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Our unit at The Boulevard, Subang Jaya is available for rent.
4r2b fully furnished, 1 carpark.
Well-maintained condo in gated community. Pool, gym, multiple playgrounds. Next to a lake & Subang Ria Park aka Parc.
RM2500/mo zero deposit w Speedhome
Izzati was to give birth to her 1st child. She went to hospital to do so and was found to be Covid-19 positive. Her baby was delivered via C-section and she had to be intubated soon after. Her baby survived, but she didn't. They never met.
I've traveled via 5 airports in Europe & Asia in past week. KLIA is the only one w a thermal scanners.
More ppl in masks at KLIA, hardly any in the other airports (or cities, actually).
So I conclude, Msia is doing more than others, but Msians are also more fearful than others.
This whole UITM lecturer issue is making me realise there is another reason my overseas tertiary education is such a privilege:
Lecturers treated me as an adult.
Even if they secretly thought I was a silly kid, they never made me feel that way.
Sedih pulak baca komen org pertikaikan kenapa gelandangan dpt vaksin dulu. Faham yg semua stress sbb org tersayang kita yg risiko tinggi pun belum dpt vaksin. Tapi gelandangan pun risiko tinggi juga. Cuba lah empati. Hidup kita jauh lebih selesa dari mereka.
Program vaksinasi gelandangan Fasa 1 telah diadakan di Pusat Transformasi Gelandangan Anjung Kelana, Taman Desa pada 27 Mei 2021 (Khamis).
Fasa 1 ini melibatkan seramai 119 gelandangan yang sedang menghuni di pusat penempatan transit gelandangan di Kuala Lumpur.
Mohamad Azim accidentally banked in RM1,600 to Wendy Lim, a student. He made a desperate plea on soc med for anyone who knows Wendy and Twitter users found her. She was abroad so the bank couldn't contact her. She found Azim on Facebook and returned his money.
Pengajaran wanita non Muslim bertudung di NZ tanda solidariti bukanlah "tengok, orang kafir di NZ pun tau hormat, tak macam kat sini". Pengajarannya ialah orang majoriti NZ anggap golongan minoriti setara dengan mereka, dan golongan migran tak dilabel pendatang tapi "one of us".
On this day last year, we recorded the first Covid-19 cases in Malaysia. A group of tourists from China travelled to Malaysia from Singapore. They had contact w an infected person in SG and were placed in quarantine in Malaysia on Jan 24, 2020. On Jan 25, three tested positive.
(I feel segan sharing this, but here goes.)
I got RM500 Bantuan Prihatin. But I've savings, a job and a full pantry.
So I gave RM300 of that to charities helping others who aren't as lucky. Will donate the rest, too.
If u'r lucky like me, maybe consider doing the same, too.
Kelantan & Kedah return to yellow zone, after a month w/o cases.
In Kelantan, a pregnant woman was who returned to kampung form Ampang, Selangor was found positive during her routine check up at the maternal health clinic.
In Kedah, it was a uni student traveling back home.
"A remarkable Sabahan student spent 24 hours atop a tree just to get a good enough internet connection for online exams. It serves as a reminder of those who are left behind in the digital gap."
Seriously all the perfect parents think this could never happen to them. Dad was sleeping. The mum just went to the bathroom, came out and the kids were gone.
My takeaway as a parent is to put the car keys out of reach.
In the wee hours, starting 3am, Hasrul Rizwan is a baker of bread & cakes. Once the kitchen is cleared, he is a cemetery caretaker, weeding & mowing grass. Next, a carpenter & undertaker, preparing corpses & coffins. At nite, he writes bestselling novels.
Five malls in the Klang Valley have announced Covid-19 cases in the past week:
1) The Linc KL (Trinity Kids)
2) Suria KLCC (Babel Gym)
3) KL Gateway (Menara Suez officr tower)
4) Sunway Pyramid (Nike)
5) Nu Sentral
Takdenya "polis pun manusia". Ni salah guna kuasa. Kalau doctor buat camni pun salah guna kuasa, ya. Hensem atau tidak, tak kira. (I can't believe I had to say that last line, but ya.)
