MALAYSIAN COPS SCARED?

Parliament: Cops scared of crooks, so base closed! (from the star)

KUALA LUMPUR: A police beat base in the Chow
Kit area of downtown Kuala Lumpur was closed down because it was in a
location that was considered unsafe, said Home Minister Datuk
Seri Syed Hamid Albar.

(police also unsafe...what has become of this
country of mine)

In a written reply to Dr Lo’ Lo’ Mohamad Ghazali (PAS-Titiwangsa), Syed
Hamid said the beat base was located in a dirty
area where there was a possibility of being exposed to contagious diseases.

(DIRTY area...than clean it up laa)

The presence of criminals also posed a threat to the safety of police
officers, he said.

(who is chasing who? police chase criminals or
criminal chase police?) the rest you read laa, and make your own assumption..make malaysian police more MALU olready, now this..aisyemen...

Lo’ Lo’ had asked why the beat base on Jalan Haji Taib was closed
considering the high number of vice-related activities in the area, as well
as what kind action had been taken by the police to curb such activities.

Syed Hamid said that the police were looking for a new location to build
a police beat base that would be able to give “guaranteed and continued
service to the public.”

Lo’ Lo’s was the 30th question in the Order Paper and hence did not get a
mention in the House during the daily one-hour Question Time. However, Dr
Mohd Hatta Ramli (PAS-Kuala Krai) managed to raise it when he interjected
during Azmin Ali’s (PKR-Gombak) speech during the debate on Budget 2009.

Dr Mohd Hatta said that if the police themselves felt unsafe in a beat
base, then it would be even worse for the public.

“The minister has to resign if he is worried about the safety of police
in that area. Maybe it would be better to put the beat base in army
barracks,” he said.

Dr Mohd Hatta then managed to raise the issue again during his own debate
on Budget 2009 saying that Syed Ali’s response was not rational.

“The police are there to make a place safe. If they themselves are scared
and run away, then how can we hope for others to want to be there?

“It is embarassing and that is why the criminals will always be there,”
he said.

Dr Mohd Hatta said if the place is dirty, then it is up to the police to
organise gotong-royong activities to clean it up or if they did not want to
then they should move to Putrajaya or Parliament.

“And what is this about contagious diseases on Jalan Haji Taib? The only
kind of contagious diseases that are present there are sexually-transmitted
ones.

“Is the minister scared that his charges will contract such diseases?
That kind of thing is a matter of choice. In any case, if this is what he is
worried about then we are worried that the police are not above this.”

Dr Mohd Hatta added that the police had to be brave people and that they
were a different breed altogether when facing demonstrators. He said he
hoped that the minister would clarify his written answer in the House as
this is not the kind of police that the people want.

in conclusion, Malaysia is in need of brave police officers... so calling
all out there, if you are brave, because our current police force is no
longer brave enough (my understanding from what the minister said).. no hard
feeling to officers, i sugeest you stand up and be counted, we dont want
your leaders to be a chicken, it makes you look bad..real bad..

Im rich..

PTPTN was created to help aspiring Malaysian to further their study in local universities.. but it seems most students have misused the fund.. those who have studied in local universities would know what what im talking about. what most students do with their loans every semester is to 1)change to a newer, trendier, hi-tech handphone (and topup too) 2)buy those branded items (shoes,skirts, jeans, handbags, perfume (even employed people cant afford) etc.. 3) go have fun at genting, a farmosa 4)eat at trendy places (kenny rogers, nando etc..to me already trendy, even mcD also) 5)entertainment (mp3/4, handhelds games etc)... 6) ....(you can just add more..dating, movie, blah blah)..

what the money is not used for is
1) buy textbooks
2) buy motivational books
3) attend enhancement course (study, motivation)
4)buy simple present for mum and dad
5) and buy more books

the trend is almost the same in all local private or public higher education institution..

why we should be worried is that these students will one day be amongst us, some will be key decision makers, some senior leaders, and if not all will be mother and father.. the implication is prioritizing... what these student loan holders dont understand is that they are taking loans..and loans is not yours for keeps, but borrowed money..if a person who borrows money, and not feel like he is borrowing, and has been getting them every year for 3-4 years, what would be the end result?
not only that, did you know, most of these loan holders have another access to more money once their loan for a certain semester runs out..which is MBF (mak bapak finance), so they still dont feel the pressure of still owing money (thats why there are a lot of cases friends borrowed from friends, cant pay, and friendship broken..its not that they cant pay, but because they are used to having money being given and are not bothered)... No wonder there are a lot of young people who are bankrupt, because they are used to living on credit...

