No short skirts please...

Interesting news on ways getting some ladies to learn how to dress appropriately.

In India, a female passenger was prevented from boarding a domestic flight recently.because she was showing too much leg.

I'm sure the too much leg won't be as much as the picture I attached here.. which they're showing not just too much legs but too much bottom chins..ha ha.

Anyway, yeah, i think the carrier --  IndiGo did the right thing.
It seems that her dress "had stopped above the knee" is in violation of rules issued to employees and relatives of staff.

The woman was formerly employed by the airline and was travelling on a special ticket because her sister worked for the company.

"Employees and the nominated family members are required to maintain a specific dress code, as and when they fly with the airline under the staff leisure travel privileges," read an IndiGo statement.

The lady was however allowed onto another flight later after changing her attire.

Now, everyone is happy especially those worrying wives...har har. 

KIKI's BULLSHITS.

We want to help Malays, Selangor Perkasa says after fund for road bully.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — The newly-launched fund to pay the fine for Siti Fairrah Ashykin Kamaruddin, the disgraced woman filmed hammering an elderly ethnic Chinese man’s vehicle with a steering lock, is a gesture “to help Malays”, Selangor Perkasa said today.
The state chapter also said the woman, also known as Kiki needed that help because she is Malay, even if not a member of the rights group.
“No, she is not a Perkasa member. The issue here is that she is a Malay. We want to help the Malays,” the chapter’s chief Abu Bakar Yahya told The Malay Mail Online over the phone.
“We were actually uneasy over this decision. Others would have surely asked, why does Perkasa want to contribute? Is Perkasa crazy?” he added.
Abu Bakar suggested that the sentence against Kiki had been suspicious, noting that only a “crazy woman” would have acted like she did in a normal situation.

“We don’t know why she flipped out or acted in a rude manner. Was she provoked? Was she insane?” he asked.
He also said that Kiki was charged and sentenced despite her apology, and even when the elderly victim Sim Siak Heong refused to lodge a report against her.
“I don’t want to question the action taken by authorities… But I ask my fellow friends to realise, if the action was taken in response to the video, did the video depict the incident from the start until the end?” Abu Bakar added.
A social media storm erupted after the video documenting Kiki verbally abusing Sim and hitting his car with a steering lock was uploaded on video-sharing site YouTube. Her tirade included racist taunts.

Selangor Perkasa launched the fund “out of sympathy for her” earlier today, which it hoped will “help lighten the financial burden” of Kiki.
According to Selangor Perkasa secretary Mohd Idrus Ali Ahmad, the fund has collected close to RM400 today.
“Even if it’s just RM500, RM1,000, the amount doesn’t really matter. More importantly, this is a symbolic gesture,” he said.
When asked whether the group will back any Malay traffic offenders in the future, Abu Bakar said it will only consider “reasonable” cases.
Siti Fairrah, who broke down during mitigation, had earlier pleaded guilty to the charge under Section 427 of the Penal Code, which carries a jail term of up to two years or a fine or both, The Star reported.

She was said to have committed the offence at the parking lot of UTC, Jalan Sekilau in Kuantan on July 14 at about 1.10pm.-- The Malay Mail Online – Thu, Jul 24, 2014

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My word for this?
Bullshits!

Personally I have no problem with people of one race helping their own race.
To the Malays who supported this -- yeah, I understand your mission.
It's a natural thing to help someone in need.
The Cina and Indian people would do the same too but the only difference is they're not attention seeker as this PERKASA.
They'd do it quietly.
In most of their racist agendas.

But helping out a road bully, assisting this crazy Likilala woman with monetary assistance after she attempted an attacked on one Chinese elderly man with her car steering lock -- this is ABSURD.

And you know what will come out of this?
More lady road bully... mark my word on this.
Those young ladies perhaps all this while been hiding like a turtle behind their wheels, only dare to curse in the car will now have the courage to come out and hammer any man or woman that 'graced' their 'luxurious' car, or maybe didn't give them ways when they cut 'Q' or changes lane without signals.
Drivers nowadays especially those in college or the ones that just entering workforce, in my observation during holidays here, seems to  have adapted rude kiasu-like  driving attitude.
The road is and will be infected with more mentally sick drivers.

Pirate of Lembah Pantai is all heart broken.

This is funny.
Nah, I don't really care what you might say.
You're free to judge anyway.

But one Kapal sink already.
And now the one and only flower among the torn is having some marital problems.
Perhaps she spend too much time pirating around Lembah Pantai on behalf of the loving daddy.

Nurul Izzah Seeks Custody Of Children
KUALA LUMPUR, May 29 (Bernama) -- The Syariah High Court here set June 17 for remention of the application by Lembah Pantai member of parliament, Nurul Izzah Anwar for custody of her children. 

