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Atletico Madrid boss unveils Atletico Kolkata

Posted: 07 May 2014 07:37 AM PDT

May 07, 2014

The owner of Spanish giants Atletico Madrid predicted exciting times for football in cricket-mad India today as he revealed one of the teams lining up in a controversial new league would be called Atletico Kolkata.

The Spanish club, who are in the final of this year's Champions League and top of La Liga, are co-owners of the Kolkata franchise in the newly-created Indian Super League (ISL) that kicks off in September.

"This is an exciting time to be in India," owner Miguel Marin told reporters as the franchise's name was announced at a press conference.

"We are very excited at the prospect of creating connection with one of the largest demographics for football globally," Marin added.

"Our joint ownership of the club is testimony to our commitment to the Kolkata franchise. Through this franchise, the club will work to improve the game in India."

Atletico are the only prominent international club linked to the ISL, which will see eight city-based teams compete against each from mid-September until the end of November.

Organised by the All India Football Federation, the league is being backed by India's Reliance Industries, which is controlled by the country's richest man Mukesh Ambani, and by sports management giant IMG.

Players' lists have not been revealed but among those who have been mentioned are ageing stars like former France and Arsenal striker Thierry Henry, Argentina's retired marksman Hernan Crespo and ex-Manchester United forward Dwight Yorke.

Atletico Madrid will share the ownership of the Kolkata franchise with former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and three city-based businessmen.

Other team owners in the league, to be broadcast by the Rupert Murdoch-owned Star TV network, include cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood stars Salman Khan, Ranbir Kapoor and John Abraham.

The league has already run into fierce opposition from India's football top clubs, who say it will threaten their existence and ruin the existing national I-League domestic competition.

Last year similar plans by football officials in West Bengal state – for a franchise-based league featuring fading stars like Argentina's Crespo and Italy's Fabio Cannavaro – failed to take off.

India, ranked a lowly 145th in the world and 25th in Asia, has seen a surge in football's popularity due to live television coverage of matches played around the globe, especially from the English Premier League. – AFP, May 7, 2014.

Villarreal fined 12,000 euros for racist banana slur

Posted: 07 May 2014 07:29 AM PDT

May 07, 2014

Spanish football authorities fined league side Villareal 12,000 euros (RM55,250) for racism by a fan who threw a banana at Barcelona's Brazilian player Dani Alves (pic), a club source said today.

The Spanish Royal Football Federation's disciplinary body imposed the fine but stopped short of ordering the club's stadium to be closed, the source who asked not to be named said.

International outrage erupted after the banana landed on the pitch near 30-year-old Alves during the league clash at Villareal's Madrigal stadium on April 27.

The federation took into account "the praiseworthy and firm decision by the club to deny entry" to the stadium for life to the fan who threw the banana, the source said.

Alves won praise for nonchalantly picking up the banana and taking a bite before setting up a goal to help Barcelona come from behind to seal a 2-3 victory.

"I have been in Spain 11 years and it has been the same for 11 years. You have to laugh at these backward people," Alves said after the game.

The club had already received a warning from the disciplinary body in February over fans' behaviour after a smoke bomb was thrown on the pitch causing the team's stadium to be evacuated.

A week after the Alves incident, Pape Diop, a 28-year-old Senegalese player for Liga side Levante, reacted by dancing when he was targeted by monkey chants during his side's 2-0 victory over Atletico Madrid. – AFP, May 7, 2014.

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‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ to hit theatres in 2016

Posted: 06 May 2014 07:52 PM PDT

May 07, 2014

Eddie Murphy will return to play Axel Foley in the fourth 'Beverly Hills Cop' movie, slated for release in 2016. – AFP pic, May 7, 2014.Beverly Hills Cop, the police comedy franchise will return to US theatres on March 25, 2016 with Eddie Murphy in the title role once again, Paramount indicated.

