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BERNAMA KELUARAN FEBRUARI 1981 Muka o 2 3 Pegawai Berita II I poh's new offjc..e Bolasepok 4 Government says so Journal ism 6 Selamot bertugos 7 Potpourri 8 The loans' hypothesis 9 Of time and men in the HQ U lsi Koto 12 For the romantic 13 Bernamo puzzle 15 Semutalk Pengarang: Mohd. Jamil Abdullah Penolong kepoda RichC'ird Thean I Sobrey Jaafar Pemberito bulan ini: Sukardi Abdul Gha'ny Penyelaras: Nori jah Mohd. Noor

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Page 1: BERNAMAinfolib.bernama.com/equip-bernama/images/buletin/beritabernama1981.pdf · menaikkan pangkat wartawan kepada NE II selepos ini tanpa ... I will get the invitations out the moment

BERNAMA

KELUARAN FEBRUARI 1981

Muka

o 2

3

Pegawai Berita II

Ipohs new offjce

Bolasepok

4 Government says so Journal ism

6 Selamot bertugos

7 Potpourri

8 The loans hypothesis

9 Of time and men in the HQ

U lsi Koto

12 For the romantic

13 Bernamo puzzle

15 Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepoda Pen~rang RichCird Thean I

Sobrey Jaafar Pemberito bulan ini Sukardi Abdul Ghany

Penyelaras Nori jah Mohd Noor

PEGAWAI BERITA II

Dalam Berita Bernama keluaran lalu t elah disiarkan nama mereka yang mendapat kenaikan pangkat ke Pegawai Berita II Berikutan ialah sedikit penjelasan berkenaan dengannya

Wawancara Wakil Berita Bernama (WBB) dengan Pemangku Pengurus Besar (PPB) Encik Yusuf Bador

WBB Adakah apa1Jpa komen yang hendak Encik Yusof berikan tentang kenaikan pangkat ke Pegawai Berita II bagi 13 orang petugas BERNAMA baru-baru ini

PPB Tindakan menaikkan pangkat wartawan kepada NE II barushybaru ini merupakan one of my most pleasant duties sebagai Pemangku Pengurus Besar dan ini soya harapkan dapot memberikan semangat baru kepoda semua petugas terutama sekali mereka yang terlibat Ini soya harap dapot dijadikan salah satu daripada asas Jalam usaha pemulihan semula semangat kerja dalam pertubuhan ini

WBB Adakah apo1Jpo pengorbanan yang terpoksa dibuat oleh BERNAMA untuk memastikan kesemua mereka ini dinaikkan pangkat

PPB Pengorbanan yang kita buat adalah terlalu kecil untuk d isebutkan dalam ruangan ini Soya fikir kesempatan yang digunakan amatlah besar ertinya kepada mereka yang telah menunjukkan taat setia kepoda BERNAMA Soya harap philosophy ini akan d iteruskan di masa hadapon

WBB Apakah criteria yang utama yang digunakan dalam memilih calun

PPB Criteria yang d iutamakan dalam pemil ihan ialah kecekapon dan lama berkhidmat dengan BERNAMA

WBB

PPB

WBB

PPB

WWB

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Ada di antara petugas-petugas yang mengatakan bahawa kenaikan pangkat ini merupakan satu perkara yang boleh dianggap waiting to be taken dan BERNANA hanya perlu ask for it and you will get it Adakah ini benar

Dari surat yang diteriroo dari JPA kelulusan yang diberi ialah bagi kati ini saja Pengurusan tidak dibolehkan menaikkan pangkat wartawan kepada NE II selepos ini tanpa diluluskan oleh JPA Oleh itu anggapan setengah petugas seperti yang disebutkan adalah tidak benar Walau bagaimanupun ini tidaklah berarti yang peluang yang samo tidak lagi akan wujud Kalau keadaan mendesak saya percaya kita boleh buot rayuan sekal i logi Soya harap mereka yang tidak berjaya janganlah putus asa Bersabarlah dahuluI

Adakah usaha mendapatkan perlonggaran kenaikkon pangkat ini semata-mata merupakan usaha pihak pentadbiran BERNAMA soja Maksud saya adakah Kesatuan Kaki~ ngan BERNANA juga memainkan peranannya bersamo dengan pihak pentadbiran untlJk mendapatkan kelonggaron ini

Kejayaan mendapatkan kelonggaran in diperolehi dengan kerjasama semua pihak Kesatuan juga memainkan peranannya yang tersend iri

Biiakah perlonggarans eumparna in akan diperjuangkan lagn oleh BERNAMA

Soya tidak dapot memberi jangka waktu yang tegas Ini terpulang kepada perkemoongan BERNANA sendiri Perugas juga pedu menuniukkan kesanggupan menerima ronggungjawab menghasikan perkembongan ini Saya percaya dengan kerjasama semua pihak petugos tidok perlu menunggu lamo InsyaAllah I

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bull IPOHS NEW OFFICE -~------ I

Few in Bernamo out~ide Ipoh are oware that we have moved to new premises

Unless I am wrong Ipoh is the first and so far the only bureau or state office in Peninsular Malaysia tQQcupy Bernama-owned premises It is sufficient for me to say only that the premises are more spacious Gnd certainly for more comfortable than our old abode at the Good Luck If any of you readers should be passing through Ipoh (few rryenlke our town theirdestination ~top by for a drink the Subs Desk is not the only section that owns an electric kettie For your information Salleh (if you dont know him forget about the drink) makes excellent Nescafe (white) (I am the only chop around who likes his Neseafe black) Ooi (not Yeow Hong) makes therapeutic Chinese tea (ugh I) which he drinks to reduce cholesterol content in his blood (This guy (lnts to live to 100) If Noorlian or Mahrus are around when you call there will be Danish butter cookies with your Nescafe or tea And of course a round of Carroms or two between sips Anyone of us can take on anyone of you You might want to know that all and sundry (from our newspaper boy to at least one Exeo member) have been pressing us to hold a house warming II

Fair enough our top chaps in KL say

I will get the invitations out the moment KL sends us our signboard Logo

You see about the only item missing at our new premises is the signboard ~-~ TJL

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BOLASEPAK

Nama mereka berdua disebut-sebutkan oleh kesemua pemain posukan bolasepok Bernama akhir-okhir ini Namonya bukanlah Rahim G hazal i penjogo gol hendalon kito atau Wahid Mohamed Som salah seorong penyerong utomo kito bull Bukan juga noma Rachmann Nordin Timbalon Pengurus Posukon seloku Jurulotih otou pun Boki Ghani yang bonyak koli menjodi pengodil untuk permainon persohaboton

Noma-noma itu ioloh Osmon Toib don Zoiloni Suloiman Tunggu sebentor Mereka tidok mewokili Bernomo dolam posukon bolosepok Tetopi mere teloh menghulurkon sumbongon untuk melengkopkon fXl6ukon kito dengan a otshyolot sukan yang bermutu Soudoro Osmon teloh membelikon sotu set jersey jenis Adidos sementoro Soudoro Zoilcni pula sebiji bola jenis World CupshyTango soma seperti yang diguno dolom perlowonon Piolo Dunio di Argentino dulu

Kesemua pegowoi don pemain posukon merakomkon ribuon terimo kosih kepoda keduo-duo penyokong kuot bolosepok ini Dengar khobor mereko menggunakan credit card untuk membeli olat-olat tersebut Adokoh peluang menghorapkon tindakan seumpomanyo dori pemegang credit cord yang loin - bukon untuk bolasepok soja tetopi sukon-sukon lain

Sokongan Saudara Osmon dan Soudaro Zai lani ini dihorap okon dapot mendorong prsukan kito mencapoi kejoyoon dolom perlowonon-perlawonon seterusnyo Tidoklah okan kito tewas dengon jurang joringon gol yang begitu teruk sekoli bullbullbullbull

Sebagoi usoha mengurangkon jurang jaringan gol ontora pasukon Iowan don posukon komi posukon kito teloh tewos (kalah juga) di tongon Posukan FampN 1-4 minggu lolu

Podo 31 Januori komi tewos 0-3 dengan Pasukon Pemuda Umno Temerloh dolom sotu perlowanon persahobotan Podo hori kemudionnya komi seri 2-2 dengan Posukan Kementerion Kesihaton dalom perlowonon Iigo Wilayah Persekutuan

Semuo pegawoi dan pemain posukon komi mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Kong Hee Fott Choy kepado rokon-rakan yang meroyakon Tohun Boru Cino - Ggtvind bag pihok para pemoin

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GOVERNMENT SAYS SO JOURNALISM

In an article in The Far Eastern Economic Review some months ago a writer said Ma laysian journa Iists are not playing their roles They fai I to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people In other words they do not really become the communicators who deliver messages both to and from the government

To most of us these remarks are hard to stomach How can they say such things Dont we report on what is being done by the government to devop the country and the people Didnt we report on the $2377 bil budget for 1981 Didnt we give prominence the announcement by the PM on the $577 million share transfer to bumiputra We reflect sharply

What kind of stories then should we report to qualify us as having played our roles

Fellow journalists journalism is (] two-way traffic we are the communicators of the government and the people This is what I derived from reading The Professional Journalist from the library and from a weeks workshop I attended last month

From what I gathered a journalist (or reporter) does not only report what the government says or the figures given There is more to it A journalist also reports what the people say the reactions of the people towards an issue the pros and cons their hopes their aspirations and their frustrations In this respect the famous Kennedy quotation about Americans not to ask what America could to them and so on most often than not does not apply in Journa Iism Otherwise Carter wou Id not have been toppled by Reagen

In other words a journalist should humanise most of his or her stories Put human interest as much as possible in the1m especially in the intros to make the stories more interesting captivating and readable

After a news are read by people So we have to sell something that they buy not something the government wants all the time Only in government says so journalism do you write whatever the ministeroffjcial says and your work is fi nis hed bull

The remarks by the foreign journalists about us not playing our role is valid in view of our present performance

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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Grant + Loan Groan

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o Mother what do you drive

- a mini 850

- no You drive me crazy

bull I - Father why does a doctor call a sick man a patIent

- because he is not well

- no Because he has to wa it two hours 4to se~ the doctor

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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We talk of killing timeas if i~ isnt time thats killing us bull

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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_5 Love means never having to say J bull 1J

7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

) Fresh

18 When in this state you need pills

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I The green light was given to the plan------ shy

2 He worked hard to become successful He

3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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Smart alec a year when I get to do only one or two stories a day Iv

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

from someti mes I

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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PEGAWAI BERITA II

Dalam Berita Bernama keluaran lalu t elah disiarkan nama mereka yang mendapat kenaikan pangkat ke Pegawai Berita II Berikutan ialah sedikit penjelasan berkenaan dengannya

Wawancara Wakil Berita Bernama (WBB) dengan Pemangku Pengurus Besar (PPB) Encik Yusuf Bador

WBB Adakah apa1Jpa komen yang hendak Encik Yusof berikan tentang kenaikan pangkat ke Pegawai Berita II bagi 13 orang petugas BERNAMA baru-baru ini

PPB Tindakan menaikkan pangkat wartawan kepada NE II barushybaru ini merupakan one of my most pleasant duties sebagai Pemangku Pengurus Besar dan ini soya harapkan dapot memberikan semangat baru kepoda semua petugas terutama sekali mereka yang terlibat Ini soya harap dapot dijadikan salah satu daripada asas Jalam usaha pemulihan semula semangat kerja dalam pertubuhan ini

WBB Adakah apo1Jpo pengorbanan yang terpoksa dibuat oleh BERNAMA untuk memastikan kesemua mereka ini dinaikkan pangkat

PPB Pengorbanan yang kita buat adalah terlalu kecil untuk d isebutkan dalam ruangan ini Soya fikir kesempatan yang digunakan amatlah besar ertinya kepada mereka yang telah menunjukkan taat setia kepoda BERNAMA Soya harap philosophy ini akan d iteruskan di masa hadapon

WBB Apakah criteria yang utama yang digunakan dalam memilih calun

PPB Criteria yang d iutamakan dalam pemil ihan ialah kecekapon dan lama berkhidmat dengan BERNAMA

WBB

PPB

WBB

PPB

WWB

PPB

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Ada di antara petugas-petugas yang mengatakan bahawa kenaikan pangkat ini merupakan satu perkara yang boleh dianggap waiting to be taken dan BERNANA hanya perlu ask for it and you will get it Adakah ini benar

Dari surat yang diteriroo dari JPA kelulusan yang diberi ialah bagi kati ini saja Pengurusan tidak dibolehkan menaikkan pangkat wartawan kepada NE II selepos ini tanpa diluluskan oleh JPA Oleh itu anggapan setengah petugas seperti yang disebutkan adalah tidak benar Walau bagaimanupun ini tidaklah berarti yang peluang yang samo tidak lagi akan wujud Kalau keadaan mendesak saya percaya kita boleh buot rayuan sekal i logi Soya harap mereka yang tidak berjaya janganlah putus asa Bersabarlah dahuluI

Adakah usaha mendapatkan perlonggaran kenaikkon pangkat ini semata-mata merupakan usaha pihak pentadbiran BERNAMA soja Maksud saya adakah Kesatuan Kaki~ ngan BERNANA juga memainkan peranannya bersamo dengan pihak pentadbiran untlJk mendapatkan kelonggaron ini

Kejayaan mendapatkan kelonggaran in diperolehi dengan kerjasama semua pihak Kesatuan juga memainkan peranannya yang tersend iri

Biiakah perlonggarans eumparna in akan diperjuangkan lagn oleh BERNAMA

Soya tidak dapot memberi jangka waktu yang tegas Ini terpulang kepada perkemoongan BERNANA sendiri Perugas juga pedu menuniukkan kesanggupan menerima ronggungjawab menghasikan perkembongan ini Saya percaya dengan kerjasama semua pihak petugos tidok perlu menunggu lamo InsyaAllah I

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bull IPOHS NEW OFFICE -~------ I

Few in Bernamo out~ide Ipoh are oware that we have moved to new premises

Unless I am wrong Ipoh is the first and so far the only bureau or state office in Peninsular Malaysia tQQcupy Bernama-owned premises It is sufficient for me to say only that the premises are more spacious Gnd certainly for more comfortable than our old abode at the Good Luck If any of you readers should be passing through Ipoh (few rryenlke our town theirdestination ~top by for a drink the Subs Desk is not the only section that owns an electric kettie For your information Salleh (if you dont know him forget about the drink) makes excellent Nescafe (white) (I am the only chop around who likes his Neseafe black) Ooi (not Yeow Hong) makes therapeutic Chinese tea (ugh I) which he drinks to reduce cholesterol content in his blood (This guy (lnts to live to 100) If Noorlian or Mahrus are around when you call there will be Danish butter cookies with your Nescafe or tea And of course a round of Carroms or two between sips Anyone of us can take on anyone of you You might want to know that all and sundry (from our newspaper boy to at least one Exeo member) have been pressing us to hold a house warming II

