bring the boys back home

i mean the astronauts ... why go to space when we cant even spare the basic necessities at home during our flood season. let me illustrate some areas that need attention... urgently


this was the scene at batu anam, a short drive from segamat. if you drive south from kuala lumpur, you will only know that the road is cut off when you reach the affected area. no one has the basic common sense to put a sign up half an hour north, at the turn off to bahau, to inform motorists not to procceed south, but instead take the detour south. no brain surgery here. and we dont need millions for the signboard, a couple of hundred rinngit will do. a couple of hundred ringgit can be found easily in this country, but not accountability and common sense.

so i had to backtrack, after pointing out the right thing to do to the public works department guy (or jabatan kerja raya - aka jangan kerja rajin) he just smiled ... to make matters worse, there was no one there to help anyone, just him, who not only had anything to help us with, he didnt even know what was going on.

c'mon guys, we dont need to be idiots all the time. take a break every now and then, especially when people need help.
* put some proper signages up
* publish alternative routes in newspapers, draw some maps even to make it easy
* station our army there, use the fancy trucks and whatever else we need to ferry people across. otherwise what ever we purchased wont come to any use when there is a war. think about it .. how will be be able to fight a war if we cant even put up a simple signage. think of providing aid to the rakyat as survival training.