Pendakwah Global Di Pilih Tokoh Ma'al Hijrah.

Pendakwah global dari India, Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik dan bekas Menteri 
di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin 
diumumkan sebagai Tokoh Maal Hijrah 1435M/2013 pada Majlis Sambutan 
Ma'al Hijrah Peringkat Kebangsaan di Dewan Plenari, Pusat Konvensyen 

Antarabangsa Putrajaya (PICC) di sini

PUTRAJAYA: Pendakwah global dari India, Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik dan bekas Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin diumumkan sebagai Tokoh Maal Hijrah 1435M/2013 pada Majlis Sambutan Ma'al Hijrah Peringkat Kebangsaan di Dewan Plenari, Pusat Konvensyen Antarabangsa Putrajaya (PICC) di sini, sebentar tadi.
Pengumuman nama tokoh itu diumumkan oleh Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM), Datuk Othman Mustapha. Pemilihan tokoh berkenaan dibuat atas asas sumbangan besar mereka dalam memartabatkan Islam di peringkat nasional ddan global yang mana turut diiktiraf oleh pelbagai pihak. Kedua-dua mereka membawa pulang hadiah wang tunai sebanyak RM100,000; pingat penghargaan Ma'al Hijrah 1435H; sijil penghargaan berbentuk plak dan sijil penghargaan beserta bingkai.
Sementara itu, Yang Di Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Badlishah melahirkan kegusaran apabila melihat semangat 'kebersamaan dalam kepelbagaian' di kalangan rakyat kini cuba dikikis dan diganggu gugat oleh pihak-pihak tertentu. Baginda juga mengingatkan kepada semua pihak supaya tidak melihat isu-isu mutakhir ini sebagai isu yang remeh dan memandangnya sebelah mata kerana isu dibawa tidak dapat membezakan antara yang benar dan salah selain turut menghina institusi agama dan raja.
Di Melaka, bekas Naib Canselor Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Tan Sri Profesor Dr Ibrahim Shah Abu Shah dinobat sebagai Tokoh Maal Hijrah peringkat negeri 1435/2013. Anugerah disampaikan Yang di-Pertua Negeri Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob di Auditorium Seri Negeri. Manakala di Pahang, rektor Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM), Profesor Datuk Seri Dr Zaleha Kamaruddin dipilih sebagai penerima Anugerah Tokoh Maal Hijrah Pahang.
Anugerah itu disampaikan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Dakwah Islamiah dan Tugas-tugas Khas negeri, Datuk Syed Ibrahim Syed Ahmad pada Majlis Sambutan Maal Hijrah peringkat negeri di Auditorium RTM, Kuantan. Di Perak, bekas Kadi Besar Perak, Sulaiman Ismail dipilih sebagai penerima Anugerah Tokoh Maal Hijrah Perak 2013/1435M. Beliau menerima wang tunai RM10,000, medal, plak, sijil dan pakej umrah berjumlah RM5,000.
Pemangku Raja Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah berkenan hadir dan menyampaikan anugerah pada Majlis Sambutan Maal Hijrah Peringkat Negeri di Dewan Raja Baharom, Masjid Daerah Batu Gajah. Lebih 1,000 hadirin termasuk masyarakat setempat hadir memeriahkan sambutan di Batu Gajah. Di Bukit Metajam, bekas Duta Besar Malaysia ke Arab Saudi Prof Datuk Syed Omar Syed Mohamad dipilih sebagai Tokoh Maal Hijrah Pulau Pinang.
Beliau yang juga bekas Rektor Kolej Islam Antarabangsa Pulau Pinang (KITAB) itu menerima anugerah yang disampaikan Yang Dipertua Negeri Tun Abdul Rahaman Abbas di majlis yang diadakan di Politeknik Seberang Perai pagi tadi.

Kejutan Final Piala Malaysia, Polis Temui Pistol, Peluru.

SHAH ALAM: Polis menemui sepucuk pistol jenis Browning dan tujuh butir peluru di dalam tandas di Stadium Shah Alam ketika perlawanan akhir Piala Malaysia antara Kelantan dan Pahang, malam kelmarin. Timbalan Ketua Polis Daerah Shah Alam, Deputi Superintendan Ruslan Abdullah, berkata polis masih mengesan pemilik pistol dan mengenal pasti motif senjata itu ditinggalkan di kawasan stadium.

Pemeriksaan badan Kira-kira 85,000 penonton menyaksikan perlawanan akhir Piala Malaysia edisi ke-87 itu. Polis melakukan pemeriksaan badan menggunakan alat pengimbas terhadap penyokong kedua-dua pasukan sebelum membenarkan mereka memasuki perkarangan stadium bagi mengelakkan mereka membawa senjata berbahaya. 