Fair enough our top chaps in KL say

I will get the invitations out the moment KL sends us our signboard Logo

You see about the only item missing at our new premises is the signboard ~-~ TJL

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BOLASEPAK

Nama mereka berdua disebut-sebutkan oleh kesemua pemain posukan bolasepok Bernama akhir-okhir ini Namonya bukanlah Rahim G hazal i penjogo gol hendalon kito atau Wahid Mohamed Som salah seorong penyerong utomo kito bull Bukan juga noma Rachmann Nordin Timbalon Pengurus Posukon seloku Jurulotih otou pun Boki Ghani yang bonyak koli menjodi pengodil untuk permainon persohaboton

Noma-noma itu ioloh Osmon Toib don Zoiloni Suloiman Tunggu sebentor Mereka tidok mewokili Bernomo dolam posukon bolosepok Tetopi mere teloh menghulurkon sumbongon untuk melengkopkon fXl6ukon kito dengan a otshyolot sukan yang bermutu Soudoro Osmon teloh membelikon sotu set jersey jenis Adidos sementoro Soudoro Zoilcni pula sebiji bola jenis World CupshyTango soma seperti yang diguno dolom perlowonon Piolo Dunio di Argentino dulu

Kesemua pegowoi don pemain posukon merakomkon ribuon terimo kosih kepoda keduo-duo penyokong kuot bolosepok ini Dengar khobor mereko menggunakan credit card untuk membeli olat-olat tersebut Adokoh peluang menghorapkon tindakan seumpomanyo dori pemegang credit cord yang loin - bukon untuk bolasepok soja tetopi sukon-sukon lain

Sokongan Saudara Osmon dan Soudaro Zai lani ini dihorap okon dapot mendorong prsukan kito mencapoi kejoyoon dolom perlowonon-perlawonon seterusnyo Tidoklah okan kito tewas dengon jurang joringon gol yang begitu teruk sekoli bullbullbullbull

Sebagoi usoha mengurangkon jurang jaringan gol ontora pasukon Iowan don posukon komi posukon kito teloh tewos (kalah juga) di tongon Posukan FampN 1-4 minggu lolu

Podo 31 Januori komi tewos 0-3 dengan Pasukon Pemuda Umno Temerloh dolom sotu perlowanon persahobotan Podo hori kemudionnya komi seri 2-2 dengan Posukan Kementerion Kesihaton dalom perlowonon Iigo Wilayah Persekutuan

Semuo pegawoi dan pemain posukon komi mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Kong Hee Fott Choy kepado rokon-rakan yang meroyakon Tohun Boru Cino - Ggtvind bag pihok para pemoin

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GOVERNMENT SAYS SO JOURNALISM

In an article in The Far Eastern Economic Review some months ago a writer said Ma laysian journa Iists are not playing their roles They fai I to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people In other words they do not really become the communicators who deliver messages both to and from the government

To most of us these remarks are hard to stomach How can they say such things Dont we report on what is being done by the government to devop the country and the people Didnt we report on the $2377 bil budget for 1981 Didnt we give prominence the announcement by the PM on the $577 million share transfer to bumiputra We reflect sharply

What kind of stories then should we report to qualify us as having played our roles

Fellow journalists journalism is (] two-way traffic we are the communicators of the government and the people This is what I derived from reading The Professional Journalist from the library and from a weeks workshop I attended last month

From what I gathered a journalist (or reporter) does not only report what the government says or the figures given There is more to it A journalist also reports what the people say the reactions of the people towards an issue the pros and cons their hopes their aspirations and their frustrations In this respect the famous Kennedy quotation about Americans not to ask what America could to them and so on most often than not does not apply in Journa Iism Otherwise Carter wou Id not have been toppled by Reagen

In other words a journalist should humanise most of his or her stories Put human interest as much as possible in the1m especially in the intros to make the stories more interesting captivating and readable

After a news are read by people So we have to sell something that they buy not something the government wants all the time Only in government says so journalism do you write whatever the ministeroffjcial says and your work is fi nis hed bull

The remarks by the foreign journalists about us not playing our role is valid in view of our present performance

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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o Mother what do you drive

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- because he is not well

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

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17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

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Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

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S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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8 Court proceed ings

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

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Ada di antara petugas-petugas yang mengatakan bahawa kenaikan pangkat ini merupakan satu perkara yang boleh dianggap waiting to be taken dan BERNANA hanya perlu ask for it and you will get it Adakah ini benar

Dari surat yang diteriroo dari JPA kelulusan yang diberi ialah bagi kati ini saja Pengurusan tidak dibolehkan menaikkan pangkat wartawan kepada NE II selepos ini tanpa diluluskan oleh JPA Oleh itu anggapan setengah petugas seperti yang disebutkan adalah tidak benar Walau bagaimanupun ini tidaklah berarti yang peluang yang samo tidak lagi akan wujud Kalau keadaan mendesak saya percaya kita boleh buot rayuan sekal i logi Soya harap mereka yang tidak berjaya janganlah putus asa Bersabarlah dahuluI

Adakah usaha mendapatkan perlonggaran kenaikkon pangkat ini semata-mata merupakan usaha pihak pentadbiran BERNAMA soja Maksud saya adakah Kesatuan Kaki~ ngan BERNANA juga memainkan peranannya bersamo dengan pihak pentadbiran untlJk mendapatkan kelonggaron ini

Kejayaan mendapatkan kelonggaran in diperolehi dengan kerjasama semua pihak Kesatuan juga memainkan peranannya yang tersend iri

Biiakah perlonggarans eumparna in akan diperjuangkan lagn oleh BERNAMA

Soya tidak dapot memberi jangka waktu yang tegas Ini terpulang kepada perkemoongan BERNANA sendiri Perugas juga pedu menuniukkan kesanggupan menerima ronggungjawab menghasikan perkembongan ini Saya percaya dengan kerjasama semua pihak petugos tidok perlu menunggu lamo InsyaAllah I

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Few in Bernamo out~ide Ipoh are oware that we have moved to new premises

Unless I am wrong Ipoh is the first and so far the only bureau or state office in Peninsular Malaysia tQQcupy Bernama-owned premises It is sufficient for me to say only that the premises are more spacious Gnd certainly for more comfortable than our old abode at the Good Luck If any of you readers should be passing through Ipoh (few rryenlke our town theirdestination ~top by for a drink the Subs Desk is not the only section that owns an electric kettie For your information Salleh (if you dont know him forget about the drink) makes excellent Nescafe (white) (I am the only chop around who likes his Neseafe black) Ooi (not Yeow Hong) makes therapeutic Chinese tea (ugh I) which he drinks to reduce cholesterol content in his blood (This guy (lnts to live to 100) If Noorlian or Mahrus are around when you call there will be Danish butter cookies with your Nescafe or tea And of course a round of Carroms or two between sips Anyone of us can take on anyone of you You might want to know that all and sundry (from our newspaper boy to at least one Exeo member) have been pressing us to hold a house warming II

Fair enough our top chaps in KL say

I will get the invitations out the moment KL sends us our signboard Logo

You see about the only item missing at our new premises is the signboard ~-~ TJL

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BOLASEPAK

Nama mereka berdua disebut-sebutkan oleh kesemua pemain posukan bolasepok Bernama akhir-okhir ini Namonya bukanlah Rahim G hazal i penjogo gol hendalon kito atau Wahid Mohamed Som salah seorong penyerong utomo kito bull Bukan juga noma Rachmann Nordin Timbalon Pengurus Posukon seloku Jurulotih otou pun Boki Ghani yang bonyak koli menjodi pengodil untuk permainon persohaboton

Noma-noma itu ioloh Osmon Toib don Zoiloni Suloiman Tunggu sebentor Mereka tidok mewokili Bernomo dolam posukon bolosepok Tetopi mere teloh menghulurkon sumbongon untuk melengkopkon fXl6ukon kito dengan a otshyolot sukan yang bermutu Soudoro Osmon teloh membelikon sotu set jersey jenis Adidos sementoro Soudoro Zoilcni pula sebiji bola jenis World CupshyTango soma seperti yang diguno dolom perlowonon Piolo Dunio di Argentino dulu

Kesemua pegowoi don pemain posukon merakomkon ribuon terimo kosih kepoda keduo-duo penyokong kuot bolosepok ini Dengar khobor mereko menggunakan credit card untuk membeli olat-olat tersebut Adokoh peluang menghorapkon tindakan seumpomanyo dori pemegang credit cord yang loin - bukon untuk bolasepok soja tetopi sukon-sukon lain

Sokongan Saudara Osmon dan Soudaro Zai lani ini dihorap okon dapot mendorong prsukan kito mencapoi kejoyoon dolom perlowonon-perlawonon seterusnyo Tidoklah okan kito tewas dengon jurang joringon gol yang begitu teruk sekoli bullbullbullbull

Sebagoi usoha mengurangkon jurang jaringan gol ontora pasukon Iowan don posukon komi posukon kito teloh tewos (kalah juga) di tongon Posukan FampN 1-4 minggu lolu

Podo 31 Januori komi tewos 0-3 dengan Pasukon Pemuda Umno Temerloh dolom sotu perlowanon persahobotan Podo hori kemudionnya komi seri 2-2 dengan Posukan Kementerion Kesihaton dalom perlowonon Iigo Wilayah Persekutuan

Semuo pegawoi dan pemain posukon komi mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Kong Hee Fott Choy kepado rokon-rakan yang meroyakon Tohun Boru Cino - Ggtvind bag pihok para pemoin

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GOVERNMENT SAYS SO JOURNALISM

In an article in The Far Eastern Economic Review some months ago a writer said Ma laysian journa Iists are not playing their roles They fai I to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people In other words they do not really become the communicators who deliver messages both to and from the government

To most of us these remarks are hard to stomach How can they say such things Dont we report on what is being done by the government to devop the country and the people Didnt we report on the $2377 bil budget for 1981 Didnt we give prominence the announcement by the PM on the $577 million share transfer to bumiputra We reflect sharply

What kind of stories then should we report to qualify us as having played our roles

Fellow journalists journalism is (] two-way traffic we are the communicators of the government and the people This is what I derived from reading The Professional Journalist from the library and from a weeks workshop I attended last month

From what I gathered a journalist (or reporter) does not only report what the government says or the figures given There is more to it A journalist also reports what the people say the reactions of the people towards an issue the pros and cons their hopes their aspirations and their frustrations In this respect the famous Kennedy quotation about Americans not to ask what America could to them and so on most often than not does not apply in Journa Iism Otherwise Carter wou Id not have been toppled by Reagen

In other words a journalist should humanise most of his or her stories Put human interest as much as possible in the1m especially in the intros to make the stories more interesting captivating and readable

After a news are read by people So we have to sell something that they buy not something the government wants all the time Only in government says so journalism do you write whatever the ministeroffjcial says and your work is fi nis hed bull

The remarks by the foreign journalists about us not playing our role is valid in view of our present performance

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

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17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

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Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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bull IPOHS NEW OFFICE -~------ I

Few in Bernamo out~ide Ipoh are oware that we have moved to new premises

Unless I am wrong Ipoh is the first and so far the only bureau or state office in Peninsular Malaysia tQQcupy Bernama-owned premises It is sufficient for me to say only that the premises are more spacious Gnd certainly for more comfortable than our old abode at the Good Luck If any of you readers should be passing through Ipoh (few rryenlke our town theirdestination ~top by for a drink the Subs Desk is not the only section that owns an electric kettie For your information Salleh (if you dont know him forget about the drink) makes excellent Nescafe (white) (I am the only chop around who likes his Neseafe black) Ooi (not Yeow Hong) makes therapeutic Chinese tea (ugh I) which he drinks to reduce cholesterol content in his blood (This guy (lnts to live to 100) If Noorlian or Mahrus are around when you call there will be Danish butter cookies with your Nescafe or tea And of course a round of Carroms or two between sips Anyone of us can take on anyone of you You might want to know that all and sundry (from our newspaper boy to at least one Exeo member) have been pressing us to hold a house warming II

Fair enough our top chaps in KL say

I will get the invitations out the moment KL sends us our signboard Logo

You see about the only item missing at our new premises is the signboard ~-~ TJL

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BOLASEPAK

Nama mereka berdua disebut-sebutkan oleh kesemua pemain posukan bolasepok Bernama akhir-okhir ini Namonya bukanlah Rahim G hazal i penjogo gol hendalon kito atau Wahid Mohamed Som salah seorong penyerong utomo kito bull Bukan juga noma Rachmann Nordin Timbalon Pengurus Posukon seloku Jurulotih otou pun Boki Ghani yang bonyak koli menjodi pengodil untuk permainon persohaboton

Noma-noma itu ioloh Osmon Toib don Zoiloni Suloiman Tunggu sebentor Mereka tidok mewokili Bernomo dolam posukon bolosepok Tetopi mere teloh menghulurkon sumbongon untuk melengkopkon fXl6ukon kito dengan a otshyolot sukan yang bermutu Soudoro Osmon teloh membelikon sotu set jersey jenis Adidos sementoro Soudoro Zoilcni pula sebiji bola jenis World CupshyTango soma seperti yang diguno dolom perlowonon Piolo Dunio di Argentino dulu

Kesemua pegowoi don pemain posukon merakomkon ribuon terimo kosih kepoda keduo-duo penyokong kuot bolosepok ini Dengar khobor mereko menggunakan credit card untuk membeli olat-olat tersebut Adokoh peluang menghorapkon tindakan seumpomanyo dori pemegang credit cord yang loin - bukon untuk bolasepok soja tetopi sukon-sukon lain

Sokongan Saudara Osmon dan Soudaro Zai lani ini dihorap okon dapot mendorong prsukan kito mencapoi kejoyoon dolom perlowonon-perlawonon seterusnyo Tidoklah okan kito tewas dengon jurang joringon gol yang begitu teruk sekoli bullbullbullbull

Sebagoi usoha mengurangkon jurang jaringan gol ontora pasukon Iowan don posukon komi posukon kito teloh tewos (kalah juga) di tongon Posukan FampN 1-4 minggu lolu

Podo 31 Januori komi tewos 0-3 dengan Pasukon Pemuda Umno Temerloh dolom sotu perlowanon persahobotan Podo hori kemudionnya komi seri 2-2 dengan Posukan Kementerion Kesihaton dalom perlowonon Iigo Wilayah Persekutuan

