Navy Day 2010 - 27 April 2010

DSA 2010 - 19-22 APRIL

Again this year i will be the visiting exhibitors as requested by my good friends from ATLAS @atlas elektronik GmBh , Dr Heino Dobiasch.
Unfortunately due to volcano dust from Iceland, Dr Dobiasch was unable to attend on time, but few days delayed.There are almost two-thirds of Europe's flights were canceled .(about 16,000 of Europe's usual 28,000 daily flights and the volcano was costing the industry at least $200 million a day).

Anyway, i met Mr WOLFGANG HEUER, to my surprise he was in MALAYSIA.

Few Pic for good old times.

More information and photos will be uploaded.

HISTORY OF NAVY

The Romans were born as shepherds and farmers, but soon, after the enlargement of their domination during the Republican age, Rome collided with the greatest commercial and naval potency known in the Mediterranean sea till then: Carthage.
In 260 b.C. Rome fought its first naval battle: nearby Mylae (present-day Milazzo), the Carthaginian fleet, in spite of hundreds of years of experience, was defeated by the Roman navy, thanks to a new instrument that would make Rome the master of the Mediterranean during the following centuries: the corvus.
The victory at Cape Mylae let consul Gaius Duilius celebrate the first naval triumph in the history of Rome. The consul himself was honoured in the forum with a columna rostrata, decorated with the rostrums of captured hostile ships.
During the following centuries, Rome fought many other naval battles, with alternating success; some of them were historically fundamental, like the Battel of Actium (considered the last naval battle of Antiquity), others not at all.
For many centuries the Mediterranean Sea has been considered, rightfully, a “Roman lake”, rechristened “mare nostrum”.
The Roman navy was also employed during the Macedonian wars, assisted by the Rhodian and Pergamene fleets.
With the coming of the Vandals, for the first time the Roman navy, largely abandoned during the V century, found an opponent that proved itself to be even better. In 458, emperor Majorian re-organized and re-armed two fleets, probably the classis Misenensis and the classis Ravennatis, but his big navy was destroyed during the African invasion, by the hand of Spanish traitors.
In 469 there had been the last and hugest naval operation of Antiquity: under the command of general Basiliscus, the combined fleets of Western and Easterne Empire attacked the Vandals: the Romans had the victory close, when the Vandals destroyed the adverse fleet with a night sortie. The Romans were born as shepherds and farmers, but soon, after the enlargement of their domination during the Republican age, Rome collided with the greatest commercial and naval potency known in the Mediterranean.

Safinas Joy - saffiyah

Safinas, was working for us for the past 6 years? and she a tough account holder..dont u ever think of drawing money for yourself...as the owner!!!!
She been waiting for this very moment, even due for 12 days..holding the baby in her arms. As the eldest girl in the family, she bypassed by two younger sister, thanks to Almighty the youngest still want to pursue her diploma.After photo taking, and chit chating, we were sreved by her mother the asam pedas, sayur kobis and ikan masin , prepared by famous cook , Adik in the house.

weddings, newborn and tetamu...

12 march 2010..3 wedding and 1 newborn.
Faridah and harris shah my ex staff, CPo zul son, Zul was my ex staff in Labuan and Kdr Ir Salim son. Salim is my neighbour.

What is wedding to us now? Its a place to feel old because they are not your friends but your friends children. But its nice to be there to meet friends.

In Pasir panjang, off course the crowd is ADT staff , and we enjoyed (i believe) to see each others. After the calculation we discover that Mr SAW SOO KEONG was never there for anybody wedding, even his staff. Now SAW that something you have to explain!!
BASRI as usual will be the first to arrived as he want to eat freash food and nasi panas. his time is about 1130-1200..never late. The regular faces is Faiz, Mokhtar, Azim( he have to, he is photographer now), basri and Aida. Its always a joy to be with them.

IR SALIM's son wedding to me surprisingly is luxury, grand and reddish. There are two session, day and night, both attended by lots. I met Kdr Asri and wife, we sat together in VIP table and went to see Salim wife who is having terrible headache.