The franchise will be revived through this fourth instalment, which is set 22 years after "Beverly Hills Cop 3." Eddie Murphy will reprise his legendary performance as Axel Foley, the fearless, fast-talking cop.

For the fourth "Beverly Hills Cop" movie, the protagonist will leave sunny California to return to his hometown of Detroit.

Jerry Bruckheimer and Paramount are producing the feature, which will be helmed by Brett Ratner. The director behind the "Rush Hour" franchise worked with Eddie Murphy on the comedy "Tower Heist" in 2011. Ratner will follow in the footsteps of Martin Brest, Tony Scott and John Landis, who helmed the three previous movies in 1984, 1987 and 1994.

The new Axel Foley adventure will be written by Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec. The screenwriters are known for their scripts for "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" (2011) and for the new adaptation of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," which is due for release this October.

Last season, "Beverly Hills Cop" nearly returned to the screen as a TV series, as CBS ordered a pilot for a comedy on the life of Axel Foley's son. The project hit a dead end, but Eddie Murphy's brief appearance in the pilot sparked a wave of enthusiasm for the character of Axel Foley. – AFP/Relaxnews, May 7, 2014.

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22 artists to present what a ‘good woman’ is at Interpr8 Art Space

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:42 AM PDT

May 07, 2014

Twenty-two artists present their artworks in response to the idea of what it means to be a "good" woman in society, addressing issues of identity and self, community and nationality.

The exhibition, "The Good Malaysian Woman: Ethnicity, Religion, Politics", organised by the All Women's Action Society (AWAM) and Interpr8 Art Space, will be held from May 18 to 25 at Black Box, MAP Publika, Solaris Dutamas, Kuala Lumpur.

Featuring 22 artists and more than 30 artworks in a variety of mediums, the exhibition raises questions such as "whose view", "what is right or wrong", "who judges", "should they judge"?

The women present different views of what a "good Malaysian woman" is, while celebrating the diversity and complexity of women in Malaysian society.

The exhibition features both emerging and established artists, such as Bibi Chew, Izan Tahir, Shia Yih Ying, Yee I-Lann, Aisyah Baharuddin, Intan Rafiza, Sharon Chin, Anisa Abdullah and more.

The works presented include paintings, mixed-media works, installation, photography, sculpture and video art.

Mostly new works created specially in response to the exhibition theme, the works will be for sale, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting AWAM.

The collaboration between AWAM and the gallery came about to address shared concerns about issues that affect women today and an interest in art and its power to raise social consciousness.

The work of AWAM focuses on women's rights and tackles issues of discrimination and with this exhibition, AWAM seeks new ways to broaden the discourse on matters that affect women.

The exhibition is curated by Sharmin Parameswaran and Sunitha Janamohanan. – May 7, 2014.

For details, visit www.awam.org.my or on Facebook at thegoodmalaysianwoman. Gallery hours are 11am to 7pm, Monday to Sunday.

Extinction stalks Myanmar’s forests

Posted: 06 May 2014 08:57 PM PDT

May 07, 2014

An insatiable world appetite for precious hardwoods is threatening rare species and helping to drive deforestation in one of the last major areas of tropical forest in Asia. – AFP pic, May 7, 2014.Ashen earth strewn with the limbs of once-mighty trees is all that is left of the fearsome forest in central Myanmar that Wa Tote remembers from her youth.

"We would only dare enter in a big group. The forest was deep and had many wild animals. Now we cannot even find a tree's shadow to shelter under when we are tired," the 72-year-old told AFP.

At one point tigers were so common in the area that their bones were traded cheaply. Now they have vanished into memory.

Large swathes of the undulating landscape of the Bago mountains have been stripped bare by logging firms over recent years and the last remnants of wood are being burnt.

Locals say there are plans to replant the area with valuable teak trees – though even if they do, these will take up to 80 years to reach maturity.

Logging in Myanmar exploded under the former junta, as the generals tossed aside sustainable forestry practices in their thirst to cash in on vast natural resources.

