Bila Harga Naik...

Tahun 2014 yang begitu mencabar dan penuh rintihan. Semua harga naik. Lepas satu... satu naik. Sampai terasa apa lagi yang naik. Kalau difikirkan turun, entah bilalah akan turun. Memang mustahil.

Mana tidak sedihnya kalau harga petrol naik, elektrik naik, tol naik, gula naik, tambang bas sekolah naik, cukai pintu naik, tambang LRT naik, air naik, astro naik dan ditambah pula dengan GST. Yang paling terkesan harga ais pun naik juga. Jika dilihat semuanya ini, adalah keperluan asas kita setiap hari. Rutin yang memang sukar diubah tetapi harus juga buat perubahan untuk mengurangkan perbelanjaan, terpaksa pentingkan dahulu keperluan dari kehendak.

Bayangkan dengan hutang pinjaman peribadi, rumah, kereta, kad kredit dan PTPTN lagi. Belum ditambah dengan perbelanjaan anak sekolah. Agak-agaklah rakyat Malaysia nanti jadi apa ya... Kerja untuk hidup atau hidup untuk kerja? atau kerja sampai mati?

Betul-betul kena jimat tahun ini, kalau tak... nanti duit gaji yang ada tidak dapat menampung perbelanjaan. Mulalah buat perancangan bajet yang teliti. Semoga kita semua sabar dan tabah menghadapi dugaan hidup ini.

A Kingdom of Isolation, He's D King

Bolehkah anda bayangkan... Dia mengatakan di seorang yang humble tetapi setiap tempat adalah tempat larangan.

Jika dulu, semua tempat adalah tempat yang boleh di masuki dengan Ketuanya yang tidak mesra alam, namun dengan pengakuan bahawa dia seorang yang mesra alam tetapi lebih banyak tempat larangan dan tidak dapat di masuki.

Adakah dia seorang ketua yang hipokrit atau pun kerana dia adalah ketua yang menyebabkan banyak rahsia di bongkarkan. Ramai yang berpaling tadah darinya...

US manufacturing growth slowed in December

Workers install an engine into a 2014 F150 truck chassis on the assembly line at Ford's Dearborn Truck Plant September 16, 2013 in Dearborn, Michigan

US manufacturing sector growth slowed slightly in December after six straight monthly gains, the Institute for Supply Management said on Thursday.

The ISM purchasing managers index for December fell to 57.0 from 57.3 the previous month.

It was still the second highest reading of the year; in January 2013 the index stood at 53.1. A reading above 50 represents expansion.

Among components of the index, new orders and hiring picked up pace and prices rose more quickly,while production was slower. Producer and customer inventories contracted.

Comments from those surveyed "generally reflect a solid final month of the year, capping off the second half of 2013, which was characterized by continuous growth and momentum in manufacturing," the ISM said.

A respondent from the computer and electronics sector cited "Good overall business conditions nationally and internationally."

AFP

Sekitar Hari Pertama Persekolahan

3 Pengsan Pada Perhimpuna Pertama

SEREMBAN: Perhimpunan hari pertama persekolahan 2014 yang diadakan di Dewan Sekolah Kebangsaan Wawasan, Seremban 2, di sini, pagi tadi menggemparkan kakitangan sekolah berkenaan apabila tiga murid tahun dua, tiga dan empat tiba-tiba pitam dipercayai kerana tidak bersarapan.

Guru besar sekolah itu Zakaria Abd Hamid dalam kejadian jam 8 pagi itu tiga murid terbabit pitam berikutan tidak bersarapan pagi tambahan pula berhimpit bersama 1,000 murid lain di dewan berkenaan ketika perhimpunan diadakan.

Katanya, bagaimanapun keadaan tiga murid terbabit kembali stabil selepas ditenangkan guru dan mereka dibawa ke kantin sekolah untuk bersarapan.

Muhyiddin tinjau hari pertama sekolah 

2 JAN: Timbalan Perdana Menteri Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin pada Khamis meninjau suasana hari pertama sesi persekolahan 2014 di Sekolah Kebangsaan Presint 14 (1), Putrajaya bermesra dan bertanya khabar dengan murid-murid serta ibu bapa di sekolah itu.

