民政何去何從!!!!

Yo...拿督斯里林敬益, 不知又有什么话要说了!

请锁定 Astro AEC, 就事论事,

这个星期六(3-5-08), 晚間 10.30pm.

可別错过了这个长輩的论坛 oh!

"宠物"的心声

可别因为一时的冲动

要把这可愛的"宠物"

领回家喔!

后果................

Aiya, 看了这一篇報导, 心中有些许的感叹!

为何, 现今的社会, 那么的冷酷無情,

自己的小孩都可以拋弃了, 更何况是宠物! (Sad-sad)

谨慎地想 一 想,

当您要照料或拋弃宠物时,

別 因为个人某种自私的原因,

而忘记了责任存在的意识,
那也是一條生命啊!

所谓

人在做, 天在看

关心您家的宠物
就从一些基本知識做起吧!

兽医们啊, 请抽出多一点点您们保贵的时間, 多做一些义务性的工作吧!

別一味的只想著营生, 是時侯为社会做一点供献了吧!

请多多關心有口難言的"我"吧!

Generation Y

Just to share a funny email received from a friend of mine...

- The Silent generation, people born before 1945.

- The Baby Boomers, people born between 1945 and 1961.

- Generation X, people born between 1962 and 1976.

- Generation Y, people born between 1977 and 1989

Why do we call the last one generation Y? I didn't know... Please look at the above picture... a caricaturist explains it eloquently...

Having Learned something new!

hahaha...

女生同性戀誰之錯?

臨床心理醫師梁惠美說，十五六歲青春期的男生女生，有知心的朋友后，很容易模糊雙方之間的關係，而產生同性戀人關係。

她認為，雙方在一起覺得很舒服，且各有特質，會互相吸引和欣賞，由此產生連自己都不清楚的愛慕關係，或者崇拜對方。
“如果有一方有心誤導彼此之間的關係，就會發生同性戀情結。”

她認為，家庭因素並不會構成同性戀情結，即使一名自小在眾多女性家庭成員成長的男生，可能會顯得娘娘腔，但並不代表以后會成為同性戀者。

“有數個個案顯示，一些人曾在青春期，與同性發生關係，但是，當他們長大在社會工作后，才知道本身並非同性戀者。”

The explanations in Wikipedia, which was accessed on 27 April 2008...

A homosexual woman - or commonly known as a lesbian is a woman who is romantically and sexually attracted only to other women. Women who are attracted to both women and men are more often referred to as bisexual. An individual's self-identification might not correspond with her behavior, and may be expressed with either, both, or neither of these words.

Etymology
The word lesbian dates back at least to 1732 and lesbianism appears in the 1870 Oxford English Dictionary meaning sexual orientation rather than a reference to Sappho and inhabitants of Lesbos. Lesbian as an adjective is in the 1890 Oxford English Dictionary and as a noun by 1925. Until the early twentieth century lesbian was interchangeable with Sapphist.

History

The earliest known written references to same-sex love between women are attributed to Sappho (the eponym of sapphism), who lived on the island of Lesbos in ancient Greece from about 625 to 570 BCE and wrote poems which apparently expressed her sexual attraction to other females. Modern scholarship has suggested a parallel between ancient Greek pederasty and the friendships Sappho formed with her students. Lesbian relationships were also common among the Lacedaemonians of ancient Sparta. Plutarch wrote "love was so esteemed among them that girls also became the erotic objects of noble women."

Accounts of lesbian relationships are found in poetry and stories from ancient China. Research by anthropologist Liza Dalby, based mostly on erotic poems exchanged between women, has suggested lesbian relationships were commonplace and socially accepted in Japan during the Heian Period. In medieval Arabia there were reports of relations between harem residents, although these were sometimes suppressed. For example Caliph Musa al-Hadi ordered the beheading of two girls who were surprised during lovemaking. During the twelfth-century Etienne de Fougères derided lesbians in his Livre des manières (about CE 1170), likening them to hens behaving as roosters and reflecting a general tendency among religious and secular authorities in Europe to reject any notion women could be properly sexual without men.