Semuo pegawoi dan pemain posukon komi mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Kong Hee Fott Choy kepado rokon-rakan yang meroyakon Tohun Boru Cino - Ggtvind bag pihok para pemoin

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GOVERNMENT SAYS SO JOURNALISM

In an article in The Far Eastern Economic Review some months ago a writer said Ma laysian journa Iists are not playing their roles They fai I to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people In other words they do not really become the communicators who deliver messages both to and from the government

To most of us these remarks are hard to stomach How can they say such things Dont we report on what is being done by the government to devop the country and the people Didnt we report on the $2377 bil budget for 1981 Didnt we give prominence the announcement by the PM on the $577 million share transfer to bumiputra We reflect sharply

What kind of stories then should we report to qualify us as having played our roles

Fellow journalists journalism is (] two-way traffic we are the communicators of the government and the people This is what I derived from reading The Professional Journalist from the library and from a weeks workshop I attended last month

From what I gathered a journalist (or reporter) does not only report what the government says or the figures given There is more to it A journalist also reports what the people say the reactions of the people towards an issue the pros and cons their hopes their aspirations and their frustrations In this respect the famous Kennedy quotation about Americans not to ask what America could to them and so on most often than not does not apply in Journa Iism Otherwise Carter wou Id not have been toppled by Reagen

In other words a journalist should humanise most of his or her stories Put human interest as much as possible in the1m especially in the intros to make the stories more interesting captivating and readable

After a news are read by people So we have to sell something that they buy not something the government wants all the time Only in government says so journalism do you write whatever the ministeroffjcial says and your work is fi nis hed bull

The remarks by the foreign journalists about us not playing our role is valid in view of our present performance

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

J

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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o Mother what do you drive

- a mini 850

- no You drive me crazy

bull I - Father why does a doctor call a sick man a patIent

- because he is not well

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

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18 When in this state you need pills

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2 He worked hard to become successful He

3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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POTPOURRI

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Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

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Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

13 Officer-in-chorGe

15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

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Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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BOLASEPAK

Nama mereka berdua disebut-sebutkan oleh kesemua pemain posukan bolasepok Bernama akhir-okhir ini Namonya bukanlah Rahim G hazal i penjogo gol hendalon kito atau Wahid Mohamed Som salah seorong penyerong utomo kito bull Bukan juga noma Rachmann Nordin Timbalon Pengurus Posukon seloku Jurulotih otou pun Boki Ghani yang bonyak koli menjodi pengodil untuk permainon persohaboton

Noma-noma itu ioloh Osmon Toib don Zoiloni Suloiman Tunggu sebentor Mereka tidok mewokili Bernomo dolam posukon bolosepok Tetopi mere teloh menghulurkon sumbongon untuk melengkopkon fXl6ukon kito dengan a otshyolot sukan yang bermutu Soudoro Osmon teloh membelikon sotu set jersey jenis Adidos sementoro Soudoro Zoilcni pula sebiji bola jenis World CupshyTango soma seperti yang diguno dolom perlowonon Piolo Dunio di Argentino dulu

Kesemua pegowoi don pemain posukon merakomkon ribuon terimo kosih kepoda keduo-duo penyokong kuot bolosepok ini Dengar khobor mereko menggunakan credit card untuk membeli olat-olat tersebut Adokoh peluang menghorapkon tindakan seumpomanyo dori pemegang credit cord yang loin - bukon untuk bolasepok soja tetopi sukon-sukon lain

Sokongan Saudara Osmon dan Soudaro Zai lani ini dihorap okon dapot mendorong prsukan kito mencapoi kejoyoon dolom perlowonon-perlawonon seterusnyo Tidoklah okan kito tewas dengon jurang joringon gol yang begitu teruk sekoli bullbullbullbull

Sebagoi usoha mengurangkon jurang jaringan gol ontora pasukon Iowan don posukon komi posukon kito teloh tewos (kalah juga) di tongon Posukan FampN 1-4 minggu lolu

Podo 31 Januori komi tewos 0-3 dengan Pasukon Pemuda Umno Temerloh dolom sotu perlowanon persahobotan Podo hori kemudionnya komi seri 2-2 dengan Posukan Kementerion Kesihaton dalom perlowonon Iigo Wilayah Persekutuan

Semuo pegawoi dan pemain posukon komi mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Kong Hee Fott Choy kepado rokon-rakan yang meroyakon Tohun Boru Cino - Ggtvind bag pihok para pemoin

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GOVERNMENT SAYS SO JOURNALISM

In an article in The Far Eastern Economic Review some months ago a writer said Ma laysian journa Iists are not playing their roles They fai I to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people In other words they do not really become the communicators who deliver messages both to and from the government

To most of us these remarks are hard to stomach How can they say such things Dont we report on what is being done by the government to devop the country and the people Didnt we report on the $2377 bil budget for 1981 Didnt we give prominence the announcement by the PM on the $577 million share transfer to bumiputra We reflect sharply

What kind of stories then should we report to qualify us as having played our roles

Fellow journalists journalism is (] two-way traffic we are the communicators of the government and the people This is what I derived from reading The Professional Journalist from the library and from a weeks workshop I attended last month

From what I gathered a journalist (or reporter) does not only report what the government says or the figures given There is more to it A journalist also reports what the people say the reactions of the people towards an issue the pros and cons their hopes their aspirations and their frustrations In this respect the famous Kennedy quotation about Americans not to ask what America could to them and so on most often than not does not apply in Journa Iism Otherwise Carter wou Id not have been toppled by Reagen

In other words a journalist should humanise most of his or her stories Put human interest as much as possible in the1m especially in the intros to make the stories more interesting captivating and readable

After a news are read by people So we have to sell something that they buy not something the government wants all the time Only in government says so journalism do you write whatever the ministeroffjcial says and your work is fi nis hed bull

The remarks by the foreign journalists about us not playing our role is valid in view of our present performance

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

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Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

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Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

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19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

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Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

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S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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GOVERNMENT SAYS SO JOURNALISM

In an article in The Far Eastern Economic Review some months ago a writer said Ma laysian journa Iists are not playing their roles They fai I to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people In other words they do not really become the communicators who deliver messages both to and from the government

To most of us these remarks are hard to stomach How can they say such things Dont we report on what is being done by the government to devop the country and the people Didnt we report on the $2377 bil budget for 1981 Didnt we give prominence the announcement by the PM on the $577 million share transfer to bumiputra We reflect sharply

What kind of stories then should we report to qualify us as having played our roles

Fellow journalists journalism is (] two-way traffic we are the communicators of the government and the people This is what I derived from reading The Professional Journalist from the library and from a weeks workshop I attended last month

From what I gathered a journalist (or reporter) does not only report what the government says or the figures given There is more to it A journalist also reports what the people say the reactions of the people towards an issue the pros and cons their hopes their aspirations and their frustrations In this respect the famous Kennedy quotation about Americans not to ask what America could to them and so on most often than not does not apply in Journa Iism Otherwise Carter wou Id not have been toppled by Reagen

In other words a journalist should humanise most of his or her stories Put human interest as much as possible in the1m especially in the intros to make the stories more interesting captivating and readable

After a news are read by people So we have to sell something that they buy not something the government wants all the time Only in government says so journalism do you write whatever the ministeroffjcial says and your work is fi nis hed bull

The remarks by the foreign journalists about us not playing our role is valid in view of our present performance

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

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17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

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7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

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You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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In an assessment made during the workshop on Development Journalism which I attended we found that almost 80 per cent of the stories published in the local newspapers in a given day are from official sources (speech by ministers or heads of department) X minister says this Y minister urges that M head of department says this and so on

It was also found that too many figures are quoted especially about several thousands or millions of dollars which are sometimes not very substantial to the story According to the Workshop Director fr mAl BD Encik Paul De Maeseneer figures should only be used to substantiate a statement i)t Fn comparisons of such and such matters Too many ig ll figures might noj interest the readers

Another element found in news stories in the Malaysian Press is the prese ce I of the words today and lIhere II Take for instance this i tro I Kua la Lumpur January 28 -- The Prime Minister so and so to ay urged the private sector to be aware of bullbullbull -shyII

He was speaking at the opening of bullbullbullbullbullbullat here

Encik de Maeseneer said it is rather silly to put the word today and here II when it is obvious in the dateline Moreover a news agency always report what is happening today

Foreign journalists always wonder why the Malaysian press do not publish sensitive and contraversial issues especially connected to the government

Perhaps this is because of the self-censorship by the journalist himself of by the editors so much so we find certain stories are written in an ambiguous manner

Well I think its about time we make changes in order to improve the Ma la ys ian standa rd of journa Iism

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

J

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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o Mother what do you drive

- a mini 850

- no You drive me crazy

bull I - Father why does a doctor call a sick man a patIent

- because he is not well

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

I bull

Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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We talk of killing timeas if i~ isnt time thats killing us bull

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

) Fresh

18 When in this state you need pills

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3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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Smart alec a year when I get to do only one or two stories a day Iv

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

from someti mes I

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

-------oleh Pemberita Tidak Bernama

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mosih mencori

bersomo loin yang pencen don berpencen

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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Lets put more life to our stories Dramatise and humanise as much as possible to make them interesting Present our stories honestly without fear or favour After all we want to put across the message to people to inform and to communicate with them in order to develop their thinking and thus raise their standard of living And that is what the role of journalists is

Why all of sudden is this idea is brought forward you may ask To show off that you have attended a workshop

No Not at all But I had derived new knowledge from the workshop And Id Iike it shared amongst us so as to improve ourselves --- Othman Shafie

SELAIvA T BERTUGAS

Diucapkan selamat datang ke BERNAMA kepada wartawan Othman Ahmad dan Bahara Kamorak (dulu bertugas di RTM) kedet-kedet Loke Kok Ming Noar Zalihan Zainal Abidin Mohd Fisol Jaafar (Sobs Brother) Mahfar Ali Tham Choy Lim dan Baharum Haji Arshad (Sudirs brother)

Juga selamat datang kepada kerani-kerani Ibrahim Yusof Aminuddin Ibrahim Razali Pilus Mohd Ghazali Abu Bakar Nasaruddin Omor Faridah Faki Mohamed R Ra jeskaram jurutaip Azizah AI ias dan Pegawai Kerja AI i Suratmon

Hope they all will enjoy their work here

J

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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o Mother what do you drive

- a mini 850

- no You drive me crazy

bull I - Father why does a doctor call a sick man a patIent

- because he is not well

- no Because he has to wa it two hours 4to se~ the doctor

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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_5 Love means never having to say J bull 1J

7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

) Fresh

18 When in this state you need pills

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I The green light was given to the plan------ shy

2 He worked hard to become successful He

3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

B RNAMA

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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Smart alec a year when I get to do only one or two stories a day Iv

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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POTPOURRI

1981 defination for this month

A mothers day is a fathers night nine months ago I

~ 1981 advise for this month

There is only one way to happiness and t-hat is to cease worrying about stories that appeared on the teleprinters

Contributed by Reporter withput a name (R WA N)

Talking Point By Govind

Many if not all of us seem to be counting the chickens before even the eggs have been laid Well what else can talk be centred on but the recent report of housing rent subsidy for theJarmed forces Many among us believe all civil s-~rvants will receive the subsidy too A few have even gone to the extent of calculating how much they will get believing that poyment will be backdated to July 1980 as in the case of the armed forces Let us keep our fingers crossed

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Grant + Loan Groan

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o Mother what do you drive

- a mini 850

- no You drive me crazy

bull I - Father why does a doctor call a sick man a patIent

- because he is not well

- no Because he has to wa it two hours 4to se~ the doctor

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

) Fresh

18 When in this state you need pills

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I The green light was given to the plan------ shy

2 He worked hard to become successful He

3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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Smart alec a year when I get to do only one or two stories a day Iv

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

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Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

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Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

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Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

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Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

13 Officer-in-chorGe

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

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3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

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6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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19 Definitely not down

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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OF TIME AND MEN IN THE HQ

Affluence hasfinally manifested itself in the hands of some of the Bernama HQ people Of late there has been a sporadic appearance of an expensive brand of watch on the wrists of several staffers

Rumour has it that it started in the Editorial department when itsuddenly dawned on a senior staffer that time was Important and he decided to acquire a machine to measure it Reportedly this chap performed a card-flahing trick (card flashing has of course been reported in these pages before but that is another story) and came back with a Submariner complete with revolving rim and luminous hands

A few days later this same cmiddothap was seen sporting a GMT Master Soon this watch disappeared and another model was on his wrist

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Meanwhile on the ground floor another stoffer after a deep consideration came to the conclusion that she tltgto wanted a yenfatch which she could flash around She thus ju~ped on the bandwagon and purchased a Ladydate

The latest addition to this group is a sub w~ after coming into possession of one of those sol id steel monsters was overheard to remark that it was so very difficult to lift his left hand

In the meantime the original senior staffer decided to one-up everyone else and went out and bought himself a $2500 Datejust

Incidently the same chap now also wears Van Heusen shirts and Swan shoes But as one colleague observed he sti II uses an Artl ine marker I II

The staffer concerned has token cognizance of this fact So who knows you chaps m~gbt soon have your copy checked with a solid gold du Pont marker

Anyway this s~QH group of timepiece owners is slowly growing but at last count those solid steel mo~middott~rs pn their wrists cost a total of about $12 000 Yes a cOo I $12000 But hdrd Igt II must add enough to buy a solid gold time machiMe ofthat brandmiddot

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

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3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

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6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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19 Definitely not down

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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And with this trend the off-quoted question of Govinds to wit What is the time by your chronometer II Could acquire more widespread usage

And still on the subject of affluence it should be noted that several other manifestations are apparent here in the HQ besides sporting a watch with an omega or coronet logo

Shoes for one can also make a hole in ones wallet And on a normal working day Clown at HO you will s~e perhaps a pair of Bally another pair of Regal and (In as~ortmentlof K Swan Saxone Clarks to name J

buta few I

Clothes it has been said make the man And judging from the shirts worn by our male colleagues there should be many men around John Langford Peter England Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts made of Swiss cotton or some other outrageously expensive fabric adorn our male colleagues

Indeed affluence-watchihg at HQ IS an irfteresting hobby and its fun too to see male peacocks ~trutting along displaying their latest acquisitions

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

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18 When in this state you need pills

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3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

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Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

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Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

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Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

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Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

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Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

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Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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aku kesepian kemba Ii

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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151 KOTA ialah sumbongan terakhir dod MIHARBI iaHu Saudara Ibrahim Abdul Kadir Dia akan meninggalkan BERNAMA mulai I Februari untuk melanjutkan satu bob lagi dalam Iiku-I iku penghiduponnya di Universiti Kebongsaan Malaysia Bangi Beliau akan menjadi penuntut dalam faculti Economi Kepadanya kita ucapkan tahniah dan selamat maju jaya bull BERITA BERNAMA juga ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepoda sumbongan yang telah beiau berikan

