Genap 2 tahun di New Zealand

Kami genap 2 tahun berhijrah di New Zealand. Alhamdulillah, pengalaman ini terlalu berharga buat kami sekeluarga. Tinggalkan kerja, keluarga dan rakan-rakan di Malaysia dan tiba New Zealand tanpa sebarang pengalaman menjejak kaki ke NZ sebelum ini, ianya suatu yang tidak kami duga. Ada juga silapnya dengan langkah nekad kami ini. Seharusnya perancangan yang lebih baik harus disempurnakan terutama buat newcomers selepas ini. 

Sekolah Di New Zealand - Decile Rating

Saya suka nak kongsi berkenaan #decilerating bagi setiap sekolah di New Zealand.
Boleh rujuk informasi di bawah


What is decile funding?

Introduced in 1995.

Aimed to help schools meet the needs of students from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Decile-linked funding represents about 11 per cent of total operational grants for schools.


Why have the decile ratings been updated?

Last recalculation was seven years ago.

Deciles are calculated based on census data, usually every five years.

How were the deciles recalculated?

Using addresses of students at each school and census data.

Schools are compared nationally and are ranked.

Decile 1 schools are the 10 per cent of schools with the highest proportion of students from low socio-economic communities.

Decile 10 schools are the 10 percent of schools with the lowest proportion.


What factors are taken into account for decile ratings?

Percentage of households with income in the lowest 20 percent nationally

Percentage of employed parents in the lowest occupational groups

Household crowding

Percentage of parents with no educational qualifications

Percentage of parents receiving income support benefit


How will schools be affected?

Schools moving to a lower decile

Increased funding from the start of the next school year.

Schools moving to a higher decile

Funding reduced in steps over 18 months

Current funding until 1 July 2015, then half of reduction applied.

Second half of reduction applied July 2016.


Does a fall in a school's decile rating mean that the school's community has become poorer?

Not necessarily. The decile rating is a measure of the school community's socio-economic position relative to other school communities.




Source: Ministry of Education

Soalan anda bila jejak kaki ke New Zealand

30 Questions You’ll Ask When You Move To New Zealand

By Ian Benet

Ian is a pom who has been living in New Zealand for just over a year. Still struggling with place names, phrases and trying to get to the bottom why everyone loves a sausage sizzle, he can often be found out exploring the West Coast or at a gig or in a grotty old pub nursing a pint of ale. There’s not much he won’t do for a free lunch and is determined to see as much of New Zealand as possible, either on foot or by bike.

By Ian Benet - 19 Jul 2016

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Arriving in for a new life in New Zealand my head was full of questions. Below are 30 of them. Some have been answered, most haven’t. 

1. Whaka.. what?
2. Can you spell it for me?
3. Did he really just say that on the radio?
4. How come you get a public holiday for the Queen’s Birthday but Poms don’t?
5. Is there anyone who wasn’t an extra in Lord of the Rings?
6. What time does Spitting Feathers open?
7. Why does everyone in rural New Zealand give me that look when I say I’m living in Auckland?
8. Will you sponsor me so I can stay in the country?
9. Will you marry me so I can stay in the country?
10. So what exactly is a dairy?
11. Feijoa. Where’s that?
12. Why has that person not got any shoes on?
13. Am I supposed to know who the Briscoes lady is?
14. So rent is $450. We’re talking a month, right?
15. Is anyone going to bring me the bill?
16. What’s Eftpos?
17. So apart from London and Edinburgh, what other parts of the UK did you visit on your OE?
18. Did he really pull that girl’s ponytail?
19. How is this front page news?
20. So how long have you been in New Zealand?
21. Is a shore girl really a sure thing?
22. Why doesn’t everyone just take the train?
23. Why are the electrical plugs so badly designed?
24. Is saying that not considered politically incorrect?
25. So is this a sweet or a lolly?
26. Explain to me how your health system works again?
27. Are all the beaches this beautiful?
28. A tomato/avocado/punnet of strawberries costs how much? 
29. Why don’t we do things like this in back home?
30. Why is everyone so friendly?

How Islamic are the Islamic Countries - New Zealand

The study, conducted by Prof. Hussain Askari of George Washington University entitled “How Islamic are the Islamic Countries,” showed that most of these countries that apply Islamic principles in most of their daily lives are not ones traditionally Muslim with New Zealand ranking first, Luxembourg second followed by Ireland, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Canada.

Malaysia ranked 38, Kuwait 48, Bahrain 64 and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 131.

