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Why add melamine to milk?

September 24, 2008 2 comments

This allows milk to be diluted with water by the unscrupulous and the greedy to give more volume.  The ‘protein’ levels are then built up back by adding the protein substitute (melamine).

Melamine is used in making plastics and is loaded with nitrogen molecules. Because of the high nitrogen content, this makes milk products appear to have a higher protein count as the current methods of measuring protein are based on measuring the nitrogen content alone.

- Lifted from here.

Categories: Current, Food

Snapshots: Wet Market

September 23, 2008 Leave a comment

It must have been like 20 years when I last visited the wet market. Well, here are some snapshots for this historical moment. :)

All photos taken with the N95 and lightly processed using Photofiltre. Adobe Photoshop is just too complicated for a noob like me… :D

Categories: Photo

Fish Spa Experience

September 23, 2008 Leave a comment

Was shopping at 1-Utama and came across this little fish spa at Jusco. Aiyu said she wanted to try and we both went in. It costs RM5 for a 10 mins session. It felt a little weird when you first put your foot into the water. I think my feet must have loads of dead skin they attracted so many fishes. :)

Categories: Life

Some pics from Sept 7th track day

September 8, 2008 1 comment

All pics taken from 4g63tdsm. Thanks to J&J for these great pics!

The first pic has to be me. :D Nice panning shot! Love it!

Look how hot the day was…

This guy must have thought his Kenari would tip over. His expression is priceless… :)

Mr Nismo’s S13 is highlight of the day! 

D-Sport Viva! I think it looks great!

True spirit of a real driving enthusiast. 

More pics here.

Categories: Car

Story from an outraged Malaysian parent

September 4, 2008 Leave a comment

Read here:

Any Najib apology for the rank racism of BTN indoctrination courses? 

The story:

BTN’s racist and divisive indoctrination courses

Now that Najib has apologised to non-Malays for Ahmad’s statement, I would like to bring to the attention of Najib the pain endured by the young non-Malay JPA scholars who are required to go through a five-day Biro Tatanegara programme at certain camps in the country. To be fair, many moderate Malay students too cried and were hurt by some racist comments made by the instructors.

As part of the course, which is mandatory before they are sent overseas, all non-Malays are segrgated and given lectures on the history of the country and how the immigration of the Chinese and Indians had taken place. And finally how the Chinese and Indians were given citizenship. The Malays too had their own similar sessions.

The instructors blatantly told them that they should not question the rights and privileges of the Malays as the non-Malays should be thankful that they were given citizenship status and a place to stay on their soil. My daughter together with the other non-Malay students was shocked and went back to their dormitories depressed. And to the Malay students, the instructors told them to be aware of this fact and not to mix too freely with the non-Malays.

A Malay friend of my daughter came back crying to the dormitory saying that she could not take the racist position taken by the government authority. My daughter then began questioning the bumiputra policy and was disgusted with such blatant indoctrination. This incident has also made the students harbour anger and resentment. Their fear for the authorities and losing their scholarships made them keep their cool. I am not exaggerating here – ask all the JPA students to write in anonymously and you will know the truth.

These are young minds being polluted with racism. Tens of thousands of students have gone through this programme and more will be attending it in the future. So can you blame them when they exhibit their racist tendencies when in authority? How could the JPA allow such a syllabus for the cream of the nation, who will one day be entrusted to implement government policies fairly?

So, will Najib take responsibility for the racist syllabus and subsequently the racist remarks and apologise to the tens of thousands of students and parents who were hurt by such hurtful remarks? Of course knowing the BN government, it will deny this. Believe me, this is the ABSOLUTE truth.

My call to Najib is to immediately probe into this claim with the help of a multi-racial team of officers from Suhakam BUT please maintain the anonymity of the young children who have everything to lose. This blatant racism practised and preached by the Barisan Nasional government must stop immediately.

From an outraged Malaysian parent

 

 

Categories: Current