Mas Selamat makes wild claims about ill treatment in S’pore to human rights official

Mas Selamat makes wild claims about ill treatment in S’pore to human rights official
He claims he was ‘drugged’ in S’pore
By Elysa Chen
September 21, 2009

HE HAD no idea the clean-shaven man standing in front of him at the detention centre in Malaysia was Singaporean terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari.

The same Mas Selamat who had escaped from the Whitley Detention Centre in Singapore in February last year.

The same Mas Selamat who was captured in April after an intense manhunt by Singapore and Malaysian authorities.

Mr Simon Sipaun, the vice-chairman of Suhakam (Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission) said: ‘I didn’t know it was him until later. He looked very normal, he was smiling at me.’

Mr Sipaun found out that he was talking to the terrorist who had made headlines only when he asked where he was from. Mr Sipaun was visiting the Kamunting Detention centre to report on conditions there on Friday.

Under the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia Act, it is part of his organisation’s duties to visit detainees in such centres, said Mr Sipaun.

Mas Selamat made a series of wild claims which the Singapore Government has since refuted. (See MHA response on facing page.)

Speaking to The New Paper over the phone last night, Mr Sipaun said: ‘It was only when we asked him where he was from, and he said that he was from Singapore, that we realised it was the terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari we were talking to.’

Mr Sipaun, who was surprised that the man wearing a white skull cap was Mas Selamat, said: ‘I didn’t quite expect him to be such a normal human being. I don’t know how a terrorist would look like, but I expected Mas Selamat to look more fierce.

Can’t look fierce

‘I suppose, someone who’s already in detention can’t look very fierce.’

Mr Sipaun, who has been the vice-chairman of Suhakam for the last 10 years, said: ‘He seemed very forthcoming, he looked at me when he spoke… It was just like a conversation you would have with someone you met on the street.’

Except that this was no ordinary man on the street.

Mas Selamat was a key player in a plot to crash a plane into Changi Airport in 2002. He was also the head of the Singapore cell of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI).

Mas Selamat sleeps in a dormitory the size of a small hall. It had four or five fans, and he said he was ‘very happy’ there, said Mr Sipaun.

While he was comparing the conditions in the detention centre with those in Singapore, said Mr Sipaun, Mas Selamat told him that he suspected that he was being drugged.

Mr Sipaun said: ‘He brought up the idea of being drugged when we asked him if he wanted to go back to Singapore. He also told us that his family in Singapore had wanted to see him.

‘He said the Malaysian authorities had no problem with the visit, but the Singapore authorities took the passports of his family.’

Mas Selamat claimed that he never felt normal during his detention in Singapore, liberal news portal Malaysiakini reported.

He suspected that the authorities were administering drugs to him through his food.

He said he always felt dizzy and tried to eat as little of the food as possible and escaped at the very first opportunity that he got.

During their visit, Mr Sipaun and his colleagues spoke to eight of the nine detainees at the centre.

Mr Sipaun said he had lingered in Mas Selamat’s room, spending 30 minutes of his two-hour visit there because he had read about his escape in the newspapers.

Mr Sipaun said: ‘I wanted to ask him how he escaped from Singapore, but we started talking about other things, and it just slipped my mind. It is one of my biggest regrets.’

Seasoned Malaysian journalists said Suhakam, which was established by Parliament under the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia Act 1999, does not have much authority.

It made a series of recommendations to the Malaysian government but few were taken up.

The appointees have largely been ex-government men. It is fighting for credibility and risks being tagged as a toothless organisation, they said.

Investigate claims

Said one journalist: ‘Their job is less to investigate and more to do with articulating the claims. They act as the mouthpiece to counterbalance government statements.

‘So if government says black, they say white. In the recent case involving the death of a young DAP (Democratic Action Party) politician, Suhakam echoed claims made by the family of the deceased against the corruption agency. But they did not investigate the claims; they just repeated it.’

The Star newspaper in a recent report about Suhakam said it is under intense pressure to keep its A status, which lets its members participate in the UN Human Rights council. With B status, they will be able to participate only as observers.

Said one journalist: ‘A foreign detainee is the best. If you read carefully, Mas Selamat’s claims are about his detention in Singapore, not Malaysia.

‘By repeating those claims out loud, they get to show they are not toothless and yet not hurt the image of the authorities here because the claims are about the time in Singapore.’

Mr Sipaun, who holds the title of Tan Sri, is a former Sabah State Secretary.

He was also Sabah Public Services Commission chairman.

In April 2000, he was among the 12 people appointed into the Malaysian Human Rights Commission – headed by former deputy prime minister Musa Hitam.

