♥ HARSIMRAN SINGH ♥
Sometimes we must get hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. sometimes our vision is clear only after our eyes are washed away with tears.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
ON-OFF couple JUDE LAW and SIENNA MILLER are "in love" and will be moving back in together next year.
Speculation had been rife about whether Jude, 36, and Sienna, 27, had rekindled their romance while they were both appearing in plays on Broadway, New York.
But The Sun can reveal they ARE back together - and it's serious. They have been meeting up at the Algonquin Hotel in New York during rehearsal breaks - Jude in Hamlet and Sienna in After Miss Julie - and things have blossomed.
A source said: "Last week they put the wheels in motion to live together again.
"They have told staff that they are in love and will be moving back to London in the spring and they will be living together as a couple once again."
The pair, who have also been spotted outside his New York apartment, began their romance after meeting on the set of Alfie in 2004. Sienna dumped Jude in 2005 after he cheated on her with his children's nanny.
They got back together before splitting up again in November 2006.
It is Sienna who has been the most keen to get back together.
The source added: "Jude was reluctant at first for anything to happen. But Sienna convinced him that she was still in love with him."
Since their parting in 2005 they've had complex love lives.
She recently split from actor Balthazar Getty who had briefly left his wife and four kids for her. Jude has just fathered his fourth child, the result of a one-night stand with model Samantha Burke.
The pair met up again through mutual friend Jonny Lee Miller.
Jude's next film, Sherlock Holmes, opens in cinemas on Boxing Day.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Jordan strips at fella's fight
JORDAN treated crowds to an impromptu striptease after her boyfriend Alex Reid won a cage fighting match.
The glamour girl, real name Katie Price, peeled off her dress to put on a new frock which read 'The Champ' during the event on Saturday night.
Standing by her man ... Alex Reid and Jordan
She stripped down to just a bra and skimpy g-string in full view of the audience at the Troxy in Limehouse, East London.
Katie, 31, had earlier joined her man in the cage and stuck two fingers up at punters booing him.
She let loose at the angry mob with a foul-mouthed rant, shouting "f*** you, f*** you" as they turned on Alex, 34, as his name was announced over the PA.
When her new lover was named as the champ, the mum-of-three decided to change outfits.
But his victory didn't stop the baying crowd, who chanted the name of his opponent Jack "The Stone" Mason after buff Alex had been declared the winner.
Jordan, who will soon officially become divorced from her ex Peter Andre, also teased the crowd by flashing a heart-shaped ri ng on her engagement finger at the event, despite denying she and Alex are going to wed.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
A Hero
To clutch a throat so young and fair,
And squeeze with all my might until
No breath of being lingered there.
Three times I drove the demon out,
Though on my brow was evil sweat. . . .
And yet I know beyond a doubt
He'll get me yet, he'll get me yet.
I know I'm mad, I ought to tell
The doctors, let them care for me,
Confine me in a padded cell
And never, never set me free;
But Oh how cruel that would be!
For I am young - and comely too . . .
Yet dim my demon I can see,
And there is but one thing to do.
Three times I beat the foul fiend back;
The fourth, I know he will prevail,
And so I'll seek the railway track
And lay my head upon the rail,
And sight the dark and distant train,
And hear its thunder louder roll,
Coming to crush my cursed brain . . .
Oh God, have mercy on my soul!
I Speak Not
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that now burns on my cheek may impart
The deep thoughts that dwell in that silence of heart.
Too brief for our passion, too long for our peace,
Were those hours - can their joy or their bitterness cease?
We repent, we abjure, we will break from our chain,
-
We will part, we will fly to - unite it again!
Oh! thine be the gladness, and mine be the guilt!
Forgive me, adored one! - forsake if thou wilt;
But the heart which is thine shall expire undebased,
And man shall not break it - whatever thou may'st.
And stern to the haughty, but humble to thee,
This soul in its bitterest blackness shall be;
And our days seem as swift, and our moments more sweet,
With thee at my side, than with worlds at our feet.
One sigh of thy sorrow, one look of thy love,
Shall turn me or fix, shall reward or reprove.
