Ugly Note: Four separate cases in a week, two death and one coma.

13 Feb - A 17-year-old student from Guizhou, was found, naked and dead, in a ditch in Kampung Kanchung Tengah, Banting.

15 Feb - A 56-year-old woman, believed to be a victim of a snatch thief or hit-and-run accident in Penang, remain coma in intensive care unit.

17 Feb - A 26-year-old co-owner of a children’s boutique was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in her shoplot at a shopping complex in Mutiara Damansara.

18 Feb - A 54-year-old prominent lawyer being shot dead after meal outside a food court in Kuching.

Is Malaysia in the midst of experiencing an extremely backward kind of society evolution? A barbarian one?

Do Malaysian abandon their highly respected moral and ethic conducts which are being taught since young, already?

Do Malaysian just not sensitive enough towards the fact that we are indeed being painted as a paranoid and bloodthirsty kingdom?

Or after all, could it be that Malaysia is a criminal heaven, conveniece enough to get brutality done with the very least possiblity to get charged?

This is a sickening phenomena, real sickening.

It’s still very fresh in my mind that back then in November 2004, Canadian new portal (subscription needed) reported that Mirzan Mahathir’s home in West Vancouver, Canada was targetted for a broke in worth $600,000. Quote:

Among the stolen items were two Fendi sable fur coats, worth more than $100,000 each, two $30,000 Rolex watches and two $20,000 sculptures. The SUV — a grey 2001 BMW X5, B.C. plate 862-AAA — is also missing.

Coincidentally, a self-proclaimed little chicken sent in a link to share his grieve and concern on culling of animals for their furs, which later being manufactured into the super high-sky fur cloth. It’s so disgusting and no sense of humanitarian, at all.

A few so-called super-star/super-model were seen posing for photos with their ‘fur’ manufactured products on. Stylish, awesome, isn’t it?

Anyway, I was thinking, isn’t all kind of meats that we consume also being culled in such a way?

More than enough, a very good reason to convince me to puasa ayam puasa itik puasa khinzir.

Oh ya, to everyone who read this and know me, if you seeing me eating any of that, please don’t remind me about all this. I’ll probably just puke it on you, if you don’t mind.

We too don’t have that sense of humanitarin, aren’t we? (Apologize to any vegetarian, I don’t mean you)

I’m not feeling well now, either.

FOOTNOTE: Direct link is available here.

On Wednesday, Home Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid talked to reporters at his office after attending the Cabinet meeting. He said unoccupied low-cost houses and buildings would be used to house illegal workers detained after the Feb 28 amnesty deadline.Quote:

I shared this excerpt among my peers and ask them one very simple question.

Question:

“How would you actually help?”

Feedback:

a) “sila lah balik ke rumah anda, silakan.”
b) “tolong jangan rompak saya, saya akan bagi kamu duit saya, tapi kamu mesti janji balik dalam seminggu.”
c) “mau tinggal di rumah saya sementara menunggu?”
d) “how can i help aa? do i chase them with my car or wat?”

What else can I say? :-))

Thanks, I was enlighted!

It sounds like love affairs, never ending one.

Yesterday, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Admad Badawi announced at Pakistan that Malaysia is going to bring in Pakistani workers to meet the country’s manpower needs.

Only a few days ago, it happened that Feb 28 had been set as D-Day for the remaining illegal immigrants in Malaysia.

And now, this dramatical move to acquire workers from Pakistan, for me, it’s a bit shocking indeed.

What’s the point of throwing out some and bring in some, or maybe more?

Ok, let us accept the fact that Malaysia need foreign workers to help stir our economy growth. Reason why? It’s very simple. Unemployed Malaysian either thinks that those jobs are lowly paid or not on-par with their intellectual level. Or it may be lots of other reasons or excuses, only they know. Either way, it’s embarassing.

