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McIlroy caps roller-coaster week with win at Wentworth

Posted: 25 May 2014 05:12 PM PDT

May 26, 2014

Northern Irish golfer Rory McIlroy wins the PGA Championship at Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey, England, yesterday. – AFP pic, May 26, 2014.Rory McIlroy completed a roller-coaster week by coming from seven shots back to win the European PGA Championship at Wentworth late yesterday.

The Northern Irishman – who announced his split from tennis star Caroline Wozniacki on the eve of the tournament – fired a sparkling six-under par 66, for an aggregate of 274, 14-under par, to win by a shot from Ireland's Shane Lowry.

Denmark's Thomas Bjorn surrendered a five-shot lead by the time he had got to the seventh tee after a disastrous seven on the sixth but still had a faint chance of victory after birdies at the 16th and 17th.

Bjorn, aiming for his 16th European Tour win, had to settle for a share of third place with England's Luke Donald with both finishing on 276, 12-under.

Henrik Stenson boosted his chances of becoming world number one later in the day when he eagled the par-5 17th and finished on 280, eight-under par, and in a tie for seventh..

The Swede had to wait until current number one Adam Scott had finished playing in the Colonial Invitational in Texas to see if he could overtake the Australian and Tiger Woods to claim the top spot.

McIlory came home in 32 with five birdies including fours at the par-5 17th and 18th holes.

On the 18th he hit his second into a greenside bunker but chipped out to five feet and punched the air when holed the putt.

Donald, Bjorn and Lowry – his chief dangers by now – were in the groups behind.

Lowry could not get the eagle he needed at the 18th to force a play-off and when Donald hit his approach into the water on the last only Bjorn could catch the world number 10.

Bjorn needed an eagle at the finishing hole but his third shot failed to find the cup, and he finished with a 75, and the European Tour's flagship title was in McIlroy's hands for the first time.

It caps a remarkable few days for the two-time major winner McIlroy after hitting the headlines with his emotional revelations of the break-up of his engagement on Wednesday.

And more remarkably McIlroy has rarely performed well at Wentworth – having a best finish of fifth in 2009 and two missed cuts in the last two years.

His comeback from seven shots off the pace equals the record for this event, Simon Khan did a similar rescue job in 2010, and is the first time he has won a European event actually held in Europe.

McIlroy got his round going with an eagle three at the fourth but was knocked back by bogeys at the sixth and ninth before streaking home in five-under par.

He chipped in at the tenth for a two to go to 10-under and took the lead with a birdie at the 12th and the pair of fours at the last two holes set a target no-one could match.

Bjorn started to unravel when he drove into a fairway bunker at the sixth and took two to get out of the hazard before hitting his fourth shot into a greenside trap.

He chipped out to around 12 feet but his putt for a six drifted right of the hole and all of a sudden the tournament was wide open for the first time since the Dane shot a 62 on the opening day.

Donald had similar trouble at the sixth – also taking seven he found bushes and bunkers.

Scotland's Stephen Gallacher surged up the board to finish in a tie for fifth alongside England's Simon Dyson they shot 66 and 67 respectively whilst Germany's Marcel Siem had a 68 to finish in a share of seventh with Stenson, South Africa's Thomas Aikien, Spaniard Pablo Larrazabal and Francesco Molinari from Italy. – AFP, May 26, 2014.

Serena rather loses in tennis than love

Posted: 25 May 2014 04:58 PM PDT

May 26, 2014

Serena Williams (pic) admitted yesterday she would rather be defeated on the court than be a loser in love after offering a consoling arm to heartbroken Caroline Wozniacki.

Williams tweeted Danish player Wozniacki following the break-up of her high-profile romance with golf star Rory McIlroy last week.

"@CaroWozniacki I'll always walk with you. #friendsforever," wrote world number one Williams.

That was in reply to Wozniacki's tweet which said: "It's a hard time for me right now. Thanks for all the sweet messages! Happy I support Liverpool right now because I know I'll never walk alone."

On Sunday, Williams said she felt for Wozniacki who had been planning to wed McIlroy later in the year.

"I would rather lose any day than break up. It's always hard," said the American.