She filed for divorce earlier in January from her husband Raja Ahmad Shahrir Iskandar Raja Salim, under Section 47 of the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territory) Act 1984.
Counsel Azmi Mohd Rais who with Zulkifli Che Yong represented Raja Ahmad Shahrir when the case was brought for mention in chambers today, later told reporters that Syarie Justice Amran Mat Zain fixed the date to allow the respondent who was currently abroad to cite his stance before submitting his defence. 

Nurul Izzah, represented by counsel Nor Mawaddah Ramli was present in court Thursday.
She filed the custody application on April 30 and handed the relevant documents to the respondent through his lawyer on May 24. 

The eldest of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's children, Nurul Izzah and Raja Ahmad Shahrir have a daughter aged seven and a son aged four, from their marriage on May 9, 2003. 

-- BERNAMA

Palin Wonders If Flight 370 ‘Flew Directly to Heaven’

This lady just know how to get into the limelight again...although it might make her sounds terribly dumb. 

Sarah Palin claimed today that Malaysia Flight 370 may have vanished because it mistakenly flew too high and ended up in heaven.
During an appearance on Fox News last night, Sean Hannity asked the former vice-presidential candidate for her thoughts about the aircraft, which has been missing for nearly two weeks. 

The former Alaska governor stunned viewers with an unorthodox new theory that international investigators have so far ignored.
“I see all these smarty pants people on CNN saying that it was terrorism or a fire in the cockpit,” she explained to a bewildered Hannity, “but I don’t hear anyone talking about the God possibility. I mean what if they accidentally flew too high and got stuck in heaven. 

“I’m no expert on international aviation. But I do know that God is up there looking down on us. And everyone knows that once you go to heaven you can’t come back. This would explain why we haven’t found any wreckage in the ocean and why no one saw the plane land.
"The radar had the plane at 45,000 feet, well above its usual cruising altitude. Who knows how much higher they went? 

“Of course the looney liberal media can only imagine secular explanations for this mystery. They would never tell the American public that God might be involved! But I hope the Malaysian authorities and the NTSB take a look at the facts and seriously consider the idea that this flight crossed into Christ’s kingdom and isn't coming back.”

Above the CloudsMalaysia Flight 370 vanished without a trace on March 8 less than two hours into a regularly scheduled flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. After an exhaustive search no sign of the aircraft or its 227 passengers and 12 crew members have been found.
Initial speculation centered on the theory that a sudden explosive decompression destroyed the Boeing 777 over the South China Sea. But a subsequent review of radar and satellite data revealed that shortly after contact was lost the flight made a drastic left turn and continued flying for seven hours. 

The latest information seems to suggest that someone on the plane deliberately shut down its transponder and flew it off course. However, the uncertainty about who may have done so and why has fed a wide range of conspiracy theories involving everything from the singer Shakira to aliens. 

Palin seems to be the first to suggest, however, that there may be a supernatural solution to this puzzle and the bizarre idea proved too much even for the devoutly Catholic Hannity.
“You realize that heaven isn’t an actually in the sky right?” he pleaded. “The concept of heaven is metaphorical. Some people believe it’s in another dimension or in another universe. It’s not something you can just fly into.” 

“Sean, I think it’s incredibly arrogant for us as humble human beings to claim that we know how heaven works,” Palin responded. “How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?”
Source...

British colonisation will never end.

Oh puhleez….
Who ever says British colonisation has ended?
It never did.

Yes.
They were once the greatest empire roaming the globe looking for lands and people to colonised and make them their land, disturbing the cultures, repressing stupid and naive rulers, especially in the Malay archipelago and implementing changes that will lead to worst events later on for example bringing in the Jewish to the Palestinian land.
As if they are the king of kings of the world.

Yup, Diana made headlines from her humble beginning as a kindergarten nanny posing in her quite transparent gowns holding a toddler…yes, that still I remember that picture clearly reading it in the newspaper prior to her wedding days which was celebrated worldwide, and telecasted worldwide too.
I mean who wouldn't want to watch the event of the centuries…

Yup, I remember that very well, and that shows how colonised have we all been by the British monarchy.

And, look now.
Kate Middleton's hair?
Owh, give me a break!
First of all, she can not compete her late mother in law in term of beauty and gracefulness.
Yes, all of women during the early 80s were donning Diana Spencer hairstyle.
It was an ultimate style back then.
Im guessing if at that time they sold coloured lenses, these women will definitely get a pair for themselves too.

I was very young then.
In my primary.
And I can still remember well the live telecast I watched in my grandmother's house. It was aired during the daytime. I remembered well because during those days the tv station, there was only two in Malaysia; RTM1 and RTM 2, only start airing late afternoon till 12 midnight.
Yes…this is what 70s kids experience.
No Astro.
No nothing.
And, just imagine and ponder on what kind of mental colonisation can something like that do to you. To young kid.

