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Jangan tutup kelemahan dengan memberi alasan TMJ kaya

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Tengku Muda Pahang, Tengku Abdul Rahman Sultan Ahmad Shah bersama Tunku Mahkota Johor, Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim selepas perlawanan akhir Piala Malaysia 2024-2025 antara Johor Darul Ta’zim (JDT) menentang Sri Pahang FC di Stadium Nasional Bukit Jalil. Gambar NSTP oleh ASYRAF HAMZAH Sebagai Menteri Ekonomi dan pakar formula, dapatkah Rafizi Ramli mencipta formula selesaikan masalah kewangan kelab-kelab bolasepak negeri dalam Liga M? Walaupun nama baginda tiada dalam senarai Forbes, memang ramai orang percaya bahawa Pemangku Sultan Johor Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim adalah seorang billionaire yang kaya raya. Memanglah kekayaan itu satu kelebihan. Namun kekayaan tanpa kebijaksanaan, kecekapan, kreativiti, pandangan jauh dan karisme kepimpinan yang tinggi, sudah tentu baginda yang lebih dikenali sebagai TMJ tidak akan mencapai kejayaan seperti dikecapi sekarang, dalam konteks pembangunan sukan bolasepak. Suka atau tidak, kita harus mengakui dan menerima hakikat bahawa baginda memiliki nil...

When your children feel embarrassed to have you, start living on your own

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I always hated my father because he was a motorcycle mechanic, not a doctor or lawyer like my friends' parents. The embarrassment burned in my chest every time he roared up to my high school on that ancient Harley, leather vest covered in oil stains, gray beard wild in the wind. I wouldn't even call him "Dad" in front of my friends – he was "Frank" to me, a deliberate distance I created between us. The last time I saw him alive, I refused to hug him. It was my college graduation, and my friends' parents were there in suits and pearls. Frank showed up in his only pair of decent jeans and a button-up shirt that couldn't hide the faded tattoos on his forearms. When he reached out to embrace me after the ceremony, I stepped back and offered a cold handshake instead. The hurt in his eyes haunts me now. Three weeks later, I got the call. A logging truck had crossed the center line on a rainy mountain pass. They said Frank d!ed instantly when his bike went ...