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かみのおぼしめしのままに

NNoam — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 23:24:49 +0800

[Kami no oboshi meshi no mamani] bermaksud; Inshallah, God willing.

Contoh penggunaan; "Kami no oboshi meshi no mamani, kemenangan ditangan umat pilihan"

Gaza solidarity

NNoam — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:47:40 +0800

saw this on my way back home 3 days ago;

Shinjuku

Visiting my favorite historical person tomb;

NNoam — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:27:35 +0800

Few pictures from last week trip. Tomb of Christ with very surprisingly location; Shingo village, Aomori, Japan!

Base on local legend this is where Jesus Christ/Isa a.s. spend the rest of his life(and marry a local women) after escaping the crucifixion.

400m uphill walk

"kurisu no Haka"

The legend

These lagend based tombs has been recognized by the Isreal state anyway.

The tomb itself, got 2 of it another one is for Isukiri's (ear and hairs)

Some mini museum.

Pakatan Press Release MH17

NNoam — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 18:11:40 +0800

PRESS RELEASE
19 July 2014

I declare full support for the call by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak for an emergency parliamentary
sitting on the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

We in Pakatan are totally committed to any resolution to categorically condemn the mass murder committed by the perpetrators. In this regard, the Prime Minister must be unequivocal in naming the party or parties responsible, whoever they may be.

We also fully support the demand that the culprits of this crime be brought to justice and that all necessary measures be taken to facilitate a swift, effective and independent investigation.

This is indeed a time of grief and sadness for all Malaysians as it is too for others and we urge all parties to refrain from making statements or remarks that are insensitive to the feelings of the
families and loved ones of the innocent victims.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

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What, Exactly, Is Hamas Trying to Prove?

NNoam — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:16:42 +0800

Mahmoud Abbas, the sometimes moderate, often ineffectual leader of the Palestinian Authority, just asked his rivals in Hamas a question that other bewildered people are also asking: “What are you trying to achieve by sending rockets?”

The Gaza-based Hamas has recently fired more than 500 rockets at Israeli towns and cities. This has terrorized the citizenry, though caused few casualties, in large part because Israel is protected by the Iron Dome anti-rocket system.

In reaction to these indiscriminately fired missiles, Israel has bombarded targets across Gaza. Compared with violent death rates in other parts of the Middle East, the number of dead in Gaza is small. (More than 170,000 people have been killed in the Syrian civil war to date.) But it is large enough to suggest an answer to Abbas’s question: Hamas is trying to get Israel to kill as many Palestinians as possible.

Dead Palestinians represent a crucial propaganda victory for the nihilists of Hamas. It is perverse, but true. It is also the best possible explanation for Hamas’s behavior, because Hamas has no other plausible strategic goal here.

The men who run Hamas, engineers and doctors and lawyers by training, are smart enough to understand that though they wish to bring about the annihilation of the Jewish state and to replace it with a Muslim Brotherhood state (Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Brotherhood), they are in no position to do so. Hamas is a militarily weak group, mostly friendless, that is firing rockets at the civilians of a powerful neighboring state.

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The Israeli military has the operational capability to level the entire Gaza Strip in a day, if it so chooses. It is constrained by international pressure, by its own morality, and by the understanding that the deaths of innocent Palestinians are not in its best political interest. The men who run Hamas—the ones hiding in bunkers deep underground, the ones who send other people’s children to their deaths as suicide bombers—also understand that their current campaign will not bring the end of Israel’s legitimacy as a state.

I’ve been struck, over the last few days, by the world’s indifference to Gaza’s fate. Perhaps this conflict has been demoted to the status of a Middle East sideshow by the cataclysms in Iraq and Syria. Perhaps even the most accommodationist European governments know that Israel is within its rights to hunt down the people trying to kill its citizens. Regardless of the cause, Israel seems under less pressure than usual to curb its campaign.

There is no doubt that Hamas could protect Palestinian lives by ceasing its current campaign to end Israeli lives. The decision is Hamas’s. As the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, said earlier this week, "We face the risk of an all-out escalation in Israel and Gaza, with the threat of a ground offensive still palpable—and preventable only if Hamas stops rocket firing."