151 KOTA

Bulan tersadai lagi Bintang telah hilang Mentari menjernih suria Muka-muka itu past bercahayo Seketika kita di neraca Menimbang berat ringanya Tawa dan duka lara Dosa dan pahala-pahala Tercemar iman pada siulan Terlunas nafsu di akhiran Muka -muka kota Hiosan mu bak kaca-kaca Paras mu sungai cetek Pasr melandai kekerohan Tebing terharu tiada ombok BIJnyi-bunyi itu datang lantang don lantong Kota adaloh dosa I Dosa adalah kota I Si penghoyun lolu Si Pendengar kaku Si penglihat malu Pabi la jasad itu Tiada berbaju labuh Tiada bersepatu ki lat Tiada rupa tiada suara Tiada dan tiada MIHARBI

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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_5 Love means never having to say J bull 1J

7 Magicians are experts in this --- shy8 Chettiars are synonymous with this act

10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

of their rise

12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

) Fresh

18 When in this state you need pills

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I The green light was given to the plan------ shy

2 He worked hard to become successful He

3 Think or bel ieve

4 It sounds Iike a horses cry

5 Not a very welcome acronym but nevertheless r

6 The Laksamana Mudas bow

9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

~ middotmiddotr

d I Jakarta _ ~_~ bullbull ~ lt

Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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Smart alec a year when I get to do only one or two stories a day Iv

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

from someti mes I

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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FOR THE ROtvANTIC

Your attention please Dont let your 14th day of this month to go unnoticed

It is a day for the young (99 of us here are young at least in heart) ideal (everybody is an ideal of one~elf) romantic (must be romancing) to make a gift to make your true loves heart flutter (Not necessarily for your beloved wi(v)eshusband(s) girlfriends or boyfriends only but means more for your colleagues) bull

Yes it is Valentines

Past gifts showed that among popular presentation were a slipper x-ray film clothes hanger (hang around baby be my valentine) a pawnshop receipt a raft of joss stick and also the inevitable panties

Thus anyone who thinks hardcore romanticism had gone completely out of style should take care of this

It does not means only sending youre never too busy to listen when someone is troubled or blue youre always on hand with a kind word or smiles card It is more than that

So how about it my bernamists -------R W A N

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10 Most appropriate when used to describe falling starspoliticians at the end

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12 A body which tries to help its members to abstain from booze bull

14 Double A cache of rifles would be a vital shot in the for freedom fighters

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9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

II Receptacles for refuse

13 In the middle of

15 The look on ones face on seeing a tiger in the street

17 This word virtually rises

19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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Dicetak dan diterbitkan oleh BERNAMA Bangunan MCOBA 42 Jalan Syed Putra Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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9 This could well describe the heat of the Sahara Desert

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19 A keen golfer will be very satisfied with himself when his score is below it

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

Overheard Itis nice to be married now Ive got someone to get away

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

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7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

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You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

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Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

~ 1- bull ~

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

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II A souvenir frol1lJLowas

13 Crossi ng the roo~r

14 Bernama Puzzle

15 Semutolk C bull I id I r

1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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aku kesepian kemba Ii

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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KELUARAN lMC 1981

Muka

Perkembangan fisikal Bernama

3 Potpourri

4 Coretan dari luar wilayah

6 Wang

7 Unposted letter to a friend in New York last seen in 1970

8 Talking point

9 Lucky ones

10 Pinball

Bolasepak

International Year of the disabled perso~s

12 Watak bulan ini

14 Tahniah

15 Semutalk

Pcmgolong Mohd Jomll Abdullah

Penolong kepada Pengorang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita bulan ini Sukardi Ghany

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERNAMA

PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

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POTPOURRI

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

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Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

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Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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How happy bull

IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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PERKEMBANGAN FISIKAL BERNAMA

Pada 1 Mac ini biro kita di Johore Bahru akan berpindah ke bangunan rumah kedai tiga tingkat yang telah dibel i oleh BERNAtvIA bertempat di Taman Pelangi Ketua biro di sana Cik Maria beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini sibuk kesana kemari menguruskan segola kerja yang diperlukan untuk menentukan pemindahan ini dapat dibuat secepat mungkin

Kesibukan dan keinginan beliau untuk berpindah pejabat boleh di fahami jika anda pernah melawat sarang burung merpati l yang selama ini menjadi biro kite di Jahor Bahru Tempatnya sungguh sempit panas bullbullbull tak syok betul sebagai tempat menjalankan tugas

Pihak pentadbiran BERNAtvIA memang mahukan tempat yang selesa untuk petugas-petugasnya dan dengan ini telah berusaha untuk mendapatkan bangunan sendiri untuk semua biro dan pejabat wakil negeri Oleh itu perkembangan fisikal diutomakan dalam Rancangan Malaysia Ketiga dan berlanjuton hingga ke Rancangan Malaysia Keempat

Biro di lpoh telah mendapat tempat yang baru dan selesa (rumah kedai tiga tingkat) mulai 10 Oktober tahun lalu manakala Miri mendapat sebuah rumah bung low pada 16 November

Bangunan kepunyaan BERNAtvIA yang pertama ialah pejabat kita di Kota Kinabalu - (27 Mac 1978)

Horta BERNAtvIA yang paling prestigeous sekarang ialah pejabat kita di Manila terletak di sebuah kompleks yang terkenal dengan nama Legaspi Towers 300 Roxas Boulevard (1980)

Biro Pulau Plnang dan Peiabat Koto Bharu di jangka memasuki bangunan sendiri pada bulan May atou Jun Rumah kedai tiga tingkat untuk Biro Pulau Pinang terletok di Jolon Irving berhampiran dengan Komptar sementara rumah kedai empat tingkat bagi pejabat Koto Bharu terletak di Jalan Tengku Putra Serrerak

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

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Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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Biro Kuching dljangka dlpindahkan ke rumah kedai tiga tingkat di Satok Road (berhampiran dengan pejabat sekarang) pado bulan July ini

Pejabat di Kangar dan Melaka dijangka siap di akhir tahun depan - kedua-duanya rumah kedal tlga tingkat Ba~gunan dl Kangar dibena di tapak yang telah dibeli oleh BERNAtvA beberapa tahun lalu sementara pejabat kita di Melaka berhampiran dengan Selat Melaka di Jaman Melaka Jaya dekat Bondar Hilir

Bangunan yang dijangka sap~alam tahun 1983 lalah pejabat Alor Star rumah kedai empat tingkat yangdibina dl tapak yang juga telah dibeli beberapa tahun lalu t Podia bloc bag ibu pejqbat BERNAtvA ($168 juta) di Jolon Pekeliling juga ~ l dljangka slap dalam tah~_n1983 -2f

Di Bangkok pula usaha~middot~dang dljalankan untuk mendapatkan sebuah apartmentmiddot - 4 yang setaraf dengan Manila sementara sebuah bungalow akan dibeli untuk biro~

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Kuala Trengganu Kuantan dan Seremban juga tidak ketinggalan Peruntukan 1 untuk membelijmembina pejabat baru telah diperolihi dalam Rancangan Mal~~ot-Keempat - shy WM ~ r

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POTPOURRI

A foreign correspondent who once had one drink too many sent a telex to his boss today unnews

Boss sent query to F e Whats unnews

Fe to Boss Unnews is good news

Boss to Fe If again unnews tomorrow you will be unjob

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An excuse of an errant husband - sorry to come home so late darling bullbullbullbull I was held up by four jokers and was wiped clean

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Korean proverb There is muc h darkness under the lighthouse

Per-sian proverb Trust in God but tie your camel

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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POTPOURRI

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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aku kesepian kemba Ii

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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CORETAN DARI LUAR WILA YAH

Potpong bukan Chow Kit bOleh Begitulah tempotnya bila satu jemputan VI P diterima awol Januari lalu tidak sampoi 24 jam mengambil tugas bOru

Katonya acara bermula pukul 10 malam don habis lebih kurang subuh Ketua Polis Negeri yang mengajaknya naik kereta Volvo bullet-proof untuk kal i pertamanya

Bersamo-sama ini turut juga berpuluh-puluh anggoto bersenjata loin untuk mencari mongsa

Sampoi sahaja semua lenyap ditelan gelap gel ito Masing-masing pondai buat geraklangkah seperti aksi dalam filem

Hoi tinggal seorang diri sahaja Takboleh jodi keno masuk cepot tidak melepas Tidak boleh leposkan peluang ini Angon-angan ghairah sejak tadi tidak boleh dibiarkan begitu sahaja

Boss tadi menyuruh tunggu dekat Bamboo Bar Hanyir leeah busuk dengan anjing-anjing berkeliaran Ado duo tiga orang kelasi mabuk sedang berehatshyrehat

n Khayalan yang melayang tibo-tibo hilang disergah oleh suara tegas don kuat Polis ruponya tetapi mengopa did ini pula yang disergoh don ditongkap pula itu

Biar bergantang huijah lojik dikemukakan tetopi eakap-eakap ini seperti tidok laku lagi Katanya di bolai polis nanti boleh temberang Ehhh nak tidor di balai polis agaknya

Hanya kedatangan penjemput tad sahaja menyelamatkan keadaan yang lucushycemas itu Don teman dari NST juga terkena perangkap itu

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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Hilang cemas datang ghoirah Di hadapan mata beratur kupu-kupu malam dengan berbagai aroma dad bedak siam kepada wangi-wangi puteri mendi bull Dengan celak tebal gincu merekah dada terbelah berdenyut-denyut kain belah yang mempamirkan betis sedepa mereka beratur tanpa silu-silu malah seperti mempelawa komi pula untuk berhiburan

Montok dan tembam Kotor dan geram

Entahlah kalau masih ada juga yang berselera untuk menjadi pelanggan dalam keadaan begini bull

Semuanya masti sudah seasoned Majoriti janda Umur 25 tahun keatas Poling tua pasti berumur dalam 40 tahun sebesar duo kali pemeluk guni beras

Clba dapatkan berita darinya Seboliknya dia I senyum-senyum kerana mendapat pelanggan batu Katanya dia hanya suka-suka sahaja kerana kesunyian setakat nak cari kawan sahaja Malah katanya dia I juga mempunyai ramai sahabat pena melalui helaman yong disediakan oleh media massa

Katanya $10 sahaja Yang lain pun dalam $15 dan menurut mereka kalau ada pas bulanan adalah diskaun

Yang melanggan pula Kebanyakannya terdirj dari orang-orang yang sudah berpeluh keringat di siang hari dan ada juga bujang terlajak

Pulang diam Penjemput mengusik teringat yang tadi ke

Tidak hanyd memikirkan hidup dan langel yang menarik untuk di jadikan kisah masyarakat

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

~ 1- bull ~

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

I hadapan bull

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

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S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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8 Court proceed ings

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

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Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

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Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

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Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

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Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

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Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

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Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

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Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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UNPOSTED LETTER TO A FRI END IN NEW YORK LAST SEEN IN 1970

S I was reading Lisa Althers K inflicks II and something about it or in it reminds me of you Maybe her self-awareness and ability to write interestingly of everyday things sets me thinking Americans are born writers you document everything I admire that Over here we dont put down on paper our experiences feel ings and thoughts in fact we have no experiences feelings and thoughts we just watch TV and the TV fare is of American experiences feelings and thoughts We find it enormously safer to do so Our Government and whoever else are our superiors right down the line and whom we unconsciously regard as father-figures protective ard provident encourage this Day by day Im getting more and more stupid from watching too much TV Ive already lost the capacity for real experiences feelings and thoughts all my values I have are picked from what have been dumped into my head from advertising all the things that I value -- a brick house a car a colour TV a desk in an office or better still a partitioned room in an office all these you notice enclose me within myself alienating me from other people If you try to reach out to them they think youre crazy Oh yes people are gathered around in friendly groups all right (--) like snakes cooped in a small space with their bodies touching at many points but not really meeting in the true sense of the word

I sti II remember you who cued me when I was confused and despondent in london Not that Im now unconfused

Funny that I am still alive This sentiment is APT considering so many of our heroes we know of in the late sixties and earl y seventies are fa II ing dead everywhere Elvis lennon You once said Elvis was not really that pretty He only looked so becuz the Colonel packaged him so I disagreed then and I still disagree now One million female flashers stuck in the grille at his gate cant be wrong unlike democracy

This Hi there Im still alive once-in-every-five-year letters (and I didnt post the 1975 letter either) is getting a bit repetitive isnt Two miserable letters in 10 years and repeating the same sentiments

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

~ 1- bull ~

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

I hadapan bull

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

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But I suppose it is prim to space out the letters considering that youre institutional ized in marriag~ and proper still not to post them although I cant think of a reason

Is it really 10 years london seems only like yesterday 11m going to say this only because J know you wont read it I can imagine myself coming to Brooklyn (are you still living there) knocking on your front door and when you appear saying IIHello 11 m not a ghost as you turn whitein recogni tion

Im still not prosperous Having escaped the prosperity syndrome I found myself in another the poverty syndrome To stay with the tribe you have to respect the totem and totems That means money money and money again The majority may be wrong but itls no fun being right alone Sorry for the garbled thoughts its the TV that has gone to my head -- ZR

TALKI NG POINT - By Govind

More and more Bernama editorial staff are attending the course on points of law affecting journalists conducted by Encik Philip Mathews of the New Straits Times This augurs well for the organisption because we can avert legal pitfalls booby traps mines and what have you (On the other hand we might have too many smart alecs around) But it is the hope of many if not all of us that we do not end up slapping one another with libel suits now that we know the law so to speak

I put it to you (oops sorry) bull J hope all of you who hove attended the course would agree with me on this point

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

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Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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LUCKY ONES

I dunno whether some chaps in BERNAMA are born lucky or just good at picking free prizes they certainly have a field day at the MAS-media luncheon on Jan~ary 24 sweeping more of the top prizes

About 100 members of the press were at the Holidaylnn that day but BERNAMA sti II managed to come out top winning three of the four competitions

Photographer David Khoo found his bapok style (with flowers in the hair and all) captured the judges heart to win the top prize in the Wings Of Gold cover contest while the other entrant Sobrey managed only a consolation prize

For the first contest in which we had to caption a draw~l)g by Utusan Melayus Cartoonist NAN the top prize went to Rajans table which consist of among others Musa Scully Ratan Singh and some chaps from NST and the Malay Mail

The other prize was won by Kamals entry Although it was Kamals effort alone the rest Leslie Isabella Tham Sulaiman Kuah and NSTs Crime Chief Rudy Beltran received a telephone index book each

In the last event ie the lucky draw for the grand prizes of the day--- three return air tickets by courtesy of MAS BERNAMA took away two of them