S’pore detainees treated better than prisoners

DETAINEES at the Whitley Detention Centre would be treated better than criminals at normal prisons, Dr Rohan Gunaratna, head of Singapore’s International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research told The Straits Times last year.

He said: ‘If you treat them badly, their resentment will grow.’

Unlike in Changi Prison where a vast majority of prisoners share their cells with other inmates, at Whitley Road, detainees are housed singly to keep extremist ideology from spreading.

Detainees at Whitley Road have further privileges – their families get to visit weekly.

They are allowed to wear civilian clothes and to ‘spruce up’, by shaving for example, when their families visit.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has said: ‘The family is an integral part of the rehabilitative process.’

Detainees also meet Internal Security Department (ISD) warders, case officers and psychologists frequently.

The Whitley centre aims to provide a holistic environment in which detainees can be rehabilitated, said MHA in a previous report.

‘These places are not just about punishment, but also to integrate them back into society,’ said Dr John Harrison of the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.

Also in April last year, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said security agencies from the US and Europe had come here to compare experiences with the ISD and study Singapore’s methods in fighting Islamist terrorism.

Some 30 Islamic religious teachers make up the Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), which works to steer detainees away from the JI’s distortions of Islam.

The group started when a handful of senior religious leaders were approached in 2003 to help counsel the detainees. They roped others in, embarked on a study of JI teachings and how to counter them, and began counselling in April 2004.

Since then, religious counselling has been a key part of the rehabilitation process for these detainees, reported The Straits Times.

The RRG also counsels the detainee’s family to ensure that wrong lessons are not passed on to the next generation and to help wives, sons and daughters assimilate into the mainstream. Many families receive financial support from the Government, and detainees have jobs waiting for them when they are released.

As of May, 40 former terrorists, or roughly two-thirds of the detainees Singapore has arrested since 2001 have been rehabilitated and released, reported The Straits Times. None have returned to their violent past.

This month, the Government has released three more, having assessed that they no longer pose a security threat.

MHA: Mas Selamat had ample opportunity to report ill-treatment

A MINISTRY Of Home Affairs spokesman said in response to media queries that the passports of Mas Selamat’s family members had been officially seized in 2005 because of immigration offences committed by them while they and Mas Selamat were on the run from the authorities and hiding in Indonesia in earlier years.

Mas Selamat had procured a false Indonesian identity card, and he and the family had hidden in Indonesia as illegal immigrants.

Their passports were also seized for security reasons, as Mas Selamat’s wife was a member of the JI’s women wing.

The family’s request for travel documents to enable them to visit Mas Selamat at the Kamunting Detention Centre is currently being assessed by the Singapore authorities.

We will have to consider, given the family’s past immigration offences, Mas Selamat’s terrorist activities and plots against Singapore, and the fact that Mas Selamat’s wife was also a member of the JI, whether it is in our national security interests to grant the family travel documents to leave Singapore to visit him in Malaysia.

As for Mas Selamat’s allegation that his food was drugged, all detainees are examined daily (on weekdays) by a doctor and they may also ask for a doctor at any time.

Those who have medical problems requiring additional attention are sent to the hospitals.

In addition, a Board of Inspection makes unannounced visits to the detention centre to ensure the detainees’ well-being.

Any report of ill-treatment of the detainee is sent to the Minister for Home Affairs.

The Government did not receive any report of ill-treatment from Mas Selamat, the doctor, his family, or the Board of Inspection during his detention.

It should also be pointed out that in the last few years since Mas Selamat was repatriated to Singapore from Indonesia, despite his having plotted terror attacks against Singaporeans and despite his having deserted his family in Singapore and fleeing to hide in Malaysia, ISD and members of the Inter-Agency Aftercare Group (ACG), which comprises several Singaporean Malay-Muslim organisations and individuals including AMP, Khadijah Mosque, Mendaki and Taman Bacaan, had provided the family social and financial assistance such as help with their utilities bills, and tuition and school textbooks for the children.

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Ministry of Home Affairs

She is arrested for raping son

She gave up son for adoption. 10 years later, she uses Internet to track him down and now…
She is arrested for raping son
September 15, 2009

STORIES of deviant parents seem to get weirder as time goes by.

First, there were parents who abused their kids.

Then, there were those who kept them in dungeons as sex slaves and even made them pregnant.

Now, a woman in the US has allegedly used technology to abuse her child – by reportedly using the Internet to track down a long-lost son, then having sex with him.

Ten years ago, Aimee Louise Sword gave up her son for adoption.

MyFOXDetroit reported that she tracked him down, then seduced and raped the teen.