And the British is continuing their legacy colonising the minds of others, not by their music, not by their economy, but through their royalty.

And Kate Middleton hair?
Nope, I do not think it's worth a try because there nothing to glamorous or exciting about it.

Duhhhh…..

Inspiration...

Kathryn Stockett takes her interviews to go, which explains why she's huffing, just slightly, into the phone.
"I always do my interviews while walking," says the author, catching her breath, "and you're my 30-minute time slot."

Perhaps the walk makes her less guarded, too. Here is a woman who has been interviewed hundreds of times about "The Help" - her debut novel that touched a major chord with readers, resonating louder and longer than anyone could have anticipated. Yet Stockett doesn't come back with canned answers to my questions. She comes off as thoughtful and frank.

The financial and artistic success of "The Help" has been "a nice outcome," she says, in her melodious Mississippi drawl, down-playing the staggering 10 million copies sold since its release in February 2009.
"And yet … cringe-worthy," she adds, giving herself a few seconds to find the right word.
The book is inspired by a black woman named Dimitri, who worked as a maid for Stockett's family when the author was a child. Aibileen's character in "The Help" is based on Dimitri.
"I feel like I'm earning a living off someone who did our family such a great service and who died poor and alone," the author says. "I think about that, and it's not a comfortable feeling."

So she tries to give back, supporting public schools, arts and literacy programs.
She's come a long way over the past decade.
It took Stockett five years to write "The Help" and three years to find a publisher. She famously endured dozens of rejection letters before Amy Einhorn Books (a division of Penguin) agreed to publish the book.

Since then, Stockett has toured four times for the novel and sat through a movie shoot.
A housekeeper for Stockett's brother later filed a lawsuit against Stockett claiming the author had used her name (Ablene Cooper) and likeness for "The Help." The case was dismissed when a judge determined the suit was filed after the one-year statute of limitations for misappropriation claims.
"I've had a very long relationship with the story," Stockett says. "I'm kind of ready to move on."
And she has - by plugging away at book No. 2.
Expectations for her second novel are high, to say the least. Is she worried about a sophomore slump?
"Everyone's been very … silent," Stockett says. "I think they've seen it happen to enough people. There are those one-hit wonders."
She admits to blowing her first deadline more than a year ago. No one has put any pressure on her since.

"I almost wish they would," Stockett says. "All the pressure is coming from within."
As yet, there is no title for the second book, which follows a group of women with no marketable skills who must somehow find a way to survive in the early decades of the 20th century.
"It's set in Oxford, Miss., and it straddles the Roaring '20s and the Great Depression because I like the dichotomy of the time, and I like to think about how it reflects on our times," Stockett explains.
"I don't know anyone … who is going without food, but that was very common in the 1920s. You had to stretch everything. So I love the idea of these women living in Mississippi, not having any training or skills, not even expecting they'd have to earn their own living. All the men die or run off; the men don't have a huge part in the story. I love to see what people do when the pressure is really on. That's when we see the best of ourselves or the worst of ourselves."

Stockett told her publisher she'd have a draft ready by February.
"I don't know if I'll make that deadline," she says gaily, "but you can write, 'She's working furiously on her new book and hopes it comes out very soon.' "



Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com.

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This writer received dozens of rejections letters before The Help was published.

An inspiration for beginners and soon to be writer like me.

'The Help' --  a very good book made better having to watch it on screen.
Having watched it for more than four times, I know I wont get bored if Im ask to watch it again.

Inspirational stories like this or The Pursuit of Happiness, a story about Chris Gardner, must be on one's book shelf.

A-Okay?

Dr M Okay With PM's Performance and Rosmah's Profile.

A Kadir Jasin @ The Scribe A Kadir Jasin

I would not dare claim that I am right all a long, but I have repeatedly said in this blog that the Prime Minister’s wife can have as high a profile as she likes if she ventures into politics and wins a sit.

Now the former Prime Minister, (Tun) Dr Mahathir Mohamad, had said about the same thing. The media quoted him as saying that Prime Minister Mohd Najib Abdul Razak 's wife, Rosmah Mansor, has the right to have as high a profile as she likes.

"There is no standard format to fill in if you become the wife of the prime minister. You can be as prominent as you like," he said, adding that Rosmah also had the right to rebut allegations made against her in her biography.

Dr Mahathir was asked on whether he thinks Rosmah's profile is too high compared to former prime ministers' wives.

On the same day that he made the comment on Rosmah, he was also quoted as saying that he was not practising double standard by supporting Mohd Najib now and opposing (Tun) Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, when the latter was Prime Minister.

"(There's) no double standard. If somebody doesn't perform, I will campaign, against anybody," Dr Mahathir was quoted as saying.

"Whether he's my nominee or somebody else, I will campaign if somebody does not perform and in my view, Pak Lah didn't perform," Dr Mahathir said.

