Kenapa saya ditahan setelah jadi baik - Bob Lokman

Aziz Muda

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Okt: Pelawak, pengacara dan penulis lirik terkenal, Bob Lokman (gambar) hairan dengan tindakan pihak Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) yang menahan beliau setelah menjadi baik, tetapi tidak ketika dia sedang bergelumang dalam arus keduniaan sewaktu berada dalam dunia hiburan dulu. Tindakan Jais itu disifatkan oleh beliau seolah-olah mahu menyekatnya supaya tidak menjadi baik, sebaliknya untuk mendorongnya agar terus hanyut dalam arus keduniaan seperti masa lalu.

Smokers: kicking the habit may improve your personality

New research shows that for younger smokers, quitting can greatly improve neurotic personality characteristics. — AFP pic

MISSOURI, Sept 14 — Kicking the cigarette habit reveals some suprising new benefits beyond cleaner lungs. Snuffing out smoking may also improve your personality, curbing traits such as neuroticism and impulsivity, according to new research.

A day in the life of Iran's president Ahmadinejad

Agencies/NBC

TEHRAN, Sep 14: Ahead of his upcoming trip to New York next week to attend the UN General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allowed NBC reporter Ann Curry to accompany him on a typical working day. WORKING OUT... Ahmadinejad sweats it out in the gym before starting his day The senior correspondent's conclusion was that Ahmadinejad works around the clock. After a 5 am prayer, Ahmadinejad goes out to jog with his security team, Curry reports, while waving his hands in "rocky style".

Getting back into shape post-partum

By SHAMALA VELU

Getting into an exercise programme after childbirth has many health benefits. For one, regular exercise can help you return to your pre-pregnancy shape. It also helps to raise your energy level to cope with the demands of motherhood.

You don't get older, you get better -- really

Written by: Reuters



TOKYO: Jokes about creaky knees, thinning hair and spreading -- or vanishing -- waistlines have long been an inevitable, if unwelcome, part of watching the birthdays pile up.
But it shouldn't be that way, argues Wendy Lustbader, who maintains that youth, with all its insecurities and confusion, is more of a burden than the golden age society says it is, with ageing far from a gloomy decline.
"I'm so disgusted by the pervasive dread of ageing that everyone has, and the constant joking about it and everybody looking at later life as if it's just a dead zone, with nothing going on," said Lustbader, a former social worker and author who herself is in her late 50s.

Nearly 40 pct of Europeans suffer mental illness

LONDON: Europeans are plagued by mental and neurological illnesses, with almost 165 million people or 38 percent of the population suffering each year from a brain disorder such as depression, anxiety, insomnia or dementia, according to a large new study, Reuters reported on Sunday, Sept 5.
With only about a third of cases receiving the therapy or medication needed, mental illnesses cause a huge economic and social burden -- measured in the hundreds of billions of euros -- as sufferers become too unwell to work and personal relationships break down.