Friday, May 22, 2009

Mencari Adunan Kek....

Dengan Nama ALLAH Yang Maha Pemurah Lagi Maha Penyayang.....

Pagi tadi, bos telah mengadakan perbincangan dengan seorang klien yang pada mulanya saya sendiri tidak pasti siapa...yang saya tahu, beliau adalah salah sorang penceramah yang akan dijemput menjadi penceramah pada seminar kami bulan Julai nanti..insyallah...kemudian, bos meminta saya untuk turut serta dalam perbincangan tersebut...ya..seperti biasa, saya memblurkan diri saya....dan hanya memasang telinga serta menunggu arahan tugas yang perlu saya lakukan nanti....

Dengan bermodalkan paras rupa seperti Albert Eistein, saya menyangka beliau adalah seorang profesor terkemuka di negara ini seperti profesor2 lain yang pernah saya kenali...nyata saya silap!! Pada mulanya, saya hanya mengiyakan apa yang diperkatakannya dan lama kelamaan saya menjadi kagum dengan beliau...kenapa?? rupa2nya beliau berpangkat Dato'..owh, dan telah pun bersara dan kini menjalankan firma consultans sendiri...pandangan beliau mengenai sukan tanah air mengejutkan saya dari pembluran tadi...beliau sempat berkata pada saya, mesti saya tak faham apa yang sedang diperkatakannya....mungkin pada beliau kerana saya tidak tahu berbahasa Inggeris...erk, bukan....saya memang sentiasa blur bilamana soal sukan dibentangkan pada saya...kalau di sekolah dulu mungkin...kerna saya sangat aktif bersukan ketika di sekolah dan kurang sedikit semasa di USM....ada satu kesimpulan yang dapat saya simpulkan bilamana mendengar kata-kata beliau tadi.....involve yourself in sport, doesnt mean you know everthing about sport...yap!! im totally agree...dan saya salah seorang daripadanya...huh!!

selepas tamat sesi perbincangan dengan bos, beliau meminta untuk terus berada disini kerana petang ini, beliau ada mesyuarat lain di KBS...baiklah, beliau ditempatkan di bilik saya...dan kami sempat makan tengahari bersama....

oleh kerana, saya semakin kagum dengan beliau, walaupun saya sendiri tidak kenal siapa beliau, saya memberanikan diri bertanya pelbagai soalan padanya, dan mengenepikan pangkat dan gelaran Dato' itu.....nyata beliau sangat humble....begitu juga dengan beliau, banyak bertanya pada saya apabila mengetahui saya adalah seorang graduan dari USM...dan beliau telah mengajar selama 30 tahun di Pusat Pengajian Ilmu Pendidikan USM...wah...

Beliau adalah Dato' Dr. Leonard Andrew de Vries, Pengerusi Persatuan Pendidikan Jasmani dan Sains Kesihatan Malaysia (PPJSKM) dan merupakan orang pertama di Malaysia yang memperoleh PhD dalam Sains Sukan.. beliau juga salah seorang yang sering memberi kritikan dan pandangan hebat dalam mutu sukan negara, salah satu yang berjaya saya jumpa disini. Adakah saya terlalu memuji beliau??? erk, tapi itulah persepsi pertama saya ...sangat peramah, open minded, dan sangat ghairah dalam melihat pembangunan sukan negara ke arah yang lebih tinggi. Dengan usia yang telah melampaui 70-an, beliau masih gagah meneruskan usaha murninya itu.

Ada sesuatu terdetik di hati kecil saya, setelah berjumpa dengan beliau....pertamanya, kelompok masyarakat yang menjadikan pendidikan dan ilmu pengetahuan ini sebagai urusniaga semata-mata. Bukankah ilmu yang kita peroleh itu, harus dikongsi bersama-sama orang lain?? demi kepentingan dan kesejahteraan masyarakat amnya..mengapa dewasa ini, terdapat segelintir individu yang menjadikan program talk ini, sebagai satu usaha menjadi kaya raya?? ini antara pandangan beliau pada kami...hmm...

dan keduanya, berkenaan saya sendiri...saya sedar kini, kesilapan terbesar saya di unit dan kerja ini ialah....saya tidak mempunyai atau menunjukkan keghairahan saya pada sukan...mungkin selama ini saya hanya menjalankan tugas atas dasar tanggungjawab yang diberikan dan bukannya kerana minat dan kesungguhan saya melihat pembangunan sukan itu sendiri...dan selama hampir dua bulan di unit ini, saya akui...bidang ini tidak 100% meresap dan sebati dengan jiwa saya.... kerna ini jugalah alasan yang sering saya berikan, bilamana ramai yang musykil mengapa saya tidak menjadi seorang guru......dan barangkali kerna ini jugalah prestasi dan keghairahan kerja saya di unit lama berbeza...mungkin saya harus mencari jalan dan bahan terbaik agar jiwa saya benar-benar sebati dalam bidang ini sehingga menjadi satu adunan kek yang tidak dapat dilawan oleh mana-mana chef.....atau saya perlu keluar dari bidang ini dan kembali pada bidang saya yang lama??? ada ruang untuk saya lagikah di luar sana??? maksud saya ruang yang lebih baik, dan bukannya pada takuk yang sama......apapun, perjalanan hidup ini masih jauh, dan mungkin saya dapat melihat sinar di dalam bidang ini, yang penting teruskan usaha untuk menjadi lebih baik.....insyallah..

