My journey started when my elder brother passed away at the age of 32. Heart attack, I'm the one who bring him to clinic the night before. The doctor did ECG and I can ask my late brother, "pregnant?" And laugh
Aku bukan sokong judi. Judi memang haram bagi Muslim. That’s clear.
Tapi kadang tu aku hairan bila ada pemimpin bercakap seolah olah semua isu boleh diselesaikan dengan satu hukum without looking into reality masyarakat yang pelbagai.
Negara kita ada Muslim dan non Muslim. Ada law, ada perbahasan fiqh dan ada pandangan ulama sejak dulu lagi tentang bagaimana nak mentadbir masyarakat majmuk. Nak bercakap tentang negara Islam atau khilafah itu mudah. Yang susah ialah memahami ilmu, fiqh dan hikmah di sebalik pentadbiran.
Kalau nak kutip cukai daripada industri yang haram untuk Muslim seperti judi dan arak pun ada perbahasan dan kaedahnya. Bukan main tibai ja.
Risau aku bila dakyah gini lebih kuat daripada kefahaman. Sebab bila bawa nama Islam, we owe people more than just loud opinions. We owe them knowledge and wisdom.
What I know after searching about PPR:
PPR, or Program Perumahan Rakyat, comes in two flavours.
PPR Disewa: you rent from the government at RM124 a month. The title stays with the state.
PPR Dimiliki: you buy the unit at RM35,000 in the Peninsular, RM42,000 in Sabah and Sarawak. Heavily subsidised, income capped.
A lot of PPR blocks run on the rental scheme. So many PPR residents do not own their homes.
Compare to HDB in Singapore. HDB sells you a 99 year lease. But that lease is yours. You pay for it with your own CPF savings, and after the 5 year minimum occupation period, you can sell it on the open market.
This design choice turned public housing (HDB) into the Singaporean middle class's biggest asset
PPR is built to support you when you are poor but doesn't give you incentive to move up.
In Malaysia our closest equivalent is like PR1MA, but that is private developer, unlike Singapore where it is the state.
When incentives align, and PPR ppl get to resell their homes and unlock wealth, I believe they will be very inclined to make PPR blocks clean and safe.
https://t.co/DM1fPAzksp
A Japanese engineer invented the QR code for one job, tracking car parts on a Toyota line, then his company chose to give the patent away for free, which is the only reason it ended up on every restaurant table on Earth.
His name is Masahiro Hara. The company was Denso Wave, a parts supplier owned by Toyota.
In 1992 the problem landed on his desk, and it was not glamorous. Workers on the factory floor were drowning.
Every car part had a barcode, but a barcode can only hold about twenty characters, so to track one component they had to stick five or ten barcodes on it.
A worker would stand there scanning a single part ten times in a row. Some of them were scanning close to a thousand barcodes a day. The job had stopped being about building cars and turned into pointing a scanner at stickers all day long.
And there was a second problem nobody upstairs cared about. This was a factory. Oil got on everything. A smudge of grease across a barcode and the whole thing became unreadable, and the line stopped.
Hara was asked to make the scanner faster. He looked at it for a while and realized the scanner was not the problem. The barcode itself was the ceiling. A line of black bars can only hold information going one direction, left to right.
He decided to build something that held information in two directions, up and down as well as across, so it could store hundreds of times more in the same little square.
Then came the part that sounds made up but is not.
Hara played Go on his lunch breaks, the old board game with black and white stones sitting on a grid. He was staring at the board one day and it clicked.
The grid of black and white stones was already a way to store information in two directions. That was the shape of his code.
But building the code was the easy half. The hard problem was speed, because the whole point was to be fast, and a scanner wastes most of its time just trying to figure out where the code is and which way it is turned.
The fix came to him on a train. He was looking out the window at buildings, and one building stood out from all the others because of its shape against the sky. That was the idea.
He put three little square targets in three corners of the code. The moment a scanner sees those three squares, it knows instantly where the code is and how it is rotated, even upside down, even at an angle.
Now here is the detail that shows how far he was willing to go. Those three corner squares only work if nothing else on the page looks like them.
If a magazine ad or a cardboard box happened to have the same black and white pattern nearby, the scanner would get confused and grab the wrong thing.
So Hara and his tiny two-person team went and surveyed printed material. Magazines. Flyers. Cardboard boxes. Piles of it, for days, reducing every picture down to its ratio of black to white area, hunting for the one ratio that almost never shows up in print anywhere. They found it. One to one to three to one to one.
That exact rhythm of black and white is baked into every corner square of every QR code on Earth, and it is there because it is the pattern the printed world almost never produces by accident.
Then he solved the oil.
He built the code so it carries a backup of its own information, spread mathematically across the whole square. You can tear off, smudge, or scratch out up to thirty percent of a QR code and it still scans perfectly, because the code rebuilds the missing piece from the copy it kept of itself.