Asked whether his answer meant that he was satisfied with Najib's performance, he responded, "Yes, I'm satisfied."
Being the prime minister's wife already provides her enough prominence. It is not necessary to seek more prominence and definitely not at the expense of the taxpayers' funds.”
Being the prime minister's wife already provides her enough prominence. It is not necessary to seek more prominence and definitely not at the expense of the taxpayers' funds.”


So, in one go, Dr Mahathir reaffirmed his endorsement of the Najib-Rosmah partnership, which, I am sure, will be read differently by different quarters.

Take for instance, what a debater in Malaysiakini’s Yoursay forum, who goes by the pseudonym “Little Giant” had to say:

“Going by protocol, the prime minister's wife has the right to have a high profile. But it is not right of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad to say that Rosmah Mansor can enjoy as high a profile "as she likes".

As for me, I still feel that my argument in the posting entitled “Perdana Menteri Wanita: Kenapa Isteri PM Tak Boleh?” on Jan. 16, 2011 is valid and I think the Barisan Nasional should seriously consider putting her up as a candidate in the coming general election.

I am not being cynical. Going by reports and pictures in the media, Rosmah is popular and has her own followers and following. When elected, she has every right to decide and assume whatever profile she desires as long it is within the limit of law and propriety.

As for Dr Mahathir endorsing Mohd Najib, I am not surprised that he is doing it openly and publicly. But what also matters is what he says privately.

If Dr Mahathir does to Mohd Najib what he did to Abdullah in the run-up to the 2008 general election, the consequences would be dire for the Prime Minister, the BN and Umno.

Granted that Mohd Najib is a lot stronger and more capable than Abdullah, he does not, however, enjoy Abdullah’s image as “Mr Clean” and “Mr Nice Guy”. Mohd Najib is more controversial than Abdullah.

Meanwhile, in the eyes of many, including those in the opposition camp, Dr Mahathir is as influential today as he was during the 2008 general election. 

He could still move votes. So Mohd Najib and his retinue of advisers and special officers must be careful not to offend the patriarch and his sympathisers.

It may not be all about altruism though. Dr Mahathir nurtured and protected Mohd Najib because Mohd Najib’s father, (Tun) Abdul Razak Hussein, nurtured and protected him. Now Dr Mahathir has a son, Mukhriz, who is in the political arena and, as the saying goes, one good deed deserves another. Wallahualam.

Saudi Woman Defies Religious Police: It Is None of Your Business If I We...

HAIL SAUDI WOMAN!! More like you should exist to fight this male chauvinism in your country! I SALUTE YOU.

Damn all of you male cauvinistic pigs where ever you are.




 I wonder how the bleedin hell this religious police noticed her nail polish. This simply shows that they actually can't keep the freakin eyes to look at other things except breasts and bottoms. This is yet another incident why my verdict that most muslim males are sexually-inclined lots.

Non-Jap ninja assassins...

While there is an increment on wife abusing their husbands in Saudi Arabia, women in Iran are more interested in getting their martial arts enhanced and perhaps it will be useful in any ways deem possible.
With 3,000 female ninja assassins in training, men should watch out even more.

These women thought to use dangerous weapons such as bow, swords, nunchucks and 'shurikens', a small traditional Japanese implements known as 'swords in the hand'.

The master of this centre Sensei Akbar Faraji was the first to introduce ninjutsu to Iran when he set up the club 22 years ago gathering  24,000 members to date.

I would love to trade pilates with this ninja training anytime....

Smalls victory for Saudi women.

Smalls victory for Saudi women.

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And I never thought all this while it was so.....

Sophistication vs Public Breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding moms protest at Target stores, but US public is real mark - CSMonitor.com

Breastfeeding in public became an issue of debate when a Target employee asked a breastfeeding customer to do it elsewhere. To protest the sexual emphasis of breasts over the practical significance as a means to nourish babies, hundreds of moms gathered in some 250 Target stores across the US to breastfeed, Wednesday.


Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

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I remember how shocked I was as a teenager laid eyes on one woman breastfeeding her child in a bus and thought what a revolting sight that was.
It is utterly embarrassing and immodest thing to do in public.

Now, after becoming a mom myself, I still find nursing in public (my definition of public is people other than your husband and small children) quite not an OK thing to do. No matter how you want to put it. No matter how you want to sell the idea that breastfeeding is a natural thing to do and mother should be au-natural doing it.
It's 'humanly'.
It's mom and baby rights. 
Whatever.
Maybe it's just me and some who shared the same outlook on public breastfeeding.

No matter how these American moms tries to 'persuade' the public into accepting public breastfeeding, I still think, and believe a lot of people share the same sentiment with me that public breastfeeding is just not OK at all.
It's like going back to being uncivilized and seriously lack sophistication.
To me personally, it's like, 'Oh, I'm a mom, and I can start unbuttoning my shirt in public to showcase my breastfeeding time because breast milk is so filled with goodness and I refuse to hide away from the fact'....wouldn't it be so?

