Rancangan BLOG di RTM1

Blog dan blogger semakin diiktiraf dan diambil berat oleh kerajaan, membawa kepada satu rancangan BLOG di rtm. Baru-baru nie BLOG menjemput blogger terkenal tanahair, Raja Petra Raja Kamaruddin, kerabat diraja Selangor dengan laman blognya Malaysia-Today. Malaysia-today.net mencecah jumlah hits sebanyak 1.5 juta setiap hari, mengatasi jumlah pembaca akhbar. Untuk rekod, beliau pernah terlibat dalam menaikkan Tun Dr Mahathir sebagai Presiden UMNO dalam pertandingan sengit dengan Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

Pasca-PRU 12 menyaksikan ramai pemimpin Barisan Nasional mula menulis blog seperti Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib dan Dato’ Seri Ali Rustam.

Yang terbaru, bekas PM kita, Tun Dr Mahathir telah menyertai para blogger di alam maya. Ikuti komen beliau berkenaan isu semasa tanah air di http://www.chedet.com/

Ikuti temubual BLOG dengan Raja Petra tersebut di link di bawah, antaranya membincangkan good governance, kestabilan politik, kebebasan mendapat maklumat, blog:

Kesian tengok pengacara kena hentam, patut bagi orang lain yang lebih berpengetahuan dan kritikal supaya dapat mengimbangi dan menghasilkan perbincangan yang lebih mantap:

Part 1/3 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jWRXtgXdQqM&feature=related

Part 2/3 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9igXv_ewW5M&feature=related

Part 3/3 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=p4MZbTERMHk&feature=related

Semoga rtm meneruskan pendekatan sebegini, mendidik masyarakat, memberi peluang kepada semua pihak untuk menyatakan hujah dan pandangan.

Selamat menonton.

The tip of the iceberg

As the famous motivator and author of the seven habits of a highly effective people, Dr. Covey said “be Pro-Active” and not reactive or just active.

Proactive in everything, means you are three to four steps ahead when you are doing something. It is also said as a pre-emptive action or to prevent something from happening from the beginning which is definitely better than curing or solving it. At the same level, the principle is applied in medicine “Prevention is better than cure”.

Referring to the tip of the iceberg theory, what you see or know is superficial and there are a lot of things that you don’t know or you don’t even expect to find it in something.

For instance, in every statistics, the reported cases are not the only cases available; there are possibilities that there are a lot more cases remain hidden or unreported. Another application is in the way we see and understand people. The action is the surface, but the belief systems and ideologies are deeper.

Therefore, don’t be surprised one day, when you meet or involved in an unexpected situation or argument. For instance, when your family or friends could not understand or agree with you on the responsibility of a Muslim to act against the ‘taghut’ and to be involved in PAS as the first and leading organisation in the way of Allah in Malaysia. On top of that, don’t be frightened to know that they were all from Sekolah Agama Rakyat (SAR) under Yayasan Islam Kelantan (YIK). This is just an example, of which might happen if you do not act to dispel all the misconceptions within the beliefs of those people around you. The lesson for today is never assumes anything to be a general knowledge which everybody knows and understands about. Act proactively to explain and remind everybody about it.

How do we that? There a few suggestions for this problem. Read, Question, Discuss, and Ponder.

Do you have to lose something to appreciate it?

What a good weather? Persoalan cuaca sangat penting di sini. Tidak lengkap berita tanpa ramalan cuaca bagi esok harinya. Boleh dikatakan, ramalan yang dibuat selalunya menjadi kenyataan dan sangat jarang tersalah.

Hari ini sungguh cerah dan hangat (about 10 degree Celsius) jika dibandingkan hari-hari sebelumnya. Mungkin menandakan betul-betul ketibaan musim bunga yang ditunggu-tunggu. Lagipun, jarang-jarang sekali bumi Belfast ini dilimpahi sinaran cahaya matahari sepanjang hari. Burung-burung juga makin hebat berkicauan dan bersiulan, galak beterbangan. Banyak kali juga terserempak dengan burung-burung yang cantik. Northern Ireland memang terkenal di kalangan bird-watcher, sehingga ahli-ahli persatuan pengendap burung dari Bristol pun sanggup datang ke sini. Segala puji hanyalah bagi Allah di atas segala ciptaanNya.

Di sini, saya belajar bersyukur dengan nikmat cahaya matahari yang jarang-jarang dirasai sepanjang sesi pembelajaran- autumn semester and spring semester. Semasa musim sejuk, matahari terbenam seawal jam 4.00 petang dan terbit semula selewat-lewatnya jam 8.45 pagi. Bayangkan, hanya lebih kurang tujuh jam anda dapat melihat matahari dan selebihnya adalah malam yang sejuk dan panjang (about -5 Celsius). Pergi kuliah matahari baru nak keluar, dan habis kelas matahari dah terbenam. No wonder some calls the cold winter a depressing season.

What a cloudy, windy, gloomy and rainy day? Di sini, tak cukup dengan sejuk, tambah pula wind chill iaitu angin yang kuat dan hujan. Payung murah-murah tak mainlah, silap-silap terbang dengan tuannya sekali. Kekadang tue sampai berjalan pun tak bergerak atau tersasar halatuju.

Faktor-faktor tersebut seterusnya menyumbang kepada sejenis penyakit yang dipanggil seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Ubatnya ialah cahaya matahari. Di waktu inilah teringat kepada kampung, panas dan lembap sepanjang tahun.

Manakala pokok-pokok hanya tinggal batang-batang dan ranting-ranting sahaja selepas habis daun-daunnya luruh semasa autumn. Lagilah depressed, tiada lagi kehijauan. Maybe you can take this as the the disadvantage of living in a temperate region of the world. For the native people, it is not an issue at all. So, you can say that is the price you have to pay to study abroad. It is quite an invaluable experience, though.

Walaubagaimanapun, alhamdulillah, spring has sprung. Pokok-pokok bunga mula berputik dan berkembang, walaupun pucuk-pucuk daun pepohon besar belum keluar. Manusia-manusia yang bertebaran di atas bumi ini juga semakin ceria, dengan bermulanya daylight saving time (DST) or summer time.

Do you want to hop in and join us? I'll get you a chair.

It is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn which gives “Spring forward and fall backward”.

Most of the United States begins Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and reverts to standard time on the first Sunday in November. In the U.S., each time zone switches at a different time.

In the European Union, Summer Time begins and ends at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time). It begins the last Sunday in March and ends the last Sunday in October. In the EU, all time zones change at the same moment. Quite funny and confusing as well when I started to count the clock backward or forward and playing with the term “the actual time” in my mind. The more important thing is the prayer times never changed. Confused?

Ini semua membuktikan ayat-ayat Allah dalam ‘final testament’ yang berbunyi

“Di tanganmu Allah segala kebaikan dan kekayaan. Sesungguhnya Engkau berkuasa untuk berbuat apa sahaja terhadap apa sahaja. Engkau menabirkan siang dengan malam dan menabirkan malam dengan siang. Dan Engkau menerbitkan suatu yang hidup dari suatu yang kaku/mati sebagaimana Engkau melahirkan yang kaku/mati dari sesuatu yang hidup. Engkau memberi rezeki tanpa berhitung kepada siapa sahaja yang Engkau mahu”

(Surah ‘Ali Imran: 26-27)