempt either, and they’ve been like bad publicity factories lately. Taiji has long been one of the focal points for the world’s rage at whalers, ever since they modernized the whaling industry long after whaling was no longer stylish.

In another time in Japanese history, perhaps the decline of old-fashioned dolphin filets as a reliable source of income might have silenced Taiji’s resolve about the issue. However, their brazen pushback right now against liberals, foreigners, and liberal foreigners is consistent with the career resurgence of nationalist politician Shinzo Abe, who has recently recovered his seat as prime minister on a platform of fiscal reform, or “Abe-nomics," and nationalist pride. 

Antiforeigner rhetoric is on the rise. In a 2010 interview, Taiji’s mayor, Kazutaka Sangen, didn’t sound sympathetic to the opinions of outsiders. “We will pass down the history of our ancestors to the next generation, preserve it. We have a strong sense of pride about this. So we are not going to change our plans for the town based on the criticism of foreigners,” he said.

The “it’s our tradition" logic has won too many arguments. Wasn’t it the reason the world stopped interfering with the practice of time-honored customs like honor killing and female genital mutilation? The contrasting point of view, the one Mayor Sangen is probably reacting against, is most often articulated by Ric O’Barry, a dolphin trainer and advocate who was featured in The Cove: 

There is no other animal, on sea or land, like the dolphin. We have spent decades and millions of dollars trying to communicate with them, but they are always trying to communicate directly with us. They are the only wild animal I know who have saved human lives—not a few times, but repeatedly through history. They are superbly adapted to the ocean, and make even the best human swimmer look clumsy."

But O’Barry’s appeal gets at the inescapable fact that whenever people defend dolphins, they always seem to do so by comparing them to humans (myself included, a couple paragraphs ago), particularly referencing their intelligence.

Increasingly that appears to be a pretty flawed argument. One biologist named Justin Gregg was going around last week saying dolphins are as dumb as chickens.

Much of his argument seems to stem from how mean dolphins are. Last I checked, though, chimps eat faces and di*ks for breakfast, and they’re pretty smart. On the other hand, it’s worth noting that during hunts in Taiji, dolphins get corralled in by surface-level nets, and no one has been able to explain why they don’t... umm... jump.

Yeah, pigs might be smarter than dolphins, and more of them might get eaten, plus the seafood conservation pamphlet from Monterey Bay Aquarium says you should avoid all forms of shark and eat plenty of catfish, while not mentioning dolphin meat. Those arguments aside, a tourist destination that displays a particular animal for show while also serves it in the cafeteria is repulsive.

US Teenager Lexi Thompson Wins LPGA Malaysia.

LEXI Thompson shot a 2-under 69 to win LPGA Malaysia by four strokes Sunday, giving the 18-year-old American her first victory of the season.

"Words can't even describe the feeling I have right now," she said. Thompson finished at 19-under 265 to end South Korea's dominance at this tournament. This was her second career LPGA title, following the Navistar LPGA Classic 2011. "It's sort of like a rerun from Navistar, just having that feeling walking up to the 18th green, embracing the fans and just knowing you have the win under your belt," she said. "It's very big. I have worked so hard between this whole last year since Navistar. It pays off and means so much to me."

Chinese star Feng Shanshan was second after a 67. South Korea's Ilhee Lee, the leader after the first two rounds, tied for third with second-ranked Suzann Pettersen another three strokes behind. South Korea's Amy Yang was fifth, nine shots off the pace. Sandra Gal of Germany, who shot a 66 in the final round, shared sixth with Chella Choi, Alison Walshe, Stacy Lewis, Beatriz Recari and Karine Icher. Thompson began the day in front, leading Lee by three strokes.

But the comfortable margin was down to two shots after the first nine as Lee made her move with birdies on Nos. 7 and No. 8. "It got really close," said Thompson, who bogeyed the second hole to drop a shot. "It was hard to grasp because I actually hit some really good putts and they just lipped out unfortunately." The pressure on Thompson eased when Lee bogeyed the ninth hole. On the back nine, Thompson fired three straight birdies to put her back in command.

