Xena ngan satu lagi hamster aku dah mati

Sedih nyer……..

tapi dah tambah dua ekor yang baru

Saden N Toge

Honda put Formula One team up for sale

Honda have announced that it plans to sell its Formula One team after the Japanese car manufacturer’s decision to withdraw from the sport in light of difficult conditions in the global auto market.

The current Honda team was formed in 2000 after the company took over the former BAR squad, transforming it into a works team in 2006. Honda now hope to have new owners in place ahead of the 2009 season.

Team principal Ross Brawn and team CEO Nick Fry are expected to be closely involved in the evaluation of potential buyers, with speculation also arising that Brawn could call on contacts at his former team, Ferrari, to help secure a new engine supply deal.

Honda’s original Formula One involvement began in the 1960s, American Richie Ginther scoring their maiden win at the 1965 Mexico Grand Prix. Absent from competition in the ‘70s, they went on to several title successes as engine suppliers in the ‘80s and ‘90s with the likes of Williams and McLaren.

Their 2006 works return started well, with Jenson Button winning the Hungarian Grand Prix en route to fourth in the constructors’ championship. However, the team lost their way the following year, scoring just six points from 17 races.

Brawn’s subsequent arrival was heralded as the start of a new era, but came too late to have significant impact on Honda’s 2008 campaign, which saw them finish ninth in the final standings.

Neither of Honda’s race drivers, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, has yet been confirmed for 2009 and the UK-based team recently evaluated GP2 star Bruno Senna.

Full statement from Honda:
“We, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., have come to the conclusion that we will withdraw from all Formula One activities, making 2008 the last season of participation.

“This difficult decision has been made in light of the quickly deteriorating operating environment facing the global auto industry, brought on by the sub-prime problem in the United States, the deepening credit crisis and the sudden contraction of the world economies.

“Honda must protect its core business activities and secure the long term as widespread uncertainties in the economies around the globe continue to mount. A recovery is expected to take some time.

“Under these circumstances, Honda has taken swift and flexible measures to counter this sudden and expansive weakening of the marketplace in all business areas. However, in recognition of the need to optimize the allocation of management resources, including investment regarding the future, we have decided to withdraw from Formula One participation.

“We will enter into consultation with the associates of Honda Racing F1 Team and its engine supplier Honda Racing Development regarding the future of the two companies. This will include offering the team for sale.

“In its third era of Formula One activities, Honda has been participating in Formula One races from the 2000 season, initially with BAR, by adopting a new format of jointly developing racing machines. Subsequently, in a move to meet the changing environment surrounding Formula One, we switched to running a 100 percent Honda-owned team commencing with the 2006 season.

“Surmounting many challenges, the Honda Team achieved a Grand Prix victory in 2006, enabling Honda to receive overwhelming support from Honda fans around the world that were looking forward to greater success. It, therefore, has been an extremely difficult decision for us to come to this conclusion without having been able to fully meet the expectations of our fans.

“By making the best of what we have learned during these times of economic turmoil, coupled with the spirit of challenge gained through active participation in racing, we intend to continue with our commitment in meeting new challenges.

“Finally, we would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our fans and all those who have supported Honda’s Formula One efforts, including everyone in the world of Formula One.

“Thank you very much.”

Takeo Fukui
President and CEO
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

is this a new backup plan for faceing the economy crisis?

bau conan makin busuk

xena dah ready

hari raya dah masuk hari kedua

Sudah beraya di kuala lumpur

duit raya dapat Rm 25 sahaja

aku sudah tua

selamat hari raya

 

Pada ketika sebahagian besar umat Islam sibuk ke pusat membeli-belah untuk membeli pakaian baru untuk menyambut Aidilfitri, ada juga insan yang tidak bernasib baik membuat persiapan sekadar ada.

Begitulah gambaran yang dapat dilihat pada majlis pengagihan zakat di Kota Bharu, Kelantan, semalam, apabila ada warga emas leka memilih pakaian terpakai untuk persiapan berhari raya.

 

Orang Kaya terus kaya

Orang miskin terus miskin

Terima kasih kepada yang menghulur

Yang menerima amat berbesar hati

semoga anda dirahmati

amin..

By BAVANI M.

WHILE city folks return to their kampung this Hari Raya, they can rest assured that their homes are well protected €” thanks to the officers from the military, police, fire and rescue and other government agencies who will be working on the first day of Hari Raya.