Sword, 35, from Detroit, was ordered to court last week on three charges of criminal sexual conduct for the alleged rape of her biological son.

Details of his age and whereabouts have not been revealed.

Prosecutors say the boy is still a minor, but won’t disclose whether he knew the woman was his mother.

Dr Gerald Shiener, chief of Consultation and Liaison Psychiatry at Sinai Grace Hospital in Detroit, said: ‘I don’t think I’ve heard of another case like this in my career.

‘Abomination’

‘Our first reaction to hearing about something like this is that this is every man’s nightmare. It’s an abomination.

‘I’m at a loss for words because it’s something that we consider to be so out of the normal, so prohibited in every culture that it unnerves every man just to think about it.’

Sword surrendered to Waterford Township police on 24 Apr, the Oakland Press reported, but was freed on bail last Wednesday following her arraignment. The house at her listed home address is abandoned.

Waterford Township Police Sgt Scott Good told ABCNews.com that Sword began a sexual relationship with her biological son in the summer of 2008 after reconnecting with him on the Internet.

He said: ‘She had given the child up early on in life for adoption.’ He added that Sword’s adoption agreement permitted limited contact with the boy.

Sgt Good said police were notified about the alleged incestuous romance in the fall after being contacted by Child Protective Services (CPS).

After an investigation that resulted in the three-count warrant, Sword surrendered to police. She was released on a US$3,000 ($4,300) bond.

Sword’s lawyer Kenneth Burch told ABCNews.com that his client has pleaded not guilty ahead of the pre-trial date set for 21 Sep.

‘Anybody would be distraught and she is, because of the allegations she is faced with,’ he said. ‘She’s meeting this head on.’

Mr Burch would not go into detail about Sword or her life, but confirmed she has other children who have since been removed from the house by CPS.

There were never any allegations of abuse involving the other children, he said.

He also said that his client ‘maintains her presumption of innocence’ and the accusations of incest have been very difficult for her.

Sword wrote on her MySpace page that she was inspired by rapper and former jailbird Lil’ Kim because ‘she rises during the worst of obstacles’.

She wrote on the web page, where she uses the name Aimee Pope, that Lil’ Kim ‘reminded me of myself’.

Though Sword is apparently confident of her ability to recover from the charges, Dr Shiener, the psychiatric doctor, worries that if the allegations are true, the damage to the boy could be long-lasting.

He said: ‘This could be his first sexual experience, and his first sexual experience could be something so conflicted, so unusual, so prohibited that it will stay with him for life.’

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Prisons Department cleared to cane Kartika

CANING OF M’SIAN WOMAN
Prisons Department cleared to cane Kartika
September 08, 2009 Print Ready Email Article

MALAYSIA’S Prisons Department has been given the green light to carry out the caning sentence on Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said department director-general Zulkifli Omar and a woman officer came to his office last week to conduct a caning demonstration for him.

In an exclusive interview, he told The Star: ‘She tapped the back of a chair with the cane.

‘There was little force involved and it was not going to inflict pain, not even like the caning carried out in schools in those days.

‘I am now satisfied that the caning can be carried out by the department if the court decides to proceed and enforce the sentence.’

Two weeks ago, Mr Hishammuddin had said the Prison Department could not cane her as it did not have ‘the capability or experience’.

The minister felt a study of proper procedures is needed before caning the woman according to Syariah law.

Kartika, 32, was arrested by Islamic morality police for drinking beer at a beach resort in Pahang in December 2007.

In end July, the Pahang Syariah court sentenced her to six strokes of the cane and fined her RM5,000 ($2,050), which she has already paid.

Later, they deferred her sentence until after Ramadan.

No experience

Several organisations such as the Bar Council have since called for the sentence to be annulled.

While Mr Hishammuddin was satisfied that the department was able to conduct the caning, he still felt it had no experience to do so.

He told The Star: ‘This is because the woman (Kartika) will be the first to be caned (under Syariah laws applicable to Muslims). Four men who have received caning sentences by the Syariah Court are appealing their sentence.’

Mr Hishammuddin told the Prisons Department not to get ’embroiled’ in the legality of the caning sentence.

He said: ‘That is not (under) their purview. It is the judicial process which decides that.

‘If the caning sentence is to be imposed, it is their duty to carry it out fairly.’

Meantime, Kartika’s father, Mr Shukarno Mutalib, said the family was happy to hear that the department was able to handle the caning.

When contacted, he said: ‘Alhamdullillah (praise be upon Allah). Kartika wants it over and done with.’

