It rocked!

Finished my home quarantine today. It ended at 7 am.

Headed to Stadium Putra to watch Cheer 2009. This is the 10th anniversary of the competition! Will write more about it with photos tomorrow.

We have a new champion emerged!

Bodohness

Hui Wen says:
*oh
*hahahaha
*h1n1
boonkheng says:
*apparently the director general of health ministry has forgotten that the virus also spread through flight transfer
*he only dictate "those who returned from adversely affected area"
*to be under home quarantine
Hui Wen says:
*bodoh
*typical bodohness

Well, as a measure to prevent the spread of H1N1 pandemic throughout the country, the director general of the Malaysian health ministry has ordered all students returning from adversely affected countries - he listed four - to undergo home quarantine for one week.

His instructions is only specific for students from the four countries (US, UK, Philippines and Australia). He seems to forget that Malaysians need to transfer flight to arrive at their home state, with KLIA being airport of entry. He is in error, unknowingly making an underlying assumption that only inbound international flights carry infected passengers, not being aware that infected passengers (from international flights) transfer to domestic flights to arrive at their home states!

What about domestic travelers who happened to be on the same flight as infected travelers? These people are excluded from quarantine JUST BECAUSE they were not asked to? He was in grave error not to have considered domestic flight passengers.

He has not even considered people going in and out of the Malaysia-Singapore border!

In actual fact, you can never know where the people has been to, or who is carrying the pathogens. Just by going to the arrival hall of an airport can pass you the virus. Asking specific people from specific places to be quarantined will not help - I can be sure that there'll be more and more local transmissions that leaks out of the net.

What about people who have immediate family members coming from overseas? The director-general of health ministry seems to have ignored that as well.

His instructions seems to be only knee-jerk reaction. If this is not called typical ignorance, then what should we call it?

Wai Yuen's!

24th June 2009

The day was her birthday. The next day, I was going to have my last paper so I kept the matter aside. When I was having my dinner, a thought came to my mind urging me to wish her. An SMS wish :)

Turning back time, down the vista of years, I reminiscence of my first contact with her. That was a night, distance separated us. I was in a restaurant with my family, however I was not into that mood. Instead, I ended up exchanging SMS with her, and that was the moment when I felt most comfortable in my life, moved by her warmth. The experience was like none other, worthy to be treasured in my heart.

She is a trustworthy girl I have ever found. Whenever I have issues in my heart, it is her that I seek. Her words is like magic =)


WAI YUEN has just turned 18.

Wish Elaine Chiong, who shares the same birthday as well.

Homecoming

I went to Melbourne Airport early at 3 pm. Waiting for my midnight flight. Browsed shops inside the airport - there was not many. Melbourne Airport is not as big as KLIA. One floor of the airport handles everything for your needs as a passenger.

I went in circles around the shops. There was nothing to browse anymore so I sat down at a glass overseeing the gates and runway. Onlined using my mobile phone! Mobile Internet became cheap after June 1. Ten times cheaper than before! When I first came to Australia mobile Internet was so expensive until I dared not use it anymore after browsing a few pages. Now I can browse as much as I want - no holds barred browsing.

I was having lamentations having to wear mask all the time - I didn't see anyone wearing mask in the airport.

Finally, my check in time! It seemed only Malaysia and Singapore bound passengers are wearing masks lol.

While on board.. I saw nothing from the window when the aircraft flown through mid-Australia.. across the seas I saw some dots of lights below and stars in the night sky. I've never seen stars so concentrated in the sky, the other time being at Philip Island. Other times, I slept...

KLIA-LCCT..... sucks. They don't use aerobridge like modern airports, instead they had to use stairs vehicle every time to let passengers step down, this method is deemed "Malaysia's biggest blowjob @ LCCT". Baggage carosel is narrow and under-capacitated, bags kept on falling off all the time! - I waited so long for my bag to arrive! And, the terminal is incapable of automatic flight transfer - what is this?

Asking AirAsia to use LCCT for operations is rather a political decision. It seemed that they provided cheapskate facilities while forgetting that they had to handle more passengers per flight...

Home sweet home!

Home Sweet Home

Finally, all papers down and my heart is setting for home. I finished my last paper, Critical Thinking with Data, with a minor regret. 2 hour with thinking questions was not enough! Nahh, I can't do critical thinking in this short time frame. It became a vomitting what you know paper. Skills learnt in subject breaks down and fellout!