Lesbian feminism

Many lesbians have been involved in women's rights. Late in the 19th century, the term Boston marriage was used to describe romantic unions between women living together, often while contributing to the suffrage movement. Lesbian feminism gained renewed popularity in North America and Western Europe during the "second wave" of the 1970s and early 1980s. By the end of the 1970s lesbian feminism was accepted as a field of study within academic institutions, although mostly as a branch of feminist disciplines. More recently, lesbian feminism has emerged as an expression of dissatisfaction with the 1970s era second wave feminist and gay liberation movements.

Lesbian feminist texts have examined the influence of institutions such as patriarchy, capitalism and colonialism on gender and sexuality with mixed success, sometimes describing lesbianism as a rational result of alienation and dissatisfaction with these institutions. In her 1980 essay Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, Adrienne Rich characterized heterosexuality as a violent political institution making way for the "male right of physical, economical, and emotional access" to women. Other key thinkers and activists have included Rita Mae Brown, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Frye, Mary Daly and Sheila Jeffreys.

Lesbian Separatism is one specific type of Lesbian feminism.

大馬女子被利用運毒???

中國報 (27 April 2008)
（吉隆坡26日訊）遭國際販毒集團利用運毒到西班牙被捕的女子坦承，她在巴西從一名男子手上接過新行李袋時，確實懷疑會收藏毒品，而她趁機在酒店客房檢查，發現沒有任何異物后才將行李袋帶在身上！

現年24歲的受害者來自巴生，她是在上個月19日被一名叫沙峇的男子，交托一個行李袋后，曾在酒店客房檢查。

原本在巴生任職書記的受害者，雖然發現行李袋拉鏈底下有一個空位，而她檢查沒有任何發現后，于是便將本身衣物放入行李袋內。

她說，她是在上個月20日前往馬耳他，不料抵達該機場時即遭執法當局查出藏有可卡因毒品，最后被扣留調查。

受害者是在被捕后第5天，即上個月25日寫信給姐姐時，傾訴被利用運毒經過。這封書信是于昨日由受害者姐姐提供給《每日新聞》報記者后被揭發出來。

酬勞8000令吉
受害者目前被扣留在馬耳他監獄，她的罪名是從巴西企圖走私可卡因入境西班牙。

受害者姐姐指出，其妹是于上個月10日前往馬耳他，家人是在上個月29日當妹妹被西班牙警方扣捕后，從她致電給家人時，才被告知遭遇，在這之前，家人完全被蒙在鼓裡。

“妹妹的行李袋經巴西機場海關人員檢查后成功出境，但是抵達馬耳他機場時卻出事，警方將行李袋底層撕破后即起獲可卡因毒品。”