Employers must also share part of the blame and responsibility as well, as most of them prefer cheap illegal immigrants. Worse, some of them don’t even pay wages to the workers, instigate the Indonesia Government to appoint Malaysia lawyers to take legal action. That, cause another unwanted concern and unnecessary issue.

After all, it’s not about the origin of the immigrants that matters, they too are human like us seeking for livings. But illegal is illegal, rules and laws need to be respected, isn’t it? What matter now is how stringent and sincere is Malaysia authorities in executing the law, punish and deport those who are illegal. Consolidation of effective law implementation, stern action with fast ruling are essential in walking the talk.

We all hope for a better Malaysia to live in, aren’t we?

The Scenario: A soldier lost his wife and unborn twin boys due to an impatient driver and uncaring Malaysian, The Star reports today.

The mishap happened when the soldier stop his motorcycle when traffic lights turned red at the junction. A Perodua Kembara behind him moved before the lights turned green, hit his motorcycle’s rear end and cause it to jump forward and hit the motorcycle in front. The driver then sped off.

His wife fell to the ground, grieved in pain and feel unconscious. He tried to flag down the passing cars but none stopped to do so. Only after 20 minutes, a good samaritan stopped and fetched the victim to the hospital but died on the way.

The 73-year-old driver of the Kembara then lodged a police report at noon.

SK: I feel very uncomfortable and what hurt me the most is that, are Malaysians really that uncaring and civically unconscious? 20 minutes for a victim in help is extremely critical, though!

What if the Kembara didn’t speed off and fetched the victim to the hospital? Maybe, I said maybe she and the unborn will get through well.

What is the point of surrender and lodged thousands of police reports and feeling repent of whatever sins you’ve committed?

No way, they’re all dead by now.

The Star reported that two people, one from Klang and another from Ipoh are the latest casualties of dengue.

V. Sivasubramaniam from Klang, became ill last week and was admitted to hospital on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital on Sunday while another victim from Ipoh died at the Ipoh Hospital on Feb 5.

Earlier, Asia Pacific Society for Medical Virology president Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Lam Sai Kit - who once headed the medical team which discover the Nipah Virus, said that the worst of dengue fever is yet to come and everyone must play their roles in combating it. Quote:

“Data from the Ministry of Health shows that dengue outbreak starts in May and peaks two to three months later.” […]

“We cannot predict what will happen when the expected peak season arrives this year. It is all the more important to monitor the situation closely, as is being done by the ministry.” […]

“Don’t leave it to the Government alone as resources are limited. It is impossible for the Government to send fogging teams all over the country to kill the mosquitoes.” […]

Dengue cases continue to rise throughout Malaysia while Selangor reported an alarming near threefold increase compared with the corresponding period last year.

Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek during his recent visit to Cuba - the only nation that successfully applied anti-dengue and Meningitis B programs, requested that Cuban epidemic prevention specialists help battling dengue.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE: I had dengue fever back then on November 2004, been hospitalised for four days at Penang Loh Guan Lye Specialists Centre. Prior to that, I had inconsistent up-and-down fever, vomit and dirrea. I only got red spots over my body during my 3rd day at hospital and mind you, it’s terribly itchy.

The weird thing is that, my temperature became normal and I started to eat regularly since admission. Currently, there is no proper medication on dengue, only take Paracetamol thrice a day - to curb my fever, I guess. Blood test would be conducted every morning to check my platlet level.

Doctor who attended to me said that five people were hospitalised for dengue at that time too. Sounds scary indeed.

Of course, I’m completely recovered now. But still, I bear in mind that, there are four types of dengue virus out there. So, I’m still vulnerable to the remaining 3. Short say, I still have to be extremly alert.

FOOTNOTE: The mainstay of treatment is supportive therapy. The patient is encouraged to keep up oral intake, especially of oral fluids. If the patient is unable to maintain oral intake, supplementation with intravenous fluids may be necessary to prevent dehydration. A platelet transfusion is indicated if the platelet level drops significantly.