Muhyiddin yang juga Menteri Pelajaran meluangkan masa setengah jam meninjau suasana di kelas yang menempatkan murid Tahun Satu dan bilik terapi pendidikan khas di sekolah berkenaan.

Turut mengiringi beliau ialah Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran Datuk Dr Khair Mohamad Yusof, Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Pelajaran, Datuk Dr Madinah Mohamad dan Guru Besar SK Presint 14 (1) Norihan Karim.

Sekolah berkenaan mempunyai 1,350 murid biasaa, 45 murid di lima kelas pendidikan khas bermasalah pembelajaran serta empat lagi murid di prasekolah pendidikan khas.

Norihan menyifatkan kunjungan Muhyiddin pada hari pertama persekolahan adalah satu sejarah di sekolah itu.

“Saya mengucapkan terima kasih kepada timbalan perdana menteri…ini juga merupakan satu sejarah kepada saya sebagai guru besar di sekolah ini,” katanya kepada pemberita. 

Norihan berkata dalam perjumpaan dengan Muhyiddin, beberapa masalah di sekolah berkenaan turut dibincangkan termasuk mengenai akses capaian Internet dan pelaksanaan kokurikulum pada waktu pagi.

Menurut Norihan lagi, hari pertama persekolahan di sekolah itu berjalan lancar dengan 260 murid Tahun Satu mula menjalani program transisi selama tujuh hari bermula hari ini.

Muhyiddin kemudiannya turut melawat sekolah Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St. Gabriel di Kampung Pandan, Kuala Lumpur.

Ketibaan beliau pada 9.40 pagi disambut pengetua sekolah, Tan Loo Kee, Pengerusi Persatuan Ibu Bapa dan Guru (PIBG) Kapt Sam Abdul Mutalib Hassan dan Anggota Parlimen Titiwangsa Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani.

Muhyiddin meluangkan masa kira-kira 40 minit meninjau sekitar bilik darjah sekolah berkenaan. Beliau memasuki tiga buah kelas dan dilihat berinteraksi dengan pelajar serta guru yang sedang mengajar.

Tan selaku pengetua berkata kedatangan Muhyiddin memberi peluang kepada tenaga pengajar serta pelajar mengenali pemimpin yang disifatkan mesra murid itu dengan lebih dekat selain membangkitkan beberapa perkara berkaitan sekolah.

“Pada kesempatan ini, pihak sekolah melalui PIBG menyerahkan surat bagi memohon bantuan RM3 juta untuk membina bangunan baharu setinggi tiga tingkat serta menggantikan bumbung yang bermasalah ketika hujan,” katanya.

Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St. Gabriel dibuka pada tahun 1946 dan beroperasi secara dua sesi. Ia mempunyai 44 orang guru dan 560 murid, 70 peratus daripadanya pelajar berbangsa Cina.-bnbbc.my

Read ore at: http://www.astroawani.com/news/show/khairy-nurul-izzah-antara-yang-teruja-hari-pertama-persekolahan-anak-27735?cp

 

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Belanja Budak Sekolah

Inilah dia realiti kos sara perbelanjaan untuk anak-anak bersekolah di Lembah Klang. RM300 - RM500 adalah jumlah yang sepatutnya ada. Kalau anak lebih dari seorang fikir-fikir kan lah. Golongan marhaen yang berpendapatan RM3,000 ke bawah sangat terkesan dengan keadaan ini.

America's first marijuana stores open in Colorado

People wait in line to purchase marijuana at the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary, in Colorado, on January 1, 2014

Photo dated July 27, 2012 of a bud of Maui Afghooey marijuana displayed at the PureLife Alternative Wellness Center in Los Angeles

Sam Walsh, a budtender, sets up marijuana products as the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary prepares to open for retail sales, in Denver, Colorado, on January 1, 2014

A customer selects marijuana strains to purchase at the 3-D Denver Discrete Dispensary, in Colorado, on January 1, 2014