“Perlawanan akhir antara Kelantan dengan Pahang berjalan lancar dan tiada insiden tidak diingini berlaku kerana 110 pegawai dan 1,482 anggota polis ditempatkan di segenap stadium termasuk di kawasan letak kenderaan, laluan masuk dan keluar stadium serta pintu tiket,” katanya ketika dihubungi di sini, semalam. Ruslan berkata, polis menahan 86 orang kerana membawa tiket palsu dan mereka dibebaskan dengan jaminan polis. 

“Polis juga menahan lima lelaki kerana pelbagai kesalahan lain termasuk tiga menyalakan suar dan masing-masing satu kesalahan kerana membakar mercun dan membaling botol. Bahayakan diri “Tindakan menyalakan suar bukan saja membahayakan diri sendiri, malah nyawa penonton lain, termasuk kanak-kanak yang ada dalam stadium. Tiga suspek dibawa ke Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah Shah Alam untuk diambil keterangan bagi membantu siasatan,” katanya.

Sementara itu, dua kanak-kanak yang dilaporkan hilang berjaya ditemukan semula dengan ibu bapa mereka. Perlawanan akhir itu menyaksikan Pahang menamatkan kemarau 21 tahun selepas menewaskan juara bertahan, Kelantan 1-0 untuk dinobatkan sebagai juara.

Mayat Reput Dalam Selimut.

MAYAT ditemui dibungkus dalam selimut di bawah jambatan Sungai Tengi 

TANJONG KARANG: Orang ramai yang melalui kawasan bawah jambatan Sungai Tengi, berhampiran Pekan Tanjong Karang, di sini, gempar dengan penemuan mayat lelaki reput dan berbau busuk, petang semalam. Lebih mengejutkan, mayat ditemui jam 1.15 tengah hari itu dipercayai dibunuh kerana dibungkus dengan kain selimut selain mempunyai tali dijerut pada leher.
Selain itu, mayat lelaki terbabit juga diikat dengan seketul batu dipercayai untuk ditenggelamkan dan menghapuskan bukti. Menurut sumber, terdapat tali nilon berwarna hijau pada leher mangsa. “Ketika ditemui, mayat masih berpakaian lengkap iaitu kemeja berkolar berwarna kelabu dan seluar panjang warna biru muda berserta tali pinggang jenama Doula.
“Keadaan mayat ketika ditemui hanya tinggal tengkorak selain bahagian badannya hanya tinggal tulang kerana daging pada tubuhnya juga mereput,” katanya kepada Harian Metro, semalam. Sementara itu, Ketua Polis Daerah Kuala Selangor Superintendan Mohd Taib Ahmad ketika dihubungi mengesahkan menerima maklumat daripada orang awam jam 1.15 tengah hari.
Menurut beliau, siasatan mendapati mayat yang ditutup dengan selimut itu berhampiran dengan tebing sungai ketika air surut dan anggotanya terpaksa mengikat mayat itu pada kayu berhampiran sementara menunggu pasukan forensik tiba ke tempat kejadian. Katanya, mayat ditemui lengkap berpakaian dan polis masih menunggu laporan bedah siasat mengenai identiti mayat berikutan keadaannya yang reput. “Mayat dihantar ke Hospital Tanjung Karang untuk bedah siasat lanjut bagi mengetahui identiti sebenar dan tempoh lelaki itu dibunuh.
“Kami percaya mangsa sudah lama mati berdasarkan pada mayat mereput namun siasatan lanjut masih dijalankan dan punca kematian hanya boleh diketahui selepas bedah siasat dijalankan esok (hari ini),” katanya. Kes disiasat di bawah Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan kerana membunuh.

Katy Perry the new queen of Twitter

Pop star Katy Perry has overtaken Justin Bieber as the most followed person on Twitter. The latest figures Monday showed 46,534,966 followers for the singer best known for hit songs such as "Teenage Dream," California Gurls," and "I Kissed a Girl."
That overtook the number of followers of the Canadian teen star, at 46,510,838. Shea Bennett of the "All Twitter" news blog noticed the change at the top on Sunday and said Perry was now likely to be the first to get to 50 million.
"Bieber has been quite active on his profile this weekend as he's on tour in Brazil, but Perry hasn’t tweeted since October 31, so expect a little more action coming her way once she gets back on the train," Bennett wrote.
"In the meantime, Justin could claw his way back, although I think the momentum is against him." Bennett noted that Bieber took Twitter's top spot from Lady Gaga back in January, "and if history has taught us anything about placement #1 on Twitter, it's that once you’ve been leap-frogged by another user you never get it back again."