Experts say an insatiable world appetite for precious hardwoods is threatening rare species and helping to drive deforestation in one of the last major areas of tropical forest in Asia.

The country lost almost 20 % of its forest cover between 1990 and 2010, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.

Widespread degradation of the most densely wooded areas means that so-called "closed forest" more than halved in size, from 30.9 million to 13.4 million hectares.

Experts say corruption and poor protection have enabled rampant illegal logging that lines the pockets of crony businessmen, soldiers and rebels groups alike.

A quasi-civilian government that replaced outright military rule in 2011 has sought to stem the flood of timber from the country with a ban on the export of raw logs which took effect on April 1.

"Our ban will be very effective. There will be cutting, distribution and finishing of timber products locally, so that we can also increase employment opportunities," said the director general of the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Tin Tun.

Wildlife group WWF said the biggest driver of forest loss has been large-scale conversion for agriculture, often after woodland is degraded by logging or the collection of wood for fuel.

It welcomed the export ban and said the government has also slashed quotas for teak and other hardwoods by 60 % and 50 % respectively for the coming fiscal year compared to 2012/13.

"But given the high volume of illegal logging and exports in Myanmar, it will take a long time before we see how effective the ban will be," said WWF's Myanmar conservation programme manager Michelle Owen.

Appetite for destruction

In mountainous northern Myanmar close to the Chinese border, logging roads score the landscape as firms drive ever deeper into pristine forests.

"Stopping logging has to happen now," said Frank Momberg of conservation group Flora and Fauna International, which is struggling to protect the newly discovered and critically endangered Myanmar snub nosed monkey.

There are thought to be barely 300 of the flat-faced primates left in the dense forests of Kachin state at the eastern tip of the Himalayas.

Large scale mechanical felling is stripping even steep hillsides, with the loss of tree cover causing landslides and further environmental destruction, conservationists warn.

Chinese workers have flooded into the area, fuelling demand for the monkeys to be hunted for food and traditional medicine, Momberg said.

Other species also inhabit the threatened forests, including the red panda, Blyth's Tragopan pheasant and the Takin, known as a goat antelope.

"A complete ecosystem is being destroyed by this radical logging," Momberg said.

He said the loggers are supplying rare woods for a furniture industry in Tengchong, in China's Yunnan province, using maple trees to make delicate carved tables and protected Taiwania conifers for "luxurious coffins".

Flora and Fauna is setting up the approximately 250,000 hectare Imawbum national park with Myanmar's forestry department and have created hunting-free zones with the support of local villages.

'Extinction frontier'

China recorded importing 10 million cubic meters of round logs from its impoverished neighbour between 2000 and 2013 – almost twice Myanmar's officially registered global export trade of 6.4 million cubic meters for the period, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) campaign group.

Some 84 % of logs imported into China went by land, despite longstanding rules barring exports from any other route than through Myanmar's Yangon and Dawei ports, making them "legally questionable at best and downright illegal at worst," the EIA said.

In a recent report based on Myanmar forestry documents and global trade data, the EIA said the country was believed to have exported up to 3.5 times more logs than the volumes officially recorded between 2000 and 2014.

"Such a gap is indicative of widespread criminality and corruption in Myanmar's timber sector," the report said, estimating this vast shadow industry was worth up to $5.7 billion.

And despite the export ban, trucks loaded with logs were seen around the Yangon port after April 1, while more than 60 tonnes of illegal timber were recently found in trucks disguised as anti-logging festival floats.

Tony Neil, forest governance advisor at Myanmar environmental group EcoDev, said the current dry season has seen an "unprecedented" amount of timber crossing the China-Myanmar border, with several hundred trucks a day making the journey.

Demand is driven from all over the world, with timber "laundered" through ports in Malaysia and Singapore and the price of prized logs such as rosewood shooting up.

"It's like an extinction frontier," he said. – AFP, May 7, 2014.