"Those were big," she said. "No. 10, I just hit a close wedge shot and made like a 4-footer, but the birdie actually on 11 was really unexpected. But those are always huge in a tournament, getting into the next hole and always pumping yourself up to make more birdies out there." She added another birdie on No. 16 to close in on the title, although she had a bogey on the next hole.

South Korea's Jimin Kang won the inaugural event in 2010 before compatriots Na Yeon and top-ranked Inbee Park followed the next two years.

Suami Nikah Jin?

Kuala Lumpur: “Selama lebih 30 tahun bergelar isteri, saya banyak bersabar dengan kerenah suami yang langsung tidak mempedulikan rumah tangga dan kerap menghilangkan diri ke negara jiran. “Kami seolah-olah terputus hubungan.

Dia langsung tidak menelefon apatah lagi pulang menyambut Aidilfitri bersama sejak lima tahun lalu. Tiba-tiba dia pulang dan membuat pengakuan sudah beristerikan jin ketika menuntut ilmu di negara berkenaan,” kata Norehan, 58. Warga emas itu tampil membuat pendedahan selepas tidak tahan hidup bersama suami yang mengamalkan sihir selain meninggalkannya bersama dua anak menguruskan kehidupan sendiri di tanah air. Katanya, dia terkejut besar apabila mengetahui suaminya benar-benar menuntut ilmu songsang termasuk mengaku bernikah secara batin dengan jin di luar negara.

“Sejak dia pulang saya sedar perubahannya. Dia kerap berbuat baik dan sering meminta layanan lebih di bilik tidur tidak kira siang mahupun malam. “Begitupun saya mula mengesyaki perkara menakutkan apabila dilayan kasar setiap kali hubungan seks hingga terpaksa menyerah dalam keadaan menekup muka kerana tidak tahan melihat mukanya,” katanya yang membuat aduan kepada Pengarah Kebangsaan Sukarelawan Peguam Untuk Semua (SukaGuam), Nurul Aini Yausoff di sini, minggu lalu.

Berikutan tidak tahan diperlakukan begitu, Norehan nekad meminta penjelasan sebelum rahsia suaminya terbongkar satu demi satu. “Saya bukan saja dipukul, malah suami sanggup mengherdik saya di depan anak-anak hanya kerana perkara kecil termasuk ketika saya menyuruhnya bersolat dan puasa. “Sedangkan sebelum ke negara jiran, dia boleh dibawa berbincang, bertolak ansur serta rapat dengan anak-anak,” katanya.

Norehan berkata, akibat terlalu taasub dengan ilmu songsang dituntut, suaminya bertukar menjadi aneh. “Sejak menuntut ilmu pelik, dia selalu bercakap seorang diri dan merayu untuk bersama setiap hari. Paling menakutkan ada ketikanya dia merenung saya dengan mata kemerahan serta mengikut gerak geri saya tanpa jemu. “Saya menjadi tambah bingung selepas kerap terjumpa barangan pelik seperti kain kuning dan botol dalam beg sandang suami.

Anak-anak pula tunduk pada setiap kemahuannya,” katanya. Selain itu, Norehan berkata, suaminya juga tidak betah di rumah dan hanya mampu bertahan kira-kira tiga jam sehari sebelum menghilang ke kedai kopi dan berbual panjang hingga ke awal pagi. “Saya hanya bimbangkan dia. Kami bukannya muda lagi dan saya tidak mahu dia berterusan begitu selepas kami berpisah nanti,” katanya yang memohon khidmat nasihat untuk menuntut fasakh.

Sementara itu, Nurul Aini berkata, semakan pihaknya mendapati, Norehan sudah beberapa kali hadir di mahkamah, tetapi kes berkenaan tidak dapat diselesaikan kerana dia tidak diwakili peguam.