A worker could get grease on a third of the label and the line would keep moving. This is the same math that lets a scratched CD still play and lets a spacecraft send data back across the solar system without asking to repeat itself.
He finished in 1994. He named it Quick Response, after what it does for the person using it, not after what it is.
And then Denso made the decision that actually mattered.
They held the patent. They could have charged a fee on every single scan, and given how many billions happen now, that would have made someone unimaginably rich.
Instead they announced they would not enforce their rights to collect royalties, and they published the specification openly so anyone could use it. Hara later said it was not even a big argument inside the company.
That one choice is the whole story. A code that costs nothing to use is a code everyone builds on. Airlines put it on tickets. Phone makers built readers into cameras.
Then a pandemic hit and the world needed a way to hand someone information without touching anything, and the free little square that a Toyota engineer built for greasy factory workers was suddenly on every menu, every payment, every door.
Hara still works there. He has said, more than once, that he never imagined it would spread this far, and that the part he is proudest of is that it got used to keep people safe.
The man built it to survive oil on a factory floor. It ended up surviving everything else too.
You have scanned his work a hundred times this year. Now you know whose it was.
📉 Chelsea’s hopes of landing a lucrative long-term front-of-shirt sponsorship deal have reportedly taken a major hit.
The club had been aiming to secure an agreement worth around £65M per season.
However, according to the latest Premier League fair market value index published by The Sponsor, Chelsea’s shirt sponsorship rights are valued at just £33.5M annually - around half of the amount the club had hoped to achieve.
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Dear football,
Today, I want to share with you that this season will be my last as a professional footballer. After so many years living my dream, I feel it’s time to start a new chapter in my life.
Being honest, even though I have been preparing myself for this moment, I found it hard to write this letter. After 20 seasons , many people have played an important role in my career.
When I first kicked a ball as a child in Pamplona with my schoolmates, I never imagined the amazing journey ahead. I’m grateful for every moment: the wins, the tough losses, the challenges, and most of all, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made along the way.
To my teammates, coaches, and every staff member at all the clubs I’ve been lucky to be part of, thank you for helping me grow as a person and a player every day. Wearing the shirts of CA Osasuna, Olympique Marseille, Chelsea FC, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, and representing my country at the biggest stages has been a true privilege. Every moment has meant so much to me…
Dear football,
Today, I want to share with you that this season will be my last as a professional footballer. After so many years living my dream, I feel it’s time to start a new chapter in my life.
Being honest, even though I have been preparing myself for this moment, I found it hard to write this letter. After 20 seasons , many people have played an important role in my career.
When I first kicked a ball as a child in Pamplona with my schoolmates, I never imagined the amazing journey ahead. I’m grateful for every moment: the wins, the tough losses, the challenges, and most of all, the people I’ve met and the friendships I’ve made along the way.
To my teammates, coaches, and every staff member at all the clubs I’ve been lucky to be part of, thank you for helping me grow as a person and a player every day. Wearing the shirts of CA Osasuna, Olympique Marseille, Chelsea FC, Atlético de Madrid, Sevilla FC, and representing my country at the biggest stages has been a true privilege. Every moment has meant so much to me…
𝗨𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗔𝗡 𝗗𝗜 𝗣𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗡 𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗔
Assalamualaikum wbth
Ta chia hau
Vanekam
Salam Sejahtera
Terima kasih kepada semua yang hadir dari seluruh negara dan yang sedang menuntun. Saya minta maaf banyak-banyak sebab kami 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦 kehadiran. Kami ingat paling ramai yang akan hadir ialah beberapa ratus orang sahaja, tetapi bila borang online dibuka, dalam tempoh 24 jam telah mencecah hampir 2,000 orang.
Mewakili sahabat-sahabat termasuk Saudara Nik dan beberapa orang lain yang mengusahakan acara hari ini, sekali lagi saya mohon maaf atas segala kekurangan.
Saya berharap orang ramai yang hadir, yang mengikuti live streaming, bertanya soalan yang sama yang saya selalu tanya kepada diri sendiri.
Sebenarnya kita ni nak apa? Tidak cukupkah apa yang ada? Kebanyakan dari kita ada hidup yang memadai. Kita tidak kaya tetapi kita tidak miskin. Kalau kita rasa hidup kita susah, ramai lagi yang lebih susah dari kita. Sebahagian besar dari kita tidak berniat memegang jawatan awam, kita lebih selesa dengan kehidupan yang ada.
Jadi kenapa nak susah-susah? Kenapa nak bersesak-sesak dalam dewan ini, dah lah bas tidak disediakan. Kena bayar duit sendiri ada lah.
Saya tanya soalan ini berkali-kali kepada diri saya. Dan saya ada tabiat kurang baik – saya tanya soalan dan saya jawab sendiri.