"It's definitely easier to take a loss because you always have next week. But at the end of the day when you really are young, you always have next year and you have the rest of your life."

Williams has been linked romantically with her French coach Patrick Mouratoglou who was in the crowd on Sunday as the 32-year-old defending champion reached the second round with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Alize Lim.

Williams will face either compatriot Grace Min or Spain's Gabrine Muguruza for a place in the third round where she could play big sister Venus.

Venus Williams began her campaign with a 6-4, 6-1 win against Swiss teenager Belinda Bencic. – AFP, May 26, 2014.

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Kim and Kanye marry in romantic Florence

Posted: 25 May 2014 01:50 AM PDT

May 25, 2014

Fans gather near a car yesterday at the Forte Belvedere in Florence to watch guests arriving to attend a private party hosted by fiances American reality TV star Kim Kardashian and US hip hop star Kanye West (both unseen). – AFP pic, May 25, 2014Curvy reality TV diva Kim Kardashian tied the knot with her rapper husband Kanye West in the Italian city of Florence yesterday, Kardashian's publicist confirmed.

"Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were married in a private ceremony in the presence of family and friends in Florence, Italy," publicist Ina Treciokas told AFP, giving no other details.

Screaming fans were seen mobbing 16th-century Fort Belvedere in Florence yesterday as hundreds of guests gathered for Kim and Kany's sumptuous wedding party, but it was not immediately publicly confirmed they had been officially married there, with some reports saying they may have been married earlier

The couple was married by Rich Wilkerson Jr., a pastor at the non-denominational Trinity Church in Miami at the 16th century Forte di Belvedere in Florence, according to US celebrity media.

Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sang "Con te Partiro" as 1970s US Olympic star Bruce Jenner – Kim's stepfather – walked the bride down the aisle, People magazine reported.

Kim's mother Kris and sisters Khloe and Kourtney were at the event, as well as the couple's 11-month-old daughter North West, according to the E! network, which carries the reality TV show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."

Security at the event was tight, and guests were required to hand over their cell phones and any cameras, according to E!

Guests at the "Kimye" wedding included Hollywood tennis star Serena Williams, actor Will Smith's son Jaden Smith, and "12 Years as a Slave" director Steve McQueen, according to celebrity media.

"It was funny how nervous (Kanye) was," a person identified as an onlooker told People magazine. "He clearly knew the gravity of what he was about to do. This morning he was all smiles, but as it got closer, you could see that the nerves were kicking in."

The wedding is the first for West, 36, and the third for Kardashian, 33.

Kim and Kanye flew into Florence aboard private jets after kicking off their marathon wedding celebrations with a party in the Versailles palace late Friday.

The marathon wedding event could earn the couple up to US$21 million thanks to sponsors and through the sale of exclusive photos of the ceremony, according to press reports. – AFP, May 25, 2014

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Dyana Sofya and the politics of beauty

Posted: 24 May 2014 04:45 PM PDT

May 25, 2014

Alwyn teaches at a local university-college and blogs at wyngman.blogspot.com. For comments and questions, email alwynlau@gmail.com.

Dyana Sofya for Teluk Intan. What do people think?

First, there are those fellas who do nothing but ogle and for whom Sofya is at best a poster girl, and at worst, a Web search item they click on while pretending to work.

At least the wolf whistlers and hooters at the recent Teluk Intan campaign are honest. Most people just act as if that they're not dreaming of (or envying) a beautiful face every time Sofya's name comes up. These are the ones who are mature enough to use words like "election", "equality" and "Dyana" in the same sentence without smirking. It would be fun to hear these people talk during a polygraph test: the chart could end up resembling a Sumatran earthquake.

Secondly, there are sickos who couldn't even fake a bikini photo properly. Makes the Datuk Trio video look like an MIT project.

Finally, there are the majority who prioritise justice and sound leadership but, in vain, try to pretend that beauty doesn't matter. This is like a woman saying she's perfectly fine with dating any guy as long as he's really nice and it doesn't matter if his face looks like a Federal Highway roadkill. Of course, she still may go out with him, and all credit to her for giving the dude a shot, but if she says she has no qualms whatsoever, then even my sardines will roll their eyes.

