First experience dialing 999 for emergency

Case Date: 28th September 2014

Today when I was around Kuen Ching high school walking to Tun Sambathan monorail to head to Timesquare, I was about to reach the bridge where it connect to brickfields and monorail station, one malay aunty walked down from the bridge looking worried and tell me: "Boy, ada satu lelaki baring atas jambatan macam sudah mati o... Nampak macam kena pukul tetapi dompet dia masich ada... banyak darah kat badan dia..". Then I said I will go and take a look, as she seems rushing back or too afraid to do something. It's also understandable that the people here prefer not to involve them self in such business. Especially after so many cases of fake injuries to rob and harming people.

When I walk up the stairs and reaching the top of it, immediately i see one man lying on the floor near the staircase. Both of his eyes wide open and lying there, emotionless, without any sign of breathing and no movement at all. Then i thought to myself: "This time kao lik holy liao.... a living salty fish in front of me....". Before I finish thinking that line, his eyes suddenly roll to my direction and look at me. At first I felt like a creepy dead eyes staring at me but soon after that I know he is still alive.

I didn't see any fatal wound on him at first glance. Just abit of bruise here and there. Probably got hit by something or fall down. I found a wallet beside him, not sure if its belong to him or what. Quite a lot of bloodstain around him. Most of the bloodstain are dried so it seems he was there for quite some time.

I ask him what happen and is he okay or not but it seems he is not listening to me. At first he try to get up, so I lend him a hand. Then he stand there like not sure where he want to go. Then i notice there are bloods coming from his foot. Base on his injury, I think i should call the police. Since he is not answering me anything and I can't be with him for few hours. So I took out my phone from my pocket and before I manage to turn on my phone, he suddenly lost his balance and bang on the floor. I failed to hold him because I was trying to use my phone. Then, he still try to get up after that and seems the bang on the floor is nothing to me. I try to ask him to lie down and don't move but he still not listening. He try to grab on anything he could to maintain his balance and stand up. He even grab my hand very tight and his nail left a scratch on my skin. I was afraid that he going to attack me or some sort.... Luckily he didn't.

I don't think I have other choice but to call for help. So i go to the monorail station and look for police bantuan since I saw few of them there sometimes. When I reach the station, there is no police there. So i inform the worker that I found one injured man and I need police to help on this. Then the worker call the police bantuan. Apparently the polis is not in the station but somewhere around the area. Later, the worker tell me that the police bantuan is in charge of the monorail area, they don't have power to do anything. I was like.... okay lo.... I was expecting that the polis can at least call for help even if he don't have the power at places other than the station. Then i return back to the place and make a call to 999 and immediately got respond within seconds (Who says calling 999 no one pick up eh?). I explain the situation and request for ambulance for that man.

After some time, I was still standing at the bridge near to the man to observe him. The monorail worker bring a police bantuan over to the place and check on that man. That man still repeating the same behavior: get up. try to stand still then bang. At first when the polis bantuan arrive on that spot, he look around the scene and I was telling him not sure what's happening to that man. Then the polis bantuan told me he got attack on his forehead by wine bottle because there are a few wine bottles around the stair, and his leg got injured and bleed because of some glass bottle pieces on several spot of the floor. I gotta say that's really impressive because I never notice that after standing there so long.

I was asked by the dont-know-who-and-which hospital people to wait for the ambulance at the monorail station since it's easy for vehicle to reach there. So I wait there for like 15 minutes........................ lol. Then the ambulance came and do their stuff. The police bantuan also call for other police to help before that. While I was waiting for the ambulance, the polis bantuan was there watching that man. He told me that the man repeat standing up and falling down for 4 times. That's kinda make me wondering, why the polis don't do something about it?

The paramedic (not sure if this is the right word, referring to the people from the ambulance with medical equipment) try to talk to that man but he received the same response. The paramedic ask me to talk mandarin with the man so I did, but still result in same thing. The polis and paramedic discuss about something in which I'm not sure what they are discussing about as I'm not good with the typical malays conversation, I just heard something like chit-chating and joking before the other paramedic from the ambulance bring over the some-kind-of-bed-for-injured-person. It wasn't too difficult to put that man on that thing because he was lying on the floor that time.