Sulaiman won the second prize to Perth while photographer Tham who had been praying a II the whi Ie during the d~aw for a ticket to Bangkok (tak ada kerja lain ke) had his prayers answered in winning the third prize The top prize to Seoul went to Hardev Kaur of Business Times -----man

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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PINBALL Saudara-saudari sekalian Sudahkah anda bersiap sedia untuk bertarung dalam pertandingan pinball yang akan diadakan bulan Mac ini

Selama ini ada yang mendakwa dia lebih handal dalam permainan tersebut dari yang lain Setengah-tengah pemain asyik menyebutkan jumlah mota yang ia pernah perolehi dalam satu permainan Ada juga yang mengatakan ia telah dapat free game hanya dalam satu pusingan (first ball) sahaja

Marilah kita lihat siapkah yang benar-benar jaguh dalam permainan ini Setiap peserta pertandingan ini diperlukan bermain kedua-dua mesin - iaitu Cleopatra dan Sinbad Ini akan menentukan siapa yang skillful dan siapa harapkan nasib sahaja

Mereka yang tidak menyertai pertandingan dijemput untuk menyaksikannya terutama sekali apa yang peserta buat dengan kedua belah kaki mereka semasa bermain Ada yang mengangkatnyq ke belakang macam kudo (jangan berdiri di belakang mereka ini) ada yang menghayunkannya ke kiri dan kanan (jangan berdiri di sebelah kiri atau kanan peserta ini) dan ada yang bermain dengan berdiri di atas satu kaki (macam burung bongau)sedang berfikir)

Sukalah disebut di sini bahawa empat orang wanita akan turut menyertai pertandingan ini Siapakah mereka Datanglah Iihat dengan mota sendiri -- Pengelola Pertandingan

BOLASEPAK

Sikap setengah-setengah pemain tidak mempedulikan apa yang berlaku pada pnsukan bolasepak Bernama amat mendukacitakan Ada yang kata mereka tidak dapot bermain pada tarikh ini kerana inilah itulah dan sebagoi nya Ado yang naik marah jika tidak diberi peluang bermain dalam satu-satu permainan Sikap seperti in tidak boik Setiop pemain mesti anggap dirinya sebagai salah satu link (cantuman) dalam satu rantai yang panjang Jika semua link dicantum kite mendapat sotu rantai Walaupun satu link

ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

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Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

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Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

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untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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Petua

KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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ditinggalkan kilo dapot juga membuat satu rantai Pemain akan datang dan pergi tetapi pasukan itu tetap baroda Ramoi juga muka baru di Bernamo sekarang Antara mereka ini tentu ada yang pandai bermoin bolasepak

Adalah diharap semua pemoin akan menunjukkan minat terhadap pasukan Majulah sukSIl1 untuk Bernamo dan Negara -- Govind bagi pihak pemain majoriti

INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE DISABLED PERSONS

Fire was raging at the 15th floor of the old Fitzpatricks building in Jalan Raja Chulan on the night of February 19 Onlookers gaped in horror thinking whether it would be a repeat of the blaze at the former Bank Bumiputra headquarters They asked one another if anyone was trapped in the building It was learnt that a few waitresses of a restaurant on one of the lower floors were trapped Soon they come dashing out to safety

Perhaps no one noticed (or did anyone) a lone figure limping near the building a sling bag strung across one shoulder and wearing Japanese slippers trying hard but not hard enough to hide a bandaged left foot Had the firemen seen him he would have been put on a stretcher and sent in an ambulance to hospital Or may be they knew who he was - P Parameswaran of Bernamo

Param was helping out in the coverage of the fire that night The excitement was so great that at times he forgot he had to limp Param told Raj who was also covering the fire The surgeons incision to remove a wart on the sole of his left foot was just healing

Dont you think Param should be nominated to receive the prize for the most outstanding disabled person MG

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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I Kelapo muda

2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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WATAK BULAN INI

Oi beberapo tengahari Sabtu diadakan ceramah Agama di Bilik loti han bull Yang mengusahakan ini ialah Saudara Sohor dan kepedanya diberikan menghargaan sebogai Watak Bulan Ini Berikut ialah self confession II dari Saudara Sohor mengenai suka-duka beliau sejak menjadi ahli keluarga BERNAfvA bull Soya mula berkhidmot sebogai pelayon pejabot di Bahagian Pentadbiran Petugos BERNAfvA yang pertama soya temui ialah Saudara Majid Harun yang ketika itu sedang membasuh kereta Tiga bulan soya di bohagian itu soya rasa amdt malang kerana terpoksa datang awol dan balik lambat Soya datang ke pejabot menaiki bosikal deng(lO memakai muffler di leher kerana waktu pegi (645) masa itu amat sejuk dan sayo mengayuh amat laju (macam koboi England) Saudara Sobrey tentu tahu

Setiap kali sesiapa bertanyakan pekerjaan soya soya katakan officer-inshycharge of miscellaneous Cuma adik soya (di kalangan sIJudara-mara) sahaja yang tahu jawatan soya yang sebenar Pernah kawan-kawannya bertanya Ape abong kamu kerja Jawapen yang diberinya sungguh he Ius dan diplomatik shy

Sebelum orang lain datang dia datang dulu Pintu tingkap tirai dan pendingin hawa adalah dalam jagaanya Sebelum orang lain boca suratkhabar dia boca dulu Untuk menentukan semua orang sudah pulang dia bolik kemudian

Bertuah punya adik I

Pada Ihb Julai 1971 soya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Stensl Soya pernah bekerja selama 18 jam (belum tolak waktu makan) tiga hari bert~rut-turut di bahagian Inl kerana selalu menggantikan pekerja yang sakit Macam nak ghelai (kata orang Kedah) badan dibuatnya Tetapi bila muncul akhir bulan soya terima duit lebihmasa kerja dengan senyum lebor sehingga malam

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

I 0Tl an insect bu you are a pest I

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

13 Officer-in-chorGe

15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Peda Ihb Oktober 1973 saya ditukarkan ke Bahagian Pengarangsebagai pelayan pejobat semula Pi mai pi mai tang tu gak kata orang Utara Ini lah pengalaman yang IXlling pahit dan pedih sekali Dalam seminggu ada empot hari yang membuat hati saya menyirap yaitu hari Isnin hingga Khamis kerana initah hari-hari sibuk dan hari -hari soya melayani berbagai feel dan ragam manusia Hari Jumaat saya berihat dan hari Sabtu dan Ahad tidak ramai manusia meragam

Bekerja sebagai peon atau office man (Iebih 21) ada juga pentingnya Itulah sebab tangga gajinya disemak berkali-kali oleh JPA dan sekarangmencapoi taraf not bad I Mereka menjadi nodi pejabat penggerak dan juga handyman Jika ada petugas baru atau para pemberita melaporkan diri mereka mesti jumpo saya dahulu kemudian Pengorang Berita Boleh dikcHakan setiap hari bekerja saya berjalan tidak kurang satu batu - dari pongkal ke hujung dari bawah ke atas Segola pelusuk dan ceruk di dalam pejabat Jalan Syed Putra telah saya lalui termasuk tandas wanita untuk menyelamatkan seorang wanita ketakutan seekor cicak kubing

Ada suatu ketika saya ditugaskan melayan para tetamu di bilik Lembaga dalam suatu jamuan ringan Salah seorang daripadanya menyangka saya pengawal peribadi Pengurus Besar kerana saya memakai kasut askar dan poket saya kembong macam ada pistol Apobila majlis berakhir saya dan seorang rakan kebas semua baki hidangan

Soya ada juga bebera po jawatan sambi Ian semasa bertugas Pada awa I pagi soya duduk di kerusi Pengarang Berita sebagoi Pemangku menjawab panggilan talipon daripada okhbar-akhbar untuk mengetahui Jadual Hari Ini dan juga daripada para pemberita yang dapot cuti sakit sementara menunggu Pengarang Berita tiba

Jawatan yang saya pangku juga i1ah Talipon Operator Bermacam-macam loghat dan slang saya gunakan mengikut rentak pemanggi I Saya boleh juga mengguna mesln talp mesin talitaip dan memboca Murray code Saudarashysaudara peon dinosihatkan merebut peluang ini untuk pengetahuan pengolaman dan masa

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Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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BERJAYA

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IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

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Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

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Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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How happy bull

IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Selepas lebih lapan tahun berkhidroot soya ditawarkan jawatan di Bahagian Perpustakaan Naik satu takuk Soya membuat kenduri kesyukuran keci I kerana selepas lapan tahun barulah naik pangkat

Selepas satu tilhun sepuluh bulan pula soya ditowarkon jawotan tinggi sedikit Naik lagi (1 takuk

Pada Ihb MfJ( 1981 soya mula bertugas di Bahagian Foto

Soya tidak mmgeluh don menyesal apabila soya merenung kemboli lopan tahun soya sebagaioelayan pejabat Bonyak pengo loman yang soya hodapi dan banyak pula cesedoram keinsafon pengojaran don cabaran yang soya perolehi

Kepada peon-peon yong ada soya nasihatkan bekerja rapn sabar tabah dan selalu cergos Saudara terpaksa buat apa yang diarah Soya pernah terdengar You dont have to like it you just do it Itulah ertinya bahasa halus pegawai suruhan I atau khaddam

Bukan manusia yang mencorakkon hidup saudara tetapi Pencipta hanya saudara mesti berusaha bersungguh-sungguh dan memohon kepadanya

Bagi diri soya berdoa kepada Tuhan agar soya tidak keno tunggu lapan atau sepuluh tahun untuk maju lagi -- Sohor

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Adham yang telah mendapat seorang anok Wilayah Ihb Februari lalu peda pukul 257 petang di Kelinik Sentosa Putro diberi naroo Asrul Adham dengan berat badan 61b I oz

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1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

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Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

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Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

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vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

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Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

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Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

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Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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How happy bull

IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

I 0Tl an insect bu you are a pest I

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

13 Officer-in-chorGe

15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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8 A successfu I surgery

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II A souvenir frol1lJLowas

13 Crossi ng the roo~r

14 Bernama Puzzle

15 Semutolk C bull I id I r

1001 Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdurlah Penolong kepoda Pehgarang Richard Theon

Sobrey Jofor Pemberita Bulan ini Ahmat Wahab Penyeloras Norijah Mohd Noor

BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

13 Officer-in-chorGe

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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BERJAYA

S iapa sangka cuba pertamo kal i boleh menang Dirinya pun tidak menduga demikian Itulah ceritaAdanan Haji Hassan atau lebih dikenali dengan nama timangan NAN

IINan saja-saja mosuk nak try bull tap AlhamudulillElh menang walaupun dapot tempat ketiga II katanya bull

Nan telah menyertai pertandingan gambar foto warne mengenai kesihaton alam sekitar anjuran bersama PersatuanWartowan Bahagian Pertamo Sarowak dan Kelab Lion Kuching don muncul sebagai pemenang ketigo

Sebagai hadiah Nan menerimo cek tunai $100 serto sijil dari Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sarawak Datuk Amar Sim Kheng Hong d upacaro perosmian pomeran gambar foto-foto terse but peda Mac 21 bull

Gombar fotonya yang menang bertojuk IIUgly side of Sarowak River ll lOng memaparkan kekotoran di tebing sungoi itu

Seminggu sebelum tarikh tutup Non mencari ilham - ke ulu ke hilir membowa kameranya Nampak saja kekotoran Non akan petik kamero $60 lesap untuk beli filem don mencetaknya

IINan tidak kesal keluarkan wang asalkan Nan puashati dapot perluaskan pengo loman dan kemahiran ll tambahnya dengan senyum lebar

Semoga kejoyoonnyo kal i ini okan mendorong Nan bergict lebih gigih lagi

Nan sekarang lebih confident apatah lagi bolch bergerak bebes kerono sudah mileki sebuah motosikal Suzuki FR 80 untuk bertugos Untuk membowa Mak We pun senang

Topi Nan tidak minot itu semua Dia lebih minot untuk bermesra dengon kamera dan lensa-Iensanya serto membaca majalah-majalah fotografi untuk menombahkan pengalaman dan pengetohuannya Kalau Nan ada orang di Kuala Lumpur atau di kampungnya di Bota Kanan tak perlu bimbang Non boik arongny

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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ZIP ZIP ZIP

Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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How happy bull

IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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Nan masuk Bernama dalam bulan Januari tohun lau dan ditukarkan ke Kuching dalam September Dia berminat dalam bidang fotografi sejak di bangku sekolah lagi

Kerana minatnya Nan berkorban masa dan wang ringgit untuk mengikuti kursus senifoto selama tiga bulan Selepos itu Nan dapot kerja sebagoi jurugambar di UKM Bangi selama duo bulan sebelum menyertai Bernama

Mengenai tugasnyo di Kuching Nan memberitohu io tidak okan dapot melupokan pengalamonnyo melowot beberopo buoh rumoh panjang di LubokAntu di Baoogion Kedua Sarawak semosa baru tiba di Kuching

Nan terketar-ketar kerana dipelawQ nyirup (minum) tuak bullbullbullbullbullbullbukan takut mabuk tapi tokut gombar kabur do tokut dimarahi oleh Ketua Jurufoto

Kerona tugas Nan terpoksa menolak Bi 10 tengah molam Nan bElrundur k sebuah bilek dan tengah syok tindok (tidur) seorang gadis tban yang memong ICiilltl

sudah nundik (memerhati gerak geri Nan) lolu menarik koki Nan bull

Nan kecut bull Iolu gneli anak Iowa (gadisitu) membisik lIanangsilu-sUu aram meh kite bergogoi laban nuon temuoi eng90u koban boru kamP (jangon molu malu morilah menori hingga pagi kerana Nan tetomu dan member baru) bull

Syok syok menari godis itu lori sombil berkato nama lban tok mencal omot suoh enggou sokit tusu kito di pegainya

Kerona keletihan Nan terus tindok di berandoh --- Ahmot Wahab

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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ZIP ZIP ZIP

Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

NA

oJmiddot bullbull bullbull

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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How happy bull

IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

I 0Tl an insect bu you are a pest I

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

- I

The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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FAST FISH SLOW FISH SUBDUED FISH ACTIVE FISH INAN AQUARIUM

IIWere on display again II a sub whispered as a batch of visitors sauntered into the BERNAWA office An admin chap roped in as tour-guide was sheepishly bringing up the rear

The visitors eyed the staff with the vacant looks they would give to furnitures But no matter one staffer felt compelled to rise to his full height and return the savour

Another staffer called upon to explain the complicated workings of the rrochines under his care sprung with the alacrity of a windmill come to life at a gust of wind bull