Beauty, like the human body which it adorns, is the bone in the throat of politics. We tell ourselves that government is serious stuff, that leaders must be chosen solely on their ability to serve the people. We proclaim that the meat of justice need the salt of a strong rational mind, not the eye candy of a gorgeous smile.

Really? C'mon.

The entire realm of politics is driven by nothing but the body itself. The political is that domain in which individuals, who share the common experience of having a physical body, seek to negotiate resources, rights and privileges in relation to that body. Human politics is inevitably driven by the needs of the human body and towards projects intended for the flourishing of that same body.

I could not play politics with my Acer computer because the thing doesn't starve, doesn't emote, doesn't have moods and doesn't fret if it can't get tickets to the X-Men premiere.

Bigshots in high places would not give million-dollar bribes to win contracts and manipulate elections if they didn't share the same bodily greed, bodily powerlust and bodily laziness as their cronies do.

We say we want a candidate who can deliver and her looks are not important at all. Right. And Maria Sharapova is just a good tennis player.

The body is more political than politics itself. It's the reason we have politics at all. It's also the factor that destabilises the ideology which declares that reason – and reason alone – must rule the day. That's a neo-liberal fantasy so hollow you'd be on safer ground believing Isma if they claimed that Christians plan to unleash Godzilla on Penang.

The challenge, therefore, is not to be embarassed by any politician's good looks. Neither is it to trivialise physical attractiveness and treat it like a fancy side order. The critical task, instead, is to detect something absolute within appearance itself.

The dare is to stop pretending that there can be principles without physicality. There should be no disconnect between love for the people and the loveliness of those fighting for them. Looking like a model could be nothing more, and surely nothing less, than a chance to model the way forward.
Malaysia's soul can only be redeemed when the souls of our people are allowed to thrive. But, as Ludwig Wittgenstein noted, the best image for the soul is, surprise surprise, the body.

Let us look for trust and belief in our leader's eyes; vision and compassion in their voice; goodness and hope in their smile. That some of them may look like either half of Brangelina is both incidental AND an absolutely critical thing we can be thankful for. Does that sound paradoxical? Yes, exactly like your mind and body which is two things, yet (gasp) the same.

Do I think Dyana Sofya will make a good MP, able to serve her nation? Totally. Do I think she's beautiful? I've already answered that. Except I'm kinda partial to Wan Zaleha Radzi. So now you know my age. – May 25, 2014.

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Salahkah ajak Ahmad Said masuk PAS?

Posted: 24 May 2014 04:07 PM PDT

May 25, 2014

Haji Subky Abdul Latif seorang penulis bebas dan tinggal di Kuala Lumpur. Seorang pendiam, dia gemar meneliti perangai manusia dan berita politik di Malaysia.

Jika semasa Datuk Seri Ahmad Said hilang pertimbangan selepas dilucutkan jawatan Menteri Besar Terengganu lalu dia keluar daripada Umno, tidak pelik dan tidak salah kalau ada orang PAS menyerunya menyertai parti itu.

Ketika dia keluar Umno, tidak siapa tahu dia hilang pertimbangan atau tidak. Tiada yang tahu berapa hari dia hendak berada di luar Umno.

Apabila dia keluar daripada Umno, dia memilih menjadi Adun Bebas.

Jika ada orang PAS yang mengenalinya mengajaknya masuk PAS, maka ia adalah satu seruan yang baik bagi menyelamatkannya supaya dia tidak terkontang-kanting menjadi orang Bebas yang tidak tahu hendak ke mana.

Dan mengajaknya masuk PAS adalah pilihan yang lebih baik daripada menjadi orang Bebas.

PAS adalah parti yang memperjuangkan Islam dan ia adalah tempat politik yang terbaik bagi orang Islam.

Setiap masa kerja PAS ialah mengajak orang masuk PAS. Kalau sekarang ia mengajak orang bukan Islam menyertai PAS, maka apa salahnya kalau Ahmad Said masuk PAS.

Jika masuk PAS itu untuk membantu PAS menegakkan kalimah Allah, maka dia dapat pahala.

