Lapan cara 'hijaukan' rutin harian kecantikanmu!

1. Berjimat ketika mandi 

Salah satu cara mudah untuk kekal 'mesra alam' adalah dengan berjimat-cermat menggunakan air. Anda boleh melakukan langkah mudah ini dengan meminimumkan masa mandi anda. Jika anda tidak mahu membazirkan air, pertimbangkan masa mandi anda daripada berdiri mengelamun depan cermin atau di 'kerusi termenung' dengan air melimpah ruah. Mulakan rutin mandi anda dengan memakai bersabun dan memakai syampu serentak. Apabila anda mulai menjadikan cara ini sebagai rutin harian anda, tanpa anda sedari anda telah pun menjimatkan bertan-tan air setiap tahun. Tahniah! 

2. Masker wajah segar dari rumah 

Percayalah, tidak akan ada produk kecantikan yang lebih hijau dan mesra alam daripada masker wajah buatan sendiri terus dari dapur. Masker buatan sendiri tidak hanya membantu anda menjauhi bahan kimia merbahaya, bahkan ia boleh membantu menyihatkan kulit wajah anda secara semulajadi. Mudah saja, buatlah pes wajah yang dibuat daripada soda penaik dan air atau epal dicampur dengan madu. Langkah mudah dan jimat ini bukan saja selamat, malah turut menjimatkan wang. 

3. Guna minyak kelapa, lupakan losyen! 

Daripada membelanjakan sejumlah wang membeli berbotol-botol losyen mahal, apakata anda cuba menggunakan minyak kelapa? Simpan ia dalam bekas yang dikitar semula atau isikan saja dalam bekas losyen kosong. Minyak kelapa adalah bahan pepejal, tetapi jika anda meletakkannya di bilik mandi, ia akan tersejat dan anda boleh oleskan kulit tersebut di seluruh tubuh. Jangan tak tahu, model Victoria's Secret merangkap isteri aktor Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr menjadikan minyak kelapa sebagai rahsia dan regim kecantikan hariannya. Menurut Miranda, dia menggunakan minyak tersebut daripada hujung kaki hingga hujung rambut malah turut membantunya menurunkan berta badan selepas bersalin. 

"Saya tidak boleh hidup tanpa minyak kelapa. Saya selalunya akan mengambil empat sudu makan minyak kelapa setiap hari, sama ada diletakkan di salad, dalam masakan atau dalam cawan teh hijau." – Miranda Kerr

4. Minyak zaitun sebagai penanggal mekap

Kebanyakan penanggal mekap mengandungi bahan pencemar kulit yang sememangnya menghilangkan kesan mekap, tapi dalam masa yang sama memudaratkan kulit. Walaubagaimanapun, jangan risau dan cuba selak kabinet rumah, ibu anda pasti ada menyimpan minyak zaitun. Ala, benda yang selalu guna buat salad dan spageti tu. Apa tunggu lagi, letakkan minyak zaitun di atas kapas muka dan mulakanlah kerja-kerja pembersihan wajah. Minyak zaitun merupakan penanggal mekap paling berkesan yang tidak hanya natural bahkan selamat pada kulit, Ianya dengan mudah menanggalkan kesan celak mata, maskara kalis air, kesan calitan gincu serta alat kosmetik lain. 

5. Haluskan kulit anda dengan witch-hazel 

Kebanyakan wanita daripada pelbagai lapisan usia pastinya akan berdepan dengan masalah jerawat di wajah, dada, leher dan pada bahagian belakang tubuh mereka. Jadi tidak hairanlah ramai yang terkejar-kejar untuk mendapatkan rawatan menangani masalah tersebut walhal kebanyakan daripada produk tersebut mengandungi bahan kimia yang sangat kuat. Witch-hazel atau lebih dikenali sebagai Hamamelis, sejenis tumbuhan berbunga kuning dan keras yang tumbuh renek di Asia dan Amerika Utara boleh menjadi produk alternatif merawat masalah ini. Selain merawat jerawat, ia juga boleh meredakan bengkak dan keradangan, senak dan kesan gigitan serangga. Gosokkan ia ke wajah, leher, dada dan belakang anda untuk merawat jerawat tiga kali seminggu. Sekiranya sukar mendapatkan tumbuhan ini, jangan risau kerana terdapat beberapa pengeluar produk kecantikan berasaskan bahan semulajadi turut menghasilkan krim dan toner diperbuat daripada witch-hazel. 

