Never will be a 1st world country.

For mesia, it is beyond any doubt. Infact, we're pratising this move called the "Malaysian Shuffle". It goes like this - take one step forward, and three steps back.
It makes one feel like he's trapped in a falling spiral or being sucked into a tornado, except that this tornado pulls you down to earth and into oblivion.

On the political front, mesia is practially stuck in the racially-motivated coalition, that continues to hold the people back from greatness while cheering on mediocrity.

Think economy and mesia can't help but wonder why it's stuck in economic wilderness when it's blessed with many large reservoirs of high grade petroleum. Despite the rich natural resources the country inherited, the gomen continues to heavily tax the people through heavy import and excise duties for automobile, tolled roads and the reduction of fuel and healthcare subsidies.

Think auto industry, and we have the national pet project of the previous head honcho. One wonders what's going on as the northern neighbour zooms past mesia's over 20 years of auto industry experience. I guess it's quite safe to think TVM and the Mesian shuffle.

The best part of the meat is this - we have a joker grad in Islamic studies heading the Finance Ministry. Hahaha.. what a joke.

Education - what education?

Despite all the negative outlooks, there is still light at the end of the tunnel. A very long, dark and and stinky tunnel that needs a thorough cleaning up and flushout.

Help Our Turtles!

TJJ "Hatch-A-Hawksbill" Jumble Sale 2005

Help Us Help the Turtles!

Hi Y'all!

The Tom's Jalan-Jalan community group, or simply TJJ, will be organising a charity jumble sale come this end of June at Amcorp Mall, PJ. The main objective of the jumble sale is to raise funds for a community-based turtle conservation project at Padang Kemunting, Melaka. Padang Kemunting is the largest Hawksbill turtle landing in the whole of Malaysia. TJJ will set up and operate a volunteers program to assist in on-going turtle conservation activities at the site.

"Hatch-A-Hawksbill" Jumble Sale Details:

Date:	25th & 26th June 2005 (last weekend of June)
Venue:	Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya (Next to Taman Jaya Putra-LRT station and A&W drive-in restaurant)
Time:	10am – 5pm

How To Donate

Donate your unwanted or unused items that are in working condition to us so that we can sell it at the charity jumble sale. However, we do not collect clothes and hazardous, dangerous, illegal or pirated materials/items.

Among items we collect are home electronics/appliances, decoration pieces, magazines/books, ladies accessories, bags, shoes, small furniture, household items, kitchen-ware, sports & outdoor equipment, toys and knick knacks. Please ensure that all donated items are in working condition. If possible, kindly put items into boxes for easier handling.

The collection period is from 28^th May until 19^th June (3 weeks). Donated items can be dropped off at the collection center closest to you (see list of collection centres). To do so, kindly contact one of the following person at the nearest collection centre (CC) to arrange for the drop-off. We will also pick-up items from commonly-known locations.

CC Location	Person(Mobile/Phone)	Email
Cheras	Tom Chan(012-291 8883)	tom_chan_ at hotmail.com
Kajang	Roy Bosco Leon(012-305 1313)	roybl13 at streamyx dot com
Petaling Jaya	Kok Meng, or Shiau Chen(016-260 2662)	km_hoe at yahoo dot co dot uk shiauchen at gmail dot com
Puchong	Andrew Lee (019-600 2093)	alkc at tm dot net dot my

Note: Above email addresses are written using spaces and text to prevent spammers from "stealing" them automatically from web pages. To get the actual email address, just delete the spaces, replace 'at' with '@' and replace 'dot' with '.'.

Some daily items needed by volunteers are:

• Electric kettle
• Hot plate
• Rice cooker
• Medium-sized pot
• Thermos flask
• Torch light
• Sleeping bags / Mattresses
• Lamps (Electric)

Further Information

Padang Kemunting in Melaka is the largest Hawksbill turtle landing in the whole of Malaysia. Located next to Port Dickson, it is a beach approximately 25 km in length. Hawksbill turtles and Painted terrapins arrives, mostly between the months of May and September, to nests on the coastal sandy beaches of this secluded location. However, the mortality rate for turtles here has been increasing to 70%, as compared to Ma-Daerah where it has been reduced to only 35%. This strongly indicates that the turtle eggs have not been hatching well, and if nothing is done soon, the number of these endangered turtles will continue to dwindle thus facing a greater threat of extinction. For more information or enquiries, kindly refer to the project website at http://www.geocities.com/tjjturtle, or send an email to tjjturtle@gmail.com.

Thank You!