BREAKING - Sarawak confirms Malaysia's first death from Covid-19. The deceased is a 60-year-old pastor from Kuching. He was confirmed positive on March 15. He died at 11am today, at the Hospital Umum Sarawak, Kuching.
The state also announced 11 new cases.
I really cannot w FRU raising their shields to facing MPs in suits. Are they going to rampage w their pens and blazers?
Almost laughable, until you realise why we are in this situation in the first place.
As usual, politics in Malaysia - can't decide to laugh or cry.
Pakcik ni berada di Kampung Baru masa Mei 13, 1969 dan hari2 seterusnya. Dia kata dia cukup marah bila nampak budak2 muda ugut Mei 13. Masa wawancara ni dia menangis.
Ni cerita dia, yang kami terbitkan pada ulangtahun ke 50 insiden ni pada tahun 2019.
#COVID19
Terkini. 24 Nov. Kes paling tinggi hari ini, 2,188 kes.
Kes sembuh juga paling tinggi 1,673.
Kes paling tinggi, Selangor 1,623 dan sebahagian besar daripada Kluster Teratai.
Negeri lain, Sabah 232, Perak 112 dan KL 90.
4 kematian, 1 kluster tamat.
Ingat tak wanita hamil yg ke Kelantan dari Ampang, KL utk bersalin - tapi disahkan positif Covid-19 pd 20 Mei lalu?
Pada 2 Jun, beliau disahkan sembuh.
Tiada siapa lain yg dijangkiti di Kelantan selepas kontak dgn beliau.
Kelantan pun dah kembali hijau.
'Sedang goreng keropok untuk anak, dikompaun RM50,000'
Kata peniaga ni, gerai colek (rojak) dah tutup. Lampu dah tutup, tapi beliau goreng keropok untuk makan sendiri sekeluarga. Gerai beliau di perkarangan rumah sendiri.
Starting next week, Mysejahtera will have a feature to allow pregnant women to identify themselves so they can be selected for Pfizer jabs.
More details to follow.
This is how you solve the bicycle problem in KL. Tapi kena buat around the whole city. Will cost a bomb in construction. Govt mampu ke in times like this
LOL ppl saying they doesn't care about shortage of cardiothoracic surgeons in malaysia coz they don't go to public hospitals.
There are just over 70 cardiothoracic surgeons in Malaysia (in both private and public).
I feel a sense of deja vu.
- Cases spike
- Students are stranded and in a state of confusion
- The PM golfs
Maybe Nando's is not the only one trying to turn back the clock.
The important thing to note is this is not a lockdown.
You can still go out and you can still buy groceries at the supermarket or a wet market.
All essential services will go on as usual.
You just can't travel abroad and school will be shut longer.
DO NOT PANIC BUY / HOARD.
Mesin "ATM Beras" dilancarkan di Masjid Al Akram, Kg Datuk Keramat, KL semalam. Asnaf boleh mendapatkan dua kilo beras secara percuma & jemaah blh menyumbang dengan memasukkan duit dalam mesin ini. Mesin ini berasal dari Indonesia dan pertama kali digunakan di Malaysia.
This is a photo from the floods in 2021. But this wasn't at the worst point.
Today, the gov't in its statement of defence in a lawsuit by Taman Sri Muda residents, said this is not their fault and this is an act of God.
Flood sirens went off again in Taman Sri Muda this week.
My father's vax joke:
Bapak: My friend experienced blurred vision right after vaccination. His legs also felt weak.
Me: Is your friend ok now?
Bapak: Yes. After he got back his glasses and walking stick that he left behind at the vaccination centre.
Everybody who ever got on trains knows if you reduce frequency without reducing demand, there will be crowds.