6. Beli produk mesra alam, ayuh selamatkan bumi! 

Selain malas, kesibukan kerja menjadi salah satu faktor masih ramai yang memilih untuk membeli produk kecantikan di butik-butik kecantikan atau kedai penjagaan kulit berbanding membuatnya sendiri di rumah. Kalau anda masih mahu meneruskan peranan anda sebagai L.M.G.B, belilah produk daripada syarikat yang turut mengamalkan prinsip 'hijau' atau 'selamatkan bumi' dengan kandungan bahan-bahan kecantikannya sehinggalah ke pembungkusan. Body Shop misalnya adalah salah satu jenama yang mengamalkan kempen hijau dan semulajadi. 

7. Back to basic – kembali kepada sabun buku 

Semakin hari semakin banyak syarikat yang menghasilkan aneka cecair atau gel mandian (body shower). Menggunakan sabun buku adalah satu pilihan 'hijau'. Apabila anda menggunakan cecair mandian, anda akan meninggalkan botol kosong yang hanya akan dibuang begitu saja sebaik gel mandian anda habis. Anda barangkali boleh menggunakan botol tersebut dan diisi semula dengan cecair mandian (isian semula). Namun ia tetap meninggalkan bekas semula yang selalunya diperbuat daripada plastik. 

8. Amalkan 2-in-1 

Bagi mengelakkan anda membeli pelbagai produk yang hanya memberikan anda hasil yang sama dan sebagai cara untuk mengurangkan penggunaan botol atau bekas berlebihan, cuba fikirkan bagaimana untuk mempelbagaikan fungsi produk tersebut. Sebagai contoh, perapi rambut boleh diguna pakai sebagai krim pencukur dan skrub muka boleh digunakan sebagai skrub bibir (guna dalam kuantiti yang sedikit).

Daddy will save me :)

Kidnap victim Nayati Shamelin Moodliar said yesterday the thought of his father rescuing him was what kept him strong through his week-long ordeal. 

“I knew daddy would get me home,” Nayati (picture) was quoted as saying yesterday by The New Sunday Times. 

Speaking about his ordeal for the first time, Nayati admitted he was initially afraid but later grew confident that he would be rescued. 

“There was only once I cried a little... it was on April 30, my mum’s birthday,” he added, prompting a hug from his mother, Janice. 

On his ordeal, Nayati said he was kept in a room with a mattress, pillow and blanket and had a computer which screened movies. 

As for meals, he always asked for chicken rice. 

“Each time they asked me what I wanted to eat, I said chicken rice, or sometimes it was just an apple,” he said. 

“My muay thai teacher told me that chicken would help build my body,” the gutsy 12-year-old added. 

He said he was allowed to shower, was given clothes and a toothbrush. 

Nayati was kidnapped by three people while walking to the Mont Kiara International School near his house here. 

He was found safe at the North-South Expressway rest area at Sungai Buloh at 7.55am after his family secured his release on May 3, from a group of kidnappers with a RM300,000 ransom, the mastermind slipped out of the country and escaped to France. 

It was reported that the mastermind had gone off on his honeymoon with his wife after collecting the ransom. 

His wife, however, came back last week after learning that the husband was wanted for Nayati’s kidnapping. She lodged a police report here. 

Police have recovered more than RM70,000 of the ransom.

Bersih used Marxist tactics, Pakatan wanted bloodshed

Former police chief Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor has alleged that Bersih used “Marxist” tactics, echoing his predecessor Tun Hanif Omar and accused the opposition of wanting bloodshed as it was not confident of taking over Putrajaya. 