Thu, Jan 02 2014 CST

by Cindy Shiner

Denver (AFP)
Marijuana users celebrated as Colorado became the first US state to allow retail cannabis sales, putting it in the vanguard of efforts across the country to legalize the drug.
The western state famous for its ski resorts and breathtaking mountain vistas has issued 348 retail licenses -- including for small pot shops -- that can sell up to 28 grams of pot to people aged 21 or older, starting Wednesday.
Washington state on the Pacific Coast will follow Colorado several months from now, when it also allows stores to begin selling cannabis.
Iraq war veteran Sean Azzariti was the first person to legally purchase cannabis for recreational use in the United States.
"It's an absolute honor, I couldn't be happier. It's a huge stepping stone for other states as well, so it's a huge honor, to say the least," Azzariti told reporters.
Azzariti, who has campaigned to legalize weed, said marijuana helps alleviate his post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms.
As America's attitudes on marijuana use evolve, Colorado and Washington legalized recreational consumption of the drug in November 2012 referendums, but the new rules coming into force allow cannabis shops.
"It just makes it an item of commerce, like going into a liquor store," a gray-haired Charles Pierce, 61, told AFP at the Denver Kush Club, where pot fans lined up in the wind and sleet for the 8:00 am (1500 GMT) opening.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said he was proud of the city.
"I want to thank the businesses and consumers alike for acting responsibly and with great accountability today," he said in a statement.
"Denver is a progressive city, a vibrant city, and it’s incumbent on all of us to continue getting this right," Hancock added.
State officials here anticipate that marijuana sales will generate some $67 million in annual tax revenue.
Opponents of legalized cannabis warn that it can lead to higher rates of marijuana use and addiction, even among young people who technically are not sanctioned to use the drug.
They also say that marijuana users face a raft of health and psychiatric problems, noting that pot is often a gateway drug that can lead to abuse of more serious substances.
Supporters hailed its legalization -- and legal sale -- in Colorado as historic, and a possible sign of things to come elsewhere.
"The state is demonstrating to the rest of the nation and the entire world that regulating marijuana works," said Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, one of the leading backers of the ballot initiative to legalize marijuana.
"It's only a matter of time before lawmakers and voters in more states adopt similar laws regulating marijuana like alcohol."
Colorado's branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws told AFP that everyone will benefit.
"It will mean jobs, tax revenue for the state and local jurisdictions, increased tourism and a developing progressive new industry in Colorado," NORML attorney Rachel Gillette said.
Michael Elliott, head of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group, noted that Colorado has licensed medical marijuana businesses since 2010, but said the influx of tourists for recreational use of pot could lead to shortages.
"It's tough to know whether supply will meet demand, mainly because it's tough to know the impact of tourism on this new market," he said.
Tax collectors are eyeing the revenue the newly legalized trade will generate, while cannabis growers and others are also rubbing their hands in anticipation.
Enterprising companies are even offering marijuana tours to cash in on tourists expected to be attracted to a Netherlands-style pot culture -- including in Colorado's famous ski resorts.
"Just the novelty alone is bringing people from everywhere," said Adam Raleigh of cannabis supplier Telluride Bud Co.
Medical marijuana is already legal and regulated in 19 US states, and has been allowed in some cases for the past 20 years. And in most of them, private consumption of cannabis is not classified as a crime.
Colorado and Washington are creating a recreational market in which local authorities will oversee growing, distribution and marketing -- all of it legal -- for people to get high just for the fun of it.
The market is huge: from $1.4 billion in medical marijuana in 2013, it will grow by 64 percent to $2.34 billion in 2014 with recreational pot added in Colorado and Washington, according to ArcView Market Research, which tracks and publishes data on the cannabis industry.
Washington state is expected to open more than 300 pot shops in June.