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Cleveland survivor details captivity in book, forgives captor

Posted: 06 May 2014 08:28 PM PDT

May 07, 2014

One of three women freed a year ago after more than a decade imprisoned in a Cleveland house wrote in harrowing detail of beatings, rapes and torture at the hands of her captor, Ariel Castro, and her need to forgive him to move on from the ordeal.

"If I don't forgive him, then it'll be like he imprisoned me twice," Michelle Knight said on the last page of a book released yesterday to coincide with the anniversary of their escape.

"Forgiveness is the only way I can truly reclaim my life," Knight said.

Knight, now 33, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus fled Castro's dilapidated house along with Berry's then 6-year-old daughter, a girl fathered by Castro.

Castro pleaded guilty to hundreds of charges including kidnapping, rape and murder for forcing Knight to miscarry. He was sentenced to life without parole, plus 1,000 years, but hanged himself in his cell in September.

In "Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed," Knight talks about growing up a neglected and abused child, living as a homeless teen, becoming a single mother and then her abduction by Castro in 2002.

Knight recounted being chained up, beaten, raped and mentally tortured for years by Castro, who pointed to high-profile searches by the families of co-prisoners Berry and DeJesus as proof that no one cared about her.

Those words bit into her, she wrote. "Even if I escape from this bastard, I often thought, what kind of life will be waiting for me in the real world? After this mess is over, who will really be there to love me?"

Knight, who is changing her name to Lillian Rose Lee, referred to Castro only as "dude" throughout the book, but wrote that she cried after hearing about his suicide.

Dr. Frank Ochberg, an expert on post-traumatic stress, said in an interview that many survivors experience traumatic bonding with their abusers.

After feeling invisible most of her life, Knight wrote, she has been overwhelmed by the attention she has received and does not know how to answer people when they ask how she is doing.

"I don't have all the answers. I probably never will. But I have realized that my life can't get better if I dwell on everything I've been through. I have to look ahead," she wrote. – Reuters, May 7, 2014.

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AirAsia, AirAsia X mula operasi di klia2 Jumaat ini

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:28 AM PDT

May 07, 2014

Penerbangan AirAsia dan AirAsia X akan beroperasi sepenuhnya dari klia2 mulai Jumaat ini.

Dalam satu kenyataan hari ini, AirAsia meminta semua penumpang bagi penerbangan yang berlepas dari lapangan terbang baharu itu agar berada di klia2 tiga jam sebelum waktu perlepasan penerbangan mereka dan menguruskan segala keperluan perjalanan seawal mungkin.

"Penumpang disarankan melakukan daftar masuk sendiri melalui laman sesawang atau peranti mudah alih sebelum tiba di lapangan terbang.

"Daftar masuk sendiri boleh dilakukan 14 hari hingga sejam sebelum perlepasan bagi semua penerbangan AirAsia, dan hingga empat jam sebelum perlepasan penerbangan AirAsia X," katanya.

Kaunter daftar masuk bagasi di klia2 dibuka tiga jam sebelum masa penerbangan dijadualkan berlepas dan ditutup sejam sebelum masa berlepas bagi semua penerbangan antarabangsa dan domestik.

Syarikat itu juga menguatkuasakan "dasar bagasi satu kabin" untuk memastikan kelancaran proses naik turun pesawat di klia2. – Bernama, 7 Mei, 2014.

Pasangan suami isteri dapat award RM43,999 sebagai ganti rugi daripada AirAsia

Posted: 07 May 2014 03:05 AM PDT

May 07, 2014

Seorang suri rumah yang hamil diarah turun dari sebuah pesawat Airasia di Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia tiga tahun lalu kerana tidak mempunyai sijil perubatan menyatakan beliau layak dari segi kesihatan untuk melakukan perjalanan, mendapat award RM43,999 sebagai ganti rugi oleh Mahkamah Rayuan di Putrajaya hari ini.