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The Secret of staying on healthy lifestyle revealed

The Secret of staying on healthy lifestyle revealed

September 6, 2009
By James Oh (Lifestyle Correspondent)

Contrary to popular belief that to stay healthy, is to do everything right at the right place and at the right time. However, the truth is that the magic to stay healthy is more inclined to inner rather than external factors. Bear in mind that you are what you think and you are living in an ideal world with lots of imperfections. To begin with, to have a healthy life, you must know the true meaning of happiness, joy, peace and health. There are no two ways about it.

If you believe that your mind is in control of yourself, then you are really what you think. In other words, if you believe that you are healthy,then you are most likely to stay healthy. Similarly, it is also true if you believe otherwise. In short, life is the sum of all your thoughts.

As such, I have listed down some of the steps which may help you to shape your life .

1. THE MAGIC

You may personally experience the unlimited power that lies inside you. That is the magic that makes thing favorable and achievable by you. You will continue to create new and higher level of living than what you are enjoying now. That magic power is an auto response from yourself, which is lasting and consistent to your belief.

Therefore, what lies behind and in front of you is nothing compared to what lies inside you. So to stay healthy, you must build your inner health that will be reflected by your thoughts, actions and conduct.

2. ASSUME FULL CONTROL OF YOURSELF

You need to assume full control of yoursellf, be it mental, emotional, physical or spiritual. No matter what you have already done or how many challenges you have taken, deep inside you there lies a belief that your experience of life can and will be much greater than it is. By doing so, you will filter out all the negative news that will creep into your thought.

Couple with your positive perspective, you can convert it into energy that will flame the fire of your health. As a result, your emotion will not be adversely affected.

3. ENTIRELY FREE

You must raise the standards and set yourself entirely free from any doubt, worry or fear that you may have. This is vitally important and you must have the enduring power to overcome anything and everything that blocks your way from staying healthy. Nothing can hold you back. You must remove the fear of sickness, worry, bondage of your past experience or anything which may cause you to lose that control.

4. FAITH

To overcome any doubt or fear of sickness, you have faith that nothing can shake you or divert you from what you believe in. This belief must be rooted deeply inside your heart so that you have the power to overcome whatsoever challenges you will encounter at a later date. This will generate the superb power that will assist you to overcome anything – no matter what situation you are in. You must be reminded that you are the captain of your mind and soul at all times and you will not subject yourself to any situation or condition. In short, you must not be affected AT ALL by any external factor, even if you are caught unprepared. This is the driving force behind any great success throughout history.

5 POSITIVE WORDS, ACTION AND APPROACH

To stay calm and healthy, you must make it a point to use positive words in line with your lasting and consistent action. By affirming and reaffirming, you will automatically strengthen your thoughts. It functions like our muscle. Even though there is any adversary , it will be regarded as temporary and shaped you towards your destination, rather than failure.Therefore you will constantly define your health and shape your life style so toward achieving the highest possible level of well-being, filling yourself with peace of mind and freeing you to look forward with excitement to all the possibilities that life has to offer.

6. MOVING FORWARD

Keep on moving forward on your chosen path. You must not allow the bad experiences from the past to hold you back and divert any of your attention and focus. To you, what is more important is to keep on moving forward according to your pre-set life style. You have to perpetually stay focus on your healthy life style and must not allow the circumstantial events to influence you in anyway.

7. STAYING FOCUS

Because you are able to stay focus on your healthy life-style, you will always have full control of yourself. In all circumstances, you are contented and satisfied with the result regardless whether it is positive or negative. To you, what is more important is your destiny, and not the journey.

8. TAKE PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY

Before you make any decision, you must to held personal accountability to your health and not blaming others. This is in line with your belief that you are always in full control of your health and not others. Then, you will only response to take the appropriate actions to fulfill your real needs and not react to it. The difference between the former and latter is that the former is taking an action on the controllable factors to resolve the issue that arises, but not in the negative manner as in the latter.

9. BEGIN WITH ACTION

Setting goal without action will bring you no where. That’s why so many goals fail to materialize. In this context, you must work out a realistic work plan and schedule to achieve your desired healthy lifestyle. Otherwise, you will be disappointed or depressed with the outcome. Therefore, it is always appropriate to begin with small goal, so that you can build up your confidence to take up a heavier tasks in the future.

10. MAKE A COMMITTED DECISION

Prior to your action, you have to make a committed decision – that will really drive you towards your pre-set healthy lifestyle. In this manner, you will carry out the necessary actions wholeheartedly with your mind and soul in consistent with your belief. Along the journey, you need lots of will power and determination to overcome the obstacles, big or small, as when it arises so as to achieve your ultimate goals.