The bigger question is how did MKN not forsee this? Who was the person advising on public transport?
Policy bodoh kerajaan untuk public transport (train). Less frequency, less occupation on the train. So nak kena keluar rumah lepas subuh ke kalau nak sampai office on time?
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National Audit Department's Nor Salwani Muhammad held onto one of the 60 original copies of 1MDB audit report against the order by her superior to destroy all of them.
Day 4: Officer kept copy of original audit report despite order to destroy all
Some medics at HTAR are resigning w 24 hours' notice, unable to cope.
"They were committed and worked hard but they were exhausted with this crisis and they lost hope."
I don't know how many times people asked me why my kid is not cared for by my mum/mum in law.
1) They're in their 70s. Jaga baby penat kot. I wouldn't want to put them through that.
2) What makes people assume that auto-child minders? Kejap2 ok la but not every day for 9 hrs.
Pusat kuarantin swasta percuma di KL utk mereka yg dijangkiti Covid kategori 1 atau 2 tapi tak boleh kuarantin di rumah (ada golongan risiko tinggi di rumah, tiada bilik dgn bilik air peribadi, rumah sempit & dikongsi ramai dll).
Call nombor dlm infografik utk maklumat lanjut:
Perhaps an unpopular opinion - Event photographers should quit yelling 'freestyle' or 'candid' and expect subjects to act silly and perform candid, when in fact they should have captured that actual candid when it happened.
A man who attended UM in 1969 told me after the riots, Ungku Aziz (then VC) organised for urban (Chinese) students to join Malay students on kg visits.
At the time it was just a fun trip. Now he realised it was the VC's way to help students overcome their fear of each other.
Setiap malam keluar masuk rumah PM, mesyuarat secara fizikal yang memang melanggar SOP Fasa 1 Plan Pemulihan Negara.
Dilaporkan media terang-terangan. Tak ada segan silu melanggar peraturan, yang mana kalau rakyat melanggar akan terus didenda atau lebih teruk masuk penjara.
Working 7 days a week for long hours, often debt bondage from exorbitant recruitment related fees/costs, cheated by Malaysian/Nepali recruitment agencies and brokers, living in squalid accomodation it is often truly barely a human existence
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My grandmother married at 14. She said she was considered old at the time. She had to leave school at 7 because of a meddling uncle and she was still angry abt 70 years later. She always regretted it so she made sure all her girls finished school, never pressured them to marry.
UiTM Sg Buloh head nurse, Artini Dzolkarnaini, 41 was a mother of five. She died this morning.
She was infected w Covid-19 mid last month. Her baby, born prematurely at 30 weeks due to complications related to Covid-19 is still in NICU.
In case you have the capacity for any other news besides the new DPM and senior minister, HTAR in Klang now has beds outside of the emergency department.
Tak habis2 F6 takde class. I got in Matric & Asasi in UIA, chose F6. It helped me pivot to subjects I love. I discovered Economics. My STPM results got me a scholarship to get a B Econ at Uni of Queensland.
F6 can be a chance to change paths, without costing a bomb.
Things are quite crappy in KV these days:
- Heatwave
- Grab mahal (still don't know why?)
- Traffic jam galore
- Public transport even shittier (is that even possible? Yes, apparently)
- RM weak, so food and basically anything imported is pricier
What's the silver lining?
Selepas hampir dua jam mengadakan pertemuan dengan Ahli-ahli Parlimen UMNO dan Barisan Nasional, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob meninggalkan hotel berkenaan.
@501Awani
Friends, if you had to take a swab due to close contact w a C-19 positive patient, please isolate for 2 weeks regardless of the swab result.
This includes not going to work.
You may be infected and infectious, but the test may not show until later.
Recently I wrote to the Met Dept to ask for data for rainfall and temperature. They wrote back to say it will cost me about RM3,000.
This is among the reasons why Malaysian newsrooms don't do data journalism.
Contoh kenapa perempuan kena belajar pasal vagina sendiri.