Patricia Karen Chew Mei Yik, 44, dan suaminya Michael Januarius, 57, memenangi saman ke atas Airasia Berhad selepas tiga panel hakim membenarkan rayuan mereka untuk membatalkan keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi mengenai saman itu.

Hakim Mahkamah Rayuan Datuk Abdul Wahab Patail memberikan award ganti rugi khas kepada pasangan itu sebanyak RM18,999 dan juga ganti rugi am berjumlah RM25,000.

Beliau juga memerintahkan Airasia membayar faedah lima peratus setahun mulai 27 Disember, 2011, tarikh writ difailkan untuk penyelesaian penuh saman itu.

Hakim Abdul Wahab yang mempengerusikan panel itu dengan Hakim Datuk David Wong Dak Wah dan Datuk Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim juga memerintahkan Airasia membayar RM10,000 sebagai kos perundangan kepada pasangan itu.

Dalam pernyataan tuntutan mereka, Chew dan Januarius, seorang ahli perniagaan, berkata mereka membeli tiket penerbangan pergi balik ke Bali pada 2 Februari, 2011.

Mereka berkata selepas menghabiskan percutian mereka di Bali bersama-sama dengan anak perempuan mereka ketika berumur empat tahun (kini 7 tahun), mereka menaiki pesawat untuk pulang ke Kuala Lumpur pada 26 Februari, 2011.

Pasangan itu mendakwa sebelum pesawat itu berlepas, seorang pramugari bertanyakan sama ada Chew, yang ketika itu hamil 28 minggu, sama ada beliau mempunyai surat daripada doktor yang mengesahkan beliau layak dari segi kesihatan untuk melakukan perjalanan menggunakan pesawat.

Chew berkata beliau mendapat sijil daripada pakar sakit puan Datuk Dr Ang Chin Guan dari Sime Darby Specialist Centre Megah Sdn Bhd yang dikeluarkan pada 11 Februari, 2011.

Bagaimanapun, beliau memberitahu pramugari terbabit sijil itu diserahkan kepada seorang pramugari yang namanya beliau tidak dapat diingat dalam pesawat pada 20 Februari, 2011 semasa bertolak dari Kuala Lumpur ke Denpasar.

Chew mendakwa pramugari terbabit memberitahu beliau dalam nada suara marah bahawa semakan dalam sistem online tidak dapat mengesan sijil itu dan Chew dimaklumkan supaya mendapatkan sijil baharu daripada doktor.

Pada ketika itu, suami Chew memutuskan bahawa beliau kekal di dalam pesawat untuk pulang ke Kuala Lumpur tanpa isteri dan anaknya kerana beliau perlu menghadiri satu majlis resepsi korporat di Kuala Lumpur.

Bagaimanapun, pasangan itu mendakwa pramugari terbabit memberitahu mereka supaya pergi ke pintu depan untuk berbincang tetapi sebaik mereka berada di situ, seorang pengawal keselamatan mengarahkan mereka untuk turun dari pesawat dan kemudiannya menutup pintu pesawat.

Pasangan itu berkata mereka kehilangan bagasi tangan mengandungi sebuah kamera dan sebuah komputer riba yang ditinggalkan di dalam pesawat.

Pasangan itu berkata mereka kecewa dan diaibkan dengan cara keadaan itu dikendalikan.

Chew kemudiannya memperoleh sijil layak dari segi perubatan di lapangan terbang Denpasar yang membenarkan keseluruhan keluarga itu untuk menaiki pesawat lain ke Kuala Lumpur.

Dalam pembelaan mereka, Airasia menafikan Chew dan keluarganya menerima layanan kasar sambil menambah petugasnya dilatih berdepan sebarang keadaan membabitkan penumpang dengan sabar, tenang, sopan dan secara profesional.

Syarikat itu mendakwa petugas mereka dalam insiden itu hanya menjalankan tugas mereka mengikut prosedur operasi standard dan peraturan yang dikuatkuasakan.