The fact thcit the visitors kepi stealing glances away from the machines h

the staffers sittirig on t~eiroutts did not daunt the old windmill f i~

A subdued one his nose stuck in his typewriter keys sighed III feel like being on the wrong side of an aquarium glass II

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Kadangkala kita dapoti begitu sukar untuk mmiddot~norik zip baju atau pun kusyen Sebelum berlakukerosakan adalah boik anda menggunakan sebatang Iilin untuk digosokkan poda zip tadi Hasilnya akan memuaskan hati dimana zip tadi boleh pulih seperti sediakala

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

13 Officer-in-chorGe

15 Birdie - Num - Num

16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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BERNAtvAZE bullil

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

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You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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HOBI TERKENAL BERNAtvA

Memancing ikon merupakan hobi yang paling digemari dan te~Ctlcifkalangan beberapa member di BERNAtvA

Hobi ini berputik apobila Bong Ekram berhijrah ke Kuala L~mpursebagai wakil ANTARA di sini Sebelum ini pun telah ada segelintir rakan~akan yang berminat ke atah itu tetapi tidaklah sehebat sekarang

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Dahulu peminat-peminat memancing di sungai-sungailorri~g~~~cimpangan tetopi sekarang telah menjelajahi datar lauton pu~a~~h ju~ahpfhlnattelah bertambah dad beberapo orang kepoda hampir satu dozenbull

Memancing dilaut tidak menjadi kesulitan dengan adanya perhubungcn dengan nelcyan tempatan di Sungal BulohKuala Selangor untuk mendapatkon bor dengan mudah Yang menjadi masalah ialah untuk menentukan keadaan yang sesuai

Yang dikehendaki ialah air yang tenang dan tidak bergelora Ini tidak saja menentukan ikan banyak tetapi akan menjamin tiada yang akan muntoh di lout Keadaan lout seperti ini terdapot pada 7 hingga 12 haribulan dan 18 hingga 24 haribulan mengikut kiraan bulan Islam

Kalau doh jadi hantu memancing bekalan dibawa lupo nak maken Tapi bukan semua yang pargi dapot tangkap jumlah ikon yang salTo Yang bernasib baik dapot tak putus-putus yang lain dapatlah tiga empat ekor sepanjong malam (lni entah nasib atau skill)

Sekiranya ada yang hendak menjadi ahli tak berdafter hubungiloh Bong Ekram otau Baba Kuah Mereka boleh terangkan ~pa ikan yang hendak dipancing berapa basar dan apakah syoknyo -- F Rod

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

The nurse replied III have been counting the scissors bullbullbulland we are shor of one pair

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

20 To die before (someo j

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

19 Definitely not down

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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BERNAtvAZE bullil

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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POTPOURRI

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Dictionary-Defying Definitions

Lipstick-- a cigarette

Promotion -- a free ride

A ppoi ntment (job) -- see promotion 1 Neurotic -- a person who builds castles in the air

Psychotic -- the person who thinks he lives in the castle

Blocked -- ah bullbullbull ah ah bull ah ah ah bullbull

Acting -- when the cat is away

Advice ~- vice added talk (V T)

photo Coption -- see 1 Berndmd Story I

Bernamo Story -- when elll else fail use this

Semutalk -- small talk

Kerengga Talk -- an imitation of Semutalk

Berite Bernamo -- a publication which says little about Bernama and contains even less berita

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Wife You drink too much ~

Husband Yeah I know But it helps me to forget my problem

Wife Whats your problem

Husband I drink too much I

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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How happy bull

IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Chairman The answer is INo l now tetls hear the suggestion

Kerengga I Is he always so negative

Kerengga II Positively

Spotted Written in a piece of paper clipped to a telephone receiver on the subis desk SUDAH 51 POL ~ disebabkan overused oleh anisir anisir cakop banyak

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From a defence ministry statement on the new titles for the chiefs of stoff bullbull

Ketua Setaf Perisikan Tentera (Chief of Military Intelligent Staff)

You may find the worst enemy or best friend in yourself

-- English Proverb

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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Petua

KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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TALKING POINT - By Govind

I spy with my Iittle eye and what do I see A new car here a new car there new cars everywhere Many of our staff are buying cars or trading in their existing cars for new ones It is no surprise because the staff enjoy the benefit of cor loans as provided for under the ceR

Price of fuel oil Who cares about the price of fuel oil It is definitely not going to come down You cannot and positively will not wait for it to come down Or even think of it ever coming down

So here goes VROOOOOOM I

A visitor to the subs wing of the building enquired got no aircond-ltlh

Answered smart alec got air-eonked

I much prefer a man who is unconsciously stuffy to a man who is consciously not stuffy

There1s not much to be said about the period except that most writers dont reach it soon enough --- William Zinsser

Better to trust the man wh 0 is frequently in error thon the one who is never in doubt --- Eric Sevareid

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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A SUCCESSFUL SURGERY bull n

A team of surgeons had just completed a successful operation to remove a tumor from their patient and signs of relief and satisfaction were written on every face except tha t of a nurse

What is the matter with you asked the Chief Surgeon IIArent you happy with the result of the operation II

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IS he born and taught

that serveth not anothers will

whose armour is his honelt thought

and simple truth his utmost skill

whose passions not his masters are

whose soul is still prepared for death

untied unto the world by care

of public fame or private breath

the man is free from servile bands

of hope to rise or fear to fall

lord of himself though not of lands

and having nothing yet hath a II - Deys

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

d irimbunan dedaun aku ber~i~ung I bull

entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

I 0Tl an insect bu you are a pest I

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

17 Entertain lavishly

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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WANITA CHANTEK

Anjang seorang pemuda yang kurus kering bujang telajok telah terperonjot sekali bila dia disapo oleh seorong wonita yong cantik jelita

Soya gembira sekali dopat berkenalan dengon oOOa koto wonita itu sambi menggenggamkan kngon Anjang dengan erat sekali Mari ikut ke rumah soya katonya lagi

Sepanjang lalan mereka berbual ramah dan mesra sekali somper di rumoh Anjang dipersilakan duduk Dia dihidangkan dengan minuman segar da1 kuih-kuih yong enollt Wanita itu kemudian menghilangkan diri don muncul semula dengon pokaian yang memberahikon

Aniang kemudian dipelawa ma$uk ke bilik tidur dan disuruh menanggalkan pakaianrlyo Anjang menurut soja Dalam kepalanyo sudah depot digambarkan apa yang akan berlaku lagi siilterusnya

Sementara itu wanita tad keluar sebentar dan kemudian muncul semula dengon onaknya bull

IlLihat Begitulah rupa mu nanti jiko kamu tidok mohu makan II koto Wanita itu telunjuknyo diarahkan kepada Anjong

TAHNIAH

Kepada Saudara Bakar Yusof yang akan menaiki pelomin pada 5 April ini bersama Jamilah Hi Abel Rahman Persandingan akan diodokon di Kampang Pedah Jerantut Kepada mereka berdua didoakan bohagia sepanjang masa

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

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The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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MENANTI

Malam yang indah ( ~ 0

kekosongon bqg aku T

Pengharapon yo Jibed

bagaikan dedeiu yang berterbangon

Ape yang dihalop

peda kekumin yang halus itu

odakah ia dotang dan pergi begi-u saja

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entoh rnengape kemarou meanda

aku kesepian kemba Ii

Adakah aku menoMi paaa yang tiada - NA bullbull C

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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16 I or necessarily a popular manon the pitch

18 One geh ffonf when one is caught napp

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2 Not necessarily a superlative of custom 3 Popularity ebbed with the inception of kilomelres

4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

5 An interjection but otherwise a popular surname for the Cese

7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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I Kelapo muda

2 Co ti ton dari Putau Mutiara

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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A SOUVENIR FROM LAWAS

Lawas a riverine town at the eastern tip of Sarawak was 2 hours away by speedboat from Limbang the administrative centre of the fifth division

A large crowd grinned gleefully as the boot pulled over at the jetty They were waiting for the boat to make a return trip to Limbang

IIln Lawas (0 town of seven rows of shophouses) you cannot afford not to know each other II according Information Officer who happened to share the same name with me

He was exchanging greetings wah almost everybody as he WQlked me to a hotel (on top of a coffee shop) where I checked in

After freshening myself f shuffled my feet down the streets looking for 0

place to eat When I finally found one it enliven me to notice three familiar faces

Like me Information Officer Paulus Nimbang and RTM crew members was Abdillah and Ganifah Sidup from Limbang Station were hogging a State Minister who was on a two-doy visit there

Fate hod its way A Stote Minister visit in Sorawak is always ended up with a soccer friendly among those who were involved (in one way or another) with the visit

I was playing alongside several of the top notch State Officers some of whom were kaki bongku The Minister wa~ with the opponent team

Hardly the game a few minutes old I hod to be helped from the outside I had a gash on my right foot during a scramble for a boll Blood was ozzing out

Johny Agong a senior clerk in Lawas the name is still fresh in my mind It was his boots which landed heavily on my right foot

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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4 With or without lAB it is s ti 11 sore

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7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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Petua

KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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I was rushed to the nearby hospital in a JKR land rover where I was given out-patient treatment After this I had to watch the game from the bench

The injury was reason enough for me not to forget the sleepy Lawas for years to come

What a way to make a comeback after a year layoff from the game

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The next dayl shelved the idea of going to Bandar Seri Begawan a day earl ier before the Malaysia Cup Soccer tie betw~~n Perak and Brunei

I r with a limp My right foot was swollen and I had to walk to lessen the pain I could not put on the shoes - thanks to the slippers - compliments from the hotel

So I went back to Limbah9 Roslan Narawi 0 broadcaster with RTM Limbang Station met me at the wharf

I headed for BSB the next day by speedboat So tired I was that I dozed off soon after checking in

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I woke up only to realise that the Perak Malaysia Cup team who were staying at the same hostel with me had left for the stadium I missed a free ride ~

I hurriedly took a taxi But the traffic snarl forced me to abandon the taxi and made my way f~r the other quarter of a mile on foot (in pain)

I arrived at the stadjum on the dot But I missed five minutes before I found the Radio Televishen Brunei commentators booth with the h~lp of Brunei Fa Officials bull -- Mustapha Albakri Baharom

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Soya amat simpati dengan Saudara Mus Tapi apa boleh buat bullbullbull dah tugas Saudara Mus ditugaskan membuat rei ief duty di Miri sejak pertengahan -bulan Feb PaCla asalnya tempoh tugasnya di sana cuma selama sabulan tetapi oleh kerana Petugas tetap Saudara Tuah Jais dipanggil balik dari cutinya untuk pergi ke Kota Kinabalu Saudara Mus terpaksa tinggal di Miri sehingga akhir bulan Mac Syabas orang muda sanggup tinggalkan keluargajkekasih dan kampung halaman untuk bertugQs

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CROSS ING THE ROAD

A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

Remember look left and right Make sure that the car has passed you before crossing the road bull 1

The obedient son left the house but returned two hours later 1 bull

Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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Japanese cars are said to be so6 The year 1968 has particular

significance to BERNANA

9 My favourite relation

10 A famous war South Africa

I They were the auxi Ilary pol iceduring the emergency

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7 Up Up and away

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12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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A worried mother reminded her son who was going to school alone for the first time

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Arent you too early to be back from scnool1I she asked

No mother replied the boy III have been waiting to cross the road but not a single car has passed by yet II

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10 A famous war South Africa

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7 Up Up and away

8 Court proceed ings

12 Money in BC

14 In Melaka this act connotesaffection

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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Petua

KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

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You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

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Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

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Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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KELUARAN MEl 1981

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PengarangMohd middotJamil Abdullah Penolong kepadltrPengarong Richard Theon

Sobrey Jaofar Pemberita Bulan- in middotZakaria Abdul Wohab Penyelaras N6rilohM6hd ~ Noor

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

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10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

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Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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WATAK BULAN INI

Dia dikenali di Ib Pejabat di Kelantan Trengganu Singapura dan Hong Kong kerana kegiatan dalam lopangan kewartawonon don Idpongan hiburan

Sdr Nordin Arshad namanya pernoh tertera di layar perak sebagoi pelakun penulis skrip dan penolong pengarah di zaman kegemilangan filem-filem Melayu da lam tahun lima dan enam pulohan sekarang menjadi penyunting di Meja Bahasa Malaysia di Ibu Pejabat

Sebelum menduduki Meia Penyunting dia pernah meniadi wakil Bernama di Koto Bharu dan Kuala Trengganu dan jika ditanya dengan baik die akan meneeritakan beberapa kesah lueuseram yang didalaminya di kedua negeri _ tersebut

Cuba tanya tentang pengelamannya meraba kaki kayu

Ketika berkecimpung dalam dunia hiburan lagi banyak pengeloman yang shysekarang menjadi kenangan

Anak tulin Negeri Sembilan dia mengakui sebagai seorang budak nakaldi- -shykampungnya dan juga seorang bakal pemimpin ketika masih keeil tetopi bakClt kepimpinan mati di tengah jalan kerana kurang sambutan orang ramai atas --shyperjuangannya

Beliau merantau ke pulau Singo untuk meneari rezeki Watak ke~antik~nshyparas dan potongan rambut ala hero filem Tamil MGR telah memp~rsonkari

Shaw Brothers Kepetahan bereakap dan kelulusan yang dibawa telah menempatkan beliau di Jalam Ampas

Beliau pernah menjadi doktor atau memegang jawatan professiona-lyonglciin -- shydalam fjlem-filem yang dibintanginya pernah juga menggangofdan mengugat dunia perfi lemon dengan keangkohan kesatuan sekerja yang dipimpinnya-

Tetapi zaman itu telah berlalu Nordin Arshad yang kita kenalLsekorang handal membuat kawan-kawan tertawa dengan perwatakan semulcijadinyd Dia boleh menyanyi atau membaea kitab Juga pandai berdakwamiddoth dalam - _ keadaan-keadaan tertentu Ini menjadikan dia undangan utamobila diadakon shykeramaian

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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Petua

KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

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Perubahan hanyalah bentuk badan sekarang adalah lebih besar dad dahulu dan rambut yang dahulu hitam legam sekarang disusuli dengan beberapa helai yang telah menjadi putih

Satu keistemewaan yang patut disebut ielah kehandalannya meneka nombor dan boleh membuat pidatu politik setanding dengan ahli politik terkenal dunia Tapi dia tidak mahu nyatakan opakah parti yang disokongnyo

Mereka yang boru mengenalinyo pernah menggangap dio anih kerana dia kadang kala berdiam did don kadang kala riohsekali tetapi dalam sebogaimana keadaan pun dia selalu penuh dengon lIham

