JABATAN SAINS SOSIAL, FAKULTI SAINS PERTANIAN DAN MAKANAN, UPMKB, PETI SURAT 396, 97008 BINTULU, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA. TEL: 086-855211/5212 FAKS: 086-855270 WEBSITE: www.btu.upm.edu.my

UNTUK EDARAN DALAMAN SAHAJA SEPTEMBER 2010/Bil. 7 JSS/FSPM/UPMKB

Editorial

Advisor Dr. Aryaty Alwie

Coordinator Dr. Ahmad Nasir Mohd Yusoff

Secretary Dr. Salmah Omar

Chief Editor Najihah Abdul Mutalib

Editors Dr. Aryaty Alwie

Dr. Salmah Omar

Fakhzan Buang

Joyce Morris Kapong

Shafinah Kamarudin

Peter Clarence Cluny

Photographer Fakhzan Buang

Promotional Dr. Adrian Daud

Designers

Ramuni Incham

Malisah Latip

"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy -

“walkabout ” (informal-British English)

Dr. Adrian Daud dila-hirkan pada 9 Oktober 1975 di Miri, Sarawak dan merupakan anak sulung daripada tiga orang adik beradik. Beliau membesar di kawasan Baram, Sara-wak sehingga tamat pendidikan sekolah rendah. Mendapat

pendidikan awal di SK Long Laput, Baram sebelum meneruskan persekolahan di SMK Baru Bintulu (Tingkatan 1-3) dan SMK Bintulu (Tingkatan 4-5). Beliau ke-mudiannya melanjutkan pelajaran di MARA Community College (MCC) Kuantan (KPTM) untuk program American Associate Degree (AAD). Memperolehi BS Business Admini-stration (Economics) pada tahun 1998 dari University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A. Beliau meneruskan pengajian di peringkat Master Sains (Ekonomi Antarabangsa) pada tahun 2000 di Universiti Putra Malay-sia (UPM). Beliau dianugerahkan Ijazah Doktor Falsafah (Ekonomi) dari UPM pada tahun 2010.

Sebelum bekerja di UPM Kampus Bintulu (UPMKB), beliau pernah bekerja sebagai Eksekutif Operasi/Pemasaran di Stone-way Limousine Sdn. Bhd. pada tahun 1999-2000. Berkhidmat sebagai pen-syarah di Maxcel Institute of Manage-ment pada tahun 2003-2004 sebelum menjadi Tutor di Jabatan Sains Sosial, Fakulti Sains Pertanian dan Makanan, UPMKB pada 19 Oktober 2004. Beliau mendapat cuti belajar pada Julai 2005 untuk pengajian doktor falsafah dan kembali berkhidmat di UPMKB pada Julai 2008. Dilantik menjadi Pensyarah Kanan pada 14 Januari 2010. Di peringkat jabatan beliau diberi tanggungjawab sebagai ketua Seksyen Ekonomi & Pen-gurusan dan Penyelaras untuk latihan industri. Kursus-kursus yang diajar adalah berkaitan dengan ekonomi dan pengurusan seperti Ekonomi Asas, Prin-sip Ekonomi, Pengenalan kepada Eko-nomi Pertanian, dan Pengurusan Perni-agaantani. Di luar bidang akademik, beliau juga meminati bidang sukan, kesihatan dan juga muzik.

Langkah pertama dalam penubuhan Malaysia bermula pada tahun 1961 apabila satu cadangan untuk membentuk sebuah persekutuan yang lebih luas merangkumi Perseku-tuan Tanah Melayu, Singapura, Sarawak, Sabah dan Brunei dikemukakan oleh Tunku Abdul Rahman. Cadangan ini secara amnya diterima oleh penduduk Tanah Melayu dan Singapura, tetapi menimbulkan rasa curiga di kalangan penduduk Sabah dan Sarawak. Satu suruhanjaya kerjasama British-Persekutuan Tanah Melayu yang diketuai oleh bekas Gabenor Bank England, Lord Cobbold, telah melawat Sabah dan Sarawak pada tahun 1962 dan melaporkan bahawa kebanyakan negeri menyokong penubuhan Malaysia.

Walau bagaimanapun, cadangan penubuhan tersebut dibantah oleh Filipina yang telah membuat tuntutan hak ke atas Sabah. Cadangan ini juga menerima tentangan dari Indo-nesia apabila Sukarno dan Parti Komunis Indonesia melihatnya sebagai satu langkah untuk menjajah Borneo. Tentangan yang berterusan daripada Filipina dan Indonesia telah menyebabkan Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu menghantar satu misi ke Borneo pada tahun 1963, yang turut melaporkan bahawa pandangan awam rata-rata menyokong

penubuhan Malaysia. Rundingan akhir antara kesemua negeri diadakan di London pada Jun 1963.