No. I've got nothing against people who breastfeed. Really.
I'm a mom to a 6 month old myself.
I breastfeed my child but the difference is I must do discreetly. Even when my mom or sisters are around.
I'll do it in a room.
It is just so not proper to nurse in public no matter how one tries to hide it by wearing nursing-wear.

Then again...the choice is yours and sophistication is how one looks at it. 

Honour Killing.

Family guilty of Belgian honour killing




A Belgian court has sentenced four members of a Pakistani family to prison for the "honour killing" of their law student daughter and sister.

After pronouncing the family members guilty for the shooting death of Sadia Sheikh in October 2007, the jury sentenced father Tarik Mahmood Sheikh to 25 years behind bars, mother Zahida Parveen Sariya to 20 years, brother Mudusar to 15 and sister Sariya to five years.

Lawyers for the family said on Monday brother Mudusar, who confessed to pulling the trigger on the three bullets that killed his sister, was handed a lesser jail term than his parents as they were considered to have ordered the girl's death.

Prosecutors had asked for a life sentence for all three, and between 20 and 30 years behind bars for Sariya.
Sadia Sheikh, who defied the family by living with a Belgian and refusing an arranged marriage, was shot dead when aged 20 on October 22, 2007.

Mudusar admitted before the jury of five women and seven men to killing his sister while saying the rest of the family were not to blame.

Her parents and sister stood accused of aiding and abetting the killing which took place when the student visited her family in the hopes of patching up their quarrel.

Questioned during Belgium's first "honour killing" trial in southwestern Mons, Mudusar said the killing was premeditated "for a long time".


The trial also involved rights groups pleading for gender equality as part of a civil suit at the hearings.

Sadia Sheikh left the family home to study after her shopkeeper parents tried to arrange a marriage with a cousin living in Pakistan she had never met.


Before moving in with a Belgian man her age named Jean, she was helped by fellow students and teachers and also spent some time in a centre for victims of domestic violence, where she drew up a will as she felt threatened.

She had nonetheless agreed to visit the family in hopes of making peace the day she was shot.


The father, mother and sister, also facing charges of "attempting to arrange a marriage", denied involvement in the murder, saying Mudusar killed his sister in a fit of rage.-- AFP

It's a pity when this happened to one girl who all she wanted just a tiny freedom of having her future set for herself.
No doubt arranged marriage happened still, in this modern world, especially amongst the Arabian nations where family linked, or family name is very crucial in determining who would you be ending up your life with. One is not encouraged to marry another from unknown family root.
Family name mostly, will indicate from which clan and who was the ancestor back to the period of early Islamic realisation.

But in this case, as known, and through my own observation, as I can see lots of them here, Pakistani are an obedient lot.
They are very easily outraged -- if one notice from the constant bombing and fighting among themselves. Life to them seems so cheap and have no value at all.

It's also a  shame if some, I'm sure, will blame the religion for such cruel act  of honour killing.

Hopefully more Pakistani girls will have the gut to follow their own path rather than those being set upon them.

Five percent of Saudi women beat up their husbands

Five percent of Saudi women beat up their husbands

by Arab News

NAJRAN: About five percent of the married Saudi women regularly beat their husbands, according to a study conducted by Dr. Abdul Aziz Al-Muqbil, a staff member of Al-Qassim University who is also a social and a family consultant.


He told local daily Al-Madinah on Friday that 45 percent of the Saudi children were subjected to various kinds of physical abuse and that 21 percent of them were being regularly beaten.


The academician noted that incidence of family violence was steadily rising and said verbal abuse might be the spark that ignites family violence. “Many people confuse between firmness and violence on numerous occasions. This may result in family breakdown and will not ensure children a proper upbringing,” he cautioned.


Al-Muqbil also said negligence was another face of family violence. He cited a case of a girl who had been staying in a protection home for more than 10 years without anyone asking about her. “This is a clear example of family abuse,” he said.


The academician refuted claims that family violence was hereditary and said it was a kind of temporary punishment. “A female accepting to marry randomly without knowing the man just out of fear of spinsterhood is also a case of family abuse,” he said.


Al-Muqbil believes that the prevailing culture in society is encouraging family violence. “Some wives bear physical abuse by their husband for fear of divorce which is more painful to them than physical abuse and beating,” he said.


He cited lack of proper family planning, unwillingness to settle petty differences, disputes over methods of upbringing and boredom in the house as factors that would ultimately lead to family violence.


“Differences over birth control are also among the causes that may breed family abuse,” he said.


In an earlier report carried by Arab News, the Jeddah police had reported that on average, 145 wives beat their husbands in a month, constituting 20 percent of the annual rates of such incidents.