Venezuela slams new US spying claims

Venezuela Monday denounced a new report that the United States made Caracas a spying priority, and warned that bilateral ties would remain frozen.

"It is unacceptable that they're spying on us," Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told a news conference in Mexico City after talks with Mexican counterpart Jose Antonio Meade. The New York Times reported Sunday that Venezuela was one of six "enduring targets" in the National Security Agency's official mission list from 2007, along with China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Russia. Citing documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the newspaper said the agency monitored the government and personal emails of the top 10 Venezuelan economic officials.

"The revelations show once more the reasons why we regrettably cannot have good relations with the United States," Jaua said. The United States and Venezuela have been without mutual ambassadors since 2010, and Caracas kicked out the US charge d'affaires in October, leading Washington to reciprocate. Last June, the two countries agreed to begin discussions aimed at returning their ambassadors following a meeting between Jaua and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

But Venezuela broke off the near rapprochement in July after the now US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, lumped Caracas' elected government with "repressive regimes." In July, a Brazilian newspaper, citing Snowden leaks, reported that the NSA had monitored military purchases in Venezuela.

Three killed in Norway bus hijacking: police

Three people were killed Monday when a man armed with a knife hijacked a bus in western Norway, local police said. The suspected hijacker, a man in his 50s of foreign origin, has been arrested, police officer Joern Lasse Foerde Refsnes told the TV2 Nyhetskanalen news channel.

"For now, I have no information to indicate there was anyone else than the three victims" on the bus, he said. The identity of the suspect, who was himself injured according to Norwegian media, as well as the motives for the attack were not immediately clear. 

The man was overpowered by firefighters who rushed to the scene of what they initially believed was a traffic accident, police said. The long-distance bus was driving on the route between the mountainous Valdres region, a popular area for skiing, and Oslo.

New Jersey mall in lockdown after gunman spotted, shots heard

Authorities put a shopping mall in Paramus, New Jersey, on lockdown late Monday after a gunman fired at least one shot but no one was injured, the town's mayor said. The shooter is believed to have fled the mall, Mayor Richard Labarbiera said on CNN, citing police.

He said one shell casing had been found, despite earlier reports that several shots were heard. "Everyone in the mall is well," he said. Shooting erupted at the Garden State Plaza Mall around 9:20 pm local time, CNN television reported. One gunman dressed in black was being sought by police, NBC said. Witnesses gave varying accounts of the number of shots they heard, the reports said.

Many stores scrambled to close their gates at the popular mall in a suburban area near New York City. Shocked workers and shoppers scurried out in a an alarming incident that recalled September's tragedy at a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya where an attack claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab killed at least 67 people.

Countdown to Mars: Indian mission prepares for blastoff

India's launches its first mission to Mars on Tuesday, aiming to become the only Asian nation to reach the Red Planet with a programme designed to showcase its low-cost space technology. A rocket carrying a 1.35-tonne unmanned probe will blast off at 02:38pm (0908 GMT) from the Sriharikota spaceport off the southeast coast, beginning a 300-day journey to study the Martian atmosphere. 

"The countdown is progressing well, as scheduled," said Deviprasad Karnik, spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). "The weather is normal. Slightly cloudy but no problem." The Mars Orbiter Mission, known as "Mangalyaan" in India, was announced 15 months ago by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh shortly after a Chinese probe flopped when it failed to leave earth's atmosphere. The timing led to speculation that India was seeking to make a point to its militarily and economically superior neighbour, despite denials from ISRO.

"We are in competition with ourselves in the areas that we have charted for ourselves," ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan told AFP last week. "Each country has its own priorities." The golden-coloured probe, about the size of a small car or very large refrigerator, has been hurriedly assembled and will be carried by a rocket much smaller than American or Russian equivalents. Lacking the power to fly directly, the 350-tonne launch vehicle will orbit earth for nearly a month, building up the necessary velocity to break free from our planet's gravitational pull.

Only then will it begin the second stage of its nine-month journey which will test India's scientists to the full, five years after they sent a probe called Chandrayaan to the moon. More than half of all Mars projects have failed, including China's in 2011 and Japan's in 2003. Only the United States, Russia and the European Union have successfully reached there. "I was very nervous during the moon mission, but after seeing the precision with which our people took Chandrayaan to the orbit I have to be confident," top Indian space scientist Jitendra Nath Goswami told AFP. 

The total cost of the project is just 4.5 billion rupees ($73 million), a fraction of foreign equivalents. There have been recent setbacks for India, however, including when Chandrayaan lost contact with its controllers in 2009 and when a new larger launch vehicle blew up after take-off in 2010. India has never before attempted an inter-planetary journey which has required the development of technology enabling the probe to run autonomously. Communication signals take 12 minutes to travel between Earth and Mars. "The biggest problem is to understand the navigation issue from the earth's orbit to the Martian orbit," ISRO chief Radhakrishnan told AFP. 