Perjanjian Malaysia ditandatangani pada 8 Julai 1963 antara Kerajaan Britain, Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, Singapura, Sabah dan Sara-wak. Akhirnya, pada 16 September 1963, Malaysia secara rasminya dibentuk dan ia terdiri daripada Persekutuan Tanah Melayu, Sabah, Sarawak dan Singapura. Brunei menolak usul untuk menyertai Malaysia. Perlembagaan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu yang sedia ada digunakan dengan pindaan dibuat bagi membolehkan kemasukan Singapura, Sabah dan Sarawak. Pada 16 September 1963, seiring dengan dentuman 101 das tembakan meriam dan teriakan“MERDEKA”, Perdana Menteri Tunku Abdul Rahman telah mengisytiharkan kelahiran sebuah negara baru iaitu Malaysia kepada seluruh dunia. Stadium Merdeka yang diban-jiri oleh 30,000 rakyat Malaysia telah bergema kembali dengan laungan semangat rakyat seperti 6 tahun yang Ialu dalam tahun 1957 ketika Persekutuan Tanah Melayu mencapai kemerdekaannya. Upacara membaca Deklarasi Penubuhan Malaysia itu telah dilakukan di hadapan DYMM Seri Paduka Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Raja-Raja Melayu, Gabenor-gabenor Pulau Pinang, Melaka, Singapura, Sarawak dan Sabah. Turut serta dalam upacara itu ialah tiga orang pemimpin dari tiga buah negara yang baharu dalam Persekutuan Malaysia iaitu Lee Kuan Yew, Donald Stephens dan Stephen Kalong Ningkan. Upacara ini telah dihadiri juga oleh Kabinet, anggota-anggota diplomat asing di Kuala Lumpur serta wakil-wakil dari Kerajaan-Kerajaan yang telah dijemput khas. Pada tahun 1965, Singapura menarik diri daripada Malaysia dan menjadi sebuah negara yang merdeka.

16 September telah diisytiharkan sebagai Hari Malaysia dan Cuti Umum kepada seluruh rakyat Malaysia.

SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI MALAYSIA 16 SEPTEMBER 2010

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

sbo75; Sumber dari www.ctl.utm.my

Buletin JSS juga boleh dicapai melalui facebook Social Science Department,

UPMKB (group)

an occasion when an important person walks through a crowd, talking informally to people. The press conference was followed by a walkabout and a factory visit.

go walkabout (spoken) – to get lost (used humor-ously) My watch has gone walk-about again.

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Assalamualaikum w.b.t Dengan kesempatan ini saya mewakili staf Jabatan Sains Sosial ingin mengucapkan Se-lamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri kepada semua pela-jar, warga kampus UPMKB serta pembaca Buletin JSS. Diharap hari raya ini dapat mengeratkan silaturahim di antara kita. Bagi yang pulang ke kampung, berhati-hati di jalan raya. Untuk pelajar yang tidak balik ke kampung semasa raya ini, ambillah kesempatan ini untuk mengenali budaya Hari Raya di Bumi Kenya-lang. Ini secara langsung akan mematangkan kita untuk menjadi lebih tabah dalam mengha-dapi rintangan yang mendatang.

Akhir sekali sekali lagi saya mengucapkan SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI

dan MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN.

Di dalam kerendahan hati, ada ketinggian budi, Di dalam kemiskinan harta, ada kekayaan jiwa Di dalam penyudah Ramadhan, ada penyeri Syawal… Dr. Aryaty Alwie, Ketua Jabatan, Jabatan Sains Sosial

JABATAN SAINS SOSIAL, FAKULTI SAINS PERTANIAN DAN MAKANAN, UPMKB, PETI SURAT 396, 97008 BINTULU, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA. TEL: 086-855211/5212 FAKS: 086-855270 WEBSITE: www.btu.upm.edu.my

HAK CIPTA TERPELIHARA

Basic Essentials of Dinner Table Announcements

-JMK-

-JMK-

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO: Shrina Binti Jinal, 23 September

We also wish to express our heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Ahmad Nasir Mohd

Yusoff and Dr. Salmah Omar upon the completion of their PhD.

Congratulations

The basic principles of proper dinner table etiquette.......and how to avoid social embarrassment!

Here you will find tips on dinner table etiquette that will help you through any formal or semi formal lunch party or dinner party.

The 10 easy DO's, and 10 easy DON'Ts of good table etiquette!

Dinner Table Etiquette - the 10 Do's!

1. Once seated, unfold your napkin and use it for occasionally wiping your lips or fingers. At the end of dinner, leave the napkin tidily on the place setting.

2. It is good dinner table etiquette to serve the lady sitting to the right of the host first, then the other ladies in a clockwise direction, and lastly the gentlemen.

