Where am I aiming my kid?

I want to set you up son, to NOT miss the whole point of your life - by aiming below what God has in store for you.



Son, today it is my responsibility to guide you down the long and winding road, which I hope will one day lead to TRUE greatness. I am only human though and will falter many times myself before I get it right.




One day, all too soon, I will have to let you find your own way - but you won't be alone if you so choose. If you let Him, the Author and Sustainer of true greatness will be with you and He'll be glad to whisper in your ear and nudge you down the path you should take.

What are Malaysians worth?

It would seem in Malaysia, that lives are cheap.

Despite the high mortality rate in road accidents, back seat passengers do not have to wear a seat belt. Babbies and toddlers don't have to be safely fitted into child car seats.

Buses can be made with cheap materials that disintegrate upon impact because there are no standard regulations that govern their design and construction, unlike in more developed countries.

Vegetables high in pesticides, rejected by Singapore and more concerned governments, are acceptable for the Malaysian public.

Yup, in Malaysia, lives are cheap.

It's like the regulators are telling us, "die, die lah."

In other countries, you can be jailed and your children taken away from you if you don't use a child seat in the car. You will be considered a danger to your child.

Elsewhere, there are tough regulations as to who can drive a bus - they are after all being entrusted with some 40 lives at any one time.

Background and police records are checked before someone is allowed to be a child minder at a creche in a church I attended in Madison, Wisconsin, US.

Lives are worth much more there.

Australians are probably the most valuable people on the planet as they seem to have the most stringent laws vis a vis public health and safety.

But in Malaysia? Politics, votes and collecting dirty money so that some little napolean can put up his mistress in an expensive apartment, are more important considerations than your life or mine.

Green, green bags

Green canvas is the way to go...

It has been two weeks since I shook off the dust that had settled on the green canvas bags I bought months ago, and put them to use. Made for grocery shopping, these bags are the ultimate alternative to environmentally unfriendly plastic bags.

The first time I took them to the grocers, it surprised me just how many things could fit into the bag. There is RM200 worth of groceries in the bags pictured above, including a bag of rice. It sure beat having to carry so many plastic bags from cashier to car.

I saw one or two other people using similar bags and I couldn't help but be thrilled at the prospect that one day soon, plastic bags will no longer be de riguer, and everyone will be toting these bags around.

The bags are inexpensive too. Giant sells their own version now for just RM2.45 each if I remember correctly and I got mine at Bangsar Village for just RM1.50 each with every purchase of RM30.00 and above.

This is one way to reduce our footprint on the environment... use less plastic bags. Plastic bags take hundreds of years to degrade once they are thrown out. When it goes out to the land fill all it does is just sit there for hundreds of years.

What do we use to throw out our rubbish if we don't bring home plastic bags? TMC and Giant sell biodegradable garbage bags at affordable prices which is the way to go. I have also found that since we started recycling and separating our waste, we throw away less which means less garbage bags or plastic bags are used each day.

All it takes is one baby step at a time. So easy, so inexpensive, yet so impactful.