The study, published in the Global Economy Journal, might be shocking to most of us but when we look around us and see the reality of the situation, we find that the results of the study are accurate and true. Muslims seem to care only about performing religious obligations (prayer, fasting etc.) and memorizing the Holy Qur’an and the Prophet’s sayings, but we never practice what we learn. We listen to religious lessons and sermons more than other people on the face of the earth but we are still not the best nation. In the last 60 years, we have listened to 3,000 Friday sermons.

A Chinese merchant once said: “Muslim merchants come to me and ask me to put fake international labels and brands on their goods. When I invite them to eat, they refuse because the food is not halal. So it is halal for them to sell fake goods?” A Japanese Muslim said: “I traveled to the West and saw Islam in practice applied in the daily life of non-Muslims. I traveled to the East, I saw Islam but did not see any Muslims. I thank Allah I knew Islam before I knew how Muslims act.”

Religion should not be reduced to prayer and fasting. It is a way of life and it is about how we treat others. Performing a religious obligation is up to you and it is something between you and Allah. However, good ethics is something between you and other people. In other words, if we do not put Islamic ethics into action and practice, corruption will become rampant. We should not judge a person based on how he performs religious obligations for he might be a hypocrite. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “Verily, the bankrupt of my nation are those who come on the Day of Resurrection with prayers, fasting and charity, but also with insults, slander, consuming wealth, shedding and beating others.”

Di petik dari sumber : https://www.quora.com/How-Islamic-are-the-Islamic-countries

Senarai Restoran Segera Halal Di New Zealand

Di sini kami letakkan disclaimer siap-siap di awal posting untuk elak kekeliruan semua tentang apa yang cuba disampaikan

# Halal dalam senarai yang cuba disenaraikan ini adalah melalui apa yang di sampaikan oleh teman-teman, zabihah dan dirujuk daripada laman web rasmi restaurant.

# Kami tidak bertanggungjawab atas kesahihan maklumat status halal bagi sesebuah premis restaurant dan pengguna harus membuat 'double check' bagi senarai yang disenaraikan.

# Mohon letakkan komen bagi posting ini sekiranya terdapat kesalahan dalam senarai ini.

Kami rasa amat bertuah di New Zealand kerana hampir mudah untuk dapatkan makanan halal dan kerajaan yang bertolak ansur dalam menguruskan halal. Antara laman web rasmi untuk rujukan halal samada pembekal, kilang atau restoran adalah laman web FIANZ - Halal directory. 

Senarai Restoran Segera Halal di New Zealand adalah seperti dibawah

1. Burger Fuel

* Anda perlu request di counter semasa order, kasitau "please prepare in Halal"

Rujukan - http://www1.burgerfuel.com/nz/product-info/halal-info

2. Pita Pit

* Setakat ni hanya beberapa outlet yang ada di Auckland :( 

Rujukan - http://pitapit.co.nz/menu/pitas

3. Nandos

* Kami tiada sumber dari laman web rasmi dan mohon check semula dengan restoran yang anda kunjungi - ini kerana dimaklumkan terdapat juga Nandos yang tidak menggunakan ayam yang halal.

Kalau rasa gundah gulana dan nak rujuk artikel ni juga okay, terpulang

http://www.astroawani.com/berita-malaysia/bahan-berubah-sifat-boleh-jadi-halal-jika-diproses-dr-asri-37362

Barang makanan Malaysia di New Zealand

Alhamdulillah bila tiba di New Zealand tak rasa risau untuk dapatkan barang dapur - groceries dari Malaysia terutama yang halal. Kalau di Auckland lebih banyak pilihan berbanding dari tempat lain.

Bagi yang di Auckland - ramai Malaysian akan tertumpu di e-pacs, 20 minit drive dari Auckland city ke arah selatan. laman web e-pacs - http://e-pacs.webs.com/

Bagi kami yang di Hamilton - kebiasaanya hanya di kedai Firdaus dimana ada juga barang-barang dari Malaysia. Lokasi seperti peta dibawah

 



Contoh barang-barang yang boleh didapati dari kedai Firdaus seperti gambar bawah

Jenayah di New Zealand

Jenayah ada dimana-mana dan samada kita peka atau tidak. Di New Zealand juga terdapat pelbagai jenis jenayah dan tidak semuanya daripada imigrasi. Dalam laporan berita dibawah juga sertakan senarai lokasi yang harus kita lebih berhati-hati bila ada di kawasan yang dinyatakan.

Contoh: Kami selalu pergi ke kedai Uncle Man di K Road, Auckland, tapi kena lebih berhati-hati terutama tumpuan pada anak-anak. :-)

Laporan berita jenayah di kawasan-kawasan tertentu seluruh NZ

Statistik Polis NZ