Masa muda saya pakai pencuci/pewangi.
Ada isu. Masa tu start sambung belajar di Australia. Pegi klinik sexual health free sana.
Doktor explain bahaya guna pewangi, ganggu pH dll. Suruh stop.
Lepas tu takda isu dah.
Dah la tak masuk kelas, pastu nak cover line bagi soalan bocor pulak. That was the testimony from this teacher's students. He is being sued by his ex students for ponteng class for 7 months.
Spent 3 years of my life studying "Kemahiran Hidup".
Built a:
1) Letter box
2) An electronic circuit with LED
3) Decoration shelf
Its been 18 years n I've yet needed to build any of the above myself.
Well done Malaysian education system 👍
Woman charged for stealing a RM18 pencil box for her kid. Promised it to him if he did well in exam, but she no $ to buy. Lawyer happened to be in court the day she was charged & helped. 30 yrs on, her son found the lawyer. The boy become a lawyer, too.
Selangor princess, Tengku Zatashah, who has championed environmental issues, partly controls one of the companies developing a quarry set to operate in the Bukit Lagong Forest Reserve.
Reporting by
@lowchoonchyuan
Actually, if this was indeed in Malaysia yesterday, then they either all live in the same household (if with parents, can adult children live rent-free in official residence? 🤔)...
Or they went berkunjung to each other's homes, which is not allowed right now.
So which is it?
Proton confirms another 49 cases among its employees in the Engineering Division in Shah Alam.
Based on MOH briefing just now, this cluster is know as Kluster Auto.
KKM speaks out against stigmatisation of foreign workers.
"We cannot blame them for having to live in cramped quarters. They have no choice.
"They come here to work because of poverty at home. Given a choice they would certainly want to be with their families at home."
It took abt a week for Westerm media (except for The Economist) to realise the story isn't abt a 93-year-old man winning an election/Dr M's comeback, but abt how an all powerful regime which never saw defeat for 61 years was toppled by the people w/o a single drop of blood shed.
The coach came into her room and told her to take a nap before the competition. He then sat next to her and patted her.
"I was lying on the bed, and he came over and patted my shoulder. Then, his hand went here, there, there..."
Reporting by
@KaiHui1015
Yesterday, we went to Balai Seni Visual Negara for this digital experential show called Walking Through A Songline.
There were zero signs saying the show was on, so I thought we were at the wrong gallery.
So my husband suggested I tweet abt it to promo the show. It's cool.
A month after she was declared Covid-19 free and discharged from hospital, Wani Ardy found herself brushing her teeth w facial cleanser, or driving somewere and not knowing why.
She is a long covid sufferer, and brain fog is just one of her conditions.
Vivy Yusof is suing a 28-year-old netizen Alia Najwa Hassannudin. Who on earth is Alia even?
Lawsuits aren't cheap. Perhaps her business wasn't so badly hit by the pandemic.
"Hanis stressed that she was not a racist, as she grew up in a multiracial community in Kluang, Johor, and has many Indian friends."
Then why are you going on social media insinuating a stadium full of Indians will smell bad? 🙄
Interesting how calling something 'cap ayam' denotes generic cheap unreliable when the actual cap ayam (Ayam Brand) is the gold standard quality canned sardines brand, which is relatively expensive.
Justice Mohd Nazlan, 51, who delivered a guilty verdict against Najib today is a MCKK alumnus & holds BA in Jurisprudence & an MA fr Oxford. He is a barrister-at-law fr Lincoln’s Inn, London.
He was once head of enforcement at the Securities Commission.
Israeli journalist shared this clip, implying it is a failed propaganda clip from Hamas. Ironically, it is a scene from a Malaysian absurdist comedy telemovie from 2018. So not sure whose failed propaganda this is.
BREAKING - Starting April 3, Malaysians returning from overseas will be sent to quarantine centres, where they will be isolated for 14 days, Defence Minister Ismail Sabri Said.