And the heartless may wonder at all I resign
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Thy lips shall reply, not to them, but to mine.
Pengguna Facebook cecah 250 juta
"Pertumbuhan menggalakkan itu amat mengujakan. Bagi kami, pertumbuhan sehingga 250 juta pengguna bukan sekadar nombor yang amat memberangsangkan, malah ia membuktikan berapa banyak hubungan yang berjaya dibuat oleh mereka," katanya di dalam blog rasmi Facebook.
Facebook diwujudkan pada 2004 dan menjadi semakin popular meninggalkan MySapce. - Agensi
Sunday, July 12, 2009
11 hadiah mesra rakyat
Datuk Seri Najib Razak |
KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak yang menyambut 100 hari sebagai Perdana Menteri semalam, mengumumkan 11 hadiah kepada rakyat.
Berucap pada majlis 'Seratus Hari Najib Bersama Rakyat 11 Julai 2009' di Dewan Pameran Pusat Konvensyen Kuala Lumpur (KLCC) di sini, beliau berkata, ini termasuk mewujudkan Amanah Saham 1Malaysia (AS 1Malaysia), pemberian diskaun kepada pengguna jalan bertol, peluang pemilikan rumah untuk golongan berpendapatan rendah dan pengurangan caj bayaran latihan penunggang motosikal.
Katanya, penubuhan tabung AS 1Malaysia di bawah Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB) itu selaras dengan jangkaan pemulihan ekonomi dalam tempoh separuh tahun kedua tahun ini.
"Tabung ini dijangka memberi peluang pelaburan kepada pelabur untuk menikmati pulangan pendapatan yang berpatutan dalam tempoh jangka panjang. Penubuhan itu langkah tambahan kepada dana amanah saham sedia ada," katanya yang disambut dengan tepukan gemuruh lebih 5,000 hadirin di dalam dan luar pusat konvensyen itu yang penuh sesak.
Dalam ucapan bertajuk Warkah Harapan, Najib berkata, kerajaan bersetuju memperuntukkan RM100 juta Skim Amanah Saham Wawasan bagi golongan miskin tegar bandar bagi meringankan beban mereka terutama pada hujung tahun bagi menampung keperluan persekolahan anak-anak.
"Menjelang 2010, kira-kira 10,000 isi rumah miskin tegar bandar akan diberi sebanyak 10,000 unit untuk isi rumah di bawah senarai E-Kasih," katanya.
Najib juga mengumumkan potongan harga 20 peratus kepada pengguna kad prabayar SmartTag dan Touch 'N' Go yang membayar tol 80 kali atau lebih sebulan berkuat kuasa 1 September ini.
Perdana Menteri berkata, potongan itu bagi meringankan beban pengguna lebuh raya dan bersifat penyelesaian sementara bagi menunggu kajian keseluruhan mengenai kadar tol yang akan mengambil masa.
"Saya pernah diberitahu oleh seorang pengguna jalan bertol yang dia terpaksa membayar tol lebih kurang RM300 sebulan, manakala gaji bulanannya RM3,000. Orang ini hanya mendapat gaji 11 bulan setahun kerana gaji satu bulan lagi habis dibelanjakan untuk pembayaran tol setahun.
"Ini (potongan) saya percaya akan memberi kelegaan pada rakyat terutama yang menggunakan jalan tol setiap hari," katanya dalam ucapan hampir 50 minit yang disifatkan sebagai perjumpaan yang bersejarah kerana setiap keputusan yang dibuat itu adalah istimewa untuk rakyat Malaysia.
Katanya, kerajaan komited menyediakan perumahan mampu milik mengikut Program Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) dan memutuskan penyewa program itu di Wilayah Persekutuan diberi peluang dan pilihan untuk membeli rumah sewa itu.
Sehubungan itu, katanya, sejumlah 44,000 unit rumah ditawarkan kepada golongan berpendapatan rendah memiliki rumah sendiri.
Selain itu, hadiah untuk rakyat membabitkan masyarakat penjaja dan peniaga kecil juga diumumkan Najib apabila 69,000 golongan itu di Wilayah Persekutuan akan menikmati potongan 50 peratus atau RM10 hingga RM700 setahun bagi pembaharuan lesen dan lesen baru.
