Icon: Develop great self esteem to succeed
Posted: August 13, 2012 at 12:13 am
by Mahathir Haroun, reporters@theborneopost.com. Posted on August 13, 2012, Monday
HAPPY RAYA: Fadillah presenting a gift to one of the 350 recipients at the Ihsan Ramadan and Aidilfitri programme in Kuching on Saturday. Looking on at right is Zarif.
KUCHING: Being physically handicapped is not a drawback for Malaysian youth icon Zarif Affendi to achieve personal success.
For one, he is the proud owner of three Bachelor degrees in psychology, sociology and law.
Although he was born without any hands, he is currently the chief executive officer (CEO) of three companies!
Zarif said the key to achieving great success in life starts with having great self esteem.
He believes all individuals have their own strong points, and those who could tap into those strong points creatively could scale great heights.
Why is it that I can be successful like any normal person when I am born without two hands? What is important is that we must have that creative element to enable us to achieve our dreams, he said during a talk held in conjunction with the Ihsan Ramadan and Aidilfitri programme here on Saturday.
The function was officiated by Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Datuk Fadillah Yusof.
We must not give up easily. I was poked fun at when I was in primary school, secondary school and even in university, but those ordeals were never obstacles to me.
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Yoga Guru Leads Protest Against Indian Corruption
Posted: August 12, 2012 at 2:11 pm
A popular Indian yoga guru fasted for a fourth day Sunday and threatened to expand his anti-graft protest nationwide if the government doesn't act decisively to bring back billions of dollars of ill-gotten money that Indians allegedly have stashed abroad.
Baba Ramdev told thousands of cheering supporters at a sprawling fairground in the capital that he would announce an action plan on Monday to "intensify the protest across the country in the form of a people's revolt."
He asked his supporters to be ready to accept arrest, but urged them to be peaceful and shun violence.
"I will be the first person to go to jail and you follow me," he said.
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Ramdev and his supporters say they haven't eaten for three days to pressure the government to accept their anti-corruption demands, including the creation of a powerful ombudsman to check government officials, an independent Central Bureau of Investigation, and actions to prevent tax evasion and the illegal stashing of money in overseas banks.
On Thursday, the government said a committee was working on a draft of an ombudsman bill that would be submitted to Parliament next month. The finance ministry is in the process of tightening laws to curb illegal transfers of money abroad.
Ramdev started his protest less than a week after anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare halted a separate hunger strike that failed to attract widespread support. Hazare and his backers said they would give up agitating and join politics instead.
Crowds have dwindled at the site of Ramdev's fast over the past three days.
Millions of Indians tune in every day to watch Ramdev perform yoga exercises on his popular TV show. In the past few years he has used his popularity as a yoga guru to highlight his campaign against corruption.
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The Calvin Report: Kookaburras plunge the knife in
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Jason Lee held the most emotionally charged team meeting of his life yesterday morning. He could not contain his tears as he read out a message from a group of disadvantaged teenagers, who put an Olympic medal into its proper perspective.
Thirty children from the sink estates of Tower Hamlets, who have formed themselves into a group named the Fre Flyers, have been mentored by Lee and his GB men's hockey squad over the past two years.
"Thank you for sharing your lives and values with us" they wrote. "Thank you for teaching us about teamwork, respect, and never giving up. Thank you for staying together, and always striving to be the best."
No further team talk was required. Lee successfully lobbied officials to get the children tickets for the bronze medal match against Australia, whose 3-1 win lacked the traumatic impact of Thursday's 9-2 semi-final defeat by Holland.
Everyone dies a little when they lose at the sharp end of an Olympic tournament. Lee's men had a mere 44 hours to recover from that Dutch defeat, which appeared to unravel seven years' work.
No one knew better the challenge facing them than the man who ultimately inflicted further pain, Australian coach Ric Charlesworth.