From there we went to Chif Zul house in teluk Rubiah and having a typical kelantanese wedding style. Simple, lots of people and gulai kawah. I end up eat another plate of rice...GULAI KAWAH!!!

Since there a lot of old friend and relative around Manjung for wedding,we having MEE KARI TULANG at my house on the evening untill night. The youngster came for AF Show, and end up to karoeke. Visitors from UIA, KL, Grik and regular girls and boys..

Today 14 march 2010
Went to visit safinas and her newborns, Safiyyah.Little girl with a lot of hair. Its must be a joy for Zainal, the father after being a groom at 40s.

The picture tells all.

Terror attacks planned at Selat Melaka

Singapore says terror attacks planned on oil tankers
AFP

SINGAPORE (AFP) - – An unidentified terrorist group is planning attacks against oil tankers in the Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, the Singapore Navy and a shipping association said Thursday.

The Singapore Shipping Association said it had received an advisory from the Singapore Navy Information Fusion Centre about "an indication that a terrorist group is planning attacks on oil tankers in the Malacca Strait."

It said "this does not preclude possible attacks on other large vessels with dangerous cargo."

"The terrorists' intent is probably to achieve widespread publicity and showcase that it remains a viable group," the navy said in its advisory.

It reminded shipping operators that the militants could use smaller vessels such as dinghies and speedboats to attack oil tankers.

second submarine will arrive in June 2010

KOTA KINABALU, Jan 12 — Malaysia’s second submarine, KD Tun Abdul Razak, is expected to arrive at the Royal Malaysia Navy (RMN) base in Sepanggar Bay here in early June.

RMN Submarine Commander First Admiral Mohammad Rosland Omar said the Scorpene submarine was currently undergoing second phase trials carried out by its Spanish manufacturer Navatia in waters off Cartagena in Spain.

“The journey home is expected to take two months. Come June, we will have two submarines here,” he told reporters after a RMV region two naval base’s Quality Day at Sepanggar Bay here today.

Malaysia’s first submarine, KD Tunku Abdul Rahman (KD TAR) arrived at the Lumut naval base from Toulon, France in early Sept 5 last year before it was stationed at the Sepanggar naval base on Sept 17.

Mohd Rosland said more RMN personnel would be trained to man both submarines to meet RMN future needs.

RMN Region II commander First Admiral Anuwi Hassan said the operations and programmes of both submarines for the year and next year had been laid out. On challenges facing RMN, he said among them were operating aging vessels but RMN was able to put 70 per cent of them in service.

“Anyway, they are not too old to operate. They have not exceeded their life span, but the cost of maintaining them is staggering. But we are able to repair the breakdowns and put them in service.

“We hope to acquire new assets to back up the present fleet under the 10th Malaysia Plan,” he added. — Bernama

Kejayaan SELWA :TLDM tingkat pengambilan anggota wanita

Oleh AMIZUL TUNIZAR AHMAD TERMIZI
utusanperak@utusan.com.my

LUMUT 15 Jan. - Bermula tahun ini, Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) akan meningkatkan kuota pengambilan anggota wanitanya daripada empat kepada lapan peratus.

Panglima Tentera Laut, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Jaafar berkata, langkah itu dibuat selepas mengambil kira sumbangan dan kepentingan wanita dalam perkhidmatan TLDM dan ia bakal memberikan peluang kepada anggota wanita untuk memperkembangkan kerjaya mereka.

Katanya, statistik terkini menunjukkan terdapat seramai 1,104 anggota wanita terdiri daripada 147 pegawai dan 957 lain-lain pangkat (LLP) dan ia bersamaan dengan 6.13 peratus kekuatan keseluruhan TLDM.

"TLDM tidak mengamalkan sebarang bentuk pilih kasih atau diskriminasi jantina dalam aspek pengurusan sumber manusia malah kita mengamalkan konsep orang yang tepat untuk pekerjaan yang tepat.