please and please, if you are a loan holder..that money you are using, you have to pay back, which is usually higher than the amount you borrowed.. for parents, guardian or whoever, teach these loan holders, self management and prioritizing and let them know, the money is not yours and you have to pay it back.. one simple simulation is to create a budgeting scenario for such students.. write down the cost to pay for monthly living..rent for an apartment, bills, topups, shopping, 3 decent meals per day, petrol (or bus/train/lrt rides), study loans, and maybe car or motor loan, and what ever you think is appropriate..so let say for a graduate with a bachelor degree..fresh, if you are lucky you might get 2K (but the majority would be around 1.6K-1.8k, but theres some who are still jobless).. when you calculate that, in the end, you would be living on deficits.. so backtrack, crossing out shoppings, and renting (maybe sharing a flat of 10-20 people), meals are now only cheap food stall, no more phone calls but sms, wake up early morning and take the bus to work..and if theres savings you be lucky.. but what if you want to get married (no wonder people are getting married in their 30s, no money laa), expense will became much higher, babies, children.. yes your paycheck might became bigger (if you are really good)... but are you going to live like that for most of your life? that is the purpose of understanding priority..and it should start before you step into the working world...

so dont waste your ptptn coz no body will P-T (p The eNd) you..

university

looking at the university rankings for 2008, Malaysian universities seems to still struggle in the eyes of the world. Forget targeting to be the top 200 best universities (for now). Local university should start to strengthen it's credibility within Malaysia first. We should be listening from all corners off Malaysia, from our local Malaysian community from the cities to those in the kampungs talking about university's contribution to the community. Yes there are a few, but a few is not enough.. instead of targeting for gold, silver and bronze or 1st, 2nd and third, universities should concentrate on local development.. how to breed better cows..or how to have 4 harvest of paddy in a year.. or how to reduce local waste..how to have the community involve.. how can we solve the problems of the world, when the problems in our own country are being neglected. what is the use of having slogans with the being global, international, or world class, when simple national issues are not dealt with... these are challenges to people in institution like myself.. i am not talking about change but about going back to the primary purpose of a university, which was to serve national development.

Cooking for iftar

with cooking as one of my favorite pastime, i kind of feel a bit bored at home since i'l be cooking for myself no one else but myself. its one of those great pleasures for non-professional cooks like myself when you have that 'satisfaction' look on the face of people. in the month of Ramadhan, apart from the free food the local mosque provided, it was like a present from heaven, knowing that you can volunteer to cook.. being the cook geek that i am, i did volunteer, but for a later date, just to make sure that i do some good analysis of the peoples' eating culture... well that was my initial plan anyway...but as they say a plan is just a plan... if i was not mistaken, 2 days (i think it was 2..or maybe 3) before the 2nd day of ramadhan, one of the brothers asked if i could cook on that day since they was no one available, and with much persuaision especially from the malaysian brothers who said they will help out on that day (Alhamdulillah).. so during those few days, thinking up of a menu that will suit the mixed variety of people was quite a challenge, especially when you havent cooked for 200 plus of odd people, taking into account not all taste buds are the same...

that day did come, and after some budgeting spending (the mosque provided the beef and rice), looking for the cheapeset things available the night before the date of cooking, alhamdulillah, everything turn out quite ok, and we had an extra hour or so before the time for breaking fast. with all the people helping, things just became quicker. my only worry was the rice, its not everyday im cooking for 200 plus of odd people, and cooking over a gas top was not my speciallty. thanks for the tips, the rice was cooked (large amount) in over half an hour (the tip was to have the water boiling first, to reduce charring of the rice at the bottom of the pot). beef was simple, it was all just chop-chop and let it cook. that first day was a success (because the rice cooked just right).

the second stunt, also come in the last moment, i think it was for the 6th day of ramadhan. and i was asked during after asar on a friday. the head chef for that day was sick, so i was asked to replace him. since the day was sunday, i wouldnt mind much. being an adventourous cook, i asked for chicken. well that was a bad choice actually. since chicken comes in pieces, so on that day, not everyone got a piece. that really made me down, and i was really demotivated for the next few days. i hope i could have another chance to make amends. the date i first volunteered was in the 3rd quarter of ramadhan, i would really love to make sure everyone is satisfied (the hot and spicy group and the not hot and spicy group). but still, im only planning, things may change.

for guys like me, cooking is a satisfaction, not that i get to eat what i cook, but the satisfaction of seeing people are happy eatting away what i made with my two hands...