In appreciation of their services, the Setiawangsa Community Centre and Yayasan Amal Wangsa – a charity foundation – presented Hari Raya goodies and souvenirs to some 2,097 military personnel, 1,671 police personnel, 1,477 government agency staff as well as 172 personnel from the fire and rescue department.

The goodwill gesture was made by Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique and his wife Datin Seri Siti Nooriah Ana Razak, the foundation’s chairman.

The couple has been carrying out this tradition since 1999, since Zulhasnan became the MP of Setiawangsa.

Zuhasnan, who presented the goodies to the officers, said their dedication and services were very much appreciated.

 

Hope our home safe and secure from the bad guys

crime nowdays increase to an insane point where killing is everyday as we can see on the news

HONG KONG (Reuters) – A powerful typhoon ploughed into a densely populated area of southern China on Wednesday, prompting the state Meteorological Administration to issue an “urgent red alert”, its highest-level warning.

Authorities evacuated more than 100,000 people before typhoon Hagupit made landfall around dawn. The storm killed at least eight people in the Philippines earlier in the week.

Tropical Storm Risk (http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/) downgraded the storm from category 4 to 3 on a scale of 5 once it made landfall.

Streets were deserted and shops and businesses shuttered as the storm uprooted trees and brought down billboards in cities across the booming southern Chinese province of Guangdong, including Maoming where the centre of the storm made landfall.

The state news agency Xinhua said a fishing boat sank but no casualties were reported.

It described typhoon Hagupit as “the worst to hit Guangdong in more than a decade”, but it was not clear by what gauge it was measuring the storm when typhoons in the past have triggered heavy death tolls.

Hagupit whipped past Hong Kong overnight, uprooting trees and causing flash floods in low-lying areas including Lantau island where the city’s airport is located, with dozens of people injured across the territory.

More than 50,000 vessels had been called back to port and authorities in Guangdong, the manufacturing hub of China, Xinhua news said.

Torrential rain and more flooding was forecast. Hagupit would also hit Guangxi, to the west of Guangdong, and the tropical resort island of Hainan, authorities said.

Flights in Hong Kong were disrupted on Tuesday night, stranding scores of passengers in the airport.

At least 14 miners remained trapped in a gold mine in the north of the Philippines after rainwater flooded a shaft.

The National Disaster Coordinating Council said four people drowned, three were buried by landslides and one was electrocuted when the storm lashed the Philippines’ northern region. Some areas were isolated due to floods and landslides.

Several towns in the Philippines remained without power and telephone service.

In Vietnam, the government said Hagupit would bring heavy rains on Wednesday night which could herald flash floods and landslides in northern coastal and mountainous provinces, including Quang Ninh, the country’s main coal producing area.

Tropical storms in the region gather intensity from the warm ocean waters and frequently develop into typhoons that hit Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and southern China during a season that lasts from early summer to late autumn.

Another storm was brewing to the east of the Philippines. Tropical Storm Risk said the storm, named “nineteen”, was expected to strengthen and head west towards China, following a similar path to Hagupit.

In China’s quake-hit province of Sichuan, 14 people are missing after landslides triggered by heavy rain, Xinhua quoted a local official as saying.

Heavy rain, not related to the typhoon, also hit the Tangjiashan area, blocking the sluice of the dangerous “quake lake”, formed by mudslides blocking valleys, and raising its water level by five metres.

The lake was formed during the May 12 quake in which more than 80,000 people died.

 

climate changes creates typhoon

Is it world getting weaker?

MALACCA: A Year Two pupil died in front of her teachers and other children at a premier Chinese primary school here in Bandar Hilir, despite efforts by doctors to save her.

Yap Li Xuen’s death was doubly heartbreaking for her parents who had lost their elder daughter, Li Choo, five years ago. Then only five, Li Choo had succumbed to brain tumour.

Li Xuen, eight, was found unconscious in the toilet of SJKC Pay Fong II along Jalan Tamby Abdullah by janitor Chong Kim Leng at about 1.30pm.

The 43-year-old was cleaning the toilet when she heard a thud from one of the cubicles.

“I found the toilet door locked. I realised something was wrong when I noticed a girl’s braid sticking out from under the door,” she said when met at the school here yesterday.