"Saya percaya kehadiran wanita dalam TLDM boleh melengkapkan pasukan dan boleh menyumbang ke arah pembangunan TLDM yang seimbang," katanya semasa berucap merasmikan Kem Wanita TLDM 2010 di pangkalan TLDM di sini hari ini.

Ketika ini pangkat tertinggi disandang oleh wanita dalam TLDM ialah komander dengan tujuh orang memegang pangkat itu.

Kebanyakan anggota wanita berkhidmat di pangkalan TLDM dan setakat ini, hanya empat pegawai iaitu masing-masing dua orang ditugaskan di dalam kapal iaitu KD Pahang dan KD Perak.

Menurut Abdul Aziz, TLDM sentiasa menghargai sumbangan yang dicurahkan oleh anggota wanita dan ia dapat dilihat pada bilangan anggota wanita yang dinaikkan pangkat pada sepanjang 2009.

Walaupun jumlahnya kecil kata beliau, anggota wanita TLDM berani mengorak langkah untuk menjadi cemerlang setaraf dengan anggota lelaki.

"Seramai 13 pegawai wanita dan 106 LLP wanita telah dinaikkan pangkat sepanjang 2009 dan ia merupakan 4.9 peratus daripada jumlah keseluruhan 2,430 anggota TLDM yang dinaikkan pangkat pada 2009.

"Pada tahun sama, seramai 190 anggota wanita juga dihantar berkursus di dalam dan luar negara iaitu sebanyak tiga peratus daripada jumlah 6,270 anggota yang dihantar berkursus," ujarnya.

Beliau memberitahu, sejajar dengan peningkatan anggota wanita yang berterusan, TLDM telah menubuhkan Sel Wanita pada 1 Mei 2009 dengan tujuan menjaga kebajikan wanita termasuk pembangunan kerjaya, hala tuju dan membendung isu sosial wanita.

"Banyak kejayaan telah dicapai oleh Sel Wanita TLDM dalam masa yang singkat seperti melantik pegawai penyelaras hal ehwal wanita di semua formasi, penggunaan baju mengandung TLDM serta bakal menggunakan tudung serta kasut kawad baru," katanya.
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CNET - The Harimau Berantai

He was my training officer. We called him Musa the harimau berantai, or Tiger Musa something..u should know why..he cant see trainee, he surely got something to say, pick up or punished..u name it, not a single day of his time in KDP, we didn't hear his voice. From block to block, from hockey field to rugby, from navigation class to canteen. anybody ever think of going out from routine, think of him..u will be back to class immediately. When he was appointed as DA in France, we visited him. As i left the navy, we become friend..i am very surprised to see how mild he is and how gentle he is with his children.Back in KL, he was appointed as CNET. A i told him, how perfect the appointment is to him and the organization. To my surprised, the trainees also think as such, i never thought he will won trainees heart (certainly not our time, we pray for him to leave the training organization as soon as possible)He certainly has changed..the trainee so enjoyed having him around ahhhahhh...what time has done to our tiger?? yess now we become good friend...

Thank you sir for being good teacher, mentor and friend. You are one of few that we called naval germs..He never late for appointments, never let down any invitations, never missed his staff wedding, funerals and kenduri. U will never know where he got the energy to travel all over Malaysia, just to attend the invitations.

I salute you, sir...

Navy hero joins veterans on other side of world

A ROYAL NAVY veteran from Plymouth has travelled around the world to pay his final respects to fallen comrades.

Victor Gray, now 85, is one of dozens of former Second World War sailors who have jetted off to Singapore and Malaysia on a trip dubbed 'the Last Hurrah of the British Pacific and East Indies Fleet'.

It is the final official visit the veterans will make to the region as a group – 65 years after they battled Japanese bombers.

The commemorative visit sees 58 former servicemen paying emotional tributes to the 120 friends and colleagues who were killed there. The two-week trip sees the veterans – many of whom are now well into their nineties – travelling to Singapore and the Malaysian island of Penang, where captured Allied forces were held in a prisoner of war camp.

from plymouth herald UK Tuesday, February 02, 2010, 09:00