Compiled by ZULKIFLI ABD RAHMAN, C.ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
After harbouring ambitions of becoming a lawyer, a law graduate did not expect to make a vocation out of operating a school canteen.
Muhamad Iezhar Abd Samat, 36, obtained his syariah law degree from International Islamic University Malaysia and worked as a legal officer for four years.
He told Harian Metro that he decided not to pursue his dream of becoming a lawyer after he got a job as a canteen operator at a religious school in Jinjang, Selangor.
“I have never thought of going into the school canteen business,” he said.
Muhamad Iezhar said he wakes up at 4am from Monday to Friday to start work at the school canteen.
“It’s great to provide food for the teachers and pupils and talk to them.
“My food prices are reasonable. Sometimes, I give out free food to some of the children who don’t have money to pay,” he added.
> Actress Diana Danielle has denied that her new song Raja Dusta is directed at someone, reported Utusan Malaysia.
The newspaper said the song seemed to give clues about the 33-year-old’s personal life.
“The song has nothing to do with my life and I didn’t want it to be about mocking anyone.
“Anyway, people tried to connect my earlier songs to my personal life. I leave it to the people to make their interpretations about it,” she said.
Diana divorced actor Farid Kamil, 43, on March 23. They were married for 13 years and have two children together.
> A woman with 14 grandchildren fulfilled her wish of obtaining a doctorate degree.
Kamaliah Md Saman, 68, said she decided to pursue her ambition to obtain a doctorate in pharmacy clinical studies after being a lecturer on the subject for seven years.
She said her most difficult task was to use IT and various software to find articles and reports for her thesis.
“For me, today’s challenges are different from (those during) my time in the 1980s. So I sought advice from students and lecturers (on how) to use the software.
“Despite the difficulties, I’m happy to get my doctorate scroll after six years of effort,” she said.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
