worms crawling out

now that the news of my intended sale is common knowledge, all the kampung worms are crawling out.

assalamualaikum, inshaallah, alhamdulillah, subhanallah, allahuakbar

in mid 1980, newly returned from mighty cardiff wales with an honours degree to boot, and fancying myself as the proverbial welsh /malay upstart, i was condescending towards all those low-life provincial country bumpkins who endlessly utter any of the above words and diligently avoid them whenever possible.Words uttered which i believe were merely facades of singular backwardness and devoid of transparency. why, it's so easy, somebody ask you to do something and even though you very well know that you can't or won't do it, out comes " inshaallah".so shallow onelah!!!1. why cant they just say NO like they want to!!!!!!. now, 4 years post-stroke , i am wising up to the magnificience of the above words, words extolled in all kitab about islam, words that ensures one remembers ALLAH at all times and remembers that ALLAH is the primemover in everything that happens to us or in our lives.incantations that the malays used so cheaply to explain every act, good or bad. let me elaborate further below , and continually upgrade this post, as i solemnly believe that these wonderful words have been utterly abused by the malay race and is significantly the SINGLE cause of the backwardness or failure of the malays due to its misuse. read further next time and you will follow what i am trying to say. inshaallah.

what the malays forgot was that these words are only effective in gods law if and when you have tried your very best and not just mere words untuk menyedapkan hati!!!!!!!.not to just utter and then set aside

all's well hj sidek - inshaallah

in kampung pulau meranti, hj sidek is our resident kaypochee secretary, he wants to be involved in everything thats going on here and he is a dab hand at ensuring your kenduri or function are well organised and attended to.a perfectly harmless retiree who is very much involved in the school, mosque, jkkk, umno , rela, kubor and whatever others that i am not aware of,put it this way , whatever is the happening in pulau meranti or within it's vicinity, never doubt that hj. sidek will be there, why???, only this morning, he was right there at the scene of a nasty accident involving some lim kok wing students. thats hj sidek, a one-man secretarial outfit and bearer of news, a very useful person to get on your side and to know better. he was the man instrumental in my attending the dr jism theraphy, diligently picking me up every morning at 8a.m., theraphy and then breakfast of teh tarik, roti canai or telur or sometimes thosai.

so, you can imagine my incredulity when on last tuesday morning i got a sms from hj sidek that he doesn't want to have anything to do with my efforts to secure the loan or alternatively sell my property. my initial reaction was that our beneficient ketua kampung,kk, hj muslim had got to him, as you see this kk fancies himself as the warlord in this kampung, and thus have this swagger that anything happening here must go through and of benefit to him.i was despondent for awhile, as dealing and talking with hj didek was less stressful than with the kk.
so you can imagine my mini elation last night when hj sidek sms's me and said that he will pick me up at 8.30 this morning for the theraphy. this morning , after an interrupted theraphy, see there was a power failure, or al-jabbar hadn't paid the bill, not sure which one and not waiting to find out which, there was me and hj sidek adjourning to our latest mamak shop, opening our hearts out. short of crying on the spot, i would imagine that things are now hunky dory between us. of course, only time will tell,in the meanwhile , it seems that kk has gone awol, after the superficially initial enthusiasm, well as the good wife days, good riddance to bad rubbish. lets see whats kk next move in the next couple of weeks, if anything, this supreme umno kk toll collector must be taught a lesson, but thats not for me, i am absolutely certain allah will take care of him.hopefully mercifully.
thats it, looks like hj sidek and me are friends again, aaaaaagh, a happy ending for once, no, not yet, maybe the beginning of a possible happy ending, inshaallah.

time management

whether in a government office full of malay beauracrats or dealing with malay businesspersons or attending a malay kenduri or wedding or some sort of frivolous functions, why is that, the malays seem unable to grasp the simple concept of being on time, or on schedule or whatever. it is ridiculous that some take this as a virtue when we all know that it's one of the essentials of efficiency. so the malays are likened to the italians, biar bodoh tapi bergaya or simply bodoh sombong. is this our heritage??????. who was the first malay who was so popular in not keeping to schedule so much so that an entire race ape him????, or her??//. this is the person responsible for our backwardness, so you arch-nationalist malay historian or anthropologist, please find this person as he/she deserves to be the ultimate malay hero/heroine, in my book anyway. much better than hang tu or hang ni, whichever way you are inclined.

ketua kampung scam

inspite of the governments claim of stimulus package, developing bumiputera businessmen and others, to date we have failed to secure financing to expand our infant business which we believe has tremendous prospect. i do believe that all those various institutions, smidec, sme bank and others are just a convenient means to feather the bed of socalled special intrests groups who are living the good life using the peoples money. so our only other alternative is to sell the land here where we are doing business.

yet again, another firmly entrenched scam seems to be rearing it's head. yesterday morning, i had a call from our ketua kampung saying he has to see me urgently as he has a potential buyer who wants to view our land urgently. i of course agreed, he came soonest and shove a letter for me to sign and say that the buyer is coming at 2p.m. with his lawyer. i of course signed the letter as it's no more than a simple letter authorising him to look for a buyer.a worthless piece of paper if you ask me. So, i waited and waited but no buyer came. called him this morning and he said that the buyer had some other urgent things to attend to. tell you what, i smell a lousy stinking fish here. could all this be a scam???. wallahualam!!!!. so the best thing to do and only thing i can do now is to bereserah kepada ALLAH, i am certain ALLAH WILL PROVIDE FOR US, INSHAALLAH.

pusat kesihatan putrajaya

yesterday, my wife took me to the pusat kesihatan putrajaya to see a dentist to attend to my tooth and tongue problems. thank god, one of her clients, a nurse called kak su worked there, thus within not very long i was ushered in to see a doctor wan" something", a nice doctor. who checked my teeth for not more than ten minutes, and then proceeded to prescribed some medications. these worked as the pain and agony subsided.
my impressions of the pusat is favourable. inspite of the numerous thronging patients, things proceeded well, everybody seems to be attended to, a far cry from situation at the emergency room of the putrajaya hospital, where waiting seems to be the prescribed medicine. at last, i can see where all the money the government poured into healthcare being well put to use for the public's good.my first impressions were that "-

1. the patients were predominantly malays.
2. although the governments pharmacy had been so-called nationalised, the foreign drugmakers must be the one laughing to the bank, as the pharmacy seems to be dishing out medicines like a minimarket
well, all in all a major improvement than what was available before.

lyanne natural batik - pulau meranti

whilst most of the postings in the last few months has been about me, i feel that now is the right time to change name again to encompass everything that i am doing and especially our intention to further develop our little piece of land and the batik buasiness, especially our desire to adopt natural (green)practices in everything that we do. in a nutshell , what we are trying to do are:-

1. develop our batik business by adopting natural dyes, specifically indigo.
2. develop our cafe to serve healthy food and drinks.
3. grow and rear our own food needs by adopting simple natural ways such as aquaphonics and free-range husbandry.
4. adopt green technologies such as solar energy and rainwater harvesting so as to reduce our carbon footprint and stop contributing to the extortionate utility companies, specifically with regards to electricity and water.
5. to grow together with the kampung folks of kampung pulau meranti.