I understand that this latest round in the never-ending Israel-Gaza war was, in many ways, a mistake. Israel was uninterested in an all-out confrontation with Hamas at the moment, and Hamas, which is trying to manage a threat to its control of Gaza from—believe it or not—groups even more radical and nihilistic than it is, is particularly ill-prepared to confront Israel.

The politics of the moment are fascinating and dreadful, but what really interests me currently is a counterfactual: What if, nine years ago, when Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlers from Gaza, the Palestinians had made a different choice? What if they had chosen to build the nucleus of a state, rather than a series of subterranean rocket factories?

This thought is prompted by something a pair of Iraqi Kurdish leaders once told me. Iraqi Kurdistan is today on the cusp of independence. Like the Palestinians, the Kurds deserve a state. Unlike most of the Palestinian leadership, the Kurds have played a long and clever game to bring them to freedom.

This is what Barham Salih, the former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, told me years ago: “Compare us to other liberation movements around the world. We are very mature. We don’t engage in terror. We don’t condone extremist nationalist notions that can only burden our people. Please compare what we have achieved in the Kurdistan national-authority areas to the Palestinian national authority. … We have spent the last 10 years building a secular, democratic society, a civil society.” What, he asked, have the Palestinians built?

So too, Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government, once told me this: “We had the opportunity to use terrorism against Baghdad. We chose not to.”

In 2005, the Palestinians of Gaza, free from their Israeli occupiers, could have taken a lesson from the Kurds—and from David Ben-Gurion, the principal Israeli state-builder—and created the necessary infrastructure for eventual freedom. Gaza is centrally located between two large economies, those of Israel and Egypt. Europe is just across the Mediterranean. Gaza could have easily attracted untold billions in economic aid.

The Israelis did not impose a blockade on Gaza right away. That came later, when it became clear that Palestinian groups were considering using their newly liberated territory as a launching pad for attacks. In the days after withdrawal, the Israelis encouraged Gaza’s development. A group of American Jewish donors paid $14 million for 3,000 greenhouses left behind by expelled Jewish settlers and donated them to the Palestinian Authority. The greenhouses were soon looted and destroyed, serving, until today, as a perfect metaphor for Gaza’s wasted opportunity.

If Gaza had, despite all the difficulties, despite all the handicaps imposed on it by Israel and Egypt, taken practical steps toward creating the nucleus of a state, I believe Israel would have soon moved to evacuate large sections of the West Bank as well. But what Hamas wants most is not a state in a part of Palestine. What it wants is the elimination of Israel. It will not achieve the latter, and it is actively thwarting the former.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/a...o-prove/374342/

Palestinian crisis greatest solution.

NNoam — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 22:40:47 +0800

Palestinian crisis greatest solution lies in prophet Abraham's life stories wisdom.

Palestinian must forgives (The aggressors)
Palestinian must sacrifices (The land, The family)

God's will, If their are the believers their should accept this with open arms.

poem

NNoam — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:38:50 +0800

There are people who think the same way about something.

There are people who think a different way.

We are happy when we understand each other.

We get frustrated when we don't understand each other.

We are meeting for umpteenth time.

I am able to understand your feelings.

Because I am like you used to be,

And you are like I used to be.

Many flowers bloom on this planet.

Looking up at one sun.

There are many colors,fragrances,shapes.

Many flowers bloom all over the place.

When the wind blows, they all sway.

... Let's start a small revolution.

Just like whistling.

Let's start a small revolution.

Within our hearts.

By Yasuyuki Goto

Daikanyama

NNoam — Sun, 25 May 2014 10:40:50 +0800

Went to Daikanyama yesterday with wife(unofficial)
So classy la that place, recommended.

but yesterday alittle crowded I suggest weekday visit is better.

Produa Alza only in Malaysia?

NNoam — Fri, 09 May 2014 12:10:13 +0800

I saw all original variants of Produa Myvi, Kelisa, Viva, Kenari in Japan, but no Alza, hmm why?

Peach Aviation seeking Pilots/flight crews

NNoam — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:39:16 +0800

http://atwonline.com/airports-routes/pilot...summer-schedule

Pilot shortfall forces Peach Aviation to trim summer schedule
Apr 28, 2014 Anne Paylor

A shortage of pilots is forcing Japan’s Peach Aviation to cancel 488 flights during May and June. Peach said the cancellations are “with extreme regret,” but said the decision was made to “maintain efficient and safe operations.” Up to 2,088 flights between May 19 and Oct. 25 may be affected.