Chong immediately alerted the security guard who managed to break open the toilet door and found Li Xuen lying motionless.

A few teachers helped carry Li Xuen out and placed her on two tables at the main entrance of the school.

Other teachers frantically sought help from a nearby clinic, a private medical centre and the Malacca Hospital.

Headmaster Ng Nai Tak said the girl’s father, Choh Yu, 42, arrived when the doctors were trying to revive Li Xuen.

Choh Yu, a stationery shop owner, said he and his 39-year-old wife were now left only with a four-year-old son.

He added that Li Xuen had seemed normal and did not complain of any pain or illness before leaving for school yesterday morning.

However, she is known to have passed out on several occasions.

Police have classified the incident as sudden death pending the post-mortem result.

 

Sudden death for a year two student ?, such a rare occasion in this country

is it because of food or weather?

 

IPOH: A lorry driver was arrested for allegedly beating his 14-year-old daughter with a stick in Cameron Highlands.

Cameron Highlands OCPD Deputy Superintendent Yahaya Othman said the 43-year-old father had been suspected of beating the girl each time he was drunk.

”We believe this has been going on for years and we are investigating if her four siblings had been suffering the same fate,” he said yesterday.

The girl, DSP Yahaya said, had run away from home after the latest incident where she suffered bruises on her face and body after she was repeatedly hit with a stick on Monday night.

“She then sought help from an uncle who took her to the Ringlet police station to lodge a report.

“We arrested the father at his home in Ringlet following that,” DSP Yahaya said, adding that the father was being remanded for three days until Thursday.

What wrong with the world today…

Why produce baby when u want to hit them with a stick?

 

Dia asalnya berpenyakit sopak, badannya putih, putih penyakit yang tidak digemari. Walaupun dia sopak tetapi dia seorang yang soleh, terlalu mengambil berat tentang ibunya yang uzur dan lumpuh. Dia telah begitu tekun untuk mendapatkan keredhaan ibunya. Bapa dia meninggal dunia ketika dia masih kecil lagi. Dia sopak sejak dilahirkan dan ibunya menjaga dia sampai dia dewasa.

Satu hari ibunya memberitahu kepada Uwais bahawa dia ingin sangat untuk pergi mengerjakan haji. Dia menyuruh Uwais supaya mengikhtiarkan dan mengusahakan agar dia dapat dibawa ke Mekah untuk menunaikan haji. Sebagai seorang yang miskin, Uwais tidak berdaya untuk mencari perbelanjaan untuk ibunya kerana pada zaman itu kebanyakan orang untuk pergi haji dari Yaman ke Mekah mereka menyediakan beberapa ekor unta yang dipasang diatasnya “Haudat”.

Haudat ini seperti rumah kecil yang diletakkan di atas unta untuk melindungi panas matahari dan hujan, selesa dan perbelanjaannya mahal. Uwais tidak mampu untuk menyediakan yang demikian, unta pun dia tidak ada, nak sewa pun tidak mampu. Ibu Uwais semakin uzur maka ibunya mendesak dan berkata kepada anaknya “Anakku mungkin ibu dah tak lama lagi akan bersama dengan kamu, ikhtiarkanlah agar ibu dapat mengerjakan haji”.

Uwais mendapat suatu ilham, dia terfikir apa nak dibuat. Dia membeli seekor anak lembu yang baru lahir dan dah habis menyusu. Dia membuat sebuah rumah kecil (pondok) di atas sebuah “Tilal” iaitu sebuah tanah tinggi (Dia buat rumah untuk lembu itu di atas bukit). Apa yang dia lakukan, pada petang hari dia dukung anak lembu untuk naik ke atas “Tilal”. Pagi esoknya dia dukung lembu itu turun dari “Tilal” untuk diberi makan. Itulah yang dilakukannya setiap hari. Ada ketikanya dia mendukung lembu itu mengelilingi bukit tempat dia beri lembu itu makan.

Perbuatan yang dilakukannya ini menyebabkan orang kata dia ini gila. Memang pelik, buatkan rumah untuk lembu diatas bukit, kemudian setiap hari usung lembu, petang bawa naik, pagi bawa turun bukit. Tetapi sebenarnya niatnya baik. Kalau lembu kita buat begitu pagi sekali petang sekali daripada lembu yang beratnya 20kg, selepas enam bulan lembu itu sudah menjadi 100kg. Otot-otot (muscle) tangan dan badan Uwais menjadi kuat hinggakan dengan mudah mengangkat lembu seberat 100kg turun dan naik bukit.