受害者在信中，聲稱她十分后悔被一名叫托尼艾力斯吉那多的男子利用，要她到馬耳他和對方的哥哥占姆會合。

托尼是以8000令吉酬勞，要受害者幫忙替他從巴西攜帶機械到馬耳他給占姆，並確保受害者可安全返回大馬，豈料卻變成異國階下囚。

疑與國際販毒集團同謀女毒販秘魯落網
被指是國際販毒集團同謀，唆使本地女子將毒品運到國外被捕的大馬女毒販，目前已遭秘魯執法單位逮捕調查。

這名女毒販相信和國際販毒集團有掛，導致無數本地女子被利用到國外，尤其是歐洲國家進行販毒活動，目前她已被查悉落入秘魯執法單位手裡。

這名女子被稱為諾艾莎，曾在吉隆坡國際機場工作，相信是許多本地女子被國際毒販利用運毒到國外的靈魂人物。

據《每日新聞》報探悉，諾艾莎是一名尼日利亞籍男子安東尼的女友，這名男子相信是國際販毒集團成員。

諾艾莎和安東尼是本地一間大學前學生，他們被指是引誘達央莎基娜（20歲）和諾弗祖拉阿祖拉（28歲）到西班牙馬耳他“工作”，多次運毒后被捕的幕后策劃人。

達央莎基娜和諾弗祖拉分別在上個月4日和17日被捕，而諾艾莎則相信是在去年杪或今年初被秘魯警方逮捕。

惟無法確定的是，諾艾莎被捕原因是因為涉及販毒活動，或者已被國際刑警確為馬耳他活躍毒販的身分后而被捕。

大使未接獲報告
據悉，諾艾莎是西班牙馬耳他作為運毒基地，將毒品分銷至中國、墨西哥和巴西的活躍毒販。

另一方面，大馬駐西班牙大使官員，截至昨日被詢及有關大馬人運毒被捕事件時，依然聲稱未接獲任何報告。

一名官員說，一旦獲悉此事件的最新進展，當局一定會在最快時間，將掌握情報匯報給外交部。

警未接獲情報肅毒局將跟進
（新山26日訊）“大馬女子涉西班牙運毒案”，警方肅毒局將會跟進調查，惟警方尚未接獲任何情報。

警察總長丹斯里慕沙哈山指出，截至目前，警方只從媒體上得知，有大馬女子在西班牙被捕，但尚未獲得通知。

他說，肅毒局跟進相關案件，再通知媒體。

《每日新聞》報導，一名雪州巴生的24歲女子致電向家人求助，指她在上月29日入境西班牙時，被官員發現藏有超過1公斤的海洛英，當場被扣查。

女傭拚死搶回小主人!!!

一名年齡11個月的女童，昨午在萬成花園（Taman Selayang Jaya）18路，險遭疑是印尼裔的男子搶走，所幸女傭拼死相護，並機警遞出自己的手機，對方才肯拿著手機離去。女童的母亲陳太太指出，昨午6時30分，印裔女傭莎薇以嬰兒車，推著11個月女童外出散步。

“當時我和丈夫在外工作，我母親在家煮飯，女兒哭鬧要出去，女傭就推著她及牽著另一名5歲的女兒，在住家外面散步。

”她說，離家約200尺時，突然出現一名男子，從后面捂著女傭的嘴巴。

“對方是騎著摩哆前來，但女傭完全沒有聽見聲音，不知道對方接近她。”

女傭幾經掙扎，對方鬆手，並彎下身企圖抱起嬰兒車上的女童！

陳太太說，所幸女童綁著安全帶，對方無法得逞，女傭眼見如此，馬上挺身保護女童。

“據瞭解，該男子一氣之下，不斷用手搥打女傭的頭部，但女傭仍然堅持保護女童。”

雙方僵持不下，女傭開始失去力氣，所幸她突然靈機一動，拿出自己的手機給對方。

“對方奪過手機，跳上摩哆揚長而去！”

女傭趕緊回家，較后由陳氏夫婦帶領前往警局報案。

陳太太說，據女傭所說，該男子長得高瘦，年齡約30歲，口操印尼腔的馬來話。

另一方面，陳先生相信，該男子是“見機行事”，並非有備而來。

这是販賣兒童的非法集團，才導致匪徒企圖在住宅區搶走幼童吗???

促請大家提高警愓，保護家人,特別是小孩!!!

THANKS TO THE MAID!

Be NICE to your MAID! She would appreciate...

Women In Politic Part 1 & Part 2

Say NO to Violence against Women!

Facts & Figures on Violence Against Women

Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families, and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence — yet the reality is that too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned. — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, 8 March 2007

Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime — with the abuser usually someone known to her. Perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation that we know today, it devastates lives, fractures communities, and stalls development.

Statistics paint a horrifying picture of the social and health consequences of violence against women. For women aged 15 to 44 years, violence is a major cause of death and disability. In a 1994 study based on World Bank data about ten selected risk factors facing women in this age group, rape and domestic violence rated higher than cancer, motor vehicle accidents, war and malaria. Moreover, several studies have revealed increasing links between violence against women and HIV/AIDS.

Women who have experienced violence are at a higher risk of HIV infection: a survey among 1,366 South African women showed that women who were beaten by their partners were 48 percent more likely to be infected with HIV than those who were not.

The economic cost of violence against women is considerable — a 2003 report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the costs of intimate partner violence in the United States alone exceed US$5.8 billion per year: US$4.1 billion are for direct medical and health care services, while productivity losses account for nearly US$1.8 billion. Violence against women impoverishes individuals, families and communities, reducing the economic development of each nation.