The programme also has to contend with domestic critics who say a country that struggles to feed its people adequately and where more than half have no toilets should not be splurging on space travel. "An improvement of basic social indicators should be the priority and then we can have many missions to Mars," activist Shivani Chaudhry from the New Delhi-based Housing and Land Rights Network told AFP. ISRO counters that its technology has helped with economic development through satellites which monitor weather and water resources, or enable communication in remote parts of the country. 

The Bangalore-based organisation and its 16,000 staff also share their rocket technology with the state-run defence body responsible for India's rapidly evolving missile programme. The United States is the only nation that has successfully sent robotic explorers to land on Mars, the most recent being Curiosity, a nearly one-tonne vehicle which touched down in August 2012. One of its discoveries appeared to undercut the purpose of the Indian mission which is to find evidence of methane which would lend credence to the idea of Mars supporting a primitive form of life.

A study of data from Curiosity published in September found that the rover had detected only trace elements of methane in the Martian atmosphere. "Remember that it (Curiosity's methane reading) is for a single spot. One point doesn't make it a story for the whole planet," said Goswami, who was lead scientist for the moon mission. NASA, which will launch its own probe to study Mars on November 18, is helping ISRO with communications. Two ships stationed in the Pacific will also assist with monitoring.

200 million people at risk from toxic pollution

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide risk exposure to toxic pollution, environmental groups warned Monday, publishing a list of the world's worst areas, including an African processing site for European electronics.

"We estimate that the health of more than 200 million people is at risk from pollution in the developing world," said Richard Fuller, who heads US-based environment watchdog the Blacksmith Institute. The institute and Green Cross Switzerland published a new top 10 list of the "World's Worst Polluted Places" -- their first since 2007 -- based on more than 2,000 risk assessments at contaminated sites in 49 countries. West Africa's second largest processing area for the world's swelling piles of electronic waste, at Agbogbloshie in Ghana's capital Accra was among new additions.

Each year, Ghana imports around 215,000 tonnes of secondhand consumer electronics, mainly from Western Europe -- a number that is expected to double by 2020, according to the report. The main health concern linked to e-waste processing in Ghana is the burning of sheathed cables to recover the copper inside, the report said, pointing out that the cables can contain a range of heavy metals, including lead. Soil samples from around Agbogbloshie have shown concentrations of that toxic metal that are 45 times more than accepted levels, the report said. 

"E-waste is really going to be a challenge. It's growing exponentially. Everybody wants a computer, a laptop, the modern devices, so I think we're seeing the tip of the iceberg," Blacksmith research director Jack Caravanos told reporters in a conference call. Other newcomers to the 2013 list included Indonesia's Citarum River Basin in West Java, an area that is home to around nine million people, but also some 2,000 factories. The river, which is used among other things for human consumption and to irrigate rice farms, is contaminated by a wide range of toxins, including aluminium and manganese.

Drinking water tests have shown lead at levels more than 1,000 times above US standards, the report said. Another Indonesian area, Kalimantan on the island of Borneo, was also added to the list due to the widespread artisanal small-scale gold mining there. Most practitioners of this craft use mercury in the extraction process, and contribute to a large portion of global emissions of the hazardous metal each year. This year's list also includes Hazaribagh in Bangladesh, which is home to most the country's 270 registered tanneries.

Every day, they collectively dump around 22,000 cubic litres of toxic waste, including cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, into the Buriganga, Dhaka's main river and key water supply. The Niger River Delta in Nigeria and the Matanza-Riachuelo River Basin in Argentina were also added to the list. Several toxic industrial areas in the former Soviet Union, including the site of the devastating 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, were carried over from the last list, as was Zambia's lead-mining city Kabwe.

Unlike the list six years ago, which was dominated by Chinese and Indian sites, those two countries are missing from the list published Monday. "There has been a reasonably strong movement towards clean-up in India and China," Hanrahan explained.

