Do we need street protest?

The recent friday and saturday will not be best remembered by those living and commuting in and around Kuala Lumpur. This was because of the massive traffic jam as a consequence from the street protests.

Do we really need these life-annoying events?

I really think Malaysians should not condone these kind of acts. Why should a group of people with their own and personal aims caused hardships to thousands of other ‘uninterested and so-called’ ignorance citizens like me and you? We had already devoted 5 days a week of our life to our jobs, in search of incomes and were looking forward to the weekends to relieve our stressful minds, but then we were told that the city was inaccessible due to the gatherings of these so-called people who demanded for ‘changes’.

Why these people (if I may use my word-stupid people) want to demonstarate about abolishing an act that the government already planned to review it, is a big question to my politically-uninclined mind. I heard that most of them came from outside KL, even as far as the east coast states to participate. To my uninitiated mind, this anti-ISA gatherings was a politically motivated gatherings.

Why was it held in the heart of KL, in the heart of commerce and business, where its roads are directly connected to the main traffic flow of KL? Why won’t the organizers did it far away in a less disturbing place then sent a representative to hand in the most important memorandum to the king? These people only like to cause hardships in the daily life of others. If I may speak on behalf of those not so well politically inclined, I think that the gathering was at utmost bulls*** and really ‘menyusahkan orang’! Are those who gathered there really know what the hell ISA is, or at least the year it was drafted and the reason behind it? I really doubt it because they were there because of political gain. If not, tell me why there was chanting of ‘Mati BN?’

I read in the newspapers that there were several protesters that fainted, and even a teenager who collapsed due to asthmatic attack and were rushed to the hospital (where else, Hospital Kuala Lumpur la-kesian kat staff yang kerja shif pagi dan petang). This is what I want to say to the protesters” “padan muka!’ Who ask you to be there in the first place? The protesters were swarming in the heat of KL, shouting and screaming, while their big bosses who I think are also as mindless as many of their followers, happily sat under the shade, coming and going in air-conditioned car.

Adil ke macam tu? Pakatan Rakyat konon!

Reversing the policy

The most hotly debated and discussed reversal of policies now is the reversal of the teaching of mathematic and science in english (PPSMI) policy. It was introduced by then PM Tun Mahathir back in 2003 and touted as one of the way to haul up Malaysia faster towards the developed nation status. It was met by many challenges, not only by the students in their quest to learn something deemed difficult subjects by many in english, but by also those responsible in teaching those subjects as many of the teachers and educators were themselves were poor in mastering english. So, the controversies led to many discussions, protests, forums bla bla bla. There was even a movement ‘Gerakan Basmi PPSMI’ initiated in protest to this policy.

But, came recent week in July 2009, our new prime minister has announced the irreversible demolishing action of reversing the PPSMI by 2012, and by then our students will then be again learning these subjects in Malay.

I personally feel that the decision was atrociously incorrect and done with a political agenda behind it?

Many of the so-called movements for the Malay language lauded the PM’s decision. But here at the grass roots, people are expressing their dissapointments about it.

One question comes to my mind: Why is it only the Malays are talking a lot about it?

The other questions:

What about the other races?

 Are the other races don’t care whether PPSMI stay or go?

My grass-root is in the Malay middle class, live comfortably in the outskirt of KL and my daughter has most of the things that she wanted. Me and my wife talks in Malay and also English to her, and my wife’s 7-year-old niece talks english to my daughter when she came back from school. We always has Berita Harian and The Star on weekdays, plus NST and Mingguan Malaysia on weekends.

-Thus I am aware of the importance of English for my daughter

-Insyaallah she will be able to has a good grasp in both Malay and English

-I can always buy English books for her and send her to English tuition class, if needed

BUT ……

what about those people whom their grassroots are in the low social class?

where are they going to learn English?

are their parents or children so aware about the importance of English?

they have only schools to provide them with english teachings …… and perhaps, it is from schools that they can hear (not to the level of listening yet) english words and phrases (please minus the vulgar ones)

 

We should be teaching subjects in our Malay also.

BUT we should have fully English-stream schools also …………… hail the Malay College!

Post exam

Today is the 3rd day of post-official part one exam result day. i’ve been in work since last week. what a relieve that i passed, and now is posted to the community psychiatric services. the joy of passing has already settled and now i am already planning for the part two tasks.

It had been a stressful and prolonged hypercortisolaemia period since april. i am so relieved that i will not be enduring it again until 2010 when i’m going to sit for the part two exam. i pitty my friends who need to re-sit their papers in november, but good luck to them, and i know they will certainly pass

tomorrow is a part of the test

hi you all outside in the whole wide world,

today is the last day of my study leave. tomorrow i’m gonna take my part one written paper. i know i will pass and go for the clinical exam.insyaallah.hope it’ll be a good news at the end, and it should be. pray for my success.

thanks!