So the police bantuan and the paramedic tied the hand and leg of that man on that something like a bed with bandage to stop him from moving and trying to get up and bring him over to the ambulance. That man didn't struggle when he was being tied but he lift up his head and like wandering what's happening. Then, i thanked the people around there and case closed.

One thing I learn today: You don't play prank call with 999, they can tell you your full name without you mentioning any details of yourself.

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Unhealty Food & Beverage Strategy in Malaysia

I am a frequent outside-food consumer due to work and other social activities that I need to perform outside, so I rarely have the chance to cook or taste mum's cooking, and I had lots of thoughts and opinion on the outside-food that I experience. But let's not talk about how much MSG or any unhealthy method that the food maker practice, you can read tons of them with Google search.

I call myself some kind of health conscious person. However, I don't avoid fried or oily food, or any form of unhealthy food that I know at all cost. I do consume them but I always limit how long I should stop taking fried food after I had it once, and I consume a drinks that has maximum 30grams of sugar per day. For my usual practice, I usually think about how much protein and fats are contained in the food before I order them. But I won't go to the extend to check how much grams of protein or fats in this steam chicken, vege, favor rice.... then sums up the amount of the protein, carb, fats, and calories I had consumed. I just study a little on information related to healthy eating and the type of balance meal we should consume in a daily basis to ensure our body can have sufficient energy source not only to perform our daily work and activities, but also to ensure we can maintain a healthy body as we ages instead of the other way round.

Obviously, the reason why I created this post is because I realize to achieve a healthy & balanced meal in the outside food environment is a huge challenge for consumer. If you are an outside-food consumer who wish to look for good food that consists of good quality and worth, I believe you are very familiar with the experiences below.

The ingredients are there but the portion.....

"Image/picture is for illustration purpose only". I don't recall seeing this text printed on the menu in most restaurants and cafe, but this is the first thing I had in mind when the actual food presented on the table in front of me. Follow by a great disappointment that the image/picture is too much differences in reality. Although I am, just like you, used to it as it happen at least two times a day for casual outside-food consumer.

It's not only the matter of size where the image/picture shows that the meat stick is suppose to same length with the plate but the actual food turns out that the meat stick is as long as a thumb drive, it's also really common to order a chicken ball noodle that has half a bowl of chicken balls in the the bowl and it turns out only two chicken balls are given to you; A salmon butter teppanyaki that turns out only consists of one 0.5cm height salmon slice with no butter taste, and much more. Believe me, the meat stick as short as thumb drive, two chicken balls, and 0.5cm salmon slice with no butter taste is my true personal experience.

The problem? We are indirectly cheated with the illustration that given to us before we see the actual portion. Especially in the case where we order salmon butter bento where the salmon is the main dishes in this meal, yet it's only 0.5cm with some rice and tiny little side dishes, and it cost around RM15.90. If you order chicken rice out there with RM15.90, you can at least confirm that you are full and chicken give you tons of protein, while tiny slice of salmon don't give you much omega 3 and fish oil. So in the end, if you measure by both cost and worthiness (feeling full or not), it's not worth

Healthier Meal = Higher Cost

When I started my budgeting plan to reduce unnecessary spending in my daily life, I also tried to plan for a list of food I should consume for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks in a daily basis. All the food in my list not only need to be less expensive, but also need to be healthy or at least not-so unhealthy. And I spent tons of effort and time from that time until now, which a few months had pass but I still failed to come out with an expected list. Because eating healthy and cheap food is really challenging here in KL.

Say, if I ask you to recommend me a place to get cheap and healthy sandwich. What's your best reckon? I know sandwiches are available in too much of places such as 7-11, Jusco, bakery shops, and even restaurants. But if we talk about healthy, the sandwiches that you can find contain of two tiny slice of bread, and some tuna or egg in the middle. The cheapest I could find is RM2.00. Let's save the calculation part. How worthy it is for two slice of bread with little content in the middle where we can always pay a few ringgits more to get all the relevant ingredients to produce more than three sandwiches with more stuff in it? Not to mention the tuna or egg can only be seen when you look at the middle part of the bread but not the other side. And it's even cheap and can be considered couldn't get any nutrition at all. I can get a mixed rice by adding two ringgits.