Pada 29 Ogos, 2012, Mahkamah Tinggi di Shah Alam menolak saman mereka.

Chew dan Januarius diwakili peguam M.Manoharan manakala Airasia diwakili Zaini Mazlan dan Raja Nurul Iylia Raja Mohd Tajuddin. – Bernama, 7 Mei, 2014.

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Tentang OKU dan pemahamannya

Posted: 06 May 2014 04:10 PM PDT

May 07, 2014

Meor Yusof Aziddin adalah Malaysian folk singer/songwritter yang telah menghasilkan 10 album indipenden sejak tahun 2000 sehingga 2011. Juga penulis untuk buku tentang kehidupan, "Sembang Tepi Jalan" dan "Syurga Yang Hilang." Memblog di www.pestajiwa.net. Berkerjaya sebagai "professional busker" di KL Sentral di bawah pengurusan KTMB sejak tahun 2010 sehingga ke hari ini.

Buku Surat Untuk Anak karya Mohd Affandi Ramli.Saya baru sempat memiliki 'Surat Untuk Anak', sebuah naskhah berupa biografi tulisan penulisnya, Mohd Affandi Ramli atau lebih dikenali sebagai Fandi atau Ronasina, tentang dua anaknya yang OKU (Orang Kurang Upaya ) dan mengidap Cerebral Palsy (lumpuh otak).

Kebetulan pula, Fandi yang merupakan seorang kartunis berbakat juga aktivis adalah kawan dan rakan seperjuangan yang saya kenal sejak beberapa tahun lalu. Mengenali beliau secara dekat, saya akui beliau memang kental dan tabah dalam mengharungi dugaan hidup yang dilaluinya, seperti katanya: "Raikan hidup!".

Surat Untuk Anak adalah sebuah catatan menarik, tulisan yang lahir dari hati penulis tentang pengalamannya dalam membesarkan dua anak yang lumpuh otak dan tidak mampu berdikari.

Menarik kerana isi dan kandungannya, tentang kebenaran, tentang kefahaman kita tentang golongan OKU, tentang sikap manusia yang berwarna warni.

Membaca kisahnya akan memberikan kita nilai insaf dan banyak lagi mesej, terutamanya tentang Tuhan, kemanusiaan dan takdir.

Saya tabik dengan ketabahan Fandi dan isterinya yang menerima takdir yang melengkapi hidup mereka seadanya. Mereka cukup kuat dan tabah menghadapi cabaran dan ujian hidup.

Saya rasa saya dapat memahami apa yang mereka lalui walau tidak sepenuhnya kerana saya juga punya seorang anak yang mengidap autisme.

Anak saya fizikalnya normal, sama seperti anak lain. Cuma akalnya yang cacat. Menjaganya juga tidaklah sama seperti anak normal yang lain, apatah hari ini umurnya sudah menjangkau 16 tahun.

Saat anak saya itu, Adam disahkan oleh pakar di hospital pediatrik sebagai pengidap austisme ketika umurnya 3 tahun, kebahagiaan dan nilai keceriaan saya sebagai seorang manusia yang berkehendak dari 100% sudah diambil sebanyak 50%.

Kenyataannya semua kita ibu bapa kalau boleh sering mengharapkan agar yang terbaik dihidangkan kepada kita. Saya cukup takut jika dikurniakan anak yang cacat. Bayangkan hanya dalam usia anak saya 3 tahun barulah saya tahu yang dia mengidap autisme. Austisme? Saya tidak pernah tahu apa jenis penyakit ini waktu itu.

Untuk menghadapi kenyataan yang anak saya dilahirkan dalam kategori OKU memang sukar dan sangat berat untuk diterima, pada mulanya. Ianya mengambil masa untuk menerima takdir Tuhan yang datang.

Percayalah, tidak ada detik atau klimaks yang gembira apabila mengenangkan nasib anak saya itu. Cuma itulah satu yang saya dan semua kita perlu percaya, hidup perlu diteruskan!