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Mungkin Saya berada di Bawah Roda Ketika Ini...

Dengan Nama ALLAH Yang Maha Pemurah Lagi Maha Penyayang...

Sepanjang dua minggu ini, banyak perkara berlaku dalam kehidupan saya....dan kesilapan demi kesilapan yang saya lakukan dalam karier, sedikit sebanyak mengganggu emosi dan mood kerja saya....maklumlah, saya masih baru di unit ini...mungkin saya perlu bermuhasabah diri dengan lebih mendalam.....dan berubah menjadi seorang yang lebih baik....

begitu juga dengan perjalanan hidup di sudut yang satu ini....semalam, saya menerima kad undangan perkahwinan dari Ultraman...tahniah, saya dah agak ianya akan berlaku juga satu hari nanti....sejak minggu lepas, ultraman menghubungi saya, mungkin tujuan utamanya hendak memberitahu hajatnya yang satu ini...tapi tidak kesampaian, barangkali, beliau tidak sampai hati untuk berbicara dengan saya mengenainya....hehehe, secara jujur, saya sudah tidak merasa apa-apa lagi....saya kagum dengan ultraman yang selalu jujur dengan saya...terima kasih...semoga berbahagia dan mendapat keberkatan dariNya...insyallah, kata-kata beliau akan saya pegang sampai bila-bila.

Kehadiran kad tersebut, tidak sedikit pun mengganggu emosi saya...cuma ada dua perkara yang saya ketahui minggu lepas....berjaya mengubah kehidupan saya selepas ini...(barangkali...)satunya mengenai masalah yang sekian lama, kini, saya kira sudah selesai...dan kisah power ranger merah yang baru saya sedari.....perasaan saya??? apa lagi yang boleh saya katakan??? Selamat Hari Jadi, power ranger merah....

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Saturday, May 16, 2009

Bapa Borek, Anak Rintik

Dengan Nama ALLAH Yang Maha Pemurah Lagi Maha Penyayang....

Saya kini berada di hotel, sedang menjalankan sebuah bengkel pengkreditan di bawah PSPTN. Sedang para peserta yang lain sibuk membincangkan modul, saya berkesempatan untuk membelek surat khabar yang terbentang di atas meja....ada satu penemuan yang agak menarik di situ, mari kita lihat, ahkbar New Straits Times bertarikh 16 Mei 2009...oh ya, Selamat Hari Guru untuk semua warga pendidik di Malaysia...

2009/05/16

CrossTalk: Student activism, then and now


Mohd Ridzuan Mohammad and Hishamuddin Rais prior to sharing their views on student activism of the past and present.


Some 35 years separate them. Hishamuddin Rais was president of the Universiti of Malaya in 1974 and Mohd Ridzuan Mohammad is the present president. With ARMAN AHMAD sitting in, the ex-president, often portrayed as a rabble-rouser, and the current president, a young man with ‘progressive ideas’, talk about the of the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 and student activism in the country Hishamuddin Rais, 58, the president of the Universiti Malaya student union in 1974, was arrested for leading a number of student demonstrations. He went into self-exile for 20 years, journeying through 30 countries, including Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Australia and Pakistan. He now contributes to a newspaper column and writes film scripts.


Islamic studies scholar Mohd Ridzuan Mohammad, 23, is currently head of the Universiti Malaya student representative council and chairman of the national student representative council. He is also the former chairman of the University Students’ Movement to Abolish the Universities and University Colleges Act.

THE 'FREE' DAYS

Hishamuddin: There is a misconception that student activism began in Universiti Malaya in the 1970s. Student activism can be traced to the 1950s.

During that time, at the University of Malaya in Singapore, student activism had already taken root. Students there were criticising the British occupation of Malaya.


In the 1960s, student activism was intense in Universiti Malaya (as the university in Malaya was known when the University of Malaya was split into two divisions) in Kuala Lumpur.


I became the 17th president of Persatuan Mahasiswa Universiti Malaya (UM student union) in 1974. When I became the president, UM was still an autonomous body.


It wasn't just the academic institutions that were free at the time. Many other institutions in the country were free and autonomous, including the newspapers.


At the time, comments made by student leaders were reported in the newspapers. Student leaders had the courage to speak up.


Ridzuan: Since the introduction of the Universities and University Colleges Act almost 40 years ago, we have seen a gradual decline in student activism because many of the student leaders are afraid. Students have also been arrested under the Internal Security Act.

Last August, we organised a peaceful protest at the entrance of the Parliament building, calling for the abolition of the act.