In 1996, the United Nations General Assembly established the UN Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women. The Trust Fund is managed by UNIFEM and is the only multilateral grant-making mechanism that supports local, national and regional efforts to combat violence. Since it began operations in 1997, the Trust Fund has awarded more than US$19 million to 263 initiatives to address violence against women in 115 countries.

Raising awareness of women’s human rights, these UNIFEM-supported efforts have linked activists and advocates from all parts of the world; shown how small, innovative projects impact laws, policies and attitudes; and has begun to break the wall of silence by moving the issue onto public agendas everywhere.

Ref: http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/vaw/facts_figures.php

Be Strong Like Foxtail Lily

Eremurus robustus

Common name: foxtail lily

Family: Asphodelaceae

Vital statistics

Height and spread: 1m (3ft) wide with flower spikes to 3m (10ft) high.

Form: Herbaceous perennial

Soil: Sandy, well-drained loam

Aspect: Full sun

Hardiness: Hardy throughout the British Isles

Over 500 Eremurus robustus can be seen growing in the old-fashioned shrub rose border, as they flower at the same time as a number of the roses they are ideal bedfellows. The tall, dark green conifer hedge behind the border enhances the display as it is a perfect foil for the 2 metre high flower spikes.

Eremurus

There are about 40 to 50 species of Eremurus which typically grow in dry, rocky, almost barren, semi-desert habitats of western Asia to dry, subalpine, grazed, grasslands in Afghanistan and western China.

Foxtail lilies are stately plants that produce a magnificently tall flower spike, which can exceed 3m in height, on which a densely flowered inflorescence is borne. The natural colour range of the species is yellow, pink and white but this is much extended in the cultivars to include striking golden and coppery yellows, deep pinks, oranges and red.

The flower spike is produced from a fleshy rooted crown with a central growing point. The tuberous roots fan out in all directions from the central point.

The name Eremurus comes from the Greek words eremia, desert, and oura, a tail, from the appearance of the flower spike and of the desert and steppe conditions that the plants inhabit.

Eremurus robustus

A native of Tien Shan and Pamir Mountains in central Asia Eremurus robustus is a tufted perennial with strap-shaped, bluish green leaves to 1.2m long. Long, sturdy, round flower stems develop from the leaf rosette starting in May. The magnificent inflorescences are richly covered with pale pink flowers, 4cm across, that have brown-marked bases and yellow stamens.

The species name robustus means stout and strong in growth. Specimens taller than 2m are not unusual and the flower cluster can be over 1m long, consisting of 700 - 800 flowers which open in June.

Established in 1804, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Floral Committee A awarded Eremurus robustus an Award of Garden Merit describing it as a spectacular plant.

Cultivation

Foxtail lilies should be grown in rich, fertile, well-drained, sandy soil in full sun. In regions with hard frosts and where it stays cold long into the spring, these plants should be placed in a sheltered location.

Plant amongst ground cover and other perennials as the leaves wither back during the flowering period and can look unsightly. In exposed sites, without shelter from the wind, taller species will require staking whilst in flower.

Once the plants have established in the same location for some years, they can develop into quite a sizeable clump.

Although the tuberous roots themselves are winter-hardy, an organic mulch layer is highly recommended but this should be removed in the spring, especially if wet, to avoid rotting the emerging foliage. In regions that experience late frosts young shoots should be given the protection of dry bracken litter or straw.

Like most herbaceous perennials Eremurus are prone to slug damage but they are relatively unaffected by other pests and diseases.

Propagation

Propagate in the autumn by ripe seed or from division and replanting of the crowns as the foliage dies back. The roots must be handled carefully as they are very fragile and prone to break.

Flowers are given for all occasions and for many reasons. Basically they are given to convey thoughtfulness and love or to express feelings which words are unable to convey. Individuals have their own special meanings attached to flowers. As for Eremurus/Foxtail Lily, it reflects "I hold you in high esteem" or "fidelity" (continuing loyalty to a person or belief).