Waheeda jadi isteri Akhil?



WALAUPUN mengaku tertekan dengan kontroversi yang melanda dirinya dengan Akhil Hayy, penyanyi dan pelakon Norwahidah Abdul Wahab atau Waheeda, seperti mengundang masalah apabila dikatakan bakal berganding dengan Akhil dalam sitkom Kafe Akhil Hayy (Astro Oasis).

Malah lebih mengejutkan, Waheeda bakal melakonkan watak isteri Ustaz Akhil. Waheeda ketika ditemui di majlis ramah mesra bersama barisan pelakon Nana Tanjung untuk TV9 berkata, watak sebagai isteri dalam sitkom berkenaan belum pasti memandangkan ia masih dalam peringkat perbincangan.

Katanya, tawaran itu juga hanya datang daripada Akhil sendiri dan bukan penerbit.

“Sepatutnya, saya tidak boleh memaklumkan perkara ini terlebih dulu kerana ia masih dalam peringkat perbincangan. Saya hanya dimaklumkan Akhil secara lisan,” katanya.

Dalam Harian Metro semalam, Waheeda mengakui tertekan dengan isu yang mengaitkan dirinya dengan penceramah bebas itu. Mereka juga dikatakan sudah berkahwin. Gadis kelahiran Johor Bahru, Johor itu mengakui cukup bahagia apabila bergaul dengan Akhil.

Mengulas perkembangan karier seninya, Waheeda dijangka sekali lagi bergandingan dengan Akhil untuk menjayakan persembahan sempena Maulidur Rasul di Stadium Merdeka, Isnin ini.

“Saya terima apa orang hendak bercakap mengenai kami. Walaupun kami tidak bercinta namun ramai yang kelihatan seperti suka menggandingkan kami.

“Saya akui walaupun berdepan pelbagai tohmahan daripada masyarakat dan kontroversi, namun hubungan kami tetap baik. Kami tetap berkawan dan meluangkan masa bersama terutama apabila membabitkan hal kerja,” katanya.

Waheeda turut memaklumkan mahu memberi tumpuan kepada penghasilan album solonya tahun ini. Apabila diajukan persoalan mengenai hasratnya sebelum ini untuk tidak berlakon lagi, Waheeda mengakui sebaliknya.

Katanya, hasrat itu terpaksa dilupakan buat sementara memandangkan sudah berjanji dengan Prof Madya A Razak Mohaideen untuk menjayakan drama bersiri terbaru arahannya.



“Cakap-cakap orang kadangkala membuatkan saya sakit. Apabila memaklumkan untuk berehat daripada dunia lakonan, ada saja tawaran yang datang.

“Memang selama ini saya merancang untuk berhenti berlakon sejak tahun lalu. Saya sendiri meletakkan sasaran setiap tawaran lakonan yang saya terima perlu bersesuaian,” katanya.

Mengulas karakter dalam Nana Tanjung, Waheeda berkata dia memegang watak seorang kakak (Ida) dalam sitkom keluarga itu. Di samping membimbing adik-adiknya, sitkom berkenaan turut menampilkan beberapa babak berunsur nasihat dan dakwah.

Katanya, memang mencabar membawakan watak ini tetapi mengakui seronok kerana dapat menjadi sebahagian daripada pelakon yang menjayakan sitkom yang diangkat daripada filem.

“Saya juga dapat berkenalan dengan pelakon baru dan seronok kerana dapat berlakon dengan Saiful Apek selain Pak Piee, Sheila Mambo dan Fouziah Gous,” katanya.

Drama 13 episod ini disiarkan di TV9 setiap Isnin, jam 10 malam bermula 2 Mac lalu.

SPM results on March 12

PETALING JAYA: The Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) and Sijil Tinggi Agama Malaysia (STAM) results will be released on March 12.

Students would be able to obtain the results after 10am from their respective schools, said Education director-general Datuk Alimuddin Mohd Dom.

“Private candidates will receive their results through the post,” he said in a statement yesterday.

A total of 442,936 students sat for the SPM examination, while 6,240 students sat for the STAM papers last year.

Four make Forbes Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy list




PETALING JAYA: Four Malaysians have made Forbes Asia’s latest Heroes of Philanthropy list which honours leading givers in the Asia-Pacific region.

The four, named in the magazine’s March 16 issue, are Tun Ahmadshah Abdullah, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah, Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing and Datin Raya Erom.

Sabah Yang di-Pertua Negri Ahmadshah, 62, was cited for a foundation he started in 2004 in his own name that provides financial aid of about RM48,000 a year to the needy.