"Ini akan memberi banyak kelegaan... saya harap negeri lain akan ikut langkah di Wilayah Persekutuan ini. Mudah-mudahan (bayaran) lesen lain juga akan dikurangkan, " katanya.
Katanya, kerajaan juga mempunyai dasar bagi membantu pemandu teksi dan ketika ini ada ramai pemandu teksi yang terpaksa menyewa harian dengan pembayaran RM50 sehari, selain kos lain seperti minyak.
Berikutan itu, kerajaan akan menambah 3,000 lagi permit teksi untuk individu dalam masa tiga bulan ini, iaitu pertambahan daripada 7,000 permit teksi individu yang sudah diberikan setakat ini.
Perdana Menteri turut mengumumkan caj bayaran latihan untuk penunggang motosikal kelas B2 iaitu 250cc ke bawah dikurang menjadi RM211 seorang.
"Saya mendapati ramai penunggang terutama anak muda yang menunggang motosikal 'kapcai' tidak memiliki lesen memandu kerana kos mendapatkan lesen termasuk latihan agak tinggi, RM500 hingga RM700 seorang. Berdasar riak tadi, saya membayangkan memang tepat keputusan ini, " katanya sebagai mengulas reaksi tepukan gemuruh daripada ramai hadirin terutama pelajar sekolah.
Selain itu, katanya, peruntukan skim Tekun Nasional ditambah RM150 juta lagi dan peruntukan RM15 juta khusus untuk program pembangunan usahawan muda kaum India di negara ini.
Mengenai kewarganegaraan, Najib mengumumkan jumlah permohonan tertangguh pada 1 November 2008 sebanyak 34,000, dan sehingga bulan lalu, sebanyak 46 peratus sudah selesai dibuat keputusan dan usaha akan dipergiatkan lagi untuk menyelesaikan baki permohonan.
Katanya, terdapat ramai ibu bapa yang lambat mendaftarkan kelahiran anak mereka dan kerajaan akan terus mempergiatkan usaha memperbaiki keadaan itu.
"Di Sabah, sejak 2005, sebanyak 36,000 permohonan pendaftaran diterima dan daripada jumlah itu 92 peratus diluluskan. Di Sarawak pula, sejak 2005, 19,000 permohonan diterima dan daripada jumlah itu, 80 peratus permohonan diluluskan, " katanya.
Berhubung infrastruktur luar bandar di Sabah dan Sarawak, katanya, kerajaan akan menggandakan pembinaan jalan luar bandar di kedua-dua negeri itu, daripada 750 kilometer yang dibina di bawah Rancangan Malaysia Kesembilan (RMK-9) kepada 1,500 kilometer dalam tempoh RMK-10.
Najib juga berkata, liputan bekalan air minum yang kini berada pada tahap 52 peratus di Sabah dan 61 peratus di Sarawak, akan dipertingkatkan, begitu juga bekalan elektrik dan pengumuman mengenainya akan dibuat hujung bulan ini.
Selain itu, Najib juga mengumumkan kerajaan akan mengambil langkah drastik ke arah mengurangkan jenayah dan rasuah di negara ini dan maklumat mengenainya akan diumumkan hujung bulan ini.
FAKTA
1- Diskaun tol Pengguna Smart Tag dan Touch n' Go yang membayar tol 80 kali atau lebih sebulan, dapat diskaun 20 peratus.
2- Rumah rakyat
44,000 rumah rakyat untuk dijual kepada penyewa di Wilayah Persekutuan.
3- Lesen penjaja
Peniaga kecil di Wilayah Persekutuan diberi potongan 50 peratus untuk perbaharui lesen.
4- Permit teksi
3,000 lagi permit teksi untuk individu ditambah dalam masa tiga bulan akan datang.
5- Cegah jenayah
Langkah drastik bagi kurangkan jenayah dan rasuah diumumkan penghujung bulan ini.
- Daftar kelahiran
Permohonan di Sabah dan Sarawak dipermudahkan. Baki permohonan akan diselesaikan sedikit masa lagi.
