https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dnuzqy7BIlM

exploring the world

February 2, Datuk Azhar departure from Awana Porto Malai Langkawi to  achieve his ambitions to be all around the globe, exploring the world in a new east-west-east alone. After 14 days, he arrived in Tanjung Datuk Azhar Leewin after sailing as far as 1,859 nautical miles. Datuk Azhar continues to face challenges when it storms through Rio De Janeiro, Fernando De Noronha. Exactly at 11:39 Datuk Azhar arrived at Awana Porto Malai, Langkawi marking the country after 6 months of extensive challenges in ocean.

http://malaysiakita.tripod.com/pelayar

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His success

Azhar received recognition as an offshore yachtmaster which enables him to captain pleasure yachts overseas. The certificate was presented to him by AYS Yachtmaster examiner Captain Marty Rijkuris. Azhar said anyone in Malaysia could take his own boat to sea without any certificate of competency from a governing body. The certification scheme is a good move but it will take some time for Malaysian authorities to review and make it a law for yachtsman"Azhar's 'attempt to sail round the world covering over 21,600 nautical miles automatically qualifies him to receive the AYS Offshore Yachtmaster Certificate which is also the highest order in the scheme.Apart from the certification, Azhar will negotiate with the Awana Porto Malai Resort management to maintain the Jalur Gemilang shorebase. "

http://asianyachting.com/Archive/recognit.htm

CURRENT SITUATION

Azhar, who was lauded as "Pahlawan Bangsa" (Nation's Hero) is a successful businessman.On his business, a topic he seldom shares with others, he said being a businessman is not as easy as is generally thought to be because he often has to work till late into the night to maintain or repair tourist boats. He has 25 employees; most of them are locals. The focus is to build sailboats bearing the JG (Jalur Gemilang) brand.He is also trying to draw more foreign boats to Langkawi. He often took students and their teachers on sea excursions during school holidays and taught them about sailing.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/bm/printable.php?id=278196 

Distribution

Azhar, who runs a marina for yachts and builds boats at Telaga Harbour Park here, emerged a national hero after becoming the first Malaysian to sail solo around the world in 1999.His main mast broke during a storm in the waters off Cape Horn, South America, causing him to be stranded for days.With the government's assistance and support from Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the prime minister, Azhar managed to continue and completed his mission in 190 days, boosted by the spirit of "Malaysia Boleh".Azhar was 41 when he set sail for the mission on Feb 2, 1999, in the RM2 million "Jalur Gemilang." He arrived back in Malaysia on Aug 11 the same year.

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/bm/printable.php?id=278196

BACKGROUND

          Dato' Azhar Mansor is the first  Malaysian to sail solo around the world.He made his trip in 1999, sailing the ship called Jalur Gemilang.  His round the world trip, with stops, took 190 days, 6 hours 57 minutes 2 seconds . Despite his personal life, Datuk Azhar has managed to set a new world record via an East about route, attempted by no-one and has been verified by the WSSRC (World Speed Sailing Record Council) as an official record.Azhar is one of only a couple of hundreds of people in the world to circumnavigate the globe single-handed, and is the only person from an Asian nation apart from Japan to do so.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azhar_Mansor

According to the excerpt dated 3 March, 2013  from New Straits Times, ‘ Prisoners to get varsity-level courses’ i can conclude that prisoner also need education because they need another new chance to build their new life. Even though they are prisoner  they also a normal human being. They also want to have better life together with their family. From my point of view, i can see that the Prisons Department initiatives to enhance the skills and educational level of prisoner to increase their competency after serving their sentence is good for them. Nowadays, prisoner are not welcome to be a part of educational field such as in University and so on. This perhaps will bring them to return to their past activities that against the Malaysian rules. The scholarship offered is also good because sometimes commonly the prisoner comes from poor family background  In addition, they might commit crime just because to earn money to further their study because they did not afford to pay for the fees, their study life cost,books and many more. We should think positively about their wants to have education and give them chance to have new better life.  The excerpts also writes that, since July last year, 1764 prisoners had had received certificates in skill training and 703 obtain certificates for other achievement. This show they are really eager to have education to have better life and clearly shows the positive impact on both prisoners and country. It also help the government to build peace country because the had build the prisoners moral by giving them chances to have education and change their life. In a nutshell  i can conclude that, we as a Malaysian, need to support any positive effort from our government.