Din kalau Ronald Reagan boleh jadi Presiden pa kurangnya you

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KE1APA MUDA

Jika anda tersalah makon ubot atau pun mokanan yang beracun Hndakan yang boleh anda buat secepat mungkinialah meminlim air kelOpa mudo -- NAmiddotmiddot

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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CATITAN DARI PULAU MUTIARA

Peda mulanya agok terkejut juga apabila seorang teman memberitohu soya akan ditukarkan ke Pulou Pinang Waktu itu bulan September tahun lalu Saya kurang percaya dengan berita itu kerana saya baru sa ja bertugas d i Bernama Mustahil saya ditukarkan begitu cepat Tetapi tidak sampai setengah jam kemudian saya menerima sepucuk surat dari bahagian Pentadbiran mengesahkan berita itu Terus hati saya menjadi tidak keruan Gembira bercampur duka

Terbayang dalam kepala saya kenangan lama sewaktu saya masih kedl dan pernah menetap di Pulau Mutiara bersama keluarga Usia saya waktu itu lapan tahun Masih kecil Tetapi rnasih terlekat dalam ingatan saya keadaan tempat FtIdang Koto dan kebun bunga (Botanical Garden) yang pemah jadi tempat permainan pasar Chowrasta dan sepanjang Jolan Penang tempat tumpuan orang ramai yang paling saya gemari

Kini saya sudah berada di Pulau Pinang lebih tiga bulan setelah 16 tahun tidak menjengoknya Tidak banyak yang berubah di segi pembangunan fizikal di negeri ini kecuali pembinaan kompleks Tun Abdul Razak setinggi lebih 40 tingkat d i Georgetown dan jambatan yang bakal menghubungi tanah besar dengan pulau ini -

Tidak banyak juga yang berubah di segi keadaan kehidupan dalam masyarakat disini Saya masi~ menjumpai seorang tukang jual ubat yang menarik perhatian orang ramai dengan bermain ular senduk dan lI me lukakan anaknya hingga mengeluarkan darah dari hidung mulut dan telinga Kemudian ia akan menadahkan topi mengkuangnya meminta beas kasihan dari penonton dengan harapan terisi barang Sepuloh sen dua atau seringgit dari yang simpati bull

Saya masihdapat merasa sedapnya cendol mamak di Jalan Penang dan Esplanade yang dulunya lima sen semangkuk tapi kini sudah tiga kupang Enak juga dapat makan nasi kandar dan roti perota yang begitu banyak dijual di kedai-kedai mamak yang masih berserakan di simpang-simpang jalan disini bull

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Masih juga terosa seronoknya menaiki beca makan angin keliling bandar Atau menaiki feri menyeberongi North channel sambi melihat pelabuhan yang sibuk dengan kapai (seperti berada di Rotterdam kata seorang belanda kepada soya semasa sama--sama hendok ke pulau ini) atau melihat Pulau Pinang di waktu malam bersinar dan berkelip dengan lampu-Iampu bermacam warna dan rupa

Setelah agak lama di sini (walau tiga bulan) ternyata Pulau Pinang mempunyai ciri-ciri sosial dan nilai hidup yang agak berbeza dari tempat lain seperti Kuala Lumpur

Jelas sekali keadaon kehidupan di sini masih bergerok agak perlahan walaupun tidak selambat dulu Malah orang disini kelihatan begitu relax sekali Pada waktu petang - bukan soja anok muda maloh orang yang sudah lanjut umur - berehat di bangku-bangku panjang di Esplanade dan Gurney Drive atau di mana-mana soja lerdapot tempat rumput hi iou sambil menongkat dagu atau berborak d~ngan kawanB~gitu tenang dan bahagia sekali keadaan mereka Keadaanserupa itu agak payah hendak dilihat di KL Terdapat juga sebuah tempat di hadapa-ri pawagam capitol seolah-olah seperti trafalgar square begitu ramai sekal i orarig bertuYlpu ke situ untukberihaf sambi mencuci mata

Satu perkarayonR ogok onehlucu daniug~(me~is~~kari disiniiafah terdopot begitu ramoisekal i orang gila Ape sebabnyatak tahulah Tetaplsaya rasa mungkin kerana terlalu banyak relaxmiddot yangmembuat merekogil9 7 Dj depan pejab9t Bernama di sini serin~kali kelihoklOduotiga dari merek~berkeliaran

Mujur mereka tidakdari je~is yang~ti~a mengganggO ~W61(lU~h pernah sekali saya hampir dikejar bleh seorang dari merekakerariome~~uki territorynya di bowah pokok depon pejabat ~ Mln6ng se$io~-sojfiyang datang ke plllau ini tidakokan terlepesmenjumpai mer13 ka ~~

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Baru-baru ini timbul juga runguton orang-ramo terhad~p mascildbmere~a itu Malah ada akhbar tabliod di sini pern~h menyiarkan gambar mereka dolam keadaan yang mengghairahkan IJ

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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Disini penduduknya agak berdisipJin bull Naik turun bas tidak boleh sesuka hati Ada pintu-pihtu tertentu dikhaskan untuk noik atau turun Kalau mekmggarnya C1da peluangd-imoki qleh kondakter atau pemandu bas Masuk bangunan kerajclOnnegerldi Bangunan Tuanku Syed Putro pun mesti begitu juga Untuk membeli tiket woyang adaruangan dikhaskan untuk wanita dan lelaki tidak boleh bercampur seperti di KL (sistem in terdapot juga di Alor Star)

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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A SECTION CALLED LIBRARY

Try the library suggests a staffer

Dont bet on it another staffer replies

Such remarks are frequently passed by frustrated library users One airily walks into the library fresh in the morning to grab hold of the newspapers only to find that the newsvendor do not bring some of it on time or worse none at all

The newsvendor has been reminded for the umpteenth time by the office boys and his answers were and sti II is a si mple nod The boys tired of reminding and get feamy mouths are not concerned anymore for which they are not to be blamed

The newsvendor hands the bill happily at the end of each month without making deductions for the undel ivered newspapers Magazines brought by him are always late and when arrived are often missing immediately The heist was neat and clean and even Columbo would be puzzled

This is contrary to the library motto of check check check and Bernamas motto of Speed and Accuracy The persons responsible must deal with the newsvendor firmly or subscribe from another newsagent

The magazine swipers could be kleptomaniacs who need to take SelfshyDisciplined Courses in INTAN

Newspapers magazines and pamphlets borrowers seldom return il- on the alloted or promised hour day and time leaving others who browse in its respective shelves and racks searching and finally buzzing out of the Iibrary with nasty grumbles and murmurs irritating the counter-duty staffers - Annoyed

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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KENDONG

-- Susah juga kaiau tidak mengetahui adot resam di tempat orang lain Kadang-kadang sesuatu yang tidak keno di tempat tersebut boleh melucukan atau boleh juga mengaibkan

Baru-baru ini (tidak lama dulu)saya dan jurufoto Adcmon Hassan telah menghodiri satu kenduri kesyukuran atas udangen seorang rakan kenalon tuan rumah di Kompung Mosjid Kuching

Makan free siopa yang nak tolak Komi bertolak dari rumah selepas magbrib

Waktu komi mencecah kaki di heloman rumah dendongan hadrah berkumandang di udaro

Ini diikuti dengan Marhaban Bila ditanya berapa lama Marhaban akan memakan rnasa rakan soya tadi menjawob dengan selamba

Ini bergantung kepada pak aji yang memimpin Marhaban Ikut moodnya samaada io hendok main short play record atau long play Kalau moodnya baik ia mungkin akan membalikkan ke side two pula

Perut sudah menggelodak dan Adanan sudah mengerutkan dahi Komi menarik nafas panjang bila Marhaban berakhir setengah jam kemudian

Hidangan kuih-muihpun disajikan Soya dan Adanan tak kosi chance - duo piring roti iale hobis komi licinkon

Don bila komi terus juga makan dengan lahapnya rakan soya tadi mencuitkan bahu soya dan membisikkan yang para tetamu loin menunggu komi berdua berhenti makan

Sdr Adanan dan sayapun tersipu-sipu mencuci tangan don mulut sambil memerhatikan (from the corner of my eyes) yang hadirin lain melemparkan padangan sinis kepada komi berdua

Sebetulnya bila menghadiri kenduri seumpama itu para hadirin tidak dikehendaki makan bersungguh-sungguh dan memadailah makan ala kadar sahaia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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Kuih-muih yang disajikan itu akan dibahagikon soma rota kepada para jempUlan untuk dibawa pulang

Hidangan yang dibahagi-bahagikan tadi dibungkus samaada dengan kertas atau dalam plastik yang digelar kendong

Komi berdua ketawa berdekah-dekah dalom perjalanan pulang sementara rdkan tadi menyatakan rosa kesal kerana tidok menerangkan duduk perkara kepoda komi sebelum itu

Sampai di rumah komi menanak nasi kerona perut masih belum kenyang

- Mustapha Albakri

POTPOURRI

What did the river say to the sea

IlHow come I keep running into you all the time

What did the dough say to the yeast

G ive me a raise

What did the oven say to the cook

Ught my fire

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

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One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

bull c I

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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What did the carbon copy say to the sub

IlDont be so spikefui ll bull

What did one cockroach say to the other when they made up after a fight

Let baygon be baygon

SH Tan on specialisation in health reporting

Asking a reporter to specialise in medical reporting is like asking Rose Chan to do the Swan Lake

On Eating (adapted from somewhere)

Too many square meals makes one round

Indulgance in food strains relations between a man and his garments

Most slimming diets turn out to be wishful shrinking

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

k

One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

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WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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MINANTI SINARAN

Aku tahu

Kawan kawan ku tahu

Kau pendusta agung

Kau berma in disebalik tutur bicara mu

Dan

Kau 10 h racun yang berbisa

Dalam kepala mu ligat berputar

Yang boru mulia

Yang lama hina

Kau hapuskan sesaat cuma

Kau bekukan sedetik jua

Aku tidak bersemangat lagi

Kawan kawan ku juga tiada

Semua Hada harapan lagi

Kini lesu dan terkulai layu

Mananti sinaran yang mungkin Hada - NA

k

One boss was in the habit of having love chats on the phone with his girl friends One day after a lengthy and stimulating conversation he suddenly barked operator you are Iistening in on my private call Immediately the operator answered No sir I am not

10

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

II

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

Muka

I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

~------------------------------------

MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

-----------------------------------~

2

The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

4

TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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10

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdra Kamaruddin Awang old-man I BERNAfM yang akhirnyaI

menjadi raja sehari poda 18 April lolu bersama Fatimahsham bt Mot Hasson

Khabarnya tar menar di malam persandingan sungguh hebat Muga-rnuga hidup bahagia kita semua doakan

TAHNIAH

Kepada Sdri Asiah Yusof yang mendapot putr sulong poda 13 April 13 April lalu di hospita I besar Seremban Put~i diberi nama Amalina bt Zahari mempunyai berat badan 61b 12 oz

TAKZIAH

Kepoda Sdra Yusof Yahya yang kehilangan ibu kesayangan

Sdra Ali Mamat Wakil Negeri Kelantan yang juga kehilangan ibunya

Semoga roh mereka dicucuri rahmat

UCAPKAN TERIfM KASIH

Dad pengantin baru Bokar Yusof atas sumbangan kerjasama dan sokongan

yang telah diberikan oleh sem~a petugas BERNAMA di hari perkahwinannya

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L~ PER U

_--)1

E ER AMA

K 0 8~~~OOOf---- -~~-

KElUARAN JUN 1981

Muka

I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

~------------------------------------

MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

-----------------------------------~

2

The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

4

TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

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TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

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I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

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TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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KElUARAN JUN 1981

Muka

I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

~------------------------------------

MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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2

The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

4

TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

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Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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L~ PER U

_--)1

E ER AMA

K 0 8~~~OOOf---- -~~-

KElUARAN JUN 1981

Muka

I Malaysian newsmen invade Kuwait

3 Who was caught in the lift

4 Talking point - By Govind

5 The editorial Id like to see on April 11981

6 Berita dari Kedah

7 Katil bullbull siapa yang mati Tuan ~ II

9 Tahniah

10 This ones for you bullbullbullbullwherever you are - CeciUa Tan

II Semutalk

Pengarang Mohd Jamil Abdullah

Penolong kepada jgtengarang Richard Thean Sobrey Jaafar

Pemberita Bulan ini Govind

Penyelaras Norijah Mohd Noor

~------------------------------------

MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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2

The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

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Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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MIA YSIAN NEWSMEN INVADE KUWAIT

Malaysian newsmen including myself will never forget th~ trouble we caused to the telex office in Kuwait during the recent world cup soccer qualifying tournament Everyday for two weeks we from Bernama Berita Harian STAR and New Straits Times would beseige the office with )ong copies of our stories to be filed to Kuala Lumpur Initially this proved toofl1uch for the telex operators to handle that in the true tradition of Arab hospitality (no malice intended) they made all kinds of fuss about it Fo~tunafely or otherwise the lelex operators kept changillg thus sparing us from the antics of the really fussy few

One of them would tell us 11why so long short good Another complained you _must type big letters Dont use this bad paper my eyes want come out typing your copy II

After a while we iust took this in our stride their antics and all But there is one operator who must rate as the kindest Kuwaiti weve met during our stay there Always accommodating~ understanding evenunder great pressure as the telex office had to handle many other clients especially from the business community Some of them would also make comments about our stories and they naturally felt delighted because the Kuwaiti tea~ almost always got all the delectable adjectives from us The telex operators and clerks were however surprised that our enthusiasm (at filing stories) were nof dminished by the disappointing performance of the Malaysian team for obvious~y the Kuwaitis we met were disappointed at our national team They told us that they wanted Me laysia to meet Kuwait in the final Despite our feams poor show the tournament had made Malaysia more known among th~Kuwaitis for everytime I boarded a taxi the driver would ask where I was from and after telling him he would say Oh Malaysia football

There was also an occasion when a taxi drivercoula not find the stadium I had wanted to go to cover a match even though I showed him the venue in Arabic as printed in the programme He had to consult a policeman before we fipally got to the place rather late

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2

The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

4

TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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2

The worst experience for me was covering the final betw~en Kuwait and South Korea where Png Hong Kwang of New Straits Tims and I were caught in a near~tompede while trying to enter the stadi~m The policemen at the gate hod to pull us out from among the fanatical crowd before we could be squeezed in Many fons who hod bought their tickets hod to be

locked out that day as the stadium was pocked Coveriqg the final we hod to moke do by stretching our necks over the headgears ofthe Kuwaitis who in their euphoria couldnt be bothered to provide us some space

Azmon Ujong -

You need not get uptight when someone fpulad up your story To err is human and some people are more than othe~

3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

4

TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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3

