by now almost every knows about influenza A HINI, thanks to the health department, but the problem is, no one really takes action on how to prevent it from spreading any further. hope all frens will adhere to the advice of the health department. its simple, avoid crowded places, wash your hands frequently and properly with soap, wear a suitable mask when you are coughing and don't go out and mix with other people until u r better. beware... the second wave is coming during the rainy season.

SELAMAT MENYAMBUT HARI MALAYSIA

Come October 10, Malaysia will be celebrating its Malaysia Day (Hari Malaysia) to commemorate the formation of Malaysia 46 years ago on 16 Sept 1963. Sarawak is once again honoured to play host and the venue is Padang Merdeka. The Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak, Tun Abang Mohammad Salahuddin, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, Chief Minister Pehin Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and Minister of Information, Communication and Culture are among the dignitaries to attend plus our popular artistes to entertain the big crowd expected.
This year it is celebrated on Oct 10 because Sept 16 coincides with the puasa month.
Sabah has been enjoying the day as a public holiday but Sarawak is yet to do so. Many are of the opinion that Malaysia Day should be made a national holiday so that all Malaysians will know the significant of that day. For example, children may ask why is Sept 16 a public holiday, then parents or teachers will explain to them the rationale behind it and thus all Malaysians will know the significant of Sept 16, the day our beloved nation, Malaysia was formed.

it has been quite a long time that i didnt update my blog due to many reasons. one is of course the time factor... anyway, last July, i went to Kota Kinabalu for family trip and among the many things there that drew my interest was that the fish sold at the waterfront (not far from the marina court) were damned fresh and much, much cheaper unlike the ones being sold in Kuching here. wonder what's the reason? anyone knows any place where one can buy fresh fish like that in Kuching? and another thing is the nearby ikan bakar. my family really enjoyed the ikan bakar there.

susan boyle, the new singing sensation

oh my, what a surprise! move aside William Hung. here comes a new singing sensation in a reality show in Britain... susan boyle is the name and she is a 47 year old spinster living with her cat. for a record, her performance posted on youtube has more than 50,000,000 hits. this what we mean by ' don't judge the book by its cover' . her appearance belie her singing prowess. even simon cowell is stunned! go to youtube and u will know what i mean.

day light crimes

of late, the number of houses being broken into by robbers are quite alarming in Kuching and my friend was one of the victims and so was our colleague who stayed in nanas road area. The irony of the case is that, both cases happened during the day time and it was said that the robbers used cars of the same model and colour with the victims to avoid any suspicion by the neighbours. May be cars for rent owners have unknowingly rent out the cars to the robbers or the robbers may have borrowed the cars for such ill-purpose. so watch out guys, the robbers are getting smarter by the day!

batang ai by election

Tan Sri Aziz (3rd left) handing over the writ of the N.29 Batang Ai By -Election to Nelson Mujah Girie, Lubok Antu District Officer who is also the Returning Officer.

So the first part of the waiting game is now over. The N.29 Batang Ai by-election is fixed on April 7 with the nomination day on March 29, 2009 meaning that it is to be held simultaneously with the two bukits- Bukit Gantang and Bukit Selambau by elections. This was announced by the Election Commission Chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd. Yusof at a packed media conference at the Hilton Hotel, Kuching.The by election is called for following the demise of the state assemblyman Datuk Dublin Unting Ingkot on Feb 24 2009. Datuk Dublin,56, felled into a coma since May 2008. The next waiting game will be the waiting for the revelations of the names of candidates for both the BN and the opposition, to be followed by the campaigning activities and finally the result. See u in Lubok Antu guys!

this is the picture of the giant snake that was puportedly seen swimming in a river somewhere in Balleh in the upper reaches of Kapit.My analysis are- (1) the river is too crystal clear for our rivers (2) if taken from a handphone 1,500 feet above sea level, i dont think that the picture would be this sharp (3) i was wondering why did the photographer did not tell the helicopter pilot to fly lower in order to get a nearer and thus a better picture of the giant snake (4) nobody really come forward to tell that he/she has really seen the snake and finally, who was the pilot then? why is he keeping mum? so believe it or not...

BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

ít has been quite sometime that i did not write any new post, as i feel that there is nothing rather catchy to write about until recently when a picture of a giant snake known as "nabau"to the Iban people was front-paged by Utusan Sarawak about a week ago. then a fren emailed it to me and it certainly caught my attention and so was the thousands of other sarawakians who talked about the giant snake just about anywhere. the snake was said to be as big a an oil drum and 100 feet long. But analysing closely, could an ordinary camera phone (as reported) took the picture of the so called nabau from 1,500 feet above sea level ? you guess it! it was reported by the local daily that the picture was taken by someone from a helicopter. to me, i believe that the picture was most probably...doctored.

a bad start

The coming of the month of January is not a good new year opener for me. On 30 Dec 2008 my mom was admitted to the Kapit Hospital until 4th January and then she was transferred to the Sibu Hospital where she was further admitted until 15 January. She was down with a bladder infection, and being 78 years old, her immunity was low and so was her response to medication according to her doctor. Then On 12 Jan when i was still in Sibu, my wife rang me up and told me that her father got a stroke and was admitted to the SGH for 2 nites. So off i went to the Sibu airport and took the next flight back to Kuching as my wife was alone with her parents. Luckily it was a mild stroke, but he lost some brain cell according to the specialist doctor who treated him and worst still, the episode could recur anytime. So this is the predicament that my family went through for the last 2 weeks and Chinese New Year is just a week away. Apparently we are not in the mood to celebrate this time around due to such circumstances. Hopefully, my mom would fully recover soon and my father- in- law would not get another episode of the stroke. May God Bless Them.