Rahim called on the government’s panel investigating the violence at Bersih’s April 28 rally led by Hanif to probe the 84 civil societies that form the electoral reforms movement and “information” that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) was inciting bloodshed at the rally for free and fair elections. 

“The panel must investigate the NGOs in the coalition. Check if the situation will become more severe,” Rahim said in an interview with Berita Minggu published today, when asked if there was potential for bloodshed if Bersih was allowed to proceed. 

“I received information of incitement, apparently the opposition is not confident of winning Putrajaya and chose instead a ‘bloodshed’ approach,” added the 68-year-old who was Inspector General of Police from 1994 until 1999 when he reisgned after confessing to assaulting Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. 

Rahim, who has previously likened the rise of civil society to communism, added that “while they might not be Marxist,” the Bersih movement used Marxist tactics, implying that it infiltrated NGOs to agitate the public. 

“The April 28 movement is ala-Marxist. At the peak of the Marxist movement, in the 40s to the 70s, they used underground groups to infiltrate associations, unions, schools and religious bodies. 

“They collect issues to damage the government and raise anger and anxiety among the public. I see that the country is not free from this threat,” he said. 

He described Marxist tactics as “Agitprop (agitation propaganda) and Agitpol (agitation politics)” and explained that “incitement and street protests are Agitpol” while allegations “that the prime minister will order the armed forces to do something if Barisan Nasional (BN) loses (the election)” is Agitprop. 

The so-called “Hanif panel” has been criticised as the former IGP “has already made two public comments... that communist sympathisers who were active demonstrators in the 1970s were involved.” “He has also agreed with Najib’s allegation that Bersih 3.0 was an attempted coup d’état against the government. By so doing, he has shown that he is biased and has already pre-judged the outcome of the investigation,” Bersih has said. 

Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein has also claimed that there were those at the planned sit-in who “wanted deaths,” a statement backed by police who have uploaded a clip on video-sharing site YouTube they claim is proof of the allegation. 

The April 28 rally, which saw tens of thousands gather at six different locations before heading to Dataran Merdeka, was peaceful until about 2.30pm when Bersih chief Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasanasked the crown to disperse. 

But the former Bar Council president’s call was not heard by most of the crowd who persisted around the historic square which the court had already barred to the public over the weekend. 

Just before 3pm, some protestors breached the barricade surrounding the landmark, leading police to disperse the crowd with tear gas and water cannons. 

Police then continued to pursue the rally-goers down several streets amid chaotic scenes which saw violence from both sides over the next four hours. 

Several dozen demonstrators have claimed that they were assaulted by groups of over 10 policemen at a time and visual evidence appears to back their claim but police also point to violence from rally-goers who also attacked a police car. 

The police car then crashed into a building before some protestors flipped it on its side. 

Rahim is also being sued by Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat after the New Straits Times carried a report quoting him as calling the Pas spiritual leader the “father of kafir (infidels)” in response to the latter’s defence of those who participated in the April 28 rally as fulfilling their Islamic obligation. 

But the former Inspector General of Police has since clarified in a letter to the paper that he had not uttered the words, but had only questioned PAS’s association with secularist DAP.

QPR Malaysian owned EPL football club

Loss-making Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has ended its multi-million ringgit shirt sponsorship deal withQueens Park Rangers, the English Premier League club owned by their former director Tan Sri Anthony Fernandes.

The reported RM18 million deal was initially set to last for two years after the flag carrier and AirAsia became joint jersey sponsors last September in a move that came just a month after the now discarded share swap between the two airlines.

The deal drew widespread criticism from business analysts and politicians from both sides of the divide with some warning that MAS, which later reported a record loss of RM2.5 billion for the financial year, was being dragged into AirAsia boss Fernandes' "football fantasy."

But the club announced on its website yesterday that Asia's biggest budget carrier will now be its sole shirt sponsor for the upcoming 2012/3 English football season.

"Queens Park Rangers Football Club is delighted to announce that AirAsia have signed a new contract as our Official Playing Kit Sponsor and Main Club Partner.