Menyayangi Adam umpama saya berjalan di jalan yang sehala, yang tidak sampai ke penghujungnya. Di mana Adam? Adakah dia merasa apa yang saya atau ibunya rasa seperti yang dia rasa?

"Living is easy with eyes close, misunderstanding all you see", itu kata John Lennon dalam lagunya Strawberry Field Forever. Itu yang saya faham tentang dunia, seperti ayat-ayat itu kerana cerita dunia ini tidak ada kesudahannya.

Atau lagunya Nothing's gonna Change My World. Pun saya masih berkepentingan walaupun saya berfahaman begitu, kerana saya punya nafsu dan berkehendak. Tapi Adam? Apa kepentingannya? Dia tidak tahu membezakan nilai wang kertas RM1 mahu pun RM100. Baginya itu hanyalah sekadar objek.

Apabila kita diwujudkan ke dunia, membesar dengan nafsu dan kehendak, berupa dan berwajah, berbakat dan beranak pinak, itu kita kata biasa, tapi Adam tidak akan melalui semua itu. Adam punya nafsu, tapi dia hanya mampu memberontak kerana dia tidak faham apa itu kehendak dan apa itu keseimbangan.

Adam tidak akan faham apa itu rasional. Adam hanya punya rutin, yang jika terganggu maka kacaulah jiwanya. Frekuensi dalamannya sangat sensitif dan jika tidak kena dengan naluri abnormalnya, dia akan memberontak.

Tinggal pula di negara membangun yang lebih mengutamakan golongan kapitalis dan berduit, yang kalau ada pun pusat jagaan untuk kanak-kanak autisme, segalanya bukan percuma seperti yang terdapat di negara maju.

Bagi golongan biasa, kita tidak punya banyak pilihan sebenarnya.

Hari ini umur Adam 16 tahun, semakin dewasa dan punya naluri seperti orang dewasa sesuai dengan tahap umurnya. Ini membuat jiwanya akan bergolak jika ada benda tidak disenangi melanda, umpama sekeliling yang bising dan berserabut.

Setiap detik yang saya lalui walau dalam suka dan duka, Adam tetap bersama. Saat saya makan, Adam pun makan. Saat saya tidur, Adam pun tidur juga, saat kami sekeluarga bersembang dan bergurau senda, Adam akan masuk ke bilik dan menyendiri bersama dunianya, itulah kenyataan dan itulah bezanya.

Jika dunia ini adil, takdir juga akan menyebelahi Adam dan kami sekeluarga walau itu tidak akan berlaku dalam skrip cerita Adam. Saya tahu Adam akan ke syurga tanpa sebarang penafian, cuma saya percaya bukan saja Adam, malah kita semua juga adalah milikNya yang abadi.

Saya tidak tahu apa yang ada di sebalik tabir terang ini, kerana pejam mata dan kembali, itu adalah ceritaNya. Saya tidak pernah bermimpikan tentang hal yang lebih daripada itu, kerana itu semua cerita dan mahuNya.

Autistik ada dalam diri kita yang tersendiri dan punya dunia yang tersendiri. Autistik adalah milik mereka yang 'Living is Easy With Eyes Close'. Ciri-ciri itu juga ada dalam diri saya dan mereka yang punya nilai artistik tinggi.

Cuma bezanya dengan Adam dan mereka yang autisme dengan kita adalah nafsu dan kehendak. Kita masih dapat membezakan antara duit RM1 dan RM100. Bagi Adam itu semua tiada nilainya pada dia.

Apa yang kita perlu lakukan dan semat ke dalam jiwa, fahamlah mereka. Memahami mereka akan lebih mengenalkan kita dengan sifat dan diri kita sendiri. – 7 Mei, 2014.

* Ini adalah pendapat peribadi penulis dan tidak semestinya mewakili pandangan The Malaysian Insider.

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Rabu, 7 Mei 2014