Otherwise, you will be easily swung away especially when you are constantly facing with obstacles that come along your journey. That’s why you see lots of people give up in the midst way.

11. MANAGING YOUR COMMITTED DECISION

It is equally important for you to take note that even making a committed decision, it will not guarantee the success. Why I said so? It is because you need to manage your decision in a lasting and consistently manner throughout your journey towards the lasting healthy lifestyle your desired. In fact, you will realize that making a decision is very much easier than managing it because the latter requires discipline and persistent to managing it in a way towards the lasting healthy lifestyle.

Trust the above is of assistance to you and stay tuned.

The Secret of staying on healthy lifestyle revealed September 6, 2009 By James Oh (Lifestyle Correspondent) Contrary to popular belief that to stay healthy, is to do everything right at the right place and at the right time. However, the truth is that the magic to stay healthy is more inclined to inner rather than external factors. Bear in mind that you are what you think and you are living in an ideal world with lots of imperfections. To begin with, to have a healthy life, you must know the true meaning of happiness, joy, peace and health. There are no two ways about it. If you believe that your mind is in control of yourself, then you are really what you think. In other words, if you believe that you are healthy,then you are most likely to stay healthy. Similarly, it is also true if you believe otherwise. In short, life is the sum of all your thoughts. As such, I have listed down some of the steps which may help you to shape your life . 1. THE MAGIC You may personally experience the unlimited power that lies inside you. That is the magic that makes thing favorable and achievable by you. You will continue to create new and higher level of living than what you are enjoying now. That magic power is an auto response from yourself, which is lasting and consistent to your belief. Therefore, what lies behind and in front of you is nothing compared to what lies inside you. So to stay healthy, you must build your inner health that will be reflected by your thoughts, actions and conduct. 2. ASSUME FULL CONTROL OF YOURSELF You need to assume full control of yoursellf, be it mental, emotional, physical or spiritual. No matter what you have already done or how many challenges you have taken, deep inside you there lies a belief that your experience of life can and will be much greater than it is. By doing so, you will filter out all the negative news that will creep into your thought. Couple with your positive perspective, you can convert it into energy that will flame the fire of your health. As a result, your emotion will not be adversely affected. 3. ENTIRELY FREE You must raise the standards and set yourself entirely free from any doubt, worry or fear that you may have. This is vitally important and you must have the enduring power to overcome anything and everything that blocks your way from staying healthy. Nothing can hold you back. You must remove the fear of sickness, worry, bondage of your past experience or anything which may cause you to lose that control. 4. FAITH To overcome any doubt or fear of sickness, you have faith that nothing can shake you or divert you from what you believe in. This belief must be rooted deeply inside your heart so that you have the power to overcome whatsoever challenges you will encounter at a later date. This will generate the superb power that will assist you to overcome anything – no matter what situation you are in. You must be reminded that you are the captain of your mind and soul at all times and you will not subject yourself to any situation or condition. In short, you must not be affected AT ALL by any external factor, even if you are caught unprepared. This is the driving force behind any great success throughout history. 5 POSITIVE WORDS, ACTION AND APPROACH To stay calm and healthy, you must make it a point to use positive words in line with your lasting and consistent action. By affirming and reaffirming, you will automatically strengthen your thoughts. It functions like our muscle. Even though there is any adversary , it will be regarded as temporary and shaped you towards your destination, rather than failure.Therefore you will constantly define your health and shape your life style so toward achieving the highest possible level of well-being, filling yourself with peace of mind and freeing you to look forward with excitement to all the possibilities that life has to offer. 6. MOVING FORWARD Keep on moving forward on your chosen path. You must not allow the bad experiences from the past to hold you back and divert any of your attention and focus. To you, what is more important is to keep on moving forward according to your pre-set life style. You have to perpetually stay focus on your healthy life style and must not allow the circumstantial events to influence you in anyway. 7. STAYING FOCUS Because you are able to stay focus on your healthy life-style, you will always have full control of yourself. In all circumstances, you are contented and satisfied with the result regardless whether it is positive or negative. To you, what is more important is your destiny, and not the journey. 8. TAKE PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY Before you make any decision, you must to held personal accountability to your health and not blaming others. This is in line with your belief that you are always in full control of your health and not others. Then, you will only response to take the appropriate actions to fulfill your real needs and not react to it. The difference between the former and latter is that the former is taking an action on the controllable factors to resolve the issue that arises, but not in the negative manner as in the latter. 9. BEGIN WITH ACTION Setting goal without action will bring you no where. That’s why so many goals fail to materialize. In this context, you must work out a realistic work plan and schedule to achieve your desired healthy lifestyle. Otherwise, you will be disappointed or depressed with the outcome. Therefore, it is always appropriate to begin with small goal, so that you can build up your confidence to take up a heavier tasks in the future. 