Temubual dengan adik beradik sufiah iaitu Iskandar dan zuleikha yusof

Today: 0840

Sufiah Yusof was a child prodigy. But her life didn't turn out many expected. Zubeida Malik reports. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/today/

Duration: 4mins | File Size: 3MB

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(gambar : iskandar yusof 15 tahun/ noraisha yusof 19 tahun, graduate dari warwick universiti tahun 2004)

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transkip - sebahagian terjemahan melayu

q1 - sufiah yusof adalah kanak2 prodigi, beliau masuk oxford semasa berumur 13tahun. dn dpt perhatian dari media lebih-lebih lagi semasa beliau melarikan diri dari keluarga dan pembelajaran pada tahun 2000.Maka ia menunjukkan apa sebenarnya tekanan yang beliau hadapi utk mencapai kejayaan pada usia muda. SEkarang beliau sekali lagi masuk berita utama. Tabloid telah mendedahkan beliau bekerja sbg 'escort' di manchester. Jadi bagaimana seseorang yang ada potensi dan peluang akhirnya menjadi spt ini. zubeida malik telah bercakap dgn abg/adik sufiah yusof.

zuleikha - 'ini adalah album famili.itu adalah gambar kami dgn sufiah, saya rasa berada di flet..**'
rep - dan sufiah sdg ketawa?

zuleikha - 'iye, mgkin dia sedang buat jenaka ttg ssuatu'
rep - & adakah anda rindukannya..?
zuleikha - urm.... yes..

rep - zuleikha yusof berkongsi album famili dgn saya.dan foto semasa waktu bersama. Sudah 3 tahun sejak famili ini hilang sufiah. Abgnya iskandar berkata , beliau mengambil berat keadaanya selepas mengetahui sufiah bekerja sbg escort

rep - urm, apa yang ibu anda rasa?

iskandar - memang ibu rasa terperanjat dan kecewa semasa menerima berita ini. tetapi saya rasa, oleh sbb sufiah dh lama tk contact utk jangkamasa yg lama ibu tidakla suka dgr perkara ini mengenai 'kerjaya' yg sufiah lakukan.

repb - sufiah jadi perhatian public semasa tahun 1997, semasa berusia 13 tahun mdpt tmpat di Uni. oxford untuk belajar bidang matematik.pada tahun pertama, beliau duduk di St. Hilda dan berhadapan dgn tekanan akademik. tetapi pada tahun 2000, umur 15 tahun, beliau melarikn diri.

repc - keluarga pelajar 15 tahun yg melarikn diri lebih dari seminggu lalu selps menghabiskn exam di uni. oxford meminta menghubungi mereka.

repb - 2 minggu kmudian beliau dijumpai di bournemouth,
repc - pelajar 15 tahun yg hilang dr. oxford uni. telah dijumpai selamat. polis telah menjumpainya tetapi sufiah meminta polis tidak memberitahu keluarganya ttg lokasinya.

repb - beliau telah hantar email, dn menulis 'kehidupannya tidak dpt bertahan' dan tidak mahu balik ke rumah. abangnya iskandar yusof memberitahu sebabnya..


iskandar- saya hanya boleh britau anda, apa yg sufiah beritahu kt saya.dan saya rasa, ia lebih kepada tekanan yg ayah saya buat semasa mengajarnya.

rep - boleh anda terangkn lebih lanjut?

iskandar - sbnrnya, ayah kddg, hilang sabar dlm bbrapa isu.beliau ada bbrapa isu semasa tahun pertama di oxford. sya percaya perkara itulah yg memulakan semuanya.
rep - sufiah kembali ke uninversiti dan berkahwin dgn pelajar undang2 dlm tahun 2004.tetapi perkahwinannya kekal kurang dari 2 tahun. iskandar berkata perhubungan antara sufiah dn bapanya tegang.sufiah hanya cuma bapanya minta maaf ttg pergaduhannya yg lalu.iskandar yusof fahami bagaimana rasanya menjadi kanak2 prodigi. iskandar graduate dlm umur 15 tahun di warwick universiti. dan 14 tahun zuleikha sudah mendapat 3 Alevel.dan merancang utk belajar di universiti amerika.

iskandar - ibu sya tk pernah berkata ttg isu menjadi prodigi.tetapi org lain melakukannya.jadi kami selalu hadapi tekanan setiap masa. orang selalu kata, kalau anda menjadi prodigi, anda akan cemerlang dalam semua perkara.tapi sbnrnya dlm realiti anda ada masalah spt orang lain. kadang kala hidup dgn harapan orang berlainan dgn harapan keluarga.**
zuelikha - ** , tapi dlm bhagian lain, saya rasa sbg remaja, saya selalu berpura2 samada dpt mengatasinya.

rep - keluarga ini berharap sufiah dpt menghubunginya.

iskandar - sya ingin berkata, jika beliau ingin selesaikn isu ini,beliau kene fikirnnya sendiri. kadangkala jika berhadapan dgn masalah, anda tk perlu berkata dgn orang lain, anda perlu lihat sendiri dan berkata 'orang apakah yg saya ingin jadi', kadangkala berkata dgn media ataupun member famili tidak akan selesaikn masalah ini. kerana masalah ini berada didalam anda.

, ** = lost translation, sorry, sya bukan english expert, pembetulan amatlah dialukan. terima kasih kerana membaca.
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Oxford prodigy family speaks

By Megan Levy and Tom Chivers

Last Updated: 1:43pm BST 05/04/2008

The brother of the child prodigy who was one of the youngest students to be admitted to Oxford University but has now been reported to be working as a prostitute in Manchester has spoken of the family's reaction to the news.

Sufiah Yusof was just 13 years old when she was admitted to the prestigious university to study mathematics. Sufiah Yusof at the age of 15... Her brother Iskander Yusof, who himself graduated from Warwick University at the age of 15, told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that their father Farooq Yusof's temper and refusal to apologise for the pressures he placed on the young Sufiah led to tensions between father and daughter. He also said that, while their mother was "not best pleased" to hear where her daughter's career had taken her, it had been so long since they had had any contact that she was relieved to hear anything at all. He went on to say that despite everything that has gone on the family hopes that she gets in touch. "If she wants to resolve this issue she needs to think about it herself. "Sometimes when dealing with problems you don't need to speak to anyone else, you just need to look inwards and say 'what sort of person do I want to become?'", he said. Ten years on from being admitted to the university, Miss Yusof now earns £130 an hour working as a prostitute from her flat in Salford, Manchester, according to the News of the World. The newspaper claims it sent an undercover reporter to the 23-year-old's home, where Miss Yusof, who allegedly works under the name Shilpa Lee, described the services she reportedly offered. On her website, she is alleged to have described herself as a "very pretty size 8, 32D bust and 5'5'' tall - available for bookings every day from 11am to 8pm." The website has since been shut down. The gifted student sparked a massive police hunt in 2001 when, at the age of 15, she ran away from Oxford after passing her end-of-term examinations at St Hilda's College. At the time she sent her family an e-mail, accusing her father of making her life "a living hell" and of putting her through "15 years of physical and emotional abuse". Mr Yusof denied that he had pushed Sufiah too hard and implied that she was being told what to say by those controlling her. Police later found her living in Bournemouth, posing as a student among the 30,000 foreigners who go to the seaside resort each year to study English.