Tetapi kalau kerana marahkan Umno, entahlah. Tetapi setelah masuk PAS bolehlah dibetulkan nawaitunya.

Mengajak Ahmad Said dan mana-mana orang Umno untuk masuk PAS kira-kira sama seperti Rasulullah menyeru semua orang Mekah dan Madinah masuk Islam.

Setiap ahli kitab dan penyembah berhala seperti Abu Jahal dan Abu Sofian diseru masuk Islam.

Abu Jahal tidak menerimanya, tetapi Abu Sofian dan isterinya Hindun yang amat membenci baginda masuk Islam.

Dalam kempen PAS hendak menggantikan Umno, tentulah yang hendak mengisi PAS orang Umno.

Kalau orang Umno tidak keluar Umno dan masuk PAS, tidak dapatlah dijayakan kempen PAS mengganti Umno itu.

Maka membuka pintu PAS kepada Ahmad Said adalah patut dan wajar.

Jika boleh, semasa Dato Onn Jaafar keluar Umno dahulu, kiranya PAS ada pada masa itu, patut diajak dia masuk PAS.

Semasa Mahathir dipecat daripada Umno dahulu, ada yang mempelawa dia masuk PAS.

Tidak malu PAS jika dia menolak. Tengku Razaleigh sebelum membentuk Parti Melayu S46 diajak masuk PAS.

Dia tidak mahu kerana dia percaya penyokong tidak akan ikut. Bukan memalukan PAS jika dia tidak mahu.

Mengajak Najib, Muhyiddin Yasin dan Ahmad Said masuk PAS adalah kerja yang mulia, tetapi menjanjikan Najib akan dikekalkan jadi perdana menteri dan Ahmad Said balik jadi Menteri Besar Terengganu, ia tidak boleh dibuat oleh sesiapa.

Masuk PAS dahulu, lepas itu tunjukkan diri betul-betul jadi orang PAS dan buktikan apa yang Umno itu tidak betul, maka ketika itu baru boleh difikirkan apa status masing-masing.

Mereka mesti tunjukkan jadi Saidina Umar al-Khattab dulu. Walaupun Saidina Umar semasa jahiliyah pernah menanam anak perempuannya hidup-hidup, tetapi setelah menyertai Islam berkata Rasulullah, jika selepas baginda ada lagi nabi, maka orang itu adalah Umar.

Pada masa Najib dan Umno menghina Ahmad Said, maka memang patut PAS meredakan duka nestapanya.

Jika dia tidak lagi laku dalam Umno, dia boleh dimuliakan dalam PAS.

Orang hendak lemas seperti itu wajar diselamatkan. Adakah dia hendak berterima kasih pada PAS, ia adalah masalahnya. Tapi dia wajar diselamatkan dan dimuliakan.

PAS punyai beratus ribu ahli . Mungkin pemimpin tidak ajak lagi dia masuk PAS.

Mungkin dalam ramai-ramai itu berkata kepadanya, tempat yang baik dan selamat untuknya ialah dalam PAS.

Tidak hina dan tidak malu PAS berkata begitu. PAS tidak kecewa jika dia balik ke dalam Umno.

Sudah ramai Cina dan India yang tidak Islam masuk PAS sekarang. Dan ramai lagi akan masuk. – 25 Mei, 2014.

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Jenazah Robia Kosai disemadi di Parit Yusof

Posted: 25 May 2014 02:42 AM PDT

May 25, 2014

Jenazah bekas Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga, Kebajikan Masyarakat dan Kesihatan Negeri Johor Dr Robia Kosai (gambar), selamat dikebumikan di Tanah Perkuburan Islam Kampung Parit Bali, Parit Yusof, Muar, tengah hari ini.

Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Razali Ibrahim; dan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pendidikan, Penerangan, Pembangunan dan Koperasi Negeri Johor Md Jais Sarday, selaku wakil rasmi Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin; adalah antara kira-kira 500 orang sanak saudara, dan penduduk setempat yang hadir di majlis pengkebumian itu.

Terdahulu, jenazah Allahyarham yang tiba di kediaman Datin Azizah Samad, saudara angkat beliau di Pekan Parit Yusof pada awal pagi, disembahyangkan di Masjid Jamek, sebelum dibawa ke tanah perkuburan yang terletak kira-kira satu kilometer dari situ.