Girl, 8, is China's youngest lung cancer case

An eight-year-old girl has become China's youngest lung cancer patient, reports said, with doctors blaming pollution as the direct cause of her illness. The girl, whose name was not given, lives near a major road in the eastern province of Jiangsu, said Xinhuanet, the website of China's official news agency.
It quoted Jie Fengdong, a doctor at Jiangsu Cancer Hospital in Nanjing, as saying she had been exposed to harmful particles and dust over a long period of time. Lung cancer cases among children are extremely rare, with the average age for diagnosis at about 70, according to the American Cancer Society. But the incidence of the disease has skyrocketed in China as the country's rapid development has brought with it deteriorating air quality, particularly in urban areas
 Lung cancer deaths in China have multiplied more than four times over the past 30 years, according to Beijing's health ministry. Cancer is now the leading cause of death in the smog-ridden capital. The report of the eight-year-old girl's diagnosis comes after choking smog enveloped the northeastern city of Harbin two weeks ago, bringing flights and ground transport to a standstill and forcing schools to shut for several days, with visibility in some areas reduced to less than 50 metres.
At the height of the smog, the city's levels of PM2.5 -- the smallest, most dangerous type of airborne particle -- reached 1,000 micrograms per cubic metre, 40 times the World Health Organization's recommended standard. High levels of PM2.5 have been linked to health problems including lung cancer and heart disease.

De-stresssss with an Indonesian snake massage

Lying on a massage table at a spa in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, Feri Tilukay closed his eyes and smiled blissfully as three enormous snakes slithered all over him. He is one of a small band of customers brave enough to try the "snake massage", where the gentle hands of a professionally trained masseuse are swapped for the cold, scaly skin of six-foot (1.8-metre) pythons.

"It is a very unique sensation," Tilukay, 31, told AFP, as the snakes slid over him during a recent session, adding the treatment "gives you an adrenaline rush". Dressed only in a pair of shorts, he seemed completely relaxed as three reptiles named Jasmine, Muscle and Brown got to work on him. They draped themselves over his neck, rolled around on his stomach and back and occasionally arched their necks and stuck out their forked tongues. 

Two masseuses also attended the session to ensure safety and to encourage the snakes -- whose mouths are kept shut with sticky tape -- to move around, making sure they didn't just coil up and stay put in one spot.

Before the 90-minute treatment, which costs 480,000 rupiah ($43), the snakes are taken out of the plastic boxes where they are kept and cleaned with anti-septic. While many people who get the massage at the centre, called Bali Heritage Reflexology and Spa, are thrill seekers or just looking for a new experience, a handful, like Tilukay, are trying to get over a life-long fear of snakes.
"I used to be afraid of snakes, I had a phobia. But after getting this treatment several times, the phobia started going away and now I like snakes," said Tilukay, an accountant, who has had three of the sessions. He is one of the few Indonesian customers with most coming from Europe, Japan or South Korea, according to spa general manager Paulus Abraham. The spa, which is decorated with wooden furniture in the style of a traditional house on the resort island of Bali, keeps five snakes which are fed a diet of live rabbits.
The snake massage is just one of 300 treatments offered by the centre -- and many others are equally off-the-wall. In one a staff member dressed in a gorilla suit performs a massage and in another, the customer sits in a bathtub of beer receiving a massage while enjoying a Lager.


But it is the snake massage, which started around a year ago, that has been attracting the most attention as well as a steady stream of customers. However, animal rights groups have raised concerns, with the Jakarta Animal Aid Network describing the treatment of the snakes as "exploitation".
"We are angry to hear about any kind of animal exploitation, including snakes," group spokesman Benvika, who like many Indonesians goes by one name, told AFP. Abraham insisted that the snakes were not being ill-treated -- and that they enjoyed the contact with humans that came from the massages.
"We don't treat them like workers, we treat them like our friends or family," he said. "We kiss them, we hug them, we take good care of them."

Pelakon Indonesia idaman

Menonton sinetron Indonesia pada waktu petang sambil minum kopi merupakan aktiviti tatkala bosan kesukaan. Mengapa? Mungkin jalan cerita yang melibatkan pari-pari dan perkara ajaib tidak masuk akal namun kita perlu akui, kita hanya menonton sinetron kerana pelakon Indonesia ternyata sedap mata memandang.

Yalah, kebanyakan mereka berdarah kacukan Belanda, berkulit putih berseri dan bermata galak. Alang-alang menonton TV, tidak salah cuci mata sekali. Kali ini kami senaraikan pelakon Indonesia yang menjadi idaman kalbu!

 Raline Shah


Nadine Chandrawinata


Marissa Nasution


Agnes Monica


Luna Maya

WAKIL RATU CANTIK `DRAG` DISANGKA ROZITA CHE WAN

Semakin nak dekat dengan hari bahagianya tidak lama lagi, idola Admin yang satu ini siapa lagi kalau bukan Rozita Che Wan atau Che Ta semakin hangat, cantik, mantap dan terus menjadi pujaan hati peminatnya. Mana tidaknya wanita-wanita di luar sana makan hati, tengoklah dia menjaga kecantikan diri luar dan dalam ditambah gayanya yang semakin anggun tu, sentap uols.