10. MAKE A COMMITTED DECISION Prior to your action, you have to make a committed decision – that will really drive you towards your pre-set healthy lifestyle. In this manner, you will carry out the necessary actions wholeheartedly with your mind and soul in consistent with your belief. Along the journey, you need lots of will power and determination to overcome the obstacles, big or small, as when it arises so as to achieve your ultimate goals. Otherwise, you will be easily swung away especially when you are constantly facing with obstacles that come along your journey. That’s why you see lots of people give up in the midst way. 11. MANAGING YOUR COMMITTED DECISION It is equally important for you to take note that even making a committed decision, it will not guarantee the successThe Secret of staying on healthy lifestyle revealed September 6, 2009 By James Oh (Lifestyle Correspondent) Contrary to popular belief that to stay healthy, is to do everything right at the right place and at the right time. However, the truth is that the magic to stay healthy is more inclined to inner rather than external factors. Bear in mind that you are what you think and you are living in an ideal world with lots of imperfections. To begin with, to have a healthy life, you must know the true meaning of happiness, joy, peace and health. There are no two ways about it. If you believe that your mind is in control of yourself, then you are really what you think. In other words, if you believe that you are healthy,then you are most likely to stay healthy. Similarly, it is also true if you believe otherwise. In short, life is the sum of all your thoughts. As such, I have listed down some of the steps which may help you to shape your life . 1. THE MAGIC You may personally experience the unlimited power that lies inside you. That is the magic that makes thing favorable and achievable by you. You will continue to create new and higher level of living than what you are enjoying now. That magic power is an auto response from yourself, which is lasting and consistent to your belief. Therefore, what lies behind and in front of you is nothing compared to what lies inside you. So to stay healthy, you must build your inner health that will be reflected by your thoughts, actions and conduct. 2. ASSUME FULL CONTROL OF YOURSELF You need to assume full control of yoursellf, be it mental, emotional, physical or spiritual. No matter what you have already done or how many challenges you have taken, deep inside you there lies a belief that your experience of life can and will be much greater than it is. By doing so, you will filter out all the negative news that will creep into your thought. Couple with your positive perspective, you can convert it into energy that will flame the fire of your health. As a result, your emotion will not be adversely affected. 3. ENTIRELY FREE You must raise the standards and set yourself entirely free from any doubt, worry or fear that you may have. This is vitally important and you must have the enduring power to overcome anything and everything that blocks your way from staying healthy. Nothing can hold you back. You must remove the fear of sickness, worry, bondage of your past experience or anything which may cause you to lose that control. 4. FAITH To overcome any doubt or fear of sickness, you have faith that nothing can shake you or divert you from what you believe in. This belief must be rooted deeply inside your heart so that you have the power to overcome whatsoever challenges you will encounter at a later date. This will generate the superb power that will assist you to overcome anything – no matter what situation you are in. You must be reminded that you are the captain of your mind and soul at all times and you will not subject yourself to any situation or condition. In short, you must not be affected AT ALL by any external factor, even if you are caught unprepared. This is the driving force behind any great success throughout history. 5 POSITIVE WORDS, ACTION AND APPROACH To stay calm and healthy, you must make it a point to use positive words in line with your lasting and consistent action. By affirming and reaffirming, you will automatically strengthen your thoughts. It functions like our muscle. Even though there is any adversary , it will be regarded as temporary and shaped you towards your destination, rather than failure.Therefore you will constantly define your health and shape your life style so toward achieving the highest possible level of well-being, filling yourself with peace of mind and freeing you to look forward with excitement to all the possibilities that life has to offer. 6. MOVING FORWARD Keep on moving forward on your chosen path. You must not allow the bad experiences from the past to hold you back and divert any of your attention and focus. To you, what is more important is to keep on moving forward according to your pre-set life style. You have to perpetually stay focus on your healthy life style and must not allow the circumstantial events to influence you in anyway. 7. STAYING FOCUS Because you are able to stay focus on your healthy life-style, you will always have full control of yourself. In all circumstances, you are contented and satisfied with the result regardless whether it is positive or negative. To you, what is more important is your destiny, and not the journey. 8. TAKE PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY Before you make any decision, you must to held personal accountability to your health and not blaming others. This is in line with your belief that you are always in full control of your health and not others. Then, you will only response to take the appropriate actions to fulfill your real needs and not react to it. The difference between the former and latter is that the former is taking an action on the controllable factors to resolve the issue that arises, but not in the negative manner as in the latter. 9. BEGIN WITH ACTION Setting goal without action will bring you no where. That’s why so many goals fail to materialize. In this context, you must work out a realistic work plan and schedule to achieve your desired healthy lifestyle. Otherwise, you will be disappointed or depressed with the outcome. Therefore, it is always appropriate to begin with small goal, so that you can build up your confidence to take up a heavier tasks in the future. 10. MAKE A COMMITTED DECISION Prior to your action, you have to make a committed decision – that will really drive you towards your pre-set healthy lifestyle. In this manner, you will carry out the necessary actions wholeheartedly with your mind and soul in consistent with your belief. Along the journey, you need lots of will power and determination to overcome the obstacles, big or small, as when it arises so as to achieve your ultimate goals. Otherwise, you will be easily swung away especially when you are constantly facing with obstacles that come along your journey. That’s why you see lots of people give up in the midst way. 11. MANAGING YOUR COMMITTED DECISION It is equally important for you to take note that even making a committed decision, it will not guarantee the success. Why I said so? It is because you need to manage your decision in a lasting and consistently manner throughout your journey towards the lasting healthy lifestyle your desired. In fact, you will realize that making a decision is very much easier than managing it because the latter requires discipline and persistent to managing it in a way towards the lasting healthy lifestyle. Trust the above is of assistance to you and stay tuned. . Why I said so? It is because you need to manage your decision in a lasting and consistently manner throughout your journey towards the lasting healthy lifestyle your desired. In fact, you will realize that making a decision is very much easier than managing it because the latter requires discipline and persistent to managing it in a way towards the lasting healthy lifestyle. Trust the above is of assistance to you and stay tuned.

