Water pollution in Malaysia: How serious it is?

Fyi, I'm publishing this post inconjuction of the "Blog Action Day".
(15 Oct 07)



Before I proceed let me brief you on this Blog Action Day thingy. To be simple, it'a a one-day program where all the participating bloggers will talk about environment related issues to raise the awareness of public on this matters.

All the while, we have been listening to all the TV and Radio advertisements on river pollution in Malaysia. Sadly, most of us are still naive about it until government have to find other funny-but-effective methods like the song "Sungai Oh Sungai" by a little girl which is frequently to air on local radio stations.

To be honest, once I get to know about this Blog Action Day, I was interested to join this campaign and contribute something. But the problem was I couldn't find any suitable topic to discuss. Furthermore, as most of you know, I rarely talk about environment related issues. Eventhough, I had some trouble in publishing this post, Alhamdulillah finally I found something.

There were lots of websites I've been in the quest of finding a suitable topic. Some of the sites are:

• Department of Environment, Malaysia


• EarthTrends: Environmental
  Information


• Ecology Asia

Finally, I found a site. The name of the website itself might attract you. It is:

sungaijuru.com

This website is dedicated speciall for a river located in Penang. It has been badly polluted until this website have been launched to get the Malaysian's attention on this serious matter.



See, what else can be bad-er than this? This problem surely would have damaged the whole ecosystem in that area! It's all because of us, humans! Even tyre can get into river!

Well, I'm just speechless. (>_<) Take a closer look by yourself here at:
http://www.sungaijuru.com/en/pollution.php

How to overcome this problem? First, lets stop throwing rubbish into DRAINS because when we throw trash into drains near our homes, it all will finally end up at this kind of rivers. So lets learn to throw rubbish into trash bins. This is the most important step in order to stop this problem.

Secondly, we have to clean those rivers. But Alhamdulillah,in Malaysia, we just have be aware and help the government in preventing problems because they are also doing their job well. Take a look at this.

Lets keep our earth clean! But all you need to do is, keep your housing area clean first. If everyone does that, there is no need to raise hell on these issues. :-)

Further reading:

• Water profile of Malaysia


• May be you can print and stick this in your room/office.

Eid-ul-Fitr: Mubarak ! or Mubarak?

Assalamualaikum and greetings to everyone.


As I've said many times before this, time and environment can change anyone to anything. I still remember how fun Eid were celebrated when my dad was around. :(

Well, Eid means Hari Raya and mubarak means happy. So, shall I be happy on Eid? or let the past memories slowly 'eat' me?

Actually, why shall we Muslims be happy on Eid? Well, as we've known it's not because of new dress and getting the freedom to eat during daytime. It's all about victory! The joy of winning ourselves by controlling ourselves strictly. The joy of being able to perform the prayers and remind ourselves that we are the slaves of Allah S.W.T .

Of course, the memories will be there forever. Compared to last Ramadhan, this time I spent most of the time lonely. Breakfast alone, work alone and went for shopping to buy some simple clothings for my little sister, also alone. Even today on first day of Eid itself, I went for Eid-Ul-Fitr prayers alone... I even did not visit any of my neighbours, friends or relatives because I don't have the real mood of doing it. I just spent my time as a normal day perhaps a bit relax by updating this blogsite and watching some inspiring documentaries.

So, this question of Happy Eid! or Happy Eid? had made me to sit and talk to myself for a while. The difference is the exclamation mark and the question mark which reflect the expression of the "Happy Eid" statement. Finally, I feel that it should be Happy Eid! Because Alhamdulillah, on this Ramadhan I managed to increase my prayers activities compared to previous years. To add the hapiness to make my self calm, all I need to do is just continue my prayers for my father's peace, thats where I can get satisfactions.

Obviously, life will never be always the same. However InsyaAllah, we can always find the peace of mind through prayers and the satisfaction of completing our responsibilities.

Once again, Eid-Ul-Fitr Mubarak!

50 years of improvements? Yes!

Yahoo! Its my country's 50th independence day!

Well, its one of humans' natural behavior to always give negative comments rather than focusing on the positive side of a matter. However, this is due to the will that always says, everything must be excellent! All of us wants to be perfect, even though we can't we can at least get nearer to perfection!

I'm very proud of my country and always looking forward for further developments of my beloved country.

I'm very amazed by two of the semi-government agencies that I've visited recently. The first is the Companies Commision of Malaysia (SSM) I was very impressed by their online interactive system at http://www.ssm.com.my/en/services_eLodgement.php which reflects a good and a bit of practical usage of IT infrastructures to communicate with the public. However, their crowd management concepts still requires lots of improvements to avoid people spending half of their day to get things done.

Secondly, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) really has a very efficient way of handling 'big' crowds. Arming themselves with a VERY informative website, I would say it's one of the BEST government agency website.

I understand that there are lots of negatives comments are there in everyone's mind same like what I've expressed about the crowd management at SSM. However, I feel that at certain point it's also important for us to stop and look behind to realise that we do have improvements compared to previous years while NOT FORGETTING that there are countries which is far away ahead then us and indirectly might be a threat for us too.

Therefore, the thruth is over the years we've gone through LOTS of developments and it's extremely important for all of us a citizen of this wonderful multi-racial country to constantly remind ourselves that we can contribute to every success of our country.

If everyone does their duty properly there will be more improvements!

No matter whoever you are, be good in it. Be a good student, father, businessman, employee...etc

Happy 50th Indipendence Day!

Advices for a son...

Well, it's father's day today! (",)

Since my father is not physically around, he still remain in my heart and constantly asking Allah to show me the right path in life. I've really learned LOTS of things from him, he is a Do-It-Yourself type of person, getting his hands dirty on some cool stuff at least once a week is something interesting for me as well, from setting up Buglar Alarm system, CCTV systems, fixing electrical distibution boards, setting up backup electical generators, writing computer programs until fixing those water pipes around a premise.... he is really my guru in every discipline.