He is the Renaissance Man of modern sport, having punctuated a stellar coaching career, in hockey, cricket and Australian Rules football, with spells as a politician and surgeon.
Charlesworth admitted: "I feel for the GB team. The interesting thing about coaching is that you have to trouble the comfortable, and comfort the troubled."
Charlesworth empathised with Lee's task. The GB squad, conditioned to understanding their responsibilities to one another, and the sport as a whole, had nowhere to hide.
"There was a lot of grieving, which we encouraged out into the open as quickly as possible," their performance director David Faulkner said. "We had to confront it, manage it, and change the mind set."
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Three-Point Sensation Anthony Cooper Joins SMC Basketball Coaching Team
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By Sophia Villegas
Former college basketball three-point sensation Anthony Cooper has been named the new Corsairs Assistant Coach for the Santa Monica College Mens Basketball team this fall.
I am excited to learn from Coach Jerome Jenkins, Cooper said. He has a wealth of knowledge and is highly respected in the basketball community. Hes been successful on the court at the JC and Division 1 level, but what Ive noticed most is how great of a motivator and mentor he is. The kids really respond to him on and off the court. The way he inspires young men to do better in life is what every coach aspires to do.
Before starting his coaching career, Cooper learned the game of basketball as a point-guard for Merrill F. West High School in the Bay area. During his junior year, he led his team to the league championship and earned First-Team All League honors in 1995 and 1996. Cooper was also inducted to the Tri-Valley Scholastic Black Sports Hall of Fame in 1996 for his tremendous skills on the basketball court.
In 1997, he went on to attend Orange Coast Community College where he continued to play and dominated from three-point range finishing third over all in the schools history for three-pointers made. He also set an Orange County record for three-pointers made in a game against Saddleback College shooting 10 for 13 from behind the arc.
After his success at Orange Coast, Cooper transferred to California State University-Hayward in 2001, where he majored in Communications and kept playing basketball. His dominance behind the three-point line prevailed as he set a Cal Pac record for the highest single-season three-point percentage holder at 57 percent adding to his mantel of trophies earned in college.
Following his college basketball days, Cooper decided to step away from basketball and used his communications degree he earned at Cal State to land a job in TV production working for CBS, Fox, E!, and Americas Funniest Home Videos.
For the next 10 years Coopers television career grew, but he found himself missing the game of basketball.
He still played regularly and caught himself always talking about it amongst his peers and watching highlights.
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Games and life are all a matter of confidence (Frances Coleman)
Posted: at 1:12 pm
I was 20 when I heard the words: All it takes is a little confidence. I was a college girl, sitting in a theater watching The Sting.
I heard the dialogue, but missed the point.
Now, years later, Ive spent two weeks watching other girls tiny gymnasts, beautiful swimmers and thrilling judo experts twisting, splashing and pounding their way to gold.
Throughout the 2012 Summer Olympics, which end today, newscasters have spoken about the fruit of Title IX and the role of women in sports.
Every twist of Gabby Douglas body has been analyzed, and the descriptions of the graceful strokes of Missy Franklin have lasted far longer than the 2 minutes and 4.06 seconds she took to set a world record.
Sure, its all about the training, the science and the art of coaching these youngsters to their amazing physical feats. While we Americans have rejected the Chinese model of locking athletes away in authoritarian sports camps, our nations method of producing champions is demonstrably successful.
The key to the success these young American women and young men have achieved in London is more than determination, strength, skill and luck. It also consists of a gift that surpasses any other gift one person can give to another.
Confidence or the lack of it is something that expresses itself when we compare ourselves to others.
I lacked confidence when I was a young woman because I never felt as smart as my siblings, as pretty as my classmates or as popular as the cheerleaders who were the queens of my small-town Texas high school.
My comparisons changed a little when I received a gift. My English teacher held up something I had done as an example of good writing. You may disagree with her now, but I was the happiest thing in bell-bottom pants and platform shoes that day. She had given me confidence.
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