7- Jalan luar bandar
Pembinaan jalan luar bandar di Sabah dan Sarawak ditambah dalam tempoh RMK-10.
8- Bekalan air dan elektrik
Bekalan air dan elektrik ditingkatkan di Sabah Dan Sarawak. Perincian diumumkan akhir bulan ini.
9- Latihan motosikal
Kadar bayaran latihan tunggang motosikal 250cc ke bawah dikurangkan kepada RM211 mulai 1 September.
10- Tambah peruntukan
Peruntukan Tekun Nasional ditambah RM150 juta dan RM15 juta untuk usahawan muda India.
11- Unit amanah
Amanah Saham 1Malaysia dengan saiz 10 bilion unit akan diperkenalkan.
I will nail Michael Jackson's killers
Jacko's heartbroken sister La Toya vows to prove star's death was foul play
From James Desborough, US Editor in Los Angeles, 12/07/2009
MICHAEL Jackson's heartbroken sister La Toya last night sensationally insisted the King of Pop was MURDERED for his £1 billion fortune.
And the former Playboy model told the News of the World: "I KNOW who did it."
In an astonishing exclusive interview, La Toya, 53, reveals secret new facts about the 50-year-old superstar's sudden death, drugs found in his body and a $2million stash of cash and jewels that has gone missing.
She also speaks movingly about Jacko's final resting place and tells how his children are struggling with their grief. La Toya said: "We don't think just one person was involved in the murder. It was a conspiracy to get Michael's money."
La Toya bombshell
- They got hiim hooked on drugs
- He was lonely and vulnerable
- Didn't want to perform in London
- I ordered second autopsy on his body
- $2m cash missing from his mansion
Grief-torn La Toya last night dramatically vowed revenge on the people she claims MURDERED her brother Michael.
READ: THEY STAYED WITH DADDY'S BODY FOR 30 MINUTES.. THEN SAID GOODBYE
And she vowed: "I know who did it and I won't rest until I nail them!"
La Toya's astonishing revelations come just two days after the chief of Los Angeles police admitted they were investigating Jacko's death as possible homicide.
In a moving exclusive four-hour interview with the News of the World, grieving La Toya - the closest person to Michael from the whole tight-knit Jackson clan - revealed she and the family are convinced her brother's apparent drugs overdose was "foul play" by a shadowy group out to get their hands on his £1 billion fortune.
"Michael WAS murdered," declared La Toya, 53. "And we don't think just one person was involved. Rather, it was a conspiracy of people. I feel it was all about money. Michael was worth well over a billion in music publishing assets and somebody killed him for that. He was worth more dead than alive."
As she posed a series of vital questions about 50-year-old Jacko's sudden death 17 days ago at his rented mansion in Los Angeles, La Toya said the pop icon was:
- FED a series of addictive drugs to keep him submissive and controlled.
- KEPT from his family by manipulative people who blocked their visits.
- WORKED to exhaustion even though he DIDN'T want to do the gruelling string of 50 shows due to start at London's O2 arena tomorrow.
- ROBBED of TWO MILLION in cash and gems as he lay dying.
Because of her close bond with Michael, La Toya was chosen by the family to sign the death certificate. Now the first step in her battle for justice is underway, with the second, independent, autopsy she ordered.
The official coroner's report is not due for two weeks but La Toya already knows the results of the family's own toxicology tests on the body and said: "I think everyone will be surprised when the results come out.
"I can't discuss that any further because of the ongoing police investigation. But I can say newspaper reports that there was methadone in his body are inacuurate.
"He had many needle marks on his neck and on his arms, and more about those will emerge in the next few weeks. But nothing has changed my mind that this was murder and I won't give up until I find out what killed my brother.
"A couple of years ago Michael told me he was worried that people were out to get him. He said, 'They're gonna kill me for my publishing. They want my catalogues and they're gonna kill me for these.'
"I knew something terrible was going to happen."
Brushing her long dark hair back from her face - features that closely resemble her tragic brother's - soft-spoken La Toya added: "Michael was being inappropriately treated by people who got him hooked on drugs.