Of course, it's nonsense if anyone here expecting to eat really great food as in healthy and tasty yet really cheap, especially for those restaurant, cafe, and any food stall in the shopping mall and having their own shop. They need to pay rent and spend for supplier, maintenance..... to cut things short, they are setting their price in a way where they could afford to continue their business while earn a little more for their own life. But I still need to emphasize that, despite understanding their difficulty of expenses on all those expected and unexpected stuff to ensure their business could continue, me as a consumer just find it not reasonable and sometimes ridiculous that if I want to eat healthy meal, I have to go to expensive restaurant such as vegetarian shops (which are way more expensive that non-vegetarian shop), Subways, Simple Life, Beyond Veggie and other businesses that promote food for various health benefits. It's really difficult for people with average income to take "healthy" meal here once in a week. What's more, our primary school text book strongly emphasize that we have to take healthy meal everyday.

Furthermore, the so-call healthy meal we can find out there, what so healthy about them? I'm a usual customer for Subways especially breakfast. White bread or any other bread with various nutrition for your selection, choose your lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, pepper, pickles, olives, and then the sauce. It's true that the bread and veggie provide lots of nutrition, but adding the sauce increase your sugar intake and other stuff in the sauce. It's true that you able to consume various nutrition with such meal, but if measure each ingredient by grams and calculate how much protein and carb you can get, the figure is really small and it's definitely don't worth RM10++. Of course, the problem don't exists only in Subways, if you have few dine in experience in other restaurant that promote healthy life and meal, you can find many things that actually contradict with their initial idea. In the end, cost is still a major issue.

Too much of unwanted ingredients

This issue is quite different from what's mentioned above because I consider this one quite serious as it directly related to how much our body receive the adequate nutrition and benefits to support our body system. I believe there is no problem to find a restaurant or cafe that can easily make you full in an instant. No matter how big or small the portion is. If you take closer look and taste on the food that you eat, it's always full of taste but it's not the real taste of the food. It's the taste of something else that add much more taste into the food.

We all love tasty food. The tastier, the better. But natural food can't be tasty, so adding lots of spice, soy sauce, salt, sugar and etc is a convenient and standard way to make food more tasty. But all these are also well known for causing diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attack, and all those common thing we will face as we ages. It's safe to consume very little of it in a daily basis, but the amounts of those food being added into the food out there are too much.

Not only that the overdosed of unhealthy ingredients produce certain damage to our body system, the usage of butter and other less well-known spices also used to make us feel like we had enough of our meal, not because we are really full but because the spices are reducing our appetite to continue eating. That's why we easily get hungry a few hours later. In the long run, we are not consuming sufficient food for our body, and we are consuming more on the spices, butter, and oil that give more bads and goods.

As usual, I do not have any statistic of how much unwanted ingredient and spices are included in outside food, but I believe you have many chances to taste it.

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The Typical Breed of Malaysia Public Transport Passenger

Taking on the Rapid Bus, Monorail, Starline, Putra LRT, and especially KTM, can be an extremely dynamic experience that save us from the need of riding roller coaster in the theme park. Personally, KTM is my favorite. No matter how many years have passed, KTM is still remain the same thing for me, which is known as Kenderaan Terlambat Malaysia (Malaysia's Slowest Vehicle). Even after their upgrade...... Oh wait, I'm not here to talk about the quality of services and the way their manage the schedule and so on. My bad......

I'm a common passenger of public transport. Public transport in Malaysia is consider good in the sense that you can reach all type of places and you can depend on public transports to go from north to south, then to the west and east, and make another huge turn to repeat the same thing, and in the end you had travel to so many places. Traveling to many places are good, and the best part is you also meet different type of passenger. The more you have experience being a passenger of different type of public transports, the more you see how dynamic it is as all ugly behavior are being practiced in a daily manner.

You probably encountered them already, or being one of them yourself. Either way, we don't want to consider the passengers below to be a good role model for the next generation to follow.

1. The Pole-Leaner

There exist a certain type of beings that immediately look for a metal pole and "attach" on it with his/her back when they get into the train. It's not a big deal to them if someone or many people need to grab or hold on the pole. No matter how crowded the train is, this being will stick to the pole closely for the entire journey and only "detach" from the pole when they need to get out of the train or, finally some empty seats are available. But that's only provided they desire to sit on the first place.

2. The Side-Queue

At the two appropriate queue line, it's common to appear another side queue all of a sudden. The (initially) correct double queue line then result into three to six queue line in an instant. If you have not meet this type of queue, it's either you are too new in Malaysia, or you are one of them.