3. Hold the knife and fork with the handles in the palm of the hand, forefinger on top, and thumb underneath.

4. Whilst eating, you may if you wish rest the knife and fork on either side of the plate between mouthfuls. When you have finished eating, place them side by side in the center of the plate.

5. If the food presented to you is not to your liking, it is polite to at least make some at-tempt to eat a small amount of it. Or at the very least, cut it up a little, and move it around the plate!

6. It is quite acceptable to leave some food to one side of your plate if you feel as though you have eaten enough. On the other hand, don't attempt to leave your plate so clean that it looks as though you haven't eaten in days!

7. Desserts may be eaten with both a spoon and fork, or alternatively a fork alone if it is a cake or pastry style sweet.

8. Should a lady wish to be excused for the bathroom, it is polite for the gentlemen to stand up as she leaves the table, sit down again, and then stand once more when she returns.

9. Always make a point of thanking the host and hostess for their hospitality before leav-ing.

10.It is good dinner table etiquette to send a personal thank you note to the host and host-ess shortly afterwards.

To be continued………………-FzaN-

Cuti Semester, 6-19 September 2010 Hari Raya Aidilfitri, 10-11 September

2010 Hari Lahir YDP Sarawak, 12 September

2010 Hari Malaysia, 16 September 2010

Source: http://www.jokesaboutcollege.com/ Adapted from: www.eHow.com

M y room faces the sun in the morning and on clear summer mornings it wakes me bright and fresh, no matter what

time I stayed up till; I'll get up and make breakfast, watch TV, have a shower. If it's before six in the morning I usually have a cup of tea and go back to bed where I'll doze until seven and wake with a thick head. If I stay at my sister's I sleep until the kids wake me or until she comes rolling in, poured from the back of some taxi, whichever is earlier. I'm an early riser, and a dead sleeper. This morning I wake up with a twitch, like the alarm clock in my head has given me a little electric jolt; it isn't sunny outside, I pull back the curtains and the sky is dark grey, the same colour as the sea and it looks like the sun won't appear before tomorrow. I get up and go downstairs; the hall clock tells me it is almost six thirty. I make tea and toast, pour cereal and milk into a bowl, put it all on a tray and take it back up to my bed. My brother gets up for work and I hear him crashing about in the bathroom so I go downstairs to make him a cup of tea. He's down in the kitchen about five minutes later, wearing his work clothes, eyes mostly closed against the morning, hair either sticking up where it shouldn't or plastered down by a night against the pillow. He sleeps on his left side mostly, he has creases on the left side of his face and the hair on that side of his head is the most out of order. 'Morning.' I say. 'Uh huh.' I leave him to work out what he is going to eat and go back to my room where I finish my tea and toast, turn on the radio and get back beneath the quilt. Sometimes I like to think and other times I like to dash straight in.

Source: http://www.short-stories.co.uk

A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.

“In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. In some languages though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However," he pointed out, "there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative.”

A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah. Right”

Fun with English

A short story by James Ross

A mother sings Her baby’s lullaby

Sweet Saint incarnate.

A ‘haiku’ is a short form of poetry that has its origins in ancient Japan. It typically consists of a single stanza with three lines, with an average of 5-7 words per line. Haiku poets are often inspired by nature, and it comes as no sur-prise that most haikus are simple, but vivid descriptions of scenes in nature. A haiku poet also seeks to encapsulate his experiences in such a way that his readers could see the world through his eyes in as few words as possible. The most famous of these haiku poets was Matsuo Basho from the Edo period (1603-1868), who once traveled all over Japan to write haikus on what he has seen in his journeys. He would later compile these haikus as .The Narrow Road to the Interior (the first edition of this compilation was pub-

lished after his death in 1702).

The Frog is a classic example of Matsuo Basho’s haikus:

Old dark sleepy pool quick unexpected frog

goes plop! Watersplash.

(translated from Japanese by Peter Beilenson)

In this haiku, we could see how Matsuo Basho described the pool as being ‘old’ and ‘sleepy’, and how the silence and relative peace of the pond was broken by the simple act of a single ‘quick’ frog that appeared out of nowhere. By using such imagery, Matsuo Basho seems to invite the reader to think about the fragility of nature itself, and how it could be disrupted by simple, random events.

Writing a haiku requires a talent for transforming simple words into mental images that make a deep impression in one’s mind. It is imperative that a would-be haiku poet learn how to appreciate life and nature, else his haikus end up as nothing more than a cluster of words with no real meaning behind them. Today, haikus are highly regarded as a refined form of art to be en-joyed by everyone, regardless if one prefers to write, or read, haikus. So the next time you see a withered leaf blown about in the wind, or a butterfly flut-tering about a single rose, why not grab a pen and try your hand at writing a haiku?

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Matsuo Basho