WHO WAS CAUGHT IN THE LIFT

One evening lost month Sdra Rohman Sulaiman who was going home after work happened to hear someone shouting for help in a jOmmed lift on the ground floo(~ He called out to the person to remain calm and that he was getting help Rohman come running to the Subs wing on the first floor wonting to know the telephone number of the lift foreman At that ti~ he was told somecme hsJd already contacted the foreman Iaccomponed Rahman to the ground JhJOr A number of people hod gathered there to pacify the jammed II person ~ No one knew who it was except that it wosa man

The lift indicdtor lights on the ground floor flashed G II and l II Apparently the man inside was pressing the button 111 11 hoping the lift would memiddotve up Rahman seeing this shouted to him to press button 112 The person did so and we saw the 2 11 flash on the indicator Rohman and I raced up the stairs Ha If way up-~e saw one of the MCOBA security guards coming down We enquired Tpdi orang sangkut daJam lif sudah keluar ke

Suda h II co rT)ethe reply

We hesitated 9nd then continued up the stairs eager to know who the person was Somethipg made us stop We dashed down caught up wi th the security guard on the first floor and a~ked him who the person was

The guard s(mply said Soya lah l -- Govind

~

TAKZIAH

Kepada Sdri Mafuzah Ahmad yang telah kehilangan ayahnya pada 17 Mei lalu Mafuzah dan ahl keJuarganya mengucapkan terima kaslh kepada semua petugas BERNANA yang memberikan 5umbangan kepadanya

4

TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

bull c I

7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

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Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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TALKING POINT - BY GOVIND

Congratulations Bernama You have done it again For those of you who are wondering what this is all about I would rather quote what the reuter correspondent Encik Reg Gratton wrote In his letter of congratulations to Bernama s Acting Genera I tvanager Encik Yusof Bodor

Quote Just a short note of thanks to your editQri91 team for the work they put in on covering the formidable Fourth ~Iaysian Plan

It was a great help to our news operation to be able to refer to the Bernama summary of the various major topics covered in the 400-page tome It was also a credit to YOK agency that it managed to transmit the rrxJterial so speedily

You must have started your own planning on how best to report it five years ago Unquote

Another pat on the back came from PTM Communications Encik Ken Fernandez of the PR firm wrote to News Editor Encik SN Rajan thanking him for a service message he had put out over the wire and saying how shocked he was at the impact it had on the press

The message informed the mass media of a press conference by Tourist Development Corporations Director-General Datuk Baharuddin Musa on April 2

To quote a sentence or two from the letter l could hard 11 believe my eyes when I saw more than 20 members of the press and cameramen Even TV and RTM were there

This could not have been possibleif you did not accede to my request to put the event on your morning news schedule or if you did not dish out the flash reminder II

And TP Senior Supervisor Encik Nusi Buyong has this to say II A senior RTM officer who called on me recently congratulated Bernama for dishing out speedily the results of the Sabeh elections last March II

Keep it up Bernama

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THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

bull c I

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Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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5

THE EDITORIAL ID LIKE TO see ON APRIL I 1981

Hurray for Malaysia We have no assassinations here Why Simply because we have a gun law called Isa who goes around in Adidas Training Shoes tripping up Misguided Students carrying Scolt Magnum in plastic bags before they can sight their gllns on the heads of CPOs OCPDs and SEC-GENs

Why doesnt America learn fromfkIleiysia No need for all this chest-beating andunited-in-sorrow business everytime a Lennon or Reagan gets shot Just collect all thOse guns lying around and put Iso on the heels of those who refuse to hand the IR guns in

I mean there are quite a few chaps around who grlipe the Successful and Famous (who among us does not entertain a flash of anger at Ik Big and Mr Not-So-Big and if we had a gun no telling that it wont go off) If there are no guns handy our gripe will gradually fade away and we will just mellow into Good Citizens joining MCA or BERJAYA and become rriaybe successful and famours ourselves

There is really nothing wrong with America except for their gun lows and superfast neWs media We hove gruesome tales to tell too but our reporters do not hove the talent of a Frederick Forsythe or Time Mogazi~es far-flung reporting team

The single oct of killing can never have anything to do with a whole society as newspaper editorials are fond of implicating Even if there is a series of killings it is still a long shot to implicate society as a whole But what does implicate society is the subsequent publicity whipped up by the media tiThe nation is shocked Society is sick All this is glib generalizations mechanically token out from the mental drawer by the reporter who has no talent at writing whatsoever

The truth is any society any country has their quota of individuals or groups who hove reached a point in their rationalizations where killings are okay And dont forget either that the same process is also used by the government-inshypower to institutional ize ki Ilings bull

I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

bull c I

7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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I foiled to ~e lJny ~I dHflaquoenu between ChOIrles Monsons Acts and the routine tortures used by secret and not-so-secret police evlaquoyWhere on their risoners

We in Malaysia are spared the frequent pangs of Americans precisely because we have Isa our reporters are untalented and our parangs freely available for slashing belukars do not have the technological clout of a Magnum

BERnA DARI KEDAH

Bolasepak

Baru-baru ini satu perlawanari bolasepak antara para wartawan Alar Setar dengan Polis Oaerah Alar Setar telah diadakan di Stadium Darulaman bagi

merebut piala pusingan Oatuk Seri Syed Naher Shahabuddin Bernoma tidak ketinggalan mewakili p6ra wartawan Alar Setar dalam perlawanan merebutpiala berharga $1000 itu Empat orang pemain dari Bernama telah dipilih untuk mewakili Wartawan Alar Setar Saudara Syed Imran selain dad bertindak sebagai striker juga dilantik sebagai ketua pasukan Saudara Tan Hock Guan bermain dibahagian midfield Saudara Aminuddin Ibrahim peniaga gol dan Saudara Hamidi Rashid (PO Padang Terap) striker Walaupun pasukan komi kalah 4-0 kerana diperdaya oleh OCPO (Polis menurunkan pasukan muda dan tidak Pegawai Kanan seperti dijanjikan) komi telah diberi ganiaran pada molam esoknyo apabila pihak Polis menganjurkan majlis makan malam yang begitu baik sekali di Kelab Kedah Oiraja Dalam ma il is tersebut pihak polis dan Menteri Besar memberi penghargaan kepada peranan para wartawan Walaupun rarroi para wartawan dan pegawai polis pening lalat dek minuman tertenh komi tidak ketinggalan menyumbangkal suara (nak kata merdu marah pula sang kodok) Sdr Syed Imran dan Sdr Aminuddiil telah berpadusuara mendendangkan lagu curi-curi I diikuti oleh para wartawan lain dan pegawai-pegawai kanan polis

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7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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bull c I

7

Telatah

Semenjak bertugas di Alor Setor Sdr Aminuddin dan Sdr Tan telch sa kin berisi Nampaknya kedua-dua orang Melaka ini tertorik sekali dengan rrosakon orting utara Mereka enjoy ~rtugas di Kedah yang luar dari sengkaan mereka Kami tidak sengka Alor Setar lebihbesor dansibuk dari Melaka kata mereka Tentu Sdr bullSyed Jamiltersenyum dan terkenangkankompung

Sdr Tan pada rnu1anya di gelar Baba oleh rakan-rakan wartowan di Alor Setar Tetapi sejak akhir~khir ini panggilan Babe telah diganti dengan Awang pula kerana sifat-sifatnyq yang lebih Meloyu itu Sdr Amnuddin pula setiap heri tidak seber menunggu posmen Beliau bukan menunggu sampul besar yang berisi dengan stensil atau sampul keeil yang berisi eek wang runeit tetapisampul airmail dariMetaka yangberisi eurahan hati kekasih yang jauh di mata Dalam masa seminggu tidQkkurang doritiga sempul surat seperti itu tiba dari Melaka dan Sdr Aminuddin tersenyumriang Maklumlah rindu dihati yang terpendam sejak ditugaskan di Alor Seter teloh diubati menerusi kata-kato manis yang diabadikan diatas kertas putih bersih Kata-kata yang diibaratkan penawar segala penyak it bull Selepas membeea isi surat duo tiga kali Sdr Aminuddin segera membalasnya dengan meneurahkan perasoan kasihsoyangnya Sdr Aminuddin membelanjako~ $45 sebulan untuk menulis surat kepada kekasihnya itu termasuklan kiriman potret-potretnya yang terbaru den90n berba90i 90ya yang tersendiri Kepada Sdr Aminuddin lekas-Iekaslah kahwin kan sencUig

KATIL SlAPA YANG 1Mtl TUAN

Terjadinya di Bandung Sebuah kota berhawo sejuk yang terkenal dengan nama Kota Kembang Letaknya sekitar 185 km sebelah barat Jakarta

Serombongan wisatawan dari Malaysia tiba-tiba muneul di sebuah hotel peninggalan Belanda di awal tahun 1970-on Hotel Homan International yang telah dibeli pengusaha pribumi

8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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8

Tentu sqia karyawan hot~1 itu menjocli gedgtiro Tidak hanya karena sangat jarang hotel di sana menerima tamJ dari Malaysia di maso itu tapi juga karyawannya sangat 5 ka mendengar mereka berbicara II Ya mungkin menimbulkan nostalgia ZQrron sebelum IIkonfrontasi ll ketika filem-filem P Ramlee begitu akrab dengan rakyat Indonesia

Sebagaimana lazimnya kebiasaan sebagian besar karyawan hotel di Indonesia karyawan Homan juga berusaha agar bisa membetahkan II sekali gus menjadi sa habat sejati II tamu hotelnya (ma~f ini bukan iklan) Apalagi bagi geu lis dan kasepll Bandung yang berpembawaan sangat ramah dan lembut tentu bisa cepat berkomunik~si dengan tetamunya termasuk yang dori t-Aala ysia bull

t bull

Mereka saling bertukar informasi mengenai Bandung dan Kuala Lumpur termasuk bull(rohasio leloki) Komunikasi berjalan lancar dan do pat saling memahami apa yang diutarakan kawan bicara Kendati ada benturan poda satu-dua istilah yangakhirnya dapatjuga dibereskan

Namun keakraban yang sudah terjalin itu nyaris terganggu oleh kesalahshypahaman istilah Soalnya begini

Soyo minte dikirim satu buah katil ke bilek X II Terdengar suara melalui telepon intern hotel

Penerirna tetomu yang menyambut telepon itu tampak terkejut Paras wajahnya berubah agak memucat Dengan noda suaro seten~h-eemas setengahshyketokutan d ia bertanya

11Katlbullbullbull Smiddotlapo yang mot tuan I-II

Haa bull ape bull matiII si-penelepon balik bertonya 1ak ade yang mati Saye hanye minte dikirim sabuah kotil Untok rokon soye II

Kalau tidak ado Yang mati~ mengapa horus kotil IKon kotil honya buot orang ma~i tuan II kato sang-receptionist lugu

IIApe pulak katil untok orang moti Katil laah untok tidur Paham tok Nada suara kowan dari Semenanjung itu keros Rupanya dia dongkol dan tersinggung tyasa I kati I dikatakan buat orang mati

9

0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

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THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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0000 ranjang maksud tuan Kalau itu sih beropa iuga bisa kami sediakan II

Iye ghanjang 1I Dia ikut membetulkankesalah-pahaman dalam istilah itu Tapi r-nya masih seperti ucapan orong bule

vaaf tuan bullbullbull raniang bukan ghanjang II ulang si-penerima tarnu

Illyalah rrronjang II kato sang-tamu dengan rnemberlkan tekanan padar Terclengar suaro tertawa memecah ruang udara kamar X itu

lI~kali lagi maaf tuan kalau ada perkataan saya yang menying9un9 II koto si -karyawan Dia memohan mungkin khawatir telah memberikan kesan baik bagi tamu hotelnya -- eha bull

Dont be indispensable If you cant be replaced you cant be promoted

~

TAHNIAH

Kepada Ismarani Adnan yang telah mendapat seorang cahaya malo perempuan peda 4 Mei ~981 Berat badan 5 Ih 15 OZ dilahirkan di Pantoi Medical Centre

TERIMA KASIH

Dari Sdro Kamaruddin Awang kepoda semua petugas BERNAfv4A yang telah membeiikan sumbangan derma dan sokongan moral ketika beliau naik pelamin baru-baru ini juga ucapon terimo kasih kepoda mereka yang telah bersusah poyah mengiring beliau ke kampong dimana perkahwinan dijalankan

10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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10

THIS ONEs FOR yOU bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull WHEREVER YOU ARE - CECILIA TAN

This letter is addressed to the invisible man whoever he is and wherever he is

Of late you have been removing newspapers from the library Most of the newspapers seem to have a very short Iife on the shelves thanks to you Now I am sure you and I would agree that this is tantamount to stealing to put in bluntly as I dont believe in polite insinuations Let facts be facts You are I am sure aware that newspapers in the Library are for all Bernama Staffers and by removing fhem you are depriving others of their legitimate right to read them in the library You are I am sure olso aware that it is 35 sen per copy one of the cheapest publications on- the scene inspite of spiralling inflation Now come on I am sure you can afford that meagre sum Dont tell me you are so impoverished a pauper that you have to stoop so low as to steal 35 sen And besides a crime is a crime no matter how big or small the amount involved bull

Your next delight is magazines Among your favourites are Time Newsweek Asiaweek and Far Eastern Economic Review Oops - I forget Life I think you love it best perhaps because you cant resist the pictures or perhaps because itls the most expensive item or perhaps you just must hove all those stolen magazines sprawled on the carpet in your sitting room so that it would seem to your visitors that you keep abreast with the latest You want to show your invisible visitors no doubt that youre knowledg~blewell-informed and intellectual Bah

The books hove not escaped either and you seem to be particularly interested in dictionaries I wonder why being anonymous as you are you surely dont need to build up such a powerful vocabulary Or perhaps your vocabulary is to impoverished and malnourished that you are now feverishly swallowing a few hundred words a day - f hope you dont suffer too seriously from indigestion~

Now Invisible Man I have always thought kindly of most fellow humans I hove great faith in human beings believing them generally to be worthy of the highest trust You seem to have proved my faith wrong and unfounded

k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

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k _~RODZI

1hQv 1u1te4 tiherlock holnte$

well _ihereVeheetJ reor+-S of -H1afls in -nae office recently tlewspopers gQ~it~---I

Qf)4 fue like See Itgt tAi~A~Petl~

ebta~6~ hOIQhle O~e 1sCAj~ you cOfIfrl~t-

teo lt4cats pM+L seller he may hetVe CI dqe J

I bull - ~ sea bull

pO ~~

Dicetak don diterbitkon oleh BERNAMA Bongunon MCOBA42 Jolon Syed Putro Kuala Lumpur Malaysia