Daripada yang seusia dengannya hinggakan mereka yang muda-muda ini pun pasti cemburu melihat kecantikan yang dimilikinya. Malah ada golongan 'tertentu' mengidolakan ibu kepada dua orang anak dan ingin menjadi secantik bekas ratu cantik negara kita itu. Motif tiba-tiba Admin cakap macam tu kan, nak tau kenapa?

Sebab Admin terjumpa seorang peserta ratu cantik yang memang saling tak tumpah wajah Che Ta. Difahamkan Nur Sajat Fariz, yang kini sedang berada di Pattaya, Thailand adalah wakil Malaysia ke Miss International Queen Pageant 2013 iaitu pertandingan ratu cantik maknyah dan melihat kepada gambarnya memang dia persis Che Ta.

Memang cantik betul dia, rasanya wanita-wanita tulen pasti bertambah sentap melihat kejelitaan Nur Sajat kan? Dia antara 20 peserta pertandingan ratu cantik tersebut yang merupakan acara tahunan yang kini memasuki siri kesembilan di anjurkan di negara gajah putih itu. Tambah sumber lagi mengatakan dia baru sahaja menang salah sebuah gelaran yang dipertandingkan sebelum Miss International Queen Pageant 2013 dinobatkan pada 1 November ini.

Bila tengok foto kostum kebangsaan yang digayakan Nur Sajat, rakan-rakan Admin sibuk bertanyakan siapakah dia dan semua setuju dia memang memiliki iras wajah seakan Che Ta. Sampaikan ada yang ingat Rozita Che Wan dah kahwin dek kerana foto tersebut. Andaian Admin lagi mengenai foto bogel kononnya Che Tayang tersebar sebelum ini mungkin milik golongan-golongan ini yang memiliki wajah sepertinya.

Admin bukanlah kata ia foto Nur Sajat tetapi kemungkinan ada lagi mereka yang memiliki wajah persis ratu pujaan ramai itu, kan? Tak kisahlah, yang penting Admin suka melihat keayuan Nur Sajat ini melalui foto-fotonya di laman Facebook rasmi pertandingan ratu cantik tersebut. Bukan main lagi, kalah Deborah Henry dan Soo Wincci masa mereka mewakili Malaysia ke pertandingan ratu cantik dulu.

Yang penting Admin suka nama dia yang klasik itu, bukan macam sesetengah yang lain tu nama tidak bercirikan diri nak international saja. Ooops jangan marah uols, apa-apa pun kita semua serupa. Asalkan anda ok, Adminj pun ok! Go Sajat! Ciao!

Admin: Apa cerita penyanyi Nurul Wahab yang katanya dikecam kerana menggunakan surname suaminya, Eric Depp?

Filipinos allege abuse in Saudi immigration crackdown

Thirty Filipino workers expelled from Saudi Arabia returned home Monday and alleged they were abused amid a crackdown on illegal migrants there. They were among an estimated 6,700 Filipino workers stranded in parts of the oil-rich Middle Eastern kingdom where an amnesty for undocumented foreigners ended over the weekend.
"They treated us like animals," said domestic helper Amor Roxas, 46, who burst in tears while narrating her ordeal. She claimed Saudi police rounded them up and placed them in a crowded cell for four days before they were paraded from the immigration centre to the airport. "Our feet were chained," added Yvonne Montefeo, 32, in between sobs. Saudi Arabian embassy officials in Manila did not want to comment on the allegation of abuse.
Migrante International, a support group for Filipino overseas workers, said 1,700 other workers remained stranded in Jeddah waiting for their documents to be processed so they can return home while about 5,000 more were scattered in Riyadh, Al Khobar and Dammam and also needing consular assistance. It warned that the Filipinos "are in danger of being violently dispersed, arrested and detained by Saudi authorities" as the kingdom implements its crackdown.

The Filipinos are among tens of thousands of mostly Asian unskilled workers likely to be expelled, the group said. Vice President Jejomar Binay, who is also presidential adviser on migrant affairs, last week appealed to the Saudi government to extend its deadline, noting that "thousands are still hoping to correct their employment status".

"Due to the large number of Filipino workers seeking correction of their employment status, many of them may not be able to meet the Nov 3 deadline," he said in a letter to King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud last week. The crackdown started early this year, but the Saudi government offered an amnesty to allow the workers to legalise their stay. Binay said more than 4,000 Filipinos had been repatriated since the crackdown was announced, while 1,716 are waiting for their exit documents to be processed even as the deadline expired Sunday.

About a tenth of the Philippines' population live and work abroad, and their dollar remittances are a vital pillar of the economy. A vast majority of them work as unskilled labourers or maids, and are exposed to situations whey they are prone to abuse.