Surau

Last Tuesday, my wife, my daughter and me went to KLCC to do some window shopping of a handbag for my mother-in-law. We arrived there near to Maghrib and decided to complete the prayer first as not to miss the short duration of time. We managed to find the new surau that was moved to the concourse level from the 4^th floor. I was glad to pray there with the other many more jemaahs due to the cleanliness and comforting environment of the surau. I already lost count on how many times KLCC surau was moved from one place to another in the vicinity of the Suria KLCC. But, one thing that I’m sure is that the management always makes sure that the surau is properly managed, clean and comfortable for the prayers to be done.

Another place that should be commanded for the good surau management is Sunway Pyramid. The previous and current surau was and still is comfortable to pray. The management over there also makes it a point to keep the place in good condition for the Muslims shoppers.

However, some places like hospitals and other public-packed places couldn’t maintain a respectful level of cleanliness and comfort for their surau. This is especially when the place has several surau or small prayer rooms to maintain, especially if they are located in every floor of the building. Even, some glamourous and upmarket retail shops and complexes have smelly, dirty and stinking surau with dark and gloomy interior. I also notice that some hotels, even those which claim to be 3-star and above have not been well in maintaining the surau.

For me, I still can pray if it was a mildly smelly surau, but I can’t tolerate a dirty and really stinking surau. The bad odour mostly comes from the wet carpets near the ablution area and made worst when the surau doesn’t has good ventilation system eg when the aircond seems to be functioning only on irregular basis, and the surau is located in an enclosed compartment and tucked away at a far away corner of the floor

is something wrong with the kite?

I’ve been a frequent local flier with our premium airline since the birth of my daughter. I frequented the Pen-KL and vice versa for most of the times; having to commute between Sg Petani and Bukit Jalil to visit my wife and the daughter. Now, I need to commute again between those places to visit my wife who’s still stuck in the hell hole of Sg Petani.

I was initially satisfy with the sevice of the airline.

But, of lately, I think that the airlines is also having much the less similiar problems acquainted with its low fares competitor: flight cancellations and delays. I’d 2 delays in my last 2 trips. One was when my KL-Pen flight was postponed from 2020 hour to 2210 hour without me being informed. I only knew about the postponent when I accidentally checked on the departures screen (I checked in using their self-check in kiosk) and later told wwas that I would had been put into the 2100 hour flight if I’d check-in earlier. Then, there was my recent flight. I was supposed to get into the 2110 flight to the same destination, but it was pushed to 2140 hour, and I noticed that the 2020 and 2210 hour had been cancelled. So much for a premium airlines!

I’m a little concern about this kind of deterioration. I’m a strong supporter of any of the national brands, especially the premium and established ones. If this kind of problem continues, more people will opt to take the low fare airlines (it’s cheaper but with the same problem). The main point of the low fares’ are that the fares are so much cheaper thus passengers will not mind being in the crowded and messed-up LCCT. Premium brands should strive to keep their premium status. One of the way, is through a systematic and well organized maintenance of their services.

I am tired.

I’ve been working and traveling almost non-stop since the early of March. That also includes the time I commuted from Sg Petani and Kangar, and the period I spent taking care of our baby (wife going for her Induksi and BTN in short period of time in between). But the most tiring were our clinic days. Since the implementation of LIVE eHIS, the consultation time in the clinic has been a burden on me. We took a little bit longer to key in the information. I’m also not willing to let my patient see me just for seconds only. Pity those who came a long way, paid sums of money, took a long time for registration and then waited to see the doctor, but then when the time came, the patients only saw the doctor for a minute or less. If it was me,I couldn’t tell my respective patient if I’m just going to see him/her for a minute! What will be the feeling of the patients when they were told straight away to collect the medication after just warming up their seats in the consultation rooms?

That is why I took a few minutes to talk and explain to my patients. Follow up sessions are the time (although not so much time available) to psychoeducate and remind the patients and their families about their illness and the current managements. Doctors can always take the little time they have to check on compliance, social support, apart from checking on psychotic symptoms. But, that amount of time spent can cause backlogs of waiting patients, and the numbers allocated to each doctor will increase if less doctors are around. That is why I was trained not to take leave on clinic days (thanks to surgical, err .. especially mr rashide, yakhh!). I really want to take leave on Sundays and Mondays especially if I’m already having weekend free of oncalls. But, that will causes my colleagues that are around on that day to be swamped with patients! And now the MAs cannot help us to see patients after the launch of eHIS because of their limited access capability.

I don’t know how my friend can take leave on clinic days. He has conscience and insight about the workload, and how slow consulting times increase with eHIS, but still insisted on taking leave on that days because he’s not oncall and wants to finish his leaves before quitting the goverment post. I too can do the same thing. Just take my leaves because I’m gonna go for my master’s programme (insyaallah) because I might not have the chance to take long leaves when I start my study.