"AirAsia initially announced that the airline will be the Official away and third kit sponsor of QPR for the 2011/12 season. The relationship has developed and grown over the past season in the Premier League, and it was a natural progression to become the full kit sponsor," it said.

Previously, MAS's logo was emblazoned on the home jersey of the team that Fernandes purchased a two-thirds stake in for RM220 million and called a marketing vehicle for the two airlines which had just signed off on the share swap the week before.

“This sponsorship is the first major initiative of our new brand and marketing strategy that would see important advertising money spent on boosting our top line. This is a key component in our drive to regain global market share, profitability and pride for the people of MAS,” MAS executive director Mohammed Rashdan Yusof had said last September.

State asset manager Khazanah Nasional Berhad had swapped 20.5 per cent of MAS stock for a 10 per cent stake in Asia’s biggest budget carrier last August 9.

The swap enabled AirAsia bosses Fernandes and his partner Datuk Seri Kamaruddin Meranun to sit on the MAS board and ostensibly help turn it around although Khazanah has denied that AirAsia was bailing out MAS.

But Putrajaya aborted the tie-up just nine months after it was hailed as the best way to save the ailing national airlines, which has gone through at least two business turn-around plans in the past decade.

Sources told The Malaysian Insider the Najib administration's insistence to ensure no job cuts in MAS before the next general election and workers unhappy with AirAsia executives managing the national carrier had all but made sure the pact would not take off successfully.

The unwinding of the share swap will be cashless and based on the same swap ratio of 2.05 based on the prices when the share swap was announced in August 2011, where MAS was valued at RM1.60 per share and AirAsia’s share at RM3.95.

The Malaysian Insider reported as early as March that the government was having a relook at the share swap and was considering a special entity to take MAS off the hands of its then main shareholders, Khazanah and Fernandes' Tune Air, after the shocking losses reported earlier.

Ulama muda Umno sedia bertanding PRU jika diberi peluang

Ulama Muda Umno tidak menolak untuk bertanding atas tiket Barisan Nasional (BN) dalam pilihan raya sekiranya mendapat lampu hijau dari kepimpinan pusat.

Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Kerja Sekretariat Ulama Muda Umno (Ilmu), Fathul Bari Mat Jahaya yang dihubungi The Malaysian Insider berkata, pihaknya bersedia menghulurkan bantuan jika parti memerlukan mereka, bagaimanapun menegaskan, pihaknya bukan jenis yang meminta-meminta, tetapi sedia membantu jika diperlukan bagi memperjuangkan prinsip Islam.

"Kami tidak akan menolak. Kami bukanlah jenis yang meminta-minta, jika parti perlukan kami, kami sedia berkhidmat untuk memperjuangkan prinsip Islam," jelasnya.

Kewujudan cabang ulama muda di dalam Umno dilihat masih baru berbanding PAS yang mempunyai Dewan Ulama sendiri, khusus untuk pemantapan ahli PAS dan penyertaan politik yang aktif.

Bagaimanapun, ulama muda Umno ini menjelaskan, kewujudan mereka tidak seharusnya dilihat sebagai satu entiti semata-mata, sebaliknya perlu dilihat dari konteks yang lebih luas.

"Kami bukan berjuang atas dasar peribadi, politik. Tetapi kami berjuang demi agama," tegas Fathul Bari.

Menurut bekas Penasihat Agama Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) ini lagi, pihaknya tidak berat sebelah dalam mengeluarkan kenyataan, sama ada melibatkan pembangkang mahupun kerajaan pimpinan Umno-BN, parti yang dianggotai mereka.

"Suara kami tidak pernah disekat. Umno tidak pernah menghalang kami, bahkan, kami turut mengeluarkan kenyataan yang tidak memihak kepada parti, tapi kami tidak pernah disekat," katanya lagi membandingkan kebebasan bersuara di dalam PAS.

"Bukan seperti PAS. Ramai ulama PAS yang dihalang daripada mengemukakan kenyataan yang bercanggah dengan pemimpin mereka. Kita lihat mereka bercakaran dalam Pakatan Rakyat (PR), tapi mana suara ulama, pemimpin PAS?", soal beliau lagi.