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Accident leaves motorcyclist bleeding on road in Tampines

Accident leaves motorcyclist bleeding on road in Tampines

A STOMPer witnessed an accident involving a motorbike and a car last night at around 9pm in Tampines. “Blood was visible even from a high level” she says. According to her mother, the motorist’s leg was twisted and the bone could be seen.

Yingzz told STOMP via email last night (Sep 3):

“It happened around 8.50pm today (Sep 3) at Tampines Street 81, in front of Block 887.

“Where I viewed was from my place, I heard this loud crash and went to the window to see.

“I think a lot of residents (including my mum and dad) went down to see.

“Was feeling quite worried for the motorist as there was a lot of blood flowing on the road.

“However, I could also see the person moving his arms and legs, but I think he has broken his leg.

“My mum told me one of his legs was twisted and she could see the bone.

“Hopefully, he will be alright.

“My mum told me that his dad accompanied him to the hospital.

“One weird thing was that I haven’t really seen any police at the scene even after the ambulance drove off for some time already.”

About 8 minutes later (9.49pm) last night, Yingzz sent another email to STOMP saying that the police has just arrived on the scene of the bloody accident.

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Sales assistant eats at counter and ignores customers

Sales assistant eats at counter and ignores customers

A STOMPer felt that the customer service provided at this particular outlet is poor as apparently, the sales assistant was too busy eating to serve her customers.

George told STOMP via email today (Sep 4):

“This sales assistant ignored customers as she was eating at the counter.”

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Miss sexy legs occupies extra seat to bare her shapely limbs

Miss sexy legs occupies extra seat to bare her shapely limbs

STOMPer Mandy saw this Caucasian girl on an SBS bus resting her legs on the seat in front of her.

Said the STOMPer:

“This girl with sexy legs was resting them on the bus seat.

“I took the video on Sept 2 at about 5.14pm on bus no.105.

“Initially, that seat was occupied. “After one commuter alighted, the girl moved her green bag into the gap of the seats and put her legs on the seat in front of her.

“Some commuters looked at her but it didnt affect her much.

“I feel that is it more polite to reserve the seat for other boarding commuters or needy people other than her sexy legs.

“In today’s world, students are fighting for better results but have they forgotten to learn to be more considerate and spare a thought for others?

“Has our education system gone wrong?

“It is time to learn more about how to be a better person rather than a bookworm.”

Miss sexy legs occupies extra seat to bare svelte limbs

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Making pre-flight announcements cool and compelling: Can SIA rival this?

Making pre-flight announcements cool and compelling: Can SIA rival this?

Boring pre-flight announcement that hardly anyone takes notice is common on most airlines, Singapore Airlines included.

Actually, important flight safety messages are transmitted in this announcement, so it’s critical that airlines make people pay attention.