Tanah Tumpah Darahku

Malays, Chinese, Indians... these are basically the core of Tanah Melayu, and later Malaysia (including the community of Sabah and Sarawak). This Month of August represent the Independence of Malaya in 1957, later followed by the Malaysian Federation (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak) in 1963. It has been those many years Malaysia has now seen itself standing as a nation of people of various ethnicity, race, religion and background. With the political turmoil of Malaysia today, this has tested the years that have passed by without really working out a formula that will maintain stability of the differences between racial and religious issue. I believe that 2008 is not like 1969, because some of us have come to live together and understand one another, but still this only is true for a small percentage of Malaysia. Distrust is still strong. Integration of racial and religious understanding is still possible, but will take time, but it all depends on how well the leadership is in providing the initial requirement of integration. Integration starts at early age, and will take a life time to see its result. The National School was a good tool which was not put to good use. Because of its inefficiency, parents gets annoyed and send them to other forms of school, in the end, the targeted integration fails (not in totality..but it shows there are still loopholes).

Coming to a certain unification point will take time, but i am totally confident that each Malaysian have a love for this country "Tanah tumpah darahku". We should be starting to learn about each other, religion, ethnicity and etc, so we become to respect one another. When there is respect, surely there will be less quarrellings. We should as a nation, stop for a while, and look at ourselves in the month of Independence, and ask ourselves, what do we really want?

the same playing field?

Having read the comment by the Selangor Menteri Besar on his comments on UiTM, I was really relived that at last there can be more competition and cooperation between Malaysian regardless of race and religion, even if it was just 10%, its a good start. But suddenly there was some relentless individuals who saw this as an attack , and we had students who wore black marching to demonstrate on a "suggestion". What makes me wonder more is why people higher up in the institution hierarchy was also up against the "suggestion" by an individual, and wanting to be a university of international standards seems more of just a slogan than a target.

Universities should be building bridges between the gaps made by the education system (that i will write later in the near future), because campus life should be a preparatory platform before these young adults can enter the real world which is not made of up of certain groups but a mixture of ethnic, religion, background and etc, and under the country of Malaysia. What Malaysia lacks currently after the 1969 issue was integration between people. and even after so many years, the issue is still there. The national school had a good start but started to fizzle out. universities open their doors to everyone (even tough theres the quota system), yet we still see these young groups of individuals mixing with those of the same ideology, thus integration was not achieved. One of the 1969 issue was because the bumi (i wouldnt say bumi..but should be malay) was not happy with regards to wealth distribution between the races, so the government came up with the NEP, which was suppose to create the balance between the races. But how successful of NEP seems to only be a poison if the idea was kept too long. Suddenly these bumi's become too dependent , while other's had to fend for themselves. So when put on the same playing field, the problems is not only just still there but worsens. The same is said for university, if you don't prepare and coach individual to play on a level playing field, it would be a mountain to climb once they are on the field.

I graduated from a an IPTA which not many non-bumi would like to attend because of the name (IIUM/UIAM..but those who do come, they are exceptionally good... i missed the time in secondary school though where I could mixed with everyone). It really caused a few problems when some of us where in the real world, because we were not exposed to a Malaysian scenario (international..a little yes) it became quite hard (its a good thing I attended those open seminars and programes where there is everyone Malaysia, so I had a head start compared to my comrades). I am sure there are handfulls of people who can tolerate each other, but if there still exist group lines within our institution, we cannot achieve integration at the national level.

Coming back to UiTM, im not underminig their intelectual (knowledge base) credibility. There are a few exceptional individuals in the institution, but when you coach students on a field that does not reflect the real world, you just cannot get the desired result. I would like to suggest to for students and administrators alike within such institution to have debates and seminar on the concept of integration, and not jump the gun without studying the consequences. Opening the doors to have a better practicing field can prepare everyone better, and in reality, it is true non-bumi works harder than the bumi (not all..but most). Why wait till going to the playing field to realize we are at a disadvantage?

VENISON MICROBIOLOGY

In New Zealand, the meat of deers are called venison. Elsewhere venison are the meat of hunted animals from the wild, but here in New Zealand, they breed them like sheep and cows. Venison is said to be a really healthy meat because of its low fat content and high in iron. When it comes to marketing, venison are not that so popular due to the fact that it looses its colour within a very short time period. So currently, the best method of promoting venison is let the consumer know that venison, if discoloured are still fresh.

Currently, I am working out to understand the meat microbiological system of meat. So if you've read the bible of meat scientist "Lawrie's Meat Science", in the 6th edition, there is a statement which says venison can be readily hung for quite some time without due precaution, which in other words, something is preventing the attacks of microbes. There's not many research, but they have observed that venison after quite sometime, its surface bacterial load has no significant change when compared to beef which had a tremendous increase of bacteria within the same period.

here is where i be coming in, i am currently working on a meat system to study the phenomena, which after sometime i found it is real (really) hard and complicated. theres a few possibilities though that i may need to go through before i settle on a possible study system, which once i have completed, i might post it sometime later.