Fathul Bari turut menegaskan, segala kenyataan yang diutarakan ulama muda tersebut juga bukanlah atas telunjuk Umno, sebaliknya atas inisiatif mereka sendiri selaku umat Islam.

"Adakah kami keluarkan kenyataan mengikut kepentingan Umno?" Tidak," tegasnya, dan menambah, perjuangan kumpulan ulama muda tersebut adalah semata-mata kerana Islam dan masyarakat Melayu di negara ini.

"The Borneo Incident", jejak kaum pemenggal kepala

 Filem terbaru "The Borneo Incident" tidak berbunyi seakan-akan sebuah filem. Namun itu faktanya. Ia merupakan sebuah filem seram eskperimental pertama terbitan Maverick Media yang diarahkan oleh Michael Helfman.

Filem ini dibintangi oleh pengacara "The 8TV Quickie", Henry Golding sebagai watak utama. Bagi pengacara program 8TV, "Without Boundaries" ini, untuk sekali lagi masuk ke hutan menjalani penggambaran filem itu seperti tidak sukar. Walaupun pada kali ini dia menjelajah isi hutan bukan sebagai hos, tetapi sebagai pelakon, ia adalah sesuatu yang baru yang mengujakannya.

Selain Golding, Hansen Lee, Daphne Iking turut akan membintangi filem ini termasuklah pelakon dari Singapura, Fay Hokulani selain pelakon seksi Carmen Soo dan penyanyi Dennis Lau.

Menurut pengarah filem, Helfman, dia memilih Malaysia sebagai lokasi untuk filemnya ini kerana Malaysia mempunyai pelbagai kaum dan budaya dengan mempunyai permandangan yang memukau.

Filem "The Borneo Incident" ini menceritakan pengalaman lima orang sahabat yang mendokumentasikan pengembaraan mereka dari New York, Amerika Syarikat ke Borneo, Malaysia. Tujuan rombongan mereka adalah untuk menjejak semula keluarga Henry yang terkenal dengan kaum 'pemenggal kepala' Iban sehingga tersasar daripada matlamat asal setelah tersesat sehingga memasuki sempadan sebuah puak di Indonesia.

"The Borneo Incident" ini bakal berada di layar perak pada September tahun ini. Filem ini juga dikatakan akan turut dipertandingkan di Festival Filem Toronto sebelum memasuki Malaysia.

GAY ACTIVIST !? and a MUSLIM !? what !!??

A Canadian Muslim gay activist launched her controversial new book on liberal Islam in Muslim-majority Malaysia Saturday despite a government minister's attempts to shut down the event.

Irshad Manji launched "Allah, Liberty and Love" at a hastily arranged event in the capital Kuala Lumpur after two other venues pulled out of hosting her, according to local publisher ZI Publications.

"Fantastic event in KL! Great energy -- except 4 cops who told latecomers that event is banned. Didn't stop us. Congrats 2 all," Manji wrote on Twitter.

Jamil Khir Baharom, minister in charge of Islamic affairs, had said Islamic officials and the Home Ministry would not allow the author's roadshow in the country following complaints.

He was quoted by national news agency Bernama as saying earlier on Saturday that the book was offensive to Muslims as was Manji's ideology and openly gay lifestyle, which was deemed to be against Islam.

According to her website, the book, now available in the local Malay language, "shows all of us how to reconcile faith and freedom in a world seething with repressive dogmas... This book is the ultimate guide to becoming a gutsy global citizen".

The book has not been officially banned. Manji was due to fly to New York City late Saturday.

Her previous internationally acclaimed book, "The Trouble with Islam Today", is already banned in Malaysia, ZI Publications said.

Manji also faced problems while touring Indonesia before coming to Malaysia. Police shut down several events after the Islamic Defenders Front group held violent protests condemning her liberal views on Islam and her homosexuality.

It is also not the first time a foreign act has run into trouble in Malaysia.

In February, Malaysia banned a show by American singer Erykah Badu after a photo of her with body art including the Arabic word for "Allah" was published in a daily newspaper.