STOMPer DJAM received this video via email about how the cabin crew of a Southwest Airline spices things up with a male flight attendant rapping out the safety message. He got the passengers to participate by clapping their hands.

“Hey, even I, who is guilty of not paying attention to the pre-flight message, perked up immediately,” says DJAM who travels frequently.

He’s not asking SIA to get its Singapore Girls to rap (that would be a disaster), but maybe it ought to come up with some ideas to make the pre-flight announcement more compelling.

At the end, the cool flight attendant says that passengers won’t get to see such a performance on United, Southwest’s rival. Not on SIA too, says DJAM.

Pre-flight announcement the Southwest way

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Snake all coiled up at Buangkok Link, but many people don’t even notice

Snake all coiled up at Buangkok Link, but many people don’t even notice

Believe it or not, STOMPer Chun Seng was just one of the few people residents who noticed this snake at a multi-storey carpark at Buangkok Link.

He said:

“A special morning greeting from a sneeky little friend at a Buangkok Link MSC.

“Most of the residents just said ‘aiyoh’ while the majority didn’t even notice its existence.”

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He kept them hidden for 18 years

Kids of kidnap victim ‘starved of information’ by father

He kept them hidden for 18 years

September 04, 2009

THE President of the United States? What’s that? IMPRISONED: Jaycee Lee Dugard was held for 18 years. PICTURE: AP The daughters of Jaycee Lee Dugard, the woman who was kidnapped for 18 years, have no clue of life outside the tents they called home, said California state officials. The girls, 15, and 11, were ‘starved of information’ by their father, according to police. They have never watched TV and have no concept of maths, geography and history, reported the Sun. The girls’ father, Phillip Garrido, 58, kidnapped their mother when she was 11 in 1991 and started having sex with her when she was 14. Jaycee, now 29, and her children, were kept in squalid conditions in the backyard of Garrido’s home which he shared with wife Nancy, 54. Garrido and Nancy were arrested last week and charged with 29 felony counts of rape and kidnapping. Both girls are now being counselled by psychologists and have been moved to a safe house in San Francisco with Jaycee’s mother, Ms Terry Probyn and their aunt, Ms Tina Dugard. A detective at the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department told The Sun: ‘They are both intelligent kids but they are very naive about the real world. ‘They have never watched TV and have no concept of maths, geography and history or anything outside their town of Antioch. They have never heard of the President of the US or anything about the wider world.’ Psychologists are trying to keep their lives as close to what it was when they lived in tents in a backyard, and are even feeding them the same food they had. The detective added: ‘They are being given TV microwave dinners and their favourite meatloaf meals. They have never had fizzy drinks so they get cooled water, which is what they are used to. ‘The girls have never seen TV before and the TV in the house where they are staying has been removed. They all sleep in the same room, as they did in the compound behind Garrido’s house. ‘With every day, the (younger girl) becomes more lively but the (elder one) is quiet and appears very shy.’ First victim speaks up Meanwhile, Garrido’s first kidnap victim has come forward to describe her ordeal. She has thought about him every day since that day in November 1976 when he asked her for a ride at a supermarket in California. He then handcuffed her, bound her and took her to a mini-warehouse in Reno, Nevada, where he raped her. He was jailed 50 years for this but was released after 11 years on parole. Ms Katie Callaway Hall said she trembled for four hours when she heard Garrido was arrested for kidnapping Jaycee. She said the mention of his name sent a flurry of emotion running through her mind, reported CNN. ‘I screamed,’ she told CNN’s Larry King on Monday night. ‘I started screaming ‘Oh my god, Oh my god, it’s him’.’ She said: ‘I can’t imagine what Jaycee is going through. He had me for 8 hours. He had her for 18 years. ‘I was an adult, with instincts that helped me deal with the situation. She was a child.’ Ms Hall said Garrido’s arrest took her mind back to that night in November. ‘A man tapped on my window and asked for a ride,’ she said. ‘I agreed.’ ‘Soon after, I was cuffed, bound, gagged, and taken to a warehouse,’ Mr Hall told CNN. She was kept in the 2m by 3.5m storage facility, which Ms Hall remembers was stacked with half-opened boxes with china-type dishes inside. She said she feared for her life. Ms Hall said she was held there for five hours before she heard a noise. Someone had banged on the door and Garrido had opened it and gone outside. Ms Hall charged through the door, and when she saw that it was a policeman, she screamed for help. Garrido was arrested. Ms Hall said that night changed her life forever. ‘For years, I walked around like a zombie,’ she said. ‘He changed my life in an instant… Being victimised is something that only a victim can understand. I hate that he did this to me, and I doubt I’ll ever get over it.’

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