Turut mengiringi ke tanah perkuburan ialah Pegawai Kanan Kesihatan Daerah Muar Dr. Zulkifli Othman dan pegawai-pegawai lain jabatan kerajaan di daerah ini.

Isteri Menteri Besar Johor Datin Seri Rosni Omar turut menyampaikan ucapan takziah kepada kakak Allahyarham Kamariah Kosai, 76, ketika mengunjungi kediaman saudara angkat Dr. Robia.

Dr Robiah, 65, menghembuskan nafas terakhir di Hospital Tawakkal, Kuala Lumpur pada kira-kira pukul 8.30 malam tadi selepas tidak sedarkan diri selama seminggu di hospital tersebut akibat diserang sakit jantung.

Allahyarham meninggalkan dua orang anak angkat, Azarul Mahmod, 29, dan adiknya, Munawarah Mahmod, 21.

Semasa hayatnya, Allahyarham pernah berkhidmat sebagai Setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Kemajuan Tanah dan Koperasi selama sepenggal pada tahun 1999 sebaik sahaja memenangi kerusi Parlimen Muar pada pilihan raya umum tahun tersebut.

Pada 2004, beliau dilantik memegang jawatan pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Kebajikan Masyarakat selama dua penggal yang berakhir Mei tahun lepas.

Dalam Umno, Allahyarham pernah mengetuai ketua Pergerakan Wanita Umno Bahagian Muar selama 12 tahun dan pernah dilantik sebagai anggota Exco Pergerakan Wanita Umno Malaysia selama sepenggal sewaktu memegang jawatan setiausaha Parlimen Kementerian Kemajuan Tanah dan Koperasi.

Salah seorang abangnya, Prof Madya Dr Abdul Wahab Kosai berkata Allahyarham, anak ketujuh daripada sembilan beradik itu, mula menjalani rawatan sejak dua bulan lalu di Hospital Tawakkal.

"Pada Ahad minggu lepas, dia sekali lagi dimasukkan ke hospital yang sama setelah tidak sedarkan diri sehinggalah dia meninggal dunia pada pukul 8.30 malam tadi," kata beliau ketika ditemui di tanah perkuburan tersebut.

Razali menyifatkan pemergian Dr Robia adalah satu kehilangan besar kepada Umno bahagian Muar.

Katanya, sepanjang berkhidmat sebagai wakil rakyat, Allahyarham banyak menabur bakti kepada masyarakat Muar. – Bernama, 25 Mei, 2014.

Dyana Sofya bukanlah cantik sangat, kata Zahid kepada polis Teluk Intan

Posted: 25 May 2014 02:29 AM PDT

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May 25, 2014

Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi semasa berucap di Ibu Pejabat Polis Taktikal (Martek) hari ini. – GambarThe Malaysian Insider oleh Afif Abd Halim, 25 Mei, 2014.Tidak ada gunanya mengundi calon DAP bagi Pilihan Raya Kecil (PRK)Teluk Intan, Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud hanya kerana rupa parasnya kerana beliau sebenarnya tidaklah secantik seperti yang dipaparkan dalam gambar dan televisyen, kata Menteri Dalam Negeri Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Naib Presiden Umno itu memberitahu kira-kira 200 anggota polis di Teluk Intan hari ini bahawa beliau sendiri pernah bertemu dengan Dyana‎ sekali dan tidak kagum dengan penampilannya.

"Undi awal, dan undi calon terbaik di kalangan semua calon yang baik. Jika anda mahu memilih seseorang yang cantik, tetapi tidak boleh berkhidmat kepada anda, apa gunanya?" tanya Zahid dalam majlis bersama anggota polis tersebut di sini.

"Beliau tidak tinggal di sini. Saya melihatnya, berhadapan dengannya dan ‎berjabat tangan, beliau tidaklah cantik sangat! Dalam gambar, beliau memang cantik, dalam televisyen, cantik sedikit sahaja," katanya yang mencetuskan ketawa daripada hadirin yang kebanyakannya adalah lelaki. – 25 Mei, 2014.

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