Misi kemanusiaan Yayasan Amal di Kassala, Sudan

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KUALA LUMPUR, 1 Nov: Yayasan Amal Malaysia (Amal Malaysia) akan melaksanakan misi kemanusiaan di Kassala, Sudan dari 15 November hingga 20 November akan datang bersempena sambutan Aidiladha.

Misi kemanusiaan bagi membantu pelarian Eritrea di bandar sempadan Sudan itu akan disertai 15 anggota termasuk pegawai perubatan.

Amal Malaysia juga akan melaksanakan ibadah korban di khemah-khemah pelarian Islam di Kassala sepanjang berada di wilayah sempadan Sudan itu.
Presidennya, Husin Ismail berkata, pihaknya mensasarkan 50 ekor lembu bagi ibadah korban itu dan setakat ini berjaya mengumpulkan 20 ekor lembu bagi tujuan tersebut.

"Bagi program ibadah korban kita menetapkan RM295 untuk satu bahagian lembu dan RM500 untuk seekor kambing," jelasnya.

Sehubungan itu beliau mempelawa orang ramai yang berminat menyertai program ibadah korban bagi pelarian Eritrea di Sudan menghubungi Amal Malaysia di talian 019-951 1860 (Cikgu Husin) dan 019-664 4796 (Jamuluddin).

Kini terdapat 116,000 pelarian Eritrea di wilayah Sudan ekoran konflik etnik, politik dan agama di negara pinggir Laut Merah itu. Ia mewakili jumlah terbesar pelarian di wilayah Sudan.

Sudan turut menampung 25,000 pelarian dari Chad, Ethiopia (11,000), Uganda (7,800) dan Republik Afrika Tengah (5,000) selain konflik dalaman di wilayah Darfur yang membabitkan lebih 5.3 juta penduduknya.


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Seeing Positivity in Defeat

I'm not a fan of Malaysian football, at least not anymore. Not since that famous Gold Medal finish in 1989 Sea Games when we beat Singapore 3-1. After that game, Malaysian football has been lost somewhere, somehow.

But watching the Malaysia Cup Final Saturday night, I saw something that has been missing in our favourite past-time. Young players playing their socks off, all for the love of the game and fopr the glory of lifting the most famous trophy in the land.

I was quite dissappointed though that Kelantan beat my home state Negeri Sembilan 2-1. But seeing two teams, consisting of a majority of players under 25 years of age, playing a good game of football was a feast to the eyes. Don't compare them to the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal though... They are too far ahead. Even our national teams would struggle to beat their U-18 sides.

But it's a sign that Malaysian football is not starved of young talents. The best thing to do will be to give them enough exposure... International exposure... And a good and sound management...and I'm sure the future would bright for Malaysia...


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Khoda Hafez FB

Khoda Hafez, literally means "May God Protect You" in Farsi... It's a common farewell greeting in Iran where I used to spend a lot of my professional life while in the Middle East. When you say it, it means you are saying "Goodbye"... So, Goodbye FB.
I'm not sure whether I'm going back or not but as for now I want to go back to blogging.
I have a lot things on my mind that FB just can't cater. And I want to be free expressing my thoughts and feeling... in my own web-space.
A few of the people who are close to me (including my sister) testified that they felt more "relieved" once they quit FB-ing. I want to feel that too.
So, from now on, this web-log will come alive again... Cherios!!!

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Bracing For FB Withdrawal Syndrome

Eversince I got active with the social network called Facebook (FB), this blog has becoming more and more dormant. FB has been taking up and occupying plenty of my precious time.
I think it's high time for me to bid my FB account farewell and return back to blogging. I have been reading some of my past blog entries and they actually sound very good (hehehe).
I also have readers who like my blog and I don't even know them. I'm not actually much of a writer (not like my sister) but I like to write and express how I feel. I suck at verbally expressing my thoughts and feelings.
To begin with, I have already deleted the FB application in my BlackBerry. I am giving myself until the end of this month before deactivating my FB account.
What about all my FB friends? Hey, FB is not the only way we can communicate... There're other ways... Text messages, emails, phone calls, GoogleTalk and, if they own a BlackBerry, BB Messenger. I can even install a ChatBox in my blog.
So, one more week of FB, then I'm gone from that virtual network.


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15 years ago

Date: 15th October 1995
Time: Between 3-4pm
Place: Wincell field, Wincell Rd off Fulton Avenue, Sacramento, Ca

Incident: Sports injury - twisted right knee causing damage to interior meniscus and ligaments.

Impact: The end of my footballing "career", and also all kinds of contact sports. The beginning of the "horizontal expansion" process.

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