The Tun Ahmadshah Foundation awards scholarships and funds educational programmes for underprivileged students while also taking care of the welfare of single mothers, orphans and victims of tragedy.
Doing their bit: (From left) Ahmadshah, Cheah and Lim have mades Forbes Asia's leading givers list.

Cheah, the Sunway Group chairman, was credited with awarding some RM43mil in college scholarships through the Sunway Education Trust Fund set up in 1997.

He also donated RM10mil last year, mostly for building and repairing primary and secondary schools.

Cheah, 63, plans to turn the trust fund into the Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Foundation, to be modelled after the Harvard Foundation.

Lim, 62, who founded the Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, has contributed and organised fundraising for, among other things, fighting AIDS and apartheid.

He also provides scholarships, disabled student services, and gave RM80,000 last year to the “Plight of Palestinians: From Grim to Bleak” fund.

Raya Erom, 46, is chairman of Kebajikan Suria Foundation, which has helped more than 1,000 children throughout Sabah. She also donated RM133,000 last year in cash and goods.

She is the wife of former Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Salleh Tun Said and the daughter-in-law of former Sabah Yang di-Pertua Negri Tun Said Keruak.

Raya Erom’s foundation will also be setting up a women’s counselling division to address career challenges, depression, infertility and abuse.

This second edition of the Forbes philanthropy list identified 48 people from across the Asia-Pacific. Among them are Chinese recycling tycoon Cheng Guangbiao, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, India’s Sunil Mittal, Thailand’s “condom king” Mechai Viraivaidya, James Riady from Indonesia and Manuel V. Pangilinan from the Philippines.

Indonesia's Semeru volcano erupts

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP): Officials say Mount Semeru on Indonesia's Java island has erupted, sending smoke and volcanic dust high into the sky.

Director of the Volcanology Agency Surono says the eruption early Friday covered some areas with ash but did not pose any threat to nearby villages.

He says no evacuation order was issued but that volcanologists are continuing to carefully monitor the 12,060-foot (3,676-meter) mountain in Central Java. Surono uses only one name.

Indonesia is spread across 17,500 islands and is prone to volcanic eruptions and earthquakes because of its location along the Pacific's so-called "Ring of Fire."

F1's Honda reaches agreement with Brawn

TOKYO: Honda reached an agreement to pass the ownership of its Formula One team to Ross Brawn, with the team to be called Brawn GP.

The former Honda team principal assumed control “with immediate effect” and the British-based team confirmed on Friday that Jenson Button and Rubens Barichello will be its drivers this year.

“The past few months have been extremely challenging for the team but today’s announcement is the very pleasing conclusion to the strenuous efforts that have been made to secure its future,” Brawn, also a former technical director of Ferrari’s F1 team, said in a statement. “It is a great shame that having worked with Honda Motor Company for so long we can no longer continue together.”

Brawn GP will take part in pre-season tests in Spain at Barcelona and Jerez before the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on March 29, when the grid will feature 20 cars.

Brawn GP will not use Honda engines after securing a partnership with McLaren to use its Mercedes engines.

It is the fourth time that Honda, which announced it was pulling out of the sport in December, has abandoned F1.

Financial details of the buy-out were not revealed, nor were plans for the 700 staff at the Brackley-based outfit.

There was also no mention of whether Nick Fry, who worked alongside Brawn and was reportedly engaged in the management buy-out talks, will have a role in the team. Honda had one of the highest budgets in F1 last year at £200 million.

“We are very pleased that we could sell the team to Ross Brawn, with whom we have been partaking in the challenges of F1 competition, and are grateful for his decision,” said Hiroshi Oshima, spokesman for the Japanese automaker. “We offer our sincerest wishes for the new team which will be led by Ross.”

Barichello earned the nod to partner Button for the fourth straight year over GP2 racer Bruno Senna, nephew of three-time world champion Ayrton Senna.

“The vast experience and knowledge that both drivers bring to our team will prove invaluable as we aim to get up to speed in the shortest possible time to be ready for the first race of the season in Melbourne,” Brawn said of the two drivers, who have combined to race a total of 423 GP races. “Their experience with our team in Brackley, our systems and our engineers, will prove a real asset.”

Brawn also said that governing body FIA, F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone and the Formula One Teams Association had played a big supporting role in helping secure the deal. F1 is introducing major regulation changes from this season in a bid to cut costs amid the global economic downturn.

“The journey ahead will be challenging but exciting and we know we can count on their continued enthusiasm for our team and its ambitions,” Brawn said. - AP

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