Wives only go for physical violence when they reach a state of explosion and can no longer control themselves, said Fathiyyah Al-Qurashi, member of the Saudi Human Rights Commission, while responding to the growing number of incidence of husband beating.

Hmmmmm....my comment after reading this?
Still trying to visualised these Arabs women doing so. So, I reserved my comments.
Again....dman. Would it be by hand?...or broom, a stick maybe?
Perhaps throwing things....but beating?
It's kinda hard to imagine really.

I mean, lets start from just looking at Arabs men.
Majority of them have a hard, composed, rather stuck-up façade. Most ot them are tall...hardly you'll find those average Asian men height.
So, imagining them being beaten by the wives....that's hilarious.
Seriously.
Would they like, hiding their face with both hands from being slapped or hit, just like what you'll see when you watched some movies about abused women-- now...that will be interesting ain't it. Someone (a maybe and Arab women director) must comes out with a movie about a husband being abused and beaten....with a title 'Crying alone' ...or 'I am a man'. How's that?
I don't think a man wants to manipulate on this issue as it is a torn to their manly ego. Unless he's a gay.
Again.....

Anyway, let me dwell on it for today, besides trying again to picture the scene of the household villainies with their actions.
On a woman perspective -- personally, I think it is absurd. We do have quarrels and some misunderstanding, but both verbal and physical abuse on women and men alike is a NO-NO. It is a show of disrespectful towards the individuals.
It is against the religion, in this case, these Saudis I would assumed all of them are Muslims.

Still.....

Baby...baby...

Hmmmm....this might be something different from my normal people bashing or whatnots log.
Im blaming it on the hormones...nothing else to blame. Why not? Im still being controlled by the up and downs of it. And one of the reason of my claiming so was when now and then Im finding myself very preoccupied with my little baby, unlike my previous one...
Well, not wanting to feel 'mom's-guilt' or whatever, it was probably, it was different during the previous birth, where I was busy running business and trying to cope and 'make-beleive' being a 'modern day' mom by bringging  my baby to the office whenever I'm free from any meetings. Another reason for that was my not trusting a maid or baby sitter besides close my family members.

Anyway, since Im a house mom, and got all the time just to entertain my baby and watched her every second, Im experiencing a very new feeling of being a mom to a newborn.

I have the following article sucscribed from a website, and I just feel like sharing it here.
It made me lauged especially reading the  last checklist, and picturing her rounded face and eyes eyeing for our food whenever she sees us eating.


How will I know when my baby's ready?


Your baby will give you clear signs when he's ready to move beyond liquid-only nourishment. Cues to look for include:


•Head control. Your baby needs to be able to keep his head in a steady, upright position.

•Losing the "extrusion reflex." To keep solid food in his mouth and then swallow it, your baby needs to stop using his tongue to push food out of his mouth.

•Sitting well when supported. Even if he's not quite ready for a highchair, your baby needs to be able to sit upright to swallow well.

•Chewing motions. Your baby's mouth and tongue develop in sync with his digestive system. To start solids, he should be able to move food to the back of his mouth and swallow. As he learns to swallow efficiently, you may notice less drooling – though if your baby's teething, you might still see a lot of drool.

•Significant weight gain. Most babies are ready to eat solids when they've doubled their birth weight (or weigh about 15 pounds) and are at least 4 months old.

•Growing appetite. He seems hungry – even with eight to ten feedings of breast milk or formula a day.

•Curiosity about what you're eating. Your baby may begin eyeing your bowl of rice or reaching for a forkful of fettuccine as it travels from your plate to your mouth.

Eid Mubarak!!

Today is the day of celebration for all Muslims.
My being at home celebrating is a must.

I cant bring myself celebrating it here, after the first and last experience celebrating it here without family and friends. They do have a community at the place where Im residing now, but somehow there is no point of if the community is slacking in genuine devotion and are of pretentious. I mean, basically, they are those that you 'don't actually know and don't wish to know'.

Anyway, when it comes to 'don't actually know and don't wish to know' -- I have got this urging feeling of really wanting to know who is actually the Prime Minister of my home country, Malaysia.

You see, every year, it is a ritual for someone to announce the day of the Eid, after the sighting of the moon commemorating the celebration, This will be announced right after the night prayer.

Then on the first day, there will be special speech by the Prime Minister.
I cannot recall, the current premier, Najib Razak's way of giving speech pass years but this year, he gave his speech while sitting down on a couch beside his wife Rosmah.
But that was not the gist of the story.
I was later utterly shocked when Rosmah gave her own speech...which was carried on air for the next couple of days!!
I mean, who IS the Prime Minister?

Has it been done before in the history of Malaysia? Nope.

Has it been done in other country's history? I do not think so.

So why is she stealing the lime light?
Why is she been allowed to do that?

Could it be possible that the rumours that she is the actual PRIMIER is true?....

By the look of it -- YUP indeed.

