Kisah Sebuah Jam

Alkisah.... seorang pembuat jam berkata kepada jam yang sedang dibuatnya.

"Hai jam, apakah kamu sanggup untuk berdetik paling tidak 31,104,000 kali dalam setahun?"

"Haa..?" kata jam terperanjat. "Mana sanggup saya... " keluh si jam.

"Bagaimana kalau 86,400 kali dalam sehari?" tanya si pembuat jam lagi.

"Lapan puluh enam ribu empat ratus kali? Dengan jarum yang ramping-ramping seperti ini...?" jawab jam dengan penuh keraguan.

"Bagaimana kalau 3,600 kali dalam sejam?" cadang si pembuat jam pula.

"Dalam sejam harus berdetik 3,600 kali? Banyak sangat tu..." kata jam yang masih lagi ragu-ragu dengan kemampuan dirinya.

Tukang jam dengan penuh kesabaran kemudian berkata lagi kepada si jam. "Kalau begitu sanggupkah kamu berdetik satu kali setiap saat?"

"Ohh...., kalau begitu, aku sanggup...!" kata jam dengan penuh yakin.

Maka setelah selesai dibuat, jam itu berdetiklah satu kali setiap saat. Tanpa terasa, detik demi detik dan saat demi saat berlalu sehingga sekian lama. Ternyata kemampuan jam itu sungguh mengkagumkan. Setelah genap tempoh satu tahun penuh ia telah berdetik tanpa henti, dan itu bererti ia telahpun berdetik sebanyak 31,104,000 kali.


RENUNGAN : Adakalanya kita ragu-ragu dengan kemampuan diri kita, segala tugas pekerjaan dirasa terlalu berat dan membebankan. Namun, sebenarnya kalau kita sudah mula menjalankannya dan terus melakukannya, kita ternyata mampu melaksanakannya. Malah pekerjaan yang sebelumnya kita anggap mustahil pun boleh kita lakukan.

Petua Elak Rambut Cepat Beruban

Kebanyakan orang Asia berambut hitam, lagi hitam lagi nampak berseri. Tetapi apabila tumbuh uban sama ada ketika remaja atau tua, anda kelihatan lebih tua dari usia. Bagaimanapun, ada juga individu yang mempunyai rambut hitam walaupun dalam usia emas.

Petuanya ialah:
Ambil segenggam biji betik (banyak pun tak apa) yangg sudah masak, kemudian dijemur sehingga kering. Biji-biji betik yang sudah kering itu digoreng tanpa menggunakan minyak sampai hangus. Selepas itu, ditumbuk sampai lumat sebelum dimasak dengan semangkuk santan pekat hingga menjadi minyak.
Minyak inilah yang boleh digunakan sebagai minyak rambut seharian. InsyaAllah mujarab.

History of Sabah

SABAH is a Malaysian state located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in Malaysia after the state of Sarawak which it borders with on its south-west. It also borders with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south. Sabah used to be a British crown colony known as North Borneo prior to partnership with Federation of Malaya, Sarawak & Singapore to form the Federation of Malaysia in 1963.
Currently, its state capital is Kota Kinabalu, formerly known as Jesselton. Sabah is sometimes known as Sabah, Negeri Di Bawah Bayu, which means 'Sabah, Land Below the Wind', because of its location being just south of the typhoon prone region around Philippines.

1500s-1800s

Sabah or North Borneo was part of the Sultanate of Brunei around the early 16th century. This was during the period when the Sultanate's influence was at its peak. In 1658 the Sultanate of Brunei was purported to have given the north-east portion of Borneo to theSultan of Sulu as a "gift" in return for the latter's help in settling a civil war in the Brunei Sultanate.
In 1761 an officer of the British East India Company, Alexander Dalrymple, concluded an agreement with the Sultan of Sulu to allow him to set up a trading post in the region. This attempt together with other attempts to build a settlement and a military station centering around Pulau Balambangan proved to be a failure. There was minimal foreign interest in this region after this failure and control over most parts of north Borneo seem to have remained under the Sultanate of Brunei.
In 1865 the American Consul of Brunei, Claude Lee Moses, obtained a 10-year lease over North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei. Ownership was then passed to an American trading company owned by J.W. Torrey, T.B. Harris and some Chinese merchants. They had set up a base and settlement inKimanis but this too turned out to be a failure due to financial reasons. The rights of the trading company was then sold to Baron Von Overbeck, the Austrian Consul in Hong Kong, and he later obtained another 10-year renewal of the lease. The rights was subsequently transferred to Alfred Dent, whom in 1881 formed the British North Borneo Provisional Association Ltd. In the following year, theBritish North Borneo Company was formed and Kudat was made its capital. In 1883 the capital was moved to Sandakan to capitalise on its potential of producing timber.
In 1888 North Borneo became a protectorate of Great Britain. Administration and control over North Borneo remained in the hands of the Company despite being a protectorate and they effectively ruled until 1942. Their rule had been generally peaceful except for some rebellions, including one led by the Bajau leader Mat Salleh from 1894 to 1900, and another led by the Muruts which is known as the 'Rundum resistance' in 1915.

Second World War and the road to independence

From 1942 to 1945 the occupation and control over North Borneo was taken over by the Japanese forces in the Second World War. The Japanese forces landed in Labuan on January 1, 1942 and assumed control over North Borneo. Bombings during the war resulted in the devastation of most towns in North Borneo, including Sandakan, which was totally destroyed. When Japan lost the war North Borneo was administered by the British Military Administration and in 1946 it become a British Crown Colony.
Jesselton (now Kota Kinabalu) was chosen to replace Sandakan as the capital of British North Borneo. The Crown continued to rule North Borneo until 1963. On August 31, 1963 North Borneo attained self-government and independence from the British.
On September 16, 1963, North Borneo together with Malaya (Tanah Melayu), Sarawak and Singapore formed the Federation of Malaysia and from then on it became known as Sabah.

Philippine claim

The Philipines claims the east part of Sabah as part of its territory, based upon theSultanate of Brunei's cession of its north-east territories to the Sultanate of Sulu in 1703, because of military assistance given by the latter to the former. However, as the Philippines government itself does not currently acknowledge and recognize the sovereignty of the Sultanate of Sulu, their claim has been drastically weakened.
Today quite a significant number of the population are Filipinos, but most of them are refugees who arrived in Sabah in the 70s, and the others are recent migrants (including ilegal imigrant) seeking a better life. Some Filipino residents have assimilated into Sabahan society. At one point President Ferdinand E. Marcos ordered that all Philippine maps should include Sabah, but this may have been a mere political statement.