Selepas lapan bulan dia buat demikian telah sampai musim haji, rupa-rupanya perbuatannya itu adalah satu persediaan untuk dia membawa ibunya mengerjakan haji. Dia telah memangku ibunya dari Yaman sampai ke Mekkah dengan kedua tangannya. Dibelakangnya dia meletakkan barang-barang keperluan seperti air, roti dan sebagainya. Lembu yang beratnya 100kg boleh didukung dan dipangku inikan pula ibunya yang berat sekitar 50kg. Dia membawa (mendukung dan memangku) ibunya dengan kedua tangannya dari Yaman ke Mekah, mengerjakan Tawaf, Saie dan di Padang Arafah dengan senang sahaja. Dan dia juga memangku ibunya dengan kedua tangannya pulang semula ke Yaman dari Mekah.

Setelah pulang semula ke rumah dia di Yaman, Ibu dia berkata kepada dia “ Uwais, apa yang kamu berdoa sepanjang kamu berada di Mekah?”. Uwais menjawab “Saya berdoa minta supaya Allah mengampunkan semua dosa-dosa ibu”. Ibunya bertanya lagi “Bagaiman pula dengan dosa kamu”. Uwais menjawab “Dengan terampun dosa ibu, ibu akan masuk syurga, cukuplah ibu redha dengan saya maka saya juga masuk syurga”. Ibunya berkata lagi “Ibu nak supaya engkau berdoa agar Allah hilangkan sakit putih (sopak) kamu ini”. Uwais kata “Saya keberkatan untuk berdoa kerana ini Allah yang jadikan. Kalau tidak redha dengan kejadian Allah, macam saya tidak bersyukur dengan Allah ta’ala”. Ibunya menanbah “Kalau nak masuk syurga, kena taat kepada perintah ibu, Ibu perintahkan engkau berdoa”.

Akhirnya Uwais tidak ada pilihan melainkan mengangkat tangan dan berdoa. Uwais berdoa seperti yang ibu dia minta supaya Allah sembuhkan putih yang luar biasa (sopak) yang dihidapinya itu. Tetapi kerana dia takut masih ada dosa pada dirinya dia berdoa “Tolonglah Ya Allah kerana ibu aku suruh aku berdoa hilangkan yang putih pada badanku ini melainkan tinggalkan sedikit” Allah swt. sembuhkan serta merta, hilang putih sopak diseluruh badannya kecuali tinggal satu tompok sebesar duit syiling ditengkuknya. (Kalau bagi nabi, baginda ada Khatam Nubuwah iaitu tanda kenabian, tanda pada nabi bersinar) Tanda tompok putih pada Uwais sebab dia mintak agar jangan dibuang kesemuanya, kerana ini (sopak) adalah anugerah, maka nabi sebut kepada Umar dan Ali akan tanda ini. Tandanya kamu nampak dibelakang dia ada satu bulatan putih, bulatan sopak. Kalau berjumpa dengan tanda itu dialah Uwais al-Qarni.

Selepas tidak lama Uwais berdoa yang demikian, ibunya telah meninggal dunia. Dia telah menunaikan kesemua permintaan ibunya. Selepas itu dia telah menjadi orang yang paling tinggi martabatnya disisi Allah. Doa dia cukup makbul hatta penyakit sopak pun boleh sembuh. Mengikut al-Quran, Nabi Isa Alaihisalam yang pernah berdoa untuk kesembuhan penyakit sopak dizamannya.

Berbalik kita kepada point asal, Sayidina Umar dan Sayidina Ali dapat berjumpa dengan Uwais ini minta satu sahaja iaitu minta supaya doakan supaya Allah swt. mengampun semua dosa-dosa mereka.

Ketika Uwais al-Qarni berjumpa Umar dan Ali, dia berkata “Aku datang ini dari Yaman ke Madinah kerana aku nak tunaikan wasiat nabi kepada kamu iaitu supaya kamu berdua berjumpa dengan aku. Aku datang ini nak tunaikan wasiat itulah”. Maka Uwais pun telah mendoakan untuk mereka berdua.