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Amazing!

Unwanted!

1.  January 2005-January 2011

517 cases of baby dumping

Boys 203; girls 164; undetermined gender 150 (too decomposed to determine)

Found alive 230; found dead 287

2. January-March 2014

26 cases of baby dumping

3. Recent cases that happened in September 2014

Baby boy dumped in monsoon drain 

A body of baby boy believed to be just weeks old was found dumped in a monsoon drain at Taman Wilayah .  Several workers carrying out grass cutting by the road shoulder made the grisly find.  Sentul police chief said the child whose umbilical cord was still intact was clad in pink clothing.

http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1170851

 

Newborn found dead at waste disposal site

A scrap dealer who was looking for items at a waste disposal site in Kampung Tanjung in Johor stumbled upon a dead baby wrapped in a plastic this morning.  The newborn was found in a plastic bag with its unmbilical cord intact. The baby had been born in the last 24 hours.

http://www.nst.com.my/node/33606

 

Baby found dead in trash

 

In Mersing, Johor, a baby with his umbilical cord still intact was found dead among a pile of trash. It was wrapped in newspaper and put into a plastic bag.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/09/15/Crime-baby-dead-trash 

Hard Work!

I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.
- Roman Abramovich 

Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work.
Joseph Barbara 

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work
Indian Proverb

Points to ponder

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bil Keane

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

Mother and child

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

-Elizabeth Stone

Now that's funny

Lost

A retired woman calls 911 on her cellphone to report that her car has been broken into. She is hysterical as she explains her situation to the dispatcher: "They've stolen the stereo, the steering wheel, the brake pedal and even the accelerator!" she cries.

The dispatcher replies reassuringly, "Don't worry, ma'am. An officer is on his way."
A few minutes later, the dispatched officer calls in. "Disregard." He says. "She got into the back seat by mistake."

Driving

Two elderly women, Mildred and Hazel, were out driving in a large car, barely able to see over the dashboard.
As they're driving along to the grocery store, they approach an intersection. The light is red, but Mildred just drives on through, not hesitating for a second. Bewildered, Hazel thinks to herself "I must be losing it. I could've sworn we just drove through a red light."
A few minutes later, they come up to another red light. Again, Mildred drives right on through. Hazel is alarmed, but is still not sure if she's imagining things. At the next intersection, however, Mildred drives through another red light, prompting Hazel to turn to her friend. "Mildred, are you aware that we just ran through three red lights in a row?"
Mildred replies: "You know, I noticed that too!"
Hazel, flabbergasted, stammers, "You could have gotten us both killed!"
Mildred turns to her slowly, and says, "Me?! You were driving!"

Source: http://livelonger.hubpages.com/hub/Old_people_jokes

31 August 1957, 57 years ago

In January 1956, Tunku  Abdul Rahman led a mission to London to negotiate for Malayan independence, in the end securing self-government for Malaya and the promise of independence by August 1957.  Tunku Abdul Rahman became independent Malaya’s first Prime Minister (a post he would retain when the Federation of Malaysia, which consolidated the countries of Malaya, Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak under one umbrella, was formed in 1963). At midnight on August 30, he stood at the flagpole in Merdeka Square, in Kuala Lumpur, when the Union Jack was lowered for the last time and the new Federation of Malaya flag was raised.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, Malaysia's first Prime Minister, the Father of Independence.

103 years old sprinter!

Closing in on his 104th birthday, Hidekichi Miyazaki, a twinkle-toed Japanese sprinter has thrown down the challenge to the world's fastest man Usain Bolt, telling him: "let's rumble!"

Hidekichi Miyazaki -- who holds the 100 metres world record for centenarians at 29.83 seconds and is dubbed 'Golden Bolt' after the Jamaican flyer -- plans to wait another five years for his dream race and was happy to reveal his secret weapon: his daughter's tangerine jam.

Read more at:
www.japantoday.com
Japan's golden bolt 103 years old !

MH 17 - our people come home

Malaysians woke up this morning to the National Flag being hoisted at half-mast  to honour the victims of the MH 17 crash, which killed all 298 persons on board, including 43 Malaysians on July 17.    
 
What must have been an agonizing wait for the next-of-kin of 20 of the 43 Malaysian victims came to an end with the arrival of their remains, 37 days after the downing of MH 17, that shocked us all, especially so close following the tragic disappearance of MH 370 hardly 4 months before on 8 March 2014.  

To whoever shot down the plane, do you know how many lives are destroyed foreever?  You not only killed 298 persons but brought so much grief to all those who love them, all those who depend on them and all those who are supposed to grow up with them and spend the future with them.  

Please read more at http://www.thestar.com.my/

The scene along the busy Federal Highway at 10.55 am today when all Malaysians,
including motorists, observed 1 minute of silence for the victims of MH17  

Into the winter's gray delight,
Into the summer's golden dream,
Holy and high and impartial,
Death, the mother of Life,
Mingles all men for ever.
~William Ernest Henley, "XIV: Ave, Caesar!", In Hospital

Poverty begets poverty and hunger begets hunger

One billion people live on less than $1 a day, the threshold defined by the international community as constituting extreme poverty, below which survival is questionable.

Within a trap, poverty begets poverty and hunger begets hunger. A number of studies at the level of individuals and households provide clear evidence that poverty and hunger in combination put into play mechanisms that cause both conditions to persist. Poverty and hunger inherited at birth, or resulting from unfortunate and unexpected events, can persist for years.

-Quote from The-worlds-most-deprived-characteristics-and-causes-of-extreme-poverty-and-hunger.html

My lucky morning

When I cracked open my half boiled egg this morning the egg had double yolks! Although I hear that twin yolks are quite common, this is the first for me after so many years of cracking eggs!

I did some research to find out what a double-yolk egg means in folklore and superstition. I would have assumed that a double egg yolk would definitely be a sign of good luck and prosperity.  But some initial web browsing came up with conflicting information, although there were more happy predictions than bad ones. Well, being quite an optimist, I am more inclined to believe in the happy predictions, ha..ha.. Whatever it is, since I got 2 yolks for the price of one, it must be good luck!

Anyway, there is this superstition that two yolks would mean a marriage was coming up soon or a sign of a coming pregnancy, a black spot on a yolk was a bad omen, and an egg with no yolk at all was just about as bad as you could get!

Putting superstitions aside it seems approximately one egg in every thousand is double-yolked. It seems these are produced by hens which have just started laying eggs or by hens which ovulate too quickly.