Immediately before he was admitted to the hospital, Idris had been working for about 4 years as a security guard with a Bursar-Malaysia-listed company, which hired more than 300 workers, including 200 foreign workers. There was a high chance that Idris could have been infected with TB pathogen during his employment with the company. It was because the Executive Director of this company purportedly and illegally retook a foreign worker who had been found to be a TB pathogen carrier six months after the foreign worker had been sent back to Indonesia by his former Human Resources Manager. The reason for the reintake was that the factory was badly suffering from the shortage of skilled production line supervisor.

Pakatan Rakyat has to openly voice out a nation-wide foreign worker intake policy in order to ensure the proper maintenance of acceptable health care standard in Malaysia. Otherwise, Malaysia will sooner or later become a country full of contagious diseases such as TB or Hepatitis B with the loosening control on foreign worker intake.

I hope Pakatan Rakyat will not repeat the policy mistake of Barisan Nasional in respect of encouraging food production. Barisan Nasional has been implementing a food production policy which is full of hypocrisy. For instance, some dairy cow farmers in Pahang found that they had to throw away their fresh cow milk by draining it to the longkang because a private dairy milk factory located in Bandar Muazam Shah refused to buy the milk. The reason of the refusal was that the milk factory had already gotten adequate inexpensive supply of cow milk from import sources such as Australia and New Zealand. The Veterinary Services Department (Jabatan Perkhidmatan Haiwan or abbreviated as JPH) did offer to buy milk from the dairy farmers but many farmers found that the RM2 per litre price of Grade AA milk could hardly permit them to achieve the breakeven production-sale point. If Barisan Nasional Government is sincere enough in its intent to help the dairy cow farmers, then it must be humble and honest in dealing with the farmers when getting JPH to serve as a market middle man. If milk manufacturers such as Dutch Lady or HL are able to offer to buy at RM2.50 per litre of Grade AA milk, then I see no reason why JPH cannot offer a buying price of RM2.20 per litre to the farmers.

Another instance, the average production costs for one kg of fresh goat mutton in Malaysia is about RM18. If the goat farmers are to sell their mutton at the price of RM20 per kg, the sale value they can expect from one head of 45 kg one-year old goat will be about RM360 (45 kg X 40% meat yield after slaughter X RM20 per kg retail price). Unfortunately, not many goat farmers are able to sell their fresh mutton at the price of RM20 per kg. This is because the frozen mutton importers are selling their mutton at the price of RM9.50 per kg. JPH has throughout the past 30 years made many goat farmers fail in earning a decent living by giving away about 10 heads of goats to the farmers for purpose of encouraging them to venture into the economically infeasible goat farming business.
However, JPH will still continue to give away free animals to the ruminant farmers because the top officers are being paid a handsome sum of commission by the live animal sellers. Pakatan Rakyat leaders must have a strong determination to fight against the red tape in JPH if it really wants to carry out a meaningful reform in respect of achieving national food security!

I used to buy keyholder with DAP’s rocket logo when I was in the primary school.

I hope I can buy some CNY cards with DAP’s rocket logo in the next few weeks’ time! It has been more than 20 years I never sent out a CNY card by surface mail because email electronic cards are popular nowadays. I think the classmates of mine in primary school and secondary school will like to get the surprise of receiving a CNY card with DAP’s rocket logo in it. At least I can send the cards out to several puppy lovers of mine during my childhood time calling for a Chinese New Year Reunion! YB Kit, it is easy money to earn, isn’t it?

Since it is CNY or Raya, it is a good opportunity for DAP to go from house to house, good Public Relationship. CNY is around the corner.

Any chance of sponsoring Wee Meng Chee to do a cover of Snap’s “The Power” about registering to vote? Maybe I’m showing my age! Maybe someone else would be better, since I imagine the MSM has done a fairly good job of polarising attitudes towards him – although any other Malaysian I can think of who might do such a project strikes me as unbearably cheesy. It’s a conservative country, maybe cheesy is what would work best!

Or maybe what you need is something like Rock The Vote:
rockthevote_DOT_com
Perhaps you might even find some help there. Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia is also trying to get young people to register to vote, but I think they’re hamstrung by being old and sensible.

Oh no ! One engine on our Proton-Lotus rocket is missing. Could it be with the new F1 team ?

Oh no ! Our astronauts’ spacesuits are leaking, but they can’t find out the cause.

Oh no ! Somebody stole the marbles and teh tarik equipment which were to be used for our space experiments.

Merry X’mas to all fellow contributors to our worthy cause.