Those who can manage abroad are advised to stay put, he said.
So glad I didnt give in to Grab surge pricing and waited another 2 minutes for a metered taxi to roll by.
~1km distance, Grab quoted RM12+
Metered taxi was RM5.
You know the clip of Adham Baba w that vaccine badge? It is from March.
And that idea was never implemented finally.
I am not sure why it is suddenly making rounds again.
A reminder that a man had died in immigration detention. He didn't refuse testing, he had a doc from KKM showing he tested negative. They took him in anyway. He came in on a valid social visit pass, had a ticket home but flight cancelled. He got Covid-19 in detention. He died.
Muji and Uniqlo use Xinjiang cotton while H&M procures yarn from Huafu, which labour supply includes Uighur staff provided by the government. Called "rural surplus workers", they go through programs to "establish correct values", Foreign Policy reports.
BREAKING: Coerced Uighur labor touches almost every part of the supply chain.
Presents actual data on forced internment camp laborers from gov't docs: wages and ages.
Key new findings on Huafu Fashion Co., contradicting its internal audit claims.
Someone in an education forum on FB asked "Do people even send their kids to government schools?"
I wanted to reply: "Yes, they do. In 2019, 2 million students enrolled in SMK."
But I didn't because I care for my mental health.
People should really get out of their bubbles.
The Azrul incident reminded me of a time I was eating roti canai alone before work when Malaysiakini was still in Bangsar. Out of nowhere a pakcik I didn't know came up to me and said: "Buah dada tu tutup sikit." I was gobsmacked. Verily, there are Azruls everywhere.
An individual who works at MyTown KL Mall tested positive for COVID-19 on April 30. Village Grocer in a statement yesterday said the outlet there is closed today (May 3) for disinfection.
For more privileged families, keeping kids in online school is abt safety. Kids still have a lot of room to play. They hv access to pool/garden. They hv staycations.
For less privileged families, in person school is freedom for children locked up in tiny flats for months.
KKM announces a new cluster involving university students in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. Three cases are found in this cluster.
The students tested positive despite being quarantined for more than a month.
@DGHisham
said it is suspected that they were infected by workers on campus.
Did you know a teacher who served 30 years would get less in pensions compared to an MP who served for 9 years?
Some argue it is coz MPs dont have security of tenure so their take home pay is higher. Agree? 😁
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makes sense of MP pension and allowances to calculate how much your MP gets now and once they retire.
Spoiler:
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will get heaps from serving as ADUN, Perak exco, MP, Dep Speaker & Minister.
Police PC on various things including Ain's police reports (Minutes 9:13 to 10:22)
DIGP refers to the rape threat as "mungkin gurauan rakan sedarjahnya yang beliau tidak boleh terima."
The Malaysian public dental clinic is fantastic and proof that our health system is amazing and should be cherished and safeguarded. RM3 for a check up and scaling (my first scaling experience!!). I went to the busy Bangsar clinic at 3pm, done by 5pm. No prior appointment needed.
This is an excerpt from a book published by Tunku Kurshiah College about their illustrious alumni. This was written by CJ, Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.
(I'll type it out in subsequent tweets as it is too long for alt text.)
"Rozana fail saman menuntut ganti rugi utk kecederaan termasuk keretakan dua tulang rusuk, lebam di muka dan beberapa bahagian lain."
Listening to Wings have never been the same. Haritu almost tukar bila keluar Sejati.
Gila sampai patah tulang rusuk.
A powerful picture of a KL kid and what she eats everyday. The older I get the more amazed I am at how my mum managed to keep us on a balanced diet when we were kids.
Young environmental activist Shakila Zen has been traumatised by the anonymous letter threatening an acid attack against her, which was delivered to the home of her parents in a parcel two days ago, along with a replica of a bloody severed hand.
Malaysiakini staff are given the day off on their vaccine appointment dates - extra day, not deducted from their AL.
Hope other companies will do the same.