The low-cost carrier (LCC) said it managed to keep the flight cancellation rate to 0.96%, which is a “remarkably low number among LCCs.” However, it said the increasingly competitive environment has created “a sudden rise in demand for flight crew throughout the industry, leading to a shortage in personnel. In addition, there have been an unexpected number of absentees for health reasons among Peach’s flight crew."

Peach, a joint venture between All Nippon Airways and Hong Kong’s First East Investment, launched operations in March 2012.

Peach said it was making “every effort to find alternative arrangements” for customers, including switching them to other available Peach flights free of charge, or offering full refunds. The airline said it would announce any further changes to the flight schedule from July onwards on April 30.

In the meantime, Peach said it would “embark upon an even more proactive hiring strategy for flight crew to alleviate the current situation and to assure customer satisfaction.”

ARMENIANS SHOULD ACCEPT ERDOĞAN'S OLIVE BRANCH

NNoam — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:15:39 +0800

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a bold move by extending an olive branch to Armenians all over the world when he offered his condolences over the sad incidents experienced by their ancestors in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

About the incidents that occurred during the start of the 20th century in the Ottoman Empire, Erdoğan said, "May the Armenians who lost their lives in these events rest in peace," and "We extend condolences to their grandchildren."

The prime minister also stressed the importance of showing understanding about the fact the Armenians commemorate their losses and it is our duty to share in their grief.

But he did stress that all other citizens in the Ottoman Empire suffered during the same era, which is a way of saying Turks suffered losses at the hands of the Armenians as well.

This statement shows the voice of reason and the maturity of the Turkish state. It shows the strength of the Erdoğan administration and its self-confidence.

The statement of the prime minister will of course be strongly criticized by the opposition, especially conservatives and the nationalists of all kinds, but such a statement was necessary and long overdue.

It should be regarded first as a part of the bold democratization campaign of the government to open up to the Kurds and other ethnic groups. It should also be regarded as a foreign policy move to show to the West this government is serious and will take the necessary steps on the Armenian issue that befits a civilized country. But it also is a message to those who try to build up a case against Turkey with the "genocide" narrative.

The Armenians have to see that there is a serious olive branch being extended to them by Turkey and grasp it. That means the Armenian majority has to find a way to pacify the diehard extremist elements of the Armenian diaspora. Can they do this? Can the supporters of the Armenians in the West, especially the honorable members of the American Senate, see this?

dailysabah

Please stop drinking

NNoam — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:18:16 +0800

Message sent.

Nippon sunde iru...

NNoam — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 11:45:45 +0800

Sangat gembira dan sihat.

Makanan sedap.

Rancangan TV yang seronok ditonton buat kamu senyum sepanjang masa (lihat iklan-iklan komersil tv pun dah cukup lucu)

Kejiranan yang cantik.

Dimusin bunga, bunga tulip dimana-mana.

Budaya yang cantik dan meriah.

Kerata kompak, pengangkutan awam yang tiada cacat.

Tahap r&d tertinggi didunia (JP vs all countries combine)

Adapun sebegitu, masyarakat Jepun sebagaimana bangsa-bangsa lain didunia juga mempunyai kekurangan.

Yayoi remains

NNoam — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 12:56:37 +0800

from yesterday trip to Yayoi remains site, Mukibanda.

Yonago airport

NNoam — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:49:30 +0800

Wet

NNoam — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:10:48 +0800

Its snowy again today

Wet floor in JR train.

Not easy to walk over icy path, you can fall if dont careful.

Just sharing.

So today Japan cuti

NNoam — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 10:55:57 +0800

My Japanese house mate going to cook Malaysian food:

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Salji turun

NNoam — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 11:40:02 +0800

Tokyo.

picture taken just now

Melawat teman wanitaku di bandar Niigata Jepun.

NNoam — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:48:29 +0800

Berkongsi gambar-gambar sekitar perjalanan pergi dan balik.

edit: sorry , on mobile, gonna take time to upload.. Patut upload dulu, haha.

edit: tutup dulu lah.

Loyal life partner > money.

NNoam — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 19:44:13 +0800

"Loyal life partner is more important."

Itu teman wanita Jepun ku cakap.

Just sharing.