3. The Side-Queue Supporter

How do you call those people that stand behind those who take the first action at the front line? Same concept.

4. The Early-Bird

This type practice the mindset of those who take the first action win. But for this one, it apply to people who are suppose to wait and let the people out from the train before dashing in. Look closely, you definitely find the people outside the bus/train to take the first step into the vehicle when the door just open. A crowded train or not is not an issue here. It just happen.

5. The Door-Admirer

What they always do right after they pass through the door and get into the bus/train, they are in complete standstill. I always think this to myself: "There is no crowded bus/train in Malaysia. There are only people who are not willing to move away from the door". It's too common for me to have too much space while looking at the bunch of door-admirer sticking with each other around their idol. One disaster is when the Early-Bird turn into a Door-Admirer.

6. The Unofficial-Pusher

This is suppose to be the practice in Japan and China only. But these type suddenly occur, usually without any true knowledge and not hired by any official group, use the unprofessional pusher method to make sure people in the front will be forced into the vehicle at all cost. Any injury? No insurance claims for that.

7. The Virus-Broadcaster

It's always common to get ill and unable to control your cough and flu, yet you got no choice but to take the public transport. It's just different when these kind practice an uncovering method to spread their cough and flu virus freely in the public transport closed area with extra loud announcement with free atomic rewards to everyone.

8. The Absolute-Defense

An "Excuse Me" do zero damage to their defense. They notice the tiny obstacle trying to break through but they are just in their usual post and behavior: Defend their position no matter what or who trying to get through.

9. The Heavy-Blocker

A suit case or a huge plastic bag consists of unknown stuff is the common blocker. It's just there regardless of the discussion of a much suitable place for these stuff to be placed so that other passengers find it easier to get in and get out. A Heavy-Blocker turning into an Absolute-Defense and/or Door-Admirer is another disaster.

10. The Fast-Seats-Filler

Seats became available when the vehicle reach a certain destination. When the people trying to get out from the vehicle by walking straight to the door, there exist one or a few kind walk past the door to block those who are getting out or going in for the main goal of filling the empty seats as soon as possible.

11. The Anything-Seats-Filler

Destined to be twin with the Fast-Seat-Filler, they put whatever stuff they have on the empty seats to proclaim that their stuff are contain of high value. Even if it's just a small plastic bag of pisang goreng.

12. The Make-Myself-At-Home

"No matter what position is this, be relax~~" is the usual practice. No matter how crowded it is, there are still spaces for them stand like Michael Jackson's Moonwalk post while playing with their smart phone; Or stand and shake with their body in any way they desire even if it means causing more discomfort for those who are feeling really packed. Oh and, don't be surprise to see someone or group of people playing invisible guitar, drum, or any type of instruments.

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Life is Dynamic in Malaysia

Let's face this: No matter how great people think about the country you are living in, you feel that it's just normal. It's different case if you gone to a bloody hell country and back to a normal one, of course.

As Malaysian, life is just normal. No matter how people spent each of their day in this country, they just think of how their life had been going through all the time. They don't think much about how their life is going through in Malaysia. That's just an assumption anyway. But if you are a Malaysian, I bet you always get to the point where you don't think of your life in Malaysia, you just think about your life. Unless you are in the daily bloody start-work or off-work jam and you go on with the usual cursing of why Malaysia gov never put effort into reducing the jam but increasing it.

For any of you who are wondering, I gotta make clear that politics issues are, usually, won't be covered here. Kitty is not a political guy. He don't look into the current or previous politics stuff and involve himself into some group of people complaint about the gov or any party and what should be done, what is the right thing.... but result in no action. That's just doesn't change anything. Rather, in our social life, there are at least things that we can change and make things better. Although the issue where the Malays are always given the top priority and power, and the inappropriate behavior such as double park, cutting queue at all the places are here and it will always be here so that this country will remain as Malaysia, life can be dynamic here and it's not as usual or normal as we thought.

At last, think at the positive side more often, the negative side will always be there but you don't need to think of it, it will come to you. So don't bother doing something that will eventually happen by itself. Try to live a dynamic life in Malaysia. There is not specific definition of the terms "dynamic". It can involve all sort of happiness, sadness, anger, depress, hope, sweet, bitter, pain, oil-price increment, KTM delays, traffic jam, extremely-high-and-ridiculous taxi fee... Well, just the way it is.

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