Performing one of his technical task...

However the most important is the lessons of life, the experiences that a father has gone through. Hence, I was just thinking about what are the best way that a father may teach the lessons of life to his son... So what crossed my mind was one of the best artwork ever produced, the poem "IF" by Rudyard Kipling.

I sincerely feel that my father has thougt all the things mentioned in this wonderful poem as I've said, he is my greatest hero.

Therefore, what I did was I edited the poem and prepared a printable version of it. Then, printed it, make a photocopy to enlarge on an A3 paper, then laminated it. So, I would like to suggest that you should do the same and stick it in your room or office.

Click here to download the poem which I have prepared.

Happy Father's Day...

Please try to SPEND LOTS of TIME with your father, the lessons that you may learn from him is INVALUABLE and not always you can get back the moment...

My GREATEST Hero

FYI, my father had been called by Allah, on 23rd April 2007 at 1230hrs in CRW, HKL. Al-fatihah

For those who wants to contribute an Al-Fatihah, my father's full name is Saiyed Abu Thahir Bin Mohamed Shariff.
His mother's name is Mariam Ammal

My sister and father

It has been a very long time since I updated this site it was about 3 months ago. Within the last few months, there were lost of ups and downs in my life. In fact, it was a direct lesson from Allah to my mom and me. My father passed away in Hospital Kuala Lumpur.

He was admitted for more than two months in the General Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. The initial problem that he had was too much of diarrhea due to a quite rare disease called Ulcerative Colitis. On the 6th day in HKL (20th Feb 2007), co-incidentally he had stroke (blod clot in his right brain) which paralyzed his left hand and leg. At the moment of the storke attack, he also faced problems in breathing. Therefore, he was admitted in ICU twice.

However, I'm very unsatisfied because he had successfully recovered and finally was in a very critical stage due to a bacteria infection called Pneumonia. Based on my own research and interview with some of the top specialists in HKL, they claim that the factor to this problem was the long-term stay in hospital or liquid/food bits went into the lungs. (due to some openings in larynx). Finally what really had at the last minute (around 1145hrs), he heart stopped and the doctors tried to restart the heart by doing CPR more than the normal procedural timeout, they tried for nearly 25 minutes. I feel extremely sad because I wasn't be able to be with him at the moment, the doctors and nurses in CRW doesn't let me enter the ward.

Then, we brought him to our house and kept him until the next day. On 24th April 2007, around 1100hrs, we started to bathed him and prepare him for burrial.

Alhamdulillah, we managed to successfully leave him in peace at the Cheras Baru Muslim cemetery around 1230pm on 24th April 2007.

However, my confidence exceeds my sadness because my father had brought me up in such a positive way.
I'm very extremely proud of him.

He was a GREAT familyman.
He was a GREAT father.
He was a GREAT businessman.
He was a GREAT friend.

I really respect him.

May Allah bless my father.

Please feel free to contribute an Al-Fatihah for my fathers peace in the eternity life.

If you know my father, please forgive him if he had ever accidentally insulted you in anyways.


Btw, I would like to say thanks to:
1. All my relative/family friends/shop staffs for helping and guiding me to manage the funeral as well as gave me motivations.
2. Dr. Thomas, Dr. Ganesh, Dr. Thien, Dr. Melvin Raj, Dr. Kanmani, Dr. Sabihin and some of the ICU & CRW specialist for trying their best.
3. The sister (Chin Au Siang) and nurses of the ward 26, HKL.
4. The Imam of Nurul-Hidayah mosque.

Wassalam.

Another rival....

Yesterday (11/01/2007), I was atracted by some articles in The Sun and Kosmo. It was something that I really didn't expect.

Looks like Apple has tapped into the mobile phone market as well. Eventhough, I'm quite busy, I just can't be quite about this "invention"! The looks of the smartphone that they have launched, iPhone really got my attention. Let yourself to give a try.


Picture from Apple.com.

Personally, I feel that this is going to effect Palm very much! Looks like Apple going to monopoly another market after mobile mp3 players, iPod.

Okay, I'm going back to work. Too much of college stuffs to handle. :(

Further reference:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Welcome to Malaysia!

Again, my computer has some problem in connecting to the internet. I think that the previous installation of Zone Alarm still cause some troubles in my machine! :(
Therefore, I couldn't update my blog. However, I believe that it is not too late though.


So, to all my Muslim friends, Eid-Ul-Azha mubarak. Insyallah, I hope that you would really understand the true meaning of Eid-Ul-Azha that you have to sacrifice something to achieve something else.



Btw, let me come to another important topic that I wanted to highlight.
The sentence "Welcome to Malaysia!" is a favorite sentence of my previous English teacher in PTK (Mr. Murugan). Since we are in year 2007 now, if you remember this is another official "Visit Malaysia" year after 1990 (if I'm not mistaken).

Well, I couldn't deny that Malaysia is a beautiful country however I notice that some people always look at the negative values in our society. Even though it is normal for human to find mistakes, I hope that our Malaysians will still prefer to go for domestic vocations rather that overseas.

What I wanted to highlight is, please feel free to explore this great country.

One of my favorite place in this beautiful country is the Tioman Island. Rated as one of the best ten islands in the world, you will find it like a heaven with it's crystal-clear beaches. Sad to say that the my last trip to Tioman Island was nearly 10 years ago. :(

Hopefully I will be able to go Tioman this year. :D

Btw, please feel free to find out some official travel packages from the Tourism Ministry itself:
http://www.tourism.gov.my/