"I can't say who I believe is responsible as I don't want to jeopardise the police investigation. But not everybody had Michael's best interests at heart. A month ago I felt Michael was going to die before he did his London concerts.
"I felt it would be foul play. I felt he'd never make the show."
La Toya claimed those plotting against her brother deliberately cut him off to become "the loneliest man in the world".
She told us: "They tried to keep the family away at all times, even my dad.
"Michael was being controlled. No one could get through to him.
"We wanted to know why we were being kept away and my father Joe was always trying to get to see him. He tried so hard to be there for Michael. He was seen as a threat but he was trying to help. And if you keep the family away, you can conquer. It's like they say, divide and conquer."
La Toya also claimed millions of dollars in cash and jewels disappeared from Jackson's house the day he died.
She said: "Michael always had cash in his homes, usually around $2 million (£1.2 million) which he used to pay out on things. People said he wasn't wealthy, but Michael always had money with him.
"When I went to the house later that day there was NO cash or jewellery. So many people had been through that house before I got there. Someone went in there and did a good job. It was very strange."
Questions still surround events leading up to Jackson's death at the £5 million house on North Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills on June 25. The singer collapsed around midday and his staff made the 911 emergency call at 12.22pm.
And La Toya described the harrowing scenes she found later that night inside the room where her brother died - strewn with oxygen flasks and empty pill bottles.
She told us: "The police had already taken an oxygen tank which was beside the bed. On top of the sheets there was still an oxygen mask. Standing beside the bed was a stand for an intravenous drip. I was told the cops had taken the bag of liquid from it.
"Behind I saw three oxygen tanks in the corner of the room.
"There was an empty pill box on a cabinet. We also found loads of empty oxygen tanks in the garage of the house." Jackson was found to be on a potentially lethal cocktail of drugs when he died, with twice-a-day injections of morphine-related painkiller Demerol and doses of powerful narcotic Dilaudid.
He was also taking twice-daily jabs of painkiller Vistaril, anxiety drug Xanax, anti-depressants Prozac and Zoloft, plus anti-indigestion drug Prilosec.
Cops removed two dustbin bags-full of prescription drugs from the house.
But La Toya insisted vegetarian Jacko had told her he was on a six-month DETOX.
And the last time they'd met, at 60th wedding anniversary celebrations for their parents in a Beverly Hills curry house three weeks before his death, the singer seemed strong and healthy to his sister.
She said: "Michael was fit, happy and enjoyed every minute of it. Sure he was thin, but Michael was always thin. From my understanding, he was very healthy.
"When I arrived Michael was there standing by the door greeting people, and he said to me, 'You look fabulous.'
"It was a wonderful time. When he left we embraced each other and he said, 'Thanks for a nice time. We have to do this again in Vegas.'
"He went to the door, and as he got into the vehicle he looked back and waved goodbye. It's sad to think that was the last time I saw my baby brother."
La Toya claimed that he was then wiped out by the punishing rehearsal schedule for the London shows. In the last two days before his death, the Thriller star had performed a dress rehearsal and then a full day's run-through and strategy session. But La Toya insists that in reality Michael wanted to GIVE UP music.
"He really wanted to be a movie director," she said. "He was doing everything to make that happen. He had an idea do a horror film called Thriller. He designed the poster for it already.
"He didn't want to do 50 shows, he only wanted to do 10. But he was pushed. And Michael being Michael didn't want to let down his fans.
"But even his daughter Paris said, 'They worked Daddy too hard.' Somebody that fragile can't keep going on like that." La Toya revealed she is also mystified by the sacking of Michael's entire staff just HOURS after his death.
She said the family found out when they went back to the house at 11.30pm to claim the star's belongings. La Toya added: "We were told all the guys loyal to Michael had been fired. I couldn't work it out."
Finally La Toya revealed how the tragedy had drawn the Jacksons closer together.
"This has united the family," she said. "We're all in pain and suffering the loss of Michael. . . but we're also determined to get to the bottom of what happened to him.
"He was taken from us too soon. Michael didn't have to die."