After the exam was a mini prize giving ceremony attended only by a few. One girl got awarded Apple iPhone 3G from Commonwealth Bank for the most impressive assignment.

Dr Robert just can't stop singing praise to my media watch talk the other day. Nyahaha. My talk, citing example from Malaysia, is very relevant to the current political development in Australia! An exit poll is going to be conducted on the public for a so-and-so issue, Dr. Robert told me.

One chap wanna do an "easy" breadth subject next semester! The sentiment is there, everybody wanna get high marks in subjects to qualify for stuff like student exchange, summer schools, research experience and whatnot. There're two types of subjects one can do at Melbourne University as breadth: core subject of another course OR university-wide breadth subject.

I won't regret taking Critical Thinking, God knows my results. The skills I learnt from Critical Thinking with Data is invaluable! The subject is coded 800-101, it rocked my first semester!

One post-exam lesson from Dr Robert: Testimonies are anecdotes! So whenever you read them in product promotions, dismiss them. Even those testimonies about healing I hear from churches, they're anecdotes from a statistician's eyes.

Gotta prepare to head home!



I miss you.

Selling us out

Ahh, stupid home quarantine. After I came back to Malaysia I must stay home for one week, doing nothing except rotting at the computer.

We've known about prostitution. Sex without love is prostituting one's body and soul. This is what prostitutes at brothels do.

The word prostitution refers to more than just sexual prostitution. It has a spiritual significance in Abrahamic religions. Times and times in the Bible, it has been referred that idolatary (worshipping other gods) is an act of prostituting one's faith. It's like prostituting God's love to the other gods. God has forbidden us to worship other deities beside Him. In The Book of Exodus, you can find a verse, stating Moses' mention about God. The God is a jealous God, His name is Jealous.

The issue of PAS-UMNO unity government crops up just recently. Raja Petra has said that, if PAS and UMNO ever go to bed, then they are selling voters out. It's a betrayal to the people. To UMNO supporters, they welcome that, and they know that UMNO can seize additional states by forming unity government. But to those voted for PAS, they would be unhappy.

Why they've voted for PAS? Tons of reasons. They reject UMNO's policy. Since PAS is teaming up with DAP and PKR, those DAP and PKR supporters voted for PAS as their support to the coalition. These are the few reasons, to generalise the picture. But if PAS ever teams up with UMNO to form unity government, it will be like prostituting our votes. It's just like prostituting the voter's hope to the opponent. This is detestable to voters who voted for them.

Just as dignified people don't prostitute their body and soul, then achieve whatever through the dignified way. Doing things the cheap way will only make one lose more.

The pandemic

With the outbreak of H1N1 swine flu virus all over the world, my friends say that it's scary. Schools have been closed.

Let's think for a while. Victoria has been dubbed "swine flu capital" but most cases are mild. Most people recover without medical treatment, the number of cases are confirmed by laboratory tests. At present, 18 Victorians are in hospital (5 in ICU). How much is that compared to 1400 cases? It's just the media is selling the news.

I'm also impressed that Australians have good critical thinking skills. The news report stated that the two patients who died are already sick beforehand. You cannot say that they die because of the swine flu. The current strain of H1N1 is not virulent. Just as someone who died of HIV/AIDS. People who die with HIV virus do not die because they have the virus in their body. They actually die due to the fact that their immune system was unable to fight off secondary infection. You must get the causal link right. To get it right, then you must know how the body system works.

About a century ago, the Spanish flu was caused by the same H1N1 virus. The strain was very virulent, and spread through World War I. The virus was mistakenly identified as originated from Spain due to the fact that Spain was a neutral country that did not take part in war and did not censor news. The pandemic was said to be "a forgotten one" due to the fact that it was ignored when soldiers died, so all the death statistics get mixed up.

See?

Tuition grant from Singapore

With UPU results just out, I'm aware that most people neither get their first choice of university nor courses. These people includes top STPM scorers, including those getting 5 As.

I know you deserve better!

Singapore government provides tuition grant to ALL students enrolling at major tertiary institutions in Singapore (read: this includes international students!). In other words, Singapore government is subsidising your studies even though you're not a Singapore national!

Your obligation is, working for a Singapore company for 3 years upon graduation.

Follow this link to apply! See, our neighbour is so good!

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