Obesity linked to early onset of puberty in US girls

Girls of all races are entering puberty earlier than ever before, and US research, out Monday, suggests obesity may a contributing factor, particularly in white girls. Early puberty has been linked to a number of medical conditions, including increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer, as well as high blood pressure and depression.

White girls on average began developing breasts at a median age of 9.7 years, about four months earlier than found in a separate study in 1997, said the report in the journal Pediatrics. A higher body mass index, or ratio of height and weight, was "the strongest predictor" of early breast development across all races in the study.

African-American girls continued to develop at earlier ages than whites and Asians, as previous studies have also found, though no earlier than was observed in prior studies from the late 1980s and 1990s. "The obesity epidemic appears to be a prime driver in the decrease in age at onset of breast development in contemporary girls," said the research led by Frank Biro at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. 

The research is based on a group of 1,200 girls in New York, the San Francisco Bay area and the greater Cincinnati area, as part of the government funded Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program. The girls enrolled in the study beginning in 2004 when they were between the ages of six to eight, and their development was tracked for multiple years.A trend toward earlier puberty has been noted in past international studies as well.

Research from Denmark published in 2009 showed that girls were experiencing breast development nearly a year earlier than those born 15 to 16 years before. An accompanying editorial in Pediatrics by Marcia Herman-Giddens of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said that the reasons for early puberty are complex and may not be fully understood for some time. "Each individual girl is exposed to multiple factors in today's environment, many not present decades ago, that may potentially influence her pubertal onset," she wrote. 

"Furthermore, because early puberty and menarche are associated with many detrimental health and psychosocial issues, we must not accept this premature development as the 'new normal.' Instead, she called for a renewed push to create "a healthier environment for our children."

SEMANGAT PUTERI WALINONGSARI SITI NURHALIZA BUAT PAHANG JUARA?

Tahniah Admin ucapkan kepada skuad Toh Gajah, Pahang apabila menjuarai perlawanan Piala Malaysia selepas berjaya menewaskan Kelantan dengan 1-0 di perlawanan akhir perlawanan di Stadium ShahAlam malam semalam.
Admin lihat ramai penyokong pasukan bola sepak Pahang puas dan gembira kerana Toh Gajah akhirnya menjulang trofi Piala Malaysia, selepas sekian lama menunggu pada kali terakhir pada tahun 1992. Admin dapat tahu pada malam semalam penyokong Toh Gajah kurang sedikit daripada penyokong Kelantan yang hadir ke stadium, namun itu tidak mematahkan semangat pemain bola sepak Pahang.
Admin rasa mungkin juga skuad Pahang mendapat semangat daripada penyanyi tersohor Negara kita iaitu Dato’ Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin dan suaminya Datuk Sri Khalid yang sanggup turun padang buat pertama kalinya untuk menyokong pasukan negeri kelahiran penyanyi Aku Cinta Padamu itu. Bukan Admin sahaja, malah ramai juga peminat di Twiiter dan Facebook berpendapat kemenangan skuad bola Pahang adalah disebabkan Siti Nurhaliza turun padang dan menonton perlawanan itu.
Biasalah, pelbagai andaian dilakukan. Admin lihat menerusi foto yang dimuat naik di dalam laman Instagram, Siti Nurhaliza dan suaminya bersemangat sehingga memakai jersey pemain bola sepak Pahang yang berwarna Kuning itu. Bukan itu sahaja Siti siap menempah khas jersey bernombor 11 dengan menulis nama singkatannya di Instagram iaitu CTKD (Siti Nurhaliza Dato’ K). Memang semangat betul Admin lihat, bukan sahaja Siti dan Dato K malah 2 anaknya iaitu Ashraf Khalid dan Aazief Khalid yang mana masing-masing turut memakai jersi kuning dari pasukan Pahang ketika bersama-sama menonton perlawanan itu.
Admin juga tertarik dalam satu entri Siti di dalam Instargam miliknya apabila dia memberitahu dia membawa semangat Puteri Walinongsari iaitu puteri tercantik Pahang suatu ketika dulu. Malah Siti juga pernah membawakan lagu tradisional bertajukWalinong Sari.

MV KALAU AKU KAYA TELAN BELANJA RM30,000!

Pengarah Urusan Warner Music Malaysia dan Singapura, Darren Choy akui muzik video nyanyian Awi Rafael dan Altimet, Kalau Aku Kaya merupakan muzik video yang termahal yang pernah dikeluarkan oleh syarikat rakaman itu iaitu menelan belanja sebanyak RM30,000.