E-mail me if anyone is interested why I manage to discharge earlier and made speedy recovery.

Remaining illegal immigrants must leave by Feb 28 or the Government will arrest, charge and deport starting from March 1, according to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday after bilateral meeting with Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

First, it’s a week. Now, it’s another extra week.

I can’t agree more with Wong Chun Wai that Malaysia had been overly nice.

This time, I just hope that it’s gonna be real, really.

Home Affairs Minister Datuk Azmi Khalid said Malaysia will introduce the new biometric system and scrap the amnestry programmes, as it’s not helping in reducing the numbers of illegal arrival. Quote:

“We are reviewing the system now … completely a new system that we will implement. I don’t think there is a need to have any more amnesty.” […]

“Malaysia is serious in implementing the biometric system and Indonesia has agreed to cooperate with us on this.”

Earlier, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi announced the usage of biometric system during a joint media conference with Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Quote:

“Malaysia will use the biometric system to hire Indonesian workers to tackle the problem of illegal immigrants from the republic. […]

“The system would record the name and thumb print of every Indonesian worker coming to Malaysia to seek employment to determine their entry into the country was legal or illegal. […]

“Later, when we check with the immigration, their records will be there if they have come in legally. […]

Could this be another cakap serupa bikin?

Days by days, I’m getting more furious and uncomfortable on the latest development of illegal immigrants crackdown throughout Malaysia.

Picked this up from Wong Chun Wai’s column yesterday:

There are an estimated 1.2 million legal foreign workers while authorities believe there are another 800,000 illegal immigrants, half of whom were supposed to have left under the amnesty programme. […]

As it is now, we have been made to look silly with our decision to “advise” them to go home after the big talk of a crackdown against the illegal immigrants.

Worse, Indonesian Manpower Minister Fahmi Idris even had the audacity to come to Kuala Lumpur with threats of lawsuits against Malaysian firms, saying his government had engaged 10 Malaysian lawyers to prepare to sue Malaysian employers for allegedly not paying wages to Indonesian workers. […]

The Malaysian Government, if you ask most people, has been overly nice.

Not many Malaysians have taken well to its move to backtrack on its decision to carry out the operation against illegal immigrants following the expiry of the amnesty. […]

We were told to postpone the operation against illegal immigrants indefinitely because many of them are from Aceh.

Instead of being mean, cynical and nitpicking, the Government has obliged although we could have just asked the rest of the Indonesians to go home.

What really makes us sore is that Malaysians have been threatened with lawsuits and attacked by the Indonesian media. […]

Today, Mergawati Zulkafar has this thought:

Malaysia, like any other country, is concerned about getting rid of illegal immigrants. Lack of enforcement and corruption may have contributed to the problem but it does not need another country to lecture it on what to do.

Malaysia has taken a lot of care and extended much grace in dealing with illegal immigrants, granting amnesty to them, among other measures.

Hence, no threats or conditions should be imposed that may undermine the close bilateral ties that exist between two close neighbours.

Really, Putrajaya had been too soft and compromises too much on this. So, Indonesia, why the harsh words? Is this the Asian way – to bite the hand of friendship?

Once bitten, twice bitten, thrice bitten but never feel shy at all.

Read here and here for more.

Immigration Director of Enforcement Datuk Ishak Mohamed said on Sunday that illegal immigrants nabbed during the ongoing “Ops Nasihat” operations are given a week to leave the country. Quote:

“If they ignored the advice, the Immigration Department would deport them if they were caught again, and they would be banned permanently from coming to Malaysia, he said.

“Although Ops Nasihat is being carried out by way of persuasion, we are serious in the matter. We will not hesitate to enforce an on-the-spot ban if they chose to disregard the advice (leave within a week)”

Excuse me, may I know how serious the operation is, when you adopt this catch and release policy?

My two-cents question: What would you do if you’re those illegal immigrants?

Oh, maybe I should have introduced Datuk to watch Catch Me If You Can - a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, shouldn’t I?