With news about her whatnot being carried on air daily, there is no doubt she is the actual premier.
Indeed her long patience 'hard-work' is being paid off now.

Woman as Premier? NO-NO.

Perdana Menteri Wanita: Kenapa Isteri PM Tak Boleh?

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During Pak Lah, the SIL is more prominent than the Prime Minister himself.

Now, when Najib at helm, the wife is basking in the limelight proudly sometimes shadowing the primier.
Perhaps it is a new generation thingy that the first lady be given such lavish freedom to expose herself unconditionally.

On her exposure by the mass media, with unfailing daily dose of her whatnots, I personally didn't think it was done without someone 'instucting' it.

Rosmah reminded me of Hillary Clinton and perhaps Hillary is what she really hoping and wants to be. Now or later.
But does Najib be willing enough equal himself to Clinton?

Rosmah should take a step or now, i think two or three step back a bit. All of us know how ambitious this lady is but she shouldn't overshadow the political career of the husband, to extend of jeorpardising it.

And woman as Prime Minister?
Name one country that prosper with woman as their premier...And being a Muslim, let us get back to the basic fundamental of the creation of man and women.

Freedom fight for Saudi women?

'No need' for women to cover up -Saudi police.


By AFP

JEDDAH - A Saudi religious police commander criticised the kingdom's ban on gender mixing on Tuesday and said women did not have to veil their faces to applause from his female audience.

Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi, outspoken head of the Mecca branch of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also said there was nothing in Islam to prevent women from driving, despite the Saudi ban on the practice.

"There is a difference in interpretation of the (Koranic) verse... which leads some scholars to rule that the whole body must be covered ... However other scholars approve showing the face, hands and elbows. And some even okayed the hair," he said.

He said the kingdom's mixing ban should be applied only to men and women meeting in secret, not in public places -- a rule normally enforced by the religious police.

Islam "orders a woman to cover her body to allow her to participate in social life, not to prevent her from doing so," he said.
The women in the audience, all clad in the all-black shroud-like abaya they must wear, broke out in applause.

Ghamdi, who was mysteriously fired and reinstated in April after breaking ranks with the religious police to endorse mixing, was speaking at a conference on "Women's Participation in National Development", where the hot issue was the barriers posed by Saudi Arabia's ultra-strict ban on women working.

Because Saudi women are not permitted to mix with unrelated men, must have a male guardian and are not permitted to drive, there are huge limitations on their employment opportunities.

Recently, top religious officials strongly objected to a labour ministry effort to allow Saudi women to work as cashiers in supermarkets.

Labour Minister Adel Fakieh said on Tuesday that 200,000 women in the kingdom, or 44 percent of the workforce, were unemployed, and that of them 157,000 had degrees above the level of high school.

"The unemployed women are educated above high school, while unemployed men mostly don't have degrees," he said.

Meanhwile, the country's sole female minister, Deputy Education Minister Noura al-Fayez, also came in for criticism for not having achieved much in terms of women's educational advancement and opportunities.

She urged the audience of Saudi women to have patience, and told them she could do little about certain issues, like the high accident rate for rural women teachers who must travel great distances to work because they are not permitted to live away from their families.

On Monday, King Abdullah's daughter Princess Adela bint Abdullah said a greater effort was needed to provide jobs for Saudi women.

"Women's participation (in the workforce) is behind expectation. A society cannot walk with a limping leg," she said.

Woman defying Saudi driving ban dies in crash.

Woman defying Saudi driving ban dies in crash.

Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam. Sexes are segregated in
schools and public places. Women are not allowed to drive or vote.

Women not allowed to drive has got nothing to do with the religion but only an interpretation of human and Saudi's authorities.
When human are banned from doing something that other folks of the same sex around the world are allowed to do, they'll tend to break the law -- whatmore when these people are living in the millennium.

And although women are substandard in the eyes of those from that side of the world, Islam has never segregate them and dictate that they are not allowed to perform what required of them such as the right to vote. They even contributed their energy and usefulness in wars during the Prophet Muhammad (saw) crusade to spread his teaching of Islam.

If women are so futile and incapable in the eyes of Islam, then he could have just banned them from following his entourage, and stay at home mending the house and children.
Even his first wife is a successful business women and he was one of her worker.

Islamic dresscode.

This thought had been with me.

It somehow agitates me to certain extend for I really don't know why.
Maybe it had to do with respect. Respect and take pride in what we do.
Or perhaps a tinge of disgruntlement towards certain group of people- namely women in carrying and portraying themselves as Muslim ladies.

Personally, I think loads of women fell victim in order to fulfil their desperation of being in style, especially wearing head covers, which is more of a style than a must in the recent decade ~~ and are actually clowning themselves especially those women whom were forced to donned cloths that covers all aspects of the 'haram' body parts by their parents or husband, yet they are actually flaunting it but in a discreet Islamic manner.
In a skin covered attire, but body hugging and skin-tight show all manifestation.