YangBaoBei

Nuffnang Featured Blogger for the month of January 2014

Hello Everyone!! Nice to meet you all!!!! Before I start to introduce myself, I would like to thank Nuffnang for featuring me on January! IT’S SUCH AN AWESOME NEW YEAR PRESENT FOR ME! To be frank, I’m not really good in English, so most of the time I’ll just blog in Chinese. SO I WAS KIND OF SURPRISED THAT MY CHINESE BLOG COULD BE FEATURED ON NUFFNANG WEBSITE TOO!
My readers usually call me YangBaoBei (杨宝贝) because my surname is Yong and baobei means baby! Hmmm I’m petite but own a chubby face, people always say I look younger and smaller in real person. Born in 7 February 1994(omg can’t believe that I’m turning 20 this year), Aquarius (imaginative girl). I started blogging at http://www.yangbaobei1314.blogspot.com since 14 years old (when I was so naïve and young). I named my blog the “heart of yangbaobei”, which indicates that it’s a platform/diary for me to express and share my feelings and thoughts in life. I consider myself as a lifestyle blogger and most of the time I enjoy blogging about my personal stuff such as my college life, memories, dreams, my loves and the awkward moments in life…However I also occasionally blog about the events that I attended, makeup tips, food, product review and MOVIE REVIEW (I’m a huge MOVIE KAKI)! I love blogging simply because it helps me to release stress and because of blogging I got to know a lot of true friends. Whenever I face some problems or obstacles in life, I will just share it on blog, and the best part is my readers would always be there to read me, feel me, and give me suggestions. Sometimes, I will read back my old blog posts to motivate myself to work hard for better achievement in future. One of my biggest achievement in life is I got to publish my own novels! In my earlier student years, I was really into writing stories and been sending the drafts to many publishers. One of the publishers was attracted by my story but they have no confidence for throwing a huge amount of cost to publish a book for a not so well-known teenage girl like me. HOWEVER, they told me, “If you are able to persuade 100 blog readers to buy your book (pre-order), we will help you to publish the book.” Million thanks to my blog readers who been supporting me for years… They were willing to trust me and made online payment to me… Few days later, I’ve hit the target and the publishers promised to publish the book.  Now, I’ve already published 3 books (my third novel even got into top selling chart no.2), which can be found at Popular/ MPH bookstore. My bf is helping me to manage my own online bookstore too! I’ll never give up on chasing after my dreams and my blog readers are my inspirations. My dreams will never come true if my blog doesn’t exist. After few years of sharing my thoughts on blog, I started to gain readers and it leads me to a better life. I wasn’t born in a rich family but now I’m able to fund all my college fees and entertainment fees all by myself.  All thanks to Nuffnang! Nuffnang has been providing me a lot of opportunity to further my blogging career.
SOME OF THE EXCITING NUFFNANG EVENTS:

[During Olay Event with Kampungcitygal and Cheeserland[my favourite blogger]

Because of Nuffnang, I got to attend a lot special events and opportunities. The best part is, I got to meet up with many talented bloggers. Olay also featured me on TV for few seconds which makes me feel so happy hahaha!!!

[NUFFNANG XMAS PARTY WITH JANE, NANA, ASHLEY AND POVY]

I always get to receive exclusive door gift from events! For instance, this hair curler that I got from Sunsilk! I even won an ipad mini from the campaign contest!

[SPONSORED TRIP BY ASIAWEBDIRECT TO BANGKOK WITH MY BOYFRIEND KENKEN, NUFFIE SHAH, REDMUMMY AND MICHIEKINS]

I was invited to Bangkok with a gang of bloggers. We even got the chance to sit on business class seats and stayed at 5 star hotels in Bangkok for that few days. All the time, we continue to receive exclusive deals from Nuffnang! I made the best choice, by joining Nuffnang!!

[First time fly overseas to shop woohooooo!] 

Without blogging and Nuffnang, I wouldn’t even have the hance to be there.

Now, I’ve had a hard time on studying diploma in college (4 more months to get my diploma cert, so hold on!!!), I might not be able to update my blog every day but still, my blog will always be my home :) I think I will just stop here…THANKS FOR READING!! :DHAHAHA TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ME, YOU CAN JUST VISIT MY BLOG! Follow my blog updates on Imotiv. I do own a mobile blogging on Dayre too!
Also, do check me out on my social media platforms:
INSTAGRAM @YANGBAOBEI94    (I’ll share about my casual life+ funny stuff)
TWITTER  @YANGBAOBEI94 (it shows my emo side)
FACEBOOK PAGE (More on my selca, activities and news)