I know that this world can be a better place to stay if we are more considerate. On my part, things can be kept cooled if I just shut up and continue to do my routines. But, what about fairness? What about my or our chances to take our holidays? Do we have to bear, and suffer our mental and psychological exhaustion because of someone’s else? Do the person we sacrificed for, acknowledges our contribution? What do we get from it? : – body aches, psychological exhaustion …………………. ? Please, be rational to other people.

sufiah: the video

I just watched the News of the World’s video just now about Sufiah confessing her involvement in prostitution. It was also shown with Sufiah being in several erotic and seductive positions, and wearing only bras, panties, G-strings etc. One or two pictures have Sufiah holding a whip, maybe with S&M in mind.

Sufiah was only wearing a nightie? or bathrobe during the interview. She looked candid and cheerful while explaining about her venture into the trade. She mentioned that her participation was by incident, as she was offerred to joint an ‘agency’ by an elderly lady she met while at a pub.

How can people said that she was tricked by financial reward to give the interview when her expressions clearly show how sincere she was? Her confessions were done in a voluntary manner and she looked happy to join the body trade. I don’t know about any Sufiah’s double, or any video editing, but she appears to be the Sufiah we all had known. I’ve heard recently that an Ustaz with his 2 assistants are coming to UK on the invitation of UK’s Malay Association to perform some treatments/therapies to Sufiah – to get her to stop her participation in the trade. However, their journey was postponed for a while because of insufficient funds to cover their expenses. Why is this insufficiency occurs? Where are those who speaks aloud to help Sufiah? BTW, her assests are quite good …… hehehe. Don’t blame me, I’m being just another normal man next door.

the Sufiah story: a Malaysian perspective

  Truthfully, I must admit that I don’t really know in depth about the whole Sufiah’s mumbo-jumbos. What I know was that she was offered a place to study Maths at Oxford University at the age of 13, she is a British citizen, her mother is a Malaysian from Muar, Johor, her father originated from Pakistan and was arrested for molesting his tuition students.

  It came as a small surprise when she was reported to be selling her body for a modest 130 pounds/hour as a mean to earn a living. She already made a shocker when she ran away from her study and got married, then became a divorcee at such a young age.

 

  I sincerely feel that she should be left alone to manage her own life. It doesn’t matter if she was a Maths genius with a bright future that turned out to be a hooker. Why must Malaysian goverment takes the responsibility of correcting her life? Other than her Malaysian-born mother, I don’t see her other relation to Malaysia. Malaysian goverment should only at the most, monitor how far these huhahs go, and then continue to care for other Malaysian students abroad. There is no need to engage a deputy minister to arrange for the well-being of Sufiah, when she herself acknowledges how she wants her life to be. Why should the UK’s Malaysian Students’ Department being burdened to develop networking with some NGOs there just for the well-being of a single entity?

  I’m also in disagreement with some fugures that mentioned Malaysia (especially the Malays) should help Sufiah because she was a symbol of achivement for a Malay student. I don’t know why we must recognize her as a successful story, when she didn’t even finish her study. Other prodigies may also able to enter university at a young age, but what set them apart from other ‘mortals’ are their ability to carve out outstanding way of life, and legendary contribution to mankind (if not for their own people or country in the first place). The other striking thing to consider is that, is she really to be considered a Malay? Her mother might be a true-blue Malay, but what about her Pakistani father? I don’t know, but how’s she being considered in Britain? English? Caucasians? Mixed? So, how can we say we must help her because she is a Malay?

 

I’m still with my opinion that we (doesn’t matter if you are British or Malaysian) just let her do whatever she thinks fit for her life. Whether, she still got that Maths ‘genius’-trait in side her – only time will tell.

Character of a Godfather

“If a man tells you that he becomes rich by working hard, ask him: “Whose?”

Don Marquis

  I just finished another chapter of Asian Godfathers. It was quite a complicated one, because of the explanation about the corporate structures, banking systems and all those business mumbo jumbos.

  But what I really can understand is that the Asian tycoons (especially the Chinese ones) succeed on other people sweats and tears. They don’t run their business on a day-to-day basis, but employ armies of corporate professional players from Europe and North America to be their work machines. These people, who are called gweillos, run the company for those tycoons and hold the important figures and become some sort of trusted right-hand man for the godfathers. The reality is that Asian tycoons bluff us most of the times when they say they work a back-breaking 16 to 18 hours a day, when in fact their ‘jobs’ are relatively about socially-related activities such as building and maintaning guanxi (networks), decision making and polical manipulation, which are done at the golf courses, spas (during massaging), business lunches, dinners and after-dinner activities. Their true jobs are done by those well-paid gweillos.