Darren Choy berkata sudah tiba masanya pihak pengurusan berkenaan menaik taraf kualiti muzik video untuk penyanyi- penyanyinya di bawah naungannya. “Kos pembikinan muzik video ini sahaja sudah menelan belanja sebanyak RM30 000 dan ia tidak termasuk kos untuk mempromosikan muzik video inil agi. “Saya akui memang pelaburan untuk muzik video ini agak mahal, namun saya rasa ia berpatutan dengan hasil dan kualiti yang diberikan.

Lagipun sudah tiba masanya kami menaik taraf kualiti muzik video untuk penyanyi di bawah naungan kami. “Terus-terang, saya berpuas hati dengan hasil kerja tangan Ravi sebagai pengarah muzik video ini kerana saya tahu dia seorang yang hebat dalam bidang pengiklanan dan muzik video di dalam industri hiburan India di Malaysia,” katanya selepas pelancaran Muzik Video Kalau Aku Kaya di MalaysianPetroleum Club, tingkat 42, Menara Berkembar Kuala Lumpur (KLCC), kemarin. 

Terdahulu, Awi dan Altimet sudah pun tampil dengan muzik video lirik yang telah dimuat naik di laman web perkongsian video YouTube.Namun muzik video tersebut merupakan muzik video lirik sahaja. Darren memberitahu selepas muzik video lirik itu mendapat sambutan sehingga telah meraih lebih 2 juta pelayar yang menonton muzik videotersebut, kini sudah tiba masanya mereka tampilkan muzik video sebenar khas buat peminat lagu Kalau Aku Kaya yang sering bertanyakan mengenainya.

“Sebenarnya selepas lagu Kalau Aku Kaya semakin dikenali dan popular, ramai yang mencari muzik videonya di Youtube, padahal kami belum hasilkannya lagi. Jadi ketika itu kami buat keputusan untuk keluar dengan muzik video lirik dahulu. “Tapi selepas itu, ramai pun yang tanya bila kami hendak menghasilkan muzik video rasmi lagu ini. Selepas melihat sambutan yang menggalakan itu jadi kami rasa ada baiknya kami hasilkan kini ketika lagu ini masih popular,” jelasnya lagi.

Muzik video yang dihasilkan sepenuhnya dalam masa sebulan setengah itu mengambil lokasi penggambaran di sekitar Grik, Perak untuk AwiRafael dan Altimet pula di showrrom kereta di sekitar Kuala Lumpur. Selain YouTube, Muzik Video Kalau Aku Kaya akan disiarkan di MTV Asia tidak lama lagi.

HEIDI KLUM SI TUA BERTONGKAT HADIRI PARTI HALLOWEEN

Selain terkenal melalui rancangan realiti mencari pereka fesyen popular Project Runway, Heidi Klum pasti akan menjadi tumpuan kala menjelang sambutan Halloween yang seringkali diadakan pada penghujung Oktober.

Bekas isteri kepada Seal itu pernah tampil dalam pelbagai watak filem atau ikon popular hinggalah menjadi binatang seperti gorilla dan ular. Yang terkini Heidi tetap tampil dengan pemilihan gaya yang pasti tidak terjangkau dek orang lain iaitu menjadi Heidi yang tua!

Usaha dalam menjadikan Halloween yang disambutnya berjaya, Heidi sanggup mendapatkan khidmat solekan pakar serta menggunakan rambut palsu dan dilihat seperti bongkok untuk menjadi dirinya yang tua. Dikhabarkan dia mengambil inspirasi Mrs Doubtfire, filem yang dilakonkan Robin Williams pada tahun 1994 itu.
Khabarnya hos yang juga merupakan model terkenal ini muncul di Marquee, sebuah kelab di New York yang menjadi lokasi dia menyambut Halloween saban tahun. Ketika melalui laluan khas sebelum masuk kedalam, dia menarik perhatian ramai bukan disebabkan orang mengenalinya tetapi kerana kostumnya berjaya menampakkan Heidi sangat tua. Untuk parti yang dianjurkannya itu, dia tampil dengan blaus flora, skirt pendek, rantai mutiara, dan tongkat cukup menjelaskan fesyen seorang perempuan berusia.
Tidak hanya itu, solekan efek muka kedut, rambut palsu hampir botak dan yang paling mengagumkan ramai adalah kulit badan yang menampakkan urat telah mengubah hos cantik itu 50 tahun lebih tua dari usianya.


Sebelum majlis bermula dia ada berkongsi dengan peminat di Twitter persediaannya menjadi tua. Untuk foto pertamanya setelah siap disolek dia menulis kapsyen untuk foto itu yang berbunyi "Ok guys ..... here I go into the future” atau “Ok semua, inilah saya (Heidi) di masa akan datang”.