Well, in the first place, I admit that I might not be someone anyone would call a good Muslim lady because of my uncovered head and body although I had over the years and after reaching certain age in life chose something accordingly and chucked away all my skimpy dresses and skirts.

What really triggers this thought again, now, was after reading a circular distributed by my daughter's school here on the students dresscode; this after some lack of understanding or just plain dumb parents who made their kids wear something that not suitable for school day dresscode.

One of the photo show a pinafore worn by one Muslim girl. She must be from Indonesia from her feature or if from my own country, then, too bad I might not know her due to my little boundaries I set for myself.
It made me chuckled seeing her photo wearing a pinafore which is just below her knee but she also wear a white head scarf !

What was running through her parents (particularly) the mother's head seeing the daughter wearing that?
What do they or she actually want from her wearing that?
Wear a pinafore or wear a Muslimah type of pinafore?
Then why not get her an ankle long skirt, which would definitely compliment the head cover?

This is the case of a contradicting discipline that is running thru the Muslim world nowadays. It coincide with very evident Islamic realisation among the people (in Malaysia for example, in the 80s, one can hardly find a Muslim secondary school-going girl wear head scarf unlike now, majority wear them and some school in the capital 'force' their Muslim girls to wear a tudung).
Of course there is always better to know that there are higher Islamic realisation in any soceity, but when the understanding of it was not being emphasised, then what is wrong?

The religion itself or the person who admits to the religion?

If one take time learn about other cultures and in the same time observes, it is especially evident among the Egyptian young women especially, their funny 'dress code' or attire, until one actually can point out that they are from Egypt rather than say...Morocco.
This trending of discreet-show- all attire would be shared by other Muslim majority countries except the Gulf. Don't get me wrong. I am not scrutinising or down narrowing that all of them wear as such, but mostly young adults does.
In of course, not forgetting those down around South East Asian Muslim particularly the Malay and Indonesian ladies. One can obviously differentiate the style of hijab-clad women from the other.

Why I call this contradicting discipline?
Well, in my opinion, they are trying hard to instill some 'Islamic' discipline in their young child ( mind you some Indonesian and Malay don their 1 year old girl with head scarves...which is absurd, obviously...) yet in this pitiful case, the girl was 'indirectly' taught that she is allowed to show her legs BUT must cover her head in whatever case it might be. This my friend, if not being properly adviced and taught will somehow be adapted or assimilated by her until she grows up.

What is the relevance?
What is happening to the Muslim society who thought they are implementing a righteous way according to the syariah but are actually dumb in knowing the real way of covering their head and bodies?

How many young ladies out there who covers their hijab but know about the real Islamic head covers apart from the Christians and Jewish way of covering their head?

Don't they have any sense of instilling discipline by doing it across the board according to what actually required in a proper manner.

Or if you, just like me, a liberated Muslim ~ just buy skirts and shorts and gowns for your daughters and at least they won't be living a deceiving life and and might have the consequences of not knowing it until they are adult.
This a sure case of cheating oneself.
An evident of desperation to show others that they are better covered than not.

Just like some of the women I've come to know back in Malaysia who covers their head but wear bustiers under their blazer that obviously showing off her fair-skinned chest, a pretty necklace and a bit of cleavage, or covers their head, but wear skirts without any leggings (which in the first place they are not supposed to wear such mid calf skirt), or wear head covers to work but throw it away and will be bare-headed out of working time, or wear shorts doing gardening (my neighbour) when she actually wear hijab to work!....what is the point of her covering her body at work but go doing her landscape with short shorts and I definitely can make out her 'real body figure' and 'her legs colour and size' ?
Hmmmm....and Im a woman....

People can really be damn funny and complex to me.
I always fail to understand their whys.
And don't talk about the Melayu ladies who'd wear long thick gold necklace (seen once with two extra large pendants, because she's afraid people might not know she got more than one), and one personal case a lady so desperately pull out her white gold necklace (because she claimed that she's a town person just like moi) just to prove a point.

Sucks.
So, if you have the intention of instilling religious lifestyle so you can be better and stronger faith than others, please start by donning a proper attire on yourself first, then evaluate others.

Girls, girls, girls....

Jail, rotan for man who raped student while friends cheered -Read further....


I find it amusing reading this particular news today.
How can the 22 year-old student claimed that she was raped when she herself wanted to be in that situation, willingly.
Why report rape when she is the one who so obligingly follow the man, supposedly her boyfriend to get herself entertained and later followed him back to his room?

If, she is 15, she might be dumb to give excuses when the man suggested her go to his house, but she is 22.

I am not championing rapists, but this is an obvious case of willingness to be 'raped' and another guess ~ the girl's lawyer is smarter than the defending one.

Duhhh.....