Category: Social/Political

Relay for Life Kuala Lumpur.

This Saturday, I’m joining a bunch of bloggers/tweeple at MSN Training Stadium, Bukit Jalil for Relay for Life Kuala Lumpur (lets refer to it as #RelayKL from now onwards).

Organised by the The National Cancer Society of Malaysia, Relay for Life is an event where everyone in the community join in the fight against cancer. It began in 1985 in Tacoma, Washington when Dr Gordon Klatt walked for 24 hours to raise money for the American Cancer Society. He raised $27,000 that first year. Since then, Relay for Life events around the world have raised billion dollars to support programmes eliminating cancer.

Niki himself has kickstarted a social media initiative to recruit more bloggers and tweeple such as you and I to participate in #RelayKL. It it weren’t for Niki, I would not have any idea what this event is about or had any desire to participate in it. So thanks for initiating this Niki!

# – With Niki and Meem, Marcom Manager of National Cancer Society Malaysia.

To be honest, at first, I thought #RelayKL was like an actual endurance running event but I was so wrong. It’s a relay of all kinds of fun activities; performances, entertainment and yes some running, hehe but the general idea is to keep the track bustling with activities from 6pm to 10am the next day. Sounds like fun!

I’m doing this for my great grandfather, my grandfather, my grandfather’s brother and niece, all whom had passed on due to cancer. I can only imagine the amount of support and comfort that cancer survivors as well as friends & family of the victims could draw from this event and I’m glad I could be part of something so meaningful.

So, do come to MSN Training Stadium, Bukit Jalil on this Saturday to support #RelayKL. The participation fee for this event is only RM15, you get a free t-shirt and you get to join in the fun with fellow bloggers/tweeple.

Where & When?

From: 6pm, 29 May 2010 (Saturday)
To: 10am, 30 May 2010 (Sunday)
At: MSN Training Stadium, Bukit Jalil

By the way, Niki has arranged for a couple of tents for us to hang out in between activities so if you would like to join these tents, please drop an email with your contact details to relayforlife@nikicheong.com (do mention if you came from this website).

If you’re very busy, the other way to support #RelayKL is via fundraising. You can donate directly into the National Cancer Society Malaysia’s CIMB Clicks account by clicking here. And fear not if you’re not a CIMB customer, you can still use the service. Feel free to encourage your friends and family to do the same.

Hope to see you guys there this Saturday!

Selayang Dog Pound – Hell on Earth

+++Update+++

Ernie, monster from hell of Selayang Dog Pound has admitted that she seizes people’s unlicensed dogs by force. Obviously, when she runs out of stray dogs to torture, she makes it a mission to invade people’s homes and take away their beloved pets. This is despicable! I believe in karma and refrain from cursing people but I hope when she dies she gets torn apart by 5 dogs over and over again so she could relive her pain for all eternity.

Ernie – contact number: 013 6064 446.

Read all about it HERE.

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Before you go and have a great, satisfying lunch, take a look at these pictures and see what is our government’s stance on animal rights.

Dirty & scared.

Skin & bones.

Dead.

Fresh captive. Can you imagine his fate in the next few weeks?

Someone’s beloved pet (note the collar) that was forcefully captured and mistreated to death at Selayang Dog Pound.

Discarded like common rubbish.

Left to rot.

Tick haven.

I know this is a Muslim country and dogs are considered un-halal but is this how you treat one of your God’s creatures?? I hate to pull religion into the picture but have you seen anything like this done to cats? No. In Malaysia we have cat shows in shopping malls even so don’t tell me that there is no bias and no discrimination against dogs.

Once, we brought a well-behaved dog to an outdoor driving range and deliberately got a corner spot at the far end out of respect but what did we get in return? Dirty looks and yelling from a single muslim patron who claimed that DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED BECAUSE THERE ARE MUSLIMS AROUND. Trained to not disturb strangers notwithstanding, the dog was on a leash. What was the poor mutt going to do? Bite through her leash and carress his sacred and holy Muslim feet with her perfectly dry fur?

Not to mention, the imbecile’s was playing about 15 metres away from us (that’s about 6 or 7 people away) and our dog offended him? Everybody else was fine with the dog, including the owner of the place but because of this lone, narrow-minded, uneducated Muslim Malaysian, we had to remove the dog and ourselves from the driving range. Diplomacy in this country? Please! As long as we allow the stupid minority which keeps playing the religion card to dictate how we live, our country will never progress further than what shit-hole it already is in now.

But our dogs are lucky. We are around to protect them. What about those that have no masters or accidentally lost theirs? Who protect them? Ladies and gentlemen you have people like Selayang Dog Pound above “doing the job”. What kind of sick human being could do the above to these animals? Criminal profilers would tell you that murderers often loved to torture animals when they’re young. So what does this make of our fully-grown Malaysian adults doing exactly the same thing as murderers would in their youth?

Here are some excerpts from Malaysia Dogs Deserve Better on their investigation into Selayang Dog Pound:

We were told that the Selayang local council officer in charge of the pound Ernie – contact number: 0136064446 does not even let owners look for their dogs at the pound. She does not allow anyone to enter and this was clearly indicated when even the SPCA officials that included a vet, was not allowed entry into the pound yesterday.

We spent more than two hours speaking with MPS councilor Gunaraj, who later conformed after his visit to the pound that the dogs were indeed in a dire state. Other councilors narrated to us how every time the issue of dogs was brought-up at the full board meetings – the council people would shrug it off and even crack jokes.

Sometimes I feel like your God is testing your level of humanity by imposing such ridiculous rule that dogs (or specifically WET dogs) are dirty so He can see what a fool you are following something so blindly and allowing man’s best friends to deteriorate to such sad degrees. WHOEVER THAT PERPETUATE THIS CRUELTY YOU ARE ALL GOING TO HELL.

Please, have a heart & spread the word about this monstrosity that is happening right at our backyard and always, always keep your dogs/pets safe.

Read more at Malaysia Dogs Deserve Better.

Help by donating to:

Cheques in favour of:

Community Development and Integration Initiative Bhd (654290-T)

and mail it to:

c/o No 48, Jalan Jeriji U8/75C, Bukit Jelutong, 40150, Shah Alam, Selangor.

Or bank into:

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Public Bank Account Number: 3151793708.

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Catch & try the arsonists!

I’m an Atheist. So is my immediate family. But we are Buddhists because there’s no Tiada box to tick on our birth certificates. I’m fine with religions, I love the public holidays that come with them. But what I’m not fine with is when people of different faiths get intimidated for some stupid rhetorical technicalities.

Torching churches because they’re allowed by law to use the word “Allah”? Why the violence? It is just a word. An abstract thing that you can’t feel or touch. It is not your mother, father, brother or sister. Okay, so it is your God. But surely Allah is powerful enough to look after Himself, no? Besides, they are not using the word in a disrespectful context. In fact, some Moslems believe that Christians are practicing the same religion and worshipping the same God, albeit off tangent (read: wrong prophet, oops). So why resort to violence over a word?

It is so easy to blame the politicians & medias for sensationalizing this issue. If they hadn’t made such a big fuss out of this, giving opinions at every opportunity they can, I’m pretty sure these terrible incidents would not have happened. Most importantly, the issue would not have been hijacked by some young, stupid arsonists.

In fact, this shouldn’t be a Muslim vs Christian issue at all. This should be about Malaysians against crimes. Catch the perpetrators, Mr. Police. Even if they’re hiding in mosques, I believe Allah would gladly welcome a couple of minutes of commotion in his House so long these terrorists who give Islam a bad name can be apprehended. Wouldn’t He?

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