does a developing country have more than half of its states wallowing in poverty?

that’s right, seven states in malaysia - kelantan, terengganu, sabah, sarawak, perlis, kedah and perak - were found out to have a level of poverty more associated with the poorest african countries by the united nations development programme (UNDP) in a dialogue with MPs at the dewan rakyat on malaysia’s progress towards achieving the ‘millennium development goals’.

i am surprised to see perak in the list. i would have thought ipoh is a big city and well developed but i guess maybe if excluding ipoh, many other small towns in perak like slim river, tanjung malim, sg. siput, bidor, they are not as ‘rich’ as ipoh.

martin jalleh had an article titled ‘the truth about privatisation‘ in aliran’s latest issue. interesting read (as always).

i had wanted to blog about this but seeing that politics101 had already blog on it and i had also make comments there, i’ll be doing a lazy cut and paste job instead.

it’s regarding the proposal by DAP jepong MP dr tan seng giaw to regulate the azan so that it will not be too loud. all at once all those UMNO monkeys jumped up and protested saying he was being insensitive and he should be more tolerant.

aedes, the mosquito.
(taken from astrazeneca)

it won’t be friendly when it carries the dengue virus. one bite and you will experience the symptons of dengue and if no cure is seek quick enough, it would proof lethal, leading to death.

well, today’s star latest news (at time of writing) tells us that our gomen warns of dengue outbreak! in our country… so be alert! be careful! be tidy! that’s right, you do not want to be so kind to offer a shelter for the aedes to breed in your house, do you - make sure there are no empty containers left in the open which will collect water or old tyres left in the open, where water can seep in and become a comfortable home for the aedes larvae.

TODAY IS……..

wish mental jog a happy anniversary, will ya. thanks.

730 days of blogging.
788 posts (excluding this).
102573 visitors (see left, bravenet counter).
site meter though says it is only 81043 visitors. (i know, probably i started using them at different time.)

the very first post.

1st anniversary post part I and part II.

why and how i started blogging part I and part II.

why i choose the name ‘mental jog’.

the consequence is beginning to show.

while i agree whole-heartedly with the opening of this article from NST ‘up to no good‘ as per here:
WHAT was striking about the removal of the inflammatory messages posted by “good man” on the blogs - and the subsequent police reports lodged against the anonymous writer - was that it was done by the bloggers themselves. Since blogs are bywords for freedom of expression, one would have thought that they would be the last place to practise self-censorship or to favour restraints. But regulating content on the Internet is what the proposed code of conduct by bloggers for Malaysian blogs sets out to do.

let’s look at the very serious side to the two sets of rules now… where our gomen is involved.

…like one set of rule for UMNO and one for the opposition? like something to do with sedition?

’nuff said. over to you.

remember when i blog on the expensive farewell? in which it was reported that more than RM5 million was spent for the farewell of the custom and excise dept. director general (DG) tan sri halil mutalib?

well, after that lots of news followed like with him denying the expensive farewells and all that. on 19 sept. it was reported that this DG wanted to lodged a report against his men as he was mad that his men were an ‘ungrateful lots’ who were out to tarnish his name. he said that while he was playing golf at the datai bay golf resort. then he added:

my post ‘good man is bad man?’ refers. sorry, i’m not through with this topic yet. here i want you to ponder on something… the comments made by some people, especially in the PPS blog.

freddie chong asked: “tell, me…. what would you do if you suddenly hear that a lot of people think that your blogs are irresponsible, and want to shut you up? think carefully about this…. there are literally, millions of people out there in conservative cultures who think that all bloggers talk too much and should be shut up completely.”