We lay on the road in front of Parliament to protest against the proposed amendments. There have been a number of amendments to this act over the years but we believe all of them, including the latest amendments, were to appease certain groups and would not benefit students.


They are cosmetic in nature and do not affect the act which restricts student activism. The act does not benefit students in any way.


Hishamuddin: Although the act already existed when I became the student union president, we just ignored it.


Those days, we had our own funds to operate. There were 10,000 students and each student paid an annual fee of RM24, which meant each year, the student union would have RM240,000 in its coffers.


Our student union was the richest in Southeast Asia at that time. We had three buses to provide free transportation to students, a van, a motorcycle and a newspaper. I had 17 staff, including a driver, several clerks, a tukang sapu (sweeper) and other workers.


Because we had our own finances, we were an autonomous body in our own right. We organised our own events and programmes.


Ridzuan: Our accounts today are held by the Student Affairs Department of the university.


Students are not allowed to collect funds. We have difficulty in organising certain events because of this. There are many obstacles to overcome. When we contested, we had pledged the RM600 that is paid as my allowance as well as the allowances of the supreme council members would be contributed towards the students' needs. But these allowances have now been blocked.


HAMID TUAH


Hishamuddin: It is sad to see that after more than 30 years of the existence of the act, the student movement has suffered such a decline. In those days, the student movement spoke up on issues involving the rights of the people.


I remember in August 1967 when a landless farmer, Hamid Tuah, and his followers opened up land for agriculture and settlement in Teluk Gong.

(About 530 farmers had planted vegetables and built settlements on a 1,000-acre plot. In September, the government gave them a week's notice to vacate the land.)


Hamid was detained under the ISA. The student union spoke out against the detention.


There were numerous other incidents where the student unions were very vocal on issues involving the society at large, the most well-known being the Baling incident.


(The price of rubber fell drastically in 1974 and the situation, made worse by creeping inflation, saw farmers and rubber smallholders struggling. More than 20,000 peasant farmers demonstrated in Baling, Kedah, on Dec 1. Two days later, students joined in to support them with a big rally at the Selangor Club padang -- Dataran Merdeka -- in Kuala Lumpur. There was a crackdown on student leaders and Hishamuddin fled the country.)


The student movement reached its pinnacle in 1969. In that year, the students started getting involved in the election. They campaigned around the country and created manifestos.


(A total of 13 gatherings were held, attended by about 100,000 people.)

But it wasn't aligned to the coalition or opposition group. They wanted to educate the people through forums and talks.


Their efforts were perhaps part of the reason for the surprising outcome of the 1969 election that eventually led to the passing of the university act.


OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE


Ridzuan:We are working towards the abolition of the act. We have to admit that this seems a remote possibility at this time.


It is unfortunate that the government should think that the student bodies will be on the offensive the moment the act is repealed.

There are also other issues that need to be put right. Over the years, there has been a history of interference by political parties in Universiti Malaya's student politics.


Some political parties have exerted their influence on the student bodies. However, the situation is changing for the better and we have a vice-chancellor who is not politically affiliated or motivated.


Hishamuddin: Yes, in the past few years, some undergraduates have become a "part" of political parties .


If they are "stooges" of Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional and just spout the views of these parties, they are not held in any regard by the students. It sure is good when there are students who are non-partisan and dare to speak the truth.


Ridzuan: We do not have political ties with any political parties outside the campus although some people have claimed that because most of our manifestos seem similar to the opposition, we must be linked to the opposition. But the truth is, we are truly non-partisan.


However, this has not always been the case at Universiti Malaya. For the past few years, groups who have clear links with mainstream political parties have held the student union leadership.


After boycotting the 2003 election, the "progressive-thinking" seniors contested again and lost between 2004 and 2007.


We attribute our win this year to the changing political climate in the March 2008 election. The changing political climate seemed to have affected the students as well those who wanted change. We hope to see more positive changes in the future.



Kini sedang berlansung Konvensyen Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar 2009 di Universiti Tun Hussein Onn (UTHM) sehingga 19 Mei ini...pastinya pelbagai isu dan usul berbangkit dapat dibincangkan dalam konvensyen ini...artikel ini menarik minat saya dan rakan sekerja di unit lama....SEJAK BILA YDP MPP UM 08/09 MENJADI PENGERUSI MPPK 2009?? SIAPA YANG LANTIK?? ada YDP MPP IPTA lain ingin bersuara??? hidung tak mancung, pipi tersorong-sorong....Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan untuk kali pertama tahun ini, insyallah akan berlansung pada 9 Jun 2009 ini....sama-sama kita nantikan siapa Pengerusinya.....atau ada Majlis Pelajar Kebangsaan yang lain selain MPPK??? siapa ahli-ahlinya??


CrossTalk yang menarik, saya tidak mahu mengulas mengenai isinya, kerna saya kira, sudah banyak kali isu AUKU ini disebut-sebut...lagaknya seperti perbincangan seorang ayah dan anak.....sehingga kini saya masih menanti AKTA ALTERNATIF yang